What+effects+your+dreams?

media type="custom" key="3733495"   What affects your dreams?

Well, studies show that any drugs or medications you are taking, including alchohol, can afect your dreams. Also, stopping some of these medications can cause nightmares. If you are taking any kind of sleep medications, they caould very well be affecting your dreams. You can also influence your dreams giving yourself "pre-sleep suggestions", or telling yourself what you want to dream about that night. There is type of dreaming called lucid dreaming which is where you know that you are dreaming, but you are still asleep. Although some people experience this spontaneously, it is possible to increase and decrease your lucid dreaming. I recently did an experiment on what afects dreams. I had my family keep a 'dream journal' beside their beds. Every time they woke up, either in the morning or in the middle of the night, they worte down the date and time, and what they remebered of their dreams. I found that most of their dreams had something to do with their work or their interests. For example, my dad loves to fish and hunt, and about 40% of his dreams had something to do with fishing or hunting. Also, both my brothers and I play soccer, and my mom does a lot of the driving. I found that on a night that she watched one of our soccer games, she had a dream about soccer. Dreams can also reflect your wants and wishes. The picture below is a good example of this. Music can also affect your dreams. Did you start to feel sleepy as the lullaby (above) was playing? Music can affect when and how fast you go to sleep. If you want to go to sleep quickly, then listen to something quiet and calming, such as a lullaby. Loud and up-beat music probably won't help you go to sleep very fast. 

To learn more about lucid dreaming, click here.