Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
Sometimes you’ll draw a blank when you wake up and try remembering what you were dreaming about. Maybe you were woken suddenly and the memory of the dream shatters. Maybe the details were simply dim. Whatever the reason, you know you were dreaming and you’re coming blank. You might only be left with a memory…
Want a picture? Type a few guidelines in a field. An artificial intelligence (AI) can draw it for you. How about a story? Same thing. Put in a few guidelines. AI will tell you one. Many times, AI output is pretty good, useful even. Just how lazy artificial intelligence makes people remains to be seen.…
To understand whether lucid dreaming is a sin, it helps to first understand what is meant by “sin.” To “sin” means to violate the law of God. It can also refer to the state of human nature where one is estranged from God. When you sin, you’re acting in a way God doesn’t approve of.…
When I was in school there was this kid, Dave. He remembered all of his dreams, so he said. They’d be crazy. They’d have monsters in them, people with no faces, and talking ducks. Every so often he’d keep us entertained before school and at recess with his tales from the night before. Sometimes his…
The rain was falling out of the sky in dense sheets like it was being poured from some buckets. I was under the roof of a flat-roofed house of the kind I had cared for 35 years before when I was a student at the university. In real life, the building was one of several…
If you’re going to understand the hidden aspects of your life, you’re going to have to understand your dreams. If you’re going to understand your dreams, you’re going to need to remember them. This video features some basic but powerful tips on how you can remember more of your dreams. Also on the blog:…
Dreams are fun but it’s best to acknowledge it and not to get stuck on that aspect. It’s cool when you do something like holding seven men at gunpoint in your dreams. Or when you save a life. Or when you ride a horse really fast. Unfortunately, the long-term dream journaler pseudonymously named “Barb Sanders”…
Often dreams don’t match reality in any way shape or form. In the famous short story and movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber, hapless main character Mitty has one daydream after another triggered by mundane events. In one, he’s a surgeon saving lives. In another, a fighter pilot. And in another…
How you should look at your dreams, how you study them, depends on what problems you need to solve and what you need to do in order to live your best life possible.
Studying their dreams can benefit anyone.
Anyone of any age can use dreams to resolve personal conflicts and gain clarity about what they need to do to feel and be successful.
Remember this: there’s always a reason why you have a certain dream. You can dream about anything; why that particular thing? If you have similar dreams over the course of two or three days, it’s normal. If these similar dreams stretch on for weeks and months, you should ask yourself why. That’s a heckuva long…