What are dreams? Why do we dream? How do our dreams relate to our lives? How is the sleeping dream state similar to our waking lives? Here in this article, I will provide my interpretations of these questions, and probably some others you have about dreaming, as well as insights on the nature of the subconscious mind. At the end, I dive into dynamics and oneness, using the metaphor of a seesaw.
Dreams. I'm going to get straight to the point. Our dreams are a reflection of our subconscious, our emotions, our energy body. In this way, the emotions that we have suppressed, that our energy body holds and always remembers, are reflected back to us in our dreams.
Our dreams are a reflection of our energy body and can allow us to re-insperience feelings that block us up, and therefore release them, face them, see the truth.
For example, a few years ago, I experienced a tragic instance at work with my friends on a jet ski. Long story short, my friend / coworker fell off the jet ski, got her hair stuck underneath, and drowned. It was very sad and scary and all too much for me to process at the time. I never really took the time to feel it, I cried maybe once, and sort of just carried on with life. However, I knew deep down I was different. Every time I went underwater, I could only stay there for about 5 seconds before having to breathe again. I replayed the scenario over and over, wondering what drowning would feel like and feeling so scared. Trying so hard to understand and think the thoughts away.
Around a year later, I had a dream that I was playing with my brother by a stream. All of a sudden, he disappeared, and I assumed that meant he was drowning. I felt so scared and helpless because he was drowning and I couldn't do anything to save him. It was terrifying. Then, low and behold, a superhero looking man that I have never seen before saved him lol. I cried and cried so hard. Like violently cried😂
I even woke up crying. But, I also woke up feeling so much lighter. Like something had lifted off my chest. In that moment I knew that my dream had just reflected back to me my deep emotions about that traumatic event, allowing me to bring to the surface and release what I needed to feel.
It wasn't like I cried that one time and then never thought about it again. I don't believe that is how healing works. Instead, it allowed me to feel safe enough to look at the truth of how I felt / feel and stay in that truth without disconnecting from it and therefore allowing it to process through. When we disconnect from what we feel, maybe because what we feel is too much, or we don't feel safe enough accepting the truth of our reality, the emotions stay stuck. They don't get to move their course. You can read more about these "energy blocks" in my article "Energy Blocks and Addictive Cycles: Love is Behind all Pain".
Staying with our truth, with our emotions, with what is real in us, allows everything to flow.
There are also fun, playful, childlike dreams and dreams that seem to come as messages straight from god.
The energy body, the subconscious, is the channel between our physical body and God, spirit. It is the child within us all, the heart, the infinite creativity. This is what is expressed when we dream. Instead of primarily being in our conscious mind, as we are in the waking state, in the dream state, we are primarily in our subconscious. In this state, we are in flow, infinite possibility without the rigidness of the conscious mind, creating stories and insperiences as an expression of us.
In this way, the waking state is quite similar, just in this physical, crystalized realm. Instead of us interacting with our own energy, as in the sleep state, we are also interacting with the energy fields of everything around us.
Our body and our life are a reflection of our energy field / soul. Where there are blocks, we will feel it. Emotionally first, and if we ignore that, then physically. The soul always asserts itself.
Our life is a reflection of us.
We insperience the world how WE are by perceiving things through our energetical frequency and also physically allowing things on the same frequency to "touch" us.
We can only allow into our lives what we are at an energetic level. Everything happens energetically first before it manifests physically.
Everything.
Every action begins with a thought.
Every creation, an idea.
Every thought, an emotion / desire.
Every external experience a reflection of the internal world, whether we are aware of it or not.
When there are things in our lives that just keep going wrong, or we find ourselves hanging with the wrong people for your soul, or just feel stuck, it begins with an energetic block within us first, keeping us in a cycle of a "pain" frequency. If this wasn't the case, you wouldn't have let these people or things into your life in the first place.
In these cases, your life is reflecting back to you what you need to see. It is showing you exactly the pain cycle / blockage you need to be aware of and, in turn, let go. Life is always giving you the tools to live freely, passionately, happily, contently, blissfully, and all the good things that are aligned with who you truly are... with what the human soul truly is.
