Dream Manifestation
Posted on November 26, 2007
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A few years ago I repeatedly got visitations during my dreams; these went on for a while until I learnt how to deal with them. One of those ways was by finding a talisman or charm to use against these unwanted visitors. The charm I found was a katana, a samurai sword that I keep next to my bed. The sword possessed a symbolic meaning for me, such that I was able to manifest it into my dreams. This was one of the first moments I learnt of the power of symbols.
It is quite possible to carry items into the dream-world with you. Or at the very least allow the symbolism of those items to work of your sub-conscious mind. A friend of mine spent time sleeping with a specific tarot card; from this he learnt special meanings from the cards and formed a deeper relationship with them.
I have often found that I carry anxious thoughts and feelings into my dream world – and they appear in the form of specific symbolisms or people. That is classical dream interpretation at work. Understanding those symbols is vital in coming to terms with ourselves and our life, and indeed we can look for such symbolism in our waking life.
The sub-conscious mind works in a different manner to the conscious mind and it is much better at processing symbolism and symbolical meanings. So carrying items and possessions which have symbolical meaning to us into our dreams potentially will grant us new perspectives on our self and our relationship with those items.
It is especially interesting to understand that such symbolism can consciously be carried from the waking world into the dream world. If you want to try this out – simply take something of personal significance to you and keep it under your pillow or near the bed. I think I am going to try this out with some other items and see what comes of it.
In order for this to work well though it certainly helps to have a reasonable grasp over dream-recall. And some ability with setting intent to remember your dreams or even to dream lucidly is useful. The world of the sub-conscious mind and the conscious mind needn’t have all the barriers we put in place between them, so working in this manner and consciously crossing those barriers can help to integrate us into a more cohesive whole.
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I have discovered a very reliable method of dream interpretation that I have been using for almost 25 years, and I find it virtually 100% accurate. Here is the technique: The moment you wake up from a dream, preferably in the morning, don’t move your bodily position and don’t open your eyes.
Remember, the last dream symbol you saw, and now give it a voice and a personality. Visualize it and talk to it mentally as though it were a person now sitting on your sofa and visiting you. You would mentally say something like, “Purple cow, who are you and what is your message to me?”
Now here is the key. The FIRST thought that pops into your mind is the answer! The tendency at this point is to have the rational egoic mind come in and begin to doubt the message with thoughts of, “No, that’s not good enough. That couldn’t be it.”
The problem is not that dream interpretation is all that difficult. The problem is that when we hear the answer, sometimes it is not what we WANT to hear. Remember what Jack Nicholson said in the movie A Few Good Men also applies to dream interpretation. “You want the truth! You can’t HANDLE the truth!”
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