Dreams (Page 9 of 31)

Auendove,

Maybe all the healing and energy work cleared out tubes and you're not constipated?  Or the energy work blasted out a "doo-doo" and now you're "regular?" (meaning energy /etheric body)

Sounds as if an OBE and somehow your higher self knew you'd be woken up soon, so you put the breaks on to keep from slamming back into your body too abruptly?

This one isn't so much a training lesson as a possible revelation (had it this morning, five minutes before waking):

I found myself in front of a large gothic cathedral in the country, it was built with modern windows and materials but the dream took place in medieval times. The message was that time travelers from the future had come back and built this church, which centuries later would be very old and run down but for now was new and nice. I heard narration in my head about this church...saw a ladder and some iron gates sitting by the wall that I helped lift up and fix to the church with the narration saying how this building was attempting to recreate heaven on earth, the gates being like the very gates of heaven, that the music inside would be more beautiful than anyone had ever heard.

It was then that one of those realizations hit me and I became incredibly forlorn and nostalgic in the dream. The realization was this: Wanderers from fourth density had incarnated into 3D and forgotten who they were, and the Templars, the churches, Crusades, the music and heavenly architecture -- all of it -- were their futile attempts to recreate what they only subconsciously remembered of their native existence. This was a very sad thought, to think of 'fallen angels' trying to collect the shattered pieces and survive spiritually in a darkened realm.

Then I saw on the ground a piece of parchment with an illustration and some wording...all I remember is that the title at the top said: "Day 2: You are the Father, You are the Source." which I guess was another lesson about our unity with our Higher Self and all of Creation, to not forget our link with the divine.

I'm not that learn-ed on this subject, but thanks for sharing your revelations. What I find interesting is that  the spiritual ideas commonly associated with "deep knowings" tend to have similar themes, as though there's a gnosis tapping into the same pool of higher knowledge. Compare this to whacked out nonsense theories that require a high level of neurosis, psychosis, programming, or naivete to accept as valid. What I mean is, the nonsense ideas tend to proliferate without deep conviction or deep understanding, as though they were memes hitching a ride on the dysfunctional mind rather than wisdom welling up from the center within.

About a year ago, I was discussing dreams with an online friend.  He asked me if I had ever seen a mirror in a dream.  I stopped and thought, and had to say "no".  He hadn't either.  He told me that if ever I do see a mirror in a dream I should look into it to see what I look like.  A strange and yet somehow compelling weird idea.

I have since asked a number of people this question - when the topic came up.  They have always answered - after some thought - with a certain no.

A few months ago - we got a full length mirror in our bedroom (it was a very old one of my mums).  It was placed in the room by the wall about 3 foot from the foot of our bed.  When laying in bed it was directly at my feet.  After this point - I had the weirdest dreams ever!

The first dream I was in a small room with a mirror.  I looked at myself and I was fat, with big pimply cheeks and a double chin (in real life I am 5' 9" and weight 9.5 stone).  In a later dream I awoke in my bedroom fully aware of my surrounds - in that way you do when you see your surrounds whilst asleep.  In the mirror at the foot of my bed was a great floating body.  It was slightly bloated and the flesh wasn't too healthy - it scared me somewhat and I waved it away in fear.

A few other dreams include me looking into the mirror and seeing to other places and other people.  Mostly the dreams had a very unpleasant feel to them.  But maybe that was because it was an unknown to me.  Anyway after a few weeks, I started getting impressions of a strong presence in the room - always coming from where the mirror stands.  In the end I moved it to a different location in the room so it wasn't directly facing me.  Immediately after that the presence and odd dreams disappeared.

Yesterday I was moving all the furniture out the bedroom getting ready to move house.  All that remained in the room was the bed and the mirror.  I put the mirror to the side of the bed, but it was angled toward me.  Last night as I went to sleep I had a strong feeling of a presence in the room again.  I ignored it for a while; then just as I was drifting off to sleep I had a flash vision of some strange looking being looking in through a car window at me.  It was wagging its head in a very strange manner.  This immediately jumped me awake.  I got up, moved the mirror...and immediately the presence went.

I suspect the vision of the creature looking through a car window at me, was just my minds way of interpreting whatever was happening.  The feeling of something looking "in" or very closely at me was quite strong though.

So anyway – anyone know if there is actually anything to mirrors and dreams?  Or is this just some odd instances?  Also anyone else had any similar experiences?

Yes.....I've had about two dreams total maybe that I can remember offhand where I did indeed see my own reflection in a mirror.   And they both happened probably within a year of each other, so, they weren't too spread apart in terms of time.    What did I see?   Well, I looked like me!   But you're right, it is very unusual, enough so that I remembered this.   My theory on why this suddenly became possible is shaky and tentative, but I'm guessing the more awake and self aware and conscious one becomes maybe this is reflected - no pun intended - in their dream state.   Before I became awake and aware of the things we talk about on NR my dreams were all a load of nonsense.   Nothing meaningful, nothing symbolic, just leftover gunk from the day or previous few days that my mind would process.   Lots of looping repeating dreams, or being at work, running around.    Also, my dreams were fuzzy, not vivid, and I definitely never saw myself in any dream, let alone have the luxury of becoming lucid and controlling the dream. 

