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Re: Heightened dream recall ability linked to increased creativity, connectivity

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Interesting byproduct. When I learned about lucid dreaming in my 20s, I spent an inordinate amount of time (every day for years) developing the skill, including journaling — in as much detail as possible — my dream as soon as I woke up. Unfortunately, I cannot turn off the ability now and now have to deal with the consequence of recalling all my dreams: good and bad.

If you are lucid often, then you got and amazing skill.

Re: Heightened dream recall ability linked to increased creativity, connectivity

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I am anecdotally convinced that dreaming is beneficial. Every time I dream I wake up feeling refreshed. Is there any links to The Brain Network and neurogenesis?

Yes. In my opinion neurogenesis and mania/positivity is tightly linked.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/adult-n...

Re: Heightened dream recall ability linked to increased creativity, connectivity

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Interesting byproduct. When I learned about lucid dreaming in my 20s, I spent an inordinate amount of time (every day for years) developing the skill, including journaling — in as much detail as possible — my dream as soon as I woke up. Unfortunately, I cannot turn off the ability now and now have to deal with the consequence of recalling all my dreams: good and bad.

I'm curious what you consider to be the bad consequences of recalling your dreams? I remember at least one dream every night and enjoy going back over any of them.

I especially like that I can identify a dream as the cause if I wake up in a weird mood. I worry that if I didn't have this recall, I might wake up just being vaguely pissed at my husband (because he was being a jerk in a dream).

Re: Heightened dream recall ability linked to increased creativity, connectivity

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I am anecdotally convinced that dreaming is beneficial. Every time I dream I wake up feeling refreshed. Is there any links to The Brain Network and neurogenesis?

You've never had night terrors? I'm not sure how those would be classified as beneficial.

Re: Heightened dream recall ability linked to increased creativity, connectivity

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Choline will do this for you, 3 eggs (yolks) is suggested to be enough for pregnant women, lecithin, choline bitartrate, CDP Choline, and any choline mimetic like Carnitine. I've found a couple of 000 capsules filled with lecithin 30mins before bed is best. A none supplemental alternative is water fasting but thats something that cant be done all the time.

Interesting because I found if I take B6 I dream away more than usual and it’s way more vivid.

Choline please a role in the Transulfuration pathway, as does B6 By stimulating the CBS enzyme.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fels-jbs-p...

Re: Heightened dream recall ability linked to increased creativity, connectivity

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I am anecdotally convinced that dreaming is beneficial. Every time I dream I wake up feeling refreshed. Is there any links to The Brain Network and neurogenesis?

I have using dreams sometimes...where I can smell, taste, feel the drugs. Only to wake up feeling disgusted and ashamed. Beneficial? Maybe, maybe not.

Re: Heightened dream recall ability linked to increased creativity, connectivity

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I recently got the book Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: A Guide to Awakening Consciousness During Dream Sleep by Charles McPhee, but it sounded a little scary and full-on! So I haven't tried its techniques yet. Anyone here done that?

I'm sure I would've tried it in my 20s, when I was experimenting with everything e.g. once I did a mantra for 2 weeks non-stop.

I had Ann Faraday's The Dream Game, the only really good book on interpreting dreams I've seen. One of its techniques is to treat all the parts of a dream as characters, and talk with them, ask them questions, or put them in dialogue with each other.

I had a dream diary, where I'd write down every dream I remembered. After a while doing that, I'd remember them almost every night. But then I'd write them down, then wake up and realize I only dreamt writing them down. So I'd have to write them down again. I had to stop when every day I'd have to write them down 4 times! Write them down, wake up, realize I only dreamt it, write them down again, wake up, realize I'd only dreamt that, write them down yet again, wake up etc. Too much.

Also I tried sandplay, a kind of psychological therapy, which was absolutely amazing, and seems very similar to getting the parts of a dream talking. The therapist (or whatever they call themselves. Mine was a new-agey author/guru type, but there was nothing new agey about what he said in the sandplay room) has a room with a sandbox in the middle, and shelves full of hundreds of objects, toys, figurines, etc of all kinds around the walls. You walk around the room, selecting whatever object you feel drawn to, and put it in the sand. With as little thinking about it as possible. Then when you feel like stopping, stop. (I kept putting more things in, dozens, until he asked me to stop, and regrettably we only got to talk about a few of them.) Then they ask you to talk about each thing in the sand, what they mean, what one is doing next to another one etc. The answers just pour out, and it's like being able to see inside your head. I found it absolutely incredible, highly recommend! It's fun, painless, you can do it any time... and suddenly the insights/revelations usually locked away and only accessible from dreams/hallucinogens/psychological work, are freely available, gushing out.

Re: Heightened dream recall ability linked to increased creativity, connectivity

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My wife creates illustrations fairly consistently and she has uncanny dream recall. Like, sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes for her to tell me the complete dream. She has a strong memory in general which at times is very inconvenient because she can accurately remember all my goof-ups...

Re: Heightened dream recall ability linked to increased creativity, connectivity

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Interesting byproduct. When I learned about lucid dreaming in my 20s, I spent an inordinate amount of time (every day for years) developing the skill, including journaling — in as much detail as possible — my dream as soon as I woke up. Unfortunately, I cannot turn off the ability now and now have to deal with the consequence of recalling all my dreams: good and bad.

I'm curious what you consider to be the bad consequences of recalling your dreams? I remember at least one dream every night and enjoy going back over any of them. I especially like that I can identify a dream as the cause if I wake up in a weird mood. I worry that if I didn't have this recall, I might wake up just being vaguely pissed at my husband (because he was being a jerk in a dream).

Nightmares are a thing. This can get particularly bad if you relive traumatic events.
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