Introduction to Dreams

[JerseyBluEyz]

Please Note: Throughout this piece I shall be referring to “ego”. The meaning for ego is not the popular and widely used one (an exaggerated sense of self, conceit, or over inflated self image). Herein, ego shall be used as a symbol of separation from God Mind. For a deeper understanding of ego, read here - www.miracles.org.nz/ego.htm


DREAMS

Every soul personality has three levels of consciousness: super-conscious, subconscious, and conscious. All the infinite levels of your soul personality exist simultaneously in these three states of consciousness without separation from God Mind. Both the dream world (subconscious) and the waking world (conscious) are masks for true reality (super conscious) and are extremely symbolic of our true mind patterns and life directions. Although three levels are mentioned here, keep in mind that there is only ONE consciousness.

Your subconscious mind is always aware of your super conscious and conscious minds. The subconscious mind is the border between the physical and spiritual parts of self. Reaching beneath the surface, the subconscious mind is the translator for the spiritual state manifesting into the physical state. Through dreams, your subconscious mind presents you with pertinent life information that you may be ignoring while awake. When lessons are not consciously learned, they are revealed symbolically in the dream state. These symbols are the ones with which you are familiar in your conscious state – therefore, both levels are the same, an illusion within an illusion, or a symbol of Oneness. People usually dream in familiar colors, languages, numbers, etc. If you experience a symbol that is beyond conscious awareness, you can remember it in detail by removing inner blocks.

Human beings sleep approximately 8 hours every day, or 1/3 of their lives. So much time is spent incorrectly analyzing the other 2/3 that people ignore the most important messages of all – from the dream state! You may accept your waking life as real, while dismissing the dream world as an illusion. In actuality, there is NO difference in symbology or in experience between the two. Symbolic messages received in the dream state depend upon the individual’s mind pattern. Most symbols in dreams are tailored specifically to the individual. In all of separated creation (an illusion or dream), no one is EXACTLY like you. In true reality, each is exactly like the other (ONE). There are individual definitions for dream symbols (colors, numbers, particular scenes, etc.) while other symbols are universal since all exists in God Mind. Individual mind patterns and experiences act as filters through which these symbols pass and project mind patterns. As you remember the thoughts, emotions, and details experienced in the dream state, DO NOT allow the conscious ego to dismiss anything as meaningless. This is simply another attempt to block the truth. Be aware of the phrase – I had this dream because this or that happened during the day. The truth is that the ego often attempts to justify the reason behind the dream so that you can use your conscious, self-deceiving thoughts to explain the subconscious symbolism, another way of diverting you from finding out what is NOT true about yourself.

As in ANY conscious lesson, there are infinite levels of meaning and purpose behind your dreams. Focus on the level of meaning that helps explain your conscious and subconscious experiences. Remember, you dream about YOURSELF or various aspect of YOUR personality in the form of symbols (people, places, and experiences). There could also be messages about relationships, life circumstances, and progress reports. The ego attempts to use a literal translation to deceive you into focusing outside of yourself. DO NOT allow this, for to do so means that you are asleep and not awake. More than mere flesh, blood, and bones, YOU ARE SPIRIT, and spirit never sleeps. When physically asleep, Breath of Life is still awake within you and reflects the mind patterns in the form of experiences represented by symbols.

When you dream, you replay your mind patterns that you try to bury in your subconscious mind. Much of the dream state plays out in the Astral Plane (subconscious), which envelops the Physical Plane (conscious); one cannot exist without the other. OBEs also take place in the Astral Plane. In this middle plane is where the newly dead come to rest or haunt, before moving on. Hauntings only affect physical realities. The plane also propels or thrusts thoughts into physical existence to become experiences for you – so be careful what you thing or what you wish for!

If you would like help in understanding the symbolism of a dream, you can post the dream in this section OR send me a PM through the board. Dreams can be revealing at times and I will keep things private when requested, or if I deem it necessary. Keep in mind the more details you provide about a dream, the better the interpretation - names, places, colors, left, right, and what the people, places or things means to you in the awake state, etc. As time goes on, the more I learn about your personal life the more I will be able to help you understand.

P.S. I DO NOT make any claims in being a Dreams Guru, it's simply been a favorite study subject AND I was taught by the best!

[JerseyBluEyz]

DREAM CONCEPTS:

1. Aspirations – Dreams commonly are your aspirations or goals in life and are your subconscious’ way of balancing you in physical reality. This balancing will help your experiences be of a physical and spiritual nature.

2. Emotions – Sometimes negative emotions surface in the dream state which involves people in your life. Remember, your subconscious mind uses these people as symbols to represent an aspect of YOUR personality, so there is not reason to carry negative emotions from the dream state into the waking state. Also, IF the dream brings a message about your relationship with a particular person, it is for correction, NOT to promote conflict.

3. Nightmares – A part of your soul addresses a very sensitive, deep aspect of your mind pattern that frightens you during a nightmare. For most, facing the truth is extremely scary, so the dream is perceived by the ego as a horrible experience. Use the dream to correct a situation, thought, or event.

4. Recurring Nightmares – A recurring nightmare holds a lesson that demands immediate correction. Your subconscious uses this dream until you address the mind pattern which the dream represents.

