"Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world."-Carlos Castaneda
When my grandmother passed away many years ago, I was in perhaps the first biggest grief stages in my life. I never liked the idea of seeing people alive I know and love, and then seeing them in a casket. I know its a part of life but something didn’t click with me on that. And I cared for her dearly even though I regret waiting until she left this world to show her how much I appreciated. But months later I had a dream. In the dream, I saw her face and the same dress she was buried in: a pink one. She was smiling and surrounded in great white light. She didn’t say a word. And that was last time I saw her.
I woke up feeling a sense of relief, a fullness within, and knowing that we live beyond this world. That was a really great dream.
I study dreams now more than ever. I keep a dream journal and I travel back into my journal and I study them more. I don't read dream symbol books, or join dream recall clubs, or chat online about dreams but that's not to say there is no value in them. I just find it helpful that I study them privately and see what my dreams to me rather than what someone else says they me. And I have been interested in dream mastery for many years now. I want to know more about life, reality, God, the universe, and myself. Perhaps you are someone like me who wants to get more in touch with the shaman within.
For example, I had a dream a few weeks ago where I was being chased by a dinosaur-like creature around a cage. It was a big reptile and we were running around the cage. I never caught it. It never caught me. That's all I remember. What does it mean? Okay I'm running away from this big creature Godzilla monster-of-a-kind and I saw the dream as a deeper statement about my own feelings about the American system. I grew up on Godzilla films and I subconsciously have stored and identified that image as a symbol of the system as a monster that wants to eat me for lunch and the cage is the prison. Pretty simple to understand huh? At least for me!
Then there is a dream I had after I made a suggestion about past life information. I was standing in this dark alley like space surrounded by large eggs-yeah, the kind you see in those creepy sci-fi movies. Well, I was standing among them when there was this eery noise coming from the eggs and I sensed these creatures were going to eat me for lunch. Again! YIKES!! I don't know what it means in relation to past lives but I know it was creepy. I woke up really fast from that one.
But all is not hopeless in my world of dreaming. Once I had a dream where I was in a cafe crowded with people. I was waiting to meet a man and woman. We were seated at the last table available & reserved in a tight corner of the cafe. I asked them, "Who are you?" And they responded, "We are Together." They decoded the familar word as 'We are to-get-her." I woke up thinking WOW! I've never heard that before: TO GET HER. And I understood it to mean I am here to get the Goddess and remember her ways. To get her, to receive the feminine, and to express the beauty and power of Her. It was a beautiful response to thoughts I was having at the time.
So like I was saying, I am constantly experimenting and view dreams as opportunties for me to develop and explore my soul beyond the physical realms. Whether I am being chased by strange creatures, running around nude on colledge campus, flying through skies, falling into infinity, sitting in a cafe with a couple of strangers, or boarding supertravel machines, dreams are celestial meals for the soul. They offer us a filling that we cannot get in this world and that is why they are important. And even if you don't study your dreams, then you can learn. There are many books and tapes that can teach you.
See, I like knowing that dreams can be a useful tool as they were in ancient cultures & times. I like knowing that I can contact someone that is either dead or haven't seen in a while, or they contact me in dreams. I like knowing that I can do things that are impossible in our world like walking through walls, receive an answer to my burning questions, or confront my darkest thoughts & feelings-and still WAKE UP. I like knowing that I am guided and can remember so much about things I'd forgotten.
Dreams are an excellent vehicle to travel across space-time and beyond: I can go back to old neighborhoods even though I’m no longer there. I can meet people I’ve never met before. I can put pieces of my soul puzzle together. I can let that problem that I worried about so much act itself out in my dreams and I will wake up with an understanding I never had before. I find dreams as more than just brain chemicals acting up or hallucinations or psychological ramblings. They are access to to inner worlds that helps create our world. They are the juice of the soul’s fruit.
We spend 1/3rd of our lives sleeping they say. That’s a whole lot of dreaming and information that can be used to make conscious decisions in our world. Dreams can be a magical wand that helps us create the 'dream life.' They can be portals to ancient mysteries and questions we seek to answer & understand. Dreams can become once again the inner technology for exploration and adventure.
In my dreams I am enjoying a nocturnal gourmet meal that is well-prepared. And when I wake up, breakfast is simply my dessert…and then who knows what’s next? A dream lunch?Viva Los Suenos! Viva Los Suenos! Long live the dreams! Long live the dreams!
