Dream Phenomena

Psychic Connections from a Dream Perspective

The age old question of life after death could be rephrased as: Does the psyche live when the body dies? This is really what everyone wants to know. We already know that the body returns to the earth.

What happens to the psyche is the real question. It’s kind of hard to explore the question if you don’t take the time to explore the psyche. When you open yourself up to the world of dreams, you are opening yourself to your mind, soul, and spirit.

The psyche is the human soul or spirit, the mind. When something is psychic it is of the mind, soul, and spirit. It is the essence of who we are. Dreaming is a psychic function. Dreams are a fascinating way to explore the capabilities of our own personal psyche. Understanding what the psyche is actually capable of from a dreaming perspective is to actually take personal dream experiences and explore the possible origins of the dream information.

An Early Experience

On August 19, 1998 I had a dream. In this dream I was in a house in Antigua with beautiful back bedrooms. People that I know were there eating chocolate.

I could see a map. The map showed me that there was going to be a terrible earthquake caused by the two sets of rock that Antigua was built on.

I woke to the thought that all I knew about Antigua was that it was an island, and yet it wasn’t an island in my dream.

Was this beyond just a dream?

While researching Antigua, I read that it was indeed an island, but it wasn’t just an island. I was stunned to read that Antigua was also the capital of Guatemala, founded in 1543 and destroyed by an earthquake in the year 1773. Guatemala was originally home to the Mayans. It turns out that the Mayans made and loved chocolate. That was the significance of the chocolate in my dream.

The other big clue in my dream was the earthquake which was shown to be triggered by two sets of rocks. A bit of simple research led me to the information that earthquakes are caused by the movement of plates of rock and metal. In my dream I saw a map of two silver rock formations causing the earthquake in Antigua. I drew a copy of this map in my dream journal.

Connecting my dream with verifiable facts led to my interest in understanding what exactly was happening and how it was possible.  Armed with the knowledge of my own personal proof, I became a serious dream explorer and sought out to answer some question about the psyche and dreams.

My Thoughts about the Psyche in the Antigua Dream

Past life?

• My psyche could be tapping in to my own memories that survived my previous death. Is this proof that I lived a past life in Antigua in 1773 and dreamed of it in 1998? Perhaps past lives are a reality and the ability to tap into this type of past memory exists in our dream state? This would mean I actually did live in Antigua in 1773. In this case I would be connecting to my own memories which, in this scenario, would not die with the body. They would be reborn with, yet hidden from the conscious memories of, the new body.

Time travel?

• Could my psyche be traveling on a wave that doesn’t differentiate between past and present? Everything that is and ever was is in the same space. I would, in theory, jump into Antigua in 1773. That doesn’t mean I was there in 1773, in a different body. (Or does it?) Is this proof that it is possible to somehow transcend time and space and connect to this information? Can the human mind in the present occupy the same time or space with a moment from the past? Can it actually move in to the past because time and space do not exist for the spirit? Is it free to wander? Can this be perceived by the mind of a sleeping individual as a dream? In this case my dreaming mind would be experiencing the fact that separation of time and space do not exist.

The future?

• Is this proof that it is possible to see the future and gain the knowledge needed for a dream by watching a future event? My psyche would have gained the knowledge of the Antigua earthquake by watching me, in the future, research Antigua? In this case experiences do not exist in a linear fashion. As in the time travel theory, past, present and future are simply there and available to the dreaming mind. The future experience would have created the “now” dream experience. Now that’s quite a mind boggling thought!

Imprinted record?

• Could my psyche be tapping into a wave, like a television wave, that holds the imprint, the record, of everything that ever was? In this way I could learn about Antigua in 1773. Is this proof that there is a record of everything that exists and has ever existed imprinted on the fabric of space and time? A record that a dreaming mind can connect to and read. Can our dreaming mind watch this record as though it were a movie? Could the reading or the watching of this imprinted record be perceived as a dream? Does a readable record exist of future possibilities; the more coincidences stacking up to make the future probable, the easier it is to read?

Is any of the above really happening and we simply don’t have the ability and proof to answer those questions?

Or, perhaps it’s simply proof that amazing coincidences really do happen?

Thoughts on Coincidence

There are those who will go with the theory that this was all “just a coincidence”, they will dismiss the relevance of the dream to the real historical events. In their understanding of coincidence it would appear as though the events were connected but were actually accidental.

