Dr. Rahul Jandial

These are obviously things that are hard to prove.

The point, I think, is to have access to thoughts, experiences, and emotions created by the dreaming brain, which let's call them dreams, that it's your brain.

It's on a 24-hour cycle, two-thirds awake, roughly one-third asleep and dreaming.

The liberated and hyper-emotional, hyper-visual brain and its product might offer you insights into your life,

that a therapist can't or in connection with a therapist.

They may offer you insights that you haven't recognized in your waking life.

I think that's one thing.

Well, that's a good question.

So I would say if you look at dreams, I would put them in five categories.

So that one I would put into the static or junk dream.

That one is one to ignore because it doesn't have a strong central emotion and it doesn't have a strong central image.

But let's unpack that a little bit.

I think dreams fall into five categories roughly as a way of thinking about them in the morning.

If you show up naked on a podium where your alarm goes off in your dream because you have an exam, you know what that is.

That's waking anxiety feeding dream anxiety, right?

That's sort of clear.

If you're at end of life and you're at the end of your cancer journey, some of my patients, you have these end of life dreams.

They're sort of expansive.

There's often reconciliation, not always, but that fits that your waking life is having such dramatic events that your dream life is clearly linked.

That doesn't require interpretation or journaling.