Lucid dreaming is relatable to meditation in that we become aware of our inner observer from within the sleep state.
Dreams are often fragmented and nonsensical. Although some recall their dreams more than others, in most cases, such memories often fade quickly over time. While dreaming, we typically don’t realize we are in a dream state until awakening.
A dream is known as “lucid” when you become aware you are dreaming from within the dream. After “awakening,” the dreamer can actually manage the dream and perform feats like flying or time travel, face fears and anxieties, or even solve problems and tap into creative inspiration.
One indicator to discern between a less significant versus a deeper encounter involves the emotional power or ultra-reality of an experience, whether in meditation, a dream state, or another spiritually transformative experience. The most powerful experiences are notorious for seeming ultra-real. Such memories are typically very persistent, far more so than most memories of our life events, and especially more so than our average dreams and imaginings.
Dreaming is an important part of the dying process, for dreams offer tremendous opportunities to anticipate and properly prepare for such a major transition. They often provide the stage on which the souls of departed loved ones appear to assist the dying in acclimating to their journey home. Precognitive dreams have also been shown to be predictors of physical issues such as breast cancer.
PRACTICE
Begin to pay attention to your dreams and record them in your journal, adding to your daily routine. Note the quality of your dreams over time and if your dreams increase or decrease as you place more attention on remembering them.
Ask yourself a question as you fall asleep and notice if an answer comes to you in a dream or during the following days.
RESOURCES
Our Dreaming Mind by Robert L. Van de Castle
If I concentrate on anything before I sleep, I do not dream about them. Instead, I tend to dream about the smallest thought of the day. Some I saw or thought and let go of.
Hello everyone- I have been dreaming since I can remember. I have a mixture of dreams. Some are clearly appear to be my subconscious battling out day to day matters in my sleep. Yet, some have been very prophetic. I followed my sister’s (she is now deceased) directions and began to journal my dreams. To introduce a bit of the importance of this dream I have to introduce my profession. I am an ICU, trauma, neurosurgery, transplant nurse on the weekends and a communicable disease public health nurse during the week. Deep breath! Well the dream that led me to begin to document was one were I was working at the hospital and I saw patients in the hallways on gurneys, nurses overtaxed and humanity going into reverse isolation. This means there are more sick than healthy and the healthy stay away from the sick. At the end of this dream I telepathically heard this is a reset only the spiritual will survive. I wrote this dream down as my first entry in my journal the date 10/6/2014. Since, then I have been journaling my dreams to help make sense and decipher between what I call the junk and that that I call important messages. Now, I turn to platforms like this one and GAIA to help me understand and piece together the information I receive.
Many years ago I kept a nightly dream journal that ended up lasting eleven years. I became very VERY proficient at dreaming, lucid dreaming, time travel, astral projection…really getting to know the lay of the land of the mind and spirit. Ended up giving it up for MANY years but still remembered most of my dreams. I have started journaling again, not so much with paper and pen, but with my computer so I can keep an organized diary that is easy to search. I never ever use dream dictionaries. Lots of fun. But last night I dreamed an old friend of 30 years passed away…I offered words of sympathy to her husband and colleagues at her memorial. Oddly, I was practicing physical distancing in the dream and though I wanted to hug them, I knew I shouldn’t. If anything comes of this I will definitely follow up. It was very real.
I feel like Dr. Huxley, who said to himself after he read about C. Darwin & Wallace’s work on evolution, now why didn’t I think of that? Now it’s so obvious why you can become aware of dreaming while dreaming! I first became aware of retreating into the Silent Witness during nightmares or just unpleasant dream content now. I can’t emphasize enough how much benefit you can get from keeping a dream diary. I kept one for many months, stopped recording, & then went back & read it many months later. To my astonishment, there were a large number of things in my dreams that occurred later in my life!! Precognitive dreams are facts, no doubt about it!
About a month ago I had a very strange dream. I was in a room with a dozen other people. While holding on to something with my right hand I was picking up small white foamy pieces resembling balled up tissues with my left hand. As I neared a doorway, I was expecting to be relieved of them. Nobody did and after a short interval I just dropped them back to the floor. Then I sought out and confronted the person who was supposed to help out. When I gazed up at him, he had a look of slight embarrassment. At this point I awoke. Immediately I experienced a powerful emotion chastising myself for confronting this person, realizing I had no right to go after him the way I did. So, so embarrassing to say the least. Yikes. Later I was happy it was only a dream. To this day I am puzzled by this experience.
