Have you ever had one of those dreams where something really really interesting is happening and when you wake up you just know it has something to do with your problems in life – but you don’t know how to interpret your dream? Have you had some profound insights during your dream time that you were aware of during the dream, but you just can’t remember them when you woke up? Have you ever told someone about “the weirdest dream I had last night”?
The Silva Method can help! Using some simple self-programming techniques, you can program yourself to wake up at certain times during your sleep cycles, and vividly recall and record your dreams. Even more fascinating is the Dream Control technique where you can actually program yourself to dream about solutions to problems you’re having, instead of having your dreams be a mish-mash of all the dramas and worries going on in your life.
Your Mind at Work
Think about it – when you go to bed worrying about some problem you’re having, you’re essentially programming those thoughts into your mind. You’re telling it, “this is important, please find a solution.” And it does! That’s its job! But very often it does so during your dreams when there are no distractions and processing of the day’s events happens. Unfortunately, because so many of us discount the validity of our dreams just because they’re weird and don’t always make sense, we almost automatically discount the solutions that are presented in our dreams.
The thing is, during the day, we go about our problem-solving in a very logical way. We don’t listen to our intuition much when we’re awake. We’re too busy with “stuff” and if we can’t perceive something with our physical senses (like a flash of intuition) or process it because it has no basis in “reality,” it must not be real. We pooh-pooh it and say to ourselves, “Probably just another silly dream.”
But ponder this: if you have those moments of inspiration or intuition – where did they come from? Could it be that your brain is actually doing its job after all, and you’re just being judgmental of the results it’s coming up with – or you don’t understand the solution, because the solutions didn’t come in through your senses as something you heard or saw?
Tips from Laura Silva On Dream Control
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What’s It Trying to Say???
It’s important to note that many of these answers and insights come from the right brain hemisphere – which does not think in terms of language, so it can only use metaphors and symbols. When you look at these from a left-brain perspective, they make no sense.
This is why turning to your dreams may hold the key for some wildly creative problem solving that would otherwise go completely unnoticed. And when you analyze your dreams, you may have to go back into the deeper alpha level to make sense of the messages your brain is trying to send you.
As you go to bed, you can program yourself to dream about a particular problem, and to wake up at or near the end of a dream and record what happened. Sometimes the act of writing a dream will clarify its message. Sometimes you’ll have to return to it later. Dreams that have great importance in your life tend to repeat themselves. You’ll find that there are themes to your dreams, as you begin recording them. Keeping a dream journal is a fascinating introspective look at an aspect of yourself you might otherwise discount as plain old weird dreams.
All self-programming is done while you’re in the alpha brainwave state – relaxed, open to suggestion. The Dream Control technique takes you through three steps: the first is to remember one dream by imprinting this thought: “I want to remember a dream, and I am going to remember a dream.” The second step programs you in a similar way to remember more than one dream every night. The third involves programming yourself to deliberately generate a dream that you will remember, understand (no cryptic messages or weird metaphors) and use to solve your problem.
Using Sleep Time for Your Benefit
Learning to use a portion of your sleep time to get answers to puzzling questions and solutions to complex problems, is a very useful skill to have. An unexpected side benefit of this is that you will also learn to be more attuned to the flashes of insight and inspiration you get during the day – and because they come from the same place as your dreams, you’ll learn to take those messages seriously as well.
