So I have a dream goal. I mean the only one and this is the reason I started lucid dreaming. It's kinda personal in a way but I tried to talk to "myself" if it was a dream character. I had a lucid dream a week ago. I was in a beautiful garden with flowers and a pond but I was locked in so to speak. I couldn't go anywhere besides that place. I know my dream controll is not good yet but I tried to find that character. I went in to a dark tiny forest that garden had. And I found tiny fairies. They basically told me it's not possible and it doesn't exist. But not exactly word by word. I am still really disapointed and I don't know if it's true or not. I almost want to give up but I'm still hopeful at least a bit. Because I don't care about fun. I just want to find that "thing", my thoughts what has been burried inside for a long time. Is this really not possible? Am I chasing a dream that is twaddle and hype? It was really important for me. Sorry if I'm a little emotional about it. And please don't judge me... I literally don't know my own mind.
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I'm not sure I fully understand your goal. That you want to talk to yourself? A lot of people try to do this in dreams, due to Waggoner's "awareness behind the dream" idea. Personally, I think that the awareness behind the dream is total malarky, (for reasons you can read in my article here on site) however, that's not to say that the spirit of it is totally off base. That is to say that, I think, when people want to communicate with themselves or their subconscious in a dream, what they're really trying to do is to make some sort of unconscious information become conscious. So is that possible? I think it is, yes, but I would be very skeptical of people who say that you can trust what your dreams seem to tell you. Dreams, lucid or not, are often full of wild imagings and things which have no descriptive power about the reality of who you are. Though, on the other hand we've all had those dreams where we went to bed without romantic feelings for someone, had a dream about them, and then woke up smitten with that person. This is a clear example of unconscious information becoming conscious via dreams. It *is* possible. But is it likely, and can it be relied upon? This is a separate and more nuanced question which is up for debate. This is actually a topic that I spend about 80 pages in my book talking about, because it's incredibly important to get to the bottom of it if lucid dreams are ever to be implemented as a valid therapy. It's not out yet, but if this is something you're interested in, I'll likely be making a post here on the forum when my book becomes available. Otherwise, I say be skeptical about what your dreams tell you, even those fairies, and make sure that what you seem to learn about yourself in dreams maps onto reality before you accept it as true. Hope I've answered this appropriately.