Reinterpretation of dreams.

[Sampson]

Hi All,
I had a lot of dreams on Friday night, one of the dreams had a lot of talking in it and I woke up just after it to try and record the dialogue. What was said was slightly cryptic and a little puzzling but I had a vague understanding of the general idea of what was meant.

It was about 0430 Hrs in the morning I woke up went to the bathroom and then went back to bed, before I fell asleep I made the suggestion that the next dream I had would further explain to me in an easier way what the voice was trying to tell me.

It's one of the first times that I have experimented and tried to ask or suggest this after waking so soon from a dream, the following is an account of the first dream and the dream that followed it.

Dream 1
"I am floating stationary in a black darkness like deep space, directly in front of me there is the huge bodiless head of a youngish man of the age of about 35 to 40.

He has spiky blond hair and a stubbly beard he also wears glasses, he vaguely reminds me a little of a colleague from my work.

The man is here to relay some important information to me that I feel could also be used as a method or practice of some kind.

The face shimmers and distorts like a reflection on water, as he speaks his face contorts and ripples, it is difficult to see all of the details of his face all at once, he also appears to miss a few frames in his facial movements (later I realise that this reminds me of the television character Max Headroom from the 1980's).

He begins to speak to me and this is what he says:

"Imagine travelling at mach 30, so fast that your thinking has become like that of a Childs, 'slowed down' (there was some kind of emphasis on these two words), soak up and benefit from the atmosphere (this word wasn't clear and could have been ambiance or something similar) before the speed returns."

Here is the second dream where I requested a reinterpretation of the above one:

Dream 2
"I am in side an old style quaint French restaurant, I am here with my wife and we both sit down to enjoy a meal together, the restaurant is empty.

I take my coat off and notice that my pockets are full, I pull out the objects which include my wallet, some papers and a large chunky felt tipped pen, the lid falls off of the pen and rolls down some stairs behind me and to my right.

I innocently walk down the stairs in order to go and get the lid for the pen, the stairs lead me down into the kitchen of the restaurant.

Just in front of me at the bottom of the stairs is a stainless steel cupboard the sort that is used for keeping plates warm, there is another one to my left too. I scrabble around looking for the lid to the pen, I get down on my hands and knees in order to look under the steel sideboard.

I cannot remember if I find the lid or not as I am interrupted by the presence of a man smaller than myself stood behind me, I didn't realise he was there, he pushes his face up close to mine and starts insulting me with a barrage of abuse in French, his face is red and flecked as if he has been drinking too much.

I can't take in what he is saying to me as he is very annoyed and speaks very quickly and agitatedly.

As I quietly watch him I see white letters like old style scratchy script appear over his face, just as if a transparency was hovering in-between me and him or as if a sheet of glass separated us and the letters magically appeared upon it, the words are a direct translation of what the man is saying.

After he finishes his torrent of language and insults he turns and laughs with the rest of the staff, he jokes about what he was saying and that I didn't understand a word of what was said.

I interrupt the chef and tell him that I did understand him as a spirit informed me of what he was saying, the chef looks very shocked and he falls silent, he apologises to me and offers me a piece of a cake he has made as some a kind peace offering, I take the cake from him.

It is a curious cake, it is a perfect square and resembles a brownie except that this is hard and beige in colour, on the top of the cake it has a grid of equal squares engraved onto it's hard caramel fudge like surface, I take the cake and go and sit at the staff table with a few of the other cooks and kitchen staff, we chat and get along.

I cut into the cake with a spoon but it is very hard and has the texture of very compressed biscuit crumbs, I break off a bit and eat it, it is quite delicious and has a biscuity caramel like flavour, as I eat the cake I wonder if I'll have room for the meal I was going to have with my wife back upstairs in the restaurant...."

Thanks for reading

S

[G3MM4]

Well, the first dream does look like there was a message there, I don't know what the message is, but if you keep it in mind, the meaning might reveal itself to you in some way or form at some point - either in dream form or waking life.

I don't know about the second dream.

[Rastus]

Communications with spirit isn't done in words or language.  There is a sharing of knowledge.  Poof and it's shared in an instant.  Now humans normally don't communicate this way (think telepathy), so we tend to translate what we suddenly 'know' into something more familiar.  I have the habbit of using things that happened the prior day (usually from a movie or unusual event).  I never take people/places litterally, I know my brain inserted whatever was laying around to subsitute in 3D for a higher concept.

Another analogy I like is a bad kung-fu movies.  I love these, but the subtitles never ever do justice to the original audio.  In fact, I always prefer subtitles to it being dubbed in english, that way I get all the emotions of the original movie.  I will even watch them in chinese with no subititles, and go with the flow of the movie.

Knowing your brain has translated some dreams to 3D may help you interpret them better.

-Namaste

[Sampson]

Hi G3mm4 & Ratsus,
Thanks for both of your quick replies, looking back at the dreams there doesn't seem to be such a great link between them or a translation from one to the other after all. I am still going to persist with these kind of suggestion experiments though to see what kind of results they yield.

I have started writing up my thoughts and ideas about the second dream. The symbols and actions that I witnessed in this dream make more sense when I make my own conscious translation in the wide awake state.

I have the habbit of using things that happened the prior day (usually from a movie or unusual event). I never take people/places litterally, I know my brain inserted whatever was laying around to subsitute in 3D for a higher concept.

I agree and I feel that I do this too. I have a question but first I'll have to make an example:

For the past week or two I have made the suggestion that I would like to meet a particular person in the dream state. The person was a real person but I never got to meet them. I had been thinking and wondering if this person had a tattoo on their body that I could verify and use to identify them with.

On Thursday night I had a dream that I met this person, the dream had a lot of symbolism in it and at one point I was made aware that this person had a large tattoo on their back, looking back at how I imagined the tattoo this person might of had I realised that how I saw it in the dream was not how I imagined it in the awakened state at all.

For me the dream was quite thought provoking and this character had a very real identity of his own.

I could post the dream if anybody feels that it is relevant.

I guess that this character could simply be a product of an over active imagination or perhaps maybe there is something lying beneath the surface of this dream character?

I'd love to hear more thoughts and other peoples experiences regarding these kind of dream encounters.

Thanks

S

[Leo Volont]

Dear Sampson,

The French Chef was berating you for not understanding the previous dream that he had 'cooked up' for you.  And then he was laughing with the rest of the Kitchen Staff about how stupid you were.  But you were able to quiet down all the ruckus by insisting that you did indeed 'understand'.

Dreams are like Oracles.  They are meant to be rich in Intellectual and Spiritual Texture.  They are supposed to have layers of meaning.  It is intended that you should have to think about them, sometimes for years.  They are like Zen koans.  They are like riddles.   They are meant to test your Enlightenment.  You can see why the French Chef was irate... your wishing for clarification was almost, in a sense, rejecting the Challenge... even rejecting the Dream.  In a 5 Star Restaurant you had the audacity of sending back a meal as unpalatable.

What did the original dream mean?  It seems you are being guided toward a new state of consciousness or being.
 
The last time I saw 'shimmers' in a dream, the Dream Scene broke open and the White Light poured through.  The Shimmers indicate that you were in so High a Place that the Duality and Illusion had a difficult time sustaining itself, being so close to the Absolute.