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ARTICLE
INTERVIEW
Pay attention to your dreams
and your psychedelia
I like dreaming. In fact, I love it. When I wake up
and I’ve been dreaming, I know it’s going to be
a good day. I usually write my dreams because
I like using texts for drawing or painting illustrations, or maybe for inspiring myself when I
have to make decisions. I’ve been recollecting a
lot of books related to dream’s world and psychedelic experiences, and after reading a lot,
I have concluded that there’s a lightly line between dreams and psychedelic’s trips.
First of all, I have to explain the scientific definition of what a dream is. Talking about dreams
is synonym of reading about oneirology (the
science that studies the dreams), psychology
and about big brained men like Freud or J. Allan
Jobson. But I’m not going to talk about them;
you must read about them and their theories,
but I prefer to explain the basic knowledge you
are going to need for understand my opinion.
In general, dreams are a succession of images,
sensations, emotions and actions related between them, and they take place in the REM
stage of sleep, when the activity of the slept
brain is similar to the activity of a awake person’s. The area of the brain where we locate
human unconscious is directly related with the
part were we place the memory; therefore, in a
dream the unconscious works with the memories the person has lived during all his life.
What is really important to know is that the
memory is born with the first cell of brain that
begins to develop on the 18th day after the fecundation. Then, all the memories lived since
the first cell, have a little place on brain’s area
of memories, and they are a tools that your unconscious can use and manifest as dreams, lapsus, and mental-illnesses symptoms. In other
words, the human’s unconscious can access to
the first sound you felt while you were in your
mother’s womb, to the first butterfly you tried
to catch, to the first experience with the fear
you lived, or to the last dinner you had.
As a result, we can say that while you are
dreaming, your inner child represented in your
unconscious plays chaotic and illogically with
your memories, and like a little god, he can
transform, change or reproduce whatever he
feels is going to be better for your consciousness. In my opinion, a dream is like a mental
game that your inner boy or girl produces for
testing and training your mind for the real life.
And how do I relate with psychedelic experiences? My experience has taught me the psychedelic trip and the dreams are almost the
same: there’s a world of possibilities that you
are going to live and depending on your mental state, your unconscious is going to show you
metaphors created by relating your memories
and the present you are living. Maybe there are
good memories that can cause you to become
in a 5-years-old-child going after butterflies, or
maybe he wants you to fight against that first
fear you feel in your life.
Finally, I have to suggest to the reader to pay
attention to his dreams and his psychedelic experiences, they say more of your inner child
than you think! Don’t try to understand it! Don’t
try to fight against them! Don’t try to look for
the dream’s logic! Just flow with them, accept
what has decided to come, and when it’s over,
try to explain what you have felt and pay attention to how did you manage it. I h