Grasp the ability to dream

Grasp the ability to dream

Although we cannot artificially create dreams, we can learn to grasp our dreams through practice, use dreams to solve practical problems for ourselves, and improve our ability to grasp dreams through continuous training. The famous psychologist Dr. Patricia Garfield, after years of research, has found the skills to grasp dreams, and has systematically discussed in the book 'Creative Dreams', the specific methods have the following aspects:

One, focus on the subject you want to dream about, and concentrate on it when you go to bed.

If you want to learn to control your dreams, first of all to establish self-confidence, before you begin to fall asleep, fully focus your attention on the theme you want to dream about, immerse yourself in a theme in your mind, and think about the topic until you fall asleep. The key to this technique is to really focus your attention before sleep on the subject of the question, in your mind, in

Study it in your heart, let it linger in your mind. If you are faced with a practical problem in your daily life and you really want to solve it through your dream, you can silently read to yourself several times in bed, 'Today's dream must solve my certain problem!' Then think about the various behavioral steps you can take to solve the problem, imagine what you should do, and then ask your subconscious mind to provide a dream to make the matter manifest clearly, trusting that the dream will provide you with an unexpected solution.

For example, there was a technician who was in conflict with the leader on the issue of scientific research results, and his relationship with the leader was very tense, and later developed to the point that when he met the leader, he was anxious and nervous, and felt his face was burning, shivering, and even could not go to work. Doctors diagnosed as social phobia, took many drugs did not solve the problem, and later under the guidance of analysts, through the dream to 'cure their disease.' When he fell asleep at night, he first lay in bed and silently read several times: 'I only want to solve the problem of the relationship with the leader, I only want to solve the problem of the fear of the leader!' My dreams at night tell me what to do!' Then he imagined a lot around this theme, 'I will argue with the leader again', 'I will find some people to go to 楱 him', 'it is better that he is hit by a car and killed', and slowly he fell asleep. He had a strange dream. A dream

It is like this: 'He was walking home with his head down, not knowing what was going on, when he looked up, he suddenly found himself inexplicably in the doctor's office there was an old doctor, as if he knew something was going on in his heart, so he asked him very directly:' You are very afraid that your leader will give you 'small shoes' to wear?' He felt very strange at that time, how his idea would be known to others, and just when he was strange, the doctor said directly, 'Actually, you don't have to be afraid, have you noticed your leader's nose?' His nose is your weapon, remember! The nose of The weapons... The nose of Weapons...' So he woke up, and when he woke up, he couldn't figure it out. Hey! I have, I will use white paper to draw the leader down. So he took a piece of paper and began to describe the head of the leader, when drawing the eyes, nose, mouth, suddenly found that the leader is a big nose, and the color of the nose is red and red, it is rosacea, and the nose seems to have hair, in the process of describing his mood is obviously improved. The next day at work, happened to meet the leader at the door of the unit, straight is 'not friends do not meet', when he wanted to avoid, looked up and saw the leader of the big and red rosacea, then felt funny, the mouth involuntarily blurted out: 'nose... The nose...' This sentence caught the attention of other workers around, and their eyes were focused on the leader's nose.

Many people found the leader's red and hairy lees nose and laughed loudly, making the leader puzzled.

His anxiety and tension were cured by the inspiration of his dreams.

If you want to dream of something, you engage in activities related to it during the day.

In the dream you may achieve your own requirements, but sometimes the opposite is the case, you want to dream of the scene you want, but it does not appear. There's no need to worry. Controlling dreams is not an easy task. When your dream does not achieve the purpose of control, you can further bring the theme you want to dream to daily life, bring your intention outside of sleep, and become a part of your daytime activities, the so-called 'thinking toward the scene', the result will strengthen the effectiveness of the dream, because the appearance of dreams is often closely linked to real life, which is the so-called daily thinking. The night has a dream.

For example, a student who has had anxiety in the exam will not have anxiety in the usual exam, and the appearance of anxiety in the exam is also sometimes absent, he very much wants to solve the problems he faces through dreams, under the guidance of the dream analyst, let him recite at night before going to bed: 'Let me solve the problem of exam anxiety in the dream, very much hope to solve my anxiety problem!' Make me dream about exams!' However, for several nights, there was no dream of the exam. So the analyst asked him to think back to the past

