I have recently discovered something new pertaining to dreaming that I want to share. Their are a few different types of dreams. The first time are dreams that you do not remember having. They are the small dreams, or ones that you do not consciously realize you are having. You have thousands of these types of dreams, and wake up without even an inkling of remembrance to those dreams. The second type of dreams, are the ones you
can almost remember. These dreams are annoying. They only happen when you first wake up and realize you were having a really good dream but can only remember bits and pieces of it (if that much). Literally within minutes, you realize that you have forgotten everything and all that is left is the slight reminder that you were just having a good dream. The final type of dream is the dream you wake up almost entirely remembering, at least for awhile until at which point you forget.

Now let's look at the classifications a different way. You can wake up to dreams in 3 different ways. You have dreams that you finish, but don't remember. Those are automatically filed away in your subconscious. They affect you, but you never realize it. Then there are the dreams that totally finish and you remember them. These are the best types of dreams. You had a dream, it played out entirely, and all events were closed up. So you feel some closure from the dream, as if you had just read an entire short story, or novel. You feel inside that the dream was complete. The final type of dream is the one you wake up in the middle of, and remember. These (to me) have been the worst types of dreams. A lot of times I left something very important undone in the dream, or it did not play out entirely. Whether this is caused by me naturally waking up, or something waking me up in the real wold. These types of dreams leave you annoyed for awhile..wondering what would have happened..or perhaps the dream was so blissful you wanted to get to a better stopping point.

Different people deal with these types of dreams in different ways. Some of them ignore it and go throughout their day. Within a few hours they just act like nothing ever happened, or have forgotten entirely. However, as far as my understanding goes in this situation, the dreams are filed away subconsciously, and your mind will always look at that dream as an unfinished book, even for years to come (even if you don't realize it). If you read a REALLY good novel, then suddenly stop reading...then at times you will wonder what the ending was. Even if it's years later you might think of that novel briefly, and think to yourself that you never finished it and wonder what happened. THen suddenly if you pick it up and finish it, you feel an area of completeness related to that specific novel/story that you never felt before with that specific piece of work. Same thing with dreams, if you don't finish them they will bother you for awhile, whether you realize it or not. Some people can go back to sleep immediately and finish the dream, other's can't trigger the same dream easily, and others still can't get back to sleep.

I have found a solution to this issue. Sometimes it works really well (allowing me to finish entire dreams that I had started) and other types it just works slightly, allowing me to wrap up the loose ends of the dream and write my own quick ending. It might not be the original ending expected for the dream, but it's an ending nonetheless and sets up to bring the closure that comes with anything that is complete. Basically when I wake up with an incomplete dream, as compared to a complete dream it affects my mood, at a minimum for at least a few hours as I get annoyed that the dream did not finish off correctly. A lot of times if I am woken up by an external factor, then that factor is what I get upset with for waking me in the first place.

The solution is simple. Anytime I wake up from a dream that I remember. I check to see whether I feel comfortable with the dreams conclusion. If I do not like the dream ending, or It was not complete, then I start rewriting the dream, or rebuilding the dream. I lay down, and ignore everything around me. I start using my imagination to re-enact the last part of the dream I remember. Generally within 2 minutes I am able to visualize and feel the dream, almost as if I was really having it. If you ignore EVERYTHING, (especially if your in a really dark/quite area anyway) and just start envisioning the same dream. Start role playing out what was last happening, and use your imagination to continue building onto the dream. Generally within 2 minutes it's ultra-realistic and hard to tell being awake from dreaming. Generally within 10 minutes you will be totally asleep and the dream state will kick in. SO it's basically a kick start for the dream. So for example..say I am dreaming about going to another state and buying something. In real life I might wake up right before I give the person money. I want to go back into that dream state. So I lay down and ignore everything and start envisioning the area I last remember in my dream. Start envisioning the person I was buying the item from and the place. Within minutes I can start off replicating that area of the dream..I can imagine myself there and reviewing the item, and getting ready to buy it. Within 10 minutes the dream-state takes over, and converts what you were making, into a real dream.

So the basic idea is once you wake up, to get everything totally focused on your dream. Remember where it left off, and continue where it left off by mentally forcing your mind to play on that dream. No different than if your day dreaming, or thinking intensively about something. When the dream state takes over it seems to have a way of interfacing with the dream you were having, changing what you simulated while awake back into a dream state, and then adding onto it to finish. This is something I just recently realized I had the power to do. Anyone can do it, and it's very easy.

I have also realized, very quickly that this is a way to kick start new dreams as well. The only catch is doing it while your wide awake doesn't have much affect. The more tired you are, the more affective it is. For example, when I first lay down, if I want to have a specific dream, I start off by thinking about the dream area. Generally this puts my mind on auto-pilot so when I fall asleep that is what I am dreaming about (since that was what I was thinking about). If I start getting a tired feeling before I fall asleep, then I am able to go into that simulated reality state. Within a few minutes, when the dream takes over, it basically feels like it transforms what I was roleplaying when I was awake, into a dream like feeling and then continuing where it left off. It almost works every single time. Sometimes if I have something bigger on my mind, the nthat takes over anyway, but rarely. Normally it's exactly what I was roleplaying, is where my dream takes off at.

The only bad thing I have noticed, is that a lot of times when the dream state takes over when you fall back asleep, it normally transforms (within a few minutes) into dreams you can't remember anymore. I am still researching and working on this part. I want to get to a point eventually where I can remember most/all of my dreams, and have totally lucid control over them, but this is something that will take me a while to master. I just wanted to share this break through with everyone in hopes that they will be able to finish those perfect dreams more often that they suddenly lose when someone wakes them up, or when their body wakes them up.