01-07-2016, 03:26 PM
Quote: one of the settings that I least like, for myself, is my childhood home. Not because it was an abusive place, but it's associated with the origins of various imbalances - many through my own misinterpretation at those ages. So whenever my dream setting is 'back there', it's usually a message themed around disempowerment and/or social dislocation.
So while I appreciate the message offered, I usually awake in less-than-a-pleasant-or-happy-mood. But you referenced Seth - and one of their observations was that when we are ready, we can choose to re-experience emotional traumas, so that we process them without having to induce a rougher experience via real life. The emotional trauma is just as real, when invoked in a dreamscape (you wake up as if it was real), but the aftershock of knowing it was a dream lessens the impact, and allows for reprocessing without getting shellshocked and paralyzed.
I know what you mean. I think I block out some of these even consciously because there are a few "villains" I don't like to face. My aunt and my dad usually color my dreams with an ugly hue. I know being afraid of them, even in my dreams, hinders my ability to dream and process them thoroughly, even though I consciously recognize that they are more symbolic as villains/shadows than anything.
The "prop house" I feel is often more of a "therapy" type setting, at least that's the feel I get. It's usually pretty idyllic, and if these if anyone's the villain it's my stepmom, but really more her addiction is the villain. But in the prop house I feel very in control of what is happening and even "superior" to the parental figures, and never afraid. I feel like we spend most of the time in the "living room" as a group.
Quote:yah; it's great if one is not working a strict 9-5, forty hour week to be able to muck around with sleep patterns.
On the whole, I probably sleep more than average too. As you said, I think Seth says you can get by with a lot less sleep; although I'm not sure their numbers really apply to me. At least for the current configuration of the self.
Yeah, it would be nice someday to get by with the 6.5 or so that Seth says is optimal, but I really enjoy at least 10 hours each day.