He found that anxiety often occurred when he was testing mathematics, and the analyst asked him to take a look at the math books he had learned before during the day, imagine the situation in the math exam, and even asked him to talk to his math teacher who was very tense with him, in short, asked him to arrange himself to carry out relevant activities in order to induce dreams. Results in the night he did have a dream, in the dream to participate in the physics exam, when he got the exam paper, found that the exam questions are very much, he felt that the time is too late, do not know how to do the question, just looking at the question in a daze, suddenly found the invigilator standing in front of him, knocking on the table said: 'Why not do the topic, you this person is stubborn, you can not choose to do the easy topic!' The front can not do the back, really can not do, copy the problem can also, your brain is not enlightened, too rigid...... Too rigid Rigid in Rigid...' 'Anyway, go all out, today to a flexible maneuver, I will do a problem, give up a problem, which is your teacher forced me, the result soon finished the problem, the first to hand in the paper.' It is strange that the physics teacher on the spot exam paper on the spot, when the paper in hand, found that got a full score, woke up at the strange moment. I feel like I took a strange exam in my dream, and I took a strange way to answer it, and got a strange result. He was in the math exam a few days later, he got the exam paper, and

There were not a large number of problems, but the difficulty of the problem was unbalanced, and he felt difficult at the beginning of a few problems, according to the usual situation, he would inevitably appear nervous and anxious, staring at the problem desperately, and must attack it down, and this time, really inspired by the dream, he gave it a quick solution, first did the problem that he could do, and in the process of doing it, he found that, The first so-called problem is not difficult. The result was successful, not only did not appear exam anxiety, but also did well in the exam.

We will have such an experience, that is, in the dream will suddenly be aware that they are dreaming, such as this phenomenon of playing both the protagonist and the audience in the dream, is called 'lucid dream.'

In Lucid dreaming it is likely that you have an experience of this lucid state that is not significant. When you dream of being chased by the enemy, have you ever said to yourself in your dream, 'This is only a dream!' This state is called pre-lucid dreaming. At this time, the dreamer can vaguely realize that some dream fragments are their own dreams. If you can identify with certainty that you are dreaming, then such a dream is a complete lucid dream. During Lucid dreaming, you can use your awareness to completely change the content of your dreams. Want to consult the dream, what is the meaning of the characters in the dream? Or maybe you just want to watch the whole thing, knowing that you won't be harmed by even the scariest, fiercest dream monster.

The world of Lucid dreaming is full of fun, and its allure is irresistible. Everything in a dream is vivid, more real than it feels when you are awake. If you hear music in your Lucid dream, you can be sure that the music in your dream is sweeter and more beautiful than you can find on earth. Taste and smell are also more acute. In Lucid dreams, you are more able to direct the whole dreaming process and let it please you.

In her book Lucid Dreaming, Leah Green of the Oxford School of Psychology discusses the phenomenon of consciousness during dreams. Patricia Goffell makes a major contribution in The Dream of Creation, analyzing her own Lucid dream experience, combining it with Green's ideas, and offering tips on how to do Lucid dreams.

You may be aware that during the course of your dream, your state of consciousness is more pronounced than it normally is when you dream. This seems to show that when the dreamer is awake, conscious attention is focused on the problem of dreaming, so that when entering the sleep state, the dreamer's awareness also increases. Psychologist Steva proposed a set of instructions to guide dreamers, dreamers to 'face and conquer' all useless, harmful, wasteful, old, childish, headstrong, uncooperative, pathological, difficult dream images. When the dreamer dreams of these images, he must try to kill, burn, or destroy or alter them in any way

Some bad images. At the same time, the dreamer should help or cooperate with useful dream images, asking them for assistance or advice. Steva said that studying and discussing these instructions in the waking state, and finally remembering the purpose of these instructions and the actions caused in the dream state, can give the dreamer the ability to gain maximum awareness in the dream state, and give him the courage to face and conquer the negative symbols in the dream, which are caused by the dreamer's personal conflicts and fears.

The Steva technique differs from the Hatching method in many ways. In hatching, we consciously choose the theme of hatching, and then let your subconscious mind take charge and write the dream process in its own style. The Steva instruction is a method of controlling the dream, guiding or influencing the dream behavior during the dream process. The whole instruction is suggested to one's mind while awake, and is intended to be applied to the mind while dreaming, in other words, the dream behavior that attempts to dominate and manipulate the spontaneous dream. The purpose of the Steva technique is not to solve a particular life problem, but dream incubation does. Although incubating dreams can sometimes become lucid dreams, it is not necessary to enter a lucid state while dreaming, and if you want to guide dreams, you must indeed have the most basic and minimal awareness during dreaming.

Many therapists believe that unless we embrace negative dream images (fear, threat, defeat, etc.) with love and kindness, we can escape from these negative psychological effects. The Steva technique tells the dreamer to take aggressive action against negative dream images. The dreamer creates their own weapons and works together to subdue the aggressor, but if that doesn't work, the dreamer fights his opponent to the death until he realizes that the enemy is only a dream figment and cannot actually harm the dreamer's body. But it's not clear. According to the experience of studying nearly 10,000 dreams, so far, no Allies have been found in the dream of killing the scary image. In fact, the enemies killed in the dream will appear in future dreams in different costumes until the dreamer finally realizes that this is a part of himself and accepts them, so that they will not continue to disturb.