Hi, Thomas
By all means, keep a dream journal if U can possibly manage it. That’s probably the easiest way to find out the meaning. Also, try some dream analysis by C.G. Jung; the man was a genius far ahead of his time. I find his original writing very hard to follow at times, so U may want to try something w/ commentary. He wasn’t really concerned w/ teaching others, so his books are slow going.
And don’t forget Dream Yoga by Andrew Holecek—a CD course and also a book. And Lama Surya Das (soundstrue.com) has a great CD on lucid dreaming. And Robert Moss and his book Dream Gates, among many others. There is a ton of info in the Seth books on dreams and such. I have a free book on my website on dreams/dreaming, as I was part of a lucid dream study back in the 1980s and have paid attention to and recorded my dreams all my life. I want to say that the reason most people dream nonsensical dreams is that they don’t pay their dreams any attention as they have been culturally conditioned to believe they are not of value. Because they believe they are not of value, they don’t cultivate dreams of knowledge or guidance. But a person can have what are known as dreams of clarity, higher mind dreams, and spiritual visionary dreams of great lucidity, that can have as strong an impact as a NDE. Such experiences are recognized as “real” and “not a dream.”
A repetitive dream I had as a young child inspired me to explore dreaming ALOT. I couldn’t figure out why every night I’d be in an older child’s perspective, interacting with a family that was mine but not the same as the one I was growing up with, a different language ( which I spoke and understood-communicated in), a different country, social economic status etc. It was a sort of pre death and death dream, although painless. It ended with me being out of my body and looking down from above at soldiers dragging bodies on a tarp and dumping them in a truck…just a poor potato farmer’s daughter in Russia, too uneducated to know what war meant, I’d figured the soldiers that came were there to save me! When awake I’d wonder what was it of this life that made it any more or less of a dream, than my dream.
Hi Heather, I found this for you: https://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htmI. After you read it it it feels familiar you can do more research. Heather`s comment made me realize that dreams can have so many have different meaning depending of their quality, context etc. I believe most of us had a few lives before this one and we don’t usually remember them and I think it’s ok given we already have difficulty focusing on the present moment, more past would not necessarily help us:) However, I recognize that sometimes the past is also looking for healing. I have read several account and had one surprising experience myself where it seems that memories are also stored in a specific body part and when the pain is released or touched unexpected memories surface. As Eben have described in his book, memories are not stored only in the mind, so why not in the whole body and energy field? Some people suffer from unexplained phobia, some have recurring dreams that have the quality of lived memories from a different life. I’m no specialist but I think it probably takes a specific relax state of mind and body for that kind of healing to take place. For me it was during a physical treatment but recurrent dreams might be another safe space for re-enactment and to bring these energies or feeling into the consciousness, and toward the integration of the past and present. When it happens if the conflict is resolve or the situation recognize for what it was that recognition helps dissolve the tension and bring peace. The recurring dreams, phobia or pain will go goes away. As long as we remember to treat our present and past self with compassion I think there’s no harm keeping an open mind that some dreams can be more than just dreams.
I had a terrifying nightmare last night. I woke up crying and went in the other room to hold my son for the rest of the night, it was so bad. I couldn’t shake the feeling or detailed memory of the dream. I have nightmares like this about every other month. And I’m always someone else in the dream, and the people in my dreams I usually do not know (in reality anyways). These nightmares are vivid and feel so real.
And then tonight I went into my email to find this… About dreams. The irony is a little frightening to me.
Is there a common element or elements in your nightmares that you can confront and find a way to conquer in your imagination. I can’t say this always works, but often if you practice confronting it while awake you will then confront it in your dream and defeat it.
I’m interested in lucid dreams for a long time. I often write down my dreams….
Yes, when I keep a diary of dreams, the quality of dreams and the frequency of lucid dreams are greatly improved.
