Chapter 1: What are the five most common dreams and their meanings?
Let's talk about the five things we all dream about the most. These are five stress dreams that you should never ignore. If you've ever dreamed about your ex, or dreamed your partner was cheating, or dreamed you had a baby, I will tell you what these all mean. You're welcome.
How did you get into dream analysis and psychology?
Most of my life I've been able to remember just about every single dream I have every single night.
Chapter 2: How does dream analysis relate to our emotional state?
That's like unheard of. I can't tell you the last time I remember a dream.
They are your built-in, brutally honest best friend who's going to tell you what you need to know, whether you like it or not. Do you lucid dream a lot? I do. And do you like that?
It's better than sex. Why do we have nightmares? I know people that climax in a sex dream. So what is that nightmare? I don't even know how to say it.
You say you're more of a light sleeper? Oh, if a feather falls, I'm like... So I created this portrait for you as a thank you. It's here somewhere.
Oh my God, this is so much hotter than I could ever be. I need these boobs. That is you. I wish this was me. True will be so happy. Lori, thank you for being here on Chloe in Wonderland. I'm so excited to sit and talk with you. I'm excited to talk with you too. I found you on social media and I just think you are so fascinating and so interesting.
But I want to know, how did you get into dream analysis and psychology?
Well, I've always been a vivid dreamer and I have been able to remember my dreams since I was two years old.
That is incredible to me.
So long story short, I've always been into my dreams. And when I was little, I would draw them. When I got a little older, I would journal them. But it wasn't until I was 19 when my grandfather died. So I had a dream two weeks after his death that we were walking arm in arm through this museum.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Lauri Loewenberg share about nightmares?
And I knew he had died. And I asked him, what is it like where you are? And he said, well, I can't tell you that. But what I can tell you is that it's secure. And then he gave me a hug. And as I watched him walk up the stairs, I began to wake up and I could smell his old spice. I love that. And I could feel him. And I was like, what just happened? What was that?
So that's the dream that propelled me to study dream psychology. Because I wanted to know, why do we do it? Right. What is the purpose? What does it mean? And I was so impressed by how practical the dreaming mind actually is. As ethereal or otherworldly as it can seem or bizarre, it's actually very, very practical, helpful, and powerful.
And what do you mean by the practicality part? Like if I'm dreaming that I'm surrounded by fairies or something more whimsical, how is that considered practical?
Yeah.
Well, very good question. Because dreams are mostly symbolic. Okay. So they seem random, bizarre nonsense. Fantasy. Right. When actually they're not. The thing about dreams that most people don't understand is that dreaming is a thinking process. Your dreams are your thoughts. They are a continuation of your thoughts stream from the day.
So whatever you're saying to yourself throughout the day, you're driving around, you know, oh, Chloe this, you're loading the dishwasher, oh, Chloe that, you're taking a shower, you're talking to yourself. As you drift off, you're still talking to yourself. That stream of consciousness continues. But once you enter REM dream sleep, your brain's working differently.
The biochemical processes are a little different. So you're still having that conversation with yourself. But now, rather than thinking in words and linearly, like you and I are right now, you're thinking in symbols, emotions, and metaphors. So look at your dreams as a very wise commentary on what happened today. Look at your dreams as helping you problem solve and reach your aspirations.
You just have to learn the language.
I used to dream, and I think I had one dream that I remember recently that was more of a nightmare. I didn't wake up from it, but when I did wake up in the morning naturally, I was like, oh, I didn't like that dream. I can't tell you truly the last time I remember a dream. I know that doesn't mean I didn't dream, and I've wondered, why don't I dream anymore?
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Chapter 4: How can we start remembering our dreams?
But you are dreaming every single night, whether you remember it or not. And the way to remember them is actually very, very easy. All you have to do when you wake up in the morning, don't move. Okay. Stay in the exact same position you woke up in because that's the position your body was in when you were dreaming.
So if you roll over, if you move, look at your phone or whatever, it's like unplugging yourself from the dream you were just in. So just stay put, quiet your mind, and give yourself three to five minutes of quiet still time to let the dream come back to you. Then write it down. Otherwise, it'll be gone after breakfast. That's crazy.
But the more you do that, do you think it makes you dream more vividly or remember your dreams more?
You'll remember them more. It's like, you know, working out. The more you work the muscle, the stronger it gets. Exact same thing with your dream muscle. The more you work it, the more you pay attention to it, make it a part of your life, make it a partner in your life. Your subconscious is your partner in life and can really make big changes for you if you work with it.
