Mini 27
This is the fourth self-care article in this Mini series. The aim? Simply to be aware that 1) what we call “the afterlife” is a small slice of the vast cosmos that’s associated with Earth and its people (as shown in the diagram), 2) it contains many superimposed spirit worlds, especially spiritual copies of Earth, and 3) we often get a glimpse into those spirit worlds in our dreams.
So, dreams themselves are like moving snapshots of the afterlife. This article offers 10 nuggets of information that can help us understand our dreams (5 of mine plus 5 from science), and each nugget is also a link to a good-size article rich with detail.
Here are a few of my own dream facts and theories that I’ve written articles about over the years:
So, the afterlife with its spirit worlds is kind of like the Internet—a powerful, invisible force that has lots of rewards once we understand it, acknowledge it, and use it the right way. But if we get sidetracked by its dark and ugly side… there will be consequences.
- Astral adventures, Earth dramas. Most dreams are journeys of our unconscious astral mind venturing out into the astral realms while our physical mind shuts down during sleep-time. When we wake up, the astral mind immediately reintegrates with the physical mind… which quickly buries those bewildering, other-worldly impressions. It’s time to get back down to earth and face the dramas of carnal living.
- Heaven above, hell below. Countless spirit worlds and universes are superimposed over our material world. Since all of those worlds are beyond the view of our limited senses and sciences, we’ve come to think (mistakenly) of heaven up in the sky and hell down in the Earth. They’re really right here, all around us. If we had a multidimensional viewer to see all those worlds, they’d look, literally, like a heavenly dream at times. At other times, like a hellish nightmare. Well, we do have a multidimensional viewer called “dreaming,” and it switches on when we’re sleeping.
- Peaceful dreams, troubled dreams. Dreams are reflections of the mind. Once we commit to a life that’s resonant, not dissonant—coherent, not chaotic—a calm, peaceful atmosphere should start to be reflected more and more in our dreams.
- Refining our dreams. Positive and negative spiritual forces influence us (and our dreams) for lots of complicated reasons. One of the big reasons—one that we can control—is resonance. As meditation, prayer, and healthy habits refine our spirit, we begin to resonate more and more with the finer levels of the cosmos, and our lives (and dreams) are shaped accordingly.
- Spiritual experience, scientific evidence. Dreams are largely spiritual, so scientists might not fully understand them until they understand and acknowledge the spiritual basis of the cosmos.
Meanwhile here are some well researched dream facts and theories from science:
- Dream journaling is probably the best way to gather dream content to study, according to university researchers in Santa Cruz CA, but only if the entries are substantial. Each dream description should be more than 50 words, and a journal should describe more than 125 dreams. Short descriptions of a few dreams are of little or no value for research. The Santa Cruz researchers’ favorite dream journalers incuded two subjects they call “Barb Sanders” (an alias) and “the Engine Man.”
- Dreams evolve over a lifetime in predictable fashion, according to science writer Alex Orlando, from childhood nightmares and adolescent dreams of power struggles, to adult dreams of people and places that are familiar to them… (or not)… to senior dreams about contented friends and loved ones who are already in the afterlife and waiting for them.
- Canadian researchers are finding that dreams can determine sleep quality, and lucid dreamers can learn to communicate during their dreams… so that researchers can actually talk to sleeping colleagues who report their dream experiences in real-time.
- How and why we dream are getting more attention lately, from dreams’ 5 nightly stages to their many complex causes—unconscious desires, random brain signals, processing today’s experiences, built-in psychotherapy, warning of future threats, and, yes, accessing the spirit worlds….
- In-depth dream theories abound—from Freud and Jung, to Activation Synthesis and Self-Organization theories….
The more we understand dreams and try to live in a more resonant, coherent manner, the more refined, pleasant, and meaningful our dreams (and our lives) become. At least that’s my theory. Will it work for you? In your dreams… (is where you’re likely to find the answer).
Macy Afterlife: The Beacon 