What exactly is a coincidence? To coincide is to occupy the same place in space or occur at the same time. When things coincide figuratively it means that they: are alike; correspond to each other; agree. My dream corresponded to the true facts. It was in agreement with them. This provided the basis for the coincidence.

I find it such a coincidence that the understanding of how these types of dreams are even possible, and the way we experience time and space is the actual basis for things to be coincidental.

Are these dreams really such a coincidence after all?

If they are “only a coincidence,” could life be a series of coincidences that were meant to happen? A series of events that are there for us to see and connect with when our body sleeps and our subconscious psyche awakens to connections overlapping and occurring in the same time and space?

Can I prove anything?

I questioned what this dream could actually be a proof of and threw out a few theories to ponder. The future theory is the one I have the most experience with. I have dreamed future events too often for me to dismiss these as coincidences or impossibilities. Having already written about a few of these situations, rather than rewrite them here, I will simply direct those who are interested to my posts on Deja Vu and Gambling in Dreams. When the actual future happens it leads me to believe that it is no longer a theory, but a proof that it can be done. When you do it, you tend to believe it’s possible!

I can’t “prove” I’ve lived a past life. I can’t “prove” I’m watching an imprinted record. I can’t “prove” that time and space is more than linear. I can’t “prove” to anyone else but myself that I dreamed something before it happened, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Eventually a larger proof occurs as more and more individuals have personal proof.  There’s no point in telling people what to believe, it’s much better if they do it on their own and then believe in themselves.

If you’ve had similar experiences or just enjoy the topic, join me in the exploration of the psyche through the connections between dreams and reality by sending me an email or leaving a comment below. Thanks for reading.

Psychic Dreaming

In this dream I received information that was previously unknown to me. I was given a name that was relevant to my current situation.

The dream: I was being given three plates. The front of the plates had a blue design, but it was the back of the plates that was amazing. The back had beautiful artistic work that was signed by George Steiner. These plates were very valuable.

Upon waking, I wondered if there was really a person named George Steiner, so I Googled him. Sure enough, there was. The thing that stood out the most was the fact that, in 1975, he had written a book titled After Babel – a book about language and translation.

The Interpretation of My Dream

Plates: Symbolize what is “on my plate” at this time. What I’m currently working on is this blog site.

Blue design on the front: Symbolize my blog design in blue.

Three plates: Symbolize the interconnectedness of the three blogs I plan on writing in the future.

Artistic design on back: Symbolizes the importance of what’s behind the obvious. What is “backing up” the blog is what is valuable.

What was given to me psychically: George Steiner’s After Babel, a book about language and translation, symbolizes that the translation of the language of dreams has value.

An interesting note here, without giving away the context of the next two blogs, is that for the title of one of them, I was considering

“Babel-on.”

Interconnectedness of Everything

From a skeptic’s point of view:

Skeptics will say that I must have been familiar with George Steiner. They’d argue that I could have read a bit about him in a magazine 20 years ago and still have that memory somewhere in my subconscious. How can anyone argue against this point? I may not have read something, ever, but it’d be impossible to argue that I didn’t read it if a skeptic uses this type of logic. I simply wouldn’t be able to deny ever having read anything! I must therefore give the skeptics their due.

From an explorer’s point of view:

What would be really nice is if the skeptics suspended their doubt against anything learned psychically, and gave the rest of us our due! Believe in the possibility that nothing about George Steiner was ever read before the dream knowledge was given. How then did I dream his name in the correct context? How did I dream his name at all?

When someone believes that something is impossible, they believe this as their truth. They don’t open up to the possibility that they are wrong. Therefore they will never explore the seemingly impossible. If every scientific mind out there were so closed minded, the world would be bereft of all sorts of wonderful inventions and genuine knowledge.

Those of us who are explorers, in the world of the seemingly impossible, are pioneers. We join together in exploring a world filled with the amazing truths of what we, as human beings, are capable of. My area of exploration is centered on dreams. We, as a society, have been taught, and continue to be taught, that dreams are not reality and that they should be dismissed as nonsense. Do we so easily dismiss the opportunity to delve in to our inner selves? We are more than what people see.

Can we also do more than what people realize? The answer is a resounding, “Yes!” Exploring what we can do and integrating the knowledge in to the mainstream is a key to more psychic knowledge becoming available. Proof suspends disbelief. The more people who dream something they couldn’t know in their waking life, the more people believe in the truth of what we’re capable of knowing from our dreams.

