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Why You Need To Pay Attention To Your Dreams
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Elaine Russell |
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We all dream. As we pass in and out of the deep sleep cycle, we go through REM sleep, which is the sleep where dreaming happens. So we might have five or six dreams a night! But some people have trouble remembering their dreams. Or many of us might remember a ‘snippet’ of a dream and not consider it worthy of notice.
In order to have a relationship with your dreams, it is essential that you place a journal or a pad of paper next to your bed with a pen or pencil. That way, you can quickly ‘grab’ a dream and get it written down. Even one image or feeling is significant enough to give a wealth of clues about a person’s life.
It also helps to set the intention to remember your dreams. At night, when I get into bed, I ask my unconscious mind to bring a dream to consciousness. It is possible to communicate with the unconscious mind that way. My training in NeuroLinguistic Programming and Ericksonian Hypnosis has given me real experiences of having my unconscious mind willingly respond to my conscious requests.
Understanding what dreams are and where they come from will help you trust that you can connect with your dreams. We have known about quantum physics since in 1926, when Einstein hypothesized that light was made of photons. The world of electronics has made use of quantum science for developing things like the laser, the transistor, the electron microscope, and magnetic resonance imaging, as well as the diode and the transistor.
However, much of the world, including Western Medicine, still thinks in terms of Newtonian physics. Newtonian Physics says that matter is the only thing that is real, that we are like a machine that can be taken apart and repaired, and that the conscious mind is going to solve the world’s problems.
If we can make the leap and see the world through quantum glasses as just energy instead of solid matter, the next step is to realize that what we see that looks solid is the product of an invisible source. Princeton physicist David Bohm compared our observable reality to the ripples and waves on the surface of a flowing stream, a stream he calls the dynamic current of creation. He proposed that if we could see the world in its entirety from a higher vantage point, the objects in our world (including thoughts and emotions) would in fact appear as a projection of things happening in another realm that we cannot observe.
The 5,000-year-old Vedas and the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls said the same thing. The world is actually a mirror of things happening in a deeper realm. This is the world I call the Collective Unconscious.
In my experience, the Collective Unconscious informs what I call my personal unconscious mind, or you could say God speaks to me through my unconscious mind. And it is the unconscious mind that produces dreams. If there is something going on in the unconscious mind that needs attention, images that portray that dynamic push their way through to the conscious mind and we are awakened by the dream. So the dreams are messages from the psyche about the predicament we are in!
There is great skill and art to understanding the meaning of a dream. So much disrespect has come from trying to ‘interpret’ a dream. Dreams do not speak in words but in images and feelings. So the thinking mind cannot plumb the depths of the messages of dreams. What is required is to sit with the feelings and images of the dream without allowing the analytical mind to destroy the beauty of the message. This new way of processing the messages of dreams is called Archetypal Dreamwork. It incorporates an unusual understanding of the planetary cycles (birth chart) of the dreamer and Gestalt techniques which let parts of the dream speak. For more information, visit www.SeattleDreamwork.com.
Author's Bio
Elaine Russell, RC, MM, CBP, has trained in Archetypal Dreamwork (see northofeden.com) since 1994. See her website at www.SeattleDreamwork.com. She was a licensed counselor in Vermont where she lived until 2007. She also does energy healing work, including BodyTalk and CranioSacral Therapy.
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