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Memory of our dream is often vivid on iwaking but fades rapidly, unless we take definite steps to record our dreams.
Dream is vital for our health, without it we become stressed, anxious, irritable & unable to concentrate. Our blood pressure rises, we may feel dizzy & sweat more than necessary.
Precognitive which tells our future, but most are coincidences.
Lucid - Where dreamer is aware of dreaming & may able to take control, directing the dream in direction they wish it to progress, brain will obey, written command.. ..
Some dreams are simple easy to understand while some are complex with variety of subject images, events,
Some are wholly influenced by something which has happened recently in your waking state of life e.g. a play, film, book, t.v. serial, or any episode which has deeply affected you.
Surred dreams have their internal logic, which usually bears little or no relation to waking world.
Nightmares which usually start off as ordinary dream turning into unpleasant as they progress. E.g. feeling of helplessness they endanger. Which is reflection of how yell feel about occurrences - or fears in waking life- or punishing for something wrong you have done or have not done.
Such actions are happening to you. Or you are watching it happen to someone else - or you yourself performing the action against someone. Everyone has some dark side, unfulfilled unhealthy desire which may reveal in dreams or may satisfy you in dreams like sex-desires or passion for someone. Dreams reveal our inner selves & fact which we may not like. Freud emphasized the distinction between manifest content & latent content of dreams manifest content are sophisticated chemouflage for deeper instincts or wishes that caused anxiety or conflict.
Dreams guide, inspire give access to hidden feelings & unexpected needs.
Nightmares are fearful dreams that overwhelm us causes us awaken.
Psychologist Hart Mann define nightmare as something from inside that awakens us with scared feeling. Nightmares are most direct sources of self knowledge they give us raw uncensored view of very issues that are most unsettled to us. They are indication of inner turmoil may be positive, such as marriage, pregnancy, graduation.
When you are most vulnerable & really need those precious hours of sleep nightmares may invade your psyche like terrifying marauders that torture you & leave you shaken. Nightmares involves profound anxiety & threat to our physical safety or survival such as we commit,
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