01-28-2009, 11:19 PM
here is a thread I contributed to just earlier this evening, on this very subject: http://bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=114
It's interesting that you mention how your memory is much more accurate when something reminds you. This actually makes perfect sense, it's called voluntary memory and involuntary memory. When you try to remember something, it is alsmost always less accurate. For instance, if I ask you to try and remember when you walked into the room you're in now, there's a high likelihood that you will create a memory viewing yourself from the outside, instead of actually remembering what you really experienced. This is an extreme example, but voluntary memory is almost always filling in blanks with things that may or may not have been there. Involuntary memory, on the other hand, happens of its own accord, as it's name implies, and is much more likely to be a reoccurrence in your mind of what your actual experience was. The trouble with these is that they are involuntary, but they can be set off by trigger mechanisms, which can put them under our control to some extent. So, if you were to go to the supermarket, get down on your knees, and look at the toys just like you did when you were a child, you might get flooded with involuntary memories, or if you smell the perfume that an ex lover wore, or your mother or anybody I suppose, then that also serves as a trigger mechanism. So, it makes perfect sense that these things you are experiencing, which basically sound like trigger mechanisms, are producing accurate involuntary dream memory. You're lucky, some of us have to try real hard to remember them!
One of the coolest dreams I ever had was I was walking down the street, and I was also the devil over in this area in front of a store or something where there was basically a large sandbox like in playgrounds. So, I was walking down the street but I was also the devil in the sandbox. I as the devil coaxed my self walking down the street to come over and feel around for a special hole in the sand. So at this point I became mainly the self that was feeling around, and I did this for a little while and eventually found the hole, and my whole arm when down into it, and then I did. Next I was in some sort of a realm where there was just a color but nothing else, I had no body, there was nothing to look at, it was just that color and I was only mind. Then I sort of appeared in this house with a yard where a bunch of people were hanging out doing very interesting things. It was somewhat like a garden party you could say, just a bunch of people at this place having fun. One very interesting thing they were doing was controlling little remote-control boats in a pool with their minds, which I also came along and did. Then I went into the house and the people were all gathered around a computer that somehow was hooked into universal knowledge and they were all fascinated with what they were reading. This is pretty much all I Remember, though I'm pretty sure that other things occurred that were likely just as cool. It almost had a sort of 4thD feel to it, if I dare say it.
Another interesting thing about that particular dream is that it's common amoung shamanic practices for the shaman, when going into a trance state, to find a whole in the ground in their mind to reach the inner worlds or planes or whatever.
Anyway, dreams are a fascinating subject to me, too, hope some more posts get added onto this thread.
It's interesting that you mention how your memory is much more accurate when something reminds you. This actually makes perfect sense, it's called voluntary memory and involuntary memory. When you try to remember something, it is alsmost always less accurate. For instance, if I ask you to try and remember when you walked into the room you're in now, there's a high likelihood that you will create a memory viewing yourself from the outside, instead of actually remembering what you really experienced. This is an extreme example, but voluntary memory is almost always filling in blanks with things that may or may not have been there. Involuntary memory, on the other hand, happens of its own accord, as it's name implies, and is much more likely to be a reoccurrence in your mind of what your actual experience was. The trouble with these is that they are involuntary, but they can be set off by trigger mechanisms, which can put them under our control to some extent. So, if you were to go to the supermarket, get down on your knees, and look at the toys just like you did when you were a child, you might get flooded with involuntary memories, or if you smell the perfume that an ex lover wore, or your mother or anybody I suppose, then that also serves as a trigger mechanism. So, it makes perfect sense that these things you are experiencing, which basically sound like trigger mechanisms, are producing accurate involuntary dream memory. You're lucky, some of us have to try real hard to remember them!
One of the coolest dreams I ever had was I was walking down the street, and I was also the devil over in this area in front of a store or something where there was basically a large sandbox like in playgrounds. So, I was walking down the street but I was also the devil in the sandbox. I as the devil coaxed my self walking down the street to come over and feel around for a special hole in the sand. So at this point I became mainly the self that was feeling around, and I did this for a little while and eventually found the hole, and my whole arm when down into it, and then I did. Next I was in some sort of a realm where there was just a color but nothing else, I had no body, there was nothing to look at, it was just that color and I was only mind. Then I sort of appeared in this house with a yard where a bunch of people were hanging out doing very interesting things. It was somewhat like a garden party you could say, just a bunch of people at this place having fun. One very interesting thing they were doing was controlling little remote-control boats in a pool with their minds, which I also came along and did. Then I went into the house and the people were all gathered around a computer that somehow was hooked into universal knowledge and they were all fascinated with what they were reading. This is pretty much all I Remember, though I'm pretty sure that other things occurred that were likely just as cool. It almost had a sort of 4thD feel to it, if I dare say it.
Another interesting thing about that particular dream is that it's common amoung shamanic practices for the shaman, when going into a trance state, to find a whole in the ground in their mind to reach the inner worlds or planes or whatever.
Anyway, dreams are a fascinating subject to me, too, hope some more posts get added onto this thread.