The Origin and Nature of Dreams
There is much debate today about the origin and meaning of dreams. Have you ever noticed that in dreams, you know certain facts without ever being told them? You know your brother will get a new job. You know the car in front of you will go through a red light. You know your boss is embezzling money. No one had to tell you these things. You know them, just as surely as you know your name. We know things in dreams without being told them because dreams are spiritual in nature, and spiritual information is not communicated through speech, but through thoughts—directly to our spirit.
The human brain has difficulty making sense of spiritual information because it is of a different nature than intellectual information. Spiritual knowledge is information of a different order. Allow me to illustrate this difference:
The brain can make sense of the emotion our soul produces called grief when it is connected to the intellectual context of a situation called death. In this case, the brain’s cognitive center receives a message of death and the soul attaches the emotion of grief to it. The emotion and the intellect agree. The brain can likewise understand the emotion called joy when the cognitive setting is a wedding. Again, there is emotional and intellectual agreement. This is how the soul and brain—emotion and intellect—normally operate. But in dreams, we’re just as likely to feel joy when someone dies or grief at a friend’s wedding. Dreams create emotional and intellectual disagreement.
The fact that an emotion is felt in a dream does not necessarily mean it is created in the soul. If the soul were to create an emotion, it would likely correspond to an appropriate event. The fact that in a dream, the emotion is connected to an inappropriate event suggests that emotion and event are joined by some other mechanism. That other mechanism is our spirit. Like the soul, the spirit receives and transmits emotions but it does so for a completely different purpose.
Our spirit sends and receives messages that have symbolic rather than literal (logical) meaning. Spiritual messages are not about what they seem to be. Our brain doesn’t understand them because they’re symbolic rather than literal, and they must be decoded. Our soul doesn’t understand them because it did not create them. Dreams are an enigma to the soul and body because they are manifestations of our spirit.
Some dreams do originate in the soul. These dreams, like a poorly written tale, have no point. Because they’re not spiritual in nature, they’re not symbolic, and the dreamer typically doesn’t feel a strong emotion. Soul dreams are devoid of the encouragement, instruction, warning, or other features found in spiritual dreams.
Although most dreams are spiritual in nature, they are not created by our spirit. They’re created and sent by other spirit beings. Some spirits act as messengers. Under the right circumstances, our spirit receives them.
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I just spent the last hour or two exploring what is, to me, a new perspective. Your sentence above “The human brain has difficulty making sense of spiritual information because it is of a different NATURE than intellectual information.” has motivated me to share this with you. Here goes:
What is “Being Conscious”?
I got hit with a bombshell two days ago which is still resonating. This article is an attempt to clarify my thinking. As a scientist, I think that thinking is the pathway to everything: truth, happiness, world peace, and health. However, there is another part of me which is very unhappy with putting thinking at the center of the world.
Is being conscious like mindfulness? Is it like paying attention or obeying the parent, teacher, or policeman? Is it noticing the difference between green and red lights on the roadway? Is it simply being sentient: feeling and responding to stimulus? Some would claim it is being aware of and respecting the wants and needs of others.
As we walk through Nature, what makes us conscious? Is it noticing and naming every form of flora, fauna, and crystal? Is it feeling the cold wet sensation on our hands as we reach into a stream and pick up a rock? Some would say it is the sense of grandeur or awe we sometimes get as we contemplate colors, sounds, scents, or enormity of Nature.
At this point it appears to me that “not being conscious” is an accusation we can make to get others to do what we want. Thus, from this perspective “being conscious” would be some vague behavioral objective.
So…. Here’s what shook me up. I have been attempting to build a device that generates the vitalizing energy of Sunshine and infuses it into the human body. My hope has been that it will strengthen our immune response against pathogens, replenish our uplifting stores of Sunshine through a dark, cloudy winter, and maybe jump-start healing processes where they have stalled for lack of the right kind of vitality. I submitted my latest prototype to a capable intuitive who has been highly successful in the past at evaluating my devlces like the many prototypes of the CHI Palm, evaluating their effectiveness for a variety of conditions and how I can increase their harmoniousness with nature. In the past, this has largely taken the form of recommendations to avoid the “More is better” mentality of modern pharmaceuticals and therapy devices. He has recommended making the output more gentle and more like Nature.
