I can give you the last one I ever had if that helps...
Me & my cousins were planning on robbing a convenience store. We needed to know where the safe was located & the code. This was child's-play for me. I did my thing, found out where it was located & the code but I saw something else unexpected in my dream. The side glass door had been busted out BUT it was obvious it had been broken by someone from the inside trying to get out (or so it appeared). We made a plan & had a "go-date/time" set. Well guess what the f*ck happened? THE EMPLOYEES of the store fricking robbed the place the night before we were planning on it!!! Oh it gets better... One of the employees tried blaming US (we were friends/acquaintances with the female employee). So, detectives being detectives picked each of us up, interviewed us & let us go eventually because we were technically innocent. How the employees got caught is they were STUPID enough to forge store checks. That was not part of our plan obviously. So maybe it's a blessing I lost it since it's obvious I was starting to use it for bad.
Quoting: President of TABTX Well, I'll give you a breakdown of how and why we dream so this can help you see it's always a process we all do when we sleep and what lacks is our stunted dream development that inhibits nightly dream adventures.
1.) Every human produces 3-5 dreams each night, some birds dream and every mammal dreams. (Dogs, cats, horses et al ).
2.) Dreaming starts with the hippocampus our long term memory region of the brain that starts to send out memories from our waking life back into the brain for Dream Replay. This replay is part of our long-term memory consilidation and cognitive deveopment.
3.) As we age, the vast majority of people lose the ability to dream due to stunted dream development. By the age of 60 most people will lose their ability to recall a single dream by 99.98%. This is cognitive decline in the dreaming process and is linked to not having stimulation of the neurological regions of the dreaming mind so that the neural pathways remain active and stimulated so they go into atrophy.
How to know if your dreaming mind is in atrophy?
1.) Dream Recal frequency
If you remember 1 dream a week, month, year or decade that is a clear sign that the neural pathways in the medial prefrontal cortext have gone into atrophy. fMRI research on dreaming shows active dreamers with high-dream recall frequency have far more neural pathway density in the MPC.
2.) 5-Sensory Perception
The Primary somatosensory cortex stores sensory memories in the brain and dream-replay should be all 5 senses, not just visual, or visual/audible. You should have all 5 senses taste/touch/smell/vision/hearing as part of dream-replay. If any of these senses are lacking then yes... stunted dream development or lesions in the brain in the PSC due to brain injury or disease as evident in brain injury studies on dreaming showing damage to sensory regions not only affect our waking perception but our dreams because the sensory information needed to be processed in dream-replay is damaged so that sense is loss. If there is no damage or disease in that region, it's stunted dream development and atrophy just like memory.
3.) Self-Awareness (lucidity).
The prefrontal cortex is where we have self-awareness and like the above two neurological regions for memory and sensory-replay, self-awareness emerges in our dream experience when the prefrontal cortex is active. And like all the studies on the dreaming mind, lucid dreamers or self-aware dreamers have more neural-pathway density in all the areas of the dreaming mind including the prefrontal cortex.
Dreaming should be an active, not passive skill if you want to get these regions of the brain stimulating those neural pathways ie... getting them to be used regularly so they don't atrophy.
The other nice thing with active dreaming is you can influence and program the types of dreams you want to have, and even change the dream-theme in run-time during a self-aware dream simply by focusing on other memories and experiences, and that makes dreaming fun.
There's a lot more including dream psychology but you have to start with the atrophic stunted dream development while you work on the psychological house-cleaning that also gets in the way.
