Dreams Can Be A Fantasy: How to Control Your Dreams
Editor: Kelsey Hickey
I am a Professional Dream Interpreter and spend my days assessing the subconscious minds of my client’s slumber movies. It is the best job ever.
People have the wildest dreams and have no earthly idea why until they meet me. We walk the conscious plane in our waking life and attract and emit so much unconscious energy that has no other place but to displace itself in our dreams and even nightmares.
Thankfully, I have never been a nightmare kind of dreamer. I have very whimsical and controlled dreams because I can realize that I am not in my perception of reality when I am asleep.
Sometimes, I like to keep myself from knowing and play around in the dream. I will have fun and do cool dream stuff that I would never do when I am awake. Yet, in some, I can get pretty violent.
How to Begin a Dream Journey
My dreamers who purchase interpretations or tip me for a mini-reading and divulge into the psyche are usually only able to tell me a couple of things they can remember. That’s because it is hard for most people to remember their dreams.
To wake up and immediately start rewriting the entire script from your night movie, beginning to end, without missing a beat is a troublesome feat even for a Sleeping Beauty Queen. The most seasoned professional dreamer would find this task difficult.
I have spent many years assessing the dreams of my friends, family members, and mainly myself because I have always been around Scorpios who were obsessed with the afterlife. My grandparents always kept old dream interpretation books around.
I have been deep in the game for a while, but Google is still a great source to start for beginners. By googling your dreams, symbols, patterns, numbers, names, colors, shapes, etc., anything you can remember from the unconscious, you will start to see and notice patterns. The patterns are the keys to the door of unlocking your third eye and opening the realm of the Divine Feminine. You need to stimulate the unconscious parts of the self to get it to corporate with you when you are unconscious.
Invest in Apple Juice and a Wind-Down Routine
If you like to go full force as I do with everything, then you need to invest in two bottles of apple juice and drink a cup or two before you sleep. I recommend during your wind-down time before bed that you sip the apple juice or consume apple-like things to increase the acetylcholine in your brain. The neurotransmitters improve sleep and memory and will help you to remember more when you wake up.
Most people pass out or sleep with many distractions. These are people that ruin their natural body’s inner clock, chemistry, and wiring. There needs to be some reconfiguring, so you can find your inner-schedule and follow it.
You know if you’re a night person or a day person. If you need naps or prefer to do a full waking shift for the day. Figure out what helps you get the most energy and follow that as strictly as you can because sleeping is peak self-care.
If you want to journey in sleep, have better sleep, or control your sleep enough to be able to understand what is bothering you in the waking life, it helps to track the sleep patterns by starting a sleep routine. Most things affect our sleep behavior. When you improve your sleep, then you will improve other areas of life naturally.
Your best bet is to get ready for bed. Prepare with a wind-down routine that is relaxing and clean, then funnel in some apple care to your night routine. Once your body, mind, and spirit get in the habit of going to sleep and preparing for sleep, then your unconscious self will receive that invitation to wake up when you lay.
While You’re Dreaming
Next, you’re going to want to have a journal where you can jot down notes immediately when you wake up. Doing this will make you not forget your dreams. You’ll need practice and dedication. Sometimes, I do not even keep up with my dream journal. I forget to jot my dreams down, but I have a naturally good memory for the subconscious, so remembering is not hard for me.
When I am in the dream world, it is so fantastic and strange that I can instantly realize it is no longer the waking life. I start playing with it or just enjoying the ride. When the dream is nice, I let myself stay strapped in for the ride. I tell myself to remember it for the journal later.
Last month before starting my therapy journey, I dreamt that I saved a cat from a burning building. Even something as simple as this gives me a lot to go off of for when I wake up. I know what my dream looked like, felt like, and even can remember the cat itself.
How you remember and approach the target in the dream is vital for the interpretation as well. According to my studies and Google, dreaming of a cat symbolizes reclaiming the feminine identity for the dreamer. Depending on the characteristics of the cat, the interpretation will deepen in detail. In my dream, the cat was hiding in the house lodged between a wall, and I scooped it up like it was no big deal.
The cat can be interpreted as a subconscious feminine archetype in many philosophies and religions. The feline and cat-like creatures are called pussycats and are always related to the woman.
I love it when I am anticipating horrible dream news and end up with something sweet.
You can check any second-hand book store for dream books, guides, and journals because they are the essential tools in training the brain in becoming better at dreaming.
How to Get a Ticket to Dreamland
The best way to get better at anything is to try to work at it a little bit every day. It might sound cliché, but the gurus were right all along. You need to be dreaming, to get better at controlling your dreams.
It helps to set up a system in the waking life that prepares you, the Dreamer, for Dreamland. The ticket to Dreamland is not expensive. The cost is rest and relaxation. That isn’t something the average human knows how to do well enough to control at all.
If you struggle to sleep well or don’t have the capacity to do an entire schedule flip around to study your dreams, here are some tips that help to trick the conscious mind into being a better unconscious driver of the Lucid Dreamer.
- Write down your intentions for dreaming in a journal or dream journal
- Tell yourself what you want to dream about when you’re awake
- Eat healthier before bed (or in general)
- When you do your wind-down routine, visualize yourself in the dream you want
- Pay attention to symbols, colors, characters, & feelings leading up to sleep
- Join Spiritual Communities of seasoned dreamers
- Get your birth chart down and follow your moon sign’s readings
