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Hey, I also did a lot of work on dreams - I have also journaled my dreams for years and had therapy at the same time. I got super into them, read a bunch about

Hey, I also did a lot of work on dreams - I have also journaled my dreams for years and had therapy at the same time. I got super into them, read a bunch about them, even did a psychology masters to spend time researching them. I couldn't find theory that matched with my experience so I wrote this paper on them: "A Suggestion for a New Interpretation of Dreams: Dreaming Is the Inverse of Anxious Mind-Wandering." https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz Also your project is awesome!

vekker 6y ago
Hey Joshua, thanks for your kind comment! Very interesting thesis in your paper. Do you think that besides as a framework for anxiety diagnosis, this could suggest lucid dreaming as part of the therapeutic treatment? Consciously inducing lucidity and choosing confrontation of the dream scenario rather than defaulting to avoidant behavior?