"We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions..." - Carl Jung
DREAMS ARE NOT A PLACE TO ESCAPE "REALITY"
And they are not merely a fabrication of the mind either.
I have been able to lucid dream for a long time, and at first I did fall into the trap of simply wanting to have fun in those dreams like many do, long before I knew the important connection between our waking life, the dream world, and the spiritual world. But wanting to be lucid in dreams just to have fun, leads to the same dead end as accumulating wealth and things in this world just to be happy. They are not simple constructs of the mind, and they are not only our connection to the spiritual world, but also our connection to each other, and each other's subconscious. Not to say that dreams are in fact reality, but you can access reality more in dreams than here, as things in dreams are a more direct representation of who we are, where we have been, and where we are going.
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind..." - Sigmund Freud
This could be the most important lesson anyone can learn, that dreams are at the intersection of many things, past, present, future, our conscious and subconscious. They are a place, a tool, to understand our suffering, our weaknesses, our trauma, our desires and aspirations... So in a way, dreams are your school of life. And as long as your life isn't exactly the way you want it (in a non-narcissistic way), your dream world becomes a place of work, of understanding and overcoming. Not a place to have fun and escape whatever is not right in your life, or to dismiss them in favor of a good night's sleep. Do that, and you will never wake up, never become truly alive.
"The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium..." - Carl Jung
But producing dream material, is not just about having good dreams, but of working on understanding your dreams, healing and making changes in your life according to what you have seen in them, and then hopefully witnessing the positive results in further dreams. It is a growing and active relationship, not just like watching TV.
I think that the main part most people have gotten wrong about dreams, is that they are figments of our imagination, and that we are alone in them. Dreams are about understanding your true self, figuring out what you do during the day, how that relates to your best interests. They are an honest representation of your life and how you belong to it, aspirations, issues, trauma, and relationships to others and yourself. They are your internal therapist, much better than any psychologist as they reflect your truth as it is, and in the proper sequence of what you need to understand, and of your abilities to process them. Dreams are your window into comprehending what your being is trying to process in life, what you are experiencing, and how you can make things better.
But, and this is an important lesson as well: Since a lot of baggage accumulates in our subconscious, so do your dreams represent a big mish-mash of your history, mixed in with what happens in your days, and where your path is leading you into the future, and all the interconnected relationships of your present. To be able to have a good representation of your days in your dreams, you need to understand that there will be a lot of "unpacking" of your history through your dreams first, before your system can get up to date And also requiring you to take a good look at your present environment and the many people you hang around with, and what you do with them. Being around abusive people and situations, bad habits and such, you will continuously keep adding to the pain you need to process, and that makes working with dreams much harder.
If you have too much stuff to deal with in the present, it will be hard for you to get to the deeper work of healing your past, an uphill struggle that might negate most of your efforts.
We all have a lot of unresolved stuff from our past, so think of your subconscious as a buffer where those unreconciled things get stored in, which are made of pain and suffering, and they create hell in the process. Imagine a computer containing all of your life on it, becoming infected with a strong virus. Running a deep scan, your new anti-virus locks away half of your most important files in a vault because they are infected, and the anti-virus cannot clean them. So, you must go into that vault yourself to clean up your files, before they can get restored, or forced to delete those that are not retrievable. Dreams are like that, to go into them with a desire and understanding to restore things infected by evil, infected by trauma, by jealousy, racism, abuse, desires for vengeance, fears, lust, betrayals...
Again, it is all about rescuing those lost parts, and the reasons they are not part of your present.
Keep in mind that both Heaven and hell have order in them, they are not simply left as a free for all, they are structured and they must be navigated according to rules, and so is our subconscious, and dreams. So it takes a lot of courage and awareness to be able to navigate that spiritual realm we connect with through our dreams, and a lot of respect for the beings that are there, good or bad.
“Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious..." - C.G. Jung
The more we have parts of us lost in those dark places, the more our unconscious/subconscious grows, the less "us" we become, and the more ill/evil we are. It is a direct correlation between love and evil, presence versus non-presence. The manifestation of our soul, of our light, into our being depends on our ability to make our unconscious conscious. Meaning, healing those lost parts one at a time, and integrating them into our present. It is the path to health and wholeness, and Godliness, full enlightenment.
So, dreams are your doorway not only to a much better future in this lifetime, but a bridge between this world and the next. And an opportunity to develop a relationship with the people on the other side before you get a chance to set foot in that place, if you would be so lucky!
And they are not merely a fabrication of the mind either.
I have been able to lucid dream for a long time, and at first I did fall into the trap of simply wanting to have fun in those dreams like many do, long before I knew the important connection between our waking life, the dream world, and the spiritual world. But wanting to be lucid in dreams just to have fun, leads to the same dead end as accumulating wealth and things in this world just to be happy. They are not simple constructs of the mind, and they are not only our connection to the spiritual world, but also our connection to each other, and each other's subconscious. Not to say that dreams are in fact reality, but you can access reality more in dreams than here, as things in dreams are a more direct representation of who we are, where we have been, and where we are going.
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind..." - Sigmund Freud
This could be the most important lesson anyone can learn, that dreams are at the intersection of many things, past, present, future, our conscious and subconscious. They are a place, a tool, to understand our suffering, our weaknesses, our trauma, our desires and aspirations... So in a way, dreams are your school of life. And as long as your life isn't exactly the way you want it (in a non-narcissistic way), your dream world becomes a place of work, of understanding and overcoming. Not a place to have fun and escape whatever is not right in your life, or to dismiss them in favor of a good night's sleep. Do that, and you will never wake up, never become truly alive.
