Recurring dreams about ponies...

[DASH Project]

I became a brony in late June 2011, a week or two after a terrifying psychic experience triggered by my obsessive fear of the (now-failed) May 21st Rapture prediction that everyone talked about back then, even though looking back, it was incredibly stupid. Watching the first two episodes of MLP: FiM comforted me at a very deep and spiritual level and helped to get rid of the last of the fear-induced visions I was having. And starting in early September that same year, cartoon ponies quickly became one of the most widely-recurring themes in my dreams...I still dream about ponies on a regular basis, though not as ridiculously frequent as they were in late 2011, but some (if not most) of these dreams left me with a very positive, profound and comforting feeling, and I will only cover the relevant ones here.

My first "profound" pony dream was a night or two after Thanksgiving 2011 and involved me going on a fun adventure with a young woman who kept alternating between being a human, and being Pinkie Pie (more specifically, Pinkie with her mane straightened, which due to the infamy of the "Cupcakes" fanfic most fans call her "Pinkamena" when her mane/tail is this way...though unlike in those grimdark fics she was still happy, upbeat and friendly like this.) We went for a summer hike along a dried creek, then ate a cherry jello parfait afterwards. And somehow, this dream felt profound, deeply comforting, and like something from my happy childhood...for those mysterious reasons it was arguably my favorite dream of 2011.

I would have other pony-related dreams all through 2012 (including another profound and fun dream in early March where I was "flying" with Rainbow Dash over a magnificent dream landscape with floating continents that had lush forests, meadows and flowering fruit trees on them,) but my final two pony-related dreams for December 2012 were instrumental in my overcoming my fear of the Mayan doomsday prediction for December 21st, which we all lived through luckily.

My first dream of this sort was where I was staying over at my mom's house on the morning of December 21st, and Twilight Sparkle was next to me. I told her I was concerned that the reason "2012 doomsday" and similar results stopped being among the top searches on Google in the final months of 2012 was because of the world governments "covering up" the fact that the world will end, in order to prevent mass panic. Twilight replied by saying how it "means nothing," and how people are just momentarily "sick" of Mayan doomsday searches after years of hype about it, so as a result such searches just aren't that popular anymore. Rather interestingly, a few days after December 21st came and went with no doomsday, I did some research and found that Twilight's words may very well have been the truth.

Finally, later in December I had what was arguably one of my first "real" AP experiences, and yes, it too involved ponies. I felt myself experiencing sleep paralysis, followed by my lifting out of my bed, taking on the form of an "ideal" astral body I had started drawing a few days prior (this astral body looks like a cross between knight/samurai armor, and SPARTAN-III armor from Halo) and floating through the night. I found myself able to "phase" through walls, and eventually found myself in someone's backyard in the middle of the night...I phased through the wall and found myself in the middle of what looked like a traditional Japanese-style living room. There was a little old man wearing a rice farmer's hat and carrying a walking stick, looking like a stereotypical kung-fu master. He told me I had passed some kind of test, and then I looked over and saw Princess Cadence (another pony) next to me. She looked at me, her eyes started glowing with white light, and she told me the mysterious message, "I am all that once was, and all that ever will be!" And after that, I returned to my bed and woke up, leaving me with a mysterious but awesome and "epic" feeling after I awoke. I didn't QUITE know what to make of this last dream, but my gut told me Cadence's message was one of reassurance, and how the dream meant I needed to face my fears of the unknown.

So what do you think this all means? Because these ponies are fictional characters, does that make my dream experiences with them less valid, or did I in fact meet up with helpful astral beings who chose to take the form of My Little Ponies just because it was a familiar and comforting form to me? Any feedback would be extremely appreciated, since ponies are still among my most dreamed-about thing to this day. :3

[soarin12]

The ponies don't make the dream less valid at all.  They may well have been there to comfort you.  Dreams/projections are very often symbolic in nature.  If it doesn't mean anything to you now, write it in your journal and in time some things may be revealed to you.  Once I had a projection that meant nothing to me at the time, then 1 week later the exact scene I saw in the projection happened in real life. --a precognition.  So you never know what you'll eventually get out of it.  You say you had a gut feeling about what the message meant. --In my opinion when you have that feeling, go with it!  That is what is being conveyed to you.  Our spirits just know things immediately and intuitively even if our minds are sometimes confused by the imagery.

The message "I am all that once was and all that ever will be" reminds me of many bible quotes depicting God.  Such as "I am the alpha and omega, the beginning and end."  and "I AM that I AM".  Also the white light (in ponies eyes) is always seen as divine.   Maybe God/Source/the universe or what ever name tag you prefer is reaching out to you to show you that he/she is all expansive, never ending, everything and all. --and "ALL" of course includes your consciousness and thus you will survive death. --your greatest fear.     Just a thought.  I don't mean to read too much in!!

