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                                MORE ABOUT DREAMS


                                Another Question

                               About The Barriers

     At this point, if you are continuing to reading along with us and
     inclined to still be interested in our subject, which some may have a
     great deal of difficulty accepting, you might be asking yourself the
     following question.  What about those people who want to say all this
     is nonsense, and that we should spend our time on more serious things?

     It could very well be that you have an intense interest in the subject
     of dreams, but at the same time, you know someone who doesn't seem to
     get it, and doesn't want to get it.  And if you were to mention these
     types of things to this person, you might quickly find yourself in an
     argument of some sort.

     You may find it to be a matter which holds a great deal of curiosity
     for you, as to why a doubting sort of person as described above sees
     things in such a different light.  You may be asking yourself the
     question of, why is it that so and so does not dream, or does not
     admit to their dreams if they have them, or why do they go to such
     great lengths to tell us that we don't know what we're talking about?

     First of all, this type of person is obviously someone with whom we
     probably should not be discussing our dreams.  There are likely others
     around who would be much better suited, with whom we can much more
     easily share some of our most treasured experiences.  It's not that
     the doubting ones are entirely "bad" people.  It's more like they are
     maybe just a little misguided in some regards.  If they don't want to
     dream, then why waist our time attempting to convince them?

     As to why some people are so negative or nullifying regarding our
     dreams, think about this for a moment.  Have you ever noticed how some
     people seem to see everything around them through either a thin or
     even a thick veil of what we might call their own misgivings?  You
     probably have known at least several of these types at one time or
     another.

     These are the types with whom you find it most difficult with which to
     have any kind of discussion on any subject imaginable.  They are
     people who tend to "put down" just about anything you are likely to
     say or do.  Some of them even seem to be offended by just your very
     presence, without you even saying or doing anything.  Do you know
     someone like that?

     If you do, you know what I'm talking about.  If you don't, you
     probably have known someone like that and don't know them now,
     probably because you have long since decided you don't want to know
     someone of this type.  This is the type of person who makes the
     mistake of going overboard in comparing themselves with others, and
     haven't seemed to yet realize that there really is no comparison,
     since we are all individuals.  There are approximately five billion
     people on this planet, and although there are a great many of us with
     many similarities, there are no two of us who are exactly the same.
     We are not all the same.  We are not "all one," as some mistakenly
     believe within their problematic veil.

     What is such a person's veil of their own misgivings all about?  This
     is a subject which is taken up in greater detail in another book
     entitled "Fine-Tuning Your Life," but we can give an explanation here
     which will serve our purpose.

     If you were to use the methods described in Fine-Tuning Your Life you
     would soon realize, if you already have not, that your life has to do
     to a great extent with the activity of relating with others, and some
     of these "others" are not as easy to relate with as we might like them
     to be.

     Someone's veil of misgivings is something which exists as a most
     difficult barrier, not just for them, but for us as well in our
     attempts to deal with them on almost any level.  It could very well be
     the case that such a person does not dream, or probably does not have
     much enjoyment in life to much of any degree because they are too busy
     attempting to stop others from having any enjoyment.

     And for the very reason of their being so involved in preventing
     others from having pleasant experiences of any kind, it seems to
     create a situation for themselves wherein they are apparently
     incapable of actually "having" little if any pleasure of their own.

     Of course, none of this is not to say that if a person does not dream
     that they are one of these people who see life through the veil of
     their own misgivings.  As mentioned earlier, there can be a variety of
     other reasons why a person does not dream.

     When the methods of Fine-Tuning Your Life are applied to relating with
     others, we discover some interesting things in regards to how relating
     with certain others effect us in one way or another, with useful
     methods of remedying any adverse effects.  One of these methods
     employed is a memory developing exercise which you may find quite
     useful in helping you to remember your more pleasurable dreams.

                          A Much Less Serious Question

                          Are There Any Other Benefits?

     Now that we have gotten those "misgivings" out of our way, something
     you might be asking yourself at this point is this.  "If a person
     improves their ability to dream and the quality of their dreams, is
     there any beneficial effects which carry over into the normal waking
     states of our lives?

     The answer to that would seem to most definitely be the affirmative.
     For example, one simple benefit is the enjoyment of discussing our
     dreams with others who perhaps have the same or similar experiences,
     just as we have been doing in this volume.  And enjoyment in this
     world is something of which most of us want to get as much as we can.
     That's what life is all about, or is supposed to be, isn't it?

     In addition, there are apparently other benefits as well.  As
     mentioned earlier, scientific studies show that people who dream tend
     to actually rest better than those who don't.  As to the degree of
     recall or memory of the dreams after we are awake, this seems to also
     be an important factor in regards to the degree of benefit our dreams
     hold for us.

     When there is a lasting memory of what we experienced it tends to
     reaffirm what occurred in the dream and provide us with a form of
     "stable" factor for us to rely upon from thereon.  This stable factor
     tends to act as an incentive of sorts for us, which encourages us to
     have further interest and desire in future beneficial dreams.

     Have you ever had an argument in a dream?  When you woke up after
     having the dream with the argument, did you find that your actual
     relations in the physical world with the person had improved?  Was it
     nearly as if you or the other person or both had gotten something
     negative out of your systems while you were having the dream?

     Dreams are the threads of which our lives are made.  In examining all
     of life around us, if we look closely enough, we will easily find that
     everything we see had its first beginning in a dream or as a dream.
     All of the culture around us, the art, technology and everything in
     history had its beginning in someone's dream.  So, why shouldn't we
     have an intense interest in dreaming and improving our abilities to
     recall the experiences of our dreams?

     It's been a great deal of enjoyment in bringing this information to
     you.  Have a very pleasant life, and I hope to see you in your dreams!


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