"The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium..." - Carl Jung
But producing dream material, is not just about having good dreams, but of working on understanding your dreams, healing and making changes in your life according to what you have seen in them, and then hopefully witnessing the positive results in further dreams. It is a growing and active relationship, not just like watching TV.
I think that the main part most people have gotten wrong about dreams, is that they are figments of our imagination, and that we are alone in them. Dreams are about understanding your true self, figuring out what you do during the day, how that relates to your best interests. They are an honest representation of your life and how you belong to it, aspirations, issues, trauma, and relationships to others and yourself. They are your internal therapist, much better than any psychologist as they reflect your truth as it is, and in the proper sequence of what you need to understand, and of your abilities to process them. Dreams are your window into comprehending what your being is trying to process in life, what you are experiencing, and how you can make things better.
But, and this is an important lesson as well: Since a lot of baggage accumulates in our subconscious, so do your dreams represent a big mish-mash of your history, mixed in with what happens in your days, and where your path is leading you into the future, and all the interconnected relationships of your present. To be able to have a good representation of your days in your dreams, you need to understand that there will be a lot of "unpacking" of your history through your dreams first, before your system can get up to date And also requiring you to take a good look at your present environment and the many people you hang around with, and what you do with them. Being around abusive people and situations, bad habits and such, you will continuously keep adding to the pain you need to process, and that makes working with dreams much harder.
If you have too much stuff to deal with in the present, it will be hard for you to get to the deeper work of healing your past, an uphill struggle that might negate most of your efforts.
We all have a lot of unresolved stuff from our past, so think of your subconscious as a buffer where those unreconciled things get stored in, which are made of pain and suffering, and they create hell in the process. Imagine a computer containing all of your life on it, becoming infected with a strong virus. Running a deep scan, your new anti-virus locks away half of your most important files in a vault because they are infected, and the anti-virus cannot clean them. So, you must go into that vault yourself to clean up your files, before they can get restored, or forced to delete those that are not retrievable. Dreams are like that, to go into them with a desire and understanding to restore things infected by evil, infected by trauma, by jealousy, racism, abuse, desires for vengeance, fears, lust, betrayals...
Again, it is all about rescuing those lost parts, and the reasons they are not part of your present.
Keep in mind that both Heaven and hell have order in them, they are not simply left as a free for all, they are structured and they must be navigated according to rules, and so is our subconscious, and dreams. So it takes a lot of courage and awareness to be able to navigate that spiritual realm we connect with through our dreams, and a lot of respect for the beings that are there, good or bad.
“Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious..." - C.G. Jung
The more we have parts of us lost in those dark places, the more our unconscious/subconscious grows, the less "us" we become, and the more ill/evil we are. It is a direct correlation between love and evil, presence versus non-presence. The manifestation of our soul, of our light, into our being depends on our ability to make our unconscious conscious. Meaning, healing those lost parts one at a time, and integrating them into our present. It is the path to health and wholeness, and Godliness, full enlightenment.
So, dreams are your doorway not only to a much better future in this lifetime, but a bridge between this world and the next. And an opportunity to develop a relationship with the people on the other side before you get a chance to set foot in that place, if you would be so lucky!
BECOMING WHOLE, PIECE BY PIECE
Again, think of your subconscious as a place where all sorts of dissociated parts of you dwell in. And in your dreams, you have access to those dissociated parts, and your job is to make them connect to one another, to form a complete picture that works in unison with who you are, and what you do in life. Dream work is like working on a big puzzle, one piece at a time, and the final picture is you, a fully realized being, whole, unique, loving and purposeful. Each dream that you have, is like picking up a piece of your puzzle and trying to figure out where it fits. The better you get at it, the more you will be able to see those pieces for what they are, the colors, the shapes, and get a better chance at putting them in the right spot. in our dreams, in a way, we can have the proof that we seek, of how we are doing, as they are manifestations of what is real, hurting, afraid, lacking in love, lacking in affection, our desires, what we can do to heal, to understand... Yes, as those things get all mixed up in our subconscious, it is hard to understand, to make sense of. But it is what I believe to be our best chance at becoming whole, as our wholeness depends on our soul, and the world of dreams is intertwined with the world of spirit, to our true nature. So that is where we should look to most.
To put together your puzzle, keep in mind that you get the feel of your pieces with emotions, knowledge, love, acceptance, courage, gratitude... When you fully understand each piece, when you truly connect to them, love and forgive, and let go, they snap right back in their place. And your picture, the story of your life, makes a little bit more sense to you.
Again, think of your subconscious as a place where all sorts of dissociated parts of you dwell in. And in your dreams, you have access to those dissociated parts, and your job is to make them connect to one another, to form a complete picture that works in unison with who you are, and what you do in life. Dream work is like working on a big puzzle, one piece at a time, and the final picture is you, a fully realized being, whole, unique, loving and purposeful. Each dream that you have, is like picking up a piece of your puzzle and trying to figure out where it fits. The better you get at it, the more you will be able to see those pieces for what they are, the colors, the shapes, and get a better chance at putting them in the right spot. in our dreams, in a way, we can have the proof that we seek, of how we are doing, as they are manifestations of what is real, hurting, afraid, lacking in love, lacking in affection, our desires, what we can do to heal, to understand... Yes, as those things get all mixed up in our subconscious, it is hard to understand, to make sense of. But it is what I believe to be our best chance at becoming whole, as our wholeness depends on our soul, and the world of dreams is intertwined with the world of spirit, to our true nature. So that is where we should look to most.
To put together your puzzle, keep in mind that you get the feel of your pieces with emotions, knowledge, love, acceptance, courage, gratitude... When you fully understand each piece, when you truly connect to them, love and forgive, and let go, they snap right back in their place. And your picture, the story of your life, makes a little bit more sense to you.