Sometimes I can get answers to my questions in dream or after… And in a lucid dream, I can get a direct answer from any desired Person. For me personally, the biggest challenge is to get into a lucid dream at will, not spontaneously.
I’m good at staying longer in conscious SDE, going through walls or flying. Many ideas come in dreams and dreams are a good opportunity for creativity.
But get into a lucid dream at will almost never succeed. Although I know a lot of methods and techniques…
Yes, and among other things, -this is a great way to help people with different types of disabilities such as limited mobility, vision problems, drug addiction and many others.
Dr. Eben, I really appreciate the books and the interesting course. And I would very much like to cooperate with you in the development of lucid dreams and other similar methods of conscious contact with the Universe.
After finishing Proof of Heaven a couple of days ago, I fell asleep and dreamed that I was sitting in a room and noticed a large brown butterfly with a bright blue centre fluttering about – I was looking down at my feet wearing sandals and the butterfly flew over & landed on my foot, followed by a smaller one – the first one was tugging at a thread on my sandal…Then I woke up…
Interesting! A few days ago during the meditation, a visualisation came up where I had butterfly wings and was fluttering about. Way fun. There were other butterfly winged people around me too. My mind played with the colours and textures of flowers and how it felt nice to pause.
Thank you all for the wonderful sharing. I feel very comfortable, like I am listening to my friends telling their stories. I was afraid to do this Journey, feeling I didn’t know anyone, why would they share. But it has been a very Blessed time, just enjoying your stories and feeling that I understand so much more now. Thank you all for the love and blessed feelings.
May God’s love and light bring you all peace and unconditional love.
I have had vivid dreams every night my whole life, from a child through to now in my 50s. Except for a few they are all bad ones. Ranging from being in very stressful situations to terrifying nightmares. Occasionally they are lucid. It used to be that when I realized I was dreaming I would intentionally start flying. Now, even though I realize it is a dream, I just resign myself to continuing along with whatever bad situation I am in. I would really like to stop having these intense and uncomfortable dreams every night but nothing I have tried seems to work. Any suggestions?
Just to expand on one part. Now when I have a lucid dream I am no longer able to take control. I realize I am dreaming and tell myself that because it’s a dream I can change what’s happening, that I can do whatever I want or at least influence the bad situation. Unfortunately I’m not able to. The dream stays “locked in”. So when I was younger I could influence the dream but for the last 5 years or so I have not been able to.
OMG, I had same as you all my life, the flying part when realizing I am dreaming to escape the situation, mine stopped with my parents passed away. I later found out they purchased me on the black market as a baby, and that secret drove them mad and they where always strange with me, I was refused the truth and told I was insane asking if I was adopted. For me I see this as a deep secret about me that someone else is keeping and that had very negative energy around me all the time.Maybe in your case there’s a dark secret someone near you is keeping an that is also eating them inside, as it did my parents and I felt it all my life until they both passed away.
Maybe you need to investigate people around you, do you have conflict with your elderly parents? are they hiding something? could you have a sibling somewhere they never told you about? Could be a cheating spouse or a child addicted to drugs? Something you are kept in the dark about.
I feel for you, really, I am a deep sleeper so my dreams sometimes where so lengthy, felt so real and horrific I would feel like I was punched in the chest for days afterwards. I would tell my partner at the time and he was saying I should write horror stories based on my dreams and sell them to Steven King (which, oddly enough I am related to as a distant cousin per my DNA testing).
I now sleep so well, regardless if I haven’t found my family yet, at least I know enough of my newly found ethnicity and overall sense of peace (and know I am not crazy for feeling this all my life) – I have my DNA tested so it’s just a question of time :))
I hope I gave you a bit of insight, that was my life experience and I would imagine that having such similar dreams must be an indication of life long deceit from a loved one you trust. Maybe not, just sharing in hope to help you resolve this.
Be aware of your thoughts while you are falling asleep. Play with going into sleep thinking of beautiful things, of being grateful, of positive expectations. Ask for a dream of healing, a dream of enjoyment, a dream of flying if you want …
A common cause of negative dreams is falling asleep worrying or depressed or angry thoughts.
You can also ask for a pleasant dream and fall asleep in positive anticipation!
