Have you ever solved the world’s problems in your dreams? Do you dream of great speech or reel ideas then forget them the next day? Do you ever perform your best at night when you’re sleeping and can’t get through the first 13 seconds the next day?
Here’s the concept you need to know: All of those great performances, great ideas, and great solutions are within you.
It works like this. I used to work in fast food in a 24-hour store. The day crew would come in at 5:00 AM and there’d be the night crew. They’d really be dragging; the store would be a mess; the food not stocked; and the day crew would yell, “Get out of here! Clock out! Go home!” I worked several overnights.
One of my crew was telling me a better way to clean the steam tables. These are the tables with trays of heated water underneath that provide heat for precooked food without over cooking it. With our hard water, you needed a chisel to get the deposits out of the tray! I thought it was a great idea, so I told him to talk to the manager.
The day crew had no intention of letting him talk to the manager because the kid was young, inexperienced, and probably high, and they had to get their complaints about the night crew to the manager first.
Your subconscious mind is night crew; your conscious is day crew. Your subconscious puts things together all night because it has access to all your information: your thoughts, your memories, things people said to you, books you’ve read, movies you’ve seen… There is no judgment here.
Your conscious mind is constantly judging, making choices, and discerning good from evil, and it says to the subconscious, “Get out of here! Clock out! Go home!” In effect, it shuts doors that could hold information needed to make better judgments, better choices, and more insightful discernment.
So how do you access all that creative information stored in your subconscious? When the conscious sends information to the subconscious, it comes with a label. It will be, Accept, Keep forever, Evil, and I don’t know. Now the unconscious still takes all the same information that the conscious mind experiences, but it doesn’t classify it. So, most of all that information the subconscious will throw into the I-don’t-know room. The conscious mind, the logical mind, the thinking mind will doubt everything that the subconscious creates because it believes it was made without parameters and control. The words, “Just a dream” is a common dismissal.
What I find interesting is that when put through AI, the suggestions it gives involve harnessing the subjective mind. Isn’t that what the conscious mind does anyway–Bend the subconscious mind to the control of logic, judgment, and rules? What if we don’t want to harness it, but just let it run?
How can we get the subconscious to talk to us?
Leave yourself a message.
- Put yourself into a deeply relaxed state
- Picture yourself going to a specific room in your subconscious mind
- It could be a playroom
- A green house
- A music room
- A dungeon!
- When you have arrived, tell yourself that some amazing stuff will happen in that room and you are to take pictures, interview people, and enjoy yourself. When you wish to leave the room, put all the neat stuff you collected into a box (pick your favorite color) and leave it by the door so you can pick it up when you wake.
When you awake, lie in bed for a bit, take a walk back to the “room” you created, open the door and bring the “box” with you. Then picture its contents. Put all you see, hear, and experience into a notebook to read later. Then mentally take that empty box back to the room.
Ask yourself some questions
- What do I remember about my dream last night?
- What did I think was important?
- What images do I recall? Are they in color?
- Who else was in the dream?
- Where did it take place?
The importance of this exercise is not in the details but getting used to recalling things you did in your subconscious. If you make a habit of this, you will recall more and more of each dream—to the point of remembering all your dreams.
Try to dream during the day
- Sit in your chair and picture a place you like to go to think
- Picture everything about this place: the location, (is it inside or outside?) the furnishings, the room, the view, the weather, the time of year, the position of the sun…
- Experience the sounds and smells of this place. Then give it a name.
- Every time you go to this “place” you put yourself into a relaxed state to free your mind from your body. You can see yourself in 3 dimensions from any point of view. You can fly or float by just using your mind.
- Each time you go, put something new in the location. If you need a problem solved, put a wise person there to help you see it. If you want to review a speech, add an audience or a speech coach. Whatever you want to bring into the conversation. Then just experience whatever happens, don’t direct it.
Go! Learn things! Create things! And When you solve the world’s problems, give that fantastic speech or do that amazing reel, or give the performance of your life, Remember me, and share your insight with the next generation of people!
Reach out to me at rebecca@thefeganmethod.com