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.
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