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My Bedchamber: Enter the World of Dreams
Dreams are a powerful tool when one knows how to use them.
The Native Americans believed strongly in their power, as did many non-western
cultures. Even in Europe, during the "Dark Ages", dreams were noted as bits of truth or prophecy. We "modern, rational" people have written them off as simply the ramblings of our own minds.
It is quite possible that, in doing so, we are being foolish.
Some people have dreams that foretell the future. This is often written off as coincidence by skeptics.
Others say that it puts the dreamer in a "catch 22." If they act to prevent what they dreamed, then it won't happen.
That is not necessarily so.
Many female members of my family, including my mother, have foretelling dreams. Although it can be a gift, it is often a curse.
My mother dreamed when & how my brother was going to die. Despite her best efforts, it happened anyway, just as she dreamed it.
I've even heard it said trying to change what one has dreamt may cause it to happen. But this could not be the case in this situation.
Are such dreams warnings? Are they simply trying to prepare us for the situation, whatever it may be?
Why do we write off that which we cannot explain?
Why are those who try to interpret their dreams often seen as "a little off center"?
What should we beleive?
Dreams of Past Lives
Another type of dream that is often written off as impossible is dreaming of one's past life.
Naturally, in order to believe in this possibility, you have to believe in some form of reincarnation.
But how do you explain dreams that are set in past places that are so real and involve so many everyday, boring activities?
I've had some of these, about places I'd never even seen in a book. But sometimes years later, I've happened upon a picture of something I remember vividly from my dream.
Something I had never seen before. Many of these dreams are from my childhood, at a time when I knew nothing of the times and places I was dreaming about. But in my adult life, I have found
so many things that I clearly remember from those dreams. Things I couldn't possibly have known about.
How am I to explain that? Had I been there once upon a time?
Many of the places were nowhere I would have really wanted to go.
1999 Reactions & Comments To The Bedchamber
I think dreams are the larger truth.
When we are awake, our senses are
dulled by our bodies. When we sleep,
we can see the Truth... as it would be
impossible in an awakened state.
We see with our soul, and that is
not as easily deceived as our physical
eyes, plus it holds greater knowledge
than our conscious part. Well... that's
my opinion at least. I try to learn
from my dreams, not to just wave away them
as silly, like most people. I have dreamt
of past lives, my friend dreamt of the
future... I walk the Dreamscape, the
collective Dream sometimes, and try to
learn. Lilimalitia of the Lovers Arcanum
Posted the week of March 22, 1999
have you ever seen the reports of studies done in which
r.e.m. activity was restricted or totally inhibited in
individual? The fact that a mind will loose itself when
deprived of its dream time and then wreck the body should say
something about the validity of dreams to the total human.
clairvoyant dreams and premonitions should be held in some
esteem, even if they are scoffed at, for at worst it is the
biofeedback of your mind trying to tell you something.
Lee
Posted the week of March 22, 1999
I am only 13 , and have dreams of the near future
almost every night . I mean NEAR future . Once i had a dream i
had to get my cat down from a tree . And the next day it
happened .
The only time i dreamt of the FUTURE . I was in an art gallary
of the far future . The painting were really interesting , some
very metalicky looking . I looked out a big window and all the
cars were huvoring !
And the desine of the building was very very differnt . The roof
was glass so you could see the sky , the sky was like a
holographic mess or something . It was this metalic pink and red
that moved sort of like waves .
Wild WolfChild
Posted the week of April 5, 1999
E-mail link not provided in the interest of safety of a minor.
As far as dreams go I must make one thing clear first,
that I do in fact believe in
some sort of soul. Our soul connects us to everything but can be
inhibitted by the
body. When we dream, we let go of our "limitations" and are able
to see the truth.
This is given by the "soul's" freedom and unification with the
earth and everything
around it. Peace and well being to you all in all your journies
past present and
dream.
Padraic(of the ancient order)
Posted the week of April 12, 1999
Yes, there IS a collective of soul and thought and we
experience it in slivers from time to time. I also feel that we
are being consciously suppressed; there seemed to be great
knowledge once about who we all really are and what we can
really accomplish with our collective minds; we are being
programmed constantly (MUCH worse these days with TV around) to
become more and more disassociated with our inner selves that
most people are mindless "robots"! Some of us (like the gracious
author of this page) are doing a great service by trying to wake
people up. Thank you, and may good karma find your way!
Philonius
Posted the week of April 12, 1999
I agree that we are being continuously suppressed and
it's not hard to figure out why?
Are all thought subversions made by governments within
governments and humankinds pathetic need for control.
I suppose you can understand the actions, (which doesn't of
course in any way make in right) of paranoid
authorities trying to ban the mass collective, keeping the
people ignorant. "Ignorance is bliss etc."
It could well be that dreams are these areas of the brain that
we have been conditioned to ignore,
trying to re-assert themselves in our minds.
