I'm sure this happens to you all the time: your alarm goes off and you get pulled out of an amazing dream, but as soon as you hit the snooze button, you can't remember many details, if any, of what you were dreaming about. 
New research suggests that you actually try to remember, because your dreams can give insight into your personality. Tapping into what happens in your dreams can help you understand the thoughts, feelings, and actions you have when you're awake, which in turn can help "heal emotional stress and trauma, enable us to sleep better, make us feel happier while awake, or even answer nagging questions about our lives."
So how can you take advantage of your dreams? To learn some tips, read more.
Here are six strategies to help you harness insight from your dreams. Check out MSNBC.com to learn more about them.
- Wake slowly and try to concentrate on what you were dreaming about.
- Don't take every detail literally.
- Confront the "demons" you dream about, when you're awake.
- Put yourself in the dream after waking. Imagine yourself as all the different characters, even the non-human ones, to uncover specific emotions or situations that may have inspired your dream.
- Describe your dream to someone to help you recall details, zero in on important aspects, and better interpret dream symbols. Writing down details may help.
- Plan a course of action on how to deal with what you discovered in your dream.
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The way that girl is "sleeping" in the pic looks really uncomfortable.
1Interesting...
2I think it definitely can be benificial to analyze dreams! Lately I had been dreaming of doing mundane house chores and I would wake up stressed out. My hubby mentioned something about me being obsessed with housework. Since then I tried not being so hard on myself about it and the dreams went away. YAY!
3hmmm there are dreams i would rather forget
4I agree with dm8bri..no one sleeps like that!! LOL!!
5Dreams can be so unexpected - a couple of tims over the last few years, I dreamt I was on a date with a person I vaguely knew, and it's like these dreams trigger a crush everytime! They were guys I'd never really paid too much attention to before, and all of a sudden I'm "eh? that's new! I want to see him again!"
6My dad always told me that when I wake up from a dream in the morning, to try NOT to remember the dream, but to think of nothing and just relax and don't let your brain work... if you lay in bed doing this for while... you may begin to remember the dream you were just having... it has worked for me in the past... give it try!
7I'm always dreaming and can almost always remember them. The position you sleep in actually effects if you can remember it, it's best to try and stay in the position you wake up in to help remember it.
It actually does work.
I love this site too: www.dreammoods.com
8most of the time i remember my dreams, and its not always a good thing... i got my first ticket last week and now i keep dreaming that i am getting busted by the police for stupid little things.
9Actually greenapples, I sleep like that all the time! And it's pretty comfortable...of course I sleep in all kinds of random positions that most normal people wouldn't ever consider, but I can't help it..I just wake up like that!
10I generally remember my dreams..and if I don't remember it all, the more I think about it, the more it comes back to me.
I have one dream that recurs at least once a week...I'm back in college and I'm in some class and I've never gone to the lectures or read the books for the whole semester and all of a sudden I have to take the final exam. It ALWAYS makes me wake up in a big panic. I think it's also kind of fun to figure out what different symbols in your dreams can mean in your real life.
11omg Spectra! I seriously have a dream like that allllll of the time!
12I had a dream last night, that I went grocery shopping and there was a skunk that had wandered in and everyone was freaking out but i went right up to it, knowing that if i wasn't threatening it wouldn't spray me, lured it out with a cookie and set it free and everyone was thankful....what does that mean?
13I always remember my dreams. I've heard that the deeper you sleep the less you will remember your dreams? Not sure if that's true or not. LoL
14I feel like I always remember the dreams that I would rather forget!
15Spectra + Marni, I have that dream constantly too!! That one is the worst, I wake up feeling soo horrible!
16I have a difficult time believing that this is new research. Psychology has long been interested in studying dreams, from Freudian dream analysis to Gestalt dream interpretation.
17It helps to write down what you remember as soon as you wake up because your memory of the dream will get fuzzy as the day goes on. By the end of the day, what I think I remember is radically different from what I wrote down that morning! I have seen myself working through things over the nights as I record the dreams that I am having, particularly my relationship issues!
18I love when I can remember my dreams and I can look up what the totally random things mean, but often I think I really just dream about whatever happened that day or something I'm excited for..
19sooo last night I dreamt that I was a contestant on American Idol and I was checking THIS WEBSITE (well, technically Buzz Sugar I suppose) and reading all these nasty things everyone was saying about me. (ie. she can't sing, she lying about her education, she says "like" every other word, shes soo annoying, etc etc)
how weird is that?!!? Random, but I thought I'd share. Somehow you guys have infiltrated my dreams, lol!
20I dreamt my parents locked me in the basement they don't have the other night. WHAT COULD THIS MEAN?
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