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Connecting Through Dreams
As you go to sleep, say to yourself, “I am giving instructions to my soul, my spirit, my subconscious to witness my dreams.”
Initially you may not notice much of a change. But if you practice this every night for a few weeks, you will start to have a very clear experience that the dream is the scenery, and you are the person watching it all. When you wake up in the morning, recapitulate the night (put yourself in position of observer of your dreams, so that connections and themes and images and coincidences become clearer).
Once you are able to recall the movie of your dreams. Write down some of the more memorable scenes. Include them in your journal. Make a special note of coincidences. Nonlocal intelligence provides clues in our sleep just as it does in our waking hours.
The mechanics of the dream and the mechanics of what is happening to us in the so-called reality are the same projections of the soul. We are merely witnesses.
What starts to happen, then, is that gradually we see correlations, images that repeat themselves both in dreams and in everyday reality. More coincidences provide more clues to guide our behavior. We start to enjoy more opportunities. We have more “good luck.” These clues point out the direction to take our lives. Through this process of recapitulation we see recurring patterns and we start to unravel life’s mystery.
This process is especially helpful for departing from destructive habits. Life has certain themes that it plays out. Sometimes those themes operate to our advantage. Sometimes they work against us, especially if we repeat the same patterns or themes, over and over, hoping to get a different result.
The process of recapitulation can help us witness these patterns, and once we discern them, we can make more conscious choices. So remain sensitive, observe coincidences during both your daytime living and your nighttime dreaming, and pay special attention to anything that breaks the probability amplitude – the statistical likelihood of a space-time event.
Adapted from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press).
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I've been having lucid dreams for years and welcome them. I recall not liking a dream years ago & saying out loud "I don't like this dream. Change it." Whatever the ending was, the scary dream did change. I remember most dreams. The funniest thing is waking up during a dream to use the bathroom, going back to bed & somehow telling myself to continue the dream & it happens! Lots of times the dreams are just very funny & I wake up laughing! How weird is that?
A cousin once remarked that my dad's side (Irish) were "sensitives." There are vague memories of watching "Nanna" read tea leaves & smiling since I could do it too.
Last night, I had a very vivid dream of my house on fire. It was a blazing inferno but I wouldn't leave until both people & pets were out of the house. I was the last to leave & we all stood across the street watching the house burn to the ground. The house was one shared with my brother & SIL when we were roommates prior to their marriage. We had horrible experiences in that house, other than those 2 meeting. My take on this dream is that the fire represented, to me, the ending of that part of our lives & new beginnings. Seems to me that perhaps I'm at that crossroads again. The fact that everyone got out OK, including the animals is perhaps an indication of where my future lies. I've toyed with the idea of changing professions, working with animals. My brother & SIL are talking of moving to the UK next year. Hmmm
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Hi Citali; it's nice to hear you and your respect for the dream. So many consider sleeping a waste of time ; Have you read any of the Seth material channeled by Jane Roberts? I have a close friend who is a practicing dreamer but for myself I just dive in and see where I will go. Good night and sweet dreams all of you.
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When you delve into your subconscious and start to remember and interpret your dreams, you are growing in you awareness and self-awareness from an ever-increasing platform - i have been an unofficial dream interpreter since i was 5, then after losing my mum and experienced shocking PTSD, stopped recalling my dreams for several years- this was a huge loss to me - I acquired some crystals and handling those with affirmations brought back my ability very quickly - journals, books, Jungian and other theories all help, but so does understanding yourself and others which is of course a journey
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Have any of you ever heard of the IASD - the International Association for the Study of Dreams? It's an international, multidisciplinal association, and a true gold mine of information on all things dreaming.
http://asdreams.org/
Right now, the Eighth Annual online PsiberDreaming Conference of the IASD is just coming to a close. In their words:
"Between September 27 - October 10, 2009 join some of the world's foremost experts on the subject of Psi dreaming for two weeks of cutting-edge papers, discussions, workshops, and chats. If you've ever had a precognitive dream, a lucid dream, or simply an "unusual dream" that never quite made sense, this is the place for you."
The presentations and discussions will be online on a read-only basis for another two weeks. I really think it's worth checking out - I have learned much at these conferences.
This year's theme was "Magical, Mythical Dreams of Transformation". Nearly 200 people, from 28 different countries, assisted.
http://www.asdreams.org/psi2009
Please check it out!
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I am thrilled to find a discussion on dreams and dreaming here on Care2!
