(Part 2) Best products from r/dreams

I have been told that my book, THE BEST DREAM BOOK EVER, is one of the easiest step-by-step approaches. You can find it at this link:
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Dream-Book-Ever-Accessing/dp/0984567275/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494269789&sr=8-1&keywords=the+best+dream+book+ever

This book is exceptional, I've heard Waggoner speak before and he's extremely experienced and informed on the subject and I highly recommend it! http://www.amazon.com/Lucid-Dreaming-Gateway-Inner-Self/dp/193049114X
Some classic tips are asking your self if you're dreaming often while you are awake in order to be more aware of it and so more likely to wonder it while you are "unconscious". Also recommended is looking at your hands, looking at your digital alarm clock since electronics don't seem to work the same way in the dreamstate, etc.
http://lucidadvice.com/LucidDreamingLinks.aspx
Best of luck!

Perhaps what would help most right now is a good night of sleep. 5mg of melatonin might do the trick. It can help you stay asleep. If you are willing to try relaxation music, I suggest playing this or this. I have used the music in the second link -- have the CD in my library. It's classical music with a subliminal track added. It's fucking peaceful man. It helped someone I know who had terrible sleep issues.

Lack of REM sleep can play all sorts of havoc on your mind and body. It creates huge mood swings, clouds your thinking, causes weird physical sensations. Light in the room where you sleep can mess with you big time, especially blue LED light. My modem and router both have bright blue LED lights, and both devices are in my bedroom, so I use an eye mask. I also have a loud fan to create white noise. Otherwise, I'm fucking worthless without enough good sleep.

I know some breathing techniques and can link you to some resources if you're willing to give them a try. You gotta want to help yourself though. The dream you had shows some serious inner conflict. The dream characters that shoot you and Josh are representations of parts of yourself. They are your anger, your pain, your defiance, your bitterness. Dying in a dream is a way of saying you are dying inside, or that something about yourself needs to recede so that you can mature. Or both. I see in the dream that you are trying to help yourself -- at least on some level you're trying -- but I also have the sense that you are attached to your pain and anger and disappointment. They have become part of who you are and how you present yourself to the world. They are ingrained into your belief system. They protect you. What would you do without them? Who would you be without them? What if that's what's keeping you alive?

I can't sit here and pretend to know you well enough to offer good advice, or tell you that life is worth living, or that there really is love in this world. But I can say that I hear you, and I know a lot about pain and anger and disappointment and stress and bitterness and addiction. I can say that from my experience I know that if you really want shit to get better, it can. I can point you toward some resources that help me.

I began with "Breathing: The Master Key" by Andrew Weil. It starts with simply breathing deeply and slowly, using your diaphragm to fully open and close your lungs, then teaches some other breathing exercises. Now that I know the trick of breathing with my stomach and fully opening my lungs I do it all the time. But I used to be really tight in my chest and rarely breathed fully. Insufficient O2 creates a constant feeling of panic because your cells are screaming for what they need. It a huge relief when you breathe correctly. You can find Weil's techniques on Youtube.

Good luck. Get some sleep. Take care of yourself. And maybe ttyl.

You might enjoy reading "Heads-up Dreaming" by Professor Carlyle Smith. "Heads-up" means that the dreams are precognitive--they can warn you about events in the future--and he emphasizes that precognitive dreams may concern pending health issues.

Hi,

When I collected dreams about deceased family/friends/pets (I Wrote this book about it https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1304102696/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1304102696&linkCode=as2&tag=mindfunda-20&linkId=3b4c543e40eca3e0d95b185dd0abd29e) I saw the same thing happening in repeated dreams about the deceased. They grow younger and healthier as time goes by.

This is the guide that helps me make sense of my dreams at the moment

Have you tried white noise?

I tend to sleep a lot better with my air filter on, which doubles as a white noise machine. They also have apps for that now. Doesn't need to be loud, just enough to help clear the mind.

Works for some. Doesn't workk for others.

Step down on the melatonin don't go cold turkey on it if you've been hitting it hard. This will help with "withdraw".

As for nerves or relaxing, instead of weed, try Kava. They don't drug test for that. It is a natural neuroinhibitor.

A bit bitter (it's a pepper plant) but for me it works.

I'm reminded of another interesting TV episode that I saw a few years ago:

(Spoiler) — In "The Refuge", a 1996 episode of the Outer Limits reboot TV series, the characters inhabit what could be described as a "group dream". ... If you have a Hulu subscription, you can watch the episode there. It can also be bought from Amazon (Season 2 episode 11) (but the $2 price is a bit high for just one episode).

http://www.amazon.com/Pollen-Path-Collection-Navajo-Myths/dp/1885772092/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311985122&sr=1-1


that is a very good book and has a wide variety of stories.

Are you female and teens or twenties? I ask because that's a common dream for women in that age bracket to have. The appearance of this man and your eventual conclusion is a sign of health and growing wisdom, If I am remembering correctly from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Women-Wolves-Clarissa-Pinkola-Estés/dp/0345409876?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

The man represents the darker destructive (if uncontainable self-destructive) aspects of your nature. That its in your dreams means you are becoming aware of the darker, baser elements of yourself. When I was a teenager, I had a dream about a creepy man watching me, always through blinds, outside a window. I had it a couple times and woke up feeling intense fear. Then one day in my dream I was in my bedroom and he was watching me from the window. Then he was in the room with me and I called for my brothers and dad and they came in with axes and chopped him to bits. I woke up very scared and told my dad that I had a nightmare, when I told him what had happened he said "that is a good dream. Something got resolved." And I was very confused because of the intensity of the fear and how vivid the dream had been. Then years later I read that book and realized my dad was right. You will need to call on masculine elements (commonly but not always represented by brothers) of your nature to reconcile and control the destructive aspect of yourself.

I think it's a part of a spiritual quest since society pins women into passive roles and we get better responses by developing our helpful, kinder more nurturing sides. Then we wall off our (the door in your dream between you and the villain) more destructive sides of our personality but it is a part of us and makes its presence known. It can be very scary when the destructive aspect of ourselves reveals itself because it's so foreign to the role we often play in society. The author of that book describes what the dismemberment in the dream does for the dreamer.

Good read: http://www.amazon.com/First-Grave-Right-Darynda-Jones/dp/0312662750

>the Hat Man in my dreams.

Many people have reported dreaming of the Hat men. Do some internet search and you will discover many more stories just like this. There is even a book about it: The Hat Man: The True Story of Evil Encounters

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