Purpose of dreams?

[Awakening2014]

Hello Avalonian's. I have had premonitions in dreams. In your opinion, knowledge, or travels, what is the purpose of dreams and what are dreams? Why do some remember dreams, while others never remember one? I have always been one to remember my dreams and have had a dream recently that was a bit eerie and specific, and parts have come true. It isn't negative this time. I am wondering if this could be my mind preparing me to keep paying attention to my dreams perhaps?

Forgive me if there is another post on this somewhere in the threads. I did a cursory check before posting. Thank you all:)

[Erich]

Hello Avalonian's. I have had premonitions in dreams. In your opinion, knowledge, or travels, what is the purpose of dreams and what are dreams? Why do some remember dreams, while others never remember one? I have always been one to remember my dreams and have had a dream recently that was a bit eerie and specific, and parts have come true. It isn't negative this time. I am wondering if this could be my mind preparing me to keep paying attention to my dreams perhaps?

Forgive me if there is another post on this somewhere in the threads. I did a cursory check before posting. Thank you all:)

Not a purpose, but a symptom of split consciousness. Check out James Horak.

[Awakening2014]

Thank you Erich! I will get to some research on James Horak!

[Earthlink]

Well, I'm one of the engineer/physicists in the group, so, while I do believe in magic and magical things happening all the time, I still see the logical, structural and tangible reasons why, in the physical world, magic does happen. Anyway, dreams are our connection to where we came from. Before matter, along the line of evolution, there was not but energy. Yes, that was an insanely long time ago, the longest amount of time one could possibly fathom contemplating. And even so, we still maintain a connection to that former existence, and it is the up to one third of our life we spend sleeping/dreaming which is our connection to this vast energy stream which encompasses the entire universe. As it is energy here in the dream world, and not matter, anything is possible, and for another amount of time which is also too vast to contemplate, energy was all there was. Energy is the source of everything, and, everything is connected through it. Most of this has been un-seen, however, we have cameras today that can take pictures of the electromagnetic world, and, vast it is indeed.

I have my own personal theory as to why premonition exists in the dream world, and it is a very simple co-relation between what is now, and, time. While I sit here today, in the now, I do have this massive relationship with what has already happened, or, the past, and more specifically, my past and memories of it. However, there are two side to "now", there is the one that hasn't happened yet, the future, where here comes the new now, and, there it goes, into the past. Both of those places, the past or the future, I can not go to, I can only ever be in this now. So, why would I assume that I have this vast relationship with one of those places I can not go, the past, and yet have no relationship what so ever with that other place I can not go, the future?

I think we do have a relationship both ways along this time line, not just the one that has transpired. I can't prove this, at least not right now, yet I believe it to be true based on my own dreams and the dreams and words of others over many years. I honestly think we have as much ability to see what's coming as we have to see what has passed, and that our relationship does in fact go both ways. Memories of what has become the past, and future memories which are about to become now.

Does this mean we can change the future? Yep, I think it does : ) Memories, future or past, are subject to change ; )

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I also believe energy to be animate, and that everything is either alive or is touched by life, including energy itself. Therefore, the dream world is a living world. There are no accidents, and non-life doesn't exist anywhere. Even the elements, like gold for example, seem to be growing (making more of themselves) in formations we call veins.

[Carmody]

Premonitory Dreams are a result of quantum entanglement in the timeless aspect, and quantum entanglement reaches the real world in the form of aggregate statistical function. (seriously, look it up in the realm of quantum entanglement, Schrodinger, etc.)

Thus... dreams are likened to astrology, they are predictors of flow and potentials in directions, and then your mind shapes the impressions into things you know. The body identifies the aggregate statistical potentials into a face, shape, etc.

[WhiteFeather]

Purpose of Dreams.
Http://www.psychmechanics.com/2015/02/what-are-dreams-nature-and-purpose-of.html

And a Good article here IMO, on how to remember your dreams.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/sleep/dreams/5-tricks-for-remembering-dreams.htm#page=0


http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/turquoisebutterfly/dreaming.html


In the Seth material (Seth Speaks) by Jane Roberts, Seth states that dreams are more of reality than when we are not sleeping,dreaming or awake. http://www.greatdreams.com/sethdrm.htm

[Awakening2014]

Thank you, EarthLink! Wow! That gives me so much to contemplate. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

And Thank you. Carmody. I am off to research quantum entanglement and Schrodinger!

I love this community! It is an amazing resource. Thank you all!

[Earthlink]

Absolutely WhiteFeather, this does mean we are walking around in the dream world the entire time we are "awake" too. We are exclusively (though lucid dreaming happens) in the dream world while sleeping, and since it is the energy stream which encompasses all anyway, we have no choice but to be in it while awake as well, though for some reason we can be much less aware of it while awake.

