Dream Intuition

One of the most common experiences people have in dreams is an inner knowing that certain things are so, even if we know that things are not so in our waking life.  Only in a dream can you walk out the front door of the house you grew up in and walk across the street into your current work place.  Your rational mind knows this can’t happen, but in the dream it makes perfect sense.  I call this dream intuition.  But it’s only one side of a many faceted dream phenomenon.

There are so many aspects of dream intuition that, at times, it’s hard to keep track of.  We’ve all experienced what I’ve described in the above paragraph. This can happen with places, people and anything else that populates dreams. But have you ever wondered why we so readily just accept dream intuition?  It’s like our skeptical natures are set aside, or as some have said, our arguer is turned off. If this one aspect of dream intuition didn’t work, then we’d all be stopped in our tracks when dead relatives showed up in our dreams, or we find ourselves in a house we’ve never been in before but we just know it’s our house.  This inner knowing is often a vital key to setting the context of a dream, so vital that some dreams would be impossible to interpret without it.

Another aspect of dream intuition often occurs when the dreamer finds themselves observing a dream. In these observation dreams the dreamer can have a sense of dread or trepidation based on what they are observing.  These feelings can be so real that the dreamer feels as if they are being chased by a tornado, or attacked by a bear or anything else they observe.  They are put in the dream, in a sense, by way of their feelings and wake up a sense of fear, or urgency.

So then, I just have to ask myself this question. How can significant dreams, especially those heavy in dream intuition always originate inside the dreamer?  There are several interpretation models that are dominated by schools of thought that dreams are a product of the psyche doing its psyche thing.  In other words, there are things inside the dreamer that the dreamer needs to work on in order to perfect themselves, and the psyche uses dreams to reveal what that particular dreamer needs to work on.  These schools of thought take it for granted that dreams originate from inside the dreamer.  I’ve experienced so many dreams of my own that are showing me new things that I don’t know, or are warning me about things that I can’t possibly know.  The simple fact that if someone is an observer in a dream and they are being shown accurate things to warn others about, speaks of an origin outside the dreamer.  This is especially true, as in the example in the paragraph above, if the dreamer has a great emotional tie to an observing dream.

Another facet of dream intuition happens when a dreamer wakes up and just knows that the dream they had is significant, although they have no idea how.  So many people I’ve talked to experience this, that I would venture to say that you, dear reader, have had this experience. In fact, I’d like to hear about your experiences with dream intuition in the comments below.  Are your experiences with dream intuition like what I’ve written about here, or are they different?  I look forward to hearing from you all!

EB

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