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In dreams, can you forget to be damageable? Forget to keep your dimensions consistent with a human body? Forget to have to move to go from here to there?  Oh, and this one?  What if you have a nightmare and the bad guys forget to show up? (I waited a while and moved on!)

Let me share this gem with you:  In dreams, a stimulus may appear from outside your awareness/control.  Let's say a fire truck.  Ok, almost without recognizing it, you immediately respond to the fire truck with a wave of "unconscious" reaction/programmed expectation.  maybe like this
1. Fire trucks go to scary places to fight fire
2. Fire causes destruction
3. Containing fire is a dangerous activity fit for firefighters only
3. Stay away or I may feel pain.

This reaction is obviously going to have a dramatic and immediate effect on the development of the subsequent dream.  But note that this interpretation/reaction to fire trucks is just one possibility.  
Couldn't you also react to a fire truck this way?

1. Fire trucks are the front line of people helping others
2. Fire causes change
3. The management of change is a worthwhile activity that maximizes the happiness of everyone involved
4. Maybe I can help

That's gonna lead to a different dream, no?

So you'll agree that, for someone else, the subconscious programming for fire trucks might be different.  Maybe you'll agree that you can change your own programming for fire trucks.  What about for seeing an attractive person? A million dollars? A would-be mugger? Your significant other with someone else?  Are your reactions in those cases all hard-wired and automatic? Or can you (with work) go in and willfully, consciously choose a different reaction to each of them than the one you are hooked-up-to now? Well, can you?

In dreams, the real test becomes can you recognize your reactions/ make changes to your reactions on the fly.  Once you can transform the action or scenery in your dream by sending out some unconscious expectation/reaction energy, then you are really cooking. As a concrete example of this, if you become lucid in a dream try the following exercise.  Deliberately feel fear and generate an expectation that something bad is coming.  Notice how the fear you are sending out starts to feed back in to the dream environment.  Now stop generating fear.  Notice how the background continues to feed fear back to you a little while longer.  Learn to recognize this feedback effect.  It lets you know that you are dreaming.

Recognizing how fast this all takes place will give you an idea how much focus it takes to manage your dream-reactions.  It also helps to work on your reaction/expectations to common events in waking life, too. Are you automatically angry when someone cuts in front of you at the store? Hmmm...

I have a deep connection with a girl that has kind of defined my becoming a man.  The connection is largely experienced in my dreams, as the girl has gone out of my life in any conventional sense.  An occasional shared moment, a smile, an argument-- it seems each of my dreams of her I can recall effortlessly.  Roughly 18 months ago, I dreamed that she had married and started a family.  That was later confirmed (the marriage, anyway). I had a difficult time dealing, but at least it made sense to me (that I had dreamed she was settling down with another man).

Now, I am dreaming that she is coming back to me.  A few months ago, I dreamt that she accidentally got on my bus and said, looking in my eyes, "I am so glad to see you."  Then, last night, I dreamt that I saw her at a reunion of my singing group, and she had deliberately shown up so as to get back together with me.

The reason I bring this to the forum, is that I feel kind of out-there, having such faith in dreams. Actually, what I feel weird about is the total sense of certainty I feel about them.  That given the source of the information, I am unable to muster even a respectable amount of skepticism towards the information.  My mind tries to doubt, but even it gives up easily in the face of the center's serene knowing.  That last comment may not make sense to those who haven't experienced such conflicts firsthand.  

I don't really want to spoil the surprise by having anyone tell me whether I am in for a miracle or for a dissapointment. I just feel that maybe someone reading this will benefit from my experience.

Actually I tried reading a comic book when I was asleep and all the words were random!  I forced myself to read each word as I saw it and it was laughably nonsensical...

Cheers!
Richard

I had thought about that.  Something similar.  The mind saying okay your need to stop for a bit.  That is an acceptable reason.  But let me pose this question.
As I had stated through my research that point at which I got stuck is believe to control/create memories and/or house the more primal functions of human thought.  SO, is it possible for the mind to create a sinerio to explain damage and/or the turning off of that point?  It is logical to say that your mind/body knows where every thing is in you and what it does.  But could it say "this is damaged or in need of repair" and then say "this type of damage would turn it off"  and then plot a course to the exterior of the body, then pick a kind of injury, then let your imagination or experiences fill in the blanks?
Example.  You have large internal bruse on say you kidney.  It just developed or you did something. But in either case you are not fully aware of it.  So the mind trys to tell you through a dream. So it figures that the only way that happened was through a strong impact of a blut object a point A.  Then you imagination or experience kicks in through the rest of the dream and fills in  the blanks.  Say you have a dream about getting hit by a car, or kicked by a horse, or even hit with a baseball bat.  And so on.  Is it possible for the brain to perform that complex of a task?

If you had a hard time following I will try to explain better.



David Rogalski
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