| Not long ago, I talked with a gentleman who has | | | | and the "answer" and thus, came up with it eventually, |
| studied dreams all his life. He told me of a most | | | | but since it was so abstract it could have been |
| interesting case, where a gentleman had the same | | | | anything, he choose the challenge to be something, and |
| re-occurring dream, almost a nightmare, and it was far | | | | spent lots of thinking time on that single challenge. |
| too often, several times a week - for almost 30-years. | | | | People who spend a lot of mental horse power on |
| Ouch. Finally he went to a dreamologist. The dream | | | | one thing, generally, eventually solve it, or come up with |
| was that the individual was in a small room with an old | | | | a near best possible answer right? That has been my |
| fashioned telephone operator system, with plugs on | | | | personal experience. |
| the end of wires, but they were all tangled and he | | | | Was the dreamologist really the winning component, if |
| couldn't untangle them. | | | | so why, if not, how do we explain this? Did the |
| After this dream was explained to him and he went | | | | dreamologist's power of suggestion, being of a strong |
| throw therapy, he had a scientific breakthrough less | | | | authoritative voice, allow the individual to trust him, |
| than a month after that bad re-occurring dream | | | | believe in him and, even if the dreamologist could only |
| stopped, something he'd been working on all his life. Is | | | | "assume what the challenge of the dream" was, and |
| this a coincidence? Let's talk about it shall we? | | | | therefore, into the individuals subconscious that |
| In this case the individual had a dream, not unlike many | | | | suggestion went, thus, he went on to try to connect |
| dreams, this is a common dream, in fact, I've had this | | | | associations collected throughout his life experience, |
| same dream myself before not re-occurring but it | | | | education, observations, and knowledge which |
| sounds familiar. Perhaps, this dream troubled the | | | | abstractly fit into this assumed hypothesis or context |
| individual for some reason, like some Twilight Zone | | | | of the dreamologist's explanation. |
| film? In which case this was an error of his own mind, | | | | I mean that would be another possible conclusion to |
| causing the repeated dream, or state. | | | | this case. Personally, I am not sure why this individual |
| Perhaps, the dream occurred during a time in the night | | | | didn't come upon this whole thing himself, and accept |
| when a certain sound was made while he was in | | | | the dream as a challenge, not as a nightmare. Instead |
| REM, and every night he is in REM and that sound | | | | he choose to feel trapped by it, like a kitten who'd |
| comes about it re-triggers that dream. The more it is | | | | been playing with yarn for half an hour. It is my |
| re-played the more it is reinforced, until he works it | | | | contention that all this dreamology psychology is |
| through and it no longer triggers fear, but a challenge, | | | | nonsense, and it only works if the individual believes it |
| then he solves it. | | | | will, but the individual could have done that himself with |
| Now then, in this case, he took a proactive approach | | | | a little focus and self-esteem. Please consider that. |
| through suggestion, searching for both the "question" | | | | |