Awake in this prime material plane, which is made of matter, which, itself is made of energy, that we made, a long time ago.

The disconnect between the new world and the old world, i think.

(the new world of matter, and the old world of just energy)

... and matter has to matter. if you ask any matter if it matters, it will have to say yes, because, well, underneath it all everything knows where we came from, and sure, we could go back there, but there's nothing there that 1 isn't also here as well, and 2 nothing there is of any matter, so yes, matter matters : ) and for this reason we have separated the 2 worlds, though the line is blurred.

[Suriel]

From my own personal experience, dreams are another realm to work things out. I use my dreams to work out fear, hopes, and play out scenarios that are usually not acted out in this reality. I have received warning dreams. Fear dreams are very common. Then there are those very lucid positive dreams that connect with higher beings for consult. I try not look at dreams as prophecies. Because if my fear dreams ever came true it would be a very horrific supernatural release of insanity. Also working through fears, lower energies, can help you grow spiritually in this reality. I use dreams as a tool to understand, comprehend, events that are playing out in my life. When dreams stop, this could be that you have learned a particular lesson and are awaiting the next lesson. All of this may depend on your energetic thoughts, energy experiences, and physical experiences. I am at a resting period, therefore many of the lesson dreams have stopped.

Working out positive fantasies, communicating to friends on the other side, and interactions with aliens are also common in my dreams. I look at this as a natural process. The Soul is on a journey. Therefore, dreams are a wonderful to evolve spiritually through many challenges, duality, and personal judgment.

[Peace of Mind]

I don’t remember when was the last time I had a dream…it has been many many years ago. I meditate several times daily throughout the day…especially before I go to sleep. This is one way I’ve learned that dreams are just contemplating thoughts. Ideas you find intriguing enough will dissipate in the subconscious mind and tapped into during the bodies resting cycle. If these thoughts are not overwhelming, confusing, stimulating, etc…They will not appear in the mind set until summoned.

When having these deep meditation sessions I’m already in a dream like state… but I’m aware of it. All my reflections are done here so there’s actually nothing left for me to dream about later…in other words there’s nothing left for me to “sleep on”.
People need to be aware of their thinking if they are having trouble deciphering their own dreams. If they don’t inner-stand themselves…then they can be easily manipulated by someone just whispering into their ears while they are sleeping. Also, observe those people that like sleeping with their tv/radio’s on.

Peace

[Earthlink]

Interesting Peace of Mind, the idea of mixing both worlds here in this one. That sounds like a very good idea and technique for keeping yourself immersed in both, the only thing that came to my mind was that i felt a little disheartened from your first sentence, that you don't remember your last dream, because i do remember dreams, and, i love having them, good or bad, and that i learn from my time spent there, as here. Anyway i have found that short naps in the afternoon can produce very vivid and memorable dreams, much more so than full night sleeps, and they're shorter and easier for me to digest too hahaha

[Peace of Mind]

Hi, and yes, Earth-link...

Falling asleep when studying also has its benefits, I’ve solved many conflicting problems after that quick nap on a pile of books. When the mind is at work on a specific tasks, and if the mind has little to no distract-actions…more can be accomplished and faster.

While I did dream (in the past)…it was more like pondering. I can say for certain that every last one of my nightmares were from fears I’ve ignore/neglect facing in reality…or from falling asleep on a horror flick.

Sleep is just a means for us to recharge the body. The mind never stops doing what it is meant to do, and that’s “think”. We just have to be mindful of the thoughts we choose to dwell on during our awaken hours… there’s a good chance that they will appear in your dreams too.

Peace

[Wind]

Edgar Cayce on dreams:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/cayce14.html


A dream may be of a physical, mental, or spiritual nature and may deal with all manner of psychic manifestations. These include telepathy, clairvoyance, prophetic visions, out of body traveling, remembrance of past lives, communication with beings in other realms including deceased friends and relatives, spirit guides, angels, Christ, and even the voice of God. Dreams can also give invaluable information on the status of the body.

Interestingly since last fall I've seen vivid dreams every night. Sometimes, like yesterday I woke up in a dream in my astral form and had some intense although uncontrolled adventures (and struggles) in the astral realms.

[Guish]

Well, I'm one of the engineer/physicists in the group, so, while I do believe in magic and magical things happening all the time, I still see the logical, structural and tangible reasons why, in the physical world, magic does happen. Anyway, dreams are our connection to where we came from. Before matter, along the line of evolution, there was not but energy. Yes, that was an insanely long time ago, the longest amount of time one could possibly fathom contemplating. And even so, we still maintain a connection to that former existence, and it is the up to one third of our life we spend sleeping/dreaming which is our connection to this vast energy stream which encompasses the entire universe. As it is energy here in the dream world, and not matter, anything is possible, and for another amount of time which is also too vast to contemplate, energy was all there was. Energy is the source of everything, and, everything is connected through it. Most of this has been un-seen, however, we have cameras today that can take pictures of the electromagnetic world, and, vast it is indeed.

