Does the way your feeling effect the way your dreams are?
Over last few days i have been pretty depressed and have been having some strange, dark depressing dreams lately, is this because or my feelings in walking life?
Also can these feeling effect chances of becoming lucid?
I was pretty down a while back. Both my parents died just over a year before this which didn’t help. I became lucid in a dream and this is what happened.
Extract from my dream diary May 04 1995.
Dream has commenced.
I was feeling depressed and rushed out out of the house into the backyard. Fully aware the I was dreaming and feeling miserable I tried to call on all my dream monsters to come and kill me. Dreamacide perhaps? I yelled to them to show themselves and come and chew me to pieces, slash me up, bite me to death and slaughter me. Was I depressed or what? I tried to imagine them coming for me but as hard as I tried they would not appear.
Feeling disappointed that I couldn’t even commit dreamacide, I wander into the house again. About this time both my parents (deceased) dropped in for a 5 minute visit. I was greatly impressed by how well dad looked. Younger than I remember him he had a lot of vitality, a pleasant smile and a look of intelligence that I’ve never seen before. He and mum were getting along very well together, not something that happened much IRL. We talked some small talk for a while and before the dream began to fade I said they would have to visit more often and wished them both the best. I was starting to lose lucidity and just had enough time to say goodbye before waking up. I felt cheered up by their visit.
–End diary entry–
Being the skeptic that I am I’m still not sure if this really was a visit from beyond or just DC’s acting the part. In any case the result was the same and I felt cheered up by the dream.
The mood im in plays a big role in my draming process. Over certain periods of time i get a build up of emotion, through over analyzing things and getting into conflicts with my ego. So ill be full of angst and i cant remember anything from my dreams and i dont ld, since while im going to bed im thinking about all kinds of worthless crap that pisses me off and i cant get to sleep and im all agitated and just full of eh. But to fix this problem of build of emotion i weep, which is good because when im done im refreshed and i can think clearly or not think at all and just relax. So yeah do more random crying, it refreshes your mind. I dream better with a clear head.
yes definitely. My main emotion in RL is anxiety so a lot of my dreams are filled with things like being late to work, loosing, forgetting things, worrying, making mistakes in front of people, getting lost etc. Fortunately they’re not all like that and I’m always much more confident in dreams