The importance of our dreams
By: Betzalel Maggid 2018/05/19
Copyright (c) 2018 dreamrunes.com
“Rav Yehudah said in the name of Rav: “Three matters require a plea for mercy to bring them about: A good king, a good year, and a good dream. These three, kings, years, and dreams, are all bestowed by God and one must pray that they should be positive and constructive.” - Berakhot 55a
Parahampsa Yoginanda, the founder of Kyria Yoga, and the Self-Realization Fellowship, often taught, that one should not pay attention to their dreams, as they are to be considered a distraction from the initiate moving into the Super Conscious Mind. However, for us mere mortals, who don’t spend our lives living in an Ashram, Dreams offer a way for the average everyday individual to experience the astral realm.
Dreams are truth. In fact, dreams are the full unfiltered, raw, unadulterated truth. Our dreams come to us from our Subconscious and Super Conscious Mind, as a way to give an unfiltered view of our life, for the past three days. These truths, which are told to us in a riddle, are the nudging of our Subconscious Mind, in pushing us along the path we are meant to travel in life. In the Subconscious Mind, only truth exists. Words like, “Can’t”, “won’t”, “doesn’t”, and “no” do not exist. The Subconscious Mind, focuses only on what “is”.
“Rav Hisda said: ‘A dream not interpreted is like a letter not read. As long as it is not interpreted it cannot be fulfilled; the interpretation of a dream creates its meaning.” -Berakhot 55a
For those not initiated in the art of dream interpretation, deciphering the encrypted message of a dream can be somewhat perplexing, and overwhelming. Some people may even have problems with the dream recall itself. One tip I like to give people about dream interpretation, is that a dream symbol focuses on the “function” rather than the “form” of a dream. For example, when you see a car in a dream, this is usually a symbol for the physical body, as the body contains your soul, or essence of who you are, and transports it through the 3D world of the conscious waking mind. Likewise, seeing a house in a dream, usually symbolizes a construct of thought or a state of mind. You can go even further in the interpretation and understanding, in that the first floor of a house or building, represents the Conscious Mind. The second floor represents, the Subconscious Mind. The third floor or attic represents the Super Conscious Mind. Basements or cellars, represent becoming unconscious in your daily activities, or moving through life without awareness. Garages in dreams, is where you store things or ideas in your life that you don’t want to deal with.
If you are like most people, who don’t focus on dreams on a daily basis, you may have trouble recalling your dream. Here are three exercises which will help with dream recall.
1) Affirmation
One thing I recommend in my metaphysics course on YouTube, is to do an affirmation before going to bed at night, which sends a message to your Subconscious Mind who is always listening. Get yourself a piece of paper and a pen. Fold the paper in three parts, like you would fold a letter to put in to an envelope. Next, on the paper, write the following “(Your Name) It is my conscious minds desire to remember my dreams.” Place this on your bed night stand, or in your dream journal next to your bed. Right before you go to bed, pull out the paper, unfold it, and read it out loud to yourself three times. Then fold it up, and put it away, and go to bed. This will set the tone for your dream and opening up yourself to receptivity to what your Subconscious Mind sends your way.
2) 5 day, 5 step reversal
One of the other exercises that I talk about in my Mystical Awakening course on Youtube, is the 5 day, 5 step reversal pocket exercise. This exercise was not originally intended to be used to recall dreams, but I have found it extremely useful in doing so. How the 5 day, 5 step reversal is usually performed, is for each of the 5 days, make and image in your mind, of 5 specific events that happen in your day, going backwards in time. After you have finished the first day, with 5 images of your day going back in time, do the next day. In the original form of the exercise, it is meant that you do this exercise fast enough that you can do it with in 30 to 45 seconds. Originally this exercise, when done at that speed, causes your physical brain to short out, and instead it dumps you strait in to the higher “Mind”. People have reported having “past life” experiences or out of the body experiences with it. However, how we are going to use this exercise today, or should I say tomorrow when you wake up, once you have awoken from your dream, and you realize you have just had a dream, lay still in your bed, as you are still in the “revelry” state. Take the first image you had of your dream, and then ask yourself, what was the image that happened before this image? Soon the next image or details will start to appear from your dream. Keep doing this going backwards in “Dream Time”, until the full dream is remembered. Then get up and write the dream down right away in your dream journal. Remember to also time and date the dream.
