Dreams and what they do for you

 

 

 

Eight things you don't know about dreams

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Everyone dreams—every single night—and yet we tend to know so little about our dreams. Where do they come from? What do they mean? Can we control them and should we try to interpret them? We spoke to the dream experts to bring you nine surprising facts about dreams. Read before snoozing.
1. Dreaming can help you learn.
If you’re studying for a test or trying to learn a new task, you might consider taking a nap or heading to bed early rather than hovering over a textbook an hour longer. Here’s why: When the brain dreams, it helps you learn and solve problems, say researchers at Harvard Medical School. In a study that appeared in a recent issue of Current Biology, researchers report that dreams are the brain’s way of processing, integrating and understanding new information. To improve the quality of your sleep—and your brain’s ability to learn—avoid noise in the bedroom, such as the TV, which may negatively impact the length and quality of dreams.
2. The most common dream? Your spouse is cheating.
If you’ve ever woken up in a cold sweat after dreaming about your husband’s extramarital escapade with your best friend, you’re not alone, says Lauri Quinn Loewenberg, a dream expert, author and media personality. “The most commonly reported dream is the one where your mate is cheating,” she says. Loewenberg conducted a survey of more than 5,000 people, and found that the infidelity dream is the nightmare that haunts most people—sometimes on a recurring basis. It rarely has anything to do with an actual affair, she explains, but rather the common and universal fear of being wronged or left alone.
3. You can have several—even a dozen—dreams in one night.
It’s not just one dream per night, but rather dozens of them, say experts—you just may not remember them all. “We dream every 90 minutes throughout the night, with each cycle of dreaming being longer than the previous,” explains Loewenberg. “The first dream of the night is about 5 minutes long and the last dream you have before awakening can be 45 minutes to an hour long.” It is estimated that most people have more than 100,000 dreams in a lifetime.end quote from article

My own experience with dreams if you want them to be more useful and helpful in everyday life is to find a way to wake up without an alarm. Waking up in your own cycle without an alarm I find I am almost always then in some kind of "Oceanic State with God". The exception to this is if I am exhausted trying to make sense of something that is troubling me that night. But even then I try to say to myself and all life in the universe within a few moments to 1/2 hour after arising, "May all being attain Bliss and the cause of bliss etc" and/or my new realization of inherent goodness of all beings, "All beings are bliss and the cause of bliss throughout the universe past, present and future."



Reality only is reality when we have both waking and dreaming states. It is why people start halucinating and going insane after about 5 or more days with no sleep.

I would say that the waking state is only about 1/10 of what a human beings life is all about. I feel sad for people who don't understand this. If you want to be a fully empowered human being you need to start to understand what the other 9/10ths of you are about. We are all everywhere everywhen and not limited to one time or state of consciousness. The Natural abilities of a human when one joins all 10/10ths of oneself are beyond the imagination of many humans presently on earth.

Shakespeare said it best, "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than have even been dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio". This is a line Hamlet speaks to his friend, Horatio.