Post by WalksInSpirit on Jul 14, 2006 22:06:51 GMT -5
Dream Chat: 07-14-07
(09:39:25) (host-merri) ok I have some info to post that may be helpful with dream recall and incubating a dream
(09:40:02) (host-merri) Before attempting the incubation experiment, it might be beneficial to practice improving your dream recall for a few days. Dream recall and its benefits are significantly enhanced with intention, practice, and focus. Making a consistent effort to remember and to record your dreams will help your waking mind ally itself more closely with your dream experience. This will also increase your imagination and intuitive capabilities while preparing you for dream incubation
(09:41:25) (host-merri) Try this exercise: Before sleep, reread a couple of your previous dreams from your journal. This will allow you to connect with your dream memory. It's also an opportunity to interpret your dreams and spot connections to the day's events. As you go to bed, clearly suggest to yourself to remember any beneficial dreams when you awaken either in the morning or during the night.
(09:42:18) (host-merri) Remind yourself that it's a simple, natural process. Suggest to yourself to spontaneously awaken when you need to without using an alarm (which can be set fifteen minutes later as a backup), since alarms can inhibit recall. This method works well with practice.
(09:42:58) (host-merri) Any time you awaken, keep your eyes closed, or shut them if already open, and remain as motionless as possible. If you moved since waking, return to your earlier body position. Gather as many images, feelings or impressions as you can, then rise and immediately record them using a bedside journal or tape recorder, no matter how brief or vague they may at first seem. You'll be surprised at how much more you can remember as you write, speak, draw, paint, etc.
(09:43:57) (host-merri) Be playful, patient, and persistent. Although most people start having success the first week or two, dream recall is a mental muscle that may require some time to get back into shape. If your recall is poor, trust that it will come in time. Trying too hard or being too serious can limit your progress.
(09:45:01) (host-merri) A few days of practicing dream recall should help ready you for successful dream incubation.
(09:45:39) (host-merri) For this first exercise, select something that you'd like to bring into your life. It can be the answer to a problem that's troubling you at school, at work, or with a relationship. Perhaps you'd like to improve your health, your state of mind, or resolve a recurring nightmare. Maybe you'd like creative inspiration or an insight on how to better pursue one of your personal goals.
(09:46:24) (host-merri) What's important is that you truly want whatever you select and that you will honestly appreciate and make use of it once it comes. Incubation is a powerful process and should be given appropriate respect. For the purpose of this experiment, try to find something that applies directly to your life right now.
(09:47:09) (host-merri) Sit on the side of your bed and quiet both body and mind. Next, hold your question or problem clearly in mind for a few minutes, then lie down. As you prepare for sleep, gently ask yourself to have and clearly remember a dream that reveals the answer as either an insight, an actual experience, or both. As you drift off to sleep, keep your question in mind, trusting that the exercise will be successful. If other thoughts distract you, return to your incubation focus.
(09:48:38) (host-merri) The moment you awaken, whether in the morning or during the night, record any dreams or thoughts that you've had. At this point, do not judge content, simply record what you remember. After you get up, read the Dream Interpretation Primer accompanying this article. Then reflect upon any dreams and thoughts that you recorded, and make whatever associations, interpretations, and waking life connections that you can.
(09:49:39) (host-merri) The answer may or may not be obvious, but trust that the process is working regardless, and try to put any insights you get into practice. This last step may involve facing personal fears or
(09:50:09) (host-merri) overcoming personal limitations. Try to maintain a grateful appreciation for any guidance you receive, as it will likely promote further insight and future success.
(09:50:44) (host-merri) Even if you don't remember any dreams or have little success understanding the dream experience you've had, rest assured that your incubation and the dream experience itself, remembered or not, has had an effect. It may simply be simmering on unconscious levels and may come to you as a sudden revelation or as an insight to act upon during the day, though you may not connect such a moment with your incubation at all. The dream's meaning may also only become clear at some later date.
(09:52:24) (host-merri) Throughout recorded history, dreams have been employed for guidance and healing. In the dream temples of ancient Greece, the ill of body or mind would perform a sacred ritual and sleep in a specialized healing temple. The Greek god Asklepios would often appear in a visionary dream, perform a symbolic operation, and the seeker would awaken healed or having received guidance.
(09:53:10) (host-merri) Among many Native American tribes, young adults would travel alone into the wilderness as a rite of passage, where they would fast and pray. After being blessed by a dream filled with guidance or revelations, they would return to their tribe to share their revelations and enact the guidance.