We have a very great deal of choice. However, most people have been taught that dreaming happens to them and they have little control. The beliefs that one has little control or that dreams are not valuable make it so.
I have had lucid dreams in the past where I could fly at will and they are a wonderful experience although I am not sure what they mean apart from being uplifting…….perhaps Karen could explain more?
Nowadays I don’t seem to dream much but strangely enough did have a vivid dream last night on the evening when this part of the course arrived. I won’t share it because it wasn’t a pleasant dream – my own spiritual tradition says that good and pleasing dreams are from God and that unpleasant dreams are either from negative aspects of our own ego or from malevolent spirits. We are encouraged not to share them with anyone or to dwell on them in any way and as a symbolic gesture of removing such things from our psyche we are advised to spit over our left shoulder 3 times as we wake up, straight into the eye of the bad spirit that gave us the dream! It seems to work well!
There is a school of thought that suggests our awareness, or spiritual essence, leaves the body each night to tend to spiritual matters as we sleep but most of us don’t remember. Following that line of thinking, flying dreams might possibly represent the sensation of being free from restrictions of the physical body.
This may sound a little bit luke cheating and as a heath care provider certainly don t recommend it for anyone not addicted to nocotine. But I intentionally keep my nicotine c q patch on all night. Instructions generally say can cause nightmares and/ or vivid dreams. I think it just causes you to remember like the journaling. It also been researched nicotine helps with pain reduction. i have history of severe nightmares but all my nicotine inducexd dreams have been benigh or just plain pleasant. It also helps me not wake up in morning not craving and with decreased pain issues. i ve recently come off all chemucals for pain drastically reduced nicotine since i ve started meditating. i am still a spetic and hope this course pushes me over that edge. Once again i m not encouraging nicotine patches for dream retrieval but if you need and want to stop smoking why not now during this course. It s like an added bonus. P s buy brand nicotine c q or other not generics they don t stick well or provide good relief. i m not a spokeswoman it s just a fact i ve learned from my own experience and working in state addic tion centers where generics were used. i hope this helps any smokers out there. Sincerely, Susan
pardon poor typing skilla.
Susan, I quit smoking over 33 years ago, and yet occasionally I am still ambivalent about this habit in my dreams. Twice I remember while dreaming, yes, I do not smoke. What does this mean? I was very lucky; I was able to quit “cold turkey”. It took only 48 hours to completely lose the desire for a cigarette. this isn’t to say I don’t have other “addictions” I still cope with. I lovingly wish you well in dealing with this difficulty
Really enjoying the meditation with acoustic sounds–20 minutes goes by so quickly. I have been trying to keep track of my dreams with a dream journal but I haven’t had any understanding of them yet.
This is hard for me as I don’t dream much anymore. When I was younger, I can remember dreaming a lot more then I do now. Meditation has helped me relax and find it very beneficial. Each day progress in made toward my goal of reaching the Gateway and higher levels. I guess I feel like I’m in the “Earthworm’s eye view” hoping to get to the other levels with more time and experience in my new meditations.
I had a lucid dream in which I was standing an a park in the middle of a big city. There were people all around, a plane flying overhead, cars in the streets, just a nice day. I realized that I was dreaming but that seemed absurd. How could I be in this city and yet “the real me” is sleeping in bed somewhere? Everything was absolutely real. I touched the grass, walked over to a tree and felt its bark. There were musicians just setting up their instruments, a lady tuning her harp. Eventually I woke up. Then I knew that there was no difference between the reality of my dream experience and this so-called real world. None whatsoever. And in the dream I had no memory of who I was or how I got there. As I said, everything was real, solid and as real as my waking life. Amazing!
I wonder of the difference between lucid daytime dreaming and Lucy nighttime dreaming? I supposed to do earlier, I once had a daytime dream as I was standing in reaching for a book and the entire between played out in the next five minutes. I wonder if there is much a difference between A.D. time dream and a nighttime drain in that they tap into our higher selves to share with us a piece of wisdom.
It was two yeras ago, I had a special dream: I was asleep and I was feeling like, I was out with my exhaling breath hovering (floating). I was hovering (floating) over our garden and I saw our garden like I know him while awake-state. I saw the heaven (God-heaven) in a very deep dark blue color above me and in it shone a very large brightly shining sun. It felt so real in me and truly. The garden also shone like in the inside. I felt in me like presentness and like a wonder.
