Dream Time Three

Nightmares are a gift. We have benign sources of knowledge that try to communicate to us through intuition. Often, we shut them out because we do not want to hear what they are saying. Some dreams are about our immune system, our bodies complaints and we shut them out because we do not want to hear about our mortality. So what happens when we shut them out, they pursue us in the dream state using more dramatic realms to get our attention. When you have a nightmare, the automatic result is to wake up, sometimes screaming, and we slam the door on the nightmare. That issue will come and bite you on the rear end in waking life because you did not pay attention to it’s message. The nightmare is not essentially a scary dream. A nightmare is not just a scary dream. It is an interrupted dream that we run away from and leave unfinished. The way to deal with nightmares is to turn around and confront the terror on it’s own ground by going back inside the dream space if you can, meditate on it, try and dialogue with it and try and get more from the dream and try and deal with the thing in its’ own space before it gets to you in waking life.

For example, if you dream that someone is trying to break into your home, an intruder which is scary, you need to know is this something that could happen to you apartment or your house? If that is a possibility you need to learn by getting better information from the dream on how to keep yourself safe. Maybe the intruder in your dream is not literal. Maybe the intruder is a disease trying to break into your body and you need to know about that. Maybe the intruder is a bigger part of you that you do not want to face because you do not want to look at the larger issues of your life. Whatever the nature of the intruder, you need to know what it is and confront it and do something about the situation. If you dream that you are in a car accident, perhaps it is a warning that you may become involved in an accident if you do not pay attention to the dream. Perhaps it is a symbolic dream related to your marriage, your job and you need to take action on that front. Never stop and say thank goodness it is just a dream and forget about. As I said, the correct action is to turn around and try to figure out what issue the nightmare is bringing to you.

The brain is a transceiver, but it is not the beginning and the end of consciousness. The brain is a piece of matter operating within a limitless mind to which we have access and into which we travel in dreams and visionary journeys. We are never limited to the body or the brain except by our limited conceptions of reality. Consciousness is never confined to any part of the physical plane. We are invited by our dreams to learn beyond the state of our current knowledge into a larger multi-dimensional perspective and if we are willing to do some research, there is probably no aspect of knowledge that is not accessible to us. Dreams are far too powerful to let others tell us what our dreams mean. They might give their opinion and lead us to a clue, but you are the only one who can figure out what your dream mean.