In Conclusion

The reason I am sharing my experiences with you, is not to show you what I can do, but to show you what you can do. How we can do this is a complete mystery to me. The world, and how we are connected to each other, is obviously filled with a tremendous amount of untapped knowledge. Hence the reason for the need to explore!

Dreaming and waking to a telephone ringing.

Many people are woken from a dream by the ringing of a telephone.

Sometimes it appears as though a phone in your dream is ringing. Then, when you wake up, you realize that your real phone is ringing. It actually woke you up.

Now imagine being asleep and still in the dream. You hear a phone ringing in your dream. You stop and listen and tell yourself that it is your real phone ringing, and you’d better wake up. You awaken and sure enough your phone is ringing.

Now this is an experience worth exploring!

In the first experience an outside noise penetrated your dream state and woke you up. You didn’t realize that the ringing phone you heard in your dream was actually your phone ringing until you woke up.

In the second experience an outside noise penetrated your dream state, while still in that dream, you realized your phone was ringing and that you needed to wake up.

Knowing awake things in a dream.

The reason why this experience is fascinating is because it speaks of a connection between the subconscious and conscious mind; between the dreaming and the awakened mind.

Generally, when we’re awake, we can remember our dreams. It is a bit rarer to remember your conscious life while you’re dreaming. Actually walking through a dream and thinking about things that are true when you’re awake is a really neat experience.

Why does it matter?

It matters most as a proof of what the dreaming mind is capable of. I am open to the possibility of unusual dream experiences. When I have the dream experience myself, the possibility has become my reality. In sharing my experiences with you, I hope that I am opening you up to the fact that these things are possible, you only need to experience them for yourself to add them to your reality.

Gambling in Dreams and Winning!

Have you ever dreamed of numbers, and then rushed to the lottery counter to buy a ticket? How about the winning horse in the next Kentucky Derby? You’re sitting at the Casino and the jackpot bells begin to ring, only to wake to the sound of your alarm clock. The dream seemed so real that you went to the casino and played the game. Sad to say, but you lost your $100 dollars. Even so, a lot of people will bet on numbers they were given in a dream. The reason being that sometimes they really do win!

What could possibly be going on here?

A. Wish fulfillment.

You could be dreaming because it’s fun and enjoyable. Who doesn’t dream of winning the lottery, or hitting the jackpot? Where else can the seemingly impossible happen, except in your dreams? These particular dreams are not connected with reality, meaning your win is not a future event.

B. Life enrichment ( en-”rich”-ment ).

Winning the lottery or hitting a jackpot in your dreams could be showing you ways in which you’ve “hit the jackpot” in your waking life. You can be sure that wonderful things are happening in your life, or they soon will be. These things do not have to be monetary, although they will en-rich your life.

C. Dreaming the future.

When you actually dream the event that subsequently comes true, whether it’s the winning horse, or the winning number, you should look for the reason why you were able to do such a thing.

• Are you attempting to prove to yourself, or someone else, that it can be done?
• Did you, or someone else need the money that was won?
• Could it possibly have been an affirmation from someone who has crossed over?

When the gambling actually pays off.

Personal Dream 1

As an eldercare worker, I took care of a lovely lady named Margaret. Margaret happened to be the mother-in-law of my best friend. One day, not long after Margaret had passed on, I was sitting at my friend’s kitchen table. Her husband was rushing around getting ready to go bowling, and I was attempting to tell him a dream I had the night before. In this dream his mother was eating lemon water ice. I told him the strange amount of money his mom had paid for her treat. $3.62. He called me up later, after he saw that night’s winning lottery number. You guessed it, 362. As it turns out, his mom, Margaret, played that number every night of her life. He said, if he had been paying attention, he would have stopped on his way to the bowling alley and bought a ticket.

Personal Dream 2

This dream was actually the dream of an elderly gentleman that I was caring for. He was a retired school teacher. One morning, upon arriving at his home, I found that he couldn’t wait for me to arrive so that he could share his dream of the night before. He told me that he was using his hands to teach his students how many times 5 goes into 20. On my way home I purchased a lottery ticket for him. I chose 2-0-5-4 boxed since 20/5=4. Later that week his number came out. Luckily I believe in playing a number for 10 days. He won $200!

Understanding the messages.

It is my hope that these examples will help you in your understanding of how a dream can manifest as a winning situation in life. I have my own personal clues that I pay attention to.

