A couple of dream tidbits:

I've been searching around the internet today about dreams and dream interpretations, (because I had a wicked nightmare last night) And I ran across a couple of interesting tidbits:

1. One third of our lives is spent sleeping.

2. In your lifetime, you would've spent about 6 years of it dreaming. That is more than 2,100 days spent in a different world.

5. Dreams are indispensable. A lack of dream activity can mean protein deficiency or a personality disorder.

6. We dream on average of one or two hours every night. And we often even have 4-7 dreams in one night.

8. Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost.

11. Studies have shown that our brain waves are more active when we are dreaming than when we are awake.

12. Dreamers who are awakened right after REM sleep, are able to recall their dreams more vividly than those who slept through the night until morning

More can be found at http://www.dreammoods.com/dreaminformation/dreamfacts.htm
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Isn't this weird? If we live to be 100 years old, we'd have slept for 33 years! I'm only 22...so I can't fathom what 33 years is like--let alone 33 years wasted(lack of a better word) in sleeping.

This is all too weird...

keep a pad by your bed and write down any bits of dreams you can remember immediately after waking up. After a few weeks you should be able to remember dreams that are quite long.

I've done this on several occasions, and boy I had some doozies. If you look at them over a period of time, you can get some real insights into yourself just by looking for themes.

I was a psych major and very interested in sleep and dreaming. Might have specialized if I had stayed in the field.

There's been a lot of dreams, more specifically nightmares, that I've been having lately, and most of them I can't remember. I should write them down and figure out what they mean by a psychologist.

Thanks for the advice.

once you have written a dream down, is to look for details (people, places, etc) that link the dream to a recent experience, person, or part of your life (work, etc). Once you've done that, think about the emotions, the mood, and the storyline (feeling lost, overcoming an obstacle, etc). That's a good starting place for understanding what they mean.

If it doesn't work with one dream, try looking over a number of them. A couple of examples: (1) I had a theme of moving forward while not being in control of things. In one example, I was in the driver's seat of a car, but there was no steering wheel or brake pedal. (2) I've had a number of dreams of flying, but having difficulty getting very far off the ground. I believe that has to do with having insufficient energy or initiative to do everything I'd like to do. (3) Someone else pointed out to me that I had a theme of buildings that were closed to the outside world -- no windows, shutters, stores with the windows covered with signs, etc. I believe this had to do with closing myself off from other people. (Hopefully if I did a dream log now, the theme would not be there any more.)

I you ever want to discuss, just PM me. I love this stuff.

I started recording my dreams when I was about eight; not only have I found themes and patterns, but I've also got a good record of what my mind has been up to over the years!

These days I upload my dreams to the Twisk Dreambase for everyone to read.

Tucker

Now *that's* a trip!

If you ever wanted to be able to fly like a bird, this is one way you can do it. It ROCKS! :D