slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) (06/12/85)
How about some discussion of dreams? Dreams are often important
to a person's spiritual search. I would like to relate some of
my own experiences, and get any reactions from you out there.
First, here is where I am coming from. I am a very logical, practical
person, for the most part. (We all have our exceptions.:-) I am
interested in religious matters (non-Christian!!)--my bent is mostly
Eastern, but I am also at this point trying to learn more about western
Pagan traditions. I DO NOT consider most studies of psychic phenomena
to be valid. They tend to show the bias of the investigator more
than anything.
I seldom remember dreams. Maybe once a month I have one I remember
in the morning, but it is usually gone by noon. I would like to train
myself to remember them--if anyone has any ideas on how to do this,
I would appreciate hearing them. These are the only two dreams I have
ever had that I have remembered for more than 1 or 2 days. I don't
think I'll ever forget them. This is just to point out that these
dreams were DIFFERENT. Radically so.
1. I had a very vivid dream of my sister. She was locked in the
closet of the bedroom we shared when we were little and was
calling me. I could not get to her. I woke up and told my (then)
husband about it. Several hours later, my father called to tell
me that she was killed in a car accident. The accident occured
about the time I had the dream.
2. I had been doing quite a bit of meditation, and hanging around
with others of similar bent. This was mostly Hindu oriented.
I woke up in the night and looked at the clock. It was 2:45.
I went out in the hall to walk to the bathroom and sensed that
the room was full of some presences. They were not so much
seen as felt--a great sense of evil. I felt that I was being
attacked, and that I was lost unless I said one of the names of
God. It was very difficult, but I managed to get the word "Om"
out. At that point, I woke up, back in my bed. The entire
experience had been a dream. One thing scared me, however, and
that was that it was 2:45.
The first one I cannot explain. I did not have dreams of my sister
ordinarily, and very seldom remembered dreams. Why was this one so
vivid as to wake me up that particular day?
The second one may be easier to explain. Perhaps I really did wake
up and look at the clock, and the only part that was a dream was the
walking down the hall part. There was no sense of division there,
however. It all felt very real--not like a dream where you go from
one place to another without transition. I remember the feel of
the floor on my feet as I walked out into the hall, pulling the
covers back, and so on. Or maybe I just knew what time it was, and
that went into the dream. (That is not impossible. I always wake
up just before the alarm goes off--and don't really even need one.)
I also have a sort of series dream. This is one of the ones I never
remember. All I know is that there is always a huge city. It is
a very old city--no technology. Each time I have the dream, I
somehow know that this is the same city I've seen before. Unfortunately,
I never remember details. I always just wake up knowing "Well,
that was one of those city dreams again."
So how can I track such things down? How can I learn to remember
dreams? How can I fill in the details of the city? (I am fascinated
by it, and kick myself for not remembering it in the morning). How
have dreams influenced your life and spiritual search?
Sorry to be so long winded.
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Sue Brezden
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