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Hi MD and welcome. Glad you are enjoying the soup.
It is said that dreams show us the interior landscape of the mind, the contours of our fears and wishes. Dreams can be warnings or indications, beckoning us to a new level of learning or a new aspect of life that we must learn to face.
The journey towards greater authenticity and innter connectedness is not an external adventure only. Of course, we must move out into the world, utilizing our gifts and making real our dreams. At the same time, we need to face our inner deamons - whether they be fears of failure and humiliation, repressed rage, narcissism, or even an excessive mistrust of people. Dreams, especially recurring drams, may invite us into this inferno, reminding us of the inner work before us.
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last night's dreams had a recurring theme that I was always thirsty, looking for a cup and some water every home I visited in my dream =)
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is there a specific a solution that you are seeking subconciously in life lotuslol? my recurrings revolve around that usually.
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Hello MD,
I'm very sorry to hear about your experience with clinical depression. Because you hadn't told anyone, you didn't get any support which made me think of how alone you must've felt. It must've been VERY hard for you in those 4 months. Those dreams were haunting indeed and I'm glad to hear that you're over them and the depression. It's also good to hear that you have found some peace in religion.
I read somewhere (can't remember where now) that dreaming is necessary for a healthy mind. We tend to store into our subconscious minds those everyday experiences that have affected us, but of which we are just too busy to take care of immediately! Dreaming is like natural therapy, it's the time we're given to deal with another layer of ourselves ~ an important layer in our psychological makeup, no doubt. We dream during the REM (rapid eye movement) stages in sleep, which occur around every 60+ mins and last for up to 20 mins of dreaming time. REM time gradually increases with a longer sleep period.
I have always been interested in dreams ^_^. I am also new to this group. Thank you for the invite !efatima.
Happy dreaming everyone!
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I have a very interesting take on dreams. I believe in what is called the Law of Attraction (that which is like itself is drawn). Everything in the Universe is made up of energy and science tells us that energy moves by law. Having said that - we all give off vibrations and everything around us is a vibrational match to us.
If you are interested in more info on this..check out www.abraham-hicks.com
When we sleep, we have zero resistance to our energy, and a dream is just a dominant vibration, that you are experencing during sleep.
The reason dreams do come true sometimes, is because you can still create that reality in the real world with your energy.
Hope that made sense.
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Dear First Contact;
So wisely said and welcome. We sure could use your wisdom. I leargely await your posts.
Dear _stefaine;
welcome and thanks for the insight. Is Dejvu a dreaming process?
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!efatima:
salam, i think u're very right. there are two worlds - actuality and then, our dreams. the dreams can offer so much more insight, if only we were able to decipher it accurately. Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts.
lotusutol:
I agree with !efatima - i think i would offer a similar interpretation. i hope u quench ur thirst soon :) thanks so much for droppin by!
First Contact:
u're new too - so that makes us two :) thank you so much for ur kind words. i think the dreams i had were haunting indeed, but they were the key to finding a solution. if i didnt dream (or remember them), i'd never be able to find my way out of the mental madness. really appreciate ur comments.
_stefanie:
very interesting - i have heard the vibrating energy theory before...hmm it was a philosopher, can't remember his name. spinoza?! but this is the first time i hear this in context of dreams. i will check the link u mentioned. thanks so much for ur comments! :)
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Yes I believe in dreams, because I know I sometimes have them....I don`t believe they offer me any solutions to any problems that I may have had....But if it was possible to get messages from the dearly departed...I would be more than impressed.
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strange that you said that Burwell... the most vivid dream that I ever had was of my Dad (who had passed on after a short illness). In my dream he looked better than he had for years - he was kind of glowing with health.
He spoke to me in my dream which really freaked me out.
I heard from someone later, that departed relatives visit you in your dreams to let you know they care for you and are still around looking after you.
I guess if they appeared while you are awake it could be just too scary.
A book I found really helpful is Julian Barbour's "The End of Time"
Ju
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I do believe in dreams, I know that the message is clear, and dreams excist.
I know dreams tell you a lot more than you would have hoped for. I have been able to 'explain' dreams to my relatives, my mum, my brother and my grandmother. Especially the last person. She learned and taught me what dreams are, what they tell me, what to look for, and how to participate in a dream and turn a dream into your benefit / luck.
Dreams do have messages from beyond and are intended to help you in one way or another.
You know who you are.
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I've had dreams that have happened in reality almost identical to the dream. But then again I also have dreams on a daily basis that are so outlandish that they should be movies.
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hmmmm.... your comments could be true, efatima, i am wondering what i would be doing with my life in the future. I have many qualifications on paper, but i am not sure what direction i will go. I suppose i will depend on God to reveal it to me, bit by bit. =)
it could be combination of real physical thirst too... my lips and throat are really dry now due to lack of drinking water and the cold dry winter we are experiencing now in Australia. That night I fell asleep feeling thirsty and woke up still thirsty, so that could have affected my dreams too. =)
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This is a very interesting topic.
