Painting of Emperor Go-Daigo, dreaming of ghosts at his palace,1890. By Ogata Gekkō.
The human capacity to dream is immense, and it is deep…
A lot of our own natures, the nature of reality, the gods, the mind, past-lives, ancestral connections and more can be revealed to us through dreams.
Depending on your beliefs and the focus of your practice, extraordinary attainments can also happen in dreams - such as achieving deep personal mastery, emotional healing, developing high-level abilities such as clairvoyancy, astral travel, divine insight - even enlightenment.
So by all means, share some of your dreams! I am an extraordinary dreamer for sure, lol. I’ve thought about sharing a few of my own. Also if you’re struggling with interpreting a dream, maybe we can help! Or you can just use this as a general discussion on the topic.
Ah, yes! I don’t know much about dreams, but I would like help interpreting one that really stood out to me.
It was, as most of my dreams are, less about pictures and seeing. Most of my dreams are collections of feelings and knowledge of what I did in the dream- the difference between a movie and a book, if you understand.
I was standing in a field. Details beyond that about where I was, I’m not sure, I only know that I was in despair and it was likely a battlefield. I don’t know why, but in the dream I cut my own throat (I can still remember the sensory feeling of a hole in my throat, raspy breathing as I breathed both through my mouth and the hole, but for some reason I cannot remember the feeling of the blood) and laid down to die in the dream (because for some reason, I felt like that would fix it, it being whatever was causing me such misery- I think it was the death of my twin in the dream, but I’m not sure). I then, in the dream, fell unconscious, and then woke up (still in the dream) fully healed. I don’t know why, but I was not happy, as I felt like through my death I had a chance to change things for the better (somehow? My death would have made it better? I don’t know) and see my twin again and this was stolen. I then woke up.
CLARIFYING DETAILS: Yes, I have a twin (fraternal). No, she’s not dead. And no, I’m not suicidal, nor am I majorly self-harming (I will scratch at my skin under stress, and I have thoughts about going deaf a lot of the time, but that’s it).
Can anyone help me interpret this? Feel free to ask any questions, I’ll answer to the best of my ability.
What does it mean? Thank you!
The topic is simply wonderful. Dreams and Dreams. The first thing I got as an association was “Dream” by Richard Wagner, an exceptional work, I recommend it to you.
I love to sleep, a person does not always dream, but the most relaxing sleep is deep sleep without dreams. If we go to Hypnosis, then it is a deep relaxing sleep despite the ability of the dreamer to communicate.
Still, I love good dreams. In which I walk through flower gardens.
Sleep and the Waking state can be perceived as elements of a reality in which the Self exists.
“Bardyo Tyodol” A Tibetan book that also writes about the state of Sleep. I sincerely recommend it to you.
Still, dreams appear after Deep Sleep, they are the last phase of Sleep. This is shown by the studies I have read.
Tihomir Valchev
Dreams have always played a big role in my life. Years ago I had a dream that I walked into a familiar house and saw a child in a vulnerable situation. I rescued the child, neutralized the threat, and had a great sense of peace about it. Years and years later I learned about “inner child work” and people being encouraged to do this sort of thing as a visualization exercise, to go back in time as an adult and rescue their child self. This dream had always stuck with me and is still very vivid in my mind. I came to understand that in my dream, I went back in time and rescued myself. I thought it was pretty amazing that my subconscious or something knew how to do that and led me through the process before I’d ever had any exposure to it as an actual approach to trauma healing.
Hello,
I had a similar dream some time ago. A road to a house from which the craftsmen had left and I passed them. After that I entered the house, it was being renovated, I stood in it and went out on the road I met two young men who were going to the house and entered it. I continued on the road and woke up. I felt absolutely free and joyful. Years have passed since I had this dream, but I still remember it as something good.
I wish you health and beauty!
Tihomir Valchev
The fact that you can physically feel things like the hole in your throat is a little unusual. Most people only experience dreams through sight and sound.
This theme of death and resurrection is very interesting. It sounded like a message of a misplaced belief perhaps you once had, that self-sacrifice will solve external things outside of your control. The resurrection and your disappointment could be also pointing to that this is because you’re not seeing the impermanence of reality.
But if you looked at it deeper, this could also be a memory of the end of a past life. Sometimes when we’re performing things we don’t understand in a dream it’s because we’re reliving a partial memory. There may have been a reason why, you’ve just forgotten. That may not have been your Twin in your dream - that may have been a romantic partner or a different family member you had in a last life.
I feel like there are levels of meaning in this one. It seems symbolic, but there are also things in it that make me think it might not be. Interesting!
You believe it was your twin who who died in your dream, and then you died afterwards and resurrected? I just wanna make sure I’m getting the story straight.
I think you have summed up the unhappiness very well by saying you wanted to be with your twin and we’re now unable to. It makes sense to me this is where the unhappiness came from but it’s your dream.
When I read about this dream, I see remarkable resilience, the ability to bounce back under very hard circumstances. Resilience shows strength and flexibility, but we may still be in the midst of the challenging circumstances that made bouncing back necessary in the first place. I see an announcement that you have far more capability to face challenges than you are even aware of and that even if you think they’re at the end of your story you will have the strength to overcome.
The most important thing is for you to reflect and think about what the dream means to you. This is always the clearest indicator what the dream is trying to tell you or if it was just a weird, unsetting dream. I have both, wake up puzzled and realize it was just a weird dream or no I need to do it through the thought because there’s something going on.
Kind of? I think my twin died, but there was a lot of death around there too. It doesn’t feel like I died, it feels like I tried to and failed/couldn’t. It definetly feels like it means something, but I don’t know what it could mean. This was about a month ago, so it’s kinda hazy, but I can still remember certain parts. It’s a jumble of feelings, what I know happened (but it feels like I’m remembering a secondhand account? If that makes sense?) and the feeling of a hole in my throat.
Yeah, it’s weird. Plus the fact that the feeling is the only sensation I can remember. Other than that, there’s no sight or sound that I can remember, it just feels like I’m reading what happened in the dream (like a secondhand account? Like I wrote it down in my brain and am just reading what I wrote? I don’t know).
Also, I don’t think it was resurrection. It definitely feels like an attempted and failed death. But it could just be resurrection? It didn’t feel like it, though. So I’m not sure.
It feels like it means something, although what, I’m not sure.
i cant lie. those last 2 weeks, my dreams scare me. and i even try to avoid to interpret them. i know, i have my answer there.. but maybe i just dont want to know. sometimes my energy goes all down, that i enter in this phase of just going with the wind. i try to go to the woods, and just be there… no thinking, no trying to understand. just the wind.. the leaves, the birds.. the tree spirits company.. silence.
the dreams are about my kids. they constantly in danger. in many ways possible. if some are thinking why i dont act on it… i want to be sure is not just insecurities.
is someone here a mom?!