[Szaxx]

Have a read of the pony interpretation.

http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/dreamdictionarysearch.pl?method=exact&header=dreamsymbol&search=ponies

[DASH Project]

To see a pony in your dream signifies the playful aspects of your life. It is representative of your unexplored, underdeveloped, or undisciplined power.

Wow, fascinating! I presume this applies to cartoon ponies as well as real ponies. This is good to know. Although I kinda more pictured the ponies in my dream as being spirit animals or guides or something, at least for some of the dreams I mentioned. But still, this is good information to have.

The ponies don't make the dream less valid at all.  They may well have been there to comfort you.  Dreams/projections are very often symbolic in nature.  If it doesn't mean anything to you now, write it in your journal and in time some things may be revealed to you.  Once I had a projection that meant nothing to me at the time, then 1 week later the exact scene I saw in the projection happened in real life. --a precognition.  So you never know what you'll eventually get out of it.  You say you had a gut feeling about what the message meant. --In my opinion when you have that feeling, go with it!  That is what is being conveyed to you.  Our spirits just know things immediately and intuitively even if our minds are sometimes confused by the imagery.

Oh don't worry, I definitely keep record of all my major dreams in my dream journal...I create a new one for each year, and archive the old ones as PDF documents. They don't go back too far, unfortunately, I only started recording my dreams in fall of 2010, but I do have a way older paper dream journal from my childhood, where my mom used to write dreams that I would dictate to her...some of those go back to 1991 or even 1990, when I was only two or three. Sadly I currently do not know the location of this old journal, though I intend to someday archive it digitally and preserve it forever.

Anyways, yes, I do believe I had a gut feeling with some of these dreams, especially the AP one with Princess Cadence and the kung-fu master guy back in mid-December 2012. Others just felt overwhelmingly positive, like the one in November 2011 with Pinkie Pie, or the flying one in March 2012 with Rainbow Dash. Now tell me, in your experience does a dream that just feels really positive, amazing and deeply satisfying have any kind of spiritual significance? Because I occasionally have dreams like those, even if they are not "lifting out" or AP/OOBE-related experiences.

The message "I am all that once was and all that ever will be" reminds me of many bible quotes depicting God.  Such as "I am the alpha and omega, the beginning and end."  and "I AM that I AM".  Also the white light (in ponies eyes) is always seen as divine.   Maybe God/Source/the universe or what ever name tag you prefer is reaching out to you to show you that he/she is all expansive, never ending, everything and all. --and "ALL" of course includes your consciousness and thus you will survive death. --your greatest fear.     Just a thought.  I don't mean to read too much in!!

Hmm...the "alpha and omega" quote is from Revelation, right? I may not be a Christian, but I do have a Bible, which I enjoy reading some of sometimes. On that note, maybe God chose to take the form of Princess Cadence to appear to me in that dream and tell me that I do not need to fear death...pretty fascinating when you think about it. Personally the thing she said immediately brought to mind some of the lyrics in the Metallica song "Through the Never," but that's just me. I like your more mystical interpretation better 

Finally, while this does not really have much to do with dreams, but it does have to do with ponies and their relation to my spirituality. I remember back in November 2012 I came up with an idea for what I thought was just an imaginary character, though thinking of her comforted me in the face of my biggest fear at the time, which was the December 21st Mayan doomsday prediction. Resembling a MLP:FiM-style cartoon pony, she was called the Lightmare, and took the form of a white, winged unicorn-like creature dressed in white and gold armor, with a pink and lavender mane and tail. Now initially I didn't really believe she was real at any level, but then in February she appeared in a vision my friend had while meditating, and later that month, when my current worst fear (my fear of going to hell for not being an evangelical Protestant) got so bad that it caused me to manifest demonic thoughtforms even with my eyes open, I actually heard her speaking to me and giving me systematic instructions on how to get rid of the demons...I followed these instructions and within one week they were gone for good. She has since proven herself to be a very useful thoughtform...her name is a play on the word "nightmare" in that she is the opposite of that, and also that she is a literal mare of light.

Oh man, these replies are really long...sorry about that. Also, I can't help but notice your username, 'soarin12'...there is a pony called Soarin in the actual show. What a coincidence!

[soarin12]

Yes, I do feel that positive, amazing, and deeply satisfying dreams have spiritual significance because they are helping to awaken you to who you truly are.  For example, maybe the dream gave you a sense of freedom that you never felt before. (like flying dreams/AP --my favorite!) Or maybe it showed you that you have more love in your heart than you thought you had.   Maybe you made a connection to someone in your dream that made you realize that you were not so alone and separate as you thought you were.  Or maybe the vast beauty of your dream touched you in a way where you just forgot about your fears and decided none of that mattered anymore.  Those special dream experiences (OOBEs and so many things in the physical too) all serve to bring us out of darkness (separateness, fearfulness, bitterness, ego) and into the light of all we truly are when the darkness is stripped away.  This light I would describe as a loving connection to all beings.  Of course, words never really do anything justice do they?  Experience does, though, and dreams are a great way to experience to one extent or another, the truth of our being.

