Four Things You Must Know About Your Dreams

When you lay down and go to sleep tonight you will dream.  Even if you don’t remember.  Dreams are stories written on the slate of your mind, only thing is, they’re written in disappearing ink.  You may have heard we spend approximately one third of our lives sleeping, and in that sleep, we’re experiencing a download of metaphorical symbols and circumstances that nearly always place us in the center of the action.  Because you are the focus of almost all your dreams, it stands to reason that there are benefits to taking the time to recapture your dreams.  Here are four things you must know about your dreams.

• #1 – Many necessary and valuable things have been brought into this world because of dreams.  The sewing machine, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, Handle’s Messiah and the scientific discovery of the Benzene molecule either originated or were greatly helped along by dreams.  An American woman by the name of Madame C.J. Walker became the first female self-made millionaire in the United States because of a dream.  Google her, it’s a fascinating story.

•  #2 – Some dreams are predictive in nature and warn us of things to come.  President Abraham Lincoln had a dream about mourners in the white house and an assassinated president ten days before he was shot in Ford’s theater.  Although very few death dreams end in the physical death of a person, dreaming of your own death has a way of getting your attention.There are many other, less dramatic, examples of the predictive nature of dreams.  Among the most common are dreams where we find ourselves experiencing deja vu.  These dreams almost never have repercussions of that of an Abraham Lincoln death dream, but its interesting to follow the trails of deja vu dreams and where they lead.

• #3 – Dreams or series of dreams, can reveal to us our life’s purpose.  Everyone’s felt like their life had little or no purpose at one time or another.  Maybe you’ve sought out a new career or new social connections to help give you a sense of purpose.  But have you ever thought about paying attention to what you’re dreaming when you’re on that search?  Recording your dreams in times of life when you’re searching for purpose or self-discovery can be very enlightening.  An ancient by the name of Joseph was given a dream in which the sun, moon, and stars bowed before him.  the youngest of all his brothers, Joseph was destined to save a nation and the process all started with a dream.

• #4- Dreams often reveal deep issues to us.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve given a dream interpretation to someone and they’ve responded by saying something like “Wow, that’s deep, I didn’t expect that.”  The fourth reason you need to pay attention to your dreams tonight is that they just may be speaking of a deep issue in your life.  The American culture takes dreams so lightly that it may be inconceivable to you that your dreams could have any level of depth at all.  Once you start recording your dreams and getting interpretations of them, you begin to see patterns develop and some of these deep issues I’m discussing here begin to reveal themselves.  No matter how inconsequential your dreams may seem to you today they just might hold the answers for your tomorrow.  It takes courage to explore their meanings.  Will you choose to be courageous today?

EB