Do you let your dreams fortell what goes on in normal waking hours?

Question

In other words do you let you dreams not all of them but some guide you in life? Can they be a sign?

Answer 1

There is no neat, black and white answer to your excellent question, which you have already clearly indicated.

There are many categories of dreams. Some categories are determined by magnitude - the amount of psychic energy invested in, or expressed by the dream. This can leave behind degrees of "numinosity" which influence states of consciousness (and being) for various lengths of time. Some of these high magnitude dreams can influence the rest of one's life. In this sense they are always guiding or shapining a part of you, but it is very difficult to define in many cases the way they are doing this.

Another category of dream could be called "qualitative" rather than "quantitative". Some of these may not be huge but are so poignant, so concentrated, so curious or so premonitory, that they also leave a residue that will not go away.

These categorically potent dreams influence us one way or the other. The problem lies in how they are to be interpreted. What I do is to try and write the dream down immediately. As I do this I try not to decide in advance what the dream means. Rather I see the dream a bit like a vase, or a net with which I will catch hold of something. With the net I don't know in advance what fish I will catch or how many. But yet I still take the net with me out onto the water. The dream is like that net. It is an interface, a dynamic or creative interaction between the source of the dream, the brain and finally the outside, waking world. But like all potent symbols, it is good to learn to 'see through' the symbol toward the whole fabric of the reality within which it has been hatched.

In fact this theory is very similar to the way physicists now have to look at subatomic particles. They cannot call them 'things' the way we call a baseball a thing. The experimental and theoretical reality of the subatomic 'thing' is that it is an interaction between many states of energy and even the instruments used to detect and study it!

So I do use some dreams as guides, warnings, premonitions, shapes of things impending. But different dreams guide me in different ways. Some guide my own inner state of being. Others tend to guide actual movements in the outer world. One dream can express clearly that change is coming, but yet I cannot say from the dream exactly how that change will come about. The dream can offer clues, but even then, I can't say for certain how those clues will play out in the physical world. And yet I do allow the existence and residue of the dream to keep me alert to the impending change. I have also had some dreams that were so accurate in what they predicted that I was later very, very happy that I had written them down and talked them over with relevant people in my life. These dreams can give you a head start in coping with various challenges.

The dream offers an interface that promotes a dynamical dialogue between the invisible, unknown source of the dream and the visible world that makes potential possibilities manifest on some level. In the quantum world physicists call these actualized states "eigenstates", because the 'superposed' condition of various probabilities or possibilities become reduced through the collapse of the notorious "quantum wavefunction" into a single, distinct state.

Dreams are very much like this aspect of physics. They present degrees of possibility with degrees of determinism, within which we must wait to some degree (like any oracle) to see what will happen since we cannot control everything around us. So good premonitory dreams which feel significant have the power to keep us alert, fresh, wondering, wary, prudent, etc. They keep us open to the complex nature of reality - which itself is not a 'thing' but rather is a dynamic, living tapestry - just like dreams themselves.

A dream expresses - by degree - the age old mysterious relationship between 'fate' and 'life'. This is a balancing act, which is why it is difficult to establish rigid theories about dreams. They are art, science and symbol all working together.

Great question. But a hard one to answer because there is a silent language with dreams that seems to be rooted in feeling, the same feeling that guides musicians, mothers, prophets and people who tend to be intuitive by nature. Dreams are elastic, flexible, elusive, but yet can still act as guides. A guide can lead you along a dangerous mountain pass. But yet you must actually place one foot in front of the other.

Generally I find myself intutively attempting to maintain a balance between the dream as guide and the footsteps of the specific path that the journey takes. The dream adds a numinous, spiritual dimension that seems to breathe with the greater whole and so influences the direction taken - sometimes very, very specifically. They can be vivid voices of the soul, so they are vital companions as we wind our way along the path.

B. Lyons

Answer 2

I do.... like I had a dream that I was going down a busy hill with lots of traffic and instead of slowing down and stopping I keep going and to prevent hitting the other cars I went into the oncoming lane instead.... what I got out of the dream was that some things that happened in my life was not my fault and I had to go a way that was right at the time ....... in my dreams I always escape and always come out on top in the end.....

Answer 3

Not at all!!! Please, let's be serious! The only possibility they might have to guide our life would be the case in which you think so much about what you've dreamt of that you end by really doing it. But one hopes that when we're awake we can use our brain to judge things. For example if you dream you 're flying and the following morning you carry out the experiment by jumping out of the window and hoping you can really fly, don't blame the dream you had the night before if you crash down in the street below!!! Real life is not a film nor a dream!
By the way, I often dream I'm flying and really enjoy the dream!

Answer 4

i like to try and pay attention to things that might go along with the dream,like coinsidences that happen through the day but i've not been lucky enough to remember a whole dream,just parts of many. i believe that there are many purposes to the dreams so i would guess that in some way , some will be signs.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity"...