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.
Reactions & Comments To This Page
Dreams are the breaking of reality through into our
minds, the idea that the mind can produce such images on it's
own are ridiculous.
It's a little known fact that there are two reality's, one we
remember the other that in which it has been chosen by the gods
for us to forget, but when we are asleep the gods turn their
backs on us and we remember things that either have happened and
we've forgotten or are about to happen.
Shadow Dragon
Posted the week of January 10, 2000
"Whenever you Dream You're holding the key, It opens
the door To let you be free." - RJD
I have encountered many dreams in mine short excistance, several
"Deja Vu's", and a couple that have come true, nothing majorly
life changing though; just places and times that have come to
pass. I enjoy dreams! You dream evrynight, ye just do not
recall them. I believe that they are truly "windows to the
soul", but of also the mind, or yer "grey matter".
Curtis
Posted the week of January 10, 2000
Hmmm..I think dreams are both truth and
ramblings...I never had a dream before in my life that ended up
being act out in real life. Maybe I don't possess the power or
ability To have a dream that will warn me in the future. What
you said about dreams are very true. But I believe that it is a
mix between truth and ramblings...if it's ramblings, then it can
be like a portal to your dream world. Truth is either telling
you of good fortune or bad...It is scary but the truth must be
told. Who knows, maybe the goverment is hiding something from
us (like they usually do)
Raven Lyger
Posted the week of January 10, 2000
I to have dreams, but they seem to be reality not the
past or the future. Everytime I fall to sleep I dream of
me as an evil deman, out to kill. I feel my own murders in
my sleep and it feels so realistic. I know when and where a
murder will take place before I dream it. So I come to the
conclusion that sometimes our minds like to play tricks on
our bodies, or not. My words of wisdom; be careful of what
you dream of cause it can haunt you and make it feel so real
that you just don't know what to believe.
I don't know it if my dreams are true, or just a rambling
of my bored mind.
Vlad Dracky
Posted the week of February 14, 2000
A close friend of mine told me about a re-occuring
dream that her friend had told her, and after an event took
place that the dream changed. After hearing the differences and
remembering my own dreams, I came to my own conclusion that
dreams may sometimes predict future events causing effects such
as dejavu, but mainly showing ourselves about how we feel.
Sometimes this occurs when something new comes into our lives,
or something we want even desire, affects us either mentally, or
just how we go about things. At least this is when I recognize
them the most. Basically I think dreams exist to warn or help
us.
Jeff R.
Posted the week of February 14, 2000
Hidden terrors and screaming horrors long suppressed
but clammoring for release. Dreams are like dread manifestos of
festering abcesses that without release will end in systemic
purulence and mortal failure. There are a few who cherish the
dark enlightenment. Speak to me!
Doctor Lucid
Posted the week of February 14, 2000
I find that dreams are very interesting depending on
the person. I am one of the few people who have constant deja'
vu'. That gave birth to my belief that time is a circle, and
when you dream, your soul goes into the space in the middle of
that circle so that your ethereal self or soul if you will can
go and inhabit your body of that time frame and prepare you for
whatever it is that you do. Call it a psychological buffer...
but for the people who have these kind of dreams but are
somewhat altered like christy's dream that was close to the
future with one descrepancy. This may just be your psyche doing
hulla hoops around your brain, or it may be some type of
symbolism. Sorry for all the psycho-babble
Infinity
Posted the week of February 14, 2000
Through our dreams we can mix our past with our
present. My dreams often come to fruition within months of
having them. I forsaw my dad and niece's deaths and my car
accident. Unfortunately, I cannot forsee any of the good things
that have occured. I have also had a very vivid dream in which
I have a massive heart attack, and it occurs in my sleep....
