Navigating the World of Dreams – The angry dark sky flashed with lightning and rumbled with thunder. Stinging rain obscured my vision. Panicked and trudging across a vast green field I desperately sought shelter. The dense rain intensified by an unseen force made every step an exhausting effort. Through the gray haze I saw a large oak with a ramshackle treehouse wedged within its branches. Suddenly a massive lightning bolt struck the oak which exploded. The treehouse burst into a fiery ball and crashed to the bright green ground.
Horrified the wrath of Heaven was upon me I stumbled upon the mouth of a large gloomy cavern. It was scary but another bolt of lightning cracked the sky above me, so I dashed into the darkness. As my eyes adjusted to the dim light a dank smell filled my nose. This cold alien world had massive concrete walls and was populated by huge cubelike metallic robots which made buzzing and humming sounds. Their exposed robot brains pulsated with an eerie blue light. The robots’ cold rectangular eyes had dark blips for pupils which surveyed my every move. Something sinister lurked in the bowels of the creepy cavern. It stalked me. Petrified, I was powerless against a bone-chilling force dragging me into what I realized was the Gate of Hell!
And then—I’d lurch awake drenched in sweat and heart pounding. Since childhood this recurring nightmare had haunted me. Why?
Sleep consumes one-third of our lives and despite thousands of years of study, understanding dreams and their function eludes us. Everyone dreams, and even if you don’t always remember them, dreams profoundly impact your life.
People often have recurring dreams. These can be enjoyable if the dream is pleasant. A good night’s sleep means waking up feeling refreshed, healthy, and mentally sharp.
Dreams range from abstract surrealism to hardcore realism. They can be whimsical, erotic, frustrating, prophetic, or spiritual. Since Biblical times people have reported dreams that foretold future events or which involved communication with spirits. In my book “The Afterlife Frequency,” I explain the scientific basis how and why this occurs.
Sometimes dreams inspire genius. During a dream, Paul McCartney received the melody for the Beatles mega-hit “Yesterday.” Scientist Otto Loewi dreamed of an experiment which led to him winning a Nobel Prize. Stephen King’s bestseller “Misery” was based on a nightmare.
Terrifying dreams known as nightmares delve into our deepest secrets and darkest fears. Nightmares rob us of the rest vital to mental and physical health. It’s even worse when nightmares are recurring.
How can you defeat an elusive foe that terrorizes you when you’re most vulnerable? Simple, because a nightmare isn’t in control—YOU ARE!
One of the best means of dream interpretation is through meditation, a voluntary mental state between being awake and asleep. Meditation enables you to enter the dream world with your conscious mind in control.
There are several meditation techniques and you can select the one which works best for you. The following is the meditation I use for interpreting both good dreams and nightmares:
• Select a quiet place free of distractions. Sit upright in a comfortable seat. Close your eyes. Inhale a deep breath through your nose, then exhale through your mouth. Envision inhaling the positive energy of white light through your nose and exhaling a dark cloud filled with all your stress and angst through your mouth. Do this a few times and envision each exhaled dark cloud turning lighter, from black to gray eventually to white as you release the tension from your mind and body.
• Feel yourself relax as you inhale and exhale white light. You’re now entering the meditative state.
• Next, count slowly from ten to one. Ten, go deeper into this relaxed state, nine deeper still, keep going all the way to one. Now bring forth the dream you want to interpret. In this article, we’ll explore nightmares.
• See yourself in the nightmare. Whatever emerges, no matter how upsetting or frightening, tell yourself, “I AM IN CONTROL. NOTHING CAN HARM ME. I AM IN CONTROL.”
• Let the nightmare play out to its conclusion. Ask, “why is this frightening? What does this mean?”
The answer may be revealed immediately. Sometimes it may take a few sessions, but eventually the meaning of the dream will unfold.
Let’s examine my recurring nightmare. Using this meditation technique, I the world of dreams, and saw myself trembling in fear at the Gate of Hell. Where the hell did the Gate of Hell come from?
Reaffirming I was in control, my fear subsided and I stepped right through the Gate into Hell itself. Noticing a distinct lack of fire, brimstone, or demons, instead I found myself in a complex network of subterranean passageways and winding tunnels. Suddenly I was pulled deeper into the tunnels at high velocity. Without surrendering to my fear, I remained calm and observed. I zoomed through the twists and turns of the tunnels and then, my trajectory led straight up toward a trap door which sprang open. I flew through it and landed in a field of bright green grass. It was sunny, the air fresh after the rain. My father, mother, older sister, and brother ran to me and hugged me.
Immediately, the distortions of the nightmare vanished and I was propelled back in time to the nightmare’s origin. I was three-years-old and wandered away from home, probably a few hundred feet down our street. The vast green fields were simply the neighbors’ lawns. A thunderstorm blew in and I tried to run home but got drenched in the rain. When a bolt of lightning destroyed a nearby treehouse I panicked, got disoriented and felt lost.
I took shelter in a neighbor’s garage. He was a quirky ham radio operator. All the neighborhood kids were scared of this grumpy guy whose garage was packed with electronics and radio equipment. In my nightmare his equipment transformed into robots whose exposed brains were actually cathode ray tubes buzzing with static electricity.
Their menacing rectangular eyes just were oscilloscopes. When the neighbor opened the door to his garage, I slid under a table and hid in this “tunnel” until he left and the storm ended. Then I dashed outside where my mother, father and siblings were frantically searching for me.
This meditation for dream interpretation was my liberation. I’ve never had that nightmare since. Meditation empowered me to maintain the control necessary to confront the ghastly Gate of Hell, which symbolized my primeval fear of the unknown.
The rapid navigation through the tunnels was my mind processing this childhood trauma which evolved into this recurring nightmare. I learned confronting fear builds self-confidence which is crucial to overcoming fear and ending up in a better place.
And for me, that better place was a bright green field of grass on a sunny day after a rainstorm surrounded by the people I loved.
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