DREAM CONTROL.....OUR ESSENCE IS NOW BEING CONTROLLED BY THE MIND. RECENTLY I HAD A VERY VIVID DREAM...BUT ALSO ONE IN WHICH I WAS, #1. AWARE THAT I WAS DREAMING. #2 ABLE TO CONTROL THE EVENTS IN THE DREAM. IT WAS FASCINATING BECAUSE OF THE DURATION OF THE DREAM, IT WAS MUCH LONGER THAN I EVER HAD IN A LUCID CONTROLLED DREAMING STATE. ALSO, I "WOKE UP" SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE DREAM ONLY TO REALIZE THAT I WAS STILL ASLEEP & DREAMING AND YET AGAIN I WAS STILL ABLE TO CONTROL IT AND AWARE THAT I WAS DREAMING. THIS LED ME TO RESEARCH THE PHENOMINUM ON THE WEB AND I'M FINDING THAT THERE IS NOT TOO MUCH INFORMATION OUT THERE ON THE SUBJECT. HOWEVER, THERE ARE A FEW TECHNIQUES (DREAM SPINNING, RUBBING HANDS, AND GOING WITH THE FLOW) WHICH CAN BE APPLIED TO EXTEND THE LENGTH OF A DREAM. UNFORTUNATELY, SINCE I BECAME "AWARE" OF THESE TECHNIQUES, I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO TRY THEM OUT, SINCE I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO AGAIN BE IN A DREAM WITH A REAL-TIME CONSCIOUS SELF-AWARENESS. IN THE DREAMS I'M HAVING NOW "THEY" ARE IN COMPLETE CONTROL OF ME (AND MY ESSENCE) AS WELL AS THE ENVIRONMENT, THE PLAYERS, AND SO FORTH.........I SIMPLY REACT TO EVENTS AS THEY ARE THROWN AT ME, COMPLETELY UNAWARE THAT I AM DREAMING, OR HAVING A NIGHTMARE. ONLY AFTER THE DREAM RELEASES ME AND I WAKE-UP "FOR REAL" AM I GIVEN THE REALIZATION THAT I WAS DREAMING (USUALLY A NIGHTMARE OF SOME KIND!). I GOTTA GO NOW...MORE TO BE DISCUSSED LATER.
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Hi Harry!! Actually, I\'m not any kind of dream expert or analyst. I find your thoughts here very interesting. But I myself know very little about dreams. Just that I have them every night, and I enjoy them, and usually remember them.
I do know that medications affect our dreams. Many meds cause night terrors and nightmares. But the consciousness and self awareness you are talking about are new to me.
I know of no books regarding this subject! I wish I did, so I could help you research your feelings here!!!
Good luck with this, and keep researching, there is so much out there about dreaming and understand of them. Not hocus pocus stuff, but real medical literature!!
The subconscious mind is where we escape to, to get away from the life we live today. A bad dream, gives excitement in that witch when we live boring lives. To over come is to succeed, and to succeed it to over come.
Sometimes I think knowing too much can hender our creativity! That\'s probably why you haven\'t had control over your dreams since reading up on it. What was natural ended up becoming forced and there was no way you could reproduce that control you had over your own dreams. My brother is bi-polar and he actually creates an entirely different life for himself when he goes to sleep to escape his real life. I truly beleive that if he could become comotose and live entirely in his mind, he would! For him it is a far better place. But for most of us it doesn\'t replace our lives. It\'s just a nice place to visit where we control the events. I have only done this a few times myself as I prefer to have good things happen in my \"real\" life and I think there is a fine line between reality and fantasy that I\'m not prepared to explore for the very reasons I\'ve already mentioned. If we could make a more perfect life why wouldn\'t we want to stay there? I prefer to do most of my fantasizing in day dreams. That way I know I\'m controlling it and not the other way around! Happy dreams to you :) Dale
I know a little about dreams and how they are meant to finish an emotion that we\'ve experienced during the day that didn\'t get fulfilled or completed. Dreams are a way to finish or act on the emotions you\'ve had during the day to ease your mind and start fresh for the new day ahead. As far as being able to control a dream, I know nothing...lol!! I have experienced something similar, in knowung that I\'m dreaming and being able to wake myself up from a nightmare, but I\'ve never controlled events that are going on...sorry!