Tracking or studying your dreams

Drail

Drail

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I am going through some shit in my life right now and because of a suggestion from... well, from the one that I'm going through the shit with, I have been looking into the 'meaning' of my dreams. I just started; only two days in, and it's kinda odd. It almost seams as though they give you a couple different possible meanings for most subjects and you can mould it to fit whatever you want it to mean in your life. I mean, interpretation of your subconscious by your conscious mind isn't exactly a fair and unbiased practice.

Has anyone here attempted to 'read' their dreams and come up with some sort of meaning or pattern? Any actual success that helped you go down the 'correct' path? I've always enjoyed thinking about my dreams and talking about them first thing in the morning, but never actually tried to look into their meaning until recently.
 
I don't have much to contribute but pete holmes on duncan trussel podcast had a great convo about about lucid dreaming, worth googling... sounds so interesting, my dreams are usually too confusing to analyze I like to just let it go...
 
I'll have dreams where I'm having sex with a boss or something like that and the next one I witness my friend get her head blown off in front of me. So really, I stopped thinking about them because they scare the shit out of me.

Do you dream in color? Do you remember every detail of your dream? Is it too "real" for you?
 
When I used to read up on lucid dreaming, which never really worked for me, they always said if you write down everything you can remember from your dream immediately after waking, after a while you will remember more of your dreams, or some shit like that.

It's called a dream journal, I never tried it, but it might help you if that's what you're looking for.
 
The more you write down as soon as you wake up, the more you will remember in your next dreams. This only works if you keep doing it and commit yourself to doing it.

That being said, I currently don't write any down but try to remember as much as I can immediately after waking, and I nearly always see corresponding people, objects, work patterns & interactions between the days / weeks before the dream, and the dream itself.
 
I had a way fucked up dream this morning. It woke me up at 530 and i couldnt get back to sleep.

My dad and I got in a big fight on a car ride to san francisco. my sister, mom and my sisters boyfriend were in the car with us and it was super heated im not sure what we were arguing about but it was heated. I said "fuck you" to my dad then didn't say anythign more. Then my mom asked me if i wanted a tylenol and I said "I dont want a fucking tylenol mom"

(this is weird i dont talk to my parents like that ever and we never fight)

we stopped off to get gas outside the city, and everyone in the car got out and went into the gas station my dad was buying gas my mom was off to the side looking at somethign, me my sister and her boyfriend were at the atm. this creepy dude who was like 6'6" and wearing a leather trench coat was there and just stared at my sister and then said "I want to see a dead body tonight."

it freaked my sister out so she told her bf that they should go back to the car so they do, and the guy follows them out. As he follows them out i decide its fucked up and im gonna follow this guy out as well

they get to the car and im standing off to the side and my sisters boyfriend was like "hey man just leave us alone," and the guy was like "oh I'm sorry I'm sorry i didnt mean to scare you", then goes back into the gas station. My mom then comes out and she asks what that was about.

I look back into the gas station and see the guy putting on leather gloves then comes back out with his hands in his pockets.

He comes back out and starts walking towards the car. My sister and her bf are next to the car, my mom is like 6 feet from them and i'm like 6 feet off to the side of her. The guy walks out and says you have three seconds to live then counts erratically saying 5,6,,2,3!

then he pulls out a gun shoots my mom then puts two rounds into my sister and her bf. He then shoots my mom in the head on the ground then puts one in my sisters head as well. I run to the other side of the car and he notices but doesnt care. He takes out a pad of paper and puts it on the hood of the car and writes something then he sees me watching him, I'm about to go around and fucking grab the guy but he walks aroudn the car and BANG

he shoots me in the head, i could feel it but it didnt hurt, more of a shock, then everything goes black and i fall down super fast and hit my face on the ground, but i can hear things. he shoots me in the head again while im on the ground andi feel the shock again.

I was dead and i knew it but i was still having thoughts. I thought about my mom and sister and how they died. Then I thought about how the last thing I said to my mom was "I dont want fuckign tylenol" and i got super sad. Then next thing i knew im outside of my body and can see again i like teleported into the gas station and my dad was in there still talking to the attendant behind the counter and my dad was smiling, which was weird because he was previously so pissed off, then i hear him say to the attendant "yeah sometimes you just have to let things go and apologize, thank you for the advice." the guy behind the counter said "no worries, you have a beautiful family."

I got really sad, like horribly sad and i realized the last thing i said to my dad was "Fuck you."

My dad turned to go outside, and I woke up.

It was one of the more fucked up dreams i can remember having it was so real and so detailed as it was happening it was truly crazy.

does it mean anything? idk, but i do know im driving to san francisco with my family and my sisters boyfriend in september so if we get murdered it was a premonition.

 
I dream about taking the other path on decisions I have made in real life. Big decisions. Like I have been dreaming tons about this awesome and super sexy chick with tons of mutual interests that tried to sleep with me. I declined because I have a gf, but now I can't get her out of my head, and in my dreams we are hooking up, and sometimes my gf finds out, and sometimes i break up with her first, and sometimes I tell the other chick off. It's super intense.

Anyways usually I dream about stuff that's been happening in my life recently and it always has a crazy twist to it, usually the twist of making the "wrong decision". Or would it be the right one?

Haha my lifes in a weird place.
 
Just so it's clear. I'm not trying to get into lucid dreaming, at all. I'm doing this because I have been doing a lot of thinking about what direction I want to go in life and who I want to become, so there's been a lot of inner thought as to who I am and what I can do to improve myself personally... My partner who I'm trying to fix things with right now mentioned that paying attention to your subconscious might be helpful in certain thoughts I am having without paying attention to, so I'm just trying to see if there's any patterns over time.

I don't know if it will actually go anywhere because dream interpretation isn't exactly exact and you can bend things to mean whatever you want it to mean. At the least - it makes for something entertaining to do while having my morning coffee and think about stuff.
 
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