Dreams

In Your Dreams
Whenever we sleep, we astral travel, our Spirit body has many experiences and works with our subconscious mind. To keep this simple for those who are curious and want to explore this exciting dimension of the self, I can best explain that yes, there are different types of dream experiences, however, when you start exploring your dreaming state, there is no need to complicate your development with trying to understand how it all works, it’s better to focus on building your skills to translate those messages that can be a fantastic guide in your daily life. It’s a starting point to progress from, with the potential for growth into other areas in your development; it’s something you can do at your own pace.

Dreams can put us in contact with our guides and loved ones who have passed over and this can be profound if we haven’t developed this awareness in our waking state. Another great thing about dreams is that if we are not expressing strong emotions in our waking life and pushing them down the chute or to the side, we often act it out in our dreams. It could be that you are angry with someone and you wake up remembering an argument where you are screaming at them, something that would not be appropriate or not possible in your waking life. Processing the anger in the dream can be a message that this emotion is very valid and is not going away until you acknowledge it. When you find yourself wondering ‘what was that all about’, imagine your subconscious mind as a reflection standing in front of you with a series of images on painted story boards next to it. See it pulling them up one by one to give you a big picture of what it’s trying to say in the dream, so if the board shows a bicycle, let this image echo in your mind and memory and ask yourself what does a bicycle mean to me, look at what condition it’s in, the landscape, weather and so on. It’s important that you ‘feel’ what it means as you sense each image from your dream with your own meaning. Your subconscious mind is clever and it is trying to find a language to talk to you through familiar images that have meaning to you.

Prophetic dreams are ones you have that give you insight into something that is going to happen in the future i.e. prophesy. Many of us experience these and often forget them, which is a good reason to record everything you can remember in a notebook. I have many of these documented and had not looked back at them until recently and to my surprise, I read back over a dream that had a prophetic message that was so powerful, I couldn’t believe I had forgotten it. When someone shares a dream experience with me I always encourage them to write it down because as much as it is a powerful memory at that moment, time fades the details that can often be more relevant later on than at that point. Going back to your notes can act as a trigger like it did for me with this one since it was about two years before Margaret Dent and I started A Sense of Soul. My notes reminded me of the scene where Margaret told me that we would be working together with details that seemed to make no sense. Hindsight is always so easy and for me, in this case the picture that was painted at that time was a reflection of us working together a couple of years later, even though it was not apparent or even a consideration when I had the dream.
Recording your dreams is also a great way of gauging how far you’ve come in your development. It’s good to look back and realise issues that you have resolved and moved on from and often when you skim over your records you can see a pattern of development emerge that can in itself be a fantastic story board to reflect on.

So what if you’re sitting reading this and thinking that you never remember anything when you wake up? Like everything in life, your intentions determine an outcome and participation creates results. Try putting a notepad and pen beside your bed with the intention that you will record any glimpse that you might remember when you wake up. When you go to sleep, try and still your mind and close your thoughts asking yourself for an answer to something that is happening in your daily life. When you wake up try and stay still for a few moments, focus on your breathing, not moving, not cluttering your mind immediately with everything you have to do that day. Remember it’s the intention and discipline needed to build a routine and that’s easier said than done! Ask yourself what you can do to that feels right to enhance your intention, perhaps changing the furniture around in your bedroom, getting a new pillow, or just going to bed earlier, whatever it may be, if the intention is there, time with patience will strengthen this to bring a desired result.

A few years back I decided that if I could analyse my sleeping life so well, then I must be able to find a parallel to my waking life. I had learned along the way the wonderful ability to process my dreams and interpret what they really meant to help me with signals for my waking life and I am still developing this skill. I don’t recall exactly how this happened and at what point I admitted openly that I could confidently do this, leading me to help other people find their own interpretations.

I was given a dream book that turned out to be a key that unlocked another door along the dreams corridor in my mind. I had given up on dream books, they just frustrated me further and seemed to muddle my mind further, but this one - The Dream Dictionary by Tony Crisp was like magic, something clicked. It helped me to expand my thought processing, and how I looked at the interpretations just by looking up a word to consider other implications. For example, if my eyes were crying in my dream I would look up eyes which is listed under ‘body’ and I would start to think about all the words associated with this i.e. seeing, water and body. People I knew started to call me up and ask could I bring my dream book because they wanted some insight in to a particular dream and this also strengthened my thought process.