5. Can’t Remember – Everyone dreams when they sleep. There are many common beliefs explaining why some people do not remember their dreams. Ego uses many deceptive approaches to justify this forgetfulness, even convincing people that some ritualistic physical behavior is necessary (i.e. waking up at a particular time, etc.) before they can remember their dreams. Without your help, ego will block the information because you may not be ready for the lesson in this level of consciousness. Regardless, lessons necessary for the mind pattern correction are carried out on some level of your existence. Nothing is ever left unanswered within God Mind. In timelessness, all healing has already occurred.

6. Dreams That Come True – In true reality, the conscious and subconscious are equivalent states. What is perceived as a dream on one level, is actually carried out on another level. The experience nutss from outside linear time and is inserted into linear time.

7. Messages – Dreams are messages for you as well as for your relationship with particular people. Sometimes a message will be steered through your Over Soul for someone else. This person could be blocking so much information that your soul agrees to help. Subsequently, your subconscious will give you the necessary information for healing.

8. Biological Clock – If you find yourself waking up at a particular time at night, understand that there is a pattern, whose numbers on the clock are significant in understanding.

9. Sleep Walking or Talking – When your essence, or consciousness, leaves to go to another reality (conscious to subconscious), your soul personality is aware of what it is going to learn. Sometimes the lesson is very deep and frightening because the mind pattern is addressed. Our of fear, some souls attempt to keep their essence closer to the physical aspect of themselves, so the body expresses or enacts what it learns at that moment, actually playing out the dream. Trouble sometimes occurs when another person overhears words spoken in the subconscious state, and does not understand the words are ONLY symbols used for balancing and healing. Sometimes people who sleep walk try to fly because where they are, they can fly.

10. Wet Dreams – An orgasm while asleep is a mind patter of creating something for the soul personality that will occur in the physical life. The conscious mind translates this creating into a wet dream. Here again, the personality’s essence is close to the body. Fearing what must be created AND projected out, the body enacts a symbolic orgasm.

11. Picking Up the Dream – Sometimes during a dream there are so many lessons and so much information that needs to be assimilated that a break occurs (i.e. waking up, going to the bathroom, etc.). When the dream needs to be picked up where it left off, it will, or you will continue onto another dream.

[KNOWTHIS]

JerseyBluEyz said:

DREAM CONCEPTS:



3. Nightmares – A part of your soul addresses a very sensitive, deep aspect of your mind pattern that frightens you during a nightmare. For most, facing the truth is extremely scary, so the dream is perceived by the ego as a horrible experience. Use the dream to correct a situation, thought, or event.

I have nightmares almost regularly, guess there's a lot of truth that I've been missing out there?

[KNOWTHIS]

The marvelous thing about dreams is how the imagery sort of melts together as one. Even when these things can seem on their own entirely unrelated.

[JerseyBluEyz]

KNOWTHIS said:

I have nightmares almost regularly, guess there's a lot of truth that I've been missing out there?

It does not necessarily mean DIFFERENT truth concepts are escaping your notice. There could be one general theme playing out through your nightmares. This one theme could be using different symbolic concepts to gain your attention. Ultimately, what you dream is your oversoul’s way of trying to get you to focus on a mind pattern that needs correction. Facing oneself is not an easy thing for anyone to do. That’s why most people focus on the errs of others rather than spending time looking within. Even Christ tried to warn us through one of his parables of the need to focus on self first:

Matthew 7:3-5 [3] Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? [4] How can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? [5] You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

If we’re honest with our self we will admit that focusing on others’ mistakes or what’s wrong with the world (ANYWHERE other than within) is less painful than facing what we view as our own faults.

[JerseyBluEyz]

I love that image! It happens to be one of my favorites! It’s by Jim Warren and is called Island Dreams. Did you know that it’s featured on the cover of his latest book – Painted Worlds? As a matter of fact, I want to get that book to put out on my coffee table!

I believe I once gave you a link to a poetic/esoteric website, The Great Illusion www.thegreatillusion.com/index.shtml that features many of his images? Did you ever get a chance to read there? This poem by Victor Kahn from The Great Illusion is one of my favorites:

The Mystery of Life

The time has come to face up to the truth,
whatever the consequences, those are the rules.
Nothing happens by luck or by chance,
the timing is perfect and your world is enhanced.

You're reading this message because of a light,
that has guided you inward, to see toward what's right.
Some of the travelers who get on this ride,
are not ready to see it, to think or decide.

They just need a push, a shove or a guide,
the great illusion is inward, and not just outside.
It's the secret of life that flows in us all,
but why understand it and why climb this wall?

Nothing is simple as we hide under our beds,
all is a paradox and it's all in our heads.
Fantasy is lucid on this trip through the dream,
the path travels inward ~ building high self esteem.

Overcoming all images of fear and of strife.
thought creates reality

...that's the Mystery of Life!


If anyone cares to see more images by Jim Wareen, here is his official website: www.jimwarren.com/

There are MANY images behind each section on the left side (What’s New, Fine Art, Portraits, and Illustrations). I don’t want anyone to miss something, so I need to point out that behind Fine Art and Portraits, you have to click on the intro image to get into a further gallery. ENJOY!