Dreams: How to Understand & Use Them

Aloha,

I'm Reverend Cindy Palos and today we're going to talk about something we all live with,

Something that's been at the core of humanity and much discussion for thousands and thousands of years,

Actually ever since humans existed.

We're going to be talking about dreams and how dreams are indeed a source of your guidance.

You know,

We all know how important sleep is and how important dreams are.

In fact,

You know what?

You can't survive without your dreams.

Now,

The average person may sleep for about eight hours a day,

So if you think about it,

If that's true,

The average person will sleep 229,

961 hours of their life.

You're going to be spending basically one third of your life is spent in dreams and sleeping.

And did you know that the average person also has about three to five dreams per night?

Some people may have up to seven,

But a lot of your dreams can be really easily and quickly forgotten.

And also dreams tend to last longer as the night goes on.

Now,

Typically two hours of your dream time is in that state of rapid eye movement known as REM state,

Right?

And it's been so interesting in these times of COVID-19.

We have been seeing that people have been mentioning they've been having very strange dreams.

Have you noticed that?

Now,

I did some research and I looked up on that and some psychologists said it's because of a lack of societal input.

That was in the beginning stages when people were spending more time inside.

And they said your dream time is more active because you don't have as much time outside being as active.

But now that we've gone back to work,

A lot of us,

And I certainly have been working through this whole time in radio,

I haven't stopped working.

And I tell you,

I've been having some really strong dreams through all this time and more people are still saying even though they're going back to work that they're having very strange dreams.

So you have to ponder on what may be causing this.

And one of the factors is the stress involved.

And of course,

Our subconscious wants to clean out our shadow self and the dreams there.

So if you're having subconscious fear,

And there's been a lot of fear on people's minds lately,

There's definitely more dream work that is going to be done in a little different realms.

I think there's also the collective unconscious right now is going through major changes.

And I do think that influences our dreams as well.

You know,

You look back and dreams have always been a huge part of biblical stories and passages.

And often they were,

You know,

Ways to give you some insight or foresight into decisions of actions that should be made.

And many of our dreams include symbols or visions of symbols.

And in the Bible,

Even the Lord Himself sharing wisdom that changed the course of history through dreams.

And even in speeches,

You think about how many people have talked about dreams.

Universally,

Some dreams present a real clear example of what could go wrong if the way of God is abandoned.

And if you look at the Bible,

In the list of biblical verses mentioning dreams and their importance,

There's been so many.

And Joseph said,

We both had dreams,

But there's no one to interpret them.

Do not interpretations,

Joseph said,

Belong to God,

Tell me your dreams.

So yes,

It's true.

Because when we think of where the dreams come from,

Who is the dream maker?

Who is the one that is the source of our dreams?

Are we all dreaming?

Are we all just part of God's great dream?

Another thing to think of is,

Of course,

The many levels of consciousness we go through when we're going to sleep.

And there's many levels of dimensions we go to astral level,

We can see if we're going to an astral level colors that are very vivid.

So kind of that dreamlike quality of many,

Many images that look like they could be heavenly.

The other part of dreams is that you can really get answers to important questions.

And you can indeed,

Before you go to sleep,

Present your subconscious mind with a question and ask your higher level to give you an answer and your mind and your subconscious mind works on figuring things out.

There's been many songs and many,

Many revelations and many inspirations,

Inspirations that have changed people's lives that have come in dream time.

And often,

I don't know if you've had this happen,

But I've had it happen many,

Many times that someone who's passed on comes and visits you in your dream.

And sometimes it happens before the person has passed on,

The person has a vision of the person getting ready to leave their body.

And then there's also the teaching dreams,

The dreams where we learn what we need to learn.

And there are dreams indeed that can be so important that they could save our lives.

Sometimes our body needs to reach out to us and we can dream about something that our body is needing and get some serious,

Serious directions and guidance through our dreams.

Our dreams can really help us find healing and wholeness to reconnect us to our higher self.

Carl Gustav Jung was an amazing Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and he founded analytical psychology and I've always loved his work.

He also studied anthropology,

Archaeology,

Literature,

Philosophy,

And he has an amazing book called Man and His Symbols.

And it is so,

So powerful.

This is one of those works that really changed the way people understood the way they dreamt.

And it also made people aware of the symbology and what and how our unconscious is working with its own language and symbols that can be revealed in dreams.

He was convinced that dreams offer practical advice sent from the unconscious to the conscious self and he felt that self understanding would lead to a full and productive life because there are innumerable things beyond the range of our regular mental human understanding and we can constantly see things through symbols that we may not understand until we look into it from a different and higher perspective.

You know,

All religions employ symbolic language and images and there's really a reason that our symbols are so important in our life and our dreams and sometimes even our waking dreams and our visions we see in meditation can have some of these symbols that really relate to the mental plane.

Now there's the,

Of course,

As I mentioned,

The astral plane,

But beyond the astral plane is the mental plane and the mental plane is the level where you have symbols and you see symbols and some amazing symbology and images come that are symbols in the mental plane.

So as a general rule,

The unconscious aspect of any event is revealed to us in dreams where it appears not as a rational thought,

But a symbolic image.

