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Monty is a more a creative nightmare, Nym, but he has his followers. 🙂
Yes, I have tried this with some success, last night I dreamt I ate a giant marshmallow, when I awoke the pillow was missing.
(T Trinder, Chiswick Empire 1953)
OMG
The old ones are the best ones.
Is this connected to lucid dreaming, Nym?
On balance, Nym, I would say that success is somewhat limited, but I will keep trying on a regular basis. 🙂
It is the idea that you can go to bed thinking about what you’d like to dream of in the hope of allowing your sub-conscious problem solving access to your problems etc. Is that lucid dreaming?
I have sometimes been able to guide my dreams when I have been puzzling on a creative decision.
I don’t think it’s quite the same, Nym, but on similar lines. Lucid dreaming is when you are aware that you are dreaming and can direct the dream. I have had a few lucid dreams but without the intention before sleeping of guiding the dream.
I think you can train yourself to so this. My problem is waking up enough to record the idea.
Not sure if this is the same, but often when I go to bed with a problem (not the wife) the solution will come to me at about2 in the morning.
More so at the moment as I have been overdoing the pc a bit setting up a new website and trying to get the wording just right.
I now leave a piece of paper in the study so as not to wake people by hitting a keyboard.
Not sure it’s the same thing but I have successfully managed to get back into particularly “good” dreams on successive nights sometimes.
Never even thought of using dreams as problem-solving tool though. Got a link to more info perchance, Pseu? The subconscious is a fascinating old thing. Give it an inch and it’ll take a mile.
I particularly like the flying/floaty dreams. In my dreams I’m never afraid of heights. Weird, huh?
There’s quite a lot out there when you google various options such as ‘problem solving in a dream’ – some of it pretty wacky – but I think there’s a lot in this idea of letting the sub-conscious in.
I was told recently by my friend the white witch (Don’t even ask!) not to give your brain negative inputs such as, “Don’t forget to phone….”. The brain’s synapses will, apparently, immediately close down and the messsage will be lost. Much better to say to yourself, “Remind me to call….”
As for self-induced creative dreams, I could give you some stuff that would spook the weirdest, even on this site, but perhaps that is something for another day.
OZ
Flying dreams are wonderful, Jan! I don’t like heights either. 🙂 Do you just soar or flap your arms?
‘Sleep on it,’ has always been good advice.
Trying to control dreams has the whiff of mental illness and frustrated wish fulfilment.
Perhaps it would be better to address the problems in the harsh light of day. This is the kind of psychobabble that you hear from the dock of murder trials, the voices, the voices told me…….
If it is in the pursuit of ‘creative’ writing maybe it is time to hang it up and admit it just isn’t your bag and take up creative crafts instead! I have a book called ‘knit yourself the Royal Family’, maybe you would like to borrow it?
OH, Christina, now you’ve made me snort tea out of my nose!
No thanks Christina, but thanks for the offer. ;0
I swear it exists! Honest injun, my son found it somewhere in a bookshop and we used to send it back and forth to each other and any other hapless idiot we could con in the family. The first time I received it I nearly had a cardiac laughing.
How I miss that boy with his sense of humour, beyond rubies!
It isn’t on my bookshelves maybe in one of the trunks in the garage, I must go on a foraging expedition into the uncharted territory of the garage, as marked on the old maps ‘Here be monsters’ never know what you will find in there. Probably a family of illegal immigrants!
NOW THEN, there is a creative story for you, the contents of the garage were very frightening………
When you find it a photo please!
LOL Tina. Knit Yourself The Royal Family. Bloody excellent. I’d get that for my mother in law.
Hi Bilby 🙂 Oh I never flap – always soar effortlessly.
Waiting to be spooked out by OZ. Don’t forget! 😀
Absolutely true story.
The night before my O Level Latin exam I had a dream about Caesar’s Gallic Wars – well one bit of it. I remembered enough the next morning to ask my friend to lend me her translation – and found the appropriate page. That was the exact bit that was on the exam paper.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Monty is a more a creative nightmare, Nym, but he has his followers. 🙂
Yes, I have tried this with some success, last night I dreamt I ate a giant marshmallow, when I awoke the pillow was missing.
