Meaning Behind Dreams

I’ve been studying my dreams for 20 years. I’ve identified three types of meanings in my dreams:

- Synaptic Bursts - Completely meaningless dreams; an Rapid Eye Movement brain fart; generated by repetive body behaviors or just the random noise of life.
- Subconscious Dreams - Message from the dormant, wise and highly perceptive part of the mind that sees and factors the other 90% of life that happens just at our peripheral; often catches cues that our narrow conscious selves do not then gives hints, warnings or information
- Spiritual Dreams - From the hire self; waken in tears of joy or laughing; followed by day of smiling euphoria; difficult to remember sometimes impossible to understand if we are not ready
*there is some overlap - the over all effect of the dream is very telling.

Like Tibetan Dream Yogas of Sleep and Dreams says, I believe it is more important to be awakened in dreams than to interpret the content of the dreams. Like staring at a piece of Art, I believe that the meaning behind the dream can ultimately only be determined by the one who created it, everyone else will see something completely different.

When trying to determine the meaning, it is important to remember that YOU are every part of the dream. All elements in the dream represent some part of you. Even the bad parts. So if you are getting chased by a ghoul, remember that the ghoul is some latent part of you or situation, person, place or thing in your life. You must look inside yourself to determine what part of you that ghoul represents.

To determine what objects in the dream represent what parts of you, it is important to “follow the feeling”. So it is imperative that you be very truthful with yourself. If you can not face how you truly feel about something in ‘waking’ life, it will often manifest itself in your dream. If the dream is important, it will sometimes be a recurring dream.

When I am really wrapped up in the “worldliness”, stresses, distractions of life, work, family, friends I’ve noticed that I often do not remember my dreams. When I am focused and calm in the morning the dreams come to me easily. Sometimes there is more than I have time to write down.

Writing down dreams is a great way to begin to recall the dreams.

YOUR OWN DREAM SYMBOLS
You are the best interpreter of your dream symbols. Dream sites and books can be a good guide. But the dream master is within you. Water to a professional scuba diver is going to mean something entirely different to a hypochondriac.

Bridging Heaven & Earth #4: Chocmools of Carlos Castaneda

Dream: Neighbor in my backyard

My neighbor was in my backyard reconfiguring the drainage tubes that extend from my roof to my yard. This neighbor, Tom, was born in Germany and actually lives two houses over. He has the best yard (front and back) in the neighborhood. In my dream, I was prompted to go outside in the middle of the day. I’d heard a noise. When I went outside there was Tom and an accomplis. They’d propped up the tubes closer to the house to about half the height of the roof. Then they’d connected the tubes to a gutter tube that went to the street adjacent to the next tract of houses.

Now that I’m awake, I wonder why they propped up the tube.

Dream Sharing Web 2.0 site

Found a cool dream sharing site: http://www.dreamcrowd.com/

You share your dreams with others. The site also interprets some key dream words on the fly. Although, I’m not really big on someone else interpreting my dreams, I must admit it is a cool feature.

Of course the mother of all dream sites is still the Dreamviews forum

Dream of Prison (questioning reality)

I dreamt that I was in prison.

I was in prison for a terrible crime which I did not commit (reminiscent of a real life situation that has happened to my cousin). The emotions in this dream were absolutely real. When I woke up in my comfortable bed, I was very relieved that it was not real, but then I started to ask myself: how do I know that this bed is real? How do I know that my so called “waking life” is real?

Why do we so willingly accept our present situation as absolutely real? In my dream, I didn’t question the reality of my situation just as I do not typically question my waking life. How do any of us know what we see as “real” is not a dream?

Perhaps our minds makes this place real and conveniently misses the discrepancies of our reality such that we have no need to question it.

Neo: I thought you said it wasn’t real
Morpheus: Your mind makes it real
- the matrix

I’ve been reading a Padre Pio book. Padre Pio was a great Catholic Friar with remarkable dedication. At his level of dedication and devotion, he would pray for Jesus let him to help bear his cross. In essence we was asking for unimaginable suffering.

I am perplexed at the positive light given toward suffering. Catholic saints such as St. Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross and Mother Teresa revered suffering as it was an emulation of christ’s suffering on the cross (his suffering is considered a sacrafice to save the souls of all mankind - John 3:16 KJV Bible, for those who what more info). But if this world is illusion, what good is suffering? Why not just pass through never to return? Or come and go as one pleases and collect knowledge to become like a god. In the Bible the Devil “tempts” Jesus with something like this, to which Jesus replies, “Get behind me Satan.” No matter how good it looks, its still illusion.

In his book, The Yogas of Dreams and Sleep, Tenzin Wangyal mentions rising above both pleasure and suffering as they are each of Samsara, part of the great illusion of this world. In Hinduism, this is called Maya, the illusion of our self being separate from everything else.

The word Islam actually means “submission to God” in Arabic. All these religions address suffering as something that should be submitted to or allowed to happen not resisted but observed and in some cases even honored.

SUFFERING SUCKS
I don’t know about you but Suffering really, really pisses me off and I suppose that is not very holy of me. I am just saying how I truly feel at times. I hate seeing people around the world suffering (especially children). It makes me mad at humanity and mad at god. Sometimes I can’t help but think that a lot of it is just not necessary.

We don’t really have to suffer…

SUFFERING = GOOD/EVIL
But the more I learn about what science has discovered about physical reality, the more I realize that suffering really is apart of this reality. The duality of this reality (good/evil, light/darkness, valley/mountain) is why there must be suffering. It is in the fabric of everything here and there is nothing we can do about it but suffer. And I suppose that is why the saints embrace it and why sages of the east don’t resist it any more than they praise pleasure. Because it is an illusion (as a dream) compared to a truer more holistic place that is not afflicted with duality. These saints and sages see all physical reality as a type of dream for preparation of a greater here and now.