There's also the question -  Do you dream in black and white, or color?   Years back I would have sworn to you that I dreamt in color, I mean, duh, of course....right??   But yet.....I had a hard time conjuring up any dream memories that could truly prove this.   !    Again, it ties back to my dreams being too hazy.

Then as I started my awakening crash course things began changing, very slowly.  Now my dreams are very vivid, very detailed - and definitely in color, because I can now remember dream sequences where color was the actual focal point - they sometimes waiver on the fence of sort of being lucid, and like the topic of this thread says, I have even now seen my own reflection in my dreams.  !   woohoo!   It's very exciting.  I truly think it's all about awakening.  That's my theory.

Thanks for all the replies!

The mirror isn't antique by any means - but it is at least 25 years old, possibly a fair bit more.  So is it possible it has silver backing?  Any ideas on what it could be in the mirror? (if anything)

Interesting indeed how you put it about the atoms having touched the quantum world.  I had never thought of it like that before.  Is it possible that we could be the ones on the “other side”  of the mirror?  Would be interested in any other thoughts you have one this…

About 4 months ago, I began doing a lot of meditating...once every night whilst in bed before I went to sleep.  I did this for between 20 to 45 mins each time.  Whilst meditating I listened to either Delta or Theta audio (some of them are the ones Stuart Wilde provided on one of his audio tapes - I uploaded them to the files section).  Anyway after about 2 weeks of this, my dreams became very, very vivid indeed.  When I awoke in the morning I would be totally refreshed, and ready to jump straight out of bed...and I could remember every little detail of my dreams - including on some occasions very vivid colours.

Further more, during the dreams I would be aware of the fact that I was both asleep and dreaming.  On other occasions I would become lucid.  Also, as I drifted off to sleep, there was always still that little fragment of awareness in my mind...which remind of much of the night.

Quite a number of other experiences happened during these times.  It was also a period where I was going through another phase of self-discovery and learning.  So all in all, from my own experience - I totally agree with your idea that remembering dreams comes with awakening.

After a month or so I slowly stopped doing these meditations, and eventually my recollections of my dreams stopped.  Now I couldn’t say whether or not my dreams are in colour or black and white.

Still on occasions I have awareness in my dreams.  I become lucid during them and actually have the thought “Hey!  I am dreaming!!”   Then I text to see just how realistic a dream can be; most recently walking up a wall, and then picking up stones from a roof, and rubbing them together in my hands and smelling them.  The details and sensations really can be little different from waking reality…

So there does certainly seem to be a connection between dreams and awakening.  Perhaps that also extends to having sensitivity to other “paranormal”  activity?  Any thoughts?

I will post more a while later…not enough time to write a full post just yet…

No problems at all with the topic diversions...its good to hear about it all and share experiences.

You list of highlights is very interesting, some of those things I have also experienced...specifically the telekinesis, which oddly in my dream I just "know" how to do, and it all feels very natural.  Yet when I wake, its like I can't quite place my finger on how I did it.

Yep, I think I will definitely get back into the meditation, and lot of things happened during the period I was doing that.  Especially in the dream areas.  Normally we have our daytime experiences, and then have a "break" in our experience whist we sleep.  Our experience then starts again the next day.  So it is like a set movie piece, each time a certain amount of hours long...after which we stop for a break.

However...when I was more aware during me dreams things became very different indeed.  I felt I no longer had that break in my experiences.  Instead sleep time was a time of going to a different world and having different experiences, all very detailed and as solid feeling as the waking world.  The next day, I felt totally refreshed, but my most recent memories where not of the previous day, but rather they were of all the experience I had during my sleep.  I could recall the dreams as easily as I could recall my experiences from the previous day.  It simply felt like a different area of my life (although as equally real as my waking life).

It was a very odd situation - because life during those weeks seemed like one ongoing unbroken experience.  Almost like every 12+ hours I would simply switch over to another world and carry on life there.  Just that in the dream worlds the "rules" are all very different.

Strange.  But it was great - and during that time I also discovered just how important dreams are.  A number of those dreams where quite symbolic, and they helped me solve (very quickly) some personal issues that had unconsciously been bugging me for years.

So yeah - I really should try and get back to that.

As for the mirror dreams - I wonder if it is worth me experimenting in that area?  I consider moving the mirror back in order to see what happens.  However I am dubious about this, because I am unsure exactly of what is occurring.  As mentioned I get the feeling of a presence from that mirror...so if indeed it is an entity, experimenting may not be a good idea.

This presence tends to generate a feeling of uncertainty and fear in me.  However I am unsure if this is because the presence / occurrence is negative in someway - or perhaps simply because I am inexperienced with all this...and that I am merely afraid of the unknown.

Any thoughts?