The Key to your dreams
We can say with fair certainty that we all have two lives: one being the state that we think of as ordinary wakefulness; the other the state which we are in when we go to sleep. In this second life we all dream - some of us fairly regularly, others only occasionally - and this is as true of animals as of human beings. How often have you seen your cat or your dog, for instance, moving its legs as though it were running, or whimpering, or even giving an occasional bark although in fact it is fast asleep?
Then, sometimes, we have what we call a 'nightmare'. I understand that doctors have said that these occur most frequently to a sleeper lying on his back and most rarely to one lying on his right side. I myself have often prescribed to my clients a routine to help them get a more satisfactory night's sleep. I tell them first to lie on their backs until they feel they are ready to go to sleep, then to turn on to their left sides until they become drowsy, and only at this stage finally to turn on to their right sides.
I recommend this for two reasons: the first, obviously, is that they will get a more beneficial night's sleep from lying on their right sides; the second, perhaps more important, is that the effort of remembering this routine will itself prevent them from thinking about what has been happening during the day and what is likely to happen tomorrow {and in any case never does). In other words, this preoccupation will distract them from worrying about things they can do nothing about, and this will ensure that they get a better night's rest and are consequently able to think more clearly the next day.
Some of our dreams are so mixed up that they mean very little, and this in my opinion may well be caused by indigestion. Others, though vivid enough at the time, are completely forgotten in the morning, which strongly suggests to me that they are the result of impressions formed during the previous day and also are vague plans for the near future. But the dreams with which we are concerned in this article are those which we still remember vividly during our waking hours, because the very fact that we do remember them implied that they have some message or warning for us - and offers, in some cases, concrete advice for us to act on.
I have even known of people who, while they were asleep, were able to leave their own bodies, and look objectively at things and people around them, but this of course is another subject outside the scope of this article.
The first thing we should get clear in discussing the analysis of dreams is that they should be divided into three categories: first, dreams of what we should have done at some time in the past; secondly, ambitious dreams for our own futures, and thirdly, the extremely impressive dreams which make little sense to us at the time but which are in fact the most important, For it is this third category which gives us a sense of really living them. When we wake up suddenly in the middle of one of these dreams one of two things will follow: if the dream is an enjoyable one we may allow ourselves to go to sleep again in a deliberate attempt to recapture it and discover what result it was leading to; if, on the other hand, the dream was one of those which we call a nightmare we are liable to find ourselves in a highly emotional state and often be frightened of going back to sleep in case the dream should return.
Personally I have long been convinced that we are all to some extent psychic and that these dreams are insights - good or bad - which we could not obtain during our waking hours, or, in many cases, actual glimpses of future events. In this connexion I think especially of the famous American clairvoyant Edgar Cayce. He was known as the 'Sleeping Prophet' because he had the ability to put himself to sleep and, while sleeping, to talk to his wife, who would record every word he said. In many cases forecasts he made under these circumstances proved correct.
So now we know that dreams can offer us, among other things, warnings, and advice on how to cope with things or people, and encouragement. In my book ‘Your Dreams Revealed’ I have given specific details of how to decide which category your dream falls and how best to interpret it. What I have not done, is give you long list of meaningless subject headings with a short meaning of it, as you will find in many of the books available on dream interpretation. I have tried to give a completely different approach to help you reveal what your dreams really mean.
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