What Experiences can Lead To

[kiauma]

What you had was a vision.  I have also had very similar experiences, encompassing dream symbology in a conscious OBE situation.  No doubt the 'dream' felt powerfully real to you, like an OBE, even though the metaphorical nature of the experience was obvious.   These are the telltale signs of a vision.

Excellent analysis, and I congratulate your on your positive attitude on what could be taken as very bad news.  Visions are a gift from a higher plane, and I think you are very wise in your assessments.

One detail I think you overlooked is in the symbology of the Christmas tree.   I find it very significant that you knew it was a Christmas tree even though it lacked any decoration, and then it iced over, as if in a deep winter.   But what really is the deeper meaning of Christmas and the Christmas tree?  Giving!  The Christmas tree indicates there is a gift awaiting you somewhere in all this.

Overall, I will make a guess that this indicates that even though your software program may not pay off immediately, that eventually winter will pass, that the tree will thaw and eventually you will realize the gift inherint in the symbology of the Christmas tree.  It could take some years, however.

Best of luck!

[DakotaRidge]

A few nights ago I had a projection that ended up becoming a dream, but through it I was still conscious - making conscious decisions on what to say, etc.  The details, although I'll relate them briefly, are not nearly as important as what the experience implies.  I suppose some would classify it as a lucid dream, but since it started out as a projection and never really changed "modes," I still qualify it as an AP from start to finish.

As briefly as I can explain it, here's the relevant background to the dream: I've been working on software to market commercially for many years, bringing my entire life to the edge of poverty, now living on borrowed money (beginning this month) as the project now reaches completion and in the next few weeks will be going into test.  It's the borderline of the absolute biggest event of my life (I'll be 43 next week).

I was standing outside the house I grew up in (moved away in '72), standing on the street.  My mom was laying on her side right on the edge of the lawn, up against the street.  I walked up to her and as I was looking at her, I suddenly knew exactly what she was going to tell me.  "It's about my program.  It's not going to sell, is it?"  She looked very sad and dejected, and she said "no, it isn't."  I replied with "then I don't even need to finish it, do I?"  She said "oh, you need to finish it!  But the breakthrough is later, around the next corner."  Then a small Christmas tree appeared in front of me, barren with no ornaments or anything, then it became covered in ice and frost.  The entire scene was very dark and dismal.

I woke up horribly depressed over this, then when it got late enough, I called my mom in California (I'm in Denver).  The first thing she told me was, "I would never, EVER tell you that you're going to fail."  In response to this, I immediately asked the question, then why did the dream say that?  It would mean there was predestiny and that I was allowed to put years of my life into something that was a known failure.  I couldn't believe that.  So I started looking at options.

We talked for over an hour, but in the first few minutes of the conversation, it became abundantly clear what it all meant.  The dream was a warning that I was already in that mode of failure - deep down I was already accepting as a foregone conclusion that nobody would really buy this software of mine, and all my energy was being placed on preparing for failure.  I guess it amounts to the dangers of inertia.  

What I'm really trying to convey to others is the absolutely amazing level of depth and completeness that dreams - and therefore, I would imagine, projections - involve.  We are not playing games with the experiences we have.  Whatever part of our own minds creates these scenarios for us to experience (astral, dreaming, lucid dreaming, whatever the method) is apparently so far "out there" as far as wisdom and ability that we have no clue.  The completeness of this experience is mind boggling.  It's much faster to pick apart the details in hindsight:

Why was this set in the town I grew up in?  As always, look not at the town but at what "level" it brings me to; what it means to me, what it brings to life for me.  I left that town in '72.  I went back last year to visit and was quite dismayed that everything had changed dramatically, nobody I knew lived there anymore, and every happy memory I had from the place was long gone.  It was just another town, to me it was dead and buried.  So that was the chosen setting for this experience: revisiting the past, or being stuck in it.  The past being that attitude of expecting imminent failure.  The way my own mind works and the way my own interpretations go, it was the best possible setting to convey this.  My mother was chosen as the only other character in the dream because my mind knew that I would call her about it!  She's the only person I know who I would call to talk about a dream with.  The Christmas tree was so obvious ... I love Christmas time, I love the energy, and I miss no chance to celebrate the holiday season to the fullest.  I feel that people should go crazy giving gifts and celebrating.  So the tree appearing with ice on it, no decorations, all but dead ... it's obvious.  No "Christmas" from this program, no celebration, no cheer.  But of course it was only a warning.  Otherwise I wouldn't have been told "oh, you need to finish" for something that was a predestined failure.

The timing of this dream, and the fact that it was a clear warning and not a statement of destiny, both served to reverse my attitude dramatically, in and of themselves.  Why would I receive a warning to change my attitude unless what I was doing had some serious potential?  The timing of it all only reinforces that I'm indeed as close to completion as I think I am - if not closer.  

I find the entire experience dramatically reassuring.  The way I see it, we are not cast out to stumble through life alone.  We get what we need when we need it - warnings, help, whatever it may be.  It would seem that we're well looked after.  The net result of this dream was that even almost 3 days later, I am so hyped up about getting out there and marketing this creation of mine that I can barely wait for the sun to rise.  My mother is a marketing guru - she has that magic touch and she doesn't need to rely on b.s. or hype.  She's holding my hand through all this.  

Hopefully this will offer some small comfort to at least one or two people.  This system of life on Earth appears to be a lot more orchestrated than we sometimes think.  The lack of wake-up calls only means we're doing reasonably well and we don't need them.  When they do come, they seem to be well in advance of when we need them the most.  Things like this really help to build faith in life, in a general sense.