Choosing Your Dream..

Yeah.. The topic of today would be, choosing your dream..

Can we really choose our dream? It is even possible?

Actually, it is possible.. Every once in a while you wind up in a dream but somehow recognize it as a dream, and you may have found yourself able to pretty much program the dream to your specifications..

1. Keep a Dream Journal
   As soon as you wake up from a dream, write down every little thing you can remember about it. Supposedly by writing it down, your brain recognizes certain patterns that only occur in a dream (since most dreams are immediately forgotten) and if they are on paper, you can recall them easily..
   

Did you know, upon waking up from your sleep, after 5 minutes, 50% of your dream will be forgotten.. And after 10 minutes, 90% of them..

2. Think about exactly what you want to dream right before you fall asleep.. Makes sense.. For instance you've probably fallen asleep watching MythBusters before and immediately dreamed you were flying through the air, using a giant version of Jamie's mustache as a hang glider..
   
   
3. The best time to have a lucid dream is either right before you regularly wake up, or right after.. Studies have shown that more people have lucid dreams when they take a nap shortly after they first wake up in the morning..
   

Obviously the big difference between a dream and real life is that if the Hamburglar came bursting out of your refrigerator right now and started screaming at you in Vietnamese, your first thought would be "This is a strange and unusual event that is occurring right now, and I should question my perceptions." If the same thing happens in a dream, you just go with it..

In a dream state, your mind mostly loses the ability to criticize anything that's happening because dreaming just doesn't involve the critical part of your brain.. You're all worried that you're at work in your underwear, and don't even blink at the fact that your boss is a dragon who speaks in the voice of your old middle school gym coach..

But if you change your mental state ever so slightly, that critical part of your brain can keep functioning even while in dreamland..