I have my own personal theory as to why premonition exists in the dream world, and it is a very simple co-relation between what is now, and, time. While I sit here today, in the now, I do have this massive relationship with what has already happened, or, the past, and more specifically, my past and memories of it. However, there are two side to "now", there is the one that hasn't happened yet, the future, where here comes the new now, and, there it goes, into the past. Both of those places, the past or the future, I can not go to, I can only ever be in this now. So, why would I assume that I have this vast relationship with one of those places I can not go, the past, and yet have no relationship what so ever with that other place I can not go, the future?

I think we do have a relationship both ways along this time line, not just the one that has transpired. I can't prove this, at least not right now, yet I believe it to be true based on my own dreams and the dreams and words of others over many years. I honestly think we have as much ability to see what's coming as we have to see what has passed, and that our relationship does in fact go both ways. Memories of what has become the past, and future memories which are about to become now.

Does this mean we can change the future? Yep, I think it does : ) Memories, future or past, are subject to change ; )

*edited*

I also believe energy to be animate, and that everything is either alive or is touched by life, including energy itself. Therefore, the dream world is a living world. There are no accidents, and non-life doesn't exist anywhere. Even the elements, like gold for example, seem to be growing (making more of themselves) in formations we call veins.


One of the hypotheses explaining the double slit experiment was that photons act in different ways because each photon has a different history. That may explain your theory.

[Jean-Marie]

I believe the precognitive dreams that I have had were to help prepare me for what would have taken me by surprise! In most of my dreams, I am going places and helping people. I fully agree with Earthlink! The more well rested I am the more I remember what I dream about. An afternoon nap can produce the most awesome dreams of all!

-jean-marie

[eaglespirit]

Purpose of dreams?
To Teach!

[Earthlink]

hey Guish, have you seen this? (i know this is off topic i'm being lazy & i'll delete it later, as it is time sensitive current conditions that lapse into the past anyway. not sure if you get these there, or what you can do to tie things down or whatever, and be safe too)

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=63.49,-21.25,946

[WhiteLove]

I can only speculate, since I don't have absolute knowledge of things at this level, but quite a lot of experience actually.

One type of dream is a reflected manifestation from God in response to a unique expression of unconditional love by you towards someone. For instance if you stare in ahhh at someone you truly love on an album cover and listen to your favorite song by that artist and do so extremely authentically/non-ego driven, this love is actually not at all leaving your body, vanishing into outer space, never to be received by anyone ever. Instead, what happens is that it is reflected back to its source and that is you. That reflection can happen in dream also. It has happened several times that I have very authentically loved a person I've seen on an album cover or t-shirt, only to find myself being in love and together with that person in dream shortly thereafter. Yes it is possible. Therefore, always love fully no matter if it is a real person or someone on a picture, in a movie, on a t-shirt etc. Because when the reflection returns it is awesome! Because unconditional love has no boundaries, that's the thing to "get". The purpose with this is actually to experience the true boundless love nature of creation no matter what reality you are in at the moment.

The other type of dream, the most common one, might be dark or bright, but often has some weird stuff in it, some are great, some are scary, you get a few of these per week, can remember some. These manifestations are in my view reflected to you in dream instead of in real life, to release things you have felt that you do not want leads to real world physical manifestation. By remembering fractions of these dreams there is leak of information between these realities, both the experience and the reaction of it is I guess fed to a Higher Self, that then depending on this contributes to real world manifestation. Without this I think that really scary stuff could happen, your Higher Self which lives beyond time in a dimension of unconditional love, is there to protect so that you don't get totally insane real world experiences where you must suffer a lot, but instead get the kind of experiences from which you can learn the lessons required to break into and take the steps further into your highest dream reality. So it is kind of a "release" of information through dream experience to your Higher Self both expression and reaction, about what you do not want to get physical manifestation of, hence what you want to experience. A kind of information exchange.

The third and most remarkable type of dream is actually pretty much as real as our real life, where you are at a totally different dimension and receive information through "dream life experience" that you need, information to help protect you maybe, information to help comfort you maybe, information to teach and help you get in touch with the truth maybe, information about your destiny maybe, guiding information maybe. I have had a number of these dreams, the most remarkable one was that I could experience what it is like to go through a soul fusion process together with your soul mate and accelerate into infinite love frequency. The emotions I got where like billions of times more amazing than the most amazing love moment I've ever had here on earth. I felt that it was God that did that to me, it was the demonstration of how boundless God's unconditional love is and that unconditional love is an absolute truth in creation, was my interpretation of it.

[Erich]

Thank you Erich! I will get to some research on James Horak!

Well worth your time. James Horak and emv blogspot.

