Dreams

[pitzerwm]

Mackay's Moral: The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up and get to work.

If you want to put your dreams to work, you need to first recognize their potential.

Keep a dream journal. The first step to controlling dreams is remembering them. Keep a journal close to your bed, and write down any dream you have as soon as you wake up (or keep a digital voice recorder handy). Same goes for daydreams. Are you frequently visualizing the same thoughts over and over again? Look for recurring themes-people, situations, etc. This trains your brain to become more aware of dream activity.


Nap. Some studies suggest the best time to attempt a "lucid dream" is during a nap taken a few hours after getting up in the morning. Lucid dreaming can allow you to fly, conquer nightmares and solve real-life problems. If you wake up during a dream, stay quiet and try to return to the dream as you drift off again.
Why bother to zero in on your dreams? Harvard psychologist David McClelland studied high achievers for more than twenty years. Among his findings, he concluded that successful people share one particular characteristic: They think, fantasize and dream constantly about how to improve their performance and achieve their goals.

 

[mac]

Good advice, plus now I can tell my secretary that I'm really working when I put the do not disturb sign on my office door.

 

[Whale of a Wash]

I don't ever dream, maybe 3-4 times a year. I am not sure it would help much.
I think much of my success is talking honestly with people who have helped me meet people that have things for sale. Networking i think is the number one strategy, that has helped me along with working twice as hard as most. 80 hrs is an easy week. Setting goals is also a very important item. Long ago i was told people spend more time planning a vacation than they do planning their lives.

 

[Red Baron]

Notations on my dreams would fill a very large book. I dream nearly every night, have sleepwalked since childhood. Woke up on the roof of the motel in San Antonio once. My mom usta just follow me around the house as I sleepwalked just to make sure I didn't fall and hit my head.

About once a month I'll sit bolt upright in bed and unleash the most foulmouthed bluff toward the intruder I think is in the house: You no good $%&#ing $%&!#@$er I'll kick the $&*#! OUT OF YOUR $%^&#$ $&#. My wife knows to ignore me for 20-30 seconds and I'll go back to bed.

This is why I'm not allowed to keep a gun by my bed?

 

[rph9168]

When I was a kid I used to walk in my sleep fairly often. I once walked in my sleep and pee'd all over my dad who happened to be sitting on the john. To say he was unhappy would be an understatement. Probably the last time I walked in my sleep though.