It is such a subjective thing to dream.
There are always elements to a dream that cannot be expressed to others, no matter how well spoken one is.
Dream states of varying kind, though, have been the time honored method of interacting with the spiritual 'plane'.
Almost every tribal culture on Earth has a variation of the "Visionquest".
I feel, though, that dreams are a part of our minds' method of absorbing all of the sensory input that we get. We give our minds a great deal to digest. Our modern lives are full of sensory input; television, radio, internet, constant sound from our surroundings.
I think that our dreams are a way for the mind to sort it all out, to filter it into forms that make more sense than we could make of it while awake.
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Well, I am behind here..
efatima..there is another great take on deja vu as well.
Let's say you have an incident in your life and you thought of four different outcomes. Your thinking of four different outcomes now creates four different movies if you will. And you check in and out of those movies all the times.
The life you are living now is the movie you have chosen to be in. Now the wild part is that everything is that the four outcomes are happening at the same time, but you are only experiencing the one reality you are focusing on. The one movie if you will..
Deja vu comes in as you having flashes of all those realities and then experiencing something.
Hope that made sense.
You can read more about this in the Conversations with God series by Neale Donald Walsh. Or not. ;-)
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no
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yes. what is reality anyway? life is merely an illusion. who needs a wakeup call?
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For me, dreams are me telling myself stories. Sometimes they're about me. Sometimes they're about other people with me playing the role like an actor on stage. Dreams are my theatre. Then I put those stories on paper and make them real.
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I think each person is best suited
to interpret their own dreams,
but, sometimes hearing perspective from others is helpful.
Some dreams are just dreams,
some are, to me, anyway, like
weather reports from my subconscious,
and a very few others do seem to have significance,
(ideas, choices, insight)
and (very rarely) do seem to be
a comunication with a departed person.
(Telling all the kinds apart; well, now, that's tricky...)
(But the "departed person" ones do seem to be
something that comes from outside, if that makes any sense.
Not anything one can "make happen".)
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I don't remember my dreams usually.
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Yes! I beliv, bcuz this is one of the Language of the Holy Spirit =) beside w/ out visions & dreams ppl perish.
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you know wots funee, the times when I used to admin huge servers at work and had a task of having to remember a list of passwords. Some mudane ones which I would forget - I would figure em out in my dreams.
Dreams are sooo interesting. A mix of subcon and unknown. We travel, sense and break the barriers of time and space while half dead.
- Is it our soul that is traveling?
- Is that what will happen when we are dead? Since Soul is a form of energy (?) with a repository of information gathered during our time .... does it break the barrier into metaphysics?
It guess its like opening pandoras box.
However, I'm still very very keen to know more about Deja vu. Is it just delayed transmission of information packets to brain?
I like what _stefaine said a matrix. :) I will certainly look up the book.
What more is there to it? What are your experiences? What does modern science say?
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efatima, that is amazing that you can see the passwords in your dreams. there are times i am reading in my dream and when i try to see the title of the book, i can never see it! no matter how much i try.
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..ditto on the 'passwords' cue, Fatima. I'll add one example: because of our way busy schedules, myself and a coworker were unable to confirm callback meeting reservations to an important client. Sure, we had both recorded the details in our respective appointment books, but they were so jammed full of entries we didn't know where to begin looking. That night I dreamed the actual event when, a few weeks earlier, while standing beside her desk, she received the original set up appointment phone call. This time, however, instead of writing the particulars down in her book, she recorded them on the back of a business card and then handed it to me. Because it was clearly legible, I was able to read it. The next morning I excitedly called her and told her where to look. Within 10 seconds she was able to locate and confirm the details I'd 'read to her' from the back of the business card she gave me in the dream!
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I've read that deja vu is caused by the momentary misbehavior of a neurotransmitter. It connects two nearby regions of the brain in a way that causes a person to 'remember' a moment while still living it.
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in many ways i think dreams are our minds' way of sorting thru what we deal with everyday:
example: the other night i dreamed that our uniform at work (i'm a paramedic full-time) had changed-instead of combat boots we were now to wear lime-green stilettos.
by itself, it makes no sense, but in the context of my life it makes perfect sense-it just drew from a couple different aspects of my life: ridiculous policy changes at work, my hatred of heels (i had been shoe-shopping that day for low heeled or flat dress shoes to go with 2 outfits) and my search for a pair of flats to wear with a bright green dress (found a pair in lime green)
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I don't know if I would say I "believe" in dreams. To me, that would mean that I think my dreams are truth - and really, dreams are just a form of subconscious rambling. Most of the time, I don't think that there is any deeper meaning there.
But. I DO believe that dreams can have value. Anything that makes us think deeper about anything - ourselves or our relationship with others - is of great value. I think we can find truth in many places, including dreams. Dreams can be a place where we are fully honest with ourselves, since the filters of our conscious mind are relaxed.