Heartly greetings
Enikö Helena
I am in Germany living (an German) and I wrote this my memory of my dream at 22:35
As our brains filter less as we are dreaming, it is a chance for us to sample some wisdom from our higher self. I also have met loved ones in ultra real dreams and know that they were real encounters, and very reassuring to keep that connection always even if they are no longer in this reality….
A quote from Baha’u’llah’s mystical Writing, The Seven Valleys:
One of the created phenomena is the dream. Behold how many secrets are deposited therein, how many wisdoms treasured up, how many worlds concealed. Observe how thou art asleep in a dwelling, and its doors are barred; on a sudden thou findest thyself in a far-off city, which thou enterest without moving thy feet or wearying thy body; without using thine eyes, thou seest…. And perchance when ten years are gone, thou wilt witness in the outer world the very things thou hast dreamed tonight….Consider the difference between these two worlds and the mysteries which they conceal, that thou mayest attain to divine confirmations and heavenly discoveries and enter the regions of holiness.
Very interesting Carmen thanks for sharing
Lucid dreaming is such a powerful concept I don’t think I could add anything more than I did when I did your course for the first time. My initial comment is down the list here somewhere.
Only once in my life a dream came true. I went for a walk with my mother (in the dream) and suddenly she didn’t want to go further and was scared. When I asked her what the matter was, she said: ” I see death standing there!” I looked where she pointed but I saw only light, a soft warm light in oval shape. I woke up and was shocked, then I took the Taro-cards I used at that time, and got again the card death. Throwing away the cards didn’t help. About 3 months later my mother got ill, for weeks with the wrong diagnosis then it became obvious that it must be severe. She died about 9 month after the dream and 4 month after the diagnosis pancreatic cancer. This dream is very clear in my mind also it happend 30 years ago.
Such dreams offer a wonderful opportunity for us to give our loved one special attention and support, and to not be afraid. We are given advance notice and can be prepared and help prepare others. We can see to things. And sometimes such dreams come because new choices can be made and a new future created. We simply have to take the gift and go one step at a time to see how we can share love as things unfold.
Hi Karen and Eben
Thank you so much for the work you do. I’ve ordered your new book and it arrives yesterday. I am writing today because day 8 is about dreaming. Interesting timing, because I have been dreaming about my first boyfriend for about a week, nightly. These dreams are very kind and loving- in them, we both know we are not a couple but we are very old friends. In one dream a few days ago, we were in some sort of cave filled with crystals. I am curious: I have not seen this man for about ten or more years. We were together for 7 years when we were both teens. It makes me wonder if he is ill or has died when I dream about him like this. I don’t have unfinished business, we have talked since we broke up and forgiven each other for all harms. Any thoughts? Thank you.
I noticed that in the process of quieting the mind it wasn’t as though there was a single strain of thought, but more like I was in a room full of people with multiple conversations going.
What you wrote rings true for me as well, Jonathan. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on mind chatter.
For many years, I had the same dream of being in school and when the bell rang, having no idea where to go. Or I didn’t know where my locker was and the bell would ring and I would be left in the hall alone. It was always when I was experiencing excessive stressful situations in my life.
I love receiving visitations from loved ones. They never leave my memory, and can be recalled years later. I do ask for answers to questions before I go to sleep and sometimes I get the advice I was looking for.
Hi! I’m enjoying this journey! Sorry, but Would you please elaborate about the precognitive dreams and breast cancer?
Thanks!
Dr. Larry Burk is an open-minded physician who has collated examples of precognitive dreams related to breast cancer.
Here is a scientific paper he wrote on the topic:
http://www.letmagichappen.com/images/uploads/documents/BreastCancerWarningDreams.Burk.Explore2015.pdf
And, here is a Tedx Talk on the same topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_sQIQvwCII&feature=youtu.be
I love my dreams. I can remember a particular time life when I felt like I was going to the movies every night. I have not recorded them regularly, and will start to do that again. Many beautiful comments here – thank you all!
