The Value of Dreams
Before we go any further with articles on journeys I wanted to mention dreams. Why? When we journey or meditate one of the side effects is some sort of change in dreams. If we never remember our dreams, we might suddenly start remembering them. If we already remember dreams, we might start remembering more than one, complete with sound, color, and special effects. We also might begin having dreams where we wake up within them and realize that we're dreaming. When this happens, if we manage not to be totally startled, we can stay with the dream and learn a great deal about the subconscious, spiritual, and astral lives that we live at night.
Dreams are like journeys. The dynamics are the same. What is different is that, because we're asleep, we are completely relaxed and no holds are barred. We can fly, shape-shift, travel forward and back thru time, and we can tap into levels of self that enable us to make better, more empowering decisions during our waking life.
The only author that I would recommend reading, concerning dreams, is Robert Moss. He wrote Conscious Dreaming, Dreamgates, the dreamgate tape set, and Dreaming True. The first two are best since they cover the basics of how to work with your dreams on a conscious level. Personally, I don't believe all those dream books that tell you what the images and symbols mean. A tree that is in MY dream certainly isn't going to be the same as the same tree in YOUR dreams because our life experiences and belief systems are differt. One of the reason I recommend Mr. Moss's books is because he goes to great, often humorous lengths to show you how to find your own meanings in your dreams. Check him out.
For this article I'm going to share a dream and then talk about it. In this way you'll get an idea how it might work for you.
A couple of days ago I dreamed that people of differing races, cultures, and time periods were building a bridge. A figure dressed like Napoleon wanted the bridge to be higher, wider, and more modern than any other bridge that had ever been built before. The workers and supervisors obliged his tyrannical demands even though they offered advice and hints to the project.
They told him the span boards had to be spaced just so far apart or else the wheels of whatever went over the bridge might fall through the gaps. They told him if it was built too high in the center, nothing would be powerful enough to get over the hump, the ascent would become impossible. They said the point of a bridge wasn't only to get across a divide, but to make it possible for others who hadn't been involved in the building at all, to also get a cross.
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