Living Dreams
The idea that dreams are alive can be intriguing and frightening depending on the dreamer. As I’ve discussed in earlier posts, each dreamer has their own dream language made up of symbols meaningful to each individual dreamer. The dream language of one dreamer can be beautiful and heavenly while the dream language of another can be frightening and hellish. Most of us fall somewhere in between those extremes. Right about now some of you might be thinking of dreams of deceased relatives and are wondering if I’m going to tell you the recent dream you’ve had about them means they are alive and well in the afterlife. In a word, yes, but what I’m focused on in this blog is the actual dream, not the various symbols that can appear in dreams.
We’ve all had dreams that stick with us. We wake up in the morning remembering the dream, think about it all day and can’t stop thinking about it for days, even weeks, to come. This is just one way a dream can live on past the night we have it. The dream elements made up of the symbols and emotions experienced while in your dream may be playing in your mind for a given period of time, but it’s the message of the dream that is alive in you.
I think of dreams as nocturnal messages slipped into your heart. They’re kinda like a letter of love. This is especially true of times when you awake in the morning and you know you dreamed but you can’t remember the specifics of what you dreamed. Many people take this to mean that what they dreamed wasn’t important since they have no memory of it. Nothing could be further from the truth. These times are very often the times when the message of the dream is being tucked into your heart for later. These dreams could be prophetic dreams but are not necessarily so. The message could be something you’re not ready to receive at the moment but the very fact that you dreamed it and it’s being saved for later is giving that very important message time to work and warm you up to its truth.
Another way your dreams live is when they visit you over and over again. I’ve met dreamers who’ve had recurring dreams for decades. They are trying to communicate a message that the dreamer just wasn’t getting. Most times the message will keep showing up in one form or another until the dream is interpreted or until the time in the dreamer’s life when the dream is happening is over. Dreams often communicate messages that are pertinent to certain times of our lives.
When it comes to living nightmares, they are very often trying to plant fear into the dreamer’s heart so that the fear they present live on and manifests in the dreamer’s waking life. One key thing that you can do as a dreamer to keep this from happening is to recognize when this is happening.
I remember another interpreter telling of a dreamer who kept having dreams that one of her daughters was drowning in a lake. The dreamer was very disturbed by the dream and as she thought about it fear continued t grow within her heart. By the time the dreamer brought it to the interpreter she’d had it at least ten times and the interpreter told her something she could do to stand upon against the fear and the nightmare. They told the dreamer to speak out against the fear and the nightmare by declaring that this situation is not going to happen. Her daughter will not drown in a lake!
As it happened, the woman’s family visited another family to have a picnic by a lake. When the dreamer agreed to the outing she didn’t realize they were all going to be by a lake. The nightmare came back to her and she immediately felt the kind of fear that she’d felt while dreaming. It was too late for her and her family to back out of the outing so she spoke out to declare her daughter would live and not die. She also kept an eagle eye on her daughter. A little time later the dreamer got involved in talking and lost track of her young daughter. As you might have guessed her daughter made it down to the lake and into the water. Another older child saw her and rescued her just before she got into trouble. The woman credited the interpretation of the dream and her advice of life declarations in saving her daughter. Sadly, most people would just try and put a scry dream like that out of their mind instead of getting to the bottom of the message the dream is communicating.
These are just a few examples of living dreams, and I encourage you, dear dreamer, to explore your own living dreams and bring them here to the comments in the dream blog to interact with them and bring resolution to what those living dreams are communicating to you.
EB