The Quiet Mind

Sleep is when the quiet mind speaks.

Introduction to learning how to interpret your own dreams

 Dreams. Day dreams, night dreams, dreams for the future. We all have them. What they all have in common is, without knowing how or why, we personally script them.  Every image, sensation, or behavior in your dreams is written by you.

What do you write when nobody else can see?  Are you Stephen King, making theatric horrors, or do you sometimes do comedies, poetry, divine masses? Do you work in black and white, or use full Blu-Ray wide spectrum color?  If you could print your dreams to film and play them for friends, would you? Would there be awards given.. and would those be for plot, acting, or artistic impression?

The dream world we inhabit is a miraculous place. The mind sifting through it's varied tasks, bringing up imagery to go with the cells firing in our brain.  So many questions about why we ascribe this image or that image to the same sorting that goes on when we're awake, why do we dream?  And what happens to our health if we don't? 

I love to explore this whole nighttime spectactular.  Dream interpretation is a passion of mine.  No, I don't believe dreams are messages from the other-world to be divined.  I do believe our subconscious sometimes makes notes and observations we don't notice in our front-mind, and it uses those images as it goes about it's nightly tasks. This means those images and bits of knowledge could be looked at for cues and clues we can apply in our waking time.

"I had been looking for my dads old employee badge ever since I was given it by my mother when he died. One night, I dreamed it was in a red coin purse. It was so clear, I knew that was true, but where was this red coin purse?  I found it 2 months later, when cleaning out other items mom had given me. One item was my grandmothers old purse, which had in it, a red coin purse. Inside of that was, exactly as I deamed, my fathers old emploee badge."

Sayne swore this was proof positive her mother spoke to her from the grave to reveal the location of the badge.  More probably, her subconscious mind recorded what was a minor detail amid the larger emotional cloud of burying her father and being passed some of the family belongings. She simply didn't remember where she put it when it was handed to her, but her quiet mind did.

The reality of it is, her dream had consequence, be it from the spirit world or from inside her own forgotten memories. Even if the spirit world had revealed it to her subconscious, only her own mind could decide to import the images directly into her working brain.

The questions remain, why did her mind decide she should know where the badge was now?  What inside the head of Sayne made today be the day to reveal this tidbit instead of next year, or five years from now? 

This is what I want to explore in the Dreams section. You can learn to interpret your dreams, not based on what some historical text says; "bees means this" or "cars mean that" "naked or flying means .."

Our minds assign their own significance to the images we paint while we sleep.

Let's explore those and learn about the creative mysteries within ourselves.