A couple of years after this I got really sick when I was staying interstate with Jenni, my sister and her family. I met Brenda, her neighbour, continuing to catch up with her when I went to visit but never really having the time to get to know much about her. I came out of hospital and extended my stay to get my health back before returning home. In my fragile state, Brenda gave me the most wonderful healing massage and after the session I sat opposite her bookcase drinking some water before walking home. In the maize of books I spotted The Dream Dictionary, it was like a beacon and excited me to see that someone else had it so I told her the history of how it had become a great companion in my travels. She stood there with such a grin on her face that puzzled me at first, and then she explained. Brenda had known the author Tony Crisp for years, working together and connecting their family lives, still keeping spasmodic contact after Brenda had migrated to Australia from the UK.

When I was in my delirious state of illness, I had two dreams that had really puzzled me and I mentioned these to Brenda. She offered to help me process them so I could find their meaning. Not only did the next session with her help me resolve those two puzzles with powerful insights into my personal development, it helped me to understand a process in working with myself, and other people connecting them with their dreams.
In the years before I discovered The Dream Dictionary, I studied much of the Edgar Cayce works with practical approaches on dreams and dream interpretation. Through this introduction it gave me insights to develop my understanding about my dreams to gain awareness about my entire being: physically, mentally, and spiritually.

The Dream Dictionary, An A-Z Guide to Understanding Your Unconscious Mind is available at most online bookstores and recommended reading to expand your knowledge in your dreams. There’s even a phone version now.

Tony Crisp has developed an immense non-commercial website www.dreamhawk.com with a wealth of authentic support material. It also features The Dream Dictionary with a fantastic free search tool to explore potential meanings beyond your thought interpretations.

As quoted from Tony: “Your dreams can become vortexes of power to transform your life, and to enhance your perceptions. There is no ‘wave a magic wand’ route to this. It will not happen because you read a great book, or look at a good dream dictionary. Those things might help, but the real magic lies in whether you can enter into your dream in the right way.”

Exploring your dreams can be fun and at the same time become a valuable tool in your journey of life with its symbols and signals adding new dimensions and meaning to your waking life. Be inspired!

Author
Terri Bradley
www.terri-bradley.com


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DREAMS THE SAFEST DOORWAY TO THE UNCONSCIOUS 
An excellent Dream Dictionary has been written by Kevin Todeschi and is available from our website (See Book Supplies)

From the Cayce material Discussion about Dreams and Dreaming
Reading 3744-5  Given on 14.2.1924

43.(Q) What is a dream?
(A) There are many various kinds of manifestations that come to an animate object, or being; that is in the physical plane of man, which the human family term a DREAM.

Some are produced by suggestions as reach the consciousness of the physical, through the various forms and manners as these.

When the physical has laid aside the conscious in that region called sleep, or slumber, when those forces through which the spirit and soul has manifested itself come, and are
reenacted before or through or by this soul and spirit force, when such an action is of such a nature as to make or bring back impressions to the conscious mind in the earth or material plane, it is termed a dream.

This may be enacted by those forces that are taken into the system, and in the action of digestion that takes place under the guidance of subconscious forces, become a part of that force through which the spirit and soul of that entity passed at such time. Such manifestations are termed or called nightmares, or the abnormal manifestations on the physical plane of these forces.

In the normal force of dreams are enacted those forces that may be the fore-shadow of condition, with the comparison by soul and spirit forces of the condition in VARIOUS SPHERES through which this soul and spirit of the given entity has passed in its evolution to the present sphere. In this age, at present, 1923, [See Background of Reading 3744-2] there is not sufficient credence given dreams; for the best
development of the human family is to give the greater increase in knowledge of the subconscious, soul or spirit world. This is a DREAM.

44. (Q) How should dreams be interpreted?
(A) Depending upon the physical condition of the entity and that which produces or brings the dream to that body's forces.

The better definition of how the interpretation may be best is this: Correlate those Truths that are enacted in each and every dream that becomes a part of this, or the entity of the individual, and use such to the better developing, ever remembering develop means going toward the higher forces, or the Creator.

RECOMMENDED READING
Dream Images and Symbols by Kevin J. Todeschi
Dream Weaving by Emily L. VanLaeys
Dreams Your Magic Mirror by Elsie Sechrist
How to Interpret Your Dreams by Mark Thurston PhD.