24 Notes on Dreams
Your dreams are priceless riches to be mined. As you pay attention to your dreams they will pay attention to you.
- Dreaming is a spiritual practice that uncovers the ways we separate off from our true expansive nature.
- Everybody dreams 3 to 7 dreams a night.
- We forget about 90% of our dreams.
- We only see faces we already know in our dreams. That mysterious stranger is someone who is already registered in your memory bank.
- Not everybody dreams in color. 12% dream in black and white.
- Dreams are symbolic and not literal. Divorce, robbery, earthquakes or car crashes are not visions of an impending disaster.
- Our emotional body shows up in our dreams in the form of a women or mammalian animals.
- Anxiety is the most common emotion experienced in dreamsand negative emotions show up more than positive ones.
- Recurrent dreams act as a megaphone to get you to listen up.
- Erotic dreams are usually about connecting or merging with aspects of our self. Women get sexually aroused in dreams and men get erections even without erotic dreams.
- We don’t dream when we snore.
- People who became blind after birth can see images in theirdreams. People who are born blind do not see images but have vivid dreams involving sound, smell, touch and emotion.
- Lucid dreaming is an ability to be aware that you are dreaming while you are asleep.
- Truth presents itself in dreaming and later exposes itself in form.
- Dream symbols are a secret code based on the stored impressions in your memory bank.
- Death dreams are destiny dreams. They prophesy a transformation by bringing forth knowledge and information about your soul’s contract with life.
- Dreaming taps you into a collective consciousness where healing, collaboration and dreaming for one another can occur.
- Ancient cultures used intentional dreaming in their communities to make important decisions, discover where to build their temples or how to heal the sick.
- Wild dreams offer you an experience of your wild nature buried beneath the shackles of domestication.
- Everyone has mundane dreams that involve reworking things that were not done the day before.
- Some people hear direct auditory messages in their dreamtime.
- Dreaming into the greater collective consciousness is where medicine dreams, healing dreams and creative dreams inspire wholeness.
- Emotion held in your body blocks dreaming and prevents you from owning your power.
- Purposeful dreamers apply the spiritual substance found in the dreaming state to create more conscious awareness in their waking dream life.