I recently had a dream where a departed loved one was present without me seeing him. He (the spirit maybe) pointed to my phone and specifically asked me to not text a person. When I awoke from that all I remember was having felt the presence of my loved one in that dream without seeing him but understanding everything he wanted me to not do. After his passing most recently – he comes in my dream without ever speaking however I see him but this dream in particular and one previous to this all I felt was his presence – no sight whatsoever.
That is fascinating! Was the person he specifically did not want you to text someone who was possibly toxic in your life? Or does it make sense to you that that came through in your dreams?
I have a question for Karen and Eben. Do you hold a lot of stock in the symbolism of dreams? Or is the communication straightforward?
There was a very brief period of lucid dreaming in my life and that was so long ago… I was ecstatically running down a hill chanting Om Namah Shivaya, and then I lifted off the ground and started to fly… soon I realized that I was watching my dream and then I immediately came down to the ground and awoke.
I will ask a question tonight and document the results the next morning
I have been aware of “dreams” since grade school. I am blessed with many prophetic dreams. One in high school, an angel had come and told me that I would have a son but the father would not be there to help raise him. I have read many books and have taken classes on “dreaming”. They help me understand where I am at in my growth, they help me understand what is taken place in the world. Although, I may not always know right away, it is shown to me eventually.
I am not a dreamer at all! Sometimes if I experience a dream, it would be vivid and real! Sometimes I do know the purpose of it ! Gives me Peace !
i continue feeling grateful for this opportunity to grow.. with confidence …dreaming has played a strong roll for me over many yrs..
an now coming to this point through this type of guidance … being able to participate with others hearing their stories lends to this
heartfelt experience.. death an dying has played a strong role in my life..loosing my mother at an early age led me into hospice work.
after several yrs working on the “floor”.. I have come away feeling that we have not learned how to die well.. .
Thank you for sharing… that’s why I honor hospice… it offered my family and I to be present for my Father & Mother in a sacred way… as a family we experienced the phases of death with Her…
I have been having some positive and interesting dreams recently meeting with people
I do not remember knowing, but they seem like old friends. The tone of the meetings
always seems to be what we think and believe can come to be in our time-space
experience. I wrote the following in my journal this morning, yes all in caps!
SPIRIT IS PRIMARY, ETERNAL AND CAUSAL ALWAYS.
THINK, BELIEVE, ACT, IMAGINE, ASK AND RECEIVE IN SPIRIT!
That’s a Blessed gift… thank you
I have been recording my dreams in a spiritual diary since the early 60s when I became aware of their importance. I was fortunate to be guided by a mentor not to try and figure them out but just get as much detail of the dream down as I could remember, especially the waking dream. Brooding on them, especially the ones ladened with energy, letting them percolate and re-read them over time as their meaning is dynamic. I acted on one specific dream and it changed my life for ever and gave meaning and direction and purpose for me.
What was that dream? If it’s ok to share…
I have not recalled a dream for several years now. I am not sure why. In the last one that I recall I was able to jump high and fly. I would like to remember more of them.
When I was a kid I used to dream that I could run down a sidewalk and take off and fly
around town and things looked just like they were in “real life” when awake. I have not
had those dreams in years, but maybe just because I have not tried lately.
In my last night dream I was with Dr. Eben Alexander, Keren and a third person a man I didn’t recognize. We were in my Mama’s house that didn’t look like my Mama’s house at all. The room we’ve all been in looked like an old fashion pharmacy. The walls were covered with hanging shelves and cabinets with opened glass doors full of old fashion labeled jars, bottles and bags with herbs . We were looking for something. Karen and the unrecognized man were sitting at the table/deck busy reading or writhing. Dr. Alexander was standing up watching me and I was the one looking for something. “My Mama doesn’t have it. Lets go to my place, I have it” I said. In an instant we were all in my place not changing the location at all. The old pharmacy became my place. Karen and the man were still sitting at the table, Dr. Alexander was still standing watching me. I walked up to one of the opened cabinets and took three small plastic bags from there with something that look like loose tea and grains. One of the bags was a bag with spiced cider mix. I could clearly see the grains and the yellow label SPICED CIDER MIX. All three bags I handed to Dr. Alexander and then I woke up.
