Hi Everyone!
Though this may not occur as anything new to many of you, I just wanted to share my experience!
Let me first tell you that I have had debates with a friend about continuing on a previous dream at will. My friend said that whenever he woke up while seeing a dream, he could continue on it almost everytime he fell asleep again. I could not do the same and so I used to wonder if I would ever be able to do that too!
Last night however, I was seeing a dream and in the middle of it I seemed to shift consciousness and realize that I was APing. I planned on experimenting then! I wanted to go back to my body and come back to the same place again. And BAM I was back. And BAM I was back in the dream again in the same place! I got so excited that I continued doing this many times!
I have seen dreams before that I would so like to continue! Hope I am finally on the right path! :wink:
Cheers!!
Piyal
Awesome! Congratulations! I made a topic not that long ago about this. I continue my dreams a couple times a night. It's all about how much you want to and the intent to continue! :D
Ah, it was this one:
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_dreams/continuing_a_dream_after_waking_up-t39766.0.html
My nan tells me she does this alot i have done it accidently once or twice :)
Yep, I do it almost every day and have called it "Rescripting". Robert Moss teaches this as well and calls it "Dream Reentry".
You can find a useful video here that explains the entire process. http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_dreams/dreaming_is_waking_up-t39742.0.html
Oh! That's really amazing Piyal. Congrats for your first success. Well done and keep it up.
Yep, I've had this many times! More recently, I was dreaming that my ex and I were arguing. :roll: We dated for four years and had a nasty breakup. One night, I was dreaming that we were just arguing and nonsense.. I woke up abruptly out of my sleep, stayed up for an hour, and went back to sleep. The argument pursued from the point it left off. :-P I've felt a whole lot better about the negativity surrounding my ex since then, too. I think re-entering a dream has a purpose. Your karma may want to take some extra time to heal a deep rooted issue.
Quote from: Fairywindblues on February 28, 2013, 07:09:46
I think re-entering a dream has a purpose. Your karma may want to take some extra time to heal a deep rooted issue.
Yes, I find this to be true as well. Many times it's because I awaken in the Dream and the action is already in full swing. At that time, I just watch it, while I try to get my bearings or awareness.
You do get them spontaneously though if you haven't resolved whatever problem or situation you were supposed to deal with first time. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 cycles before I can fully become aware and change the outcome.
Other times it can take many nights or weeks/months to finally find a solution. It just becomes that annoying and sometimes frightening reoccurring Dream until you finally do something about it.
Oh, yes, I know that one. I started having this dream a few months ago where certain people that I've had negative relations with would show up in my dreams as a group just to ridicule me. I started dreaming that I was in a room full of basically everyone who disliked me in life. Dozens of people. Exes, people I've broken up with, old friendships that ended on sour notes, etc. They all basically laughed and pointed at me and told me everything they disliked about me. I had this dream 4-5 times til finally making it go away by basically saying "I don't care anymore"
I realized that the dream was all about forgiving myself. I was the one that had to let go and forgive. I remembered that no one really hated me, deep down, and that any 'hatred' they harbored for me in life will all be resolved and will all be forgiven in due time.
It's supposedly much easier to resolve karmic issues in dream form rather than in physical form. Once you get down to the root issues of why you believe your dreams are repeating on a loop or keep thrusting you into the same scenario, they may very well stop and not plague you any longer. :-)
Or, if they're positive dreams, then they may repeat all the time with pleasure! The trick is to visualize the place you want to go. For me, this will work both ways; the scenarios I most long for and the ones I most want to avoid tend to keep showing up in my dreams in both positive and negative ways.
I, for example, keep dreaming about the Titanic repeatedly. I just find the ship so lovely. I've probably had a hundred dreams about that ship over my lifetime. Oddly enough, when I'd wake up during one of my "Titanic" dreams as I'd call them, I'd get up for a bit, and would go back to sleep, just to be back on the boat. Oddly enough, she almost always hits an iceberg in my dream, no matter what, but I definitely keep returning to her. :-P I keep a two foot model of the ship in my room and she's often the last thing I see before I doze off.
I have a point in saying all of this. If there's a place on the astral that you really want to keep re-visiting, I find that becoming obsessed with the location will bring you back there. If you have a mental image, then try to draw it or sketch it. Spend some time also mentally creating this world in your mind. Imagine yourself being there. Want to be there. Strive to be there. Keep creating and building on to the location in your mind. Unless it's a collective place that has a lot of people focusing on it, and stabilizing it, you may start to disconnect from it and move farther away from it in the same sense that water will not stay cupped in your hands for long; it will trickle away unless you constantly keep refilling.