3) Life force exercise
As I have covered in previous blogs, what happens when we dream, is our attention and life force is withdrawn from the physical conscious body and mind. This allows a person to turn the attention and focus inward for their night journal in the astral realms. What happens when we wake up, is this same process in reverse order. This life force exercise, will aid in this process and allow you to more clearly and easily recall your dream. Upon awakening, lay still in your bed. Feel the weight of your own body lying in bed. Next lightly tense your left foot, and then your right foot. After that tense your left leg, and then your right leg. Next tense your left abdomen side, then the right side. Next tense your left chest side, then your right. Then tense your left arm and hand, then your right arm and hand. Then tense your face, and then the back of your head and neck. Remember to not do this too heavily as it might cause you to lose the dream revelry state all together. Do what is comfortable. While doing this, visualize directing life force energy into the limbs of your body. This works by directing life force energy which is still hanging around in the Subconscious Mind, and re-directing that energy into the physical body, and with it, recall of your dream images.
The most important aspect of dreams, and dream interpretations, is that everyone has them. That means, that everyone, for half their life – does astral travel, and thus has experience in the astral plane, in some way or degree. Your dreams are your “touch stone”, to a greater access into the Subconscious Mind and astral travel, and eventually astral projection.
The long-term benefit of dream interpretation, is becoming so familiar with what the symbols mean, you can go down the road and interpret it as a wakening dream. Getting use to doing this, prepares you for when you become semi-conscious in your dream. That same instinct, to analyze your environment in your dream state, is the gate way to lucid dreaming. Another exercise you can do, is when you are walking home from school or work, or even driving home, is pay close attention to all the cars on the road, the people, and read all the traffic signs. Dreams always are a mirror of the way we have energetically or intelligently used our awareness the previous three days before. So – when you become more self-aware of your local environment, your Subconscious Mind will pick this up, and give you a dream, where you are more self-aware of your inner environment. And once you become aware, that becomes the spring board to launch into lucid dreaming.
A word of caution must also be given about lucid dreaming. When you become lucid in your dream, the best thing to do, is become still, and observe the dream play out. There is an actual danger of changing something in the inner levels, and having it ripple out into the Conscious Mind, in dangerous ways. When I was at the school of metaphysics, there were always rumors and stories the teachers would share about lucid dreams. One that was told to our class, was of a woman at The College of Metaphysics in Windyville Missouri. This woman was addicted to smoking and would always have dreams of being chased by a lion or a large beast in her dream. One night, she became self-aware in her dream, and manifested a sword, turned around and killed the lion in her dream. When she woke up, whenever she would try to smoke a cigarette, she would get physically ill, and sick to her stomach. She eventually quit smoking. Dreams have the ability to energetically transform us, from the inside, rippling out into Conscious Mind. My advice is to proceed with care and awareness. You cannot force your way into the Subconscious and Super Conscious Minds.
Here is a list of great books on dream symbols, and how to interpret them.
For those interested in perusing their dreams, here are some dream dictionary books, and books on dreams. These books are great, and from some of the best authors on the subject.:
1) Kelly Sullivan Walden “I Had the Strangest Dream.: The Dreamer's Dictionary for the 21st Century” http://a.co/3CrayTK
2) Kelly Sullivan Walden “Dream Oracle Cards: A 53-Card Deck and Guidebook” http://a.co/1sTF4UW
3) Kelly Sullivan Walden “The Love, Sex, and Relationship Dream Dictionary” http://a.co/5FXqEMP
4) School of Metaphysics “The Dreamers Dictionary” http://bookstore.somsites.org/dreams/#047
5) School of Metaphysics “The Universal Language of Mind” http://bookstore.somsites.org/sacred-scriptures/#066
6) Carl Jung “Man and his symbols” http://a.co/ixOaQHP
7) Carl Jung “Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious: 9.1” http://a.co/fwMVkoS
I hope that this article on dreams has been informative and useful to you the reader.
Thank you for your time and attention, and may you easily recall all your dreams.
· Betzalel Maggid
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