(09:54:02) (host-merri) The best incubation results are achieved by combining a balance of curiosity, playfulness, and respect, since the knowledge gained also generally brings us a responsibility for action that should be made in conjunction with, but not at the expense of, our best waking judgment. Dreams are not a free ticket away from the challenges of life, and sometimes they demand a lot from us, pointing us in directions we might otherwise never consider.
(09:54:48) (host-merri) If we occasionally look to them for insight, honestly contemplate their messages, yet avoid completely relying on them to make decisions for us, then dreams can support our waking lives as the useful tool they are meant to be.
(09:55:23) (host-merri) Perhaps it's most important that dreams provide us with a direct link to the unconscious, allowing a much larger perspective than our physical senses. They provide an ideal means for honing intuition, for bringing about profound feelings and states of being, for self-exploration, and ultimately, for discovering our own true nature. We can even follow in the footsteps of Tibetan monks who master dream skills as a stepping stone on the path to enlightenment.
(09:56:31) (host-merri) This is an article posted on the Dream Institute website
(09:57:25) (host-merri) hopefully some of the tips here will help with your dream recall
(09:57:34) (Sandy) merri, can one force a dream..to see what they want to see?
(09:57:48) (host-merri) yes Sandy
(09:57:55) (Sandy) Bill says eating chocolate ice cream before bedtime works good for dreams
(09:58:04) (host-merri) the is either lucid dreaming or dream incubation
(09:58:29) (host-merri) lol...worth a try!
(09:58:30) (Cris) Keep that up Sandy and I'll be making an emergency run for chocolate
(09:58:51) (Sandy) lol....I'm telling the truth! he must have done case studies :)
(09:58:53) (host-merri) especially since it's chocolate!
(09:59:50) (host-merri) on that note does anyone have a dream to share
(10:01:03) (host-merri) any questions?
(10:02:21) (Sandy) is dream incubation like wait for the rest of the story?
(10:02:37) (host-merri) no Sandy
(10:02:39) (Sandy) or just another term for a forced one?
(10:03:13) (host-merri) Sit on the side of your bed and quiet both body and mind. Next, hold your question or problem clearly in mind for a few minutes, then lie down. As you prepare for sleep, gently ask yourself to have and clearly remember a dream that reveals the answer as either an insight, an actual experience, or both. As you drift off to sleep, keep your question in mind, trusting that the exercise will be successful. If other thoughts distract you, return to your incubation focus.
(10:03:58) (host-merri) The moment you awaken, whether in the morning or during the night, record any dreams or thoughts that you've had. At this point, do not judge content, simply record what you remember. After you get up, read the Dream Interpretation Primer accompanying this article. Then reflect upon any dreams and thoughts that you recorded, and make whatever associations, interpretations, and waking life connections that you can.
(10:04:34) (host-merri) this is an exercise in dream incubation Sandy
(10:04:42) (HealingLady) If I may....I have a question
(10:05:06) (host-merri) ask away HL
(10:05:39) (HealingLady) Suppose the question is asked and the answer is clearly given...yet to act upon that answer is almost impossible....why is that?
(10:06:21) (Bill) maybe clearly is miss interptrited
(10:06:43) (ron) that may depend what type of dream
(10:06:58) (ron) a criticism, a reprimend
(10:07:06) (host-merri) that is a possibility Bill also the dreamer maynot be ready or like the answer
(10:07:42) (HealingLady) that all makes sense, thank you
(10:10:06) (Bill) consider carefully every facet of the symbols often the symbols represent something far different than we'd expect
(10:11:08) (host-merri) Q-Why am I so dependent upon sleep, and what do I do during sleep?
(10:11:36) (host-merri) A-Sleep is a sense….and is that needed for the physical body to recuperate, or to draw from the mental and spiritual powers or forces that are held as ideals of the body…What happens to a body in sleep? Dependent upon what it has thought, what it has set as its ideal..
(10:12:17) (host-merri) There are individuals who in their sleep gain strength, power, might, because of their thoughts, their manner of living. There are others who find that when any harm, any illness, any dejection comes to them, it is following sleep!
