Do you know that your dreams and subconscious mind can predict many things as well as going deep into the past? I was thinking about something I have always used and they are dream and the subconscious level to decide. So how about using dreams to guess the lotto winning numbers? Or even using dreams to take a decision?

First and foremost, I want this to be clear. We are not talking of [wikipop]clairvoyance[/wikipop] or any magical pseudo belief here. We are talking about dreaming, which is a natural part of our lives. Every time someone sleep, he dreams. Scientifically explained, dreams are waves or signals that the brain generates and manipulate. Dreams are often relative to life happenings and environment.

For example, it is a fact that someone who is blind since birth do not dream like a normal person. However, people who became blind later in their lifetime do dream even after becoming blind. However their dreams will often be based on what they saw before becoming blind. Dreams are images or a movie as many will say however there is another aspect which we call the subconscious and this is what I want to talk to you about.

Dreams and the Subconscious Mind

“You cannot control your dreams”. Are you sure? I will not agree with you on this. You cannot control what happen in your dream but you can control your dream overall idea. Many people say that if you think about a haunted house just before sleeping you will dream of it. It is false!

However try thinking about a trip with your friend to a haunted house about 2 hours before sleeping or while having dinner and be sure to dream about it somehow! However this is not always the case. To understand dreams, let’s take your brain as a sort of computer which does not require human intervention to do defragmentation of data and software maintainance.

When you sleep at night, there are many functions involving your memory and things that you learned that occurs. Your dreams are abstract scenes of what your brain is processing or re-ordering. It is like someone who is doing some clean up and reorganizing work in a big library by putting the books on their respective shelves. Meanwhile while you sleep you see dreams. However dreams are never to the point.

Dreams are abstract pictures or scenes that you see. Here come your subconscious at play. Ever felt a strange feeling something bad is going to happen? That was your subconscious mind. Have you ever been worried about someone thinking what he/she thinks about you and then somehow find the answer in a very abstract way in your dreams? That was your subconscious mind.

The subconscious is nothing magic or supernatural. It is just something every animal have. This is us! Some people are used to it and often use it while the majority of others are so involved in our modern technological world that it does not seem to exist anymore.

Once, someone (yes someone) wanted to know if it was the end. He used to think a lot if it was the end of it. Somehow after two days of wondering, he dreamt that he was running after that bus (Forget it!) and it kept going faster than him. Finally he reached the graveyard and he was digging up the graves looking for something. There were only the skeletons.

No he didn’t watch any horror movie that night. It was the subconscious mind only giving him the answer that his mind could not answer while he was in this technological world.

“While awake we are blinded by light” – Kurt

The dream above can make you think he was looking for some dead people right? No he wasn’t. The bus was just representing a person. The road was just life. The graveyard was just stubbornness and the skeletons were there to say It Was Over! The dream only told that he was digging up memories and that the reality no more existed. Some weeks later he confirmed it.

Since I am a kid I always tried to remember what I dream. I used to tell my dreams to my mom or late-grandmom everyday. My Grandmom was someone who would often understand what we (e.i me or mom or even my uncle) would never understand. I think I inherited this weird way of trying to map my dreams to my life from her. (I used to live with her for some years and she would always try to tell me what my dreams were in a story like way).

What I want to say is that at many point in life you do not have an answer to a question. However all questions have answers. Some are just hard to solve while others are obvious. Your subconscious mind on the other hand know everything (relative to what you lived). If you are thinking if this is magic, then no!

There is no magic. This is analogous to AI in computer. With some logic, the computer can predict what is to happen if certain things occurred. The brain is the most amazing archive of memories and facts. As you live, there are many things that your subconscious mind store but you do not even notice it. You cannot call your subconscious mind voluntarily to help you, however when you are experiencing REM during your dream, it is when your subconscious mind is most active.

In fact it is always active but you only feel it when all your other mind states are at a lower level. That is sleep. Tonight about 2 hours before going to sleep, try thinking about something you have lost during the day and can’t find. Think about it and tell yourself this is important and you need to find it. Your subconscious mind already know where you lost it. How?

When you lost that thing, your subconscious mind took note of where you left it. However your normal brain state is not at the level to remember that since there are far too many things to process while you are awake. At night as you sleep, your subconscious mind takes over and while the brain reworks on what you did today and what you lost and so on, your subconscious mind will tell you where it is.

However note that the subconscious never show you things as in real life. That is why I said dreams are abstract movies. A door in your dream can mean an entrance, or an exit or even you lost it while entering somewhere. If the door is red, it can even mean that the lost thing is near a red object. This is the difficult part, that is to understand your dreams.

Now dreams can also predict far future events. Your brain does not predict it as it was something predefined. Rather your future is only a result of your past and present. I often do things and suddenly feel like I have done this thing or say this thing exactly as it is to the person in front of me at the same place before. Once I was with Priscus at Ebene Way eating and suddenly I felt like this happened before. That was in a very brief scene in a dream which may have been months ago when I first met her.

And to make it funny, did you ever dream of your next day exam questions? Well I did it once. It was for the Biology Exam in Form 5 (2003) – I was thinking of biology all day long and even at night. That night I dreamed of some questions and I was in a room doing the exam. Well I didn’t get all questions I dreamed about, but there was 2 similar questions (Not the same but on exactly same concept and diagrams). The next day I found myself laughing at the paper in the exam room.

To really make conclusions out of your dreams depends largely on your mind state. A tired person is less likely to even remember his dreams. Meditation (as an exercise and NOT for religion!) is a great way to calm your mind and better understand your life and future. When I say meditation i don’t mean like those in the Bollywood movies where you wear a cheap orange thing and sit under a tree lol! Meditation is the word and it simply mean to calm your mind and think or better do not think.

When you sleep you do think. You can hear your subconscious mind when you do no think only. Oh and by the way, do try it for the Mauritius Lotto Game. Who knows, maybe you can be the winner If you dream of number 3, do know it will not be 3 but.. It can be anything related to 3. It can be 12 or even 21 because when your brain look at 12 it sees 12 but for your subconscious mind 12 can be meaning 1 plus 2 equal 3 from a far memory from kindergarten.

Woo! Long post. Been a long time I have not been blogging these typical IC origin-like long posts Anyway I stop it here since I am feeling hungry. Think about what I just said.

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