The Story of Lori

[Sephirah]

Not sure about that, but Ashley, you always make me smile <3

I am a big advocate about dreams being important. The first name I had here was through a dream. I still use it as my email. It's the mind's way of telling us stuff we don't otherwise pay attention to. The subconscious works in imagery, and interpretation. It's not like the monkey brain which has a Haynes Manual for life... or thinks it does.

If a dream is such that it makes a mark on you, then it's something you need to pay attention to.

[tgirlamg]

Not sure about that, but Ashley, you always make me smile <3

I am a big advocate about dreams being important. The first name I had here was through a dream. I still use it as my email. It's the mind's way of telling us stuff we don't otherwise pay attention to. The subconscious works in imagery, and interpretation. It's not like the monkey brain which has a Haynes Manual for life... or thinks it does.

If a dream is such that it makes a mark on you, then it's something you need to pay attention to.

Sephirah

I think the dream world is as equally valid an experience for our souls as the waking world... The framework is a looser construct but, it makes perfect sense when we are there and like the waking world... it filled with opportunities to learn and grow at some level 💕

"Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily Life Is But A Dream..." 🌻

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[Sephirah]

Sephirah

I think the dream world is as equally valid an experience for our souls as the waking world... The framework is a looser construct but, it makes perfect sense when we are there and like the waking world... it filled with opportunities to learn and grow at some level 💕

"Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily Life Is But A Dream..." 🌻

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No argument here, honey. Dreams are what you get when the subconscious mind is free to explore. Free of rationalisation

[NatalieRene]

That could be. Normally they are not that long or that detailed. That is why I pay attention when that happens.

Dreams are the subconscious mind's way of taking out the trash. The subconscious notices everything from sights, smells, sounds, feelings (touch), tastes, and emotions. All of that is stored in short-term memory. When we sleep and enter REM sleep, the mind begins sorting stuff to decide what is important and what can be discarded. Like sorting your mail to get rid of the junk.

It does this several times a night. Then it takes everything in the "discard pile" and gets rid of it. All of those things stored in memory take energy to store them. By getting rid of the junk, that energy is recovered. The way it does that is by sort of reversing the flow. It took in all of these images and things, so now it purges them back out in the form of dreams. The important stuff becomes long-term memories.

If you notice, when your sleep is interrupted or you become sleep-deprived, you feel worn out with no energy. This is why. When we experience a trauma, we want to just go to sleep and put it behind us. This is so the mind can get to work processing those memories and recover that energy.

What this means is that dreams are just your mind discarding things you don't need to worry about. Somehow those concepts entered your mind and the mind decided it was unimportant and did not need to be moved to long-term memory.

But I still pay attention to the ones I remember. Sometimes I will have a very strange dream and I have to wonder where the heck that came from.

That's fascinating. I never thought about dreams being a way our mind is sorting through data and optimizing space. It kind of reminds me of what Skippy does in the Expedition Force series when he is working on his matrix.

So dreams are the data being wiped or stored? Because I rarely remember the dreams. I'm assuming that means most of my dreams are discarded.

But could dreams also be a way for the subconscious to communicate with the conscious? Like a problem being worked on and the answer bubbling to the surface?

[Lori Dee]

So dreams are the data being wiped or stored? Because I rarely remember the dreams. I'm assuming that means most of my dreams are discarded.

But could dreams also be a way for the subconscious to communicate with the conscious? Like a problem being worked on and the answer bubbling to the surface?

Dreams are the data being wiped so the energy can be recovered. The subconscious controls all memory, so it sorts out junk and moves the good stuff from short-term to long-term memory. The subconscious never sleeps, but the conscious mind does. That is how hypnosis works. You are not really "asleep" just intently focused so we can bypass the judgment of the conscious mind and make suggestions to the subconscious mind.

The subconscious is in total control of the body. While you sleep, you continue to breathe and your heart continues to beat, wounds continue to heal. That is the subconscious in control. The conscious mind may decide that you want a sandwich, but it does not tell each individual muscle how to work so you can walk to the kitchen. The subconscious knows how to walk from previous memories. It accepts the command and you walk to the kitchen.

The subconscious will try to feed the conscious with an answer to a question. So if you are trying to recall the dream, you might be able to. In school, we were taught that the subconscious is like a three-year-old who wants to help but doesn't always get it right.

Think about a time when you heard a song but could not remember who sang or played it. The conscious mind doesn't know the answer so it kicks the question to the subconscious. The subconscious starts throwing out answers but they are all wrong and the conscious mind rejects them. You give up and think about other things. Then out of the blue, you remember that song. The subconscious continued to work on the problem in the background.

The subconscious always accepts commands from the conscious mind... not just yours, but any conscious mind. Again, that is how hypnosis works. The subconscious accepts the suggestions from the conscious mind of the hypnotist or hypnotherapist when it is in a suggestive state. It is not blind acceptance though. You cannot be made to do anything that you would not normally do.

[NatalieRene]

That's interesting. I don't have many dreams that I remember. So either my sub conscious is keeping everything or my conscious mind with add is simply not paying attention.

