Mindful Dreaming

Parasympathetic connectedness. Dreams.

I have been considering the power of dreams recently. When we dream we are in a state called Rapid Eye Movement sleep, in this stage voluntary movements are inhibited–skeletal muscles on pause. Even though we may feel as if we are unable to move, the visual interactions we dream of only seem to be visual. What about smell? Touch? I can smell things in dreams and believe I interact and touch things as well, the stimulation is more so a simulation of previous experience stretching as far back as forever. Such simulation has lead me to believe there is something universal between the waking and the sleeping.

This universal interaction is anticipated reaction. Most of the senses experienced in dreams have happened before; however, the situation in which they are in is altered. Let’s call it an  ‘interaction bank’, which is parasympathetic (not under voluntary control) in sleep and waking states. Have you considered, “How do I control the dream?” One suggestion is Lucid dreaming where you interact with the dream fully aware that it is a dream, but I find this difficult for many people to actually want to take a full grasp of. 

The other suggestion  I have is to interact with the dream in the waking reality by analyzing the dreaming reality (and yes dreaming is a reality because you wouldn’t deny what mindful film reel went on within those 8 hours you dropped your cranium on that pillow), so when analyzing the dreaming reality, action and reaction may be applied in the physical.

Where would the Parasympathetic Connectedness stem then? Well, it would be shared from every being. If all mammals dream, then the uncontrollable departure we experience in night, which may be effected by gravitational pulls from the moon, is a reality all experience, a realm the intellectual species travel to anticipate change, create change, and learn.