This portion of the material has brief outlines and suggestions for recalling and interpreting your dreams. There are many books in existence that have detailed outlines of how to handle dreams in certain ways. If you're serious about being an oneironaut, you may want to purchase some of those books. Below are a few suggestions for your personal use.

Functions Of Dreaming

• Solving problems - a variety of solutions can be found through the activities of dreams it is not uncommon to wake up knowing exactly what to do about a past, present, or future situation
• Process and clarify feelings
• Receive new thoughts and ideas
• Trial and error scenarios
• Express things that cannot be expressed in daily life
• Process newly learned skills and information
• Practice new ways of being
• Pleasure and fun
• See the big picture
• Reveal the unconscious
• Experience the divine
• Explore ego of the self and relationships
with others
• Learn from mistakes
• Messages from the future self with the benefit of hindsight
• Rebalancing the psyche

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