Lauri in Sakara: Your Biggest Sleep and Dream Questions, Answered

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What Lauri told Sakara

Sakara’s editors sat down with Lauri for a quick-fire Q&A about sleep and dreams. She described dreams as a built-in guidance system and explained that a stressful, worried day tends to carry straight into the night, because dreams continue the thinking we do while awake.

Her practical tips are easy to try tonight: keep a dream journal next to a day journal so the two can be compared side by side; hold still when you wake up, since moving can scatter the memory; and practice dream incubation by writing down what you would like to dream about before bed. Above all, she pointed to the emotion in a dream as the strongest clue to its meaning.

Lauri also decoded three themes she hears about often. Discovering hidden rooms in your home tends to reflect discovering an untapped part of yourself. Filthy or unusable bathrooms point to frustration you’re holding in. And dreams of death, however upsetting, usually reflect change or an ending rather than anything literal.

This is our own summary. Read the original at Sakara for the full article.