I wanted feedback from my dreams last night so I “incubated” a dream, adding hypnogogic and hypnopompic thoughts and images (the going to sleep and waking up periods) to my focus. And I think I dreamed all night–during, before and after. But I learned that no matter how motivated, I could not record my dreams with my eyes closed, or even open while still lying down and not re-arranging myself in bed.
Day residues are easiest to recall, & the lone motorcycle in my condo’s otherwise empty parking lot (Thanksgiving, you know) clearly re-appeared in a fragment about a family next door not permitting a motorcycle to park in our own driveway.
The other dreams were fruitful, I could tell, but too many to fully record any. I do remember hearing the sound of scissors cutting. What I learned is that I must get new batteries for my old voice recorder if I want to really get serious about dreamsploring.
Maybe just something you ate… 🤔
(kidding.. of course)
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I’m glad you have a sense of humor! It can be life-saving.
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😁
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“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” –Scrooge to the ghost of his deceased partner, Jacob Marley
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Dreamsploring! Love the term!
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Smiling. Thank you.
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I didn’t know one could do that! I’ll try and have a go and see what comes up.
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You must be referring to incubation. Not sure I can do it, either, but I can try. I’ll enter the Steps to Incubation on my Dream Page. It’s adapted from Gayle Delaney’s “A Proposed Dream Experiment” in Awakening the Dreamer.
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Thanks Nan.
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Happy holidays and a wonderful New Yeaes to you, Ban!
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Smile
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Forgive my error. I was typing on my iPhone! Love your posts, Nan.
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I kinda guessed that, Bob. And I checked out Donald Hoffman last night.
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Fascinating, isn’t he?
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It seems everything is fascinating these days…
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