Dream time

 For as long as I can remember I have always had very vivid and most would say odd dreams. And yes I know all dreams are odd but over the years I have discovered that I get various types of dreams. There are the regular, working through crap from the day kind of dreams and then there are my past life memory dreams where I actually travel back to my various past lives and witness little snippets of them.   
 There also my spectacular, highly detailed, sensory overload dreams, my message dreams where the powers that be are able to shut me up long enough to get something through to me. There are also warning dreams, these don’t happen very often because I normally get a strong feeling about things in the waking world. 
 Then there are my ‘name’ dreams. These are relatively new dreams to me and are the most frustrating. They are normally very quick and they latch on to the end of another dream. A name of a person, place or both will come through to me. As yet I am not sure what I am supposed to be doing with these names. Each name I get I research into it but have not managed to really find answers, though one of the first names was given was David Wilkes or Dilkes as we called him at school. I can safely say that I have not thought about this person since we were at school together. His was the only name given to me that I actually personally knew. Anyway on the day when I had been given his name (on waking) I saw a man in a van and it was David. The only other name that I kind of knew was the actress/ singer Gracie Fields. I had heard of her but didn’t really know who she was until I researched. A couple of days later there was a tv programme on about her. But that’s it, the rest of the names I have been given are a bewilderment to me. I hope I shall find out the meaning to them sooner rather than later. There are also nightmares, and yes I do have them sometimes. They are nothing like the ones I used to get and they also don't upset me as much anymore but I do get them occasionally.
 There also my chaotic dreams that right now don't feel very useful and can be more than a little irritating, in these dreams I am constantly being bombarded with lots of things, colours, people, objects, places this and that and there is so much detail in them it tends to become a bit of a blur, I am hoping that this also sorts itself out because when I have them they are exhausting and I awake feeling that I haven't slept all night.

  The last kind of dream I have only experienced once so far with my daughter. We actually shared a dream but each of us viewed the dream from a different perspective. The main parts of the dream were a confrontation with my ex at the flat where we used to live. He was at the door with a man we didn’t know. My daughter B was looking down from above like she was stood on her friend’s balcony that did in fact look over the area outside our old front door. The ex was encouraged by the man to leave and they eventually drove off in an old green car.

 Again the dream wasn’t long but the fact that we both shared it was pretty mind blowing. Maybe it will happen again in the future!

  Most of the time now I know that I am dreaming and I normally just go with the flow of the dream and see where it takes me.

 

 Now just a bit about interpreting your dreams. You may think that getting a dream interpretation book is a good idea they aren’t all that accurate for dream analysis as objects, people, colours etc in mean different things to different people. Let me explain that a bit more. I will use my usual example of a monkey (monkey minded woman here lol) Now in a dream interpretation book it would give you one blanket meaning for everyone but think about it for a minute. You may be afraid of monkeys or they may be your favourite animal, you may also have a real life memory of a monkey, an experience that you had, you may see a monkey as a symbolism for something else, you may see them as dirty animals or clever and inquisitive, or you may see and understand the deep connection with humans.

 So as you can see that one blanket interpretation really doesn’t work well. What you need to think about more is how the monkey makes you feel, what meaning it has to you. Dream symbolism is very unique to you and it is your initial thoughts and feelings that need to be looked at. I find as I am typing out my dreams, copying the rough notes that I made in my dream journal, that’s when things begin to make much more sense. You begin to ‘get it’ and you start to really see what your dreams actually mean.

 

Pic by Phoenixfen

  Keeping a dream journal or just a note pad by the side of your bed is important as is having at least a couple of pens as there is nothing worse than going to write your dream down and your pen has run out! Also a bedside lamp, torch or even a mobile phone that just provides you with enough light to see the page you’re writing on.

 Try to focus on the dream when you wake, just keep running it through your head until you begin to write it down. It is so easy to lose the dream when other thoughts begin to pop into your head and it’s incredibly frustrating when that happens.

  Eventually you will get the hang of it and you will begin to remember more and more of your dreams. I still lose dreams and I hate it but I just need to focus myself more.

 Anyway I think that is just about everything that I am going to write on this subject for now.

  I do have a separate tab at the top of my blog on dreams that I have had, so if you want to have a read then please do.