Erich

[TigaHawk]

I was fired from work recently and for the week after it i dream t of something to do with the people involved that had me fired. I was fired unethically - set up by my boss and if the law's were not changed in favor of greedy corporations by my government i'd have one hell of a case in the court if i took it there for unfair dismissal. Basically i did my job perfectly - better than anyone else in the team but my team leader hated me on a personal level.

I had been dwelling on the subject during the daylight hours greatly tho - so it's like my mind was reflecting on what i had been thinking of during the day.

[Mike Gorman]

Nobody has absolute knowledge, at any level - there are educated guesses and more informed opinions, but have you noticed how 'facts' and knowledge changes over the ages?
In any case - I think in times to come we will discover that sleep, and dreams have far more significance than we understand at this point - yes we may have 'split consciousness' - but why? Would it not be more efficient to be able to remain awake and able to defend ourselves 24/7? The primal mixture of energies, the narcotic, the surreal -sometimes we just process emotional trauma, deep problems, sometimes we ascend the golden ladder, sometimes we awaken to a different world.

[Guish]

I was fired from work recently and for the week after it i dream t of something to do with the people involved that had me fired. I was fired unethically - set up by my boss and if the law's were not changed in favor of greedy corporations by my government i'd have one hell of a case in the court if i took it there for unfair dismissal. Basically i did my job perfectly - better than anyone else in the team but my team leader hated me on a personal level.

I had been dwelling on the subject during the daylight hours greatly tho - so it's like my mind was reflecting on what i had been thinking of during the day.

The power of a line manager is incredible. If you have a wrong person there, a career can easily be ruined. Hopefully, there's something better waiting for you.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Hello Avalonian's. I have had premonitions in dreams. In your opinion, knowledge, or travels, what is the purpose of dreams and what are dreams? Why do some remember dreams, while others never remember one? I have always been one to remember my dreams and have had a dream recently that was a bit eerie and specific, and parts have come true. It isn't negative this time. I am wondering if this could be my mind preparing me to keep paying attention to my dreams perhaps?

Forgive me if there is another post on this somewhere in the threads. I did a cursory check before posting. Thank you all:)

They seem to teach us a lot about ourselves.
What we see in some precognitive dreams also tends to say a lot about our character and choices.
Have you had one of those dreams where you see the consequences of a bad choice play out,
yet in real life given the same situation, still make that bad choice?

Those are annoying but an interesting phenomenon.




Other dreams are about awakenings that we are having.
Small and large revelations in the dream. Ranging from feeling confined to sexual to finding secret knowledge IRL,
you never know what the dream of awakening will bring to you. But it will always leave you feeling shocked like eating a mint.
lol


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some dreams are about escaping ourselves, others, a life situation, or a RL disaster, sometimes all of the former. :)
Oftentimes people will dream of water when they're in turmoil (according to many experts).
So those dreams about falling into water, swimming round and round in water, seeing a hole or whirlpool or tidal cave in the water,
etc., they are about being overwhelmed by some emotional, societal, or physical force.

Dreams about being driven from the shore, from high ground into sand and water, are a common things for some people.


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Face, dream doubles, guides, and entities:

I studied a small bit about seeing one's double in dreams and in more than a couple cultures that is considered a bad omen.
I guess the fairies thought they could unleash bad magic on themselves in dreams (if you read Sandman, the Cluracan of Faerie accidentally creates his nemesis in a dream).
Seeing yourself in a mirror or seeing your body isn't a good dream usually.
Seeing yourself in a helpless situation from 3rd person view is another one that sucks.
Those dreams are usually warnings of a personal or general Doom.

but seeing a faceless or silent guide who shows you around or points out the important is either good or benign in most cases.
occasionally a neutral entity might cause some fright in the transitioning from sleep to waking.
also the less scrupulous entities including demons enjoy waking people frightfully although not always thru violent means.
many spirits will find a loud noise, light, or other such stimulation IRL to wake someone from a dream that is important,
so that the shock helps the dreamer remember the dream in the long term.
so it's easy to interpret a positive visitor as a negative one because some entities use fear as a tool :P





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Guardians and towers

there are lots of dreams where the persons we meet are quiet, people of few words, but friendly.
often they are guarding a door, bridge, or tower.

it's usually very wise to listen to these people.
i often associate them with ghosts or with living people or important ideas/factions.

they are also playing the role of the deliverer/midwife helping us through a hard transition.


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animals

usually a healing dream or a dream about a personal fear, weakness, or strength.
animals appear most often in dreams with tests or self development.

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flying.
people say a lot of different things here.
i think it has to do with puberty personally. lol

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the labyrinth

not sure about this one. bad home life or school life.
maybe the government being involved.

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children and elderly

someone in the world or one's life is expressing a need for your help.



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hope this helps, i am just an interested layperson who's had lots of weird dreams.