And as a matter of history,

It was a study of dreams that first enabled psychology to investigate the unconscious aspects of conscious psychic events.

So I mentioned the dreams can be brighter and dreams have this amazing energy.

Some dreams also are dreams that you will remember a long time.

Most dreams,

You can write them down if you're really good at catching your dreams when you wake up,

But there are certain dreams and I'm sure you've had a few of those in your lifetime that you will always remember.

I have had a few of those dreams that I can still remember in full detail.

Those are dreams from your highest level yourself that are given to you.

I wrote this poem about dreaming.

Oh,

To know that we are dreaming and embrace life as a dream and still have the power to awaken and be aware of what this dream may mean.

To sleep in Maya's astral realms and journey through time and space to that mystic state of being and remember your chosen waking place.

The mind is the stuff of your own making.

Through all the many veils it strays,

There's always some inner alarm clock waiting that says it's time to face the day.

Awaken all you sleeping ones and do not be afraid for God's love was created to guide you to find a brand new way.

And another thing that's really important to remember is that many true teachers say that death is just an awakening from the dream state that life is and that all of life is a dream.

Shakespeare said,

We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

And I wrote this one as well.

Once upon a dream the sons of men did play,

Upon an ancient rock in space that was born in creation's day.

This sacred world was given the freedom to just be alive with breath and the chance to fulfill a greater destiny.

Or perhaps it wasn't experiment this chance as life in God gave us as form.

And if there were millions willing to live it,

Surely one would remember the goal and breathe the truth that could lead us to a greater destiny that in living in the shadows of a forgotten imprint that we all still need.

So from time to time there came the ones who've offered up the key and have given us the secrets of how we can awaken from our dream.

Often there's a promise that is made and a few remembered it and tried,

But amidst the shadows from the sun,

Still so many wondered why.

It's so strange that we were given death to remind us of the limits of time,

But always with the gift of life we can find a way to escape it and deny the key to creation's dream and the secrets of our soul and in a way and in time we will awaken from the dream that has kept us in the ancient shadows.

And here on this spinning planet we pray to God and find the lessons of love that will carry us through all of space and time until we can awaken to that gift and the key to why we all came here and fulfill our destiny.

Let's take a few moments to go into our different levels of our subconscious mind which we go to often when we meditate and then go from our subconscious mind to our collective conscious and then the higher consciousness and to then the higher higher consciousness which is Christ consciousness and God consciousness.

So take a few moments and just go to that place where you know you dwell when you dream.

Breathing in that amazing energy of that subconscious power of that living life force that watches over you when you sleep and breathe out knowing that you are safe and you are protected you are embraced in God's great love.

You are there inside in that wonderful place where you can travel in your sleep to the highest levels of consciousness directed by the one whose dream created you and me.

Breathe in that energy now.

Feel comfortable and relax.

Feel your body if there's any tension just do a scan and allow your mind your body any tension in your shoulders your neck any tension in your face any tension throughout all of your body scanning all the way down through your torso your lower back your pelvic area on down through your legs your knees your calves and your feet and find a beautiful beautiful etheric robe a beautiful multicolored high energy robe to surround yourself.

A beautiful energy field that surrounds your aura and now feel free to travel to travel to that higher place of consciousness that space within when you go to your soul you can find a way to dwell there in that higher place and let's move on from our soul to that one that directs our dreams.

Let's go to the higher levels of consciousness within and let's explore those levels and those dimensions which create these dreams we live with one third of our life.

Make friends with that energy source that dwells there.

Find that that's your wonderful guide and your companion and your teacher that can reach you and clean out your fears and all of your levels of consciousness that can bring you inspiration ideas answers and make a commitment to partner with that soul and with God as your co-creator to know that you can use this amazing power and energy and this understanding and these symbols at work in your life every single night to guide you.

Feel that energy as you connect deep within your soul going deeper and deeper and to the higher levels inside where you find that higher self and those dream guides those teachers the angels the guardians the masters and the ones that lead you to the highest place of God's perfect light and love.

Feel the energy there feel the shift of energy when you are in this more ethereal life circumstance that dwells deep deep deep within.

Open the gate open the gateway to that heaven within and feel it come and welcome you and embrace you and know that it's there right now right now it's here with you as your partner and guide.

Your soul knows the space this soul dwells in this energy night and day.

Make a pact with your higher self to work together and through the work of your dreams keep track of the lessons the guidance the visions the images and what you need to learn to make your life a more full and happy place to be.

Breathe in this energy absorb it let it energize you let it renew you and complete you and as you do now know that this is your resource you can go to every single night and if you choose to you can go to this place before you go to sleep at night and ask for guidance for anything you may need it may be health images it may be healing it may be some direction in your life but know that it's always there available for you and slowly come out of meditation and think about maybe having a dream journal to write down these dreams that come to you that can teach you so much that you can go inside and ask about these images and what they really mean.

Now take a deep breath in and breathe out and say thank you God and so it is may your life be full of beautiful dreams and may you always honor that part of you that is the one that is the dreamer and may you always awaken to the real true you that is connected to the source of all dreams.

God bless you always.