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Dream Patterns: Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Our Waking Lives

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“Chapter 8: Breaking and Making your Patterns (pages 109-110) As you become more mindful and self-aware, you will be better able to penetrate the waking-life patterns that your dreams are pointing to. Moreover, you will start to become more aware of the deep source of your patterns. With awareness comes the ability to accept those patterns, determine whether they're helpful or not and, if not, to let them go. As you do so, write down all of your observations about yourself and your dream patterns. Write up your interpretations of your dream patterns in your dream journal. Write about the waking-life patterns they represent. Note your efforts to change your waking-life patterns and how those changes affect your life. And, of course, identify and discuss changes in your dream patterns as a result of the changes in your waking-life patterns.”

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“Chapter 8: Breaking and Making your Patterns (pages 111-112) Take Action Answer the following questions in your dream journal. They will help you analyze your dream patterns and your waking-life patterns. 1. Briefly describe one of the dream patterns you've recognized. It may be the same you recognized in the workbook for the previous chapter. 2. Link the above dream pattern to a waking-life pattern. If you're unsure of the link, identify several possible links. Describe the waking-life pattern(s) in your dream journal. 3. Consider how you might work to change an undesirable waking-life pattern. Take some notes on how you might recognize, acknowledge, and let go of the pattern. 4. As you work on that pattern, write some notes in your journal on your efforts. Are you able to recognize, acknowledge, and let go of the waking-life pattern? How is this affecting your life? How is it affecting your dreams? 5. Develop a daily meditation, mindfulness, or qigong practice to help you cultivate the self-awareness necessary for recognizing and letting go of your waking-life patterns.”

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“Glossary (page 143) dream pattern A cluster of recurring images or themes in your dreams. It is in these recurring patterns, rather than individual images or dreams, that we will generally find meaning. Our dream patterns reflect conscious or unconscious patterns in our attitudes, feelings, or behaviors in our waking lives.”

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“Glossary (page 143) hypnopompic sleep paralysis A rare event related to sleep paralysis. In these cases, the dreamer awakens, but the normal sleep paralysis has not yet worn off and the now awake person remains paralyzed. This can result in a sense of panic. Such cases are often accompanied by the clear sighting of a face or figure in the room with the dreamer. The person perceives the figure to be frightening or hostile. The paralysis and the frightening figure typically fade away on their own accord within a few seconds.”

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“Glossary (page 144) lucid dream A dream in which the person is conscious of dreaming. Such awareness often brings with it a feeling of bliss and an ability to control the contents of the dream. non-lucid dream A normal dream. A dream in which the person is not aware of dreaming and the normal operations of waking consciousness are not present.”

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“Glossary (page 145) sleep paralysis A natural and helpful condition during dreaming. Our body paralyses the muscles we use to move so that we don't physically carry out the actions from our dreams, which would result in injury. Some of our muscles, such as eye muscles, and those that regulate involuntary actions, such as our breathing, remain functional. See hypnopompic sleep paralysis for a special and frightening case.”

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“Glossary (pages 145-146) sublucid dream Dreams in which a person's conscious mind is operating and trying to make sense of the dream, but does not realize that it is dreaming. This attempt to make sense of the dream can alter the content of the dream to meet the expectations of the dreamer. However, unlike with lucid dreams, the dreamer cannot deliberately control the contents of the dream. We are often sublucid when, in our dreams, our conscious mind intrudes to try to make sense of the inherent strangeness of the dream. We often experience confusion in such dreams.”

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“Good Morning Sinkhole by Stewart Stafford Lucky birdshit on my window, A split-second awakening, Another landslide out of bed, Flailing in duvet quicksand. Clawing at the walls going down, Assume precarious crab-walk position, Straining every fibre to avoid collapsing, Land ho! with a fingertip mattress grab. Steadying myself, I drag my carcass up, Shaky leg muscles gain some relief, Retake Altar of Id with a drowning sweat, Survive to face more nightmare carpet rides. © 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”

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