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Q&A Special edition Dreams from "What is the Affect of the Moon on our Dreams" experiment WORKPLACE FLIRT…SPANISH BABIES FOR FIVE-HUNDRED, PLEASE… YELLOWSTONE HEAT… FIFTY-TWO MILLION DOLLAR DREAM… MOM, I’M IN PARIS! MISSING CHILDREN… KISSING BOYS AND KILLING SPIDERS... FROM WORK TO HEAVEN, WELL, MAYBE... BREAKING DOWN THE FORTRESS, GIANT STYLE… STORMY NIGHTS AND SHAPESHIFTING SHOES WORKPLACE FLIRT Last night I had a bit of lucid dreaming but do not remember much of it. The dream was in darker colors. I had 2 the second one was the one I had wanted to remember. In the dream I remember thinking I will have to remember this dream so that I can write send it to you and there were about 6 things that I went over in my mind (dreaming) that I could tell about how 1 thing led up to another. When I actually woke up & got up I went over the 6 things that lead from one thing to another but have since forgotten. Seems that 2 or 3 were objects in the dream. Response This dream shows that learning how to still the mind to a greater extent will aid you in causing a greater harmony within yourself. In waking life, people go to work as a means to provide income for their families and themselves, channel their creative energies towards something they hopefully enjoy, and be with people who share similar interests; all of which are productive. Therefore, the workplace in a dream represents a productive state of mind Computers in a dream relate to memory, because they work as they are programmed. People use memory productively by drawing upon past experience that aids them in a present moment creation, like remembering where the car keys are to drive to work or even where the car is parked in the in the parking lot to go home. In this case, memory relates to productivity. If the computers go down, then work is at a standstill. Nothing is produced. Therefore, the action of the computers going down in your dream shows the beginning stages of developing a still mind. As the mind begins the slow, thoughts begin to cease, causing a shift in the mind from being geared to produce from thinking (working at the workplace) to a mind that is receptive from the choice of having no thoughts (computers going down/people lounging on couches). The fella in your dream represents a subconscious aspect, or inner quality that you’re endeavoring to harmonize with. Your perspective of him will determine what aspect he represents to you. Is he humorous, thoughtful, charismatic, or reliable? The quality that you see in him the most will clue you in to what he represents in your dreams. The action getting up with another woman to investigate what was happening in one of the offices reflects the action of “starting up the engines of your mind,” so-to-speak, or the desire to produce, which requires thinking. It was at this moment that your fella decided leave. Holding that still, quiet mind for longer periods of time will aid you in being with “your fella,” or creating a greater harmony with deeper parts of your mind. The average person thinks roughly 50,000 thoughts each day. It’s crucial for people to give the mind rest by learning how to quiet and still the mind The practice of simple concentration exercises daily, whether that’s through watching the second hand of a clock or observing the tip of your finger for ten minutes each day, will aid in creating a still mind at any time. Through stilling the mind, you will be able to harmonize with your understandings and bring forth the gifts and talents you bring from your very presence. Dreams provide an internal means for “knowing thyself.” Knowing the self brings true productivity. SPANISH BABIES FOR FIVE-HUNDRED, PLEASE N / female Response This dream presents the solution to gaining greater understanding with a new, somewhat foreign idea that’s being presented in your life. Babies in dream language represent the new ideas. It being a Spanish baby coupled with your many questions about the baby signifies that it’s an idea that you’re endeavoring to understand. To clue you into what this new idea might be, look at the day previous to your dream. You might have had a stimulating conversation, watched a new movie with different concepts, or encountered something in your life that you didn’t necessarily know what to think about. Whenever there’s something new in the life, it’s productive to understand why it’s in your life and what you might learn out of the new experience. When there’s a desire to understand something new, it’s important to learn how to place the mind in a receptive state. Just as it’s easier to listen to a friend speak while you are silent, the mind needs to be quiet and still to receive and understand anything to the fullest, particularly things that are new. Taking deep breaths and focusing on your breathing is a simple way to calm the mind whenever you notice your mind racing with thoughts in the moment. Calmness brings greater clarity to your mind and will help you gain greater understanding in your experiences. YELLOWSTONE HEAT I had a semi-lucid dream about fire all around our town (next to Yellowstone). I packed for hours after the siren in town went off. I went back and forth between my house and my daughter and grandson's house. When I was all packed the siren stopped, the fires died down and the dream ended. I felt & saw I was actually packing. Response please? VC / female / USA Response Dreams give the dreamer the advantage of seeing their thoughts, attitudes, feelings, and actions from the previous day reflected back to them through a picture language. Every person, place, or thing in a dream represents themselves in some way. In your dream, you spent hours packing after hearing a siren set off by fires around town. Fire