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Affecting your own dreams?

I saw on TV and read in different places that a person under hypnosis can't be led to do something they wouldn't normally do while "awake", like maybe strip naked and dance or kill someone, ya know.

I've also read in books and different articles that while someone is dreaming, they can't do in a dream what they wouldn't dare do while awake, same as hypnosis, like naked stuff or murder, evil or illegal things mainly.

I've had dreams in my lifetime where I'm trying to shoot people but the bullets just fall..one time I was trying to hit someone for making me mad and my punches had no force behind them, I wasn't hurting the person. Do you think it's true or have I somehow made that happen because of what I've read? I find it interesting.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Well, I cannot claim to be a dream expert nor would I say that I know a lot, or even a bit, about dreams since I personally cannot remember most of my dreams.

    Yet, I will say that since each and every person is unique so also are the dreams we have. Although there are common themes in dreams ( being chased, flying, swimming....) I doubt the details and environments are common to every human being.

    To your question I would say that you yourself might have put hampers on what you can and will do and it is very probable that what you morally won't do in real life you might not do in a dream yet who's to know? Only through self contemplation can you answer your questions about dreams and the like as it provides a better understanding of one's self.

    My dreams, when I remember a few, feel and seem more to be about a different life I might ( may, could, had??) have had. Could some of us have a psychological and essential link to another dimension of " what might have been"? Why not? Can our dreams be interfered with the semblance of an eternity where everything can be and is possible? Why not?

    I think that through self investigation, contemplation, meditation and wholesome living we each could unlock fascinating and engaging parts of ourselves we hadn't even suspected existed.

  • 1 decade ago

    This is a common misunderstanding in psychology and you have to keep in mind: No person can be FORCED to DO ANYTHING THEY DON'T WANT TO while under hypnosis.

    Not shouting, just trying to be clear. This has been studied and tested several times. Yes, people can do silly things under hypnosis, but it is always of their own free will. If you place someone under hypnosis and tell someone to kill another person and that conflicts with their values then they won't do it.

    Dreams you can never be sure about, but often how you behave in dreams reflects on the beliefs and values you have in real life. However, if you become lucid while dreaming (meaning, you know that you're in a dream), then you can control what you can and cannot do. Some people actually have certain exercises they do before going to sleep so that they can experience lucid dreaming, which I imagine would be a lot of fun. I've only been lucid while dreaming about twice myself.

    We have a lot more control over ourselves than we think sometimes.

    Source(s): Lots of Psychology classes.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I can easily extinguish this fire! I don't know who the expert is, but for a start, I have dreamed of flying and this isdefinitelyy something i cant do during the day. Iv dreamed of running faster than a train, and all-sorts of stuff i could not do. So the answer would be no. As for hypnosis, i cannot comment as iv never behypnotizedsed..

  • 1 decade ago

    I would personally say that that isn't true. I've had a lot of extremely embarrassing illicit dreams, and dear God I'm never going to do any of that. Besides, for some reason I can't talk in dreams, and I'm no mute.

    Also, from what I've also learned about lucid dreaming, you can actually create false barriers for yourself. Perhaps it really isn't 't that you can never do it, but that you firmly believe that you can't do it. I've tried to fly in dreams before, but because I was so hesitant and unsure, I couldn't do it properly. Half of lucid dreaming is believing you can actually do it.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I wouldn't dare strike my brother in law IRL. He's a big guy, and I'm a short tub of lard. I dreamed last night that I was arguing with him and actually hit him.

  • 1 decade ago

    no i have the same thing

    just dont try to do self-hypnosis b4 you go to bed cause you will get really weird dreams...lol

  • 4 years ago

    in keeping with risk a number of the information in Watch Your desires, Ann Ree Colton, and the path of the better Self, Mark Prophet, and introduction: inventive and non secular, Omraam Aivanhov, could answer your question.

  • 1 decade ago

    i think that's not true. i drempt that i kissed my sister once and that's not wat i want to do in real life. hahaha.

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