Clarity of Dreams

[holychops]

I think we can learn a lot about who we are ... and what is happening in our life from our dreams. I think it enables a clarity of vision, as in we can see clearer asleep then we do when we're awake...

Dreams are very much like movies... there's always a place, people and something going on that gives you a sense of being in the movie but also viewing it from the outside... seeing all that happens...

I've had many dreams in which I've had a vivid feeling of seeing a place.. that I haven't been before... to actually going to that place sometimes years later! It's quite a deja vu feeling when you go to a place .. in which you know you've dreamt about before...

HC

[sparklekaz]

Hi HC,

I agree with what you have said, I do believe dreams can offer us insight and clarity, that we do not have in waking life. It is believed, that this is because, in sleep, the conscious mind recedes, allowing the unconscious to take over. It is while we are in this state that the mind filters through, all the extra information, that we unconsciously pick up throughout the day.

In waking time, the brain, mind is too busy to digest everything. So it prioritizes what it needs. To allow us to function and make decisions more physically connected to any given situation. While in the relaxed state of sleep, we have the opportunity, to draw on all extra information we have.

On another level, a spiritual or intuitive level, we have this to add into the mix. It is quite common for someone to wake up in the morning having resolved a waking time dilemma or problem. Seeing within the dreams we have had, the situation from a completely different perspective.

Within dreams, I believe that the mind works on helping people, to face or resolve their fears or phobia's. How often, have you been faced in dreams with a situation, you would run a mile from, while awake. I have a fear of flying, and whenever I do fly, I dream for several weeks before, of traveling by plane. Take off is my worst time, and in dream time, I experience that take off, over and over again, in various different scenario's. So by the time, the day of my trip arrives, I do feel calmer, having experienced take off, many times, before the real thing.

Dreams can also be a time, when we experience healing, or visits from loved ones in spirit. While sleeping the mind opens up a doorway, that many people cannot access in waking time. This doorway allows spirit to communicate with us, or for us to travel into the astral or spirit world to communicate with them. That point in which we are drifting off to sleep or just coming out of sleep, is a time, when many experience mediumistic visions.

Dreams have been used for centuries in many cultures, for divination and guidance. Prophetic, Deja vu dreams. Dreams about environmental and world disasters. People have past life dreams. I believe, when we have past life dreams, they are trying to tell us something or connect a past life memory to something we are currently experiencing now, in the present. Again, by paying attention to this, it can offer insight and help.

Nightmares, are very disturbing for people, but these dreams can be very powerful and usually hold an important message for us. Death dreams, rarely mean dying, they are about great change, transformation, parts of the self, or old way of life, dying to make way for the new. I try to remind people, that dreams are multi layered. They can have many meanings. Ultimately, I believe the dreamer, knows intuitively what their dream means, but sometimes, they need a little help to unravel it.

I would recommend to anyone, who is working on their emotional and spiritual growth to keep a dream diary or journal. It can be really helpful, plus it is always interesting to read back. It is amazing how often when we do look back, from a position of hindsight, we can really see how important what we dreamed of at the time was, and what the dreams were trying to tell us.

Thank you for sharing your insights HC

Love and light
Kaz