Sleep Journal Reflection

 

Everyone has a different take on sleep and dreams.  I feel that everyone dreams, not everyone remembers their dreams on a nightly basis. I have kept my dream journal for 15 nights as we are suppose to and come to realize that our daily life affects our brain in our sleep. Your dreams are an extension of your daily lives and the life that you might day dream of having.

          Having an argument with my spouse, I will usually have a dream that illustrates the fact that we are not getting along. I do have anxiety issues so when I do dream my anxiety is very much apparent. Dreams simulate threatening events from our waking lives so that we can rehearse our responses to such events. Most dreams are indoors, although in this 15 night journal I have several that are outside.

          I have read that we only dream of people that we know, or have seen.  We should be able to recognize the faces in our dreams and since we see thousands of faces every day it can be limitless.  In my dreams, I don’t recognize who I am with most of the time.  I can’t see the faces.  If I am hearing a voice, I don’t know whose it is.  I find that extremely frustrating because I want to know who I am listening to and who I am with. 

          Some dreams make sense and some are so bizarre that I wonder where in the world my mind came up with that.  I do think that our state of mind before going to bed has a lot to do with how and what we dream. I know in winter I seem to have Seasonal Affective Disorder.  I tend to eat way too much and not want to leave my house. During those months, I do have crazy dreams and most are about food or have food in the dream at some point.

          Dreams do reflect some of our same thoughts, fears, concerns, problems and emotions that we have when we are awake.  I do think that our dreams are a reflection of everyday life and of our secret wishes of how we wish some things were different. I believe this because after reading my dreams you can tell what is going on in my life.  I do feel stuck in my life in some ways at this moment in time. My personal issues are endless when it comes to being a mother and wanting the best for your kids. I do think that dreams could be an insight to ones soul. I feel that we could learn something about ourselves if we looked into our dreams with an open mind.