1. I am usually purchasing something in my dream when I get a “real” number; one that will actually hit.

2. I usually get the number for someone else.

3. When it’s strictly for me, I don’t play anything as it’s seldom “real”. This is when I look to life enrichment, or the need for a little fun to remind me what it feels like to be a winner.

Conclusion

The above analysis is strictly for straight-forward, winning combinations of gambling scenarios in dreams. The focus being on whether or not it is possible to dream them ahead of time. You are the one having the dreams. You need to ask yourself if the numbers you dream have ever produced a winning lottery ticket. Have you unerringly gone to the slot machine you saw in your dream and won the prize that your dream assured you would be yours? Have your horses placed first, second, and third? This is your personal clue that it is a possibility, though definitely not a definite, that your gambling scenario will pay off.

If you, like millions of other people, dream of winning and never even come close, think about some other explanation for the dream. Explore the possibilities outlined above, under sections A and B. List all of the good things happening in your life. Don’t forget things that are on the verge of happening. These are things that are enriching your life at this time. Above all, enjoy the wonderful feeling of winning the jackpot that you gave yourself in your dream. Dreams are sometimes just our way of having fun.

Please note:  I did not address the act of losing a bet in your dreams. Basically, dreaming of losing is the opposite of dreaming of winning. I also did not touch on the dreams of addicted gamblers. Gamblers in need of help should contact gamblers anonymous. There is a lot more to their gambling dreams then the light-hearted analysis presented here.

Thanks for reading Dreamer, I hope you’ve enjoyed it.

Flying in Dreams

Have you ever had a dream about flying? One of those fun, fantastic, fabulous dreams where you’re soaring above the earth? Everything feels crystal clear, amazingly so. If you’re really lucky you can feel the wind on your face, or the droplets of spray from the ocean waves crashing just below you. You feel alive in your dream, like you are really there. Perhaps you found yourself flying in your dream, actually choosing where you want to go, creating your dream as you move along.

What I am describing is lucidity in your dream. To be lucid in a dream is to be conscious.  This is a subject to be explored in more depth. For now, the reason I am discussing it here is because many people are aware that they are dreaming when they have flying dreams.

Flying Dream Examples

You are not conscious of the fact that you are dreaming while you’re in the dream. You are having a dream, you wake up and remember that you were flying in your dream.

1. This dream is characterized mainly by the lack of any tactile sensations, those you can actually feel.
2. This is a wonderful dream where you remember flying, but you weren’t aware within the dream that you were flying.
3. You weren’t lucid, conscious in the dream that you were dreaming. You remembered your dream after you woke up.

You are conscious of the fact that you are dreaming while you’re in the dream. You realize that you are flying while you are still asleep and dreaming, paying careful attention to the dreamscape that you’re in.

1. This dream is characterized by your ability to feel things around you, with the same sensations as reality, while in the dream.
2. You are lucid, consciously aware of the fact that you are dreaming.
3. Even though you are lucid, you are not creating the dreamscape.
4. You are awake in the dream, living your dream.

You are not only conscious of the fact that you are dreaming, you are creating the dream. You realize that you are flying while you are asleep and become a part of your dream body to the extent that you can control yourself while dreaming, just as you do while you’re awake.

1. This dream is characterized by the fact that you can eat, drink smell, taste; you can touch, feel and move about. You find that everything is just a thought away.
2. Your dreamscape is of your choice, if you want to be at an amusement park, you are.
3. If you want cotton candy, you can taste it on your tongue.
4. You are awake in your dream, living your dream, and creating your dream.
5. All this while your physical body is asleep in your bed.

These are fun dreams.

The flying dreams I have described above are characterized by the good feelings that they generate. It’s fun to fly. It’s a chance to do something that we can never do in real life. Could it also be a way for us to see our possibilities? An unforgettable glimpse into what our psyches are capable of? Could this be the dream within the dream, that this could be our reality?

Déjà Vu

The official definition of déjà vu is the illusion of having already experienced a situation that is actually happening for the first time. This phenomenon involves an intense feeling that you’ve already experienced the exact situation and even said the exact words before, and yet you know you haven’t. It feels really bizarre! Now, imagine being in a situation, experiencing a feeling of déjà vu, and then realizing that you were actually living the dream you had the night before. Now there’s a situation for analysis if ever there was one!

