What if you could "pre-program" your dreams?

I would dream about what I want my life to be like. So I guess I would be programming subject matter and that my subconscious would take over and work out the details. I think this would better allow me to achieve my desires in the waking world. I think you probably can influence the subject matter of your dreams by meditating on the subject matter first and making a conscious decision to dream about it. As a matter of fact, I think I will try that for the rest of the week and see how often (if at all) it works. Thanks for the idea.

lol..you are not going to believe this....but I used to do it years ago. I could 'instruct' my mind on what I was going to dream that night and I would. I enjoyed it. I had different dreams each day depending on my mood and what my experiences were that particular day. hmmm...I think I even wrote a set of short stories based on my 'dreams'.

I have done this since I was a small child. Sometimes I make up stories for my own amusement, sometimes I work on problems of the economy and stock market. Only a few years ago I learned this is called lucid dreaming. I was surprised to learn everyone doesn't do it.

I have a 'standing order' with my dream state to always show me any thing I need to know that I am overlooking in my waking state. How I distinguish between just a regular dream and a 'message' dream is that I always wake up during the message dream which brings it on up into my 'conscious' mind, making it possible to recall it in the morning. For example, last night I dreamed that some guy didn't find me attractive because of my hairy legs, hehehehe. He went off with some other girl and I was crushed. I woke up during that dream and so right away knew it was somehow important. This morning I was pondering that dream and suddenly 'saw the light'. I have been not accepting myself as I am and additionally I have been allowing the opinions of others to influence my state of mind! But because I believed that I had 'accepted' myself, and did not care what others thought I had been blinded to the fact that those old beliefs were still controlling certain of my behavior and thinking. I would never want to instruct my mind exactly what to dream as I would lose the best form of therapy I have!!!! Not even to mention how much I love surprises!!

That is a great question right there! I would program my mind to dream of all the wishes that I want to obtain in my life, I would get a fantastic marriage with a big party in a castle, I would have money to buy all I want and also I will travel all over the world and meet my dearest friends!

As we knw...each and every boy say this first...y not me?..s..i ll choose,to be in a lonely island with Britney spears at one end and kate vinslet at the other end..then ill enjoy the dream well .....lolz!!!.. Otherwise i would think as i am the hero of the world and i am the spiderman who save every one's life and the crowd ll cheer me wen i came in front of them...etc etc...Funny...i went to dream land now itself..... James...U dint said wat ur pre-planned dream...come on..????

If I could pre-program my own dreams I wouldn't have any nightmares. Mine get really scary and make me sweat. But then if we could pre-program our dreams wouldn't that take the mystery out of the dreaming experience. I think its fun to wake up and think "wow why did I dream that?" It would eliminate dream analyists.

I'll make mine a nice and beautiful and a happy ending love story dream.

I can think of about a million dreams that I would love to have and to wake up to, can we wake up to these "pre-programmed dreams"?? I wouldn't dream of anything "earth-shattering" but would want to dream of simple things that are going on in my life that are small but numerous.. My son recently lost his job after being newly married, so I now have 2 more people and 2 more dogs in my house.. I would dream of a spotless clean house, I would dream of a perfect day where the weather was just the right temp, I love the outdoors.. I would dream of no more "bad" news on tv, no more inflation, no more high gas prices, no more big corporate companies "gouging" people who can't afford the high prices as it is now.. I would dream of when I was younger and my troubles were simpler.. As I said before, my dreams would be programmed to be simpler, life and living would be simpler, more comfortable and easier.. Ok, I am finished, after I post this, I will read the rest of the responses, you know the ones where others would dream of ending world hunger, ending disease and finding world peace!! Have a great day.

Well I know there would be nights where i would drream about loved ones that have passed, such as my grandmother. I would dream about past memories and go back to those special events and things we shared. I would also want to dream about my life in the future, what it will be like, how my son will be as an adult and how my family will grow. then there would be nights when the not so innocent side of me would come out and i would probably want to dream about lovers I have had and things of that sort.

Amazing! =) Many people will love it! I'll dream about me working in a big company and earning high salary. Me having cars and a big house for my family especially for my mother. I really want to have of our own just for her so we don't have to live in our grandmother's house. I'll be financially stable that I won't have difficulty in financing the needs of my family. I'll dream of me and my partner together for long years happy and contented!

I would want to dream I have the powers of Hancock. That's all. I mean I've dreamt about it and it made me extremely happy. It's only short-term happiness, but at least, it is still happiness. :)

In my dream, I would find myself in my own big kitchen with the latest bakery tools and equipment. I will then be spending my time in that dream, making up different kinds of cupcakes, working on the recipes, frosting, and icing and tasting them as I go along. I will pre-program this dream to be in HD technicolor rather than black and white.

i think it happens in every employee(Labour)'s life.whenever we taskorients life,before reaching the sleep,i used to think what ate things to be completed 2mrow,what r tasks left 2morow,i'll remind once,making mindet to wakeup so and so ,do the tasks one by one to complete 2mrow life.the same round happens expect on weekends and holidays,when ever have no tasks.

That would be more or less like day dreaming I suppose. I've stopped dreaming about the things that I know i can't get too. So pre-programming myself to dream about things like that makes no sense to me anymore. As a habit nowadays i think of doing something positive in terms of helping someone before I get to sleep. Dreaming about that a little more sure would be a nice and pleasant one.

it really would have been nice