(10:13:00) (host-merri) Sleep is the exercising of a faculty, a condition that is meant to be a part of the experience of each soul. It is as but the shadow of life, or lives, or experiences, as each day of an experience is a part of the whole that is being builded by an entity, a soul. And each night is but a period of putting away, storing up into the superconscious or the unconscious of the soul itself
(10:13:46) (host-merri) Each and every soul leaves the body as it rests in sleep. (853-8)
(10:14:29) (host-merri) Dreams and visions..are of various classes and groups, and are the emanations from the conscious, subconscious or superconscious or the combination and correlation of each depending upon the individual and the personal development of the individual, and are to be used in the lives of such for the betterment of such an individual.
(10:15:18) (host-merri) Hence we find visions of the past, visions of the present, visions of the future. For to the subconscious there is no past or future—all present. This would be well to remember. (136-54)
(10:16:38) (host-merri) In visions there is oft the “inter-between” giving expressions that make for an awakening between the mental consciousness, or that that has been turned over and over in the physical consciousness and mind being weighed with that the self holds as the ideal. In visions where spiritual awakenings, these most often are seen in symbols or signs, to the entity; for as the training of self’s consciousness in a manner of interpreting the visions would be
(10:18:02) (Pete) What is the topic tonight?
(10:18:42) (WalksInSpirit) This is Dream Chat tonight, Pete.
(10:18:50) (Pete) How suiting.
(10:19:11) (Pete) I have a very interesting dream the other night and wrote it down on the computer when I woke up.
(10:19:22) (Pete) So I had it ready to go for the copy and paste already :)
(10:19:26) (Bill) Great :o)
(10:19:36) (host-merri) go for it Pete!
(10:20:05) (Pete) I find myself standing in a canvas tent, a big one. It feels warm, not uncomfortably warm, but a "tent warm" (like waking up in the morning in a tent), with a specific smell I still can't identify...grass, mixed with wet wool, mixed with fertilized mud, mixed with a skunkish, stale odor.
(10:20:16) (Pete) Anyways, I'm standing with my back to the entrance of the tent, facing at least three men (one at least behind a table of sorts) with two of them putting a jacket on me, telling me that it should fit well. But as I look down to my arm (singular!) being led through the sleve of the jacket, I notice that I'm already wearing clothing...a sky blue coat of sorts with white or yellow lacing running across my chest (if it was yellow, it was very faded). I rememb
(10:20:39) (Pete) It felt like I was in a quartermaster's or the new coat had just come from there, or something like that. It was my new uniform, nonetheless, but I was in the field. AND THEY WERE SPEAKING FRENCH. And yet I understood it.. Very odd...I don't speak french but I understood what they were saying.\
(10:20:44) (WalksInSpirit) Pete, cut off at " I rememb"
(10:21:13) (WalksInSpirit) You'll need to only post about 3 or 3 & 1/2 lines at a time in order for it all to show up.
(10:21:13) (Pete) ---Cut off at rememb: just remember its weight...specifically) of this new coat they put on me, also with a pale sky blue with white or yellow lacing across the chest. As I was glancing down I also noticed my pants were of the same colour.
(10:21:33) (Pete) It felt like I was in a quartermaster's or the new coat had just come from there, or something like that. It was my new uniform, nonetheless, but I was in the field. AND THEY WERE SPEAKING FRENCH. And yet I understood it.. Very odd...I don't speak french but I understood what they were saying.\
(10:22:05) (Pete) As I slipped it on the dream ended...
(10:22:16) (Pete) Needless to say when I woke up I was curious and, after a few hours of looking though french uniforms I found something that PERFECTLY matched:
(10:22:43) (Pete) www.napoleon-series.org/image...sthussarsa.JPG
(10:23:00) (Pete) sorry, here: www.napoleon-series.org/images/military/organization/France/Cavalry/Hussars/TimReese/1sthussarsa.JPG
(10:23:11) (Pete) I just want to express how specific this is.....
(10:23:22) (Pete) The armies of Napoleon had hundreds, if not thousands, of uniform differences. Be it infantry of the line, the guard, his calvary, artillery, supply lines, etc.
(10:23:35) (Pete) Each had their own divisions, which had their own companies, which had their own regiments, all of which had their own SPECIFIC uniform. This one matched what I saw myself wearing in my dream flawlessly
(10:24:01) (Pete) Er, regiments had their own companies....
(10:24:11) (host-merri) and what division did it match Pete
(10:24:26) (Pete) 1st Hussar Regiment of Napoleon's light calvary.
(10:24:53) (host-merri) did that trigger any memories
(10:25:15) (Pete) No, but it made other issues I have make sense.
(10:25:28) (ron) preparing for battle?
(10:25:33) (host-merri) aaahhhhh...therefore the dream
(10:25:46) (lilith) Pete - can you check the name Francois Martine?
