Big family all gathered around in a circle. Price for experience—not available. Too many people. Not right.
So you’ve dutifully written down what your dream was about and went back to sleep. Upon rising later, what you’ve written doesn’t make any sense. You recognize the words, but they don’t make sense. They don’t jog your memory in a way that allows you to remember the dream, let alone understand it.
What was your dream about?
Who knows? Not you. Is there any way to benefit from having a dream like that?
PACTREPS
You can go through and try to get more information about it by trying to stir up your memory. Considering the different categories of dream information. For guidance on how to do this, take a look at the PACTREPS article.
Even after trying to do that, you sometimes won’t be able to remember a single thing. It’s as if your memory has been wiped. Perhaps there wasn’t much of a memory to begin with.
Do you have a feeling the dream was important?
If you have a feeling that the dream was important, you can ask your subconscious for a clarifying dream. If your subconscious obliges, it will rephrase your dream in a way that allows you to understand the point it was trying to make.
Or it won’t. Just as if it were another, your subconscious may very well say, “Oh, never mind.”
Consider the components
Another way to benefit from having the dream is to consider the individual components of the dream in general.
For example, in the missed dream above, we see “big family.” Take it as a cue to think about what a “big family” means to you. Consider it a meditation prompt.
You can also think about what it means for a big family to be “in a circle.”
Doing this may stir up the memory. Even so, the rest of the transcription may—or may not—remain unclear.
Dreams are a side-effect of us processing information about our day. Our brain makes links between experiences and information. It’s how we learn. Paying attention to the dreams that are forgotten and don’t make sense is a way to understand what’s going on under the hood of your mental engine. Considering what you do remember and what it means to you is a way to benefit from the dream without remembering everything.
James Cobb RN, MSN is the founder of the Dream Recovery System, a blog dedicated to sleep health and dreaming.
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