TYPES OF DREAMS

• Day to day life dreaming – giving us wise and personally tailored snap shot of what we were not attending to in our daily life that we should be to make effective, healthful and wise choices in our free will daily lives. Decisions are made 3/10th of a second before conscious awareness kicks in – in other words there is a split second delay between when we make a decision and we become conscious that we have made a decision meaning that our decisions are made unconsciously (Perimeter Institute). Our dreams can alert us to how, where and why we are going to make the decisions we do.
• BIG dreams. These are life altering dreams that mark transitions, rites of passage, reveal to us aspects of our character and values that are immutable. Character is destiny. Know and study these BIG dreams especially to understand where your life is going and how and why you will respond to major life changes in the way you do.
• Precognitive dreaming. Dreaming of the future. These dreams help us to prepare for the road ahead. They will refer often and typically to life events that will likely be a shock to our system. The more prepared we are, the better is the purpose for precognitive dreaming. The dream is in colour or the colours are strikingly vivid. You will get the message in 3 different ways during the dream. The message may appear in 3 separate but distinct forms within one dream. Usually a round or circular object appears within the dream. It might be a ball, a round plate, a mirror etc.
• Flying dreams. These can be compensatory, uplifting, soulful, and a reminder that we can do anything we believe (the movie the matrix).
• Invention dreams. These are creative problem solving dreams that help us sort out a problem looking at all the possibilities and angles.
• Health dreams. These are dreams that are body related. Our unconscious mind is IN the body. These dreams are meant to give us a scan of our body, it’s needs and complaints, and directions for healing and vibrancy.
• Spiritual Dreaming. These dreams reveal the tasks, and highlights of our spiritual journey to enlightenment. They will point the way for necessary sacrifices, moral imperatives and adjustments, and give us a glimpse of the wholeness of our true divine nature. Symbols to watch for: sacred geometry such as circles and pyramids. Numinous figures such as Mary, Isis, Christ and Buddha
• Telepathic dreaming. Knowing what others are thinking and feeling in your life. You might dream of someone in your life saying something to you. This may be a truth of what is in their soul and you are not paying attention to this in your waking life.
• Sexual dreaming. This is making a connection with something or someone in your life. “Soulmate” guidance is given in a dream. What is a soulmate and where are there they sorts of questions are addressed in these dreams. Sonia Choquette dreamt of her life partner before she even met him but as soon as they met through mutual friends she recognized him from her dream!
• Dreaming of people who are on the other side of the veil. At times people awaken with a word or phase imprinted on their consciousness.
• Dreaming of past lives in the spirit world.

Astral Traveling

Flying a dream usually indicates that your soul has left your body. My dream of being dead and coming down into embodied form with a cloak.

Sometimes you “jerk” awake in your sleep which could signal the soul reentering the body.

Research indicates that children who liked to jump off trees or roofs (which I loved to do!) also have a tendency toward out-of-body experiences.

It helps to have your body aligned north/south. With your head at the north and your body towards the south.

This also helps with sleeping. If you desire a restful night’s sleep put your head in the north and if you want to feel energized put your head towards the south.

Techniques to Develop Conscious Dreaming (Lucid)

1. Self hypnosis and post hypnotic suggestions. A visit to a hypnotherapist will help with this or put this in your mind before you fall asleep.
2. Meditation and deep relaxation techniques.
3. Head to the north and spine straight and relaxed.
4. Move into the space between wakeful and sleep consciousness. Foxus on an image or symbol that is special to you (a Tarot card works nicely for this!)
5. When your body starts to feel extraordinarily heavy or light, and your senses of touch, smell and taste fade (sometimes your hearing fades too) you are entering the first stage of leaving your body.
6. Keep your eyes closed and focus your awareness outside your body. Imagine you are at some point outside your body (many people visualize themselves in an upper corner of the room).
7. As you are leaving your body you will feel a slight vibration and tingling sensation. Allow the vibrations to increase in frequency. As these vibrations increase in frequency your body will feel slightly warmer.
8. Then imagine that you are moving your hand. Imagine yourself reaching out for and touching any object that is near remembering this is not your physical body but your astral body.
9. Ancient Etruscans imagined themselves at this point “rolling out of their bodies”.
10. Imagine moving your fingers and toes in your physical body and this will bring you immediately back to your body. Breathe yourself asleep – entering and floating in the luminal space.

Dreaming the Future

It’s possible that we dream everything that will take place in the future in our dreams, though we forget most of it. Across human evolution, dreaming has been a vital survival mechanism. A recent theory posits that dreaming prepares us for challenges by putting us through frequent workouts in threat simulation, helping us to develop the reflexes and responses that will get us through.

In dreams we have access to the matrix in which the events and circumstances that will manifest in our physical lives have their origins. We not only SEE future events; we can CHOOSE-to varying degrees, and according to our level of consciousness-which among many possible future events will manifest.

When we go dreaming, we travel in time-to the past as well as the future-in much the same way that we are accustomed, in physical life, to traveling in space. In dreaming, as in heightened states of consciousness, we step into a more spacious time, and we can move forward or backward at varying speeds.