However, with this new Sunshine simulator, which I believe produces magneto-gravitational waves, his response was quite different. He said, “The new Sun device provides Waves (harmonics of a higher reality) that cause the negative structures to lose their definitiveness. It also causes the negative structures to be more connected with the Universe – Harmony with Nature does seem to cause non-harmonious stuff to dissolve. It seems that these nasty things become disconnected from their artificial reality when in the presence of healthy waves (harmonics of a higher reality).”
In my past research, I have come across many who have spoken of “negative frequencies”, and “negative energies”. But I had never before been able to figure out how an energy or frequency could be negative. Up until two days ago, I always thought that energy was simply energy.
He continued, “The negative structures, when “protected by an artificial reality, can more freely behave in their noxious manner. The positive influence of the Sun simulator helps negate and weaken the A.I. consciousness (which can only exist within a block to Source).
I had heard people talking about how A.I. can somehow be evil, but again, that never made sense to me. To me, Artificial Intelligence had been just lines of computer code. Suddenly, he is telling me that A.I “can only exist within a block to Source”. As I write this, it feels true, but it defies my current logic. Maybe if I write some more it will begin to make sense….
Maybe I can find some clarity if I go back to the initial question: “What is being conscious?” In my past writings, I have frequently objected to abstract theories being believed as “truth”. I have also presented my model of the analytical mind as an algorithm in the brain that uses cyclic brainwaves to poll every part of the body’s cells, then attempting to find a memory that best represents the collective voice of all the cells of the body. The result is a series of memories including pictures, feelings, thoughts, sounds and smells. 10 to 20 memories per second, depending on the speed of the brainwave speed. To me, this is quite useful in adding and subtracting numbers and in memorizing facts, but quite limited in that this means the analytical mind can only process information based on memories. There is no question that this can be useful in navigating our daily lives. However, if we rely on the analytical mind to solve problems, we will only come up with repeating answers.
Is it possible that the analytical mind is “artificial intelligence”?
Our schools teach us to memorize and repeat, to trust Google and Wikipedia and to repeat “facts” we find from these and other authoritative sources. In fact, we are frequently taught that our own creative thought is to be discarded in favor of the theories and opinions of “experts”. Is it possible that teaching us to use our analytical minds exclusively, our education system is teaching us to function within an “artificial intelligence” and that this AI and it’s repeating memories and assumptions is the source of “Negative frequencies” and “negative energies”?
You can see I am going way out here, but this is an exploration. It is not proof of anything….
If “thinking” which is the way we access the repeating memories of the analytical mind, fills us with negative energies and negative frequencies, these artificial structures penetrate every part of our bodies and are repeated endlessly. This allows us to get stuck into absurd polarities like Democrat/Republican, vax/no-vax…. us vs them.
How might we escape from this box of artificial intelligence? Let’s return again to the original question: “What is Being Conscious?” At this point, I am thinking that walking in nature, smelling the aerosols, touching water, rocks, trees, listening to the wind through the trees, all without identifying and naming the experiences, might be Being Conscious. And focusing our attention on the endless repeating memories as we walk through the forest might be an excellent definition of Being Unconscious.
Now I can see one more conclusion. Let’s see if I can put it into words. If we focus our attention on the actual stimuli as we walk through the forest, feel our feet on the carpet, or lick an ice cream cone, and keep our attention away from pretending that these experiences in the present moment are adequately described by old memories, every cell in our bodies will start to allow all the old memories to fade away. As “negative frequencies” old counterproductive memories fade away from our cells, we can spontaneously start to throw off old toxins and old disease processes.
Walking through the forest induces healing. That has been proven in the literature. It has also been shown that mindfulness induces healing. This would imply that walking through the forest while focusing our attention on the present moment will allow us to receive and benefit from the “waves (harmonics of a higher reality”). This means that Nature is made of harmonics of a higher reality than the artificial reality encouraged by all the A.I. (like cell phones and YouTube) which surrounds us in our daily lives. “Lower reality” would be the artificial realities which are produced through the repetitions of the analytical minds of humanity.
