Classification is essential when it comes to appreciating all the nuances that make up a subject. Dreams have been classified mainly in a physiological way by medical science. By measuring the levels of activity in the brain. I couldn’t find any other kind of serious classification a part from the evident one (Normal, nightmare, lucid … )
Also, I find it a fun topic to discuss. Every night dreams occur when we sleep, whether we keep memories of them or not. Just because we close our eyes to rest, does not mean that our mind does not continue its natural expansive behavior.
♦When the subject wakes up, the censorship quickly takes on its full intensity, and can again destroy everything that during his weakness he has let slip away ♦
♦Sigmund Freud. The Interpretation of Dreams♦
Most of the events that have occurred in the dream worlds are a mystery to the great majority of people; fleeting memories, with more or less evident meaning, that surface in the memory throughout the day.
What determines whether we remember dreams?
Towards this question, we must take into account the personality of the individual. If the person pays attention, and a certain reverence, to what happens when the ego drops its guard, his conscience will be more predisposed to remember that, or at least that which seems most attractive, close, emotional, incredible… That which most resonates with our essence, in mystical terms.
The routines we follow around bedtime are also important, and for when we dream. Writing or recording your dreams is a very good tool to increase the memory of the same dream and exercise the conscience in dream memory. In Map of Dreams, we will try to experiment and expose different techniques or tricks to improve.
Once you have the ability to remember dreams for a while, probably keeping a Dream Journal, it will be evident that not all dreams are the same. Each dream is a personal experience, not only because of the symbolism that we can analyze in terms of the dreamer but because of what happens and its context, that which defines the experience as unique showing itself.
In PsycheNautics we have begun to make a list based on the type of experience you live in the dream, its characteristics, from a holistic perspective. Of course, this list may vary in the future, depending on how many onironauts join us to present their experience in our comments.
The types of dreams we have classified are:
Recycle Dreams
Transpersonal dreams
Apocalyptic dreams
Fantasy dreams
Lucid dreams
Mission Dreams
Physiological dreams
Spectator dreams
