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Poor dream recall is one of the biggest stumbling blocks when it comes to using your dreams to heal and empower your life. Immediately on waking, you are in that twilight stage between sleep and wakefulness. Sometimes it can be hard to know the di?erence between your dreams and reality in this stage. The reason for this is that your brainwaves are in theta. Delta is the stage when you are fast asleep. Theta is when you are relaxed just before sleeping or just after waking. (Alpha is when you are calm and awake; beta is when you are fully awake and active, with gamma being a state of intense concentration and alertness.) Theta brainwaves are the optimum state for recalling dreams and ...
Yes, nocturnal dreams are strange and may often feel utterly incomprehensible, but there is always method in their madness. Once you learn this method, you'll find that your dreams are your ultimate reality check. They are your most devoted friend, the one who stands by you regardless, refreshingly honest and always there for you. The pressures of daily life can sometimes be too much to resolve when you are awake. The answers, leaps of faith, and creative connections you need can often only be found when your logical mind is sleeping, and your intuition is unleashed in your dreams. You are always your own best adviser, but sometimes it takes a whole lot of self-awareness and self-belief ...
For thousands of years, civilizations across the globe have been fascinated with dreams. Various temples throughout Greece had a longstanding tradition of practicing dream incubation for healing as well as for prophecy. Dream magick is featured in the Welsh medieval mythology known as The Mabinogion, in which the Roman emperor Macsen Wledig is compelled to to search for the woman who will eventually become his wife. Indigenous peoples have also revered dreams. This includes (but is not limited) to the Amazonian people known as the Achuar, who start each day with a retelling of dreams for the purposes of interpretation and guidance for the day's events. Of course, the usefulness of dreams ...
In the world of dreams, anything can happen and probably will. They take us to landscapes in which we are powerfully creative, and there are seemingly no limits to our capacity to generate extraordinary realities within the dream state. They say that life is but a dream, and in some ways, we can approach our waking life as the dreamer of the dream, able to create as if out of magic. In fact, there are techniques available to people out there designed to teach individuals how to manifest the life that they desire. The notion is that you can have absolutely anything you want in life; you simply have to learn a technique or two, and the life of your dreams is there for the asking. But is ...
