6 Things You Can Do Before Bed to Control Your Dreams

Find a physical reminder

In order to make a particular person, experience, or solution to a problem appear in your dream, you’ll want to focus your mind on that topic in the moments before you fall asleep. If the theme lends itself toward a physical memento you can place on your nightstand, all the better. “If it’s a personal problem, it might be [a photo of] the person you have the conflict with,” Deirdre Barrett, author of The Committee of Sleep and assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, told Scientific American. “If you’re an artist, it might be a blank canvas. If you’re a scientist, the device you’re working on that’s half assembled or a mathematical proof you’ve been writing through versions of.” Don’t miss these fascinating facts about dreams.

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