Dreams or “dreams”? Ordinary Dreams vs.. Dream Meetings in Other Realms

There are two main sorts of experience we can have while asleep.  The first activity is psychological, i.e. we are working out our own psychology.  Here, the soul uses the symbology of dreams to bring us to a higher understanding of ourselves and life.  For these dreams the soul uses only information that we have received during our lives on earth, in waking state, and from any point in our lives.

The second sort are actual visits to other realms while in dream or sleep state.  In these special “dreams”, the soul does not limit our sleep experiences to our own personal thoughts and images, garnered from our perceptions and life experiences on this earth.  These special “dreams” are a form of clairvoyance.  When I write that these special dreams are not a product of our own psychology, I mean that in these experiences we are actually going to another realm with its own shared reality among its inhabitants, i.e. a “waking state” consciousness that is shared by all the beings in that realm.  Every being in that realm is an independent being, independent of our thoughts, and not a product of our own unconscious mind.  When in waking state consciousness, we humans do not imagine all the other beings that populate this earth.  When we walk down the street, that street exists independently from our own personal thoughts, as do the other humans and creatures that walk with us.  It is the same when we visit another realm while in sleep state.  Every realm has its own shared reality, just as we have a shared reality here on earth.  All the beings in a certain realm have a certain shared reality, as well as a personal reality – just as in waking state reality on earth.  Some beings in that realm would like the realm they are in, its beings and objects, others would not.  But the events and beings and objects in that realm would all be experienced by all its inhabitants, just as it is here on earth.  The beings would all agree that the same events were happening in that realm, the tree was there by that blue house, and had always been there.  It didn’t just appear there today, to be somewhere else tomorrow.  In other words, in every realm exist independent beings that consciously share a conventional reality – just as here on earth, in waking state consciousness.  Often our “nightmares” are actually visits to the lower realms, and should be analyzed differently than our ordinary psychological dreams.

In these “dream” visits, if we should meet a loved one who has died, perhaps even received a message from them in our “dream” – our loved one would know that he or she had spoken to us, met with us.  In these special dreams, our loved ones have an independent existence, the dreams are not the product of of our own personal subconscious thoughts and memories of them while they were still on earth.  They are actual meetings, not just ordinary dreams.  Our friends and loved ones will always have independent existence, in whatever realm they are in.  And our love for each other is eternal, from realm to realm.

These true meetings with our loved ones in other realms have a mystical feeling to them that is not present in ordinary dreams.  It is as though we are taken to another consciousness for these true meetings.  These “dreams” can feel more real than our experiences here on earth.  These true experiences do not fade over time.  They remain as vivid and as clear as when we had them, even though our usual waking state experiences and conversations from that time period have long disappeared from our memory.  We should honor these experiences and savor them, learn from them – and be comforted by them.