Day 1 of writing a Dream Diary:
I was all excited before sleeping. I kept a dream journal and a pen ready, next to my bed, so that I could jot my dream recalls as soon as I wake up. And then went off to sleep. Sometime in the night, I woke up to the constant nag of nature's call. As I got up from my bed, I realized I had woken up in the middle of a dream. Quickkkk! I gotta write this down before I forget. But my cats weren't amused. As soon as they saw me getting up, they started howling for food. Cats: "Calendar! Give us food, or else we will meowww the house down."👹 Me: "Oh dear! Let me just feed the cats quickly." Me: "Now let me just rush to the loo to get this out of the way as well". Phew! All done! I sat down on my bed to start writing down my dream recall, "peacefully". Damn! what the h*** was my dream ?!😱 In between the feeding of the cats and nature's nagging call, I had forgotten the dream. Most dreams are so wispy-light that they slip out of the mind as soon as we wake up and our mind gets occupied with the daily mundane chores/thinking. I turned left, I turned right (figuratively), but I just couldn't remember what the dream was about. "Ok. Let me try once again", I said to myself. I wasn't going to give in so easily. "Let me try recalling the tail end of my dream or let me try to remember which people were in my dream, or let me try to remember any scene from the dream." Thankfully few names of people could be recalled (odd people to be in my dream but nevertheless wrote them down). I could recollect some last few scenes from the dream - them odd too. Wrote them down as well. How did I feel after the dream? Well, they were neutral feelings. Wrote that down as well. Basically, I got bits and pieces of stuff from the end of the dream story, some stuff from the middle of the dream story. The dream didn't make sense but it is too early to analyze my dream. It is important first to get into a habit of recalling dreams for atleast 21-40 days, rather than analyzing whether the dreams are related to an unfulfilled action/desire that couldn't have been completed during waking hours or whether the dreams are indicative of some mental activity/stress in day to day life and too early to analyze whether the dream could be indicative of future events. Also I was feeling neutral after the dream. I think overall it was a decent start to my Dream writing adventure. Lesson to be learnt: Recall the dream as soon as eyes open. If needed, stay in bed for sometime and first try to recollect or relive the dream. Ingrain it in your head and then get up and write it down. #dreamanalysis #dreamjournal #dreamdiary #dreams Nightmares aren't fun.
And excessive dreaming isn't fun either, in-fact it is downright disturbing. But dreams definitely they tell us something, one - about our state of mind. Dreams would have important clues about an incident already occurred in our life, or we may complete our unfulfilled desires in our dreams, it may give clues of our over-worrying or overthinking and lets us know that we need to rest, and so on. Our dreams gives us clues of what we are constantly thinking, or what is stuck in our subconscious mind. which we may not be aware of consciously. These are important clues that should not be taken too literally in its meaning but at the same time should not be ignored. Dreams don't necessarily forebode our future and hence spending too much time over its literal meaning is futile. But at the same time, dreams can forebode future. :)) Robert Moss answers (author of Conscious dreaming book): Why do you think that dreams are so significant? (1) We solve problems in our sleep (2) Dreams coach us for future challenges and opportunities (3) Dreams show us what the body needs , to stay well – and get well (4) Dreams hold up a “magic mirror” to our current actions and attitudes, helping us to take an objective look at ourselves and make wiser choices (5) Dreams are a creative studio where we develop new ideas – as inventors, scientists, writers and world-changers have always done. I think its high time I start dreaming, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............ I have wondered the authenticity if seeing "feathers" so often around me really mean that spirit is especially around, helping and does it mean anything??
I am reading this book - 'Three "Only" Things' by Robert Moss who teaches about dreams and how to track them and understand them to be messages from our higher soul or ascended masters, etc. and how to use them as guidance in our daily life. In this , he mentions about how recurring symbols and recurring coincidences can be tracked as meaning "something". I can relate then that its not about just seeing a feather once in a while, but the recurring feathers could be symbols of spirit strongly around certain times, encouraging .... symbolically as spirit cannot display to the eyes directly. |
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