The On-Off Tap of Dream Activity

[Plenum]

Hey Plenum, what sort of methods do you use for interpreting your dreams?

for me, it's figuring out the symbols being deployed - and how they are relating to each other.  It's not something I ever studied, but back when I first got into the Archetypes via Ra, my dream activity just exploded.  I was already receptive to this activity because of David Wilcock's referencing of dreams, but something just got triggered into another gear.  I think there was a good 18 months where it was just a nightly experience of incoming inspiration and reprogramming opportunities.  Of course, I still had tons of blockages back then, and so this was much needed experience, but I learnt to see how the 'actors on the stage' in the dream were relaying a message of re-interpretation.

You would think that your Higher Self could just appear, and read out a scroll with clear understandings, and everything would be all good.  But much like real-life, the understandings really don't have much value or relevance unless it's rooted in some kind of confounding experience, which we then apply our faculties of analysis and intuition into comprehending.  And so a dream functions in the same way; by giving us an experience that is highly coded, but programmed with intent, that to someone who is receptive, is a puzzle to be unpacked for a new way of seeing how parts are relating to each other.

Again, that is a personal relationship to the dream world that everyone has, and not everyone is wanting to use these experiences that way.  I am sure that much dream activity is just the brain re-organising experiences from the day, to make sense of it to itself, and it's not this level of personal communications that I'm referencing up above.

Also, what causes you to go from doing dreamwork to ignoring dreams, causing the off-tap?

Just as a clarification, I think dreamwork has a specific connotation in some circles.  Although I don't travel in those fields very much, when used in the specific sense, I think dreamwork is talking about OBE type experiences, or deliberate use of the sleeping state for some kind of lucidity.  It's actually using the sleep state for specific work in that state.  

Dream analysis and interpretation would probably not fall into the category of 'dreamwork' using their definitions.  Although, that said, the particular way in which I defer to my unconscious to help me gain insights and understandings might count as 'dreamwork'.  Anyway, it's just a point of distinction; not too important.

As to your question, I would say that I don't ignore dreams as such.  If I remember them (ie, they get impressed into the memory enough that the waking self can register them), then there is something to decode and ponder on.  The 'off tap' is more triggered by how I am using my conscious resources, in reference to catalyst.  I actually think, given further thought since I posted the OP, that it's much more the case that I am given everything I need in terms of waking catalyst and dream material; and that I am not further loaded with inputs until I can decipher what the understanding is.  The 'off tap' is more just me being locked in a white padded room, with all the puzzle pieces, until I apply enough attention to figure out just exactly what is being referenced.  It is frustrating, to be sure.

but as is a theme in my life, the motivation wanes and I return to a less proactive state. I struggle with this motivation and wish I could be more consistent. Perhaps trying to find the heart of what causes me to stop my active dream interpretation will help.

I would probably say that the value of this kind of activity determines the amount of application we bring to it.  That is, if it is valuable (and productive) enough of a practice, then we will be drawn to it naturally, and not think of it as something we need to do or that we forget or withdraw from.  We will naturally want to do it, if it yields things that we greatly desire.

If it yields just marginal insights, or things that are interesting, but not all that interesting, then there are plenty of other ways to use our waking time.  Lots more demands for our attention.  More applicable use of our limited resources.

I think that dreams and meditation are very alike in that way; they are both tools to peer beyond what the conscious mind is doing and thinking, and tries to reveal deeper motivational patterns.  And yet, not everyone has the time or the resources to meditate/dream-analyze for hours each day.  Not everyone would want to, even if they could.