Can you control the contents of your dreams and does problem solving occur during dreams?
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With practice you can guide your dreams a bit. Try setting your alarm for about 20 minutes (with a 5 minute snooze) before you gotta get up. Then after you hit snooze think about what you would like to dream about before falling back asleep. You should get a dream right as the alarm wakes you up again. Repeat this process till you can exert a bit of influence. It will also help if you have something like a movie or music that also guides your dream in the right direction. \n\nAs for problem solving I know for a fact it occurs when sleeping. As an electronics technician in the Navy I used to stay up over 24 hours to troubleshoot a complex problem. When I finally would go to sleep I would usually wake up about three to four hours later with the answer.\n\nHope this helps. My email is willwildy@yahoo.com if you have other qquestions.
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Dreaming is your mind at work. somtimes it is done in color other times in black and white. what and how you dream is dependent on a lot of factors that involve your daley life. most dreams are an abstract of the imput of your mind
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Try changing your routine at night before you sleep. Try thinking positive thoughts as you are lying there trying to sleep. Look into 'lucid dreaming' - it is the method of controlling what happens as you dream. \n\nFailing that, it doesn't hurt to discuss your problem with a therapist. \n\nGood luck, sweet dreams.
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you do it in your dreams
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If someone dreams about something it can become a reality.  The total reality is not dominated by any one dream, it is dominated the effects of all minds and spirits.\n\nHowever, a dream can dominate one person's reality if it is a persistent and recurring dream.  \n\nDreams can sometimes be the answer to a question.  Often there is no apparent meaning.  Sometimes young children dream of frightening things that do not really exist.\n\nWhen someone thinks of making things better in some way it is often called a dream.  But taking action can bring it into reality.  If other people think your ideas are impossible to achieve, they will call you a dreamer.  \n\nBut if you think about washing the dog, dream about it while sleeping, and then do it the next day, your dream has helped form the new reality, a clean dog.\n\nYou can dream about things that already happened, a dream based on past reality.\n\nA few people can have fantastic dreams and still be normal when they are awake.  Others may day dream about another place, other people, or other activities even when in the classroom.\n\nIf you try to force your dreams toward harm for others, that is a first step to going crazy.\n\nPeople can seek evil, dream about it, and bring it to pass.\n\nAn occasional bad thought is something everyone has, like running a cememt truck over someone whom you do not like.  All normal people know not to act out such a thought.\n\nThe few who do not will end up in prison or in an insane asylum.\n\nWatchng too many horror movies can cause bad dreams.\n\nI dream far less than most people, probably because I am far more science oriented.\n\nHowever, sometimes I have put myself to sleep thinking about God, the angels, or other higher things.\n\nPerhaps it paid off.  You can judge from my blog\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana\n\nI have also had lots and lots of questions all through life, far more than the average.\n\nIf the question is extremely difficult, often the only person to ask is God.
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Dreams are how your subconscious mind works out issues.  They don't necessarily have to mean anything, it's just your mind's way of playing out scenarios you would never think of performing.  Don't sweat it...if you're happy with your new beaux, enjoy it.  And enjoy the dreams as well...heck, have a grand old time with both of them IN THE DREAM WORLD ONLY!
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It depends. Sometimes my dreams have a steady theme, sometiems they start out as one thing and turn to something else.
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Dreams can carry messages at times but doesn't necessarily mean it's for you. It can be intended for someone else. Regardless of that, your answer to your problem is easy and free. Close your eyes and kneel to the ground and pray,pray,pray. GOD is your solution and will take away those negative/non GODLY thoughts/dreams. GOD BLESS YOU.
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I, too, have the ability to control my dreams. 'Lucid dreams,' as you intelligently called them, are an extremely creative side of your subconscious/conscious mind.  When your conscious and subconscious are working together, than you've actually obtained a slightly higher level of spiritual awakening.   For you, the challenge should be to allow the subconscious and conscious mind(s, if you will) to work together in your waking life, as well.  Also, focus on meditation or solutions to questions you may have while dreaming.  I cannot offer you anymore advise than to actually use your new abilities to help you - whether it be to help you while asleep or to help you while awake.  The only difficulty I have with Lucid dreaming, that I still have to this day?  Occasionally I wonder how much rest I am really getting if my mind is working so hard all of the time.  Then again, I physically feel well, so it can't all be bad... can it?
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During sleep, the brain is still operating even though we are not conscience of the thought patterns and usually cannot control the images, sounds and information that comes along. A dream is the brain's way of organizing this information into a form that it is used too. Tossing and turning in bed are ways in which the brain inadvertantly "pulls strings" with the rest of the body. Talking is not too far from that. The patterns that move around the brain might just trigger speech.
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no.\nbut it doesn't mean it can't happen.\nwe still don't know exactly the biochemistry affecting dreams, and specifically nightmares. we can't even be sure there is a unique chemistry to nightmares.\neating cheese before bed-time might change to a small extent the chemical balance in your brain, but it probably changes as much as many other different foods. \nfrom the little we do know about brain-chemistry, metabolism of food and the connection between both, it seems improbable that this is true, but hey - be your own guinea-pig :)
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Our dreams are a combination of many components: activities we involve ourselves with, internal fears, anxiety, people we have come to know, desires that we contain, and the brain's incredible memory capacity.  It is possible that you have either a fear of such things or a secret fascination or obsession with these things.
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Yes, when my mind ponders & ruminates quizzical, puzzling, enigmatic thoughts, sometimes my dreams will roll it over & over until there's an answer. Occasionally I am fortunate enough to awaken to understand the encoded answer.  I had the answer all along, I just couldn't "see" it in waking life with various distractions.
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Yes, sometimes we all need to day dream to get away from real life problems but, when the day dreaming takes over our real life that's not so good.I mean when we just want to dream and not actually try to do those dreams and just think without action.Like if have a dream of going into the field of Forensic science but,i just dream of it without action of me going back to school that can be a big downer to my mental health.Should of,would of instand of doing it.
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ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!  I wake all night long about every 45 minutes and know what I have been dreaming about.  I can easily go back into the dream by telling myself that it is not finished.  And  yes,,,,very often  I turn the dream into the result that I want.  I am  a heavy dreamer, perhaps because I am a light sleeper, or not.  All I know is that I remember every single dream, every day, and there are many of them.  And I can control them.  It is fabulous!!
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Dreams are usually manifestations of what you were thinking while awake. They can mean just about whatever you want them to mean.
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Dreams are you subconcious mind "playing" while you sleep. You dream about what is troubling you, you dream about things that you have seen or heard, you dream about what it is that you want or need in life, and dreams seem to be a bit off or goofy, BUT they can help you and answer your questions . THink about dreams that you have had, write them down if you can remember them,what did you see, how did you feel, who was in the dream. And then write down everything that goes on in your life, your needs, your desires, your goals and those dreams will start making sense and MAYBE they have answered your questions.