Hi everyone.
Apologies if this is a silly question.
I have been doing a little research on why we experience rem sleep and came across a medical article linked to depression.
The authors findings were that our brain engages in rem sleep to complete a cycle of thought- feeling- processed.
The findings suggested that if we have thoughts then feelings about an event or incident etc, and we don't process it or resolve it in waking life then it would be processed in rem.
If it is processed during waking life you are unlikely to dream about it.
This has me pondering if we could some how use that information to aid in lucid dreaming.
This is the link https://www.clinical-depression.co.uk/depression-faq/depression-and-dreaming/
Although mainly about depression it does explain what i have found.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
What content carries over into dreams is an intriguing mystery, and it does often seem that among that content often are things that one might not expect. I often have dreams that are seeded from some very brief, passing random thought during the day that I vaguely consider for an instant and then move on and think nothing of, and yet things I spend the entire day thinking about often don't show up at all—except that if I spend an entire day doing one particular thing, then dreams related to that might indeed show up. Go figure, hehe.
Emotions certainly seem to play a very strong role in dreaming, so that's an interesting idea. I think I remember Daniel mentioning a method somewhere that had to do with inducing lucidity by depriving yourself of something you deeply like for a while, which seems to be related to this idea. Can't seem to recall the name of the technique, though.