Dale Forrest on Nostr: I've done quite a bit of work with dreams and worked with a Jungian Analyst for about ...
I've done quite a bit of work with dreams and worked with a Jungian Analyst for about a year a long while ago (10 years+).
We aren't meant necessarily to know what is rattling around in our unconscious mind. I think it's in part to protect ourselves from self-TMI.
I have a habit since childhood of resting as long as I can in the limbic state between dreaming and becoming fully awake. This is a fun place to explore but be careful. Sleep paralysis can arrive and with it comes the illusion of the hag. Once you know what she is (your mind trying to understand why it is partly awake and can not move creates her), it's not so scary.
If you do what you are already doing before bed but also want to wake in your dream and consciously take part in your dream it works the same way.
PS if you make a list of all the elements in the dream and do free association on it, also good.
PPS I think each thing in a dream is you trying to understand you. They are symbols that your mind creates out of what is stored from your past up til the dream. Intimate.
i'll stfu now and go on the xtrainer.
We aren't meant necessarily to know what is rattling around in our unconscious mind. I think it's in part to protect ourselves from self-TMI.
I have a habit since childhood of resting as long as I can in the limbic state between dreaming and becoming fully awake. This is a fun place to explore but be careful. Sleep paralysis can arrive and with it comes the illusion of the hag. Once you know what she is (your mind trying to understand why it is partly awake and can not move creates her), it's not so scary.
If you do what you are already doing before bed but also want to wake in your dream and consciously take part in your dream it works the same way.
PS if you make a list of all the elements in the dream and do free association on it, also good.
PPS I think each thing in a dream is you trying to understand you. They are symbols that your mind creates out of what is stored from your past up til the dream. Intimate.
i'll stfu now and go on the xtrainer.