represents expansion in a dream, while cities represent certain patterns of thinking. Look for any event or situation from the previous day of the dream that would have stimulated you to think in a way differently than you’re used to. This could happen through a stimulating conversation, a controversial news segment, a lecture or sermon you heard, etc. Packing shows that while you were preparing yourself to move within the mind, you didn’t finish packing until hours later. The message of the dream is to act quickly as the expansion in the mind occurs, rather than allowing the fires of opportunity to die down. Spending time to write down and visualize your desires and goals in your physical life, as well as painting a clear picture of the person you desire to become through your experiences can give you a strong foundation that can help you determine when to move and act, and when to be still. The Bible describes it as “Seeking the Lord while He may be found.” The secular counterpart would be acting upon “a window of opportunity.” Your thoughts and actions have been and always will be the determining factors in how your life shapes itself. FIFTY-TWO MILLION DOLLAR DREAM From time to time I seem to have this same dream. I cannot predict or tell when it is going to happen, but still the dream is almost the same every time. I am some average everyday Joe who happens to purchase a lottery ticket. The drawing goes by and I finally check the numbers on the ticket. I win $52 million dollars every time. Sometimes I make it to claim the money, and other times I never get a chance to turn the ticket in. Response In our outer waking life, we exchange money for goods we deem valuable enough to purchase. In dreams, money represents value and sheds light on how you view your own self-value. Having recurring dreams about winning $52 million shows two things. One, there’s a lot of value within yourself to admit and consciously receive into yourself. Two, it reflects a perspective of value coming from outside yourself. Whether or not you receive it is up to chance. Universally, people know themselves, their skills, and their abilities --- in essence their value --- through giving of them fully and sharing them with others. This can be in the form of talents, like playing a music instrument, or through a loving presence. Establishing an attitude of generosity in all areas of life will ensure that you’ll have “$52 million dollars” with you at all times. Write a list of all the strengths and skills you have to offer. Say these out loud in front of a mirror in the morning every day. The more they are in your conscious awareness, the more you will give of them freely throughout the day. MOM, I’M IN PARIS! --- Hello, RJW / female, USA Response What does Paris and the Eiffel Tower represent to you? This is the significant question you must ask yourself in order to understand this dream, to identify the state of mind you had been striving to attain and have finally achieved. “I’m alone” is the thought/attitude pattern that brought you into the state of mind filled with puppies and kitties. These animals are symbols for habitual ways of thinking. This dream is showing you that you achieved a level of authority in your life. With this newfound authority came the realization that it is lonely at the top. This is a profound realization. For you to fully understand the depth of what it means to be alone, while connected to all, will require you to study your Self through meditation and concentration. Right now you view being alone as being lonely, so you need to teach others how to achieve what you have achieved in order for you to have peers. Our website www.som.org has information regarding the course of study in mind and consciousness available at School of Metaphysics centers or through correspondence study. The study can aid you greatly in the development of your whole Self. MISSING CHILDREN When I was younger I used to have a dream that something terrible happened to my younger sister and that I could do nothing to prevent it. i.e. she would be attacked by a dog and I couldn’t get there in time or that she would be kidnapped and I couldn’t find her, she would face some life threatening ordeal and I just couldn’t get there in time. Response Learning to separate and identify your dream experiences from your experiences during your waking conscious life will give you greater emotional stability regarding your dream messages. Most people are unaware that their dreams have meaning and are in fact applicable messages from the inner subconscious mind relating the dreamer’s state of consciousness from the prior twenty-four to forty-eight hours. Once this is known we can accept that the images in our dreams are often specifically chosen by our inner mind in order to stimulate our outer waking conscious mind to remember the message. These dream messages are important and that is why the dream symbols involve the well being of those you love. Your children in your dreams now, like your sisters in your dreams in the past both represent developing parts of your self that you feel very close to, that you love and feel a responsibility to nurture. This could be a part of you that desires to be the best she can be. For certain it is a growing way of thinking that is valuable to you. Your dreams reflect that you often feel afraid you will lose these parts of yourself. You often think and act in ways that are harmful and destructive to these parts of your self that need experience and are very important to you. Identify what it is that you really want in life. When you know, take all the necessary steps to make your image a reality. The book Concentration by Dr Laurel Clark could benefit you greatly. KISSING BOYS AND KILLING SPIDERS First