(T Trinder, Chiswick Empire 1953)
OMG
The old ones are the best ones.
Is this connected to lucid dreaming, Nym?
On balance, Nym, I would say that success is somewhat limited, but I will keep trying on a regular basis. 🙂
It is the idea that you can go to bed thinking about what you’d like to dream of in the hope of allowing your sub-conscious problem solving access to your problems etc. Is that lucid dreaming?
I have sometimes been able to guide my dreams when I have been puzzling on a creative decision.
I don’t think it’s quite the same, Nym, but on similar lines. Lucid dreaming is when you are aware that you are dreaming and can direct the dream. I have had a few lucid dreams but without the intention before sleeping of guiding the dream.
I think you can train yourself to so this. My problem is waking up enough to record the idea.
Not sure if this is the same, but often when I go to bed with a problem (not the wife) the solution will come to me at about2 in the morning.
More so at the moment as I have been overdoing the pc a bit setting up a new website and trying to get the wording just right.
I now leave a piece of paper in the study so as not to wake people by hitting a keyboard.
Not sure it’s the same thing but I have successfully managed to get back into particularly “good” dreams on successive nights sometimes.
Never even thought of using dreams as problem-solving tool though. Got a link to more info perchance, Pseu? The subconscious is a fascinating old thing. Give it an inch and it’ll take a mile.
I particularly like the flying/floaty dreams. In my dreams I’m never afraid of heights. Weird, huh?
There’s quite a lot out there when you google various options such as ‘problem solving in a dream’ – some of it pretty wacky – but I think there’s a lot in this idea of letting the sub-conscious in.
http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/article/dream_problem
http://www.realityshifter.com/2007/how-to-use-your-dreams-for-problem-solving/
and this one is closer to what I had in mind
http://www.realityshifter.com/2007/how-to-program-your-dreams-in-advance/
I was told recently by my friend the white witch (Don’t even ask!) not to give your brain negative inputs such as, “Don’t forget to phone….”. The brain’s synapses will, apparently, immediately close down and the messsage will be lost. Much better to say to yourself, “Remind me to call….”
As for self-induced creative dreams, I could give you some stuff that would spook the weirdest, even on this site, but perhaps that is something for another day.
OZ
Flying dreams are wonderful, Jan! I don’t like heights either. 🙂 Do you just soar or flap your arms?
‘Sleep on it,’ has always been good advice.
Trying to control dreams has the whiff of mental illness and frustrated wish fulfilment.
Perhaps it would be better to address the problems in the harsh light of day. This is the kind of psychobabble that you hear from the dock of murder trials, the voices, the voices told me…….
If it is in the pursuit of ‘creative’ writing maybe it is time to hang it up and admit it just isn’t your bag and take up creative crafts instead! I have a book called ‘knit yourself the Royal Family’, maybe you would like to borrow it?
OH, Christina, now you’ve made me snort tea out of my nose!
No thanks Christina, but thanks for the offer. ;0
I swear it exists! Honest injun, my son found it somewhere in a bookshop and we used to send it back and forth to each other and any other hapless idiot we could con in the family. The first time I received it I nearly had a cardiac laughing.
How I miss that boy with his sense of humour, beyond rubies!
It isn’t on my bookshelves maybe in one of the trunks in the garage, I must go on a foraging expedition into the uncharted territory of the garage, as marked on the old maps ‘Here be monsters’ never know what you will find in there. Probably a family of illegal immigrants!
NOW THEN, there is a creative story for you, the contents of the garage were very frightening………
When you find it a photo please!
LOL Tina. Knit Yourself The Royal Family. Bloody excellent. I’d get that for my mother in law.
Hi Bilby 🙂 Oh I never flap – always soar effortlessly.
Waiting to be spooked out by OZ. Don’t forget! 😀
Absolutely true story.
The night before my O Level Latin exam I had a dream about Caesar’s Gallic Wars – well one bit of it. I remembered enough the next morning to ask my friend to lend me her translation – and found the appropriate page. That was the exact bit that was on the exam paper.