Wow that’s remarkable
I’ve been keeping a dream diary for nearly 11 years now. Up until recently, I worked with a Jungian to analyze them. For the last several months, I’ve been on a medication that might alter the nature of my dreams, I’m not sure. I am not sure they are even dreams. I am awakened by a crowd of voices, all speaking loudly though I can’t understand what they are saying. One voice rises above the others, usually male but not always. When I sit up, sure that the neighbors are making the noise, the voices slowly fade. This happens quite a lot now…though sometimes the group is visible as well as audible. Last week, I woke feeling there was someone moving in the room. I sat up and saw a shadowy figure before me. I thought it was my husband. I called his name and the shadowy figure turned around and pointed to the left side of our bed. My husband was there fast asleep. The figure faded away. None of these “dreams” bother me but I am very curious what exactly is going on and what the voices are saying.
I had a NDE following severe head trauma about ten years ago and your book Proof of Heaven was the closest to describe my experience (and I wish I had written my thoughts upon recovery but I just couldn’t do much for a very long time). I always say to anyone who asks, it is so very hard to describe any of this to someone who hasn’t been there. Your work has been a complete blessing to me over many years and I am now committing to more time for meditation and to quiet my continuous monkey mind! I have one question and it is with regards to dreaming. I had many years of severe headaches and medication and the best step was to get away from that coping mechanism. But I noticed after my head injury I didn’t dream anymore (or at least I couldn’t remember any dreams). As a child, I had a very active dream world which I mostly loved. It has only been the past few years where I have dreamed at all and still it is very infrequent (and I miss my dream world!). Some of my dreams where almost as amazing as my NDE but never to the same overwhelming love and beauty. I know it sounds pretty crazy, but I just wanted to have your thoughts on this?
A couple of nights ago a I dremt being in a kind of medieval cortyard. Sudenly there was also a choir, men and women. They started to sing the most amazing music. So harmonious and beautiful that I have never heard before, even though I listen a lot of classical music and attend conserts! They sang piece after piece and every piece was different. This was unfergettable! I have had amazing dreams before and those are very impressive. I can recall them all. Normally my dreams just fade away.
I am so greatful to be able to join this course! Eben, Anita Moorjani, Louise Hay and Rhonda Byrne: You all are my gurus! Thankyou! I live in Northen Europe and Englis is not my native langage, so sorry about mistakes etc. In my country people are welthy in general, but most are feeling so miserable. I feel that we all really need these kind of teatchings!
XXXJaana
That’s a heartfelt, beautiful comment/ reply. Thanks for sharing.
Yes so true… consciousness courses in schools (pre-school to college)… everyone would benefit greatly from this unity consciousness
Hi Jaana, what a beautiful name you have, and how lucky you are to have 4 wonderful gurus, but you actually have 5, don’t forget about Karen. My definition of wealth is much different than most people’s definition, and I think you are one of the most wealthiest people in your country. The reason most are feeling so miserable as they are chasing the wrong type of wealth.
I’m not a psychologist but I once read about a man who had terrifying dreams. His father taught him how to recall the dream situations and imagine himself fighting and defeating the monsters. When he dreamed of them again he applied what he had learned and defeated them.
I have successfully used this method for dreams and real life situations with some success.
Oops that reply went to the wrong place. Supposed to be for Catherine W up top.
Dave S is right. Wealth is having sufficient for your needs. The happiest people I know (I am among them) have moderate (sufficient) amounts of money + friends + family. Family may or may not be blood relatives. The definition is an open one. Church, community, like minded goals or even worthy opponents for sparring with can be considered as family.
My dreams have been very involved over the last year in particular. I remember quite a bit for an hour or two after waking – but after that the details fade. The scenarios are most involved, almost trying to solve or resolve situations, deep conversations. Some people in the dreams are souls I have known, some are strangers or seem to be. Some are memories of past lives. There have been occasions when attending upon those who – whether they knew it or not, that their time was short here, after sleep, would tell me they had strong dreams about their relatives, friends who had already gone. I will do as you passed on, and make some notes on dreams as I stir in the mornings. Love and Blessings to you all. Margaret.