Do you ever dream about something, and then as a result of the dream incorporate it into your real life? I kept having dreams where I had a jacket with buttons and patches on it. These dreams were fairly frequent, so, one day I decided to simply make the coat from the dream. The dreams stopped shortly after I made the coat in real life. Am I the only one who will have dreams about something then create it in the real world?
no, but sometimes I get deja vu of a dream... like I get deja vu, but it was with something that happened in a dream.
I actually know exactly what you mean. On another related note, Sometimes I'll have dreams, and then years later down the road some small event from one of my dreams will play itself out in real life.
I was watching football earlier and I had deja vu that my team would let in a score, so I incorporated it into my real life by just accepting they were going to let in a score and they did.
Once when I was young my mother threw a party and bought a ton of cans of soda for the guests. I used to not be allowed to drink soda, and I knew that there was a lot left over from the party, but wasn't sure where my mom had hidden it. It drove me kind of crazy because I really wanted some and didn't know where it was. Anyway I had a dream one night that it was in a corner of the basement in a grey plastic tub under some boxes. So the next morning I went into that exact location in the basement and found a gray tub. And boom, dozens and dozens of soda cans. Jackpot.
i don't think i've ever consciously done that, no. i usually forget my dreams before i have a chance to incorporate them into anything.
I was pondering this the other week, there are certain archetypal features in dreams which are common to all humans. That alone is pretty strange, but then when we examine exactly what these common features actually are things get slightly stranger, for example everybody has had dreams of flying, or dreams of your teeth falling out. These are just quick and common examples, there are actually far more intricate and detailed themes which seem to be common to the dreams of nearly all people, but I won't get into that here. Now, a good part of this is related to human psychological processing, however, I think it may run much deeper than that. Culturally we are taught to marginalize and ignore certain phenomenon, for example, you will notice that when you look at a person who is not paying attention to you, nearly every time as soon as your gaze locks on them they will turn around and look back at you, it's as if they could feel themselves being observed. Now, the general response to this is "it's purely coincidence", however, I feel that P.W. Bridgman had the right idea when he said “Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.” Another instance relates to near death experiences, tibetan Buddhism, and experiences induced by certain substituted tryptamine compounds such N,N-Dimethyltryptamine. For all intents and purposes the experiences being reported back from these three very different phenomena are very similar, nearly identical in some cases. This leads me to believe that perhaps the travel metaphor would be most fitting here, now, when you travel to a destination you can take a car, you can take a train, you can take a plane, all three will get you to the same destination, though each has it's own advantages, disadvantages, and unique features. In this case near death experiences, tibetan Buddhism, and experiences induced by certain substituted tryptamine compounds all seem to be taking the traveler to the same destination.
Don't you work at a gas station? I would be dreaming of of better job, then making a point to obtain it.
Really? If I am wearing certain clothing in several of my dreams, I will make the piece of clothing and wear it in real life. That was what happened with the jacket, I had several dreams where I was wearing it, so I created it in the real world. Not the sharpest bunch here, eh? I didn't think it was that difficult to understand, but I frequently overestimate my audience.
You are clearly placing your focus in life in the right areas, and it's clearly going to lead you to happiness, wealth, and wisdom. Keep it up!
Why is rk being so mean to us? He hurt my feelings. Just because I don't always understand doesn't mean I'm a dummy or a bad person.
the deje vu part of this, i believe that is what all deje vu is. you run into a situation in life that you had previously dreamed, often so long ago you forgot dreaming it, or even never remembered having dreamed it at all, but at some point in your past you did. as for consciously being guided by dreams, there is one danger to be very careful about, which is that your dream universe and the one you physically live in awake, lots of things work very different ways. not everything of course, but enough to cause problems. i have to admit i look for places on google maps and satilite imagery that are like places i've been in dreams. especially if the places in dreams seem a little or a lot like places i have been in real life, like particular things seen in particular places on back roads. some, its been years if not decades since i've been to any of them, and looking at the maps and the satalite views, what were jeap trails when i was there, are paved roads now, population having increased that much since then everywhere. and now there are roads and trails where there hadn't yet been then. (which is what is endangering most endangered species, but that's another thing) there's a thing, a feeling of rightness to particular places, that connect both ways to my spirit like that. another bit aside, i look at a map of the town i grew up in, there's a community center, that is the grade school i went to, and the library is in what used to be the post office and the pg&e next door to it. the railroad station my dad worked at and i practically grew up in is now a museum. well at least they haven't torn it down, or turned it into a spagetti resteraunt. but that's another thing, in dreams i'm always in my twenties or in my teens, that or i'm some disembodied and ageless spirit, who still can't always walk through walls.
