Control Your Dreams
Contents
1. Introduction
2. The science of dreams
3. Interpreting your dreams
4. Controlling your dreams
Introduction
About a week ago I had a dream that my cousin got his girlfriend pregnant. The next day, I got on social media and saw his announcement saying he was going to be a father.
There are only two explanations.
My brain remembered the dream wrong and inserted the new information in its place.
There’s something else going on in our dreams.
I’m not a holistic health guru who thinks dreams represent some alternate dimension or are divine messages from above. I do think there’s more to dreams than we currently understand though.
In Timaeus, Plato talks about how prophetic dreaming is reflective of the capacity of our livers. He also talked about how partaking in passions decreases our ability to dream prophetically.
While many of his observations aren’t in line with what we know now, there’s an obvious link between our health and dreaming. The relationship between toxins and our liver wasn’t known to the degree that it’s now understood (you’ve probably experienced varying degrees of dreams while partaking in the consumption of alcohol or other drugs). Likewise, the relationship between dopamine and dreams is very real and still being studied. So maybe, as we do in modern society, constantly pressing the dopamine button with exogenous substances, porn, and social media negatively impacts our ability to dream.
Another consideration in the study of dreaming is establishing the relationship of our modern environment with dreams. It’s estimated that somewhere around 50% of people are low on serum vitamin d levels. It’s also hypothesized that low calcium and vitamin d levels contribute to nightmares and “bad dreams” (study). Along with our diminished control of our light environment, poorer sleep quality, and worse overall health, we can begin to understand how dreams might have been more prolific and and vivid for our ancestors.
This post will help you understand how you can improve your dreaming, both in quality and retention, and decrease the negative relationship you might have with that particular state of consciousness.
If you haven’t already, I highly suggest you first fix your sleep by reading my article.
Let’s begin.
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