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—Oneiromancy—the idea you can foretell the future in dreams—doesn’t work, and you shouldn’t ever trust it. Foretelling the future through dreams isn’t accurate enough. It will lead you down the wrong road and have you making foolish decisions. Doubt this? Look at the record for prophets foretelling the end of the world. Lots of predicting…
There are dreams, and then there are DREAMS!! Some dreams are dim and poorly remembered; others are very vivid. When a dream is vivid, it feels like it’s happening in real-time. While events in the dream aren’t always realistic, vividness makes them feel very real. When they feel real, it can be unsettling. Where do…
If you’ve tried and still found that you have difficulty keeping a dream journal, try subliminal conditioning. Subliminal recordings play motivating phrases at a low sound level for the conscious mind to perceive. What this means is that you won’t hear the phrases consciously. Instead, you’ll listen to them subconsciously. The “Remember Dreams” subliminal audiotape…
Think you’ve been having too many dreams? Would you like to completely shut them down? Are you such a control freak that you are even trying to control what dreams you have? Do you think it would be fun to have dreams about a certain person or a certain place? Whatever you wish, when it…
Can two people have the same dream at all? A female friend is telling you about their dream from last night: “There was this field covered with grass. We were standing next to each other. I looked up into the sky and there were clouds, but the thing was that they were in the shape…
No matter what the dream you’re dreaming is about, a dream where you dream you’re dreaming can seem like quite a puzzle. This includes where you dream you’re sleeping in your bed or anywhere else. The picture that’s presented is something like one of those M.C. Escher prints. It’s like a gaze into a dimension…
Having a dream where a dead person you’ve known is talking to you is one of the most exciting dreams you can have. They’re especially common around this time of the year. October 31 is Halloween. November 1 is All Saints Day. November 2 is the Day of the Dead or All Souls Day. As…
Most horror movies are clichéd. There’s always at least one chase scene. Then, someone or something jumps out of the shadows and scares the hell out of someone. It turns out to be nothing. The monster gets killed only to come back when the protagonists least expect it. Have your dreams been clichéd but ostensibly…
Dreams can be vivid or dim. Usually, the dreamer doesn’t physically feel anything. They might feel something in a nightmare. Usually, it’s a quick shock or jolt. Take a dream of falling. The dreamer has the experience of falling, falling, falling, and then BOOM! He or she lands in bed. The dreamer physically feels like…
The one-subject dream is quick, a statement from you to your subconscious. Compared to a full-length novel, it’s a short poem. Compared to a symphony, it’s a 30-second-long ditty. Or compare it to one of those 30-second emotional TV commercials that play during the Super Bowl. A multi-season series it’s not. It’s an expression like…