(10:26:19) (Pete) Lilith?
(10:26:21) (host-merri) a past life memory coming to the surface to help in the present
(10:27:10) (lilith) check that name in that regiment - might give you a personal clue
(10:27:19) (Pete) Well, I weird issue I have is that I have always disliked Spanish architecture, art, and even culture. I've never understood why but it always turned me off.
(10:27:45) (Pete) My mom's maiden name is Martin
(10:27:52) (Qrious) military... lots of information gathering ... hmmm... inteligence maybe...
(10:28:15) (lilith) you-someone close to you - served that regiment wtith similar name
(10:28:49) (lilith) who's the Frank in the family, Pete?
(10:28:59) (Pete) Don't know a frank.
(10:29:06) (Pete) In the family at least.
(10:29:22) (lilith) well, what the heck - half isn't bad! smilin
(10:29:32) (host-merri) Pete do you know the message this dream is showing you
(10:29:44) (lilith) yes there is - Frank or Frances or Franny or Fran
(10:29:56) (Pete) I've always had a strong facination with the Napoleonic wars, but usually I had sided with the British side (Being Canadian)...
(10:30:00) (lilith) nuddkwe bane - simlar to Mary Frances
(10:30:25) (Pete) So it threw me for a loop being French in the dream. But it was so real...down to specific scents and the weight and feel of the clothing.
(10:30:38) (lilith) good grief - similar name to Mary Frances
(10:30:58) (host-merri) pay attention to the putting on of a second coat over one already wearing
(10:31:19) (mark) thanks Merri and All,...blessings everyone
(10:31:20) (host-merri) a uniform of battle
(10:31:31) (Pete) Merri, that was specific to the hussars
(10:31:35) (Pete) The one arm
(10:31:40) (ron) extra protection regarding a possible oncoming confrontation
(10:32:00) (host-merri) yes and what is it telling you
(10:32:43) (Pete) Personally?
(10:32:45) (host-merri) or concealment ron?
(10:32:54) (ron) ok merri
(10:33:11) (host-merri) just another possibility
(10:33:29) (Pete) Ok, well in the dream when it was slid on, it felt thicker than it was historically, and in the moment of the dream I knew it served a protective purpose.
(10:33:31) (ron) light
(10:33:47) (Bill) L&L Folks TY Merri
(10:34:03) (Pete) And historically it was worn to protect the rider's left arm while his right weilded the sword.
(10:34:32) (diane) Thanks for chat merri. goodnight all
(10:34:37) (host-merri) very good Pete
(10:35:27) (Pete) To add to the weirdness of it all, that day my dad was giving me a lift home, after I let him borrow the car..... yes I'm Peter V.... and as I had very recently dislocated my shoulder he mentioned that he once had a past life reading where he was told that he served in the napoleonic wars and had his left arm cut off at the shoulder, which karmically resulted...
(10:36:05) (host-merri) karmically resulted?
(10:36:12) (Pete) ok..
(10:36:50) (ron) so, and additional meaning might hve to do with some oncoming difficulty that is to take place with your arm..so should take that into consideration in the near future regarding a possible mishap
(10:36:58) (Pete) kamically resulted in his chronic dislocations for which he had to have surgery. He jokingly said "it was probably you who cut my arm off"....
(10:37:07) (kazu) peter isnt it you whoes shoulder was cut off?
(10:37:21) (Pete) It was only a few days earlier that my shoulder was dislocated
(10:37:24) (ron) so, protect your arm
(10:37:46) (ron) sounds like a karmic reminder
(10:37:50) (ron) neglect
(10:38:57) (Pete) The psychic then said to him that he rounded a corner "with a feather in his hat (typical plume of the napoleonic era calvary) and had his arm severed by another calvaryman rounding the boulder"
(10:39:31) (host-merri) what is your interpretation of this dream Pete
(10:40:20) (Pete) Although it was such a short dream, lasting for only seconds, I absorbed so much information. I knew what was outside the tent, where my friends where, what my job was, my age, my whole identity...
(10:40:28) (host-merri) because I feel there is a definite message here for you
(10:41:07) (lilith) do you not feel that you were taken to another life you had lived, Pete?
(10:41:14) (Pete) Not sure, merri. My immediate interpretation was that it was a memory.
(10:41:22) (Pete) Lilith,yes.
