WARNING!: Fourth rule incomming!!!
Lol, I started off with two, now I need four.
Actually the new fourth rule isn't anything new. It's been an integral part of this discussion all along. I just feel I need to stress the importance of schemata and personal representation systems. It definitely needs it's own rule. But that's the last one!
I'll figure out how to word it later, because really it's part of rule 2. Or maybe it should be a sub rule to rule two. Or maybe I should just get some sleep (and hopefully some practice) and worry about it tomorrow.
Completely new to this site, but I have IDEAS!!!! :D
Hey dream control people (especially the highly informative Cusp)!
I have been quite interested in how the mind works and how reality works. This forum is repeating things I have learned in other ways throughout my search.
Okay. From the start. There was a guy named Milton H. Erickson, who revolutionized a lot of ways people treat psychological issues, and he made amazing breakthroughs in hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Check him out online. Also, read "My Voice Will Go With You", about some of the cool things he did. (I think that's the book's name).
Erickson talks about how people can create fixations on problems, and how to remove the fixation (very often solving the problem), and how people can train themselves to think certain ways or even have certain physical limits, and some ways to remove them. He also says that when you remove these limits, you have to put a new limit THAT YOU TRUST in place, or else you will retreat to your old limit.
I'm not sure how much important information I'm leaving out there, but check up on him, like on Wikipedia, and you should find what I mean.
Anyway, I have this idea about how people remember things. Imagine your favorite car. What color is it? What make and model is it? Now, tell me what the license plate says, and which state it is from. Most of the time, you won't have a license plate already in mind. Your mind goes to the strongest associations you have about cars, and favorites, and favorite cars, and puts them together, leaving out any details that your "intent" didn't express.
What is interesting, though, is if you try to think about something you DON'T know, your mind will get you as close as it can, using your assumptions.
I was taking a test for a linguistics class, and I couldn't remember the name for one of the answers, though I KNEW I should be able to remember the name. My mind came up with two words that had qualities similar to the correct answer, and I put them together in the way that seemed most right (like taking Lothar and Mustard, and getting Lostard), though I felt I definitely put down the wrong answer. When I looked at the right answer later, I saw that I had is spelled correctly, and was only missing a single 'r' in the middle.
I have had a ton of experiences much like this, and one of the BIG factors in whether I end up correct or not is how much I can convince myself to believe I actually know, or can derive, the real answer. The more I believe in my ability to get the right answer, the closer my answer is to correct. I don't know it's the right answer at the time. I only try my best, and verify later.
Whenever I just gave up, and decided I wouldn't figure it out, and wrote down what I was thinking anyway, I was way off.
The theory I have is this: You have a problem, a question, something you are seeking. That sends out a specific signal (frequency of light, specific jigsaw pattern, who knows what??) such that the solution (and things close to the solution) will be the only responses that will cancel the original query.
The response you get back will be the one closest to the assumptions you make AND the answer as possible.
Example: I remember a song, but I can't think of the tune. I start getting impressions of certain parts of the song, but they sound like parts of other songs I know also, and if I focus on the other songs, I lose track of the original song completely. But if I hunt down the original song relentlessly, I get another portion of yet ANOTHER song, and when I try to put them together, sometimes the song I'm looking for just SNAPS into place, and I remember it.
What does this have to do with dream control? My dreams answer my questions, in symbols of my assumptions, beliefs, and feelings, just as my memory answers my searches in symbols of my focus, assumptions, and intent.
I can change my whole dream by changing my focus, questioning my beliefs, and altering my feelings. What was really awesome is I had a dream in which I could fly as long as I thought I could fly. But it wasn't as simple as jsut thinking I could fly, as I had to really believe it in every part of myself. It was like a realization that your beliefs are not you, and are not reality. They are something you create to help understand and deal with reality, and they affect the way you react with real life, and how life reacts to you.
That is why I brought up Milton H. Erickson, because a lot of what he talks about is how your beliefs assist and restrict you, and how you can change them. That is also why I brought up my theory on thought, because my belief in the answer gave me the answer (thought I didn't recognize it when I saw it), and my disbelief kept the answer from me.
-Jim
