A Dream Trap
Certain dreams have a way of touching your heart. You know the ones I’m talking about. A romantic dream when you have such strong emotions for another person that you think you’ve met the love of your life., and you’ve never actually met. The sentimental dream where you’re reliving a scene from an enjoyable time in your life, or a life you might have lived a long time ago.
Although you may have had one or both of these kinds of dreams, I would venture to say that you may not have known that a trap lies in wait for you. And what exactly is this dream trap that I’m talking about?
I’ve met quite a few dreamers who tell me they’ve had incredibly realistic and detailed dreams about far away places like a battlefield in World War II or Elizabethan England. Within seconds of awaking the dream is convinced they’ve just dreamed about a past life.
Hmmm. Let’s take a closer look.
The dreamer who told me about a dream in which he was crawling through trenches in World War II caught behind enemy lines feeling responsible to get his injured buddy to safety was absolutely convinced the experience pointed to a past life. He told me how they gained ground, got caught in enemy fire, and gained some more ground. He told me how he felt like so much time had gone by in the dream, several days, and how emotionally attached he was in getting this wounded buddy of his to safety. Then he told me how this same buddy he risked so much for died before they could reach safety. It was devastating to him.
Another dreamer, a young woman, had recurring dreams that she was in Elizabethan England standing up for women’s rights. Here, again, the dreamer experienced incredible detail and powerful emotions and woke up convinced she’d lived a past life in that time in history.
The reason both of these dreams are traps rests on the huge assumptions these dreamers made. Interpreting dreams is quite an involved process that takes much learning. One of the first lessons an inspiring dream interpreter learns in the interpretation process is that things within a dream are not always what they seem.
Both dreams I mentioned have to do with time travel it seems. When a dreamer heads back to Elizabethan England or World War II it’s almost always an example of the dream using a historical time period to describe what a dreamer might be going through at the time. A World War II dream like the one i mentioned might describe a time when the dreamer felt like a friendship was in danger of dying. The dream is a very dramatic way to get that point across, but it got him to remember the dream.
The meaning behind the Elizabethan dream I mentioned could be wrapped up in the meaning of the name Elizabeth, or the name of the monarch the dreamer interacted with, or what the monarchy was known for. Then again, the dreamer could love the Elizabethan period and it could be a part of their dream language.
It all depends on the dreamer and the context of the dream.
And where’s the trap in all of this? Anytime a dreamer wakes up ‘knowing’ that their dream points to a past life, the dreamer would be wise to remember a couple things.
First, avoid assumptions. Second, dreamers can only rarely interpret their own dreams because they’re too close and don’t have the ability to look at their own dreams objectively.
Truth is, if you want the interpretation process to work like its supposed to, get someone else involved. Another experienced interpreter can easily look at the dream with objectivity and in doing so can offer you the favor of not only seeing what you want the dream to say.
This is only one of the ways to avoid getting caught in the traps our dreams set for us.
EB
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