Dream work

[Jade]

"Dream work" is one of those phrases that probably carries a lot of connotation to each of us.

I think the most common reference to dream work is the 'work' on does one dream recall, so that they can interpret the symbolism through their wakening lens and hopefully receive resonant messages. One example of this is how plenum says in studying the archetypes, he had nightly dreams where they danced before him. Another example of this is when we have dreams of "school", or particularly, "graduation" - a signifier into a new stage of being. Or, one could have a close encounter with an animal totem that encourages a line of action.

There are other more subtle ways that we do dream work. One is less logical than symbolic interpretation: this would be the emotive resonance of dreams and their overlap with our waking state. I'm sure no one is here exempt from an experience where they wake up feeling emotionally changed in an intense way from a dream, reality even seems to look different. This happens on a nightly basis, and can happen more often the more freely you allow dream recall to be experienced. Personally I've been experiencing this a lot lately - I remember snippets of my dreams throughout the day, they hit me like a ton of bricks and instantly transport me "back" to a moment in the dream reality (this happens a lot when I'm driving). This definitely shifts me into a different emotional state, and then just as quickly I switch back. However, the work is done: The two layers have merged and therefore altered each other in whatever way was desirable.

Dreams can also be precognitive, and actually are almost always unconsciously so. Every night when we go to sleep, we abandon the confines of the human brain and experience a freer relativity in time/space, where we can view probabilities and even act them out to their conclusion. This can be extremely beneficial if you are having any sort of "problem", be it with another person or in general how happy you are with manifestations. What we create is tied to our emotions. In our dream state, what we create is more flexible, and we can say, take a fight with someone and experience every ugly facet, and then every healing facet, merely in the dream state. When you wake up, the emotions of resolution linger - even though you have not actually finished talking the situation out with the person you are quarreling with, on another level it has already been resolved, so that if/when any sort of confrontation happens, the emotional intensity will be lessened.

I do not believe that this requires much if any recall to work. I think this is a big way in that dreams can help us deal with our mundane problems better. It takes just the most minor amount of suggestion, really - a request to the Higher self for information that will help solve an 'issue'. Likely, this 'information' will not present a logical solution, but instead be affected by much more nebulous things like the emotions we carry over from our dreams.

Here is what Ra describes as the types of work that can be done in dreaming:

86.7 Questioner: You stated that dreaming, if made available to the conscious mind, will aid greatly in polarization. Would you define dreaming or tell us what it is and how it aids in polarization?

Ra: I am Ra. Dreaming is an activity of communication through the veil of the unconscious mind and the conscious mind. The nature of this activity is wholly dependent upon the situation regarding the energy center blockages, activations, and crystallizations of a given mind/body/spirit complex.

In one who is blocked at two of the three lower energy centers dreaming will be of value in the polarization process in that there will be a repetition of those portions of recent catalyst as well as deeper-held blockages, thereby giving the waking mind clues as to the nature of these blockages and hints as to possible changes in perception which may lead to the unblocking.

This type of dreaming or communication through the veiled portions of the mind occurs also with those mind/body/spirit complexes which are functioning with far less blockage and enjoying the green-ray activation or higher activation at those times at which the mind/body/spirit complex experiences catalyst, momentarily reblocking or baffling or otherwise distorting the flow of energy influx. Therefore, in all cases it is useful to a mind/body/spirit complex to ponder the content and emotive resonance of dreams.

For those whose green-ray energy centers have been activated as well as for those whose green-ray energy centers are offered an unusual unblockage due to extreme catalyst, such as what is termed the physical death of the self or one which is beloved occurring in what you may call your near future, dreaming takes on another activity. This is what may loosely be termed precognition or a knowing which is prior to that which shall occur in physical manifestation in your yellow-ray third-density space/time. This property of the mind depends upon its placement, to a great extent, in time/space so that the terms of present and future and past have no meaning. This will, if made proper use of by the mind/body/spirit*, enable this entity to enter more fully into the all-compassionate love of each and every circumstance including those circumstances against which an entity may have a strong distortion towards what you may call unhappiness.

As a mind/body/spirit* consciously chooses the path of the adept and, with each energy center balanced to a minimal degree, begins to open the indigo-ray energy center, the so-called dreaming becomes the most efficient tool for polarization, for, if it is known by the adept that work may be done in consciousness while the so-called conscious mind rests, this adept may call upon those which guide it, those presences which surround it, and, most of all, the magical personality which is the higher self in space/time analog as it moves into the sleeping mode of consciousness. With these affirmations attended to, the activity of dreaming reaches that potential of learn/teaching which is most helpful to increasing the distortions of the adept towards its chosen polarity.

There are other possibilities of the dreaming not so closely aligned with the increase in polarity which we do not cover at this particular space/time.

* Should be mind/body/spirit complex. Ra and Don corrected the error in session 87.

Our higher self (and others) are there to help us every single night. I encourage everyone to try to remember to request this assistance before falling asleep.

[Night Owl]

Thanks for sharing, really interesting. Am gonna use my dreams in a more conscient way and try to experiment with them more.

[Ankh]

Awesome post, Jade!

I also wanted to mention that some dreams show us that we are going through initiation/purification/transformation, which might be important in our understanding of ourselves. In my experience it's not just one initiation or purification or transformation that one is going through, but many, many of them. But some are more awesome than others. I used to have so awesome dreams in the past, but not so much lately. I want to have them back, but then came to think about Don when he asked Ra about his experience he once had in one meditation, and to which Ra answered something like that it was an initiation, and to try to re-experience that is to go back in evolutional process.

Anyways, what I wanted to mention is that in some cases dreams show you the process of initiation, purification and transformation, and these dreams are awesome! Enjoy them while the feeling of these dreams last!