In summary: For optimal health and wellbeing, go forth into the higher reality of Nature and analyze no more.
Epilog: This seems quite like the lesson of the Garden of Eden. We are suffering the consequences of biting the apple of knowledge. Simply by processing knowledge in our analytical minds, we have pulled our conscious awareness out of the “harmonics of a higher reality” and live in the repeating memories of an endless hell.
Conclusion: Being Conscious is experiencing our lives without categorizing sensations based on old memories. Being conscious is living in the present moment.
Thus Completes Draft One.
Bless you Dave, for all your wonderful and uplifting work! Richard
I like Steiner explanation. Its close to yours…
He said that we, when sleep, abandon our physical and etheric bodies and stays with our astral body and the I. So, when sleeping, we are conected with our Spirit thru astral body…
Modeh Ani
Traditionally, Jews begin each day with Modeh Ani, a short, two-line prayer which opens by referring to God as the eternal and living king. The prayer speaks of sleeping as a minor type of death in which the soul leaves the body to spend the night with God. The prayer thanks God for returning the soul to the body, enabling the individual to live another day. https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/morning-blessings/
Dave:
Dave: I am so thrilled about your new “dream” book. I wanted to try it first on Kindle to see how it resonated with my spirit. Wow! Your insight caused me to buy the book, as well. It explains many of my past and present dreams. I sometimes record the dreams. Now, the Spirit has led me to be more faithful in doing so. Reading your book generates a better understanding. I shall write a review soon on Amazon. Lately, God has given me good, clear dreams, and I can remember most of the themes therein. Now is my time to pay attention and listen to what God is saying through the Spirit and the symbolisms. I am a retired military chaplain. No matter what educational background or vocation, fresh learning from God never ends. I follow you on Telegram. God bless you, brother. Texas
Thanks for the feedback!
I’ve had two dreams about the same thing but the dreams came 25 Year apart I was laying in a table with sides on it they had like oxygen tubes hooked up to my body like a ekg and I was in water like stuff only my face above it the people would come up and do stuff but I couldn’t make out a face I love Alabama football and they had a really big TV with Alabama on it then the next thing I knew I was playing football myself with Alabama then they came again and put me in the ocean like a bay it was beautiful and I was swimming with dolphins and I could breathe the water like it was air I stayed there seems like hours and then they came and got me put me back on the table and I went to sleep when I woke up I was home and I got up my legs and arms hurt me so bad I had to crawl to go to the bathroom it was like I had cramps really bad and after your cramp goes away your muscles are sore it took two days before my muscles stop hurting and the strange thing is both times I had the same dream I wasn’t scared of the faceless people and both times when I woke up my muscles hurt me so bad I’ve never told nobody this before but I have been watching you ever since you were on YouTube and doing the Q stuff I have seen you and I’ve come to trust you as a personr a Christian and I’ve come to trust you as a brother in Christ I ain’t a rich man I’ve worked my whole life until I broke my back two years ago and I’m on disability now I want take food stamps or welfare I’m to proud to do that but I make ends meet I would buy your books but it out of my budget if you could would you let me know what that dream means I know something happened both times I had it cause the pain was real God bless you and your family I pray I hear back from you here’s my email and phone number rod neyshaw1967@gmail.com 205-463-2419 I hope you don’t think I’m some nut job cause believe me I think if someone told me that I would look at em like yeah right but God and I know it to be true
I just ordered mine! Thank you Praying Medic for all of your hard work on this book, and the art on the cover is stunning!
Hey Dave.
So I bought the Dream book on Kindle, and I have just finished the main body text, I haven’t read the dictionary through, but I guess you’ll forgive me that.
It’s really very good.
I’m embarrassed, because… let me tell you a short story. I live in England, Northern England in the aptly named Eden Valley, nestled between three national parks, an hour and I’m in Scotland. I could like Wordsworth wander lonely as a cloud o’er hill and dale, but this backdrop has been my every day for most of my life, and the short of this story is I take it for granted, I am overly familiar.
I dream. In fact I dream a lot and I always have, I can still describe a nightmare I had when I was four years old, pretty much beat for beat, and that’s nearly fifty years ago. Other better dreams remain with me too.