Jewel, if you want to understand your dreams, I'd recommend starting a dream journal of some sort. You can do it the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper, or an virtual journal, or you can record them... Whatever works for you. Once you start recording your dreams, you can start analizing them in more detail.
Plaxmi, I love your post - short, and very true. The type of dreams you describe are what we call "psi" dreams - those where you dream things that relate not only to "you" or to your "now". Precognitive, mutual, telepathic, healing... the possibilities are endless. A Psi dream, to me, is an unusual, particularly meaningful and powerful dream.
Nicole, as a survivor of sexual assault and dreamer, I am happy to hear of your dreams helping you heal. Dreams have helped me, too, in releasing me of fears and doubts.
Nightcat, I find your zombie dream fascinating! I also understand what you mean about using your own means to interpret the dream - many dream books out there are mere dictionaries, often useless for truly significant dreams. I believe the dreamer is the ultimate expert in his/her own dream.
Uma and Sheila - what you describe, knowing you are dreaming, and possibly controling the dream as well - is called lucid dreaming. It's a fascinating subject, really - much too long to discuss here.
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Well yeah Nightcat,now don' forget that on the symbolic level all those parts of the dream are parts of our self so here you are comfortable in the highest part of your self, here waking normal consciousness, in bed drowsy, ignoring the subconscious pressure sub= below, and the zombies aren't just dead but in our Halloween masks and such are the rotting disgusting dead.To me that says that your all over psyche wanted you to pay attention to what you though was safely dead and buried, to cremate it in the fire of your consciousness, open the third eye of Shiva etc. Here's one that used to constantly repeat for me for years until I finally somehow became friends with the vampires. It was years ago but it went like this: I am looking in the back of a hearse and there is a man there with a stake through his heart; I feel impelled to pull it out and I do so; he begins to rise and I throw out that protection symbol from that old psychic self defense book and find myself catapulted to consciousness unable to fall back asleep. After that for years I dream of the vampires pursuing me and when I try to fight them off my limbs are as weak as water, my blows have no force to them.This went on for years. I'm sorry I don't remember the end of it except that we all became friends somehow.
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Since the beginning highschool, between scary dreams coming true, I have tried to avoid dreaming. I continuously dreamed about natural disasters, war, famine, you name it. It scared the bejesus out of me. Just recently, since another post about dreams here on care2, I decided to give my dreams another chance. I have spent most of my life living by those other dreams, feeling like I need to prepare, and have been. Since the other article and my preparations, my dreams have become a bit less crazy and destructive, dare I say even a bit happy. I have never been able to control a dream... I don't think I am supposed to. Every time I try, I wake up. I also almost feel as though I have deprived myself of information because of my fear of my dreams. Any ideas anyone?
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Thank you for this. I'm 28, and I survived sexual abuse, assaults and an attempt on my life when I was young. In my healing process (that includes sobriety, physical exercise, medical treatment, counseling, and group therapy) I can still feel very lonely and unloved. Not only unloved, but undeserving of love. Over the past year, though, I have been regularly dreaming about meeting and befriending people - men, women, and children - who love me and make me laugh, smile and feel safe. Some of the men make wonderful love to me. Sometimes they are people I know or recognize, sometimes they are imaginary. The children who make me smile are sometimes even little babies, full of joy and communication. Often I don't want to wake up. Often when I do, it is bittersweet, and I will cry for loneliness at various times throughout the day.
What you say, Deepak, I understand from my own experience with these dreams. Until I began having these dreams I did not look for and open myself up to laughter the same way I do now. Now, I am constantly searching for the opportunity to laugh either by myself or with others - to get that wonderful "dream feeling" back. When I find the opportunity, I hang onto it as long as I can and laugh with all my heart. I know, now, what a friend can mean, and I am looking for a friend. I even know, what I want from erotic experiences, and I hope to open myself up to the opportunity to get that "dream feeling" back too. I also dream music, but it is new, unheard.
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OK, you'll love this. The dream comes to me whenever I need a reminder of sorts. In the dream I'm in the highest part of the house, away from the zombies.
It is one of those lovely ones, perfect for haunted houses. Well, I start to hear punding, so I think there is somebody at the front door. I don't want to get up because bed is warm and toasty.
Well I realize the pounding is coming from the basement. That's where I buried the zombies so I wouldn't have to help them. I used heavy layers of rock, petrified wood for the floor.
But the barricades never work. The xombies break free, screeching and howling for me. They come slowly, but always corner me. Trapped, I'm forced to appease them.
In other words if I ignore the dead, all hell breaks loose. :)
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