Dreams are your brain's dojo

[TSDguy]

Article suggesting nightmares are how you practice for the real thing:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles ... 003&page=1

My nightmares tend to 1) be about throwing punches at a BG but not being able to add any power and 2) firing a gun at a BG but not being strong enough to squeeze the trigger. Both are focused on being weak; I wonder if this has anything to do with sleep paralysis. Maybe my body is used to throwing punches or squeezing triggers and when the threat arrives in my dream, I try to actually do it? Fun to think about anyway.

[Bill Glasheen]

I rarely remember my dreams any more. I'm so tired, that I sleep the deep sleep.

There were two different kinds of martial dreams that I had:

• I was forced to teach martial arts at a very early age because the instructor left. I had these recurrent nightmares where I'd ask a class to do something and they'd refuse. People would just sit down and stare at me.
• In my real fights, the bad guys didn't fall with my ippon (of doom). I had to hit them 3, 4, and 5 times before they'd drop.

Mostly I think these kinds of dreams are about sorting out our hidden fears. What we deny in real life can come to haunt us in a healthy way in our dreams. In some ways I think this is very useful.

- Bill

[TSDguy]

I rarely remember my dreams any more. I'm so tired, that I sleep the deep sleep.

You don't remember a dream unless you wake up in the middle of it.

I'm an EXTREMELYalert sleeper; MANY people in my life have learned this the hard way.