Influencing a Dream

Lately, I have been having dreams centered around the stock market. The dreams follow the same story each time. I wake up in the morning to find my investments have increased dramatically. One such stock being Dogecoin at over $8,000 a share. Another stock went up equally high, if not higher, but it was not a cryptocurrency.

However, the stress from the recent battles in the stock market has entered my dreams from the day I heard about them. The market volatility is beyond anything I have seen, and I am truly excited to watch this play out as much as I am able.

I feel like an economist, though I am not, watching closely to see what might happen on Monday morning. In my mind, it feels like I am standing at the edge of a bountiful field with a scythe in my hand.

It is interesting because these dreams are behaving in a way that I consider uncommon. Usually, more than a week will pass before I dream about something that I have seen in the real world. This makes me wonder how stress can impact what appears in a dream.

Last year, I discovered that I can begin to dream in sign language by thinking in sign language for several days. I believe this is also why I have had dreams in Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. Despite my infancy with these languages, I still find myself dreaming in these languages' written and or spoken forms. This could be why I had many dreams about race and politics last year when I started this blog as these were things that I thought about oft throughout my day.

Theoretically, could it be possible that a person could similarly construct their own dreams? This is not based on the idea of conscious control but authorship. If this theory is correct, could people then use this space as a lab to innovate for the waking world? A random thought whose validity I would like to experiment with.

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