Improving Psychic/ Spiritual gifts concerning dreams

[Pariahprose]

Ok, so my mom has precognitive dreams,so did my grandmother and brother as well, I myself have only had maybe 3 in my life.However,that doesn't bother me but is just needed background info on my family history concerning abilities with dreams Because I too seem to have abilities that revolve around dreams.

My personal strength,as opposed to precognitive dreams, is dream interpretation. People have told me their dreams before and based on that I have been able to reveal intimate details about them, pick up on their life situation, and help them use their dreams as a tool to better their situation. I admit, it seems to be more than just a spiritual ability as I have a tendancy to combine what I feel spiritually about a dream with what I can rationally explain. Pretty much I use my mind to enhance an already existing gift. However, I was wondering are there any other ways to strengthen something like this? Would a dream journal to remember more of my own dreams and an increased ability to lucid dream improve my interpretation ability any? In general though any tips to enhance spiritual gifts concerning sleep or dreams would be greatly appreciated!

 

[ugly]

I recommend a dream journal. Either a laptop or a paper journal and some pens right next to the bed.

If I wake up during the night right after a dream, I have to write it down. Otherwise I will have no memory of it in the morning.

You will quickly find that you've got pages upon pages piling up. At least that is my experience. When I was a teacher I encouraged my students to keep dream journals and I offered extra credit for them.

I read somewhere that the lady who wrote the twilight books started from a dream she had.

She's rich now.

Definitely write your dreams out. Especially as soon as you wake up, no matter what time it is, because that's when you'll remember the most details. I surprise myself often by going back over my dream journal to find dreams I have forgotten COMPLETELY.

I don't have any dream interpretation gifts. But I still write my dreams down. I consider my dream journal a huge asset.

 

[RedRum OG]

IMHO, dreams aren't as mystic and unearthly as people think. I believe they are just a combination of memories(of events and emotions/thoughts) and imagination of that person.

Do some research of how hard science interprets dreams maybe

 

[Foreigner]

It's great that you are able to help others interpret their dreams, I would just be wary of giving them your own fixed interpretations. Everyone can have the same dream symbol but it will mean something different for each person. A serpent in my dream will have a different meaning from the one in yours. That's why books on interpreting dreams are often far fetched.

The best way to get in touch with your dreams is to do dream journaling while you're awake. In the modern world we artificially divide conscious and unconscious processes, but really it is all one consciousness operating seamlessly. Anything you do in the waking aspect can affect the dream time, and vice versa. People who receive messages in the dream time and then carry them out in the waking world often have interesting results.

Keep a dream journal. Once you write your dreams out, you can re-write them again and change the plot, the ending, etc. This is how people with nightmares can come to heal their dream experiences.

Writing something like, "When I dream, I will realize it's a dream and be able to control and interact with the dream with full awareness", or something along those lines. Whatever you write consciously can ingrain unconsciously.

Lucid dreaming will help you understand your unconscious world better.

 

[7ca5p]

Use some Pukupu Magic Dust and inhale over the secret lake of Gundo to try and connect with other earthly dream energy.

 

[-=SS=-]

IMHO, dreams aren't as mystic and unearthly as people think. I believe they are just a combination of memories(of events and emotions/thoughts) and imagination of that person.

There's far too much interpretation and wishy-washy bullshit surrounding dreaming.. primarily because poetic mystical nonsense sells very well to curious minds. On the one hand dreams are just a rehashing of memory data that generally results representations of your anxieties/fears that you can then process as you're dreaming. They're nothing more fantastic than one of your toenails. However, on occassion you do get an odd occurrence, an example being pre-cognitive dreaming, something I have experienced personally. This doesn't make dreaming special though as those things also happen in the waking state.

Lucid dreaming is always fun though. When it comes to that, and also remembering your dreams, I think it helps to just know that you'll do it.. sort of self-hypnotize yourself/tell yourself it will happen, and it will. Always seems to work for me.

 

[infectedmushroom]

I can't tell the difference often between events in my dream state and events when I'm awake. Sometimes I wake up and go - "did so and so actually say/do that?" and am unsure (and don't really care) what happens to be the truth. Dreaming is just slipping from consciousness to unconsciousness anyway - they aren't that different, they're both highly "symbolic" states in their own right however unconsciousness is often ignored/dismissed as having much less relevance to our spirituality/being as the conscious symbolic world.

IMO OP, don't downplay your ability and try to enhance it if you wish - its more important than people want to admit to themselves...

 

[MyDoorsAreOpen]

Lucid dreaming definitely works. I've never put in the necessary effort or marijuana-cessation to cultivate it reliably, so I've only ever lucid dreamt accidentally on a few sporadic occasions, and woke up usually not long after. I've seen patients who've definitely done it a lot, though.

There are a lot of resources and support groups for training oneself to dream lucidly, and from my understanding they all are based around dream logging and focusing on a visual object as a something between a grounding or centering image, and a talisman, usually one's own hand, and forming a strong association between staring at this and falling into the mindset of lucid dreaming, similarly to the way one feels a sense of serene joy looking at the photo of a loved one. I'd bet the house there are lucid dreaming guides and groups that are specifically tailored to those whose motives for learning this skill are primarily spiritual. They probably run the entire quality gamut, so be picky. I don't see why I'd pay a penny for any of this, but YMMV.

Be forewarned that lucid dreaming and mysticism have both been linked in the medical literature, independently, with psychiatric illness. Make of this what you will. What I read is that those who are fundamentally not at peace with themselves and with the world around them will find no solace in, and be unprepared for the earthshatteringness of, a seriously altered state of consciousness.

 

[Foreigner]

I can't tell the difference often between events in my dream state and events when I'm awake.

One good way to know if you're asleep or awake is to look at your hands. In your dream, your hands won't have lines on them, or will look different. You can train yourself to do this by looking at your hands during the day while you're awake, to confirm that you're awake. It ingrains the behaviour so that you start doing it when you're asleep.

The first step to lucid dreaming is to know you're dreaming.

 

[infectedmushroom]

What I mean is, events happen while i'm asleep - and I wake up thinking they had actually happened in my conscious, waking state.

A simple example would be often as im in a hypnogogic state between being fully awake and being asleep, I have dreams of checking my emails or getting up to go to the bathroom - and once I emerge fully into consciousness, I'm convinced i've actually done those things when I haven't yet.

 

[Foreigner]

Maybe your life is just repetitive?

Go to work, work all day, go home, go to sleep, dream of work, get up, go to work, etc... lol

 

[infectedmushroom]

Yeah that's probably true :D