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Nightmares and dreams are connected to disruption in the natural neural potential flow, within the brain. There are caused by repression of natural instinct, often by the ego, through willpower and choice. Humans have two centers of consciousness, which are the inner self and the ego. The inner self is much older and has a connection to our human DNA. The inner self is the center of natural human instinct, which defines humans as a species. The ego is much newer, in terms of evolution, and formed around the start of civilization. The ego can offer a secondary point of view; civilized, that can complement the inner self or act against it, based on choice and will power. The latter causes dams where nightmares can become conscious due to the need for the inner self to compensate to for the repression of the natural flow. As an analogy, the inner self, by being the center of natural instinct, will assess a reality situation with natural instinct and act in a way to lower the instinctive potential. It is water flowing down a river, as the induced neural potential, goes from higher back to lower potential. The animal reacts and acts, and then rests; induced potential and then back to lower potential. The ego can set up unnatural dams causing the potential to linger and even pool. The inner self will try to lower the potential, but now has to do so with unnatural dams. How do you get the river of neural potential to flow naturally, again, with manmade dams? One way is to crack a hole in the dam; challenge the mental obstruction, and let the pool drain down natural channels. Depending on the level of repression; amount of potential, breaking the dam can result in a trickle; nice dream, or a raging white water night mare. If the ego is not able to translate the intent, it may try to rebuild the dam. This will cause a repeating night mare. As a practical example, young soldiers are trained and conditioned to shoot and kill the enemy. This requires the ego use will and choice to reinforce this order from the cultural superego; forced military policies. The solider may follow orders and have to kill, but the end this may not agree with his inner self or the ego belief system, and cause a repression; guilt. This guilt may be reinforced by the ego, with willpower, since the ego may not be able to forgive, itself. The inner self is trying remove the dam, but the ego keeps rebuilding the dam of guilt. This can causes the pool to expand until one day, the dam breaks and there is raging white water. This can be overwhelming. Drugs and alcohol help to lower conscious awareness but have side affects. This brain firmware dynamics is key to exploring the unconscious mind, inner self, and the personality firmware, that are behind the brain's natural operating system. In this type of research, the ego needs to consciously place obstacles and dams, within various areas of the neural flow; firmware. This will induce an inner self correction and the symbolism that is generates. This allows one to map the main inner self river and its tributaries. This approach requires one become both the scientist and the experiment since this mapping is less about brain hardware and more about brain firmware and software. This type of output needs to be viewed from the inside, as affects such as dreams, visions and active imagination. Software activity and symbolic detail does not show up on any external brain scan that science has developed, but rather has to be witnessed by the ego from inside. There are no machines that can record and tell you what you are dreaming, other that you are having a dream, the heart is beating faster snd muscle are very tense. Dream details need the ego to be a direct witness. In psychology therapy, the ego has to relate the dream to the therapists since there are no tools to do this from the outside. It does take courage to explore and map the unconscious, since you will be a stranger, in a strange land, where you may not know all the customs, and may unknowing cross boundaries that bite back. The mythology of ancient times is a combination of dream symbolism and nightmares that reflect the repressions and dams of the culture due to the cultural superego. Mythology may have been originally generated by someone who had a correcting dream and nightmare, and took this to heart and helped lower their own inner self potential. This is then given to the collective, as a tool to help balance off the unnatural will of the ego, induced by the same superego. Religion was the caretaker of the psyche at levels much deeper that psychology. Religion is not about the ego, but the inner self Psychology is more about fixing the ego. Morality is about what is consider common to all; inner self. While relative morality is about choice and willpower; ego . Relative morality tends to add dams since most choices by the ego do not advance the inner self, but will induce the ego dynamics associated with obsession; inner self correction and ego reinforcement.