If you didn’t need sleep, what would you do with all the extra time?
By Tracy Schruder
What about dreaming? I need dreams. If I’m not sleeping, how could I dream? I’d use my time to learn how to sleep and then teach others how 😉. I enjoy sleeping—shutting down like that is a soft, soothing feeling like no other. It’s the only time we can actually achieve this state. Alpha, Beta, Theta can be reached through deep trance or meditation, but that isn’t true for your average person. For the average person, falling into a deep sleep is the only time they reach these vibrations or states.
Everyone dreams whether they remember the dream or not. It’s not only sleep that is important for our overall mental health—it’s dreaming too. Dream benefits feed imagination, help us identify our senses. Additional benefits of dreaming:
- Mental:
- Boosts creativity & problem‑solving
- Enhances memory consolidation
- Supports emotional processing
- Emotional:
- Helps regulate mood & reduces anxiety
- Allows safe rehearsal of fears
- Physical:
- Strengthens immune function
- Supports growth & repair
The living world often leaks into the dream world—or vice versa. Déjà vu is one way in wake, and the feeling during sleep that something isn’t quite real. There are ways you can know you are dreaming, but you can’t control the dream. You can control your reality.
I often stop in my dreams and in my waking life and ask myself, “Am I dreaming right now?” Then I poke my index finger into my left hand. If I’m dreaming, my finger pokes through my palm. This is called lucid dreaming. I have studied this process for a few years now, hence I write of my dream‑journal entries in other blog posts.
I conclude with this: I would find a way to sleep even if I didn’t have to. So I’d sleep if I didn’t have to sleep 😴😂
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