Your subconscious talks to you. Listen to it.
You dream. Every night, many times. The human brain is wired in a way that makes you forget your dreams and store them into your subconcious within a few minutes of you waking up. All humans typically wake up between each sleep cycles, for a few minutes, and then you fall asleep again. Normally you shouldn't remember this at all when you wake up in the morning, or you should only have very very vague memory of it. Most of the time you will completely forget you have woke up or dreamt at all. But you did, and your subconscious remembers it. This explains why sometime during the day you may encounter a casual thing, such as a place, a new person you meet and have a "deja-vu" experience or a flashback. I don't know for you guys but personally, but each time I get this deja vu feeling I get a short flashback of a dream I made recently about this thing in particular. Or I will wake up and suddenly display an interest in a subject without knowing why.
As humans, we have a lot of defense mechanism to hide or deny our fears, suspicions, anger, or other emotions that are very important in the way we conduct our everyday life (or business, in my case). The moment where the barrier between your conscious and your subconscious is the weakest is when you dream. Unfortunately, our brain is wired to make us forget about our dreams. This is normal, our brain understands the memories from the dreams are unreal and confusing, and will wipe them out to avoid confusing you between your dream and reality. However, the brain takes a few minutes to do so after you wake up between every cycles. THIS is the moment you can act.
Keep a notepad next to you when you sleep, and the moment you wake up, during the night, when your dream is still fresh, quickly write a few code-words about anything you remember from your dream just before falling into deep sleep again. It takes a little efforts, like waking up when your 6:00 AM clock rings, but is well worth it.
When you wake up in the morning after your night, do not look immediately at what you wrote during the night. Just spend your day like you would and try to remember any of your dreams. Once the day has passed, THEN look at what you wrote. You would be surprised how much one can learn about his inner feelings, apprehensions, instincts just by reading the few codewords you wrote.
I have been doing this for a few weeks now. Sometime my lists are as confusing as
"Dragon, kill, fear / Science classes, bad teacher, experiment, explosion / Prison-break, betrayal, afraid"
Each / depicts a different dream, made during the same night.
It has tremendously affected my way to conduct business. Made me understand my emotions better and the way I use them to conduct my business.
As criminals/drug-dealers, we have a natural tendency to deny authority and many have sociopathic issues (I do not exclude myself). We are more prone to superficiality, violence, power, greed, betrayal and such. In many cases we are distanced from our feelings, more than the general population. Breaking the barrier between your subcouncious and your councious can be a way to understand yourself with a much broader view. Also, analyzing your dreams on an extended time period can make you realize a few things. If your dreams are different every night but they are always related to a specific emotion of subject, it would be time to think about it in more depth; what makes your subcouncious so obsessed about this? Why? The trend of your dreams illustrate your inner feelings. Listen to them, it will definitely help you conduct your business in a safer way.
Also, I am not a fed.
TL:DR: keep a notepad next to your bed and quickly write your dreams everytime you wake up during the night, then take a peak at it. You would be surprised.
Too bad I don't ever fully enter REM sleep because of them bars