So you just incorporate it into your morning and you'll start remembering them every morning.
I have also read that in your dream, and I hope I'm saying this right, like if you can find your hands, you can control your dream a little more.
Yeah.
What is that?
All right. So lucid dreaming. Have you ever done this where you're in a dream and you know it's a dream?
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of lucid dreaming?
Because when you're lucid, you're awake and you're asleep at the same time. It's crazy. It's crazy.
Yeah. Do you lucid dream a lot?
I do. About once a month, I can become lucid.
And do you like that? I love it. Okay. It's better than sex. Yeah. Why do you like it so much?
Because you can do anything. Isn't that crazy? You can do anything. I like to explore my dreamscape. Sometimes I'll walk through walls. My go-to to make sure I'm dreaming is I'll jump up and see if I can float. And if I'm floating, I know I'm dreaming. But what I always tell my clients is when you find yourself in a lucid dream, even if it's scary, don't get out of it.
The best thing you can do is ask questions. Like what? Like what is the meaning of life? Okay. What do I need to know right now for my life? What do I do about my mother-in-law? You can ask anything. And your dreams will answer you.
I was going to say, do you get direct answers or is that when you get more the symbolism type of things? Okay.
It depends. Sometimes you'll get a direct answer. I've had one where there was no one else in the dream. I just asked the dream, what do I need to know right now? And the dream said, everything's going to be okay. Just after I'd had a series of miscarriages and, you know, you're just, nothing matters anymore. And that dream, like I woke up from it, I was like, it's going to be okay.
I don't know if you get premonitions through your dreams, but are you ever able to say to someone else if that's a premonition?
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Chapter 6: How do dreams reflect our subconscious thoughts?
No, I do have. I had a precognitive dream just the other night. I have to tell you about because you're somehow involved.
Oh, my gosh.
But yeah, so precognitive dreaming is so crazy. And it does happen where you have a dream and then a few days later it comes true. Right. Have you had that happen?
I have, but I didn't know. Like when it came true, I was like, that's what that dream meant. I remember vividly, this was right before all of Hurricane Katrina.
Yeah.
And I had a dream that a town was demolished by water and it was so vivid. And it was like everything was destroyed. And I was so scared when I woke up. I was like, what? It was so real. Yeah. But it didn't say it was in New Orleans. It didn't say hurricane. It wasn't that spelled out, but I've never had a dream like that before. But I saw homes underwater. I saw people standing on their roofs.
It was so strange to me, but I remembered it. And I even talked about it for a few days because it bothered me before it happened. That's great. When it happened, I was like, wait, I think that was my dream.
Yeah. Yeah. You had the moment like, wait, I dreamed this. Right. Yes.
But at the time I just thought it was a very strange, powerful dream.
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Chapter 7: What does it mean to dream about an ex or infidelity?
Like, I'm not one of those people that's like, go to bed early. I don't believe you. I believe everything. I'm like, who's in there? So she's dreamed about things. And I don't know if she's either been awake and sees something or if she's really dreaming it. But True has, she does have vivid dreams. But talking about nightmares, she doesn't like to talk about them.
But she will say, I had a nightmare and it was awful. Normally, she has said in the past, it's a shadowy man or something like that, but she won't go into a lot of details.
Oh, the shadowy man. Yes. Okay. Well, that's very interesting. Okay, so nightmares, now they're normal and they're actually healthy for children, unless they're becoming too much. If the nightmare here and there happens, it's normal, it's healthy, and it indicates that the child is beginning to process negativity. And they're learning how to deal with it.
And usually something will have triggered the nightmare, like maybe the goldfish died or, you know, maybe someone at school was mean to them or they got in trouble. You know, something will trigger it. And then as we get older, we will still get them. And they're caused by a couple of things. They're caused by a difficult issue we don't know how to work through.
They can be caused, of course, by something from the past that still affects us today. They're usually caused by something that's just very upsetting. So when you get a nightmare, ask yourself, what is the most upsetting thing going on in my life right now? That will be what caused it.
If there's nothing upsetting going on in your life right now, then there's likely something from the past that's still causes you to behave a certain way because that happened. And your subconscious is trying to alert you to the fact that this negative thing is still affecting you. Let's work through it.
And so when you are able to pinpoint what caused the nightmare and then you begin actively working to correct it, even just the first little step towards fixing it, the nightmares will stop.
Like when I said I had a nightmare not too long ago, it was about being stabbed. Like someone was stabbing me.
Oh, wow.
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