Matters of our objective realities are understood by us in the same way that our dream selves understand what happens in dreams. For example, in a dream, there is no questioning about things that would be impossible to happen on this side., many dream that they are flying, having sex in public, talking to people who have passed away or who have not even met, and, in the universe of dreams, everything happens this way. When we wake up, we are often astounded by some of our experiences, and we can often be intrigued. Not a few times when we put aside a dream, the feeling we had of it or even the images impact us again throughout the days. I wonder why?
Because just like dreams, our lives are full of symbolic situations that are also part of embedded emotional issues. The residual sensations left over from dreams, which sometimes persist for days on end, are other versions of some of our themes that our brains are trying to resolve through dreams. The idea is that all the time, our psyches, or something bigger than us, are striving to get out of looping situations so that we can see and be beyond our current state. Therefore, dreams can never be taken literally, because they are produced in the oneiric territory of the brain, where the images appear through their own symbolism, often not fully understood.
Nightmares, in turn, are part of emotional situations that are difficult to resolve when we are awake, and represent our hidden fears and desires. Most of the time, nightmares, when they arise, leave people scared or distressed because they themselves are not even aware that many are dark fears that are hidden in the basement of consciousness. Unresolved traumatic issues, such as various types of abuse, for example, can be sequentially revealed in the form of nightmares for most of the victims' lives, until they can be properly reprocessed. They can be counted, when necessary, with brain reprocessing therapies, such as EMDR and Brainspotting, which reproduce the REM phase of sleep in a monitored way so that the resolution of conflicts and disturbances can happen efficiently.
We have about six REM cycles a night, and that's when dreams happen.
Due to personal beliefs about the validity of dreams and, sometimes, due to the difficulty of receiving information from the inner world, many specialize in just living the experiences of objective reality, imagining that they do not dream, however, they are wrong, because only do not access their content.
Dreams can be seen as communication portals from us to ourselves. We are not always able to give ourselves time for this space to occur. With training, if, as soon as we wake up, this type of space is installed, the contact information with the experiences begins to appear spontaneously, increasingly accurate and efficient.
The more awake, the better!
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