I dreamed that a guy from school was carrying me through a field. Then he just stops and stares into my eyes. Then I kissed him. It was very real; it was as if I could feel the warmth of his skin. After that I woke up. When I went back to sleep I dreamed that about these 2 HUGE spiders, and I was terrified of them. But then dad came in and killed it. And he was like if you're scared of that one you should see the one I saw in here yesterday. It was a Florida spider, and I saw another spider go towards that one...and the Florida one jumped on it and ate it...... Do you have any idea why I dreamed that? Response The first dream is saying that when you are thinking like this boy you know, you like it. There is something about this boy you like and that thing in him that you like, you also like that same quality in you. If you find someone you know funny and you really like that quality in that person then you probably also appreciate your own sense of humor. If someone you know is always the first to answer a question and that bothers you then you probably practice depreciating your own value. A practice of not valuing your self could lead to a dream with spiders in it because they represent habits. What do you think about spiders? If you think spiders are scary then that is the same way you feel about this habit. A habit is a way of thinking and often acting that has been practiced so much it now occurs automatically without you choosing it. When you pray or ask your Self questions and wait for a reply, that highest part of you that you are communicating with is what your father represents. If you are doing something and you notice a feeling within you that feels not quite right about the decision or decisions you are making and you listen to that feeling then you might have a dream about your father killing spiders. This is your first introduction to the universal language of mind, we suggest the introductory book Understanding your Dreams by Dr. Daniel Condron. FROM WORK TO HEAVEN, WELL, MAYBE --- Background: I am a 53-YO female, working as a hospital pharmacist as of May of 2007,coming from 27 years in retail pharmacy. In December 2007, I lost my mother to a heart attack. Prior to that my daughter, son-in-law and new granddaughter moved in with us in September, in order to save rent money until he goes to grad school in June/July of this year. Those are the obvious biggies in my current experience. My immediate project is to earn an advanced degree in pharmacy, to expand my knowledge in the clinical arena, and possibly prepare me for clinical work in Haiti, alongside my husband, who already goes there as an architect, building a hospital and Bible college. I need to leave to get to my hospital job. When I get to my car, it has been smashed flat into the ground by another car sitting atop mine, owned and driven by my best friend. She did this unaware, and once she backs off my car I can pull it up out of the ground, open it with an unusual little key, and start off to my other job. Though the trip takes only 5 minutes from place to place, I find myself driving along during a thunderstorm, on a road under major repair, with a large body of water to my right – either an ocean or Great Lake, something like that - which is odd, as I live in Indiana, and I recognize that fact as I am driving. The construction necessitates frequent lane changes, but I love the environment, the sea, the spray, the rain – all of it, but I have concerns about being late to work. As I try to find my way to work, I continue to encounter dead ends requiring turning around. Eventually one road leads me to a 50s Club, where everyone is in their 50s. I feel very comfortable here; everyone is welcoming, there is a small band in which I would be interested in participating, but I have no instrument. (I play piano – for real.) Eventually, the 50s Club travels to a farm whose hostess/owner is known as “the oldest child you’ll ever meet.” Throughout the entire 50s experience, I have continual difficulty keeping my feet on the ground; I keep bouncing, floating with every step. One of the 50s members told me it was because I was destined for upward travel – heaven – but it wasn’t yet time. Response Thank you for the background information. The best method of interpretation is to use the Universal Language of Mind in the dream and then look at your waking experiences and see how they connect. This is works best when a person can interpret their own dreams. We will soon have a course where you or anyone in the world can become a certified Dreamologist. Being at work is being in a state of mind for producing value in the Self. Since you used to work here, this signifies an old way to produce value in yourself. There is great significance in the reoccurring theme of these dreams. The need is for you to recognize where you are currently in your life, realize that your future doesn’t have to look like your past it merely needs to satisfy your inner needs and desires. Identify what is most productive and valuable to you in your life as a start to become more fully in the present moment. Is helping people one of these valuable and productive ways of living, or is travel? Answering these questions will help you become more present minded. This will aid you in producing value in your Self in new and exciting ways. The car represents your physical body. There is a conscious part of yourself, symbolized by your friend, which is damaging your physical body. Maybe you need to pay more attention to the food you eat so you can digest it better, or eat less, or eat more nutritional foods. There are many ways that this can be reflected in your waking state, so look back on your previous day and ask yourself honestly “What did I do that was unhealthy?” Perhaps