Max Rael
Posted the week of May 20, 1999
Dreams are strange you are right about them since I
have had many strange encounters with dreams all to real then
maybe In a few day's I live out the images I saw I do not Dream
often but when I do it sometimes comes true.
Christian Lee Kaufmann
Posted the week of June 6, 1999
Dreams are nothing more than a gateway for your
soul, when you are at rest you come the closest
to death than you will ever be with out acually
being dead! your breathing slows down to a steady
pace, and your heart rate drops considerably
but the brain patterns speed up and go off in a
alarming rate places in your brain function more
when your asleep than when your awake
I like to believe that your soul takes a
holiday from your body and goes off
exploring the life, be it in the future
or in the past (da ja vue)
and the reason your dreams sometimes
seem so weird and twisted is because
you only remember the most enjoyable
or the most terrifying.
DARKNESS
Posted the week of June 14, 1999
Dreams are really a key factor in what your life
is,was,and or will be in dreams you find alot of facts about
yourself you never knew possible but i myself have actually had
an astral projection of myself and conquered my demon i had to
put my self in a sleep like state with no one or nothing to
bother me and projected my chi or aura out of my body to end my
demon to be one with your dreams you have to examine them when
you wake up in the morning just lay their for a minute and
remember what your dream was about and examine it all day or
night If any 1 would like more info please e-mail me so i can
help
matthew216
Posted the week of June 21, 1999
I only wish i could remember my dreams. When i wake all
i have is some veage feeling which often times srts my mood for
the day.But I feel very strongly that somthing moments before I
awokewas very sugnifacant
Ron
Posted the week of June 21, 1999
I have dreamed of the future maybe once.It was nothing
important.My dad and a friend were talking in the truck on the
way to the gas station from the beach about cpu parts and
prices,At the time of the dream dad didn't know this
person,didn't have the truck,and had never been to that
beach.7yrs later it happened and I remembered the dream.I
believe in the significance of dreams,but I don't want to
because of a very haunting dream I had as a child and never
forgot.In the dream my Father jumped off a bridge and killed
himself.I don't believe he would ever do that but it still
scares me.
Christy
Posted the week of August 16, 1999
Dreams are ones link to their true feelings and wishes.
One should follow their dreams if they feel right, if not take
the dream as a warning.
Some of the future is set, but not all. Let your dreams be a
guide as to what you can change.
Reaper
Posted the week of August 16, 1999
Who is to say what is dream and what is reality anyway?
Is not anything that exists currently on the physical plane
first not conceived in the dream, any invention, any
publication, anything that is or has been. As Descartes said.
"I think therefore I am" or more correctly "I think therefore I
have become"
"To sleep, to dream, to realize that dream in waking, tis
divine!" L.M.
"What a host of gloomy recollections will ever and anon be
awakened in the mind of the genius and imaginiative
contemplation, especially of a genius doomed to the everlasting
and eternal..."E.A. Poe
Lord Mordred D. Ravensword
Posted the week of August 16, 1999
Dreams hold truth and lies. The trick is to sort one
from the other. They see the past and the future. They also span
the galaxy and the planes of reality. I dream and I walk in
those places.
Lazarus
Posted the week of August 16, 1999
I have deja-vu way too much (dreams first) for it to
all be coincidence. I'm still not sure how I feel about the
subject, although I find it an interesting subject to
contemplate upon.
Dark Paladin
Posted the week of September 27, 1999
Yes they probably do as many people have
received dreams of the future. Yet then
again doesn't it sometimes seem that what
you see in a dream is a world on its own...
Dmitry
Posted the week of September 27, 1999
Interesting, I find dreams hold truths that our
subconscious knows but we do not.
Dreams also can fortell the future (mine have). I dont think we
can ever explain it but even noted people like Jung have dealt
with the collective unconscious with relation to dream imagery.
Maybe we dream what is possible past or future and its fruition
is just a random bit of chaos. The Stormcrow
Posted the week of November 8, 1999
I think dreams are a mixture of both truths and
ramblings. I some times see or watch something and it will be
in my dream becouse it somehow cought in my head. Those I
believe are somewhat ramblings. Sometimes though, I have a
dream that I would NEVER have thought up in my waking thoughts,
and nothing that I've seen that day is even remotely related to
the dream. Where do those come from? They must come from
something else, but what?
Winterberg
Posted the week of November 8, 1999
All of my life I've had short snippets of dreams, only
to have them play out years later in waking life, a sort of
deja-vu with the distinction that I can always recall exactly
when I had previously dreamed said momentary fragment of my
life. Sometimes the feeling is accompanied by a sense of
destiny, of "being on the right (or wrong!) track in life,
giving me the ability to change or allow the unfolding of events
as I have dreamed them. As I said, they last for only seconds
in my dreams, and never more than a moment or two each in my
life...But they have always served me well.
M. Eldernacht
Posted the week of November 8, 1999
What do you think?
Can dreams hold truths, or are they just the ramblings of a bored mind?
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