My personal experience with déjà vu:

One day, about 10 years ago, I was at a mall that I’d never been to before. Everywhere I looked I was seeing things, and people, that felt familiar. Even the question my friend just asked me felt so familiar that I asked her if she had just asked me that!

My “lightbulb” moment; a moment of complete understanding, was when the dresses on the mannequins at the mall were the exact dresses from my dream. I had actually experienced this trip to the mall, only it was in last night’s dream, hence the feeling of déjà vu!

A few of the questions I began asking myself were:

Could what people experience as deja vu actually be caused by an unremembered dream?

How could I possibly have dreamed the situation when it hadn’t even happened yet? That would mean I was dreaming the future,right?

Am I dreaming future possibilities, highly probable events, or events in time that are set in stone?

What else can happen while sleeping?

To answer these questions, I began writing down every dream I had.

If this was going to happen again, I wanted written proof. Some part of me realized that something big was happening here, although I didn’t quite know what it was yet. I was at the beginning of a realization that dreams are more than nonsensical thoughts that we entertain ourselves with while we’re sleeping.

I had a wonderful dream therapist who helped me to realize that I was attempting to validate myself. I couldn’t very well speak something as a truth when even I found it hard to believe! I’m one of those people who believe in possibilities and seek proofs.

I began to realize that I dreamed the future on a regular basis. I am not asking you to believe me, simply believe in the possibility and seek your own proofs. The importance of my experiences is that they lead to yours. What good is it if I stand alone with this knowledge and the rest of the world doesn’t know that this is possible?

Dreaming the future is not a unique ability. Most people that I talk to who are seriously studying their dreams will tell me about dreaming of an event that hadn’t yet happened. Skeptics will say you’ve dreamed it because it was on your mind. One very important fact they should consider is the physical item, which you’ve never seen before, that is in your dream before you see it in reality, such as the dresses on the mannequins from the above example.

That still doesn’t say how this is possible! Obviously, there is some mechanism at work while you’re sleeping. Let’s go with the truth that while your physical body is lying immobile, your mind is extremely active. It’s running around doing all kinds of things! It’s even, according to the traditional understanding of time, running ahead of your physical body. Or is it? Maybe your mind is sitting still and “some energy” is showing you a film of your future, a type of projection. Maybe this “energy” is such that your mind can enter the movie, so that it feels as though you are experiencing the events. It appears that your mental body, while you are sleeping, is able to go into the future, or a projection of the future, and see things that haven’t yet occurred. In my dream word energy, I’ll go into more depth with these notions.

The next question was if this dream of the future was set in stone, or if it was just one future possibility? I can only theorize that answer based upon my experiences. I have found that sometimes the event happens and sometimes it doesn’t. The event is, therefore, a possibility, rather than a set in stone event. If it were set in stone it would always happen!

For instance, last night I had a dream in which my best friend was in a minor car accident. I actually saw the right side of her car crushed along the whole length. Quickly, I called to warn her to be extra careful. In these instances one of two things happens. The first is that she has the accident, and consequently believes in the ability of dreams to see into the future. The second is that there is not an accident in sight! In this instance there is no proof that an accident was even a possibility. This could mean that free- will choices brought another outcome or that there never was going to be an accident in the first place.

Many dreams of accidents are symbolic. By that I mean, to dream of an accident to ones’ car can be an accident to ones physical body, etc. Believe me; things get very complicated in dreams! (As it turned out my friend was “wrecking” her body!)

My theory, therefore, is that there are many possible futures for our minds to see in our dreams. I also believe that the closer something is to probability, the easier it is to see in a dream. A future scenario needs everyone’s free will and free choice options to coincide to produce a particular reality (synchronicity). When you dream a probable future and someone else’s choices change the event, then that future doesn’t happen.

For instance, using the above dream example, if the person driving the other car involved in the potential accident decides not to drive that day, the accident doesn’t happen. It’s that simple; which is why I feel that the future can’t be predicted using dreams. The future is not set in stone. It seems to me to be always in a state of possibility, based upon choices, and yet it’s already there to see in dreams.

Does the human mind use the time when the body is asleep to allow the freedom to check into future possibilities? How wonderfully amazing is that? For those of you who think this is nonsense, give it a try. Believe in the possibility of dreaming the future, and when you actually do it, you will believe in the truth of dreaming the future. In the meantime, keep analyzing your dreams, in hope that they broaden your horizons, helping to realize what the human mind is truly capable of. Keep in mind, when you next experience déjà vu, you could be remembering a dream!

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