while you are in school you can take an aromatherapy class or herbal class that will help you personally become more attuned with your body and offer that to others in your line of work so that they may experience greater health and wealth because of your influence. Heaven represents the highest part of yourself, your Superconscious mind, and this part of mind is best illustrated by Jesus the Christ and other enlightened beings who have at one time or another taught Universal Truth. The commonality between all of them was that they loved, cared for, and taught people. If you make your new career more aligned with helping people, loving people, and educating people you will find your awareness of heaven on earth growing. As Jesus taught, “Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all else will be given unto you.” BREAKING DOWN THE FORTRESS, GIANT STYLE --- I had this dream during the first week of the Lucid Dreaming Experiment, and I was pretty lucid, but I'd like to hear your take nevertheless... It's late at night... I've been text messaged by a co-worker about a house party. I was excited because I haven't hung out with this person in a while. I'm walking down the street and I realize that it isn't my street, or any other street that I've ever been on... I'm Dreaming! So I decide to flip the script, and I take off running and soar into the air Superman style (Christopher Reeves taught me how to fly in a previous dream). So I decide that I also have a Fortress of Solitude at the North Pole (why not!), and attacking my icy domicile is a beautiful brunette at least 50ft. tall. She is trying to break into the front door with what looks like a glowing red phallus, possibly radioactive. I fly up her skirt and I begin pleasuring her, how I don't know since she is so large. Even in my dreams I cannot see under her skirt, but I am doing the job. Just as she climaxes I wake up. Sorry for the Smut & Thanks In Advance, EI / male Response Your desire to communicate is strong. You receive telepathic information that gives you an opportunity to communicate with many parts of yourself, and you are happy to get into contact with a specific quality of yourself represented by your friend. Your imagination prevents you from opening up and connecting with parts of yourself including your subconscious mind, even though you experience freedom by this route. Your soul, or subconscious mind, wants to be a part of your life, to break down stagnant life experiences and a closed off state of mind. You want to harmonize with your soul. It’s a win win situation. If you desire a more productive relationship with your inner self, then you need to learn more about whom you are inside and out. The pleasuring of the tall woman, a subconscious aspect, shows you are seeking to know yourself, to produce for yourself, and to be in harmony with yourself, yet don’t really know how to fully harmonize with the inner desires and inner parts of yourself. As you learn how to develop your mind in terms of knowing when to act and when to receive the more you will harmonize with yourself and change in that way. The more you visualize who you want to be and how you want to act, the more you will have a direction for change, which helps you change quicker with more excitement and desire. Some ways of acting and receiving that you could practice are to develop new relationships and pursue your heart’s desires, once you discover what those are. Reading novels would aid you in creating images, and so would giving lectures or talks in areas of life that you enjoy and have experience and wisdom in. This will help you have a better understanding of how to use the imagination productively. STORMY NIGHTS AND SHAPESHIFTING SHOES I was diving underwater. Me & a friend. It was a severe storm on the surface so we spent the night in an underwater cave. The next day we went to shore. I went to my cousins to drop off something. I saw a sick kitten. There were 3 total. They were not moving much and surrounded by sweat. I realised it was 97 degrees in the house and turned the thermostat down to 71. Me and my friend were walking around a shopping center. I had a saddle strapped to my back and she carried a lasso rope. I seen someone finally, in a building, I thought it was J*(female) so I went in. It wasn’t her. We went on to a shoe store. I found the boots Id always wanted marked down to $44. Size 4 1/2. Every time I picked up the pair to try on, the shoes would change into another pair. at least 4 times. I woke up. SC / female, USA Response Sometime during your day you perceived an emotional conflict coming so you retreated into self, looking for the reason why and waiting for the situation to blow over. When it did, you discovered some newfound awareness of what had occurred. You can now see how you have a habit of bringing on these conflicts by inciting yourself and/or others, and you took steps to alter this. You began to see the impact this might have on your life. This new awareness gave you the opportunity to receive into yourself greater support for your mental and spiritual foundation - what you know and how you know it. The time is ripe for you to give your value to what you hold dear in terms of spirituality. Part of giving value is giving your attention, so give your spirituality some attention. What you did the day before this dream is attractive to receiving the support you want. Your indecision holds you back from receiving into yourself what you want as shown by the shape shifting shoes. As you begin to reason out what will support your spiritual and foundation and stick to it, you will have the strength to calm the seas of your life and move forward in your life with inner support.•
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