Five Wrong Assumptions People Make About Dreams
It’s extremely common for people to make assumptions in life. We all do it. It’s even more common for those assumptions to be about dreams. For example, it is a widely held belief that all dreams originate inside of us. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say things like “Dreams are just our brains way of working out the events of the day.” or “Dreams are simply a product of the subconscious.”
I’ve come across, however, many things within dreams that actually point the way to an outside origin.
Here are five wrong assumptions about dreams:
- Assumption #1: All dreams originate from within us. Have you ever woken up from a dream and thought, What just happened to me? Maybe you’d just been flying , or leaping from one oil painting to another, or breathing underwater, or any number of things that are impossible in our waking lives. The question I’ve had for a long time is this: If dreams originate from within us, where on earth are we getting these ideas that we can do such impossible and unlimited things? If you spend a few minutes thinking about it, our lives have so many constraints and limits. Time is limited, our talents are limited, even our lives are limited to a certain number of years. there are limits to our lives in every direction we look. Where then, are all these unnatural thoughts coming from? I submit to you the concept that dreams have their origin, not only outside of our minds, but in an unlimited dimension. A dimension where all the unnatural things we encounter in our dreams are commonplace.
Just some food for thought.
- Assumption #2: We don’t remember all our dreams, so they must not be anything significant or important. We’ve all made this assumption. I’ve even made it more times than I want to admit. Life is busy for all of us and it’s only natural to assume that if we don’t remember something it must not have been very important. So, I’m just wondering, when in life we all got handed things we didn’t work for? Never in my life, or in the lives of anyone I know. Everything I’ve come across that has value has to be sought out and pursued. Dreams are no different. Just because you don’t remember a dream right away after you wake up doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to remember. Have you ever been going about your business and then one small thing reminds you of the dream you had the night before? It’s simply amazing how one thing like a pigeon, or brake lights, or a blue flower can bring back an entire dream that we seem to have no recollection of when you awoke. The important thing is that we remember the dream, not when we remember it. The next important thing is that when we remember the dream we record it in some way.
- Assumption #3: There’s no way I’m ever going to forget that dream, so I don’t need to write it down. It’s true that some dreams are so powerful that we assume we’re going to remember it forever. This is not the case. Dreams have to be recorded to be kept alive. For this, I would highly encourage you to keep paper and pencil or pen on a nightstand by your bed. When you get into the habit of recording your dreams, you will be amazed how even little fragments that you remember carrying amazing meaning when looked at in conjunction with other fragments and an anchor dream or two.
- Assumption #4: I had a dream about someone dying so it means they’re going to die in real life. Dying dreams are more common than you might think. What is highly rare is that you’re being told of an event before it happens. I’m not saying it never happens, it does, but the fact is we’re more than likely being shown something else. When you see someone die in your dream it’s all about the context. Their dream death could refer to the death of a career, death of a gift or a spiritual death. Death dreams sometimes come in pairs, so this is another reason to record the dreams you’re having. It would be imperative to set the dreams side by side and compare what’s going on in order to extract the dreams meaning.
- Assumption #5: I dream about being naked or having sex so I must have a perverse mind. Dreams of being naked are very common. If you’ve ever been naked in a dream in front of your boss, family members, or any other inappropriate situation, don’t worry. It doesn’t mean what you think. Being naked in dreams simply means that others see you as vulnerable and open. To the degree that you are naked is the degree that person or persons sees you as vulnerable and open. Sexual dreams, on the other hand, are a bit different. We live in such a sexually charged world today that it is difficult not to come in contact with things of a sexual nature. There are also people in our world who are into all kinds of different kinds of sexual experimentation and other things too numerous to list here. There’s a principle of contact at work when you come in close proximity to someone who is very actively experimenting with sexual things in which you have no interest, and you begin having those experimental activities in your dreams. These are flushing dreams. We dream of things so they can get ‘flushed’ out of our systems and don’t become permanent in our lives.
EB