| THE DREAM DIMENSION |
| Everyone who is interested in spiritual matters knows that there is much more to life, and much more to their own being, than just their daily round of work, chores, and recreation. The dream dimension is part of our greater existence, and our dreaming self is as valid a part of our whole self, as is our waking personality. You can achieve a fast and easy expansion of consciousness by realising 'I am both my waking self, and my dreaming self.' We spend around eight hours in every twenty four asleep, and much of that time is spent in dreaming, whether you remember it or not. Your dreams are always about the most important person in your life - you! Information about yourself, your relationships, your past and your future - and your feelings about all of these, is given unique and honest expression by your dreaming self during those fascinating, amazing, and seemingly chaotic nightly adventures we call dreams. Paying attention to your dreams will reward you with expansions of consciousness, increased self-awareness and understanding, a firmer grasp of all the issues facing you in your daily life, and a facility for inner work that you will find highly advantageous for your spiritual life and development. Therapists have long taken an interest in dream interpretation, and with good reason. For problems are displayed honestly and in uncompromising clarity in dreams, once you understand the symbol system your dreaming self uses, so that a study of your dreams provides quick and easy access to the nature of personal difficulties, and often provides guidance as to the solution as well. Feelings, inhibited or denied during the day, are given therapeutic release in the dream state, and when they give rise to nightmares, they bring the difficulty rather forcefully to the attention of the waking self, which then is alerted to the need to take some action. Healing support is also given in dreams, for example, when someone is ill, they will have dreams of being well again, and those dreams are a valuable part of their healing process. Some dreams provide much needed relief from unpleasant physical conditions. If you are poor, for example, you may take a break from the problems of poverty through nourishing dreams of wealth and abundance. Our dreaming selves make stunningly clever use of symbols, and learning to interpret your own dream symbol system will give you many wonderful insights, gathered from the valuable activities of your dreaming self. We are all surrounded by symbols in everyday life, such as road signs, and advertising logos, and we are, therefore, all experts at symbol interpretation. No two people will have exactly the same response to a dream element which symbolises something, so you will make the best interpretations of your own dreams if you simply ask yourself what a particular dream element means to you. For example, a house appearing in a dream may symbolise a haven for one person, but it might mean a burden for another, or a desired goal for someone else, or an investment for a property investor. No simple meaning, that would always apply, can be given for a house appearing as a symbol in a dream, and this is true of all our dreams' symbolic elements. A matter of great interest and concern to most of us is the success and interactions of all our relationships, with family, friends, work mates and others. In dreams we communicate telepathically with those we love - and those we hate. In dreams we may perhaps find ourselves expressing freely the anger -or the sympathy - that for some reason, we could not give expression to during the day. In dreams we also communicate with loved ones who have died, and even visit them in their afterlife environment. Most people would like to know at least a little of what the future holds. In dreams, the future is explored, forecast, planned, made known to you. Major public events, once decided upon by all concerned may be dreamed of by many people. Important events planned by those you are close to; births, deaths, marriages, emigration, etc., will be communicated to you. If you are told about a planned event during the day, you are not surprised when it later happens. If you dream about an event that later happens, it may well be that you were told about it, telepathically, in the dream state. In many of your dreams, you revisit the past in this life, dreaming of your childhood home, school, and environment, and if you are interested in reincarnation, and wish to find out about your past lives, then you will find that your dreams also give you information about them. So, dreams are informative, helpful, therapeutic, precognitive, and your own personal touchstone to your greater reality, a readily available entrance to all the challenge, mystery and reward of working with inner states and inner information. Please CLICK HERE to read the essay 'Sumpter on Dimensions of Delight', in which Sumpter mentions dreams, and the importance of looking for the 'dimensions of delight' in them. |
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