How to Have More Exciting Dreams - Part 1

November 1st, 2007

If your dreams are starting to feel stale or unexciting, try taking a brief vacation to liven things up. Traveling can quickly stimulate your mind into producing more interesting and entertaining dreams.

Immersing yourself in a new environment or a different culture provides as much new material for your dreaming mind as it does for your waking self.

I just returned to Florida after a brief trip to Tennessee, and one thing I noticed while away on vacation was a surge in unusual dreams. I'd noticed the same thing while traveling overseas for a few weeks last year. The new surroundings provided plenty of fodder for my dreaming mind to make use of each night.

While Tennessee and Florida may not seem so different from each other — they're located within a day's driving distance in the same country, after all — there are definitely noticeable differences not only in landscape but in lifestyle. I live in the Tampa Bay area, which is hot, crowded, completely flat, and covered in condos, strip malls, and subdivisions full of houses that all look alike. I traveled to eastern Tennessee, which is mountainous, and the weather was cool and comfortable the entire time I was there. Since the point of the trip was to search for a large piece of land to build a house on, I also spent most of the trip visiting areas that were quiet, secluded, and sparsely populated.

Those details added up to a significant increase in new and unusual dream events. I won't bore you with stories of the individual dreams, but suffice it to say they were much more entertaining than my dreams from the previous few weeks.

So if you want to add a little spice to your dreams, take a few days off and hit the road. Visit someplace new, explore the location thoroughly, and enjoy the nightly results.