Have you ever thought that maybe you have been kept away from an incredible resource that could be a direct gateway to your subconscious mind and beyond?
We spend about a third of our lives asleep. If we take an average 80 years life span, this means that we sleep approximately for 26 years. We surely know that sleep is fundamental to maintaining physical and mental health, but that’s about all we are taught. We are told that our dreams are just dreams, that they are only about our brain processing our day life. Basically saying don’t bother paying attention to what sums up to a third of your life disappearing in a black hole.
A dream quest
I am no dream expert yet, however, I am always on a quest to further understanding and efficient interaction with my night life. On top of that I am absolutely fascinated about what comes out of the dream realm. I truly witness that dreams are not just made up of random brain stuff and that they do have a far broader purpose than what we were meant to believe. It is also a place of direct interaction with your subconscious mind, your higher consciousness and a direct access to the field. Dreams are your potential ayahuasca night time trip without ayahuasca.
A studied fact is that we all dream. I hear people say “I rarely remember my dreams.” Well, imagine that a film producer sends you a scenario each night and you never pay attention to it. He might end up getting bored and start sending you soap operas instead. Remembering dreams is a matter of intention and willingness. The more you pay attention, in addition to putting a few protocols in place, the more you’ll end up remembering your dreams until they become a full share of your life.
A universal conceptual language
The language of dreams is not necessarily made of words. It is also symbolic representations, conceptual language and some references to the dreamer’s life. Sometimes words or phrases stick out, but dreams are more like what stays with you after having watched a film. At the end of the movie, you are left with feelings, impressions, a concept, hints or overall memories of it. When you start paying attention you will see that in some dreams recurring elements come to play. This is where your personal dream dictionary becomes useful.
Your dreamer is a Hollywood genius
I must admit that for years my nights have been as active as my days. I used to recall much of my dreams even though I was not paying much attention to them. Until a couple of years ago, clues as to what was coming up in my day life started showing up. When I began being more attentive to them, this is when my dream producer became an absolute Hollywood genius. I stay amazed at the creativity and details that can occur. Some of my nights can be compared to a brilliant Steven Spielberg movie.
To date, I have experienced various kind of dreams which I have tried to place in the categories listed below.
1. Standard dreams
These are probably the ones I don’t understand yet. They don’t leave much of an impression, feeling or memory. I put these dreams, for now, in the pot of those referred to as our brain processing stuff from our waking life.
2. Waking life clues & understandings
They reflect in their own ways what is ongoing in your life. Sometimes going from past, present, into future of what is currently happening. They may come through one specific dream or as chronicles through consecutive dreams in the same night. Meaning each dream delivers a statement that is linked to the next dream and so on. I have experienced up to three dreams in a row, telling the story and its evolution, often giving food for thought. These dreams may be within a similar context or totally different from each other.
3. Recurring dreams
Recurring scenarios clearly mean that your dream producer is knocking on your door trying to get a message through. It’s calling you out in order to act on something specific during your wake time or proceed with awareness towards whatever is concerned. It is generally pretty pertinent for working on unconscious blocks or energetic strings still tying you to stuff you thought you had totally cleared. When you take the right action, the recurrence stops.
4. Warning dreams
Warnings occur as much regarding events that are currently happening than for events or situations that you are not aware of yet in your awake state. They are amazing in their accuracy and ability to tell you what’s cooking.
5. Inner work dreams
These dreams go a step beyond the waking life clues and understandings dreams. Thus, they are a reflection of your inner work being done on a conscious level. When you are aware of them as such, they allow you to accelerate the process of your current inner journey as there are no filters from the thinking mind during that time.
6. Lucid dreams
Lucid dreaming is an amazing realm that clearly states that dreams are not only dreams. It allows you to fully experience that you actually are consciousness beyond your body. It is waking up in a dream and being fully conscious that it is a “dream,” therefore being able to direct it, play or benefit from what you choose to experience. Many cultures use lucid dreaming to communicate with each other, improve their capabilities in the awake state or do some shadow and integration work.
7. Premonitory dreams
Premonitory dreams show outcomes of an upcoming situation or event. These messages or visions can concern the dreamer only, or the collective. By collective I mean either a person who is known by the dreamer, currently in his/her life or not, as much as an event that the dreamer isn’t directly concerned by.
It’s been said that dreams only belong to the dreamer, and I agree with that to some extent. There is a small portion, though, where the dreamer is not the only one at play. I do believe that since we live within a global field of consciousness that includes several planes and a tremendous amount of realities and potentials, this could be the opened door to more than we can imagine. Sometimes I do wonder it if we might be having a glimpse of these multiple realities we might be living simultaneously.
A lucid dream story
Before I intentionally undertook a lucid dream quest, I have experienced lucid dreaming in two different ways. Some where I woke up and played knowing I was in a dream. And some where there was a job to be done and I was fully aware that I was dreaming, however knowing that this wasn’t a standard lucid dream. This was to the point of waking up in my bed and knowing I had to go back to finish what I had started. I had the awareness that I was in my bed and in this other realm at the same time. I felt both realities simultaneously, as solid as my fingers currently typing these lines. At some stage I got curious about exploring that dimension by intentionally provoking the lucid state. I conditioned myself during the awake state, that is by the way pretty easy to do, in order to become lucid regularly.
Whether this was my higher Self or something else I don’t know
One day I saw an ad for a beautiful loft in New York overlooking Central Park. When I went to bed, I thought this would be a fun dream challenge. The same week I dreamt of this particular loft. Being the clue that I was dreaming, I therefore woke up in my dream. I was really excited that it had worked so specifically. Like a child with a new toy, I started playing around, very happy and proud to have managed to get to the location I aimed for in my wake state. But my fun didn’t last. All of a sudden, I heard the voice of a woman literally telling me off for doing so. She said, “You stop that immediately! You are not ready!” This was spoken in such a way that it was clearly non-negotiable. It woke me up for “real,” and it left me with the impression of being a toddler having been told off by some kind of authority. Whether this was my higher Self or something else I don’t know. But it made me respect the ban for a time.
A few dream tricks
- The first step is to clearly place the intent of remembering your dreams when you go to sleep.
- Get a pen and paper ready next to your bed.
- As soon as you wake up, before your thinking mind turns itself on, capture your dreams in your journal. Write down the overall story or memory you have of it and whatever sticks out. Note your impressions and feelings.
- Check for recurring people/objects/places that appear in your dreams. This will allow you to start your personal dream dictionary.
- The more you do so, the more dreams you will remember and the more vivid they will become.
I like the theory saying that your higher consciousness sends messages to your subconscious mind, that puts it together in order for your conscious mind to understand them. Some days it kind of leaves the impression of having to decode charades. But despite that I reckon that when a message really has to get through, it is done in a very obvious way.
So, fall asleep but don’t sleep. Enjoy and discover this realm of yours that is in full interaction with your wake state.
Sweet dreams.
A great book to help you decode your dreams: Dreaming realities, a spiritual system to create inner alignment through dreams by Julie Silverthorn & John Overdurf
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