Dreams, Spirits, a deeper connection?

Question

When a person sleeps 2 things happen. The mind is storing information about what has happend in the past day, putting into memory everything you experienced.

When someone dreams, something very spiritual is happening. A higher force, maybe something godly, a guardian angel, a dead loved one.. is connecting with you. Trying to communicate through symbols and images.

You do believe this is real?? Does anyone have some of thier own information to add? Any Comments, Ideas, personal beliefs?

Answer 1

There is some evidence to support the notion that dreams permit telepathic contact with "angels," etc.

"Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton,

"The Masters and Their Retreats," Mark Prophet,

"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves,

"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi,

"The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis,

"Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer,

"Life before Life," Jim Tucker, M.D.,

"Babies Remember Birth," David Chamberlain, Ph.D.,

http://www.carolbowman.com

http://www.dreamviews.com

http://www.dreamhealer.com

http://www.easwaran.org

http://www.iands.org

http://www.nderf.org

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck.

Answer 2

I'll direct you to some information.

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Answer 3

Often, dreaming does seem nothing more than an excretion of mental noise, with much remaining clutter from the anxieties, pleasures, and hopes of the previous days.  Our mind's background organizing force, so to speak.

However, there is a lot of information, from both internal and external sources, that is simply overwhelming to process in complete consciousness that yet is not merely "meaningless noise".  There is just a lot of information, and some of it manifests more clearly sub-consciously, in a dream.

If you further believe that there is an inherent unity to consciousness and existence, then you would know that it is indeed possible to come closer to understanding this connection in the dreamspace, removed from so many of the mundane attachments and chores of daily life.

We drift amidst hundreds of "random" people on a daily basis.  It is not feasible to acknowledge and greet every one of them with proper human respect.  And yet, the capacity of one person to understand another is practically unlimited.  Is this not sad?  The other day when I was walking in the city, it occurred to me that there was not much difference between being invisible and visible, as there was zero connection with the many human beings who passed within a few arms' length of me.  How can one be so physically close and yet mentally far?

And yet, so many people here are so physically far but perhaps mentally close to each other, in the metric of understanding?  The distance of the spirit need not be limited by the distance of the body.  And, the dreamspace may be where the spirits roam freely.

Like many or most people, I have experienced spiritually mysterious phenomena in dreams.  My mother and maternal grandmother have had dreams of such strange accuracy that some situations have been extremely disturbing.

One of the most interesting dreams I have had involved a very special person that I never thought much about and had never dreamt of previously.  Although the dream involved destruction, I had associated it with my personal turmoil, and only woke up happy that although I saw destruction, I had communicated with this very special person.  That very communication was comforting to me, and I related my dream to my husband when I awoke.  But that was not the strange part: A few days later I receive an e-mail from a friend whom I hadn't met in a while, saying that she just saw a dream of me involving that very special person as well, and that it was a beautiful dream, and that she hopes that I am doing well.  I thought it was a beautiful coincidence, representative of a deeper human connection beyond absolute rational comprehension.  And, yet, even then the strangeness did not end: Within a week of our mutually independent dreams, destructive events did threaten the life of that very special person and his following, half a world away.  The way that I learned of that news itself was coincidental, during another visit to another friend.

Due to some disrespectful comments that I observe on this site, I do not want to say who is the special person that both my friend and I saw in our dreams.  However, it is noteworthy that I am not a follower of his faith, though I respect him as a great man.  And, especially around the time that I had my dream, I would have considered myself Sufi, a different faith from his altogether.  Nevertheless, since my dream, I have been more open to the possibility that different modes of faith may really be saying the same thing in different languages.  And, it could be good to be multi-lingual.

It is late now.  Sweet dreams. :)

Answer 4

I've always heard that it is the subconcious at work, about things we need to do, stresses we have, thoughts we haven't completed.  To me that somewhat makes sense.  But.... when I was pregnant with my 3rd child, I had a dream, that was said to be common among pregnant women.... I dreamt that I had a litter of puppies with human heads.  Why that is common I don't know... I wasn't  happy about the pregnancy, it didn't come at a good time in my marriage, so all I could make of it was that I was having parinoid delusions of having multiple babies.  I've dreamt of where I might die in my old age.... in a car with an old man assumeably my husband, driving down the road on a hillside in California, he suddenly grabs his chest and we go off the cliff.  Two or Three weeks after having the dream, I found myself on that very road, the scenery so familiar, and I had never been there before.