(10:41:41) (host-merri) yes it was Pete but you had the memory for a reason
(10:41:50) (Qrious) psychic bleedthrough?... possession maybe... psychic viewing of past events simular to psychometry?.. or fantasy..
(10:42:26) (lilith) well, have given you 2 names that were in your past in that dream - might want to check on the one - the Martin one is a cinch
(10:43:12) (host-merri) Cayce tells us pastlife memories in dreams are to aide us in the present
(10:43:53) (Qrious) so.. the dream sudjests not to go to war un-armed?.. lol
(10:44:18) (Pete) I wasn't an officer or anything special like that in the dream, just a normal calvary man.
(10:44:27) (Pete) Francois Martine?
(10:45:13) (host-merri) I would suggest that your dream might indicate you need to protect yourself from something that is being concealed from you
(10:45:22) (lilith) Martine translates to Martin - work on the other one
(10:45:41) (Pete) That was the night before last, and last night I also had another interesting dream, although not one I would say is past life related
(10:46:13) (Qrious) pun on words... Francios..french... Matine.. marine?.. french marine?
(10:46:16) (host-merri) do tell Pete
(10:46:45) (Pete) Ok, well I was sitting with a bunch of Buddhist monks....
(10:47:05) (Pete) They were meditating and I was sitting there watching them...kinda enjoying the atmosphere...
(10:48:32) (Pete) I moved myself into the circle they had made...and I knew they were meditating on their being able to see their third eye....or something like that. As I sat there with them I felt myself absorbed with their energy, and as it grew I could see a blue glow around their heads...
(10:49:16) (Wanda) sounds lovely
(10:49:35) (Pete) I let myself move deeper into their energy and a third eye litterally appeared on their forehead, and on mine. Once it appeared I could see their auras and sense mine as well...
(10:50:23) (Pete) The guy to my right, the leader/teacher, told me that for a beginner I was very advanced and that in his next lesson he would teach me to link directly with the loving energy from heaven.....
(10:50:31) (Pete) Then the dream changed
(10:51:24) (host-merri) How?
(10:51:37) (Pete) I remember thinking, "no wonder you guys always draw that eye in your art"
(10:51:41) (Pete) dunno
(10:52:02) (Pete) I asked, but he said it had to wait until I learned the lesson he was trying to teach me.
(10:52:26) (Wanda) and that lesson was?
(10:52:32) (Pete) When my eye appeared on my head I felt a sense of enlightenment about what I already knew, or thought I knew, and he said I had a beautiful eye.
(10:52:41) (Pete) Wanda, again, dunno. :)
(10:52:42) (Qrious) keep the eye on the prize?
(10:53:24) (Pete) It was very calming, and sensed a lot of wisdom in him...
(10:53:40) (Pete) Then the dream kinda went retarded.
(10:54:00) (Qrious) bad reception?
(10:54:02) (host-merri) this dream seems like an confirmation of your progress
(10:54:21) (Pete) They moved into three columns....one for the physical, one for the mental, and one for the spiritual...
(10:54:52) (Pete) Napoleonic-era ranks, now that I think of it, actually.
(10:55:11) (host-merri) a balance sheet
(10:55:23) (Pete) The physical rank was in the middle....and they had bows....
(10:55:55) (Qrious) bows.. during the napoleonic era?..
(10:55:55) (Pete) And were telling the one in front of them to move ahead, as they shor their arrows and knocked out, accidently, the rear of the column in front of them
(10:56:12) (Pete) no, they were just arranged in ranks like they did then
(10:56:29) (Pete) wasn't a napoleonic era dream, just thought I would use that as an example
(10:56:37) (Qrious) oh.k.
(10:58:11) (host-merri) how did you feel about the dream Pete
(10:58:49) (Pete) Merri, it depends on the part.
(10:59:12) (ron) apparently, on the physical, material level you need further development...mis-judgements still happen
(11:00:05) (Pete) Interesting way of looking at it, ron.
(11:00:12) (Pete) Didn't consider that
(11:00:20) (Wanda) Maybe take care of the physical. Pay attention to where you are headed in care for the body. Or you may accidentally shot yourself in the butt trying to get ahead too fast?
(11:00:36) (host-merri) LOL
(11:00:38) (Pete) But I'm such a specimen of physical perfection...I can't see how that could be the case. :))
(11:00:57) (ron) the ego?
(11:01:15) (Pete) lol
(11:01:18) (host-merri) I think this dream is a balance sheet of your mental, physical & spiritual progress
(11:01:18) (host-merri) I think this dream is a balance sheet of your mental, physical & spiritual progress
(11:01:56) (Wanda) I agree Merri
(11:02:32) (Pete) Good thought., merri...
