What is a Dream?

Dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being. That's it! Now that you are thoroughly confused let me explain in a more down to earth language. Our brains are in constant activity. Different states of consciousness (like awake, asleep, alert, drowsy, excited, bored, concentrating or daydreaming) cause different brain wave activity. Our conscious mind, or the part we think with, our "window" into life, only takes up a very small portion of our brain activity. (some say this is only 10%) Other areas control things like breathing, heartbeat, converting light to vision, sound to hearing, balance when we walk, etc. etc. This too has it's own percentage (small). Another area controls imagination. This area is widely an undiscovered frontier. Imagination is more then dreaming of a new car or picturing someone with their cloths off! When you look at clouds and see shapes, or wood grain and see images, this is the "order from chaos" part of your imagination. The mind cannot deal with chaos very well, in fact it will resist it and sometimes manufacture order. (very important to the dreaming process.) This too occupies a small percentage of brain activity. Then there is memory. Memory is vast! And I believe it occupies more of the brains resources then most people believe.

And then there is the activity called dreaming. I think that to a certain extent, we dream all the time. Even while awake! But the process is functioning in our subconscious mind, out of view from our "window". If defined precisely, they may not be referred to as dreams technically, but the activity is very closely related. During certain cycles of brain activity while asleep, we can "view" these dreams with our conscious mind and record them in our memory. (this is why we sometimes remember them).

Fine, but what are dreams? Well, with the above kept in mind (especially the order from chaos part) try to imagine this.; Your brain mind and spirit, while at rest "review" and analysis in it's own way long term, short term and spirit memory. It kicks around emotions, thoughts, ideas, actions and interactions of the short term memory. It has in its background the trends of your life and philosophy to influence it. Your mind is also processing spiritual data, your beliefs, whether or not you violated them, your information gained through psychic intuition (we ALL have this to a certain degree) and of course, any communication from God. ALL THIS data, as well as your subconscious "reading between the lines" of what people do and tell you, is then processed unsupervised by you! All this data is a form of chaos, and your mind (like seeing images in wood grain or clouds) puts it all together in a form of visual "screenplay", a medley of sight, sound, emotion and imagined interactivity. The end result is.... You guessed it, a dream!

but would it not be nice if it were that simple! Dreams are easily influenced by factors in your life and spirit, and these influences create "categories" that are almost infinite. We do broadly categorize them in terms like "prophetic, standard, physical and nightmare" (to name just a few) And these we study each their own, in order to gain benefit from them. I look at it this way: Our mind and spirit together with our brain, is actually the greatest computer ever devised! To understand its "back of the house" processing is to learn more about ourselves, God, our future and each other. Many things can be gained from dreams, better health (mental and physical), entertainment and even financial gain! (dreaming of a invention or idea) Now that you know some of the basics about dreaming and what (theoretically) dreams are you should have a better grasp on how to understand and use your dreams.

Messages from Dream State, Lucid Dreams

Dream Categories:

Color vs. black and white dreams: Some people feel that as a dream manifests into third dimension it moves from black and white to color

Episodic Dreams: Your dream is like a movie, involving a story that goes on and on in sequential order

Flying Dreams: These dreams are common. You fly free, escapism, ascension to source, a way to time travel or move through realities.

Lucid Dreams: You realize that you are dreaming and can alter the events in the dream [See Below]

Repetitive Dreams: You have the same dream over and over as if a message is being sent to you by someone on the other side, which may be your soul.

Precognitive Dreams: You dream about events that manifest in the future

Shared Dreams: You remember the events in your dream, that involve another person. At the same time, another person in your dream remembers the same events

Universal dreams: related to information you receive from the collective unconscious - grids - Akashic records - hall of records - that which creates the reality in which we live. Whenever a dream presents symbols of a cosmic nature, in all probability it is a representation of a Universal dream. Such dreams are reflective of religious experiences, and denote changes that are to occur at some future time.

Many factors affect your dreamtime.

Your soul is having multidimensional experiences all the time.

It is consciously aware of different experiences on many levels of consciousness. It never sleeps.

What we call dreamtime is another place it is experiencing. Many people feel that the true reality is what we call dreamtime - and that third dimension is the dream world! In truth it is all an illusion.

External factors that affect your dreams may include:

Your health

Diet

Emotional issues

External stimuli while you are sleeping - Ex.: It is raining heavily outside, so water could be incorporated in your dream. The soul can take information from anything it is experiencing and incorporating it into your dream.

Events occurring prior to going to sleep: Media (TV, Radio, Video), something you have read, a conversation, or other physical activities can impact on your dreams

What may seem like aspects of a past life coming through. It may also be a parallel experience (life) as Linear Time only exists in third dimension - physical reality.

Some people remember their dreams while others have little or no recognition.

Interpretations of the dream may not be the actual events of the dream. You mind can only process the events in the dream, based on symbols it understands. If you experience a dream that is not within the vocabulary of your mind, you will not be able to process and remember it. The 3D mind has to be able to make sense of a dream, for you to remember it.

If it often useful to keep a dated journal of these events. Make the notes in the journal as soon as you wake up. Most information is forgotten as your conscious awareness returns to third dimension. Things happen slowly in 3D - linear time. In other levels of reality, there is no time and things just occur randomly. Events are frequencies. They occur quickly. The frequency of third dimension much slower than that of dreamtime. therefore retaining information can be more difficult.

Most people who don't remember their dreams, come back into their bodies at approximately 4 AM. Dreams between that time frame and waking up in 3D, are sometimes remembered, as they are on frequencies that are slower.

What I have discovered about myself is that when I am uncertain about an issue I go to sleep and ask guidance. Sometimes I am shown events in a dream that I remember and help me focus. Other times, I don't remember the dream when I wake up, but I know I have processed the information and know what the solution is. I often wake up with feelings of closure about issues. My soul has made the decision that is best for me in third dimension.

LUCID DREAMS

During a lucid dream - the subject is aware that they are in a dream state and can actively influence the events of the dream. If you become a lucid dreamer, this does not mean that all of your dreams are of this type. Dreams vary as with all things your consciousness experiences.

There are many methods to use to create lucid dreaming. Here are just a few.

You can encode your mind with a symbol - such as 'the sun'. Whenever you see that symbol - your mind will realize that you are dreaming and begin to interact freely. For example . . . you are dreaming that you are walking on the beach on a nice sunny day. You look up and see the sun! Your mind relays the message to you - this is all a dream. You now can stop walking on the beach and do other things - such as flying over the beach or ocean. You can place dolphins in the water and swim with them. You are creating this reality as you are with all realities your mind enters.

Another method of determining that you are dreaming and not in third dimensional reality is to repeat the phrase, "I am dreaming" several times before you go to bed. This phrase will remain in your mind. When you dream - it will activate and you will know you are dreaming. With practice you can influence your dreamtime and remember your dreams.

Lucid Dreamers Reference Guide - Articles, journals, books

The Lucidity Institute

Messages received in dreams can be interpreted as:

This is one of the ways spirit guides or deceased loved ones communicate with you, usually to let you know they are Okay on the other side, they forgive you, they are moving on, they are with you all the time, they love you, or other more specific messages pertaining to your current third dimensional situations.

Events that occur on another level of consciousness that are too confusing to taken seriously

Symbols, archetypes that make sense on another level, that your soul is now sending to your third dimension consciousness that you might need to process. Ex: You dream about keys. Keys open doorways. Something new ill be given to you.

Dream Symbols

Dream Dictionary

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