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Initial post on what I'm doing here.
31. Are there any dreams that continue to repeat themselves when you sleep?
I don't seem to have dreams I recall often enough to detect a pattern. Maybe once or twice a year is about it. It might be because I more commonly employ my dream state to resolve issues. If there's something I find difficult to decide on, I focus on what needs to be decided and tuck it into a back corner of my mind to sleep on it. At some point after that, sometimes in the middle of the night, the answer asserts itself to my conscious mind. I have an awfully good record of those decisions being good and helpful ones, so I stay with this approach, and call on it when I need to.
There is a recurring theme I do have; it visits when I'm awake. (They may show up while I'm asleep, too, but I don't remember it if they did.) I appear to have attracted the interest of a muse who drops in from time to time. They aren't physically imposing, and lack other conventional attributes that designate power, but their voice is compelling when I come up with an idea and they say, "Yo! You wanna write this!" I don't want to let them down -- ignoring or otherwise blowing off one's muse is an ideal way to make it so they don't visit you and leave you ideas any more -- so I do my best, and even if I can't get it to work out right away, I find that I've learned something in the attempt, and will save the idea and any result for later when I may be better equipped to handle it.
31. Are there any dreams that continue to repeat themselves when you sleep?
I don't seem to have dreams I recall often enough to detect a pattern. Maybe once or twice a year is about it. It might be because I more commonly employ my dream state to resolve issues. If there's something I find difficult to decide on, I focus on what needs to be decided and tuck it into a back corner of my mind to sleep on it. At some point after that, sometimes in the middle of the night, the answer asserts itself to my conscious mind. I have an awfully good record of those decisions being good and helpful ones, so I stay with this approach, and call on it when I need to.
There is a recurring theme I do have; it visits when I'm awake. (They may show up while I'm asleep, too, but I don't remember it if they did.) I appear to have attracted the interest of a muse who drops in from time to time. They aren't physically imposing, and lack other conventional attributes that designate power, but their voice is compelling when I come up with an idea and they say, "Yo! You wanna write this!" I don't want to let them down -- ignoring or otherwise blowing off one's muse is an ideal way to make it so they don't visit you and leave you ideas any more -- so I do my best, and even if I can't get it to work out right away, I find that I've learned something in the attempt, and will save the idea and any result for later when I may be better equipped to handle it.
