How Time of Dream Affects Interpretation

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"Hi I'm Carmen Lynne with Expert Village. We're looking at Lou's recurring dream. Now I have a final question for you, Lou. Have you always had this dream in the middle of the night? Have you ever had it in the early stages of the morning? No it's basically been always late at night. Never in the morning and never in a catnap if I fall asleep during the day. It just always seems to be late at night, or whatever, when I'm completely sleeping. And I have another question, which has just occurred to me. Is there any kind of sleeping position which might trigger this dream? I'm a restless sleeper anyway. I sleep on my side, my back, wherever I can get comfortable, so I really don't know. Usually I end up on my side kind of like in a fetal position. Fetal position? Right. OK I just wondered because occasionally it might be that certain dreams are triggered by a body position. Like you might find that whenever you're lying on your back you have a certain type of dream or something like that. Maybe I just want to add one thing which is really scary because I'm glad I wake up because I figure if I don't wake up because the dream I have, the intensity, that I won't wake up. That's it. I'm going to die and that's it. And yet, you always do wake up. But, I always do wake up. And you always wake up before anything bad actually happens. Exactly, right before the train is going to hit the car I wake up. In my mind I'm saying that's it, I'm not going to wake up, that's it, I'm going to check out of life. OK, yes. So this is a really interesting dream, and actually on the next clip, I want to deal with how to process something like this which could be considered a nightmare. Wouldn't you think of this as a nightmare? Oh, it's definitely a nightmare. If you can help me with this, which I'm sure, just talking about that would be a whole life of this.. for me. Interesting. OK. So what we have is Lou's dream which is recurring. It's happening in the precognitive stage, which means that the subconscious, some part of the subconscious believes that there is some kind of an external threat. Would you say that's true? Oh yes. So it's frightening Lou, it's making him wake up in the middle of the night, however, it never actually does arrive. The potential threat, if you like, never actually arrives. So it's something as I say, it started when he was a little boy. It might be, and we would have to probably spend some time delving into this maybe in hypnosis, it might be that something happened to you when you were a little boy to trigger the initial incident. What we call the initial sensitizing incident. And you might not want to go into it right now, but that would be something and we could look at finding out what that incident was and somehow managing to remove that association that you have built up over the years with stress that triggers this dream."