Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Dreams and their meanings...can anyone help me???

Be cautious about where you get info on dreams. The conscious/subconscious definitions are from a mere 200 year old science. Many pseudo-science books and sites out there.

I don't dream much now. I think it may be medications and having removed liquor and stress. However back some years ago I read a bookweb page by a psychologist, or psychiatrist can't recall, on lucid dreaming research he'd done. You may give it a go as he details how his Subjects could have lucid dreams at will. Also how he found to learn to have them. This may help you gain control of your dreams, therefore taking away any fear associated with it. I don't remember the power of reoccurring dreams on the ability to induce lucid dreaming but the book was very helpful in explaining sleep paralysis for me.

Some things off the top of my head.
1 keep a dream journal. He goes into detail as to help explaining such thing as noting signs that your dreaming i.e. impossible in the waking world.
2 Test your state of consciousness while awake. This is after he found out you can't read something twice in a dream. However your mind can play tricks on you, light in you watch goes out and what not. Important note here only words and numbers can't be read twice, not the arms of a clock, there lines not numbers.
How you do this is you look at your watch, if digital, read something, a note pad or business card or something, during the day at key times. Like whenever a door opens or every time you light up a cigarette. If you do this to the point of habit in the waking state then it becomes a habit in your dream state as well and then you'll know your dreaming.
Another thing is you usually don't question if your dreaming in the waking state.

Have to go offline for a while but wanted to post what i had

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