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| Author | Topic: Dreams |
| Asherah |
posted 2/9/09 0:58 AM
Oh no, don't stop your musings on dreams dear Rowan. I, like you, question so much. For instance, I've had very vivid flying dreams and the act of flying comes so naturally to me that I've often wondered if it's not a recollection of another life where I was a bird or some other flying creature. I also wonder about the dreams that are so common among us: i.e., we want to run away but can't move and feel as heavy as lead; where we can breathe under water; where we're standing naked among a clothed crowd. Is this a part of the collective memory of the human species or a part of the collective memories of all the energies that reside in the great cosmos? I think what makes our species so special is that we DO wonder about these things. What are your thoughts? Speaking of special species, I think Hedge Friend is at an out of town conference. I miss him too. |
| Rowan Rosewood |
posted 2/9/09 6:26 AM
I've never thought of dreams like that in that way. If that's the case, perhaps all dreams could have possible links to past lives, even thoughts and actions while we are awake may be influenced by past life memories. I read of a man who had a phobia of birds, when he had a woman help him to regress to a past life, it turned out in another life he was mortally wounded on the battle field and then was pecked to death by vultures. He thought his comrades had left him to die. The woman appologised on thier behalf and told him that they didn't know he was still alive, or they would have come back for him. When he woke from the regression his phobia of birds was gone. When I am really tired I often check to see that I have remembered to put on my jeans while I am walking down the street and that is when I am awake! |
| Asherah |
posted 2/9/09 2:55 PM
LOL Rowan. My modesty is such that I'd never, in the waking state, forget to put on clothes. I wouldn't want to offend anyone especially since I got into my 50s and gravity is no longer my best friend holding up my body. Are there any dreams you can recall that may hit you as being a reflection of a former life? A friend of mine, male, dreamt he was a woman in days of old and was fighting for his breath because he was encased in a whalebone corset. He also felt imprisoned by his environment and was quite sad. When he awoke, he truly believed he'd been this woman in a former life. Please, anyone else out there, feel free to join in on this conversation. We'd love to hear about your dreams and/or past life experiences. |
| Hedge-friend |
posted 2/10/09 5:36 PM
I've had many dreams, and regret not keeping better track of them. As with many things, we often miss or ignore details that may help us in our daily lives, and dreams are frequently taken for granted, or chalked-up to indigestion . . . I believe they are a portal for us on many levels. They enable our imaginations to realize our desires, they are a conduit for our subconscious to "speak" to us in ways that are not always obvious, and perhaps they are a channel for the "quantum sea" to bridge us to other planes (thanks Ash for the reading suggestion "The Science of the Craft" from which I got the last part!). I think only a fool would deny the various possibilities - life is about possibilities. Live! I have always visioned myself as a knight errant, wandering . . . and much of myself is wrapped-up in that concept. |
| Rowan Rosewood |
posted 2/11/09 7:21 AM
Hi Hedge-friend, nice to see you again. I had a dream once that I was a little girl of about 7, my step mother in real life was my real mother in this life. I had the feeling we had run away from a powerful man who I feel was a father figure to me. We were hiding out in a derilict stone cottage on a coast and the land around was bleak. It looked like places I have seen in Ireland. I knew my mother was very sad, we had nothing and no food, but there were chickens in a barn attached to the house just roaming free. In the morning, I decided to go and sweep the barn and see if I could find eggs, or see to the chickens to help my mother to feel happy. When I went into the barn, all the chickens had been slaughtered and stuffed into the cages that were already there and I had cold fear wash over me because I knew that we had been found and the person who we had run away from wanted to kill us. My step mum has always had a feeling that she may have had a past life, she has always dreamed of living in a lonely cottage on a cliff by the sea or a lighthouse, she likes the look of long white curtains over large windows, but the thought of them billowing in a breeze makes her have an overwhelming feeling of sadness. She came to our family when I was 11 and we have always had a very close relationship, I felt very protective toward her against my father, even staying up to help her look after my baby brother at night as I was afraid that my father would injure or even kill him, (seems vastly over the top to say it now, and my baby brother is now 25 and has a very good relationship with my father!) My step mum suffered a lot of mental torture from living with my dad and eventually suffered a break down losing so much weight that I feared for her life. It is all over now and every one is fine, but I have always wondered if I have shared a past life with her where emotions or painful memories may have been passed on to this life? I feel that it may be true. But knowing this actually makes me feel better about it all. I totally agree with you Hedge-friend, 'Live' and learn! I think that everyones path in life should be guided by the persuit of thier happiness, that's not frivolous, that to me is the meaning of life. I think if we deny ourselves that, then we are not progressing as nature intends us to do. By the way, I mean 'true happiness'! |
| Hedge-friend |
posted 2/12/09 4:45 AM
And to the survivors, the spoils. I was saddened by your last posting as I read it. That is a difficult and emotionally painful set of memories to allow your unconscious mind to build upon and embellish. A good example of how our fears and empathic sensitivities can suggest dark scenarios to worry us. I felt better to learn your little brother is doing fine, and that your dad isn't really a Grendel-type. I agreed strongly with your conclusions too. Your path seems clearly before you now, and the shadows of this sort of past dream are hopefully being replaced by more self-directed and positive uses of your vivid intellect. Those are the spoils, then, the wisdom to sort the wheat from the chaff, and channel the abilities we possess in directions that can clear away our own cobwebs, and help others shine light into darkness. |
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