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Yes i do believe in dreamz although most of the time ther show like indian movies in their stories but some are trying to give me a message and soon ask n1 so theat i know more about or the message. In addition its inthe Quraan and some of our prophets dreamt also .... SO I believe in them
Thanx!
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the strange thing about dreams is that they can be everything from random, crazy, even boring to highly meaningful and significant.
I've had one dream where a friend who had died appeared and just kinda said hello and smiled before he left again. this was really important to me because the last few times we saw each other we had been fighting and I felt really bad about it after he died.
I felt he wasn't angry at me and told me not to worry.
it's impossible to say wether he really appeared or if my brain made it up...but I prefer to think it's the real thing.
many of my dreams are very elaborate and seem to have an extra quality (maybe emotional) to them that is different from waking life. I can still remember dreams I had when I was 5 years old.
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Oneiroscopy - the interpretation of dreams; if it has a word of its own, it must be real? Perhaps we should listen more...
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Here is a dream for you...
We were abroad but I dreamt that someone parked a car right outside our door at home. The women had twin girls in the car - remarkable because they were small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. One twin was brought in and cooed over as babies are. She was fed and sorted. The other twin was left in the car with no attention, no food or drink. The mother said not to worry, that she was fine.
It was a very odd dream ... and such an impression did it make that I wrote about it to a friend.
A few days, later my mother phoned. There was some sad family news..... my cousin who lived abroad had given birth to twin girls - much too early - about 24 weeks. I hadn't remembered that my cousin, whom I never see, was pregnant and certainly didn't know she was expecting twins .....
One twin, my mother went on, was unable to survive - she was being kept comfortable but otherwise nature was allowed to take its course. The other had more of a chance but things were very uncertain.
Somehow I knew she would survive. She did and is now a happy, healthy little girl.
Dreams are so odd sometimes.
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Wow! That is soooo amazing. We do get direction... i guess Science is still tryin to figure it out. Lynn, thanks for sharing.
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Aside from dreams, esp. today i have come across such beautiful touching photos that when i close my eyes, I can experience the environment ... of being in a deep green forest, sitting by warm fireplace, flying over the beautiful greens, feelin the rain drops on my face... its unsually impacting today ... i wonder if its my low moods or ... something else... is this normal?
Well, I'm certainly enjoying my momentary journey.
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All I know is if a specific number comes up repeatedly in a dream, I make sure I play that number in the pick 3 or 4 lottery. (I'll usually play for a week)
So far I've been pretty lucky.
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I would say all of you guys & girls..
WAKEUP..
life is not dream..
It is very difficult.
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!Handsome:
Row row row your boat
gently down the stream
merrily, merrily, merrily
life is but a dream...
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@The Steffer
so if i'm not happy with my life now i can go live one of the others, if i try hard enough?
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Dreams,Vission or Nightmares we all have one or all three
The things that hound us by day could our nightmare at night
Handsome there are mass hardship and individual hardship none is to be disregarded
helping One person to come to grips with a problem is as important as rebuilding a whole country after a disaster Man made or God made
It's called rebuilding lives after the event
Compassion and understanding is a waking up call for all God fearing people
MD the best person to talk to is yourself meaning be true to yourself, and make time to smile and be strong
I belive I'm here on Earth because of a Dream, it's real we have them I'm not exempt
lol
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Dreams are the only way you can travel in time in first person ... its interesting when you realize that something that is happening right now has happened to you earlier in the exact same way (Deja Vu), But in reality it would have occured to you in your dreams, and would have felt so real ... I so wish there was a way to harness this great capability we have :)
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as a muslim yes i do
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So that means i have a very healthy mind ...coz my oh my I dream aloooot!!
Yes I do believe in dreams...or why else would Allah make us dream?
Its a way of conveying a msg thru to us,,,every dream has a msg in one way or the other..u have to look deeply into it :D
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-- from L8o n3LL - (?)
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oh yes I do indeed!
I have dreamed many many strange and helpfull dreams over the years. Spirit Guides, angels, Jesus even Sathya Sai baba has appeared, like of baba last night!
I made up a sketch of one dream where my deceased mother came down from heaven to tell me a message!
I have even been taken by angels/guides to see places in heaven!
I have some of these dreams written up, the accounts of my heaven visits, at
groups.yahoo.com/group/freestonefiles/
please come read some of them if you like to.
I will comment some more, here, maybe tomorrow, as I have three minutes left on my public computer time!
freestone
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I believe in dreams because It is my destiny, It is a state of my mind!
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I had this very strange dream and it was soooo real. I was walking in the orient, china maybe, from village to village, I had this really heavy baggage that I was carrying on my head and every where I went I would seek out a wise man in the village and ask him to please take my heavy load. They would always answer no that it was mine to carry so off I would go with my heavy load on my head. I was really tired and exhausted and very weary when out of no where this voice said you can get rid of that heavy burden any time you want. You just have to give your self permission to give up this heavy load. Well immediately I woke up because I thought the voice meant by I could give up my heavy burden is that I could die and it scared me.
This is the strangest dream I've ever had.
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