I have to admit I never believed you when you said you never dreamed, and a bit of me still thinks, “Dave did – he just had no conscious recall” (forgive me my ongoing skepticism in this, but it matters not, the end result is the same)
Your testimony – that absent dreams you were placed to receive them more potently, however spoke to me.
Even though I was aware dreams were a biblical method by which God spoke I’ve never really sought to understand mine with any great seriousness, which is to squander my inheritance like a Prodigal Son on a trip to Vegas.
I was overly familiar, yet you have further inspired me to take my dreams seriously as a means to hear God’s voice and find a purpose going forward, a process that your testimony had already begun over the last couple of years.
You probably won’t remember but we chatted briefly back when you were still on Twitter. I sent you a DM about a dream I had about President Trump, where he was being driven along a snowy highway, and the workers were clearing a path, and there was dog-leg in that cleared path in the snow, and in order for the motorcade to pass, workers had clear the route from the other side too, working to meet in the middle – only then could Trump pass.
So I have a pen and paper by my bed, I’ve ordered a night clock so I can easily note the time, and I’m going to try and make recording my dreams a habit, whereupon I will read more of the dream dictionary section of the book.
Peace
Charles.
Thank you for the reply. I remember the Trump dream and I’m glad to hear you’re journaling. You won’t regret it.
Posted my review subject to approval over at Amazon.
As follows:
– Dreams are free, and they just might be more meaningful than you think. –
Purchase for Kindle.
We all dream right? Not everyone remembers their dreams, and the Author is convinced from his own experience that for the longest time he didn’t dream.
Then he did. This had lasting consequences on how he lived his life, and this book is in part that story.
We have personal experiences that are unique to us, science tells us that dreams are a way the mind processes experiences thoughts and feelings during a sleep phase called rapid eye movement, REM (yes where the band got the name).
Psychology has a long history of dream interpretation from Freud to modern times.
Dream interpretation is older still, as old as dirt. It’s something that is very much a human thing, common to every culture across time, in this book the author approaches dreams as a Christian.
Christianity measures the world using the bible as a yardstick, and the bible records dreams and their interpretations, indeed some of the most significant stories the bible includes pivot on the interpretation of dreams. In Matthew’s gospel Jesus escapes almost certain death as young child because of dreams.
The bible doesn’t pretend dreams-as-visions are unique to those who belong to Israel or Christianity as per the example of Matthew’s Gospel the Magi (the wise men) are warned about King Herod’s evil intentions by a dream.
Key passages in the bible centre on the dreams-as-visions of Pagan Kings.
The biblical message is dreams-as-visions from God are at least potentially for everyone.
I mention this universality for two reasons, first; although a Christian work in tone it doesn’t follow people of other faiths or none won’t find utility in this book.
Second it is not unusual for some Christians to worry dream interpretation; meditation and consideration of our dreams – to be pagan, or new-age or “woo woo” – and so should be avoided.
By that yardstick however prayer and worship would be thrown out too, because as the bible also records – other religions pray and worship too.
The author then uses the biblical examples, and his own personal experiences to explore why dreams are a mechanism for revealing things about an individual and how dreams-as-visions are used by God as means to reveal significant things, both personal and global.
The final section of the book includes a “Dream dictionary”, where the author refers to biblical symbols and verses, and as names in the bible are often used to convey meaning there is also a listed a meaning of names.
Since the book’s premise is God uses symbols in dreams as a means to convey information (as demonstrated within the bible) this lexicon is meaningfully different from other similar works.
My own issue with dream dictionaries is that we are all individuals. Granted some symbols have common cultural significance, others, indeed most, will be largely specific to a person. Say a hammer is important to one who is a builder, it doesn’t follow it should be significant (at least in the same way) to another who has never driven a nail.
However operating from the premise the bible is from God, from faith; the symbols therein have a timeless quality independent of the individual, so deserve consideration even if they are outside of a persons life experience.
To conclude the author never loses sight of the personal, indeed the underlying theme is that dreams are an open invitation into a more personal relationship with God, and are biblically a means by which God reveals his divine nature.
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