Remembering Your Dreams – Fake Sleepiness!

Dreams can be slippery little suckers.  You wake up knowing you have dreamed, but when you try to remember what it was, to put words to it, they can slip away and leave you with nothing more than a vague impression or sensation, like a mist at the back of your mind that clears gradually as the normal business of going about your day takes over.

That is why, if you can, you should try and take a couple of moments straight after waking before you get up and physically leave the dreaming space of your bed.  Keep your eyes closed for a few moments, don’t speak – if your partner tries to wake you just murmur sleepily and roll over – these few precious moments can make all the difference in grasping at least a single image or word from your dream.  Hang onto that, write it down.  When you have more time later this single image will be like a key that lets you back into the dream.  You may start to remember things that happened just before it or just after it – but in any case you should be able to build on what you had, instead of having nothing at all.

Your Dreams Want to Be Understood!

Your dreams want you to understand them!  This is great to remember when you are struggling with your own analysis.  They will try and send you the same messages in different ways,  sometimes in the same dream, sometimes over several nights.

But just as your dreams are from your subconscious and want to be heard, your ego doesn’t always want to listen!   The point of dreams is often to tell you about things you would really rather not face.  They will try and give you hints, to break the news to you gently.  But if you keep ignoring them, not listening to what they are telling you, your dreams will become more insistent, sometimes even turning into bad dreams or nightmares, or into recurring dreams.  They will do what they need to, to make you pay attention!  Sometimes this can go on for years before we decide to do something about it, by which time the issue may have become quite complicated or serious. So it is just as well to try and get the hint early on if you can!

The Rewards of Dream Work

One of the most exciting things I find about working with your dreams, is how you seem to enter into a dialogue with the dream, or your dreaming self.  As you start to better undrestand your dreams, and therefore, your own self better, your dreams will always let you know when you are on the right track.  And this can feel like such a wonderful reward!

After dreaming one night I was in a sinking boat, I worked through the dream and came to the conclusion that this was a good thing, I needed to let go of the boat which in my dream was a “floatation device” something that kept me skimming along the surface an prevented me from getting any deeper in my life.  I felt my dream was telling me to let go, to get into the water and swim!  I need to be in my element.  I need to get beneath the surface.  I think this relates to both my work and personal life.

The very night following my dreamwork I was rewarded with a dream of such vivid exhilaration it was extraodinary!  In it I watched a toy boat sink into the sea, and then went deeper than the boat, deep, deep deep into the sea. (Getting beneath the surface alright!) And then when I was ready, I shot to the surface with amazing energy, flew into the sky and dived like a bird back into the sea. I could fly, I could walk on water – no, dance across the surface!  I could skate, I could glide. I could jump on the water like a trampoline.  If I chose, I could stop and let myself sink into it up to my knees like I was in custard.  Or I could float – on the surface, or partially beneath it if I chose to.  I was totally in my element.  I had mastery of it.

Sometimes you have to surrender what seems like a safe and sensible option to really have the most wonderful liberating adventures.  What keeps us safe also keeps us separate.  The joy of freedom a wonderful thing.  The space to play when in the midst of taking life seriously with work, with the discipline of understanding your dreams, is a gift that dreams love to reward us with.

Welcome to the Dream Well!

Hello and welcome to my blog!  I am the founder of the Dream Well, a website that aims to help everyone understand the meaning of their dreams better, and to use the lessons our dreams teach us to enrich and improve our lives.   At the Dream Well, we believe only the individual who has the dream can understand their own dreams completely, because only the individual knows their own history and the context of the life the dreams are hapenning in – no expert can know all that!  But we also believe that with guidance and dedication, all of us can improve our understanding of our own dreams.

We at the Dream Well believe that time time spent sleeping is not time wasted!  We believe the better we understand our dreams, the better we understand our selves, and the better choices we can make in life, and the better we can interact with the people around us.  And surely that is good for everyone!  So in this blog I will be sharing tips and hints to help us all dream well, and insights I have gained from the people I speak to about dreams.  Hopefully it well be of some help to some of you!

May you all Dream Well!

http://www.thedreamwell.com