I've heard of many people who do as you do and start with imagination and then apparently, a guide will use what you imagined and speak helpful advice through it.  It's really kind of mind blowing when you think about it.  I've received the helpful advice but I never start with imagination.--probably because I've never been very imaginative!  LOL!

Ha Ha! about the soarin pony!  I didn't know about the pony connection.  I chose the name because I just love flying (soaring) in the astral so much!  I have to say, though, that I have 3 horses and 2 ponies at home.  I've always loved riding and I think horses are some of the most amazing spirits there are!  The way they can connect to you and respond to you seemingly by you just thinking a thought!  They're so amazing .  I can see why you would want to dream about them!  Maybe I'll try that.  Thanks for inspiring me!

[DASH Project]

Yes, I do feel that positive, amazing, and deeply satisfying dreams have spiritual significance because they are helping to awaken you to who you truly are.  For example, maybe the dream gave you a sense of freedom that you never felt before. (like flying dreams/AP --my favorite!) Or maybe it showed you that you have more love in your heart than you thought you had.   Maybe you made a connection to someone in your dream that made you realize that you were not so alone and separate as you thought you were.  Or maybe the vast beauty of your dream touched you in a way where you just forgot about your fears and decided none of that mattered anymore.  Those special dream experiences (OOBEs and so many things in the physical too) all serve to bring us out of darkness (separateness, fearfulness, bitterness, ego) and into the light of all we truly are when the darkness is stripped away.  This light I would describe as a loving connection to all beings.  Of course, words never really do anything justice do they?  Experience does, though, and dreams are a great way to experience to one extent or another, the truth of our being.

Awesome, glad even the non-AP dreams have some significance to them. Because I sure feel it when they do. I have also noticed an interesting trick that can be performed in order to increase the likelihood of having a more memorable, longer and more "epic" dream than you normally would, and which may even increase the likelihood of AP. Well it works for me, I can't speak for everybody obviously. Anyways the trick is to go to sleep while it is still light out, possibly as early as late afternoon or early evening. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but some of my best dreams I have had after going to bed in this way. Have I touched on a well-known astral technique? Or is this just an anomaly?

I've heard of many people who do as you do and start with imagination and then apparently, a guide will use what you imagined and speak helpful advice through it.  It's really kind of mind blowing when you think about it.  I've received the helpful advice but I never start with imagination.--probably because I've never been very imaginative!  LOL!

Wow, that's good to know. I've heard other people say that if I was the one who manifested something resembling a spirit guide, then that "guide" is just a part of me and nothing else, so it really means nothing, because apparently spirit guides have to be "met" and can't be "manifested." But I happen to be an artist, with a very visual brain and mind, so it is very spiritual and therapeutic for me to draw stuff I come up with (my dream job is either that of a concept artist, or a video game designer...I am majoring in Applied Computer Graphics.) But I guess it makes perfect sense how a spiritual being would choose to manifest as one of my drawings or designs in order to appear in a form that is most reassuring to me. Hell, even weirder is the fact that I have a whole personal mythology going (and have since I was a kid) with my own gods and goddesses I have come up with myself...sometimes I would pray to these "constructed" deities in addition to praying to "established" deities and ascended masters, and half the time I feel my prayers are answered just the same. I am not saying that makes them real, literal gods and goddesses, but there must be some sort of being out there like God or whomever, who answers my prayers through a constructed deity.

Ha Ha! about the soarin pony!  I didn't know about the pony connection.  I chose the name because I just love flying (soaring) in the astral so much!  I have to say, though, that I have 3 horses and 2 ponies at home.  I've always loved riding and I think horses are some of the most amazing spirits there are!  The way they can connect to you and respond to you seemingly by you just thinking a thought!  They're so amazing .  I can see why you would want to dream about them!  Maybe I'll try that.  Thanks for inspiring me!

You're welcome. Thanks for actually replying to my longwinded posts :3

[soarin12]

Yea.  I don't personally put restrictions on things like when people say "guides have to be met and not manifested"  From my experience, answers to prayers can come through anything or anyone in both the physical and nonphysical realities.  If I start adding rules to it, I'll miss out on a lot.  Even if the manifested gods or guides are coming from you and thus are a part of yourself, they would not be meaningless because you, yourself, are connected with (at one with) the spirit of God so in that sense you have a lot to teach yourself!  That's where people get the whole concept of "higher self."  I've never personally been real into that but I can see in that sense where they are coming from.

I've never gone to sleep very early before, so I can't confirm your technique.   I do take 2 hr. naps in the late afternoon to early evening, but I've never gotten anything out of them.  No SP, no phasing, AP's or even any memorable dreams of any kind.  For me, all the good stuff happens during my regular sleep from about 12am to 8 or 9am.  Ha!  I just realized I made it sound like I sleep 11 hrs. per day.  If I take the nap I don't sleep as long at night.