[What Your Dreams Are Actually Trying To Tell You](https://youtu.be/T-sphXaWLCI?si=kZ2kpFoW90XtI67c) - Who can benefit? - Often helpful for very pragmatic, data based people - The more data driven we become, the more we lose touch with emotional elements. - Accessing hidden info - Brain has a ton of info we do not have access to. - Evolution doesn’t waste space. Dreams highly conserved in animals/humans. - REM: most restful for human beings. REM when dreaming happens, misread have correlation with health somehow? - Dreams are not random - Always constrained to our lived xp, even if random images, anchored to real life - Significance of dreams: often tied to what happens in real life - Nightmares in PTSD. - As you treat PTSD: nightmares go down, people feel well. - Idea that archetypes reflect reality, not true on scientific level. - Subconscious info processing - Mind processes more info than we are consciously aware of. - EG relationship red flags we ignore. - In order to ignore something, we have to note. Brain noticing information we are not consciously aware of. - Getting in touch with intuition (unprocessed info that hasn’t been packaged well yet) - Defence mechanisms: brain suppressed info because mind can’t handle it. - Suppressing info about mistakes we are making all the time as we can’t handle it. - Very real way we suppress emotions: emotions then come out in other ways. - How does it work? - Example: P married to successful partner. In dream, husband flying airplane (propellor plane with open top), with family. He has to land plane on aircraft carrier. As descending, he turns plane upside down. She panics due to scary nature. She ends up reaching behind her, straps herself in, holds her kids in, the plane lands. - Turned out partner was trying to exit the company, was messing up personal life, learning if I took care of things then it would work out.  - Symbols in dream, are relaxant to your life. - Example 2: dream snake eats them, has opening in its belly, they slip out of a hole, feel safe for a while, but do something dumb and come up to snake and it eats them. Always get eaten by the snake, eaten is scary, inside warm and comfortable. Analogy is addiction in their life. Found out that texting ex was tied to snake. - Applying the process - Brain knows you are making a mistake, you tell yourself you are able to handle it. We will reject it using psychological defence mechanisms. 1. Dream journal: when wake up write down as many details as you can. 2. Can talk to brain before you go to bed: opening yourself up to accept the dream, accepting whatever dream there is, I will be ready for it. 3. When reading dream, write down emotions you feel in those moments. 4. Write down when you feel the emotions in the real world 5. Q: what is the dream trying to tell me? - Dreams about present/future for the most part. - Has been really helpful for people in making big decisions - Symbolism of the dreams - Symbolism tied to your relationship with those objects. - Looking at symbols: think what do these symbols mean to me. [Your dreams are telling you something](https://youtube.com/shorts/7A6LOgqtHC8?si=RdUTr0Lu0tfgFPd4) - Your dreams are tied to your now, and anxieties you have about the future. - Make list of emotions felt. - Where am I feeling this in the real world: do I feel trapped / terrified? - Brain takes suppressed emotions + shows them in a dream. - Helps a lot of people make big decisions.