"As water reflects the face, so one's life reflects the heart" ~ proverbs 27:19
So, our lives are the physical manifestations of our soul that allow for interaction with other physical manifestations... people, animals, plants, rocks, earth, water, fire, EVERYTHING. And, at the core, all of these things are all one thing - spirit. From physical, down into the energy field and the soul, to spirit.
In the sleep state, we are still tethered to the conscious wake state, or else we would not wake again. We would stay floating in the realm of the subconscious, the channel between spirit and the physical.
Therefore, the same is true in the wake state; we are still tethered to the subconscious sleep state.
This is a law in all dynamics.
Dynamics are like a seesaw. One side is just higher than the other at the time of its manifestation. The lower side doesn't disappear. Maybe from sight, but never from existence.
The Dynamic of Sleep and Wake
Each time we "dream" or imagine a future scenario, or conjure up the image of a past memory, we are tapping into the tethered state of the subconscious. The subconscious is the infinite realm within us that contains all possibilities. If you were to imagine anything right now, you are pulling from this infinite library of the subconscious.
However, there are limits to this imagination, walls to this library, which is why the subconscious is the bridge and not spirit itself. For example, if you tried to imagine a new never before seen color, you can't, because color is a spectrum. It ranges from red to blue and all that in between. The "library" of the subconscious is the same. It ranges from small to big, inward to outward, 1/infinity to infinity, staying within the dynamic law of this physical realm. When we imagine something, it is particalizing in our mind, and therefore becoming a sperate piece of the universe. Anything separate, any form, whether it has manifested in the physical or dies off in the mind before reaching the physical, automatically has an exact compliment. Just think about taking a piece of a circle. You cannot have 1/4 without 3/4 or the 1/4 would have no value.
Alright, back to the point. All the things we imagine in our waking state, are dreams. Like the term "daydreaming" is used to describe someone in their own world, lost in thought and imagination.
This would then mean that all that we interpret, our perceptions of others and the world, the conclusions that we come to, are all dreams as well. Each life is its own dream, insperiencing and perceiving a world only they and they alone can ever know.
Just as in the sleep state we are tethered to the wake state, keeping us from disappearing into the infinite void of spirit (oneness), in the wake state (separation / what looks to be "individual" but is actually duality), we are tethered to the sleep state, allowing us to remain connected to spirit, to creativity.
I mentioned the seesaw metaphor earlier, but I want to explain it further. Imagine seeing the top half of a seesaw, from the fulcrum (middle) and up. This space above the fulcrum represents our world of light. Above the fulcrum, as the seesaw is in motion, you can only see one side at a time. When one side reaches its max height, the other side is on the floor, or level with the fulcrum. It does not disappear, but it is not in sight as it merges with the edge of our viewpoint, or the ground.
To go further into speaking on dynamics and how they are tethered to oneness, imagine the seesaw was not bound by the ground, and could keep going. It would eventually make its way round in a circle.
This circle represents reality, both unseen and seen, in any duality.
Let's take this circle as a representation of the universe. I'll show the image before I explain in words.
Our physical world of matter is that of light. In this diagram, it is the top half of the circle. Only one side of the seesaw can be seen at a time in this top half. This is the world that we can see.
Underneath this top half of the circle is the exact compliment bottom half, completing the circle.
Our physical sensations are limited to the top half of this circle. If we could sense the whole circle, there would be no sensation, as sensations are born of opposites. For example, a black plate cannot be seen on a black table, but a white plate can.
If we sensed "the whole circle", there would be no time, no unfolding, only the oneness of a circle.
Our physical world and sensations represent that of one side of the seesaw, while the circle represents that of our conscious and subconscious mind.
Still bound by the circle, still bound to form, but an infinite form.
The circle is connected to infinity and form simultaneously.
Going round and round, no beginning or end.
A bridge between formless and form.
A bridge between spirit and the physical.
I just got de ja vu writing this lol. How cool.
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