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(CNN) — You’re in a classroom and the teacher puts an exam face down on your desk. You pick it up and can’t really make out what’s on it; it’s blurry, or it’s in another language, or it’s in a subject you didn’t study.

You feel like you’re going to fail, even though it’s been years since you’ve actually been in school.

People commonly relive this scenario in their dreams, even decades after their last graduation. While many high school, college and graduate school students are cramming for real exams this week, you may dream about it if you have anxiety about being judged, or if you’re in a situation you don’t know how to handle, experts say.

Dreams are “an extremely rich source of practical advice, and other alternatives about what we’re doing in our lives,” said Deirdre Barrett, Harvard psychologist and author of “The Committee of Sleep” and “Trauma and Dreams.” “They’re just coming from such a different part of ourselves that they’re a very good supplement to our waking, rational thinking.”

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As all lucid dream experts know, one of the best ways to program a lucid dream is to read about it before you go to sleep at night.  This puts the idea of dream control in your subconscious mind (the part of you that actively creates and directs the dreamscape).  When your subconscious lands on the idea of lucidity in a dream, you have a significantly increased chance of becoming lucid! 

That’s why Rebecca Turner teamed up with six other authors and graphic artists to create Lucid Fiction. It is a lucid dreaming tool specifically designed to program your mind for lucidity – any night you read it!

Click here to visit World of Lucid Dreaming. 

This article is right on track in reference to the link I published yesterday from the New York TImes article about a new report and theory. 

Read it here.  http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychoanalytic-excavation/200911/the-meaning-dreams-and-do-dreams-have-meaning

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Check out this interesting article from the New York Times.  It states taht a new theory has occured which states that dreams are a warm-up for the day ahead.  I am not sure I buy the theory, but it is plausible that it is all or part of the story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/health/10mind.html

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While surfing around I found this interesting article I figured I would pass along.  The article is about Dreams, Spirituality, and Religion.  Enjoy.

To go to the article, click here.

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 Here is a video by Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. group on Lucid Dreaming.

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I found this little tidbit on topdreaminterpretation.com and found it interesting.  Being Christian, this has been a problem for me all along.  The Bible has many many instances of dreams and interpretation of dreams, yet bring this up in church and you may be shunned. 

Here is some of the quote.

Fact is: the Christian religion ignores the dream life of people and the world of dreams in general. And they do this although all prophets legitimated themselves with dreams. With that, religion ignores the inner Spirit. Religion has no vivid inner Spirit. ……

….. What is a religion that ignores dreams and dream interpretation? Such a religion ignores the inner Spirit and therefore this religion is “spiritless”.

For the complete quote, visit http://www.topdreaminterpretation.com/religion-without-inner-spirit.html

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I just discovered a website with information and tools (some free) for lucid dreaming and having out of body experiences.  I will do a review sometime in the future, but for now, it looks interesting.  If anyone has tried this, let me know. Click Here for the lucidology website.

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Recently I cleaned out my office and came across this article I had forgotten about from our local Long Island newspaper Newsday.  The implications to me back up my belief that dreams can help us in many different ways and that “sleeping on it” when trying to remember or solve a problem certainly can’t hurt.  Here is the first paragraph with a link to the full article.

The Oddity of Dreams / Study with amnesiacs suggests how brain uses various types of memories

October 23, 2000 By Bryn Nelson. STAFF WRITER  

IF PEOPLE CAN’T recall a recent event, will they still

dream about it? According to a new study, the answer-a surprising yes-is

raising a slew of questions about where dreams come from, what they mean and

what role they play in learning and memory…. Read the full article here

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The same image can have dramatically different meaning for two different people – even identical twins. Also, most generalized definitions do not take context into account. As an example, fire can have a vastly different meaning in a fireplace than it does when a house is aflame. For these reasons, I do not encourage unbridled use of dream dictionaries. They are a good start, and if you are at a complete loss of an association, are better than nothing. But there are too many ways to uncover the meanings in a person’s dreams without having to resort to standardized dictionaries.

In addition, as a dream analyst you are just that, a DREAM analyst. You are not a psychoanalyst, and therefore are not interested in the circumstances surrounding the dream. You are helping to interpret the dream itself; and your focus should remain on that. If you take a person’s circumstances with you into the dream interpretation, you will have preconceived ideas of what the dream means. This is never a good way to start.

Images: Mental representations of objects or persons not physically present. We create them in our unconscious so that we have an inner mental picture of those things that evoke an emotional response. Our images are internalized in infancy, when we experience the world through our five senses, and attach meaning to things that satisfy our senses.

Symbols:               An object that stands for something else. Not only dreams, but everyday life is rife with symbols (traffic signs, wedding rings, etc.)

Universal Symbols:  Symbols that are rooted to the experiences of all humankind, and therefore are common to everyone, regardless of sex, age, nationality, etc. Listed below of some of the most common universal symbols:

House:                   Self

Weather:              Condition of one’s life.

Water:                   The emotions/unconscious

Time of Day:       The time of one’s life or one’s frame of mind (morning = youth = optimism)

What if none of the universal meanings seem to click for a symbol, and it has you stumped on a personal level as well? There is an easy and enlightening way to discover a dream symbol’s meaning. Have a conversation with it, in your dream journal. The symbol may hold meaning not only for that particular dream, but for your whole life as well. Allow yourself to feel the personality of the symbol. Write in an uninhibited fashion. Let the symbol communicate with you as you imagine it would. Do not let yourself form opinions about what you are saying as you are writing it.

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