Steva's instructions were to turn unpleasant dreams into pleasant ones, and he believed that nightmares represented psychological immaturity. These views of his are basically equivalent to repressing and blocking the way for us to express unhappiness and conflict in dreams. An examination of some of the literature on dreams, as well as the research archives we have collected, shows that when faced with threatening images in dreams, there are many benefits to be gained from trying to understand these images rather than eliminating them. Ask negative dream images questions such as, 'What do you want?' 'What do you mean? Instead, we can turn enemies into friends, and understand the character they represent, so that we can produce insightful

Comprehension. For example, here is a woman's dream:

I was sitting idly in my house when a gang of murderous young assassins burst in and threatened to kill me. I trick them out of the apartment. I closed my doors and locked them, hoping to ride out the storm safely. But I'm still scared. They broke in again, and this time they looked different, terrible. Each was like a giant monster, with long tentacles, bulging eyes, and skin like a sea monster. I remembered that I had decided that I would not be afraid in my dreams. So I swallowed my fear, concentrated on pretending to smile and said, 'You're back again, what do you want?' For a moment, the monsters were friendly and explained that they wanted to be my ally and help me understand myself. They set out to prove (in a way I had forgotten) why I had been jealous of my best friend. They say, 'If you have a problem, change it.' Then I woke up feeling more confident and less jealous of her.

It can be seen that if you keep suggesting to yourself during your waking hours that you will turn around to face the negative dream image, then you may succeed in doing so in your dream. You will achieve your goals, and when you do, you will have the greatest sense of accomplishment. This feeling will enter your daily life and give you courage and boldness. If you become

Ask what the negative dream image is trying to do, and your conscious mind will be enlightened by unexpected benefits.

For threatening dream images, we take the 'face and understand' approach is the best solution, because the benefits of loving your enemies and understanding your enemies are far more than the benefits of eliminating them. Often, when we conquer negative dream images, our dreams end. The dreamer thus feels a sense of accomplishment. However, by not trying to understand the attacker, the dreamer may lose the opportunity to understand the part of himself represented by the negative image.

If you are afraid of some dream image, you can remind yourself that this is only a dream, will not be harmed, absolutely safe. Try to understand what's going on, ask the dream images what do they mean?

What do you want? If you can do that, you can get a lot of useful inspiration from it. At the same time, you will be awake and realize that you are dreaming and entering a state of complete clarity. If you can 'explore' your dreams with your clear state, rather than using it to 'dominate' and 'suppress' dreams, you will gain a lot.

In a lucid dream, he can transform the dream while he dreams. For example, there is a man who dreamed that he climbed an iron ladder in a children's playground in a park, but the more he climbed, the more unstable the ladder became. He's worried about falling. He's thinking about

Don't come down. At the same time of this dream, he felt that climbing the ladder indicated that he was striving for a higher standard of living and social status, and that the instability of the ladder indicated that he was insecure about his fate. So he thought that what he needed was to enhance his confidence, so he said to himself in the dream: 'You have great strength, you have a good grasp, climb up, don't be afraid.' So in his dream he continued to climb until he reached the top.

There are also dreams that can be directly transformed without the need to analyze it, such as having a good dream:

I dreamt that some boys were defusing a bomb, and they wanted to smash it with a hammer. At that time, I knew that I was dreaming, so I let the people in the dream not smash, patiently dismantle. After it was opened, a boy put the powder in a box, and said that one person must detonate it, and the detonator must die. No one wants to go. Finally, a poor boy with tattered clothes. Then I suddenly thought, why must detonate it, you can wet the gunpowder with water and blow it away, so I let the dream man do so.

Analyzing this dream, it is found that the bomb refers to the hostility of another person in life, and defusing the bomb refers to the elimination of this hostility. To smash a bomb means to break its hostility with force, which fortunately was not done in the dream. Detonating explosives and killing a man means settling for nothing. That's not

Not a good way. The best way is to use water (representing love) to make the gunpowder less explosive, and then blow it away a little bit.

But you can't always fix a dream. Sometimes, you want the dream to change this way, but the dream doesn't do it. For example, a girl dreams of a peacock on a boat, looking behind her face. In this dream, looking backwards means looking back. What she needed was to stop thinking about the past and focus on the present. So she let herself modify the dream, the image of the dream to remember again, and then issued instructions, let the peacock back to look forward. But the peacock doesn't look back.

This is a sign that her subconscious is saying, 'Now I am unwilling or unable to do as I wish.' 'I can't do that.' In this case, it is necessary to ask a psychologist to help analyze the causes and crux of the problem and solve the internal conflict.

In short, since dreams have such magical power and are so closely related to success, we must make good use of dreams, not only pay attention to your daily dreams, but also actively dream to serve us, I think this is the meaning of people to study dreams.