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[Lady Spritzy]

I thought of this today while flipping through my dream journal today. I thought "Hey, there's a lot of recuring themes, and some of them have to do with things I've done/come into contact with recently. (Heck, I'm still having dreams concerning the Werehog, and I haven't played it in a couple of weeks) Why don't I record what happens durning the day, and see what my dreams are like at night?"
So, I'm going to post the results here. (Please, admins, if you don't want me doing the following, tell me now) But if there's anything that's adult, I'm putting it under spoiler tags so kids don't get their little eyes burned out. My experiment will start on the first of February, and will end on the first of March.
Any comments or suggestions before I embark on this probably epic failure of an eperiment.

[Penelopi]

Scientists have actually done experiments like this before, but they've been only somewhat successful because there's only so much control they can have over what a person is exposed to during the day. They had the subjects stay at their lab all day to try to limit the things that could influence dreams. But even then, the stuff subjects experienced outside of the lab from a week or so before could have an effect.

However, it is very clear that dreams are affected by reality. Besides concerns and obsessions appearing in dreams, I notice that whenever I dream I'm in my pajamas, it's the same nightgown I'm actually sleeping in that night/morning (except in rare cases where the dream deliberately changes it to fit in with the setting better). It's funny the kind of stuff your subconscious takes note of.

[infractus]

Dreams can tend to be affected by reality, especially those regarding stressful real-life situations. Sure, it's interesting to keep track of - but somehow this topic seems kind of redundant most of the other conversation floating about. For now, we'll keep a green light on this to see what comes of it.

I suggest if you were intending to keep record of your daily activities v. nighttime experiences, then sign up for a dream diary on the site or keep them in your own blog/diary rather than using this topic as your own diary. If you want to discuss correlations and theories for input, by all means, post that here.

[Lady Spritzy]

Dreams can tend to be affected by reality, especially those regarding stressful real-life situations. Sure, it's interesting to keep track of - but somehow this topic seems kind of redundant most of the other conversation floating about. For now, we'll keep a green light on this to see what comes of it.

I suggest if you were intending to keep record of your daily activities v. nighttime experiences, then sign up for a dream diary on the site or keep them in your own blog/diary rather than using this topic as your own diary. If you want to discuss correlations and theories for input, by all means, post that here.

Hmmm... can you point me in the direction of the dream diaries on this site?

[infractus]

http://nightsintodreams.com/wpmu/

If you are unable to register, then send a little note to the admins requesting an account. There were issues a while ago about spambots signing up, so the registration was disabled.

[Lady Spritzy]

http://nightsintodreams.com/wpmu/

If you are unable to register, then send a little note to the admins requesting an account. There were issues a while ago about spambots signing up, so the registration was disabled.

kk. thanks a bunch!