Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Dreams

August’s Second Sunday featured Dream Facilitator, Ken Kaplan who shared his many years of expertise on the subject of our dreams.  “Everyone without exception, dreams,” he explained. 

He gave clues for remembering your dreams.  First and foremost set the intention to remember.  Once you have set the intention, keep a recorder or a notebook and pen by your bedside.  This way you can immediately record the dream upon awakening.  If you can’t remember your dream, perhaps you will remember the “feeling” of the dream.  This in turn may help you remember the dream.  By focusing on the feeling and reliving it, you may also recall the content of the dream.  Ken also suggested the at the more we open up spiritually, the more likely we are to remember our dreams.

Unless you are super psychic, dreams represent the now, not the future.  Even dreams after eating a bowl of spicy chili before bed have a bit of content that your subconscious is trying to relay to you.  Keeping a log of your dreams, or a dream history, can help interpret and give guidance for your daily life.

Dreams clarify what’s going on in your life.  Every dream is triggered by an event.  You watch a scary movie and have a nightmare.  You have something you are trying to decipher before you fall asleep and the answer comes through a dream.  You eat bad food.  Dreams are validations of thoughts you had during the day.  Nightmares represent the parts of the self not integrated yet, a reflection of an imbalance somewhere in your life.  Recurring dreams appear when your mind is trying to bring you a message that twill raise your awareness of something you may be ignoring.  Ken gave multiple examples of each of these type of dream messages.

Every part of a dream has importance, from what stands out to what seems obscure.  Treat every aspect of the dream as you; for example, if there is a night table that stood out in the dream, “be” the night table.  Strangers represent you, and sometimes even those you know will represent yourself and not themselves in a dream. 


For more information, check out Ken’s website www.spiritualdreamcoach.com.  Ken offers group presentations as well as one on one sessions.

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