Dreaming, a mirror into your unconscious mind

I had a little nap today. Before I went to bed, I’ve been struggling with thinking of a subject to write about. When I woke up it hit me, dreams.

Its something we all do so why is this an important topic?

Well my dreams are important to me.

They tell me so much about my mental state, they inspire me, they sometimes make me aware to take better care of myself.

I love my dreams. The nightmares I’m not a big fan off, but even the nightmares can inspire creativity or just a view into how I’m feeling.

Nightmares:

From when I suffered from PTSD until now, I rarely have the same nightmares as I did back then.

The nightmares I have now is more the typical ones.

Like dreams of falling or running away from a scary monster.

I think the most frequent nightmare I have now, is me standing on a chair and there are snakes all around the room. I really don’t like snakes.

There have been many occasions where I dream about fighting with my friends, or my boyfriend cheating on me, that’s just the fear I’ve had losing them coming to the surface. And when I have that dream it just reminds me how much I really care about them, and that its irrational fear just showing its face.

Then there are the stress dreams, that just reminds me to slow down.

It can be dreams of me running and never reaching my destination in time. I just keep running and I’m aware I’m late.

I had those dreams a lot when I was a guild master in my guild on wow, where I kept getting messages and they wouldn’t stop, something new I had to deal with a new problem arising that had to be fixed.

When I have those dreams it’s a clear indicator for me that I need to slow down what I’m doing and take a breather. My stress had been seeping into my unconscious mind and was trying to tell me something important, and its important to listen to those warning signs.

Good dreams:

I love the good dreams, the ones that make you wake up laughing.

When I’m starting to fall for someone its often its in my dreams that lets me in on that fact. I’ve often woken up from a dream and had the ah ha feeling, about my true feelings for someone. Of course, it’s also the butterflies and wanting to spend every waking moment with that person, but the dreams is normally for me an early sign something is up.

Having a good dream can often brighten your day.
I often remember what I dreamt and smile throughout the day if it was a funny or just an overall good dream.

Inspirational dreams:

Are my favorite ones. I love writing and being creative, and its often from waking from a dream I head over to my computer to write my stories, or come up with a unique idea that I suddenly want to learn more about flowers or something else I saw.

Its from those dreams I got inspired to write my blog.

I dream often, there isn’t a day I don’t remember something from my dream, a feeling or an image or several dreams throughout the night.

 I’ve had days where I remember up to 3 dreams.

Science tells you that everyone dreams every night, but its not everyone who remembers them often.

When I was younger, I used to keep a dream journal, and I would practice remembering my dreams.

The practice was to keep a book and pencil next to your nightstand and the second you wake up you would write down feelings, impressions and the pictures you remembered in your dream. You had to do it immediately after you wake up.

I don’t keep a journal anymore, but I wake up and lie in bed trying to put together what I dreamt and make meaning out of them. Sometimes its just a dream that doesn’t mean anything. Like the dreams you have when you just watched a movie last night and the events of that movie seeped into your unconscious and suddenly you are starring in that movie, it’s a cool dream but doesn’t mean much.

I’ve often dreamt about David tenant knocking on my door as the doctor, or another movie star.

I dream about my games a lot, I’ve often dreamt of my paladin, and fighting through the dungeons as her. I love those dreams, its like going on an adventure.

Or having dreamt of the dinosaurs in ark survival evolved and suddenly having to run away or tame them. I had those dreams every day for a while, and I swore I one day saw them in the forest while I was on a train ride to visit some friends.

My dreams keep my imagination alive.

You get to live and experience other worlds.

I’ve often had a dream and woken up from it, but still with eyes closed so I can be there in the pictures still and redirect them and continue the dream in a somewhat awake state. That’s the most exiting thing when I’m able to do that. It’s like being a director for your own movie.

Apparently, that’s called lucid dreaming.

So, I love dreaming, it’s a mirror into a side of me I’m not always aware of, and they have a lot of truth to them.

Being inspired, learning how to take better care of myself, listen to the warning signs my mind is telling me, and dreaming gives me creativity.

How do you feel about your dreams?

Do you remember your dreams?

Feel free to share down below if you do 😊