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Dream Patterns: Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Our Waking Lives

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“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.' If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen. They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.' So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.”

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“Chapter 3: Recalling Your Dreams (page 27) Obtaining a dream journal is an essential step in developing dream recall. You should already have taken this step. If not, why not? Go get one. There's no point in continuing on if you do not. First of all, you need to write down your dreams to study them later. But, more than that, obtaining a dream journal is a personal statement of commitment to recalling and working with your dreams. By making this commitment, you plant in yourself the suggestion that you will in fact recall your dreams. If you are someone who almost never recalls dreams, you may have found that the very next morning after obtaining your journal that you recalled one or even more dreams. Moreover, at least if you have a hand-written journal, placing it beside your bed serves as a reminder, both before going to sleep and upon awakening, to recall your dreams.”

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“Chapter 3: Recalling Your Dreams (page 29) If you do recall, just barely, a segment of a dream, try to more fully recall the last part that you remember, then work backwards. I don't know why this works, but, over and over again, I have found that if I barely remember a few fragments, working forwards through the dream allows the last parts of the dream to evaporate and be lost. But, working backwards, I seem to be able to recall the dream without losing much.”

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“Chapter 3: Recalling Your Dreams (page 31) At one point, when I was working especially intently with my dreams for a particular project, I was recalling an average of fifteen dreams every morning. That's extreme and I don't normally come anywhere close to that, but it shows you what's possible. Dream recall is essential to studying your dream patterns. After all, how can you identify a pattern if you can't find the pieces making up that pattern? Regardless, remembering at least one dream each morning will be sufficient.”

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“Chapter 4: Recording Your Dreams (page 42) Write titles that will help you to quickly recall the dream or determine its main theme. You needn't confine your journaling to words, at least if you hand-write your dreams. Draw maps of the setting or pictures of important images from your dreams. Not every dream will necessarily have something worth drawing. Maybe most of your dreams won't. But, sometimes, you can more clearly communicate the appearance of something meaningful by drawing it rather than writing about it.”

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