DREAMS

Why do we Dream? What are Dreams?

The majority of us give our Dreams little concern and most of us do not even remember our Dreams. Some will swear that they never Dream. It is through the study of Dreams that we have discovered that we all Dream each and every night. If we do not Dream, over a period of time, we start to hallucinate and have difficulty determining what is real and what is an illusion. This has been observed by monitoring individuals while they sleep and awaken them when they enter the dream state (monitoring their brain waves). When a person has been kept from dreaming over a period of time they have trouble determining what is real and state to hallucinate. This means that dreaming is a necessary part of our BEING - WHY?

SLEEP:

We usually associate dreaming with sleep. We believe that we sleep because we need to rest and to recharge our energy. However, when we monitor our body when we sleep our body is not truly resting. Our body's metabolism continues to function even when we are asleep - we continue to breath and our heart continues to pump, our kidneys continue to function - our metabolism continues on even while we sleep. Even our brain continues functioning. WE SLEEP TO DREAM.

DREAMS:

What are Dreams? Dreams are visitations of our Soul/Mind returning to our SPIRIT.

Here in the Physical realm we have our PHYSICAL BODY and when we are awake our Soul/Mind is consciously here in the PHYSICAL. In the Spirit realm is where our SPIRIT resides, much like our BODY resides in the Physical. When we sleep we are preparing our BODY so that our Soul/Mind can leave our BODY and return to our SPIRIT. When we DREAM our Soul/Mind is consciously united with our SPIRIT. When we awake our Soul/Mind returns to our BODY.

Our Soul/Mind is only consciously aware of the environment that it is in at any one time. This is why we quickly forget our dreams upon awakening. On the surface our Soul/Mind does not see the relevancy of our Dream and our Physical Life. However, we can chose to exercise our Free-Will and decide to remember our Dreams and even to interpret them.

There is a good book on Dreams that suggests ways for us to remember more of our Dreams and how discussing our Dreams can help us to interpret them. Dreams are often the language of symbols and interpreting them is a personal journey. A symbol can mean different things to different individuals and this means the individual needs to determine what the symbol means to them;

Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill:  Rev. Jeremy Taylor

DREAMTIME:

In many aboriginal cultures there are practices and rituals that facilitate the awaken and conscious visitations to the Spirit realm. These practices are often referred to as - Dreamtime or Spirit Journeys.

These deliberate and conscious visitations to the Spirit realm permits the verbal communications to the Spirit realm. We can communicate with our Totems, Spirit Guides, Angels and other spiritual entities.

Many will classify these Spirit Journeys as just the imagination and fantasy, but these practices would not have survived thousands of years if this was all there was to them. Personal experiences tells me that there is much more substance to these practices.

Dreams are our Soul/Mind visitation with our Spirit.