Carl
Posted the week of February 14, 2000
my dreams are mostly what most would call a
nightmare,but I am one with a twisted sense of humor to the rest
of my friends if thats what you would call them...I have many
dreams that I believe are to show me shit..
unknown
Posted the week of June 19, 2000
I honestly think that dreams, including day dreams are
of our unconcious and are set forth to either warn or prepare us
for things. I have had many dreams of things that have come to
pass, and of things that when they do pass suprise the hell out
of me because I never toought that they would. Dreams are not
to be feared, they are of ourselves and are to be embraced.
ty
Posted the week of June 19, 2000
Society makes folk lore and fairy tales. Much like our
imagination makes fantasy for us to behold and bewildered. But
in every fairy tale, and if every folk lore, the truth lies just
out of sight and a little to the left
"One question if I may, what do I dream today?" ~a perfect
imperfecionist
~a perfect imperfectionist~
Posted the week of June 19, 2000
I don't know what my dreams mean, they are usually
quite bizzare and can't be understood in terms of reality. I SEE
what you mean about demons influencing the operations of life,
on the other hand. In my own life, I am at war with pressures
from other dimensions. I struggle onward toward the goal of a
free mind and a peaceful soul, while observing the majority of
the people in my life seemingly, unaware of the conflict around
them. Every once in a while(sometimes a long while), meet
someone who knows what I know about 'flip side' of human
existence. Unlike some others, I have never witnessed
apparitions or been aware of it if I have, but sometimes I have
seen and felt the effects they have on people.
Noah
Posted the week of June 19, 2000
I think dreams are the part of us that is only able to
exist in this world through the bodies they hardly understand.
. .If the two could understand eachother, who would need to
sleep to perpetually master both worlds?
Thorin
Posted the week of June 19, 2000
ive at times dreamed of things and years later they
will happen and my dream will come back to me, recently my
dreams have been happening more recently closer to the time i
dreamed them. I don't know what this means.so many people say
it's just deja vu; but i know it is not so.one day our dreams
will be all we have left!
Amber
Posted the week of June 19, 2000
Dreams. Who can say with any certainty what they are?
To me, dreams are enigmas that we can rarely understand on a
conscious level. By learning symbols, and more importantly what
the symbols mean to the individual, one can decipher the cryptic
messages in dreams..SOMETIMES. When we sleep we drift between
this world and the next. We tap both into our subconscious and
into other planes. At this time the Gods (or God) may try to
communicate with us, spirits of family or even drifting, not
always benevolent spirits make contact. Other times we are able
to peer ahead into the future to see what is to come. What is
meant to happen, will happen. Trying to augment it is (in my
opinion) foolhardy. We can only hope to gain wisdom and prepare
ourselves from this or any sort of divination of the future.
Turas
Posted the week of June 19, 2000
Greetings ,i just happened to have been curious and
thought that i would visit this site .
I agree with your philosophy,it makes perfect sense ,and very
often what many people do not really want to admit to exist ,Yes
dreams are a window into the furure ,or you could say dreams are
a video show ,that shows us who we really are ,some of us don,t
like what we see,but yet fact is fact ,and we cannot change what
we don,t agree with all the time ,all we can do is learn from
that ,and go on in life and be carefull of our steps. i fully
agree with all that you are saying ,and would love to contribute
my thoughts and insights ,and maybe a fantasy ,or a dream that
i may have had that will correspond to your beliefs and mine .
Ray
Posted the week of June 19, 2000
Dreams are a necessary part of life, as are clairvoyant
dreams. Some of us have them all the time (the clairvoyant
ones), others have them only once, but everyone has at least
one. I myself have had several, but are generally mundane
things such as a certain place I've never seen before, or a
passage from a book I've never read. Usually, it is a sense of
deja vu, and is dismissed as such. How or why, I cannot claim
to know, but when the sense hits, it is best to act upon what
you know will happen next, if anything. I dreamt that I would
have a knife stuck between my shoulderblade and spine during a
conversation; as I got the sense of deja vu, I knew what would
happen next, and stepped to the side, avoiding a rather sharp
blade. I believe that these clairvoyant dreams are, in fact, a
sort of early warning system. Take heed of those dreams which
seem so much like reality, for it could be what you remember
that saves your life, or someone else's.
Dark Assasin
Posted the week of June 19, 2000
: Dreams ...
I think a dream is what usually wakes you up so u know there is
a reality and not and endless 'sleep.
If there were no reality other than in a dream would we dream of
reality instead of course as a dream separates this reality from
the next and gives us even confidence and hope when this world
is being wrecked.
When your dreaming dont you always wkae up when it gets good and
sopmetimesthe dream feels so 'real' that you go on about your
day as if it were and you may feel crushed learning that it was
just a dream , so we need dreams to keep us morally going on and
on as it helps you rest and reach your dreams or fantasies
Zerocoolio
Posted the week of June 19, 2000
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