Question:
Is it possible to control your dreams through hypnosis?
Answer:
It really comes down to how you define the word ‘control’. As long as you mean influencing its direction, content, or the dreamer’s awareness rather than manipulating every aspect of a dream, yes.
If you are trying to steer your dreams away from a topic or event you want to avoid, I would strongly suggest you deal with it first in your waking life. As a hypnotherapist, hypnotherapy is obviously the tool I would suggest for this, but there are many options available to you. But dealing with, and reevaluating issues is always a better plan than just trying your best to avoid them. Once you have done that, your dreams about the issue, even if it does come up, will not have the same effect on you.
If you are wanting to dream about something, or somebody, hypnosis can easily do this. In fact you don’t even need hypnosis a lot of the time, just focus on the thing you want to dream of as you drift off and nine times out of ten, that is what you will dream about. Hypnosis can make it more surefire though.
If you are thinking more about lucid dreaming, hypnosis can also help here, with certain caveats though, for example if you have Aphantasia (as do I) you may not be able to reach this state without a great deal of intensive work. As an aside I should point out that having Aphantasia does not impact your ability to be hypnotised, it just slightly restricts some inductions.
In addition to this, I would suggest you keep a dream diary as this will allow you to monitor what you do and don’t dream about much more closely as dreams will quickly fade upon waking if they are not recorded.
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