I attribute all suffering to ignorance (not knowing our true nature not so much stupidity). I believe it is the greatest atrocity humanity will ever have. Ignorance of our physical, subtle and spiritual true selves. Perhaps that is why we are here, to graduate from ignorance.

… YEAH BUT
Why doesn’t an omniscient/omnipotent God simply instantly give us a deliverance from ignorance and its symptom, suffering, rather than growing into some greater realization?

A: If a rose never blooms, can it still be considered a rose? Perhaps, we are here to experience the blooming of humanity.

the Gaian Dragon

James Clair Lewis Date: Dec 1 2006 9:07 AM

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Lucid Dreaming Exercises

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The easiest way to begin working consciously on the Astral Plane, is through Lucid Dreaming. If you have had difficulty learning how to do Astral Projection, these exercises may be of great value to you. These experiments in lucid dreaming are intended to be used in combination with my Occult/Mental Yoga Exercises.Click here to read the whole article.

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Feminine Guide Dream

Bliss and I were in a white van that was controlled by a keyboard.  I somehow managed to move it without use of the keyboard, but then we got stuck as we were moving on to an overpass.  

Bliss told my to use the keyboard.  I hit the arrow keys, but it didn’t work.  A truck was coming from the freeway and behind us.  Bliss hit a coulpe of keys (”s” “f” I think) and we started moving.  So I used those keys too.  Then I woke up.

This was an exceptionally beautiful blonde woman who looked a lot like Bliss from zaadz but it may have been someone else because she had a norwegian accent.
Analysis:

I think this dream is telling me to listen to my feminine (intuitive, right-brained & creative) side more for life directions.
not sure what the norwegian accent was all about though.  I have always wanted to go to Amsterdam.

Wake Within Worlds of Imagination

We are a team of dream travelers
dream weaving, reality unravelers

We are guides of lucidity to purge the infinite manifestations of self will merge while we allow access to worlds stalked by the Standford labs of Stephen Laberge

We are mutual dreamers that infiltrate, rape and pilage your walls and insecurities, for we seek to bleed you and cleanse these impurities

We are creatures of the night
We walk among you sleeping cattle having our way with your ignorance and sabotaging your fears and hate with mindless acts of love - like “free hugs”

“…we are the dreamers we dream the dreams”

We stumbled drunk upon Castaneda’s Gates of Dreaming
We sat at the feet of inorganic beings
We are Gods and Goddesses in embryo
Princes and princesses of universes unseen, expanding with infinite involution

Our dream journals speak of countless deaths, burials and resurrections in
the perfect consciousness that is now

We die nigthly and wake within worlds of pure imagination

to some lucid dreams I know…

Advice from on Lucid Dreaming

thanks jordan @ zaadz

my question:
I’ve been into lucid dreaming for years. but have had trouble doing it consistently. Any advice? I noticed that keeping a journal and Laberge’s “reality checking” works.

Answer from jordan
Hey there-It´s good to hear about your practice. I have a few things to say that will perhaps help you out. At my best, I was averaging about 2 lucid dreams per week. At the moment, I´m averaging about one or so per week. What I´ve noticed is that if I am sleep deprived, I dont have lucid dreams.

So perhaps you need to look at your sleeping schedule first. In
this way, you need to analyze your life from the perspective of whether having lucid dreams is worth devoting some more time to your sleep schedule. In my opinion, it is, but it´s hard to keep this in
perspective.

Secondly, the frame mind from which you approach your practice is very important. If you are merely looking to your lucid dreams for fantasy or pleasure, you won´t have as many as if you recognize their importance in helping you solve problems, meditate, or evolve spiritually. Lucid dreams have tremendous potential from this perspective, and we can talk about that more if you´re interested.

Last but not least, you need to let your unconscious mind do the work. Your only job is to keep reminding it to do the work. You accomplish this just like you have been, by using a dream journal and performing reality checks. However, you can´t look at your reality checks as the actual¨”thing” that is causing you to lucid dream. Rather, it´s just a reminder to your brain to put in the REAL unconscious effort which actually creates the lucid dream. Your conscoius effort plays a VERY small role in the process, and if you just trust in your unconscious to do its job, you´ll be better off for it. You can´t get frustrated for not having lucid dreams, you need to view every nights sleep, regardless of lucidity, as a step towards lucidity. Every time you remember a dream, write it down, do a reality check, etc., you need to reward yourself for reminding the unconscious. The more positive associations you make with
such little actions, the more weight they´ll carry to your unconscious
mind.

Good luck and look forward to hearing back from you,

jordan

Lucid Dreaming technique

Lucid Dreaming has been a challenge for me.  For over 10 years I’ve been writing my dreams down and trying to figure out how to have regular lucid dreams. 

Once technique that has worked has been Laberg’s “Reality Check”.  It consists of analyzing your dreams for regular “sign posts” or recurring symbols, then you make a list.  You then train your mind to respond by asking “is this a dream?” when ever you see the objects you’ve put on the list throughout the course of the day.  By establishing that pattern of behavior in waking life, the next time you see the sign post in your dream you will ask, “Is this a dream?” and wake up.

It seems that the more intensely and consistently you focus on the question “is this a dream?” the more likely you will have a lucid dream.  So I will try to think about the “feeling” of being in a dream into every waking moment of my daily life.  My theory is that I will have lucid dreams more regularly.

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