Owing to the news in newspaper, I have written this article. The news said that the latest issue of “Nature Neuroscience” published the research from a group of Frankfurt scientists, regarding to the research of “Induction of self-awareness in dreams through frontal low current stimulation of gamma activity”.  The film “Inception” is their muse. The research could adopt the gamma to prevent the nightmare, and could cure Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). 

The link of news:

http://www.metrohk.com.hk/?cmd=detail&id=234084

The link of research:

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v17/n6/full/nn.3719.html 

Actually, adopt the gamma to control the dream is one of the methods, mindfulness is one of them, and it is more and more popular than before. In other countries, there are many proved cases which use mindfulness could overcome depression, or the above-mentioned PTSD. Certainly, you have to be trained, when you could use mindfulness proficiently, you would improve or surmount your emotion, and the depression symptoms, and always retaining the happiness and positive. 

Another method to control your dream is trying to do Lucid Dream. Through Lucid Dream, the dreamer could do many things; for examples, compensate any loss in the reality, rehearsal of future events that you feel nervous, release depression and stress, or release unconsciousness and whatnot. However, this method has not to utilize gamma. Lucid Dream has been employed and studied for many years by many scholars. Dr. Steven LaBerge is one of them, and he has many literacy works, such as “Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming”. Daniel Love is another scholar who focuses on lucid dream and dream analysis. One of the Presidents of the international dream Association, Robert Waggoner has also paid more attention on Lucid Dream. 

Oddly, how come dream analysis to be popular? It is because it has the therapeutic function, so has been employed again and again. But Lucid Dream is not same as the dream analysis from Freud and Carl Jung. The former concentrates on consciousness, and the latter put unconsciousness on the pivotal place. The dreamers who learnt the skills of Lucid Dream could enter the dreams when you wanted to, and to rewrite your dreams. The unconsciousness-oriented dream analysis is not easy to learn, not easy to be a master, and you cannot control dream. 

As long as studying Lucid Dream to do the therapy in Hong Kong, It is hardly find the course to study, but still has some reference books. The contents are included how to control the dream, how to learn the skills, how to enter the dream at any time they like, how to recognize the dream situation whether consciousness or dreaming? It is very interesting that you just do something as if the film “Inception”. Yet, you have to examine the information of the books and course if have, due to the specialized of dream analysis and therapy. Be care, learn it with caution.

Eddy

Psychotherapist