Is there a way to influence your dreams?

Question

Is there a way so you can dream specific themes with certain stimuli like sound?

Answer 1

do some study on lucid dreaming
you can control dreams with some simple techniques but a lot of practise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming

Answer 2

many people say you can influence your dreams, but why would you want to??

My husband cannot believe the unusual stories I tell him after a night of dreaming, sometimes I can recall three or more dreams in one night. Sometimes even it seems I am in the wee hours of the morning and it's almost time to wake up and I have dreamed hours of a story!
Dreams can come from many sources, and be influenced by many things or senerios in your life. Dreams are a way for you to experience things unimaginable, or unatainable, or sometimes through a dream you will find a solution to an otherwise unsolvable problem.
Food influences the outcome of your dreams as well your surroundings, such as a stuffy room, a scented room, a room filled with cool night air as the moon glow softly hits your pillow.. I myself will always be comforted by sea breeze and the soft ocean waves lapping the beach in the distance....

I keep a dream journal at my bed side and record dreams that seem to stick in my memory and not let go. I try to recall scents and sounds, colours and atmosphere in my dreams to help solve daily issues that I normally can't figure out.
It has only been in the past four years that I have recieved wonderful dreams from God, they are usually about myself and areas in my life I need to work on and He has told me when to stop and leave the issue alone to Him, as there is nothing I could do to solve it...
Whatever you dream, good or bad, most times there is meaning specifically towards you.

God Bless,
Shannon

Answer 3

Yes! You can train yourself to do it. I actually participate in a monthly dream work group. The technique many of us use is to meditate or focus on a specific theme, place, or idea while falling asleep. It gets easier with practice. Of course we work on actually "getting together" in our dreams and we've had some stellar results with this. Definitely look up lucid dreaming as someone above suggested. There are many different methods people will use to practice lucid dreaming.

Answer 4

I think, scientifically, sounds and stuff like that are supposed to penetrate your dreams. However, I don't think you can actually plan out what specifically you will dream.

Answer 5

Here is an interesting article on Dreams, hope you like it:

We Must Dream
DO YOU have dreams? It is safe to assume that you do, since all of us dream while sleeping, even if we may claim that we do not. It has been estimated that more than 95 percent of all dreams are not remembered. Which ones do you remember? Actually, those we usually remember are the ones we have just before awakening.

Dream investigators have found that sleep is a progressive process that is deepest in the first few hours and then becomes lighter later on. Dreaming occurs especially during periods of rapid eye movement, called REM sleep. This alternates with non-REM sleep. Each cycle of non-REM/REM sleep lasts about 90 minutes, and these cycles are repeated five or six times during the night, with the last one occurring just before we awake.

It is a mistake to think that your brain is at a low level of activity during sleep. It has been found that the brain is more active in dreams than in some states of wakefulness, with the exception of certain neurons in the brain stem, which are related to attention and memory. These appear to rest during REM sleep. But in general the nerve cells in the brain have continuous intercellular communication.

Our brain is an amazingly complex part of the body with billions of elements that are generating signals at approximately one hundred to two or three hundred a second. There are more elements in one human brain than there are people on earth. Some researchers estimate that it contains from 20 billion to more than 50 billion elements. Its complexity confirms what the Bible writer David said about the human body: "I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful."—Psalm 139:14.

The World of Dreams
During our waking hours, our five senses are constantly conveying information and images to the brain, but during sleep this is not the case. The brain generates images within itself without any external sensory input. Therefore, what we see in dreams and the actions we experience in them are at times like hallucinations. This makes it possible for us to do things that are violations of natural laws, such as flying like Peter Pan or falling from a cliff without injury. Time may be distorted so that the past is seen as if it were the present. Or if we are trying to run away, we do not seem to have control of our movements—our legs do not want to respond. Strong impressions and experiences that we may have during our waking hours can, of course, affect our dreams. Many who have experienced the frightful atrocities of war cannot easily forget them, nor can some forget the feeling of being attacked by a criminal. Such disturbing experiences while we are awake can emerge in our dreams, causing nightmares. Common things that are on our minds when we go to sleep can surface in our dreams.

Sometimes when we are trying to solve a problem, the solution comes to us during sleep. This may reflect that not all sleep consists of dreaming. A portion of it is thinking.

A book about dreams and our brain notes: "The most common form of mental activity in sleep is not dreaming but thinking. Sleep thinking is not accompanied by sensory illusions and is not bizarre. It tends to be commonplace, often concerned with the real-life events of yesterday or tomorrow, and is usually banal, uncreative, and repetitive."

Some people feel that the subjects of their dreams have special messages for them. In order to have the dreams interpreted, they keep a notepad by their bed so that they can record them when they awaken. Regarding the usefulness of books that try to give meaning to dream symbols, The Dream Game, by Ann Faraday, says: "Dream books in which you look up the meanings of dream themes and symbols are equally useless, whether they be traditional or based on some modern psychological theory."

Since it seems that dreams originate principally within the brain, it is not reasonable to think that they have special messages for us. We should view them as a normal function of the brain that helps maintain it in a healthful condition.

But what about those who say that they had dreamed of the death of a relative or a friend and learned the next day that the person had died? Does not that indicate that dreams can foretell the future? In the following article, we will consider what is behind prophetic dreams.


There is another article as part of this one...you can find the link below.

Answer 6

think about the thing you want to dream about before you go to bed.

Answer 7

you can limit input by praying to God that He supervise your dreaming and communicate with you through them and that you remember that communication. It worked for me.

Answer 8

dreams are part of your subconscious. so, your life and lifestyle affects it.. try to live a good life and you will have less nightmares unnecessarily!!

Answer 9

Yes.

It takes some practice.

Answer 10

research lucid dreaming - you can do whatever you want in your dreams