Self-improvement
Dream Your Life — What Dreaming Is
Dreaming is a way to process events and situations that happen in life, or that you want to happen in your life. Your dreams are literally in your head.
Your dreams are your wishes, the situations you were in, and dreams to fulfill your needs. They are yours. Your dreams belong to you and nobody else’s.
Your brain works special. They process everything that happened in your life, the last hours, and the things that actually might happen in your future.
Your past
When you are in a process to rethink about your past (because you have been through a few things in your life), it is highly possible that events from your past will be in your dreams. It is called reliving the moments from your past. These events rewind through your brain. These events are still somewhere in your brain and they need to be processed somehow. Even if you don’t want to go through it (again). The ‘drawer’ must go open one day. The sooner the better. It is your baggage that you take with you in your life.
You have to process your feelings. It is fine to feel what you feel, it is part of you as a human being. It makes you a better person to feel what you feel. I know, it is not easy, but I know it is worth it.
Your future
Dreaming is not only about bad things or things that have happened in the past, but it also reminds you to dream of (literally) about what you really want in your life. To fulfill your dreams. For example, when you want to be a writer, you think about it in daily life, but in nightlife, you see yourself sitting behind your desk writing your first book, dreaming about what the characters should look like, the village your book takes place in, your favorite shop in this village. Everything you dream of would come to life in your first book.
New thoughts
Also, your dreams make you think differently sometimes. When you dream about the holidays years ago, it makes you think about how you could handle things in another way. It makes you think about what you did wrong, or what you just heard during a conversation about the topic. When you talk about topics with someone, you also may rethink your own opinions the way your conversation partner thinks. You will dream about it too. In this dream you will see if the new thought fits you and your lifestyle.
Behavior of people
People behave in a certain way they like or they have seen others doing, to fit in a society they believe in or they want to belong to. They also dream about others they admire and they dream just to be like them. All your behaviors also reflect in your dreams. What can I do differently than yesterday? This is also a part of processing your day. It spins in your head again.
My experience with dreaming
I dream a lot. I process a lot during my sleep. There happened a lot during my life — negatively. So, yes I have dreamed a lot, negatively, but positively too. It is worth it to process your life through dreams and reflect on everything you’re doing. That is also a process of life.
I tell you what. When I saw this question, I immediately thought to answer this question as soon as I read it, but it was also bedtime for me. So, my thought was, or going to bed, or going to answer this question and going to bed very late. I have chosen to go to bed to answer this question the next day. Eventually, this question popped up in my mind a lot the first moment I led my body on my mattress. The first thing I thought was how I would answer this question. There were so many things to tell and when I closed my eyes, you imagine things in your mind, but you lose consciousness when you starting to sleep. Then you think you’re dreaming at night or you’re dreaming imaginably.
Different ways of dreaming
There are different ways of dreaming. You can dream during the day. That’s called daydreaming and you capture in your mind — while doing nothing — what you wish, how you would do your project, which book you want to write, the characters should be in your book, what you should say to your boss if he said something hurtful to you and all the things you want your daughter to have to do.
Daydreaming is also dreaming, only you’re not sleeping. It is holding on to wishes and capturing it in your mind how you would do that.
On the other hand, there is night dreaming. This kind of dreaming is the most common we know. You dream in the middle of the night and ‘think’ it is real. You might have a nightmare with bad things happening and you have a dream that might give you a glimpse of what your future will give you, you have a nightmare because you have been abused, you have been a nightmare because you have been bullied. You’re processing it all through the night while dreaming. It is — as said before — reliving the moments. It is rewinding in your mind. That is a good thing as you are processing it the right way.
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Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives in Bunnik, The Netherlands, with her husband and three daughters. Writing is — aside from playing the violin — one of her passions since childhood. She is on Twitter and Instagram. Subscribe to my mailing list and subscribe to my Thoughts.
