Chapter Six
As you read about this new programming and changing old habits through goal setting and handwriting, you are probably asking yourself, "How does this all work and how does old programming leave the mind, to let the new in?" Good question, since we know that with a computer all we have to do is hit "delete" and presto, the old is gone! It all happens when the new suggestions or goals are handwritten to the subconscious mind, preferable during that optimal half-hour prior to going to sleep. As you go to sleep, you now enter the dream cycle. For explanation's sake, I will discuss dreams; but since they are not something you can really control, I see no need for exhaustive detail.
No matter what time of day or night we usually fall asleep, we have a sleep cycle which is basically the same: a period of light sleep and prossing dreams, followed by about an hour and a half of predictive dreams, then another period of relatively low dream activity, and finally, just before awakening, a cycle of venting dreams.
The processing dreams occur when we first go to sleep. We seldom remember them, and they are basically insignificant. The predictive dream is in the middle of the sleep cycle, and its purpose is to take new data and play "what if" scenarios, projecting or predicting what might happen with this exciting, different data it has absorbed. Finally, just before awakening, we have the venting dreams. Just as it sounds, this is the time that the subconscious mind disposes of various "garbage" it no longer wants or needs. Also, the "expendable" material taken in during the day and then sorted out during processing dreams gets dumped during the venting dream cycle.
So, now you have my brief and to-the-point explanation of how old and new information is processed through the dream cycle. It is nothing to be concerned about, but it does answer the question of how all of this works.
SLEEP CYCLE
Prossing- When sleep cycle is first entered
Predictive- Absorbs and plays with new data in the mind
Venting- Various data is vented out of mind