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REMEMBERING DREAMS
Neuroimaging has shown that people do not remember their dreams because short
term memory banks are switched off during dreams. It seems that it is not
necessary for us to remember them at all.
Remembering dreams is quite difficult. But there are some useful tips. Try
to lie perfectly still when you wake up. It will help the details of the dreams
slowly filter back into your concious mind. You will remember one detail,
then another. then slowly the dream will drift back into your mind.
Keep a pen and paper by your bedside. Try to record the facts, but try to remain still as much as possible. If you get up turn on a computer, make yourself a cup of coffee and then try to type the dream on a computer, the whole thing will be lost.
The most important thing is that when you wake up you need to be in a state
where you can think clearly. Its very strange to go straight into REM sleep
early on it the night so quite often you won't dream until maybe three hours
into the night. If you are tired when you fall asleep then its possible that
you will sleep right through.
The trick is to get yourself to wake up. Some people set an alrm clock to
wake themselves up at about three and a half hours. That will wake them up
at about the time of REM sleep. But I think that is a little drastic. Try
what I like to refer to as the Bart Simpson method. Before you go to
sleep drink something. So halfway through the night you will be forced to
wake up to go to the toilet. If you are lucky then you will wake up during
dream sleep. By the way - its called the bart simpso method because in that
episode bart drank tons of water to wake himself up early on christmas day.
But if you have weak bladder problems then this method is probably not so
good.
Also half way through the night I often drink a cup of something. That stimulant
will make you a little bit more able to think clearly when you wake.
A little sip of cold tea or coffeee, or cola will make you a lot more awake
when you wake up at the end of the night.
Of course its a matter of finding something that suits you. There is no strict
method.A chinese man found that when he slept on the floor he didn't dream
. yet when he slept in a bed he did dream. So your posture is maybe important
too. In your dream diary jot down if you woke up on your back or on your side.
It maybe that a particular posture helps you to remember dreams.
Lastly just wanting to remember a dream can help. When you go to bed
keep saying to yourself you will remember your dreams then that may work.
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: Hundreds of real dreams
A BASIC INTRO to what dreams are about
BASIC
TECHNIQUES to interpret dreams
DREAM
DICTIONARY A to Z of symbols complete with essays on symbols in everyday real
uses
BASIC SYMBOLISM - DREAM
SYMBOLS : Basements
- Your boss
- Best friend
- Babies/pregnant
- Brothers
- Cafes
- Cars
- Castles
- Children
- Creative dreams
- Clothes
- Churches and cathedrals
- Deaths
- Demons,witches and goblins
- Dogs
- Drink and drugs
- Farms, gardens and plants
- Factories
- Fathers
- Faucets/taps/pipes
- Food
- Earthquakes and volcanos
- Foreign Countries
- Grandparents
- Guards
- Guns and knives
- Horses and animals
- Hauntings
- Hospitals
- Hotels + huge buildings
- Houses
- Locks
- Men(unknown)
- Military -
Money
- Mothers
- Monster
- Mountains
- Movies
- Music
- People
- Police
- Phone
- Politics
- Planes and flying
- Prison -
Rivers
- Rapists and intruders
- Railways
- Roads
- Schools
- Sea
- Sex
- Shops
- Sisters
- Skies in dreams
- Skyscrapers and tall buildings
- Snakes and spiders
- Space
- Sports
- Street
- Teeth
- Tidal waves
- Time
- Toilets in dreams
- Towns and streets
- Trees
- Water
- Weddings and engagements
- Windows
- Work
OTHER
SUBJECTS: external
causes of dreams : Music
in dreams :
Premonitions :
Telepathy : Specific
dreams :
Synonyms in dreams :
Children's
dreams and dreams about your child :
Recurring dreams CASE STUDIES :
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