I'm going to guess the later because I wouldn't call myself forgetful but if it isn't something that matters to me I know I have a tendency for it to go in one ear and out the other.

[Emma1017]

I wish my subconscious would just tell me what the lottery numbers are for the next drawing...you are all invited to the party if it does!

[ChrissyRyan]

I wish my subconscious would just tell me what the lottery numbers are for the next drawing...you are all invited to the party if it does!

Good luck Emma no matter what.

[Lori Dee]

So either my sub conscious is keeping everything or my conscious mind with add is simply not paying attention.

We always dream, but do not always remember them.

If the dream was nothing we need to pay attention to maybe it got added to the "discard" pile and processed before we woke up. Studies have shown that people who are sleep deprived for long periods, begin to hallucinate. This is just the subconscious trying to do its job "outside of work hours".

[Northern Star Girl]

@Lori Dee
Dear Lori:
I usually and clearly remember my "good" dreams... but unfortunately I wake up and my
dream ends right before the really good part takes place. 

Then I go back to sleep trying to pick up where it left off, but to no avail  {sad face}

HUGS, Danielle

We always dream, but do not always remember them.

If the dream was nothing we need to pay attention to maybe it got added to the "discard" pile and processed before we woke up. Studies have shown that people who are sleep deprived for long periods, begin to hallucinate. This is just the subconscious trying to do its job "outside of work hours".

[Lori Dee]

Speaking of dreams...

Last night, I dreamt that I received my passport in the mail. I actually received it about a week or so ago.

In the dream, I took it out of the envelope and looked at it. The picture was not the one that I had taken at the passport office!

Instead of my face, it was a full-length photo of a young girl about 8 - 9 years old with long dark hair, wearing a skirt and a winter coat. My hair at that age was dark brown and I sensed that it was me in the photo, but it clearly was not a "passport photo".

The purpose of getting a passport was to verify who I am in case the corrected birth certificate gets rejected. I wonder if the dream was allowing me to see my inner self from an outside point of view.

This morning, I received a text message from the Postal Service that my passport card was arriving today.

< cue Twilight Zone theme song >

[NatalieRene]

@Lori Dee
Dear Lori:
I usually and clearly remember my "good" dreams... but unfortunately I wake up and my
dream ends right before the really good part takes place. 

Then I go back to sleep trying to pick up where it left off, but to no avail  {sad face}

HUGS, Danielle

I have had this happen a few times.

[Lilis]

This morning, I received a text message from the Postal Service that my passport card was arriving today.

Did the dream come true?

[Lori Dee]

Did the dream come true?

I got the passport card today. The photo was the passport photo as it should be. That would have really freaked me out if it was a picture of some kid! 

[Lilis]

That would have really freaked me out if it was a picture of some kid! 

😊😂🤣

[davina61]

Stranger thing have happened!! I take no notice of weird happenings, I do seem to have a 6th sense about stuff or is it Deja vu ??

[Lori Dee]

Stranger thing have happened!! I take no notice of weird happenings, I do seem to have a 6th sense about stuff or is it Deja vu ??

If you believe that we live many lifetimes over and over, then the odds are pretty good that these things have happened before. So maybe it isn't clairvoyance as much as Deja vu. Maybe we just remember something from a long time ago.

"Learning is finding out what you already know.
Doing is demonstrating that you know it.
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.
You are all learners, doers, teachers."

― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

[NatalieRene]

I wish my subconscious would just tell me what the lottery numbers are for the next drawing...you are all invited to the party if it does!

If you're somehow clairvoyant and can divine the winning lottery numbers you have to teach me your trick.

[MsLeigh]

I had a dream that I was working in some high trusses. My tape measure was knocked off my tool belt and fell to concrete where it smashed into many pieces. Then trying to get down, I fell and woke up when I hit the concrete.  A few years later I was working in trusses and started to have that dejavu feeling. Then my tape measure caught and was knocked from my tool belt. It was like a slow motion movie watching the tape fall, hit the concrete, and disintegrate. I quickly remembered the dream and knew the next thing would be falling to my death. I then cautiously took a different way down hanging on and taking each movement purposefully.  I believe that I cheated death that day by paying attention to the dream.

About 2 years later I had another dream where I am dying. The realism was just like the first dream. In the dream I looked at myself in a mirror. I had these dreams before I turned 30. I am now 60 and I realized that the mirror in the dream was gifted to me a few years ago. I look in that mirror and see my face and can tell that I am not old enough to die yet.

I am totally convinced I know how I will die, how old I will be, and what I will look like.

I don't try to analyze. I am a believer in dreams and they feed the dejavu feelings we have.

Leigh

[Lori Dee]

I am a believer in dreams and they feed the dejavu feelings we have.

This is so true. The "dream world" is limitless and we spend a large portion of our lives inside it. It would seem the possible situations presented to us could be infinite so we can learn from them.

The mind is not limited by space and time the way that the physical world is. We can move forward or backward in time and travel to distant places in an instant. One of my favorite dreams was when I learned how to levitate. I wasn't very good at it at first, but after many dreams of practicing, I finally mastered it. If I had a nightmare where I was in harm's way, I would levitate up and out of reach.