(11:03:06) (Pete) After that the dream just went off into one of my normal dream scenarios.
(11:03:16) (host-merri) look to the columns and see which needs the most work
(11:03:17) (Pete) that third eye thing was really neat though
(11:03:37) (host-merri) the awareness
(11:03:38) (Pete) I don't know which column was in the front or rear, but the physical was in the middle.
(11:04:16) (Pete) And I remember thinking - STOP - you're shooting them! :)
(11:05:02) (Pete) Sorry to dominate the chat tonight guys, I've just had very interesting dreams lately.
(11:05:27) (host-merri) glad to have you sharing your dreams with us Pete
(11:05:30) (Wanda) they were very interesting. Glad you shared
(11:05:49) (host-merri) and they are very interesting
(11:06:14) (host-merri) make sure to write them down
(11:06:28) (WalksInSpirit) Thank you for chat Merri! Always great!
(09:40:02) (host-merri) Before attempting the incubation experiment, it might be beneficial to practice improving your dream recall for a few days. Dream recall and its benefits are significantly enhanced with intention, practice, and focus. Making a consistent effort to remember and to record your dreams will help your waking mind ally itself more closely with your dream experience. This will also increase your imagination and intuitive capabilities while preparing you for dream incubation
(09:41:25) (host-merri) Try this exercise: Before sleep, reread a couple of your previous dreams from your journal. This will allow you to connect with your dream memory. It's also an opportunity to interpret your dreams and spot connections to the day's events. As you go to bed, clearly suggest to yourself to remember any beneficial dreams when you awaken either in the morning or during the night.
(09:42:18) (host-merri) Remind yourself that it's a simple, natural process. Suggest to yourself to spontaneously awaken when you need to without using an alarm (which can be set fifteen minutes later as a backup), since alarms can inhibit recall. This method works well with practice.
(09:42:58) (host-merri) Any time you awaken, keep your eyes closed, or shut them if already open, and remain as motionless as possible. If you moved since waking, return to your earlier body position. Gather as many images, feelings or impressions as you can, then rise and immediately record them using a bedside journal or tape recorder, no matter how brief or vague they may at first seem. You'll be surprised at how much more you can remember as you write, speak, draw, paint, etc.
(09:43:57) (host-merri) Be playful, patient, and persistent. Although most people start having success the first week or two, dream recall is a mental muscle that may require some time to get back into shape. If your recall is poor, trust that it will come in time. Trying too hard or being too serious can limit your progress.
(09:45:01) (host-merri) A few days of practicing dream recall should help ready you for successful dream incubation.
(09:45:39) (host-merri) For this first exercise, select something that you'd like to bring into your life. It can be the answer to a problem that's troubling you at school, at work, or with a relationship. Perhaps you'd like to improve your health, your state of mind, or resolve a recurring nightmare. Maybe you'd like creative inspiration or an insight on how to better pursue one of your personal goals.
(09:46:24) (host-merri) What's important is that you truly want whatever you select and that you will honestly appreciate and make use of it once it comes. Incubation is a powerful process and should be given appropriate respect. For the purpose of this experiment, try to find something that applies directly to your life right now.
(09:47:09) (host-merri) Sit on the side of your bed and quiet both body and mind. Next, hold your question or problem clearly in mind for a few minutes, then lie down. As you prepare for sleep, gently ask yourself to have and clearly remember a dream that reveals the answer as either an insight, an actual experience, or both. As you drift off to sleep, keep your question in mind, trusting that the exercise will be successful. If other thoughts distract you, return to your incubation focus.
(09:48:38) (host-merri) The moment you awaken, whether in the morning or during the night, record any dreams or thoughts that you've had. At this point, do not judge content, simply record what you remember. After you get up, read the Dream Interpretation Primer accompanying this article. Then reflect upon any dreams and thoughts that you recorded, and make whatever associations, interpretations, and waking life connections that you can.
(09:49:39) (host-merri) The answer may or may not be obvious, but trust that the process is working regardless, and try to put any insights you get into practice. This last step may involve facing personal fears or
(09:50:09) (host-merri) overcoming personal limitations. Try to maintain a grateful appreciation for any guidance you receive, as it will likely promote further insight and future success.
(09:50:44) (host-merri) Even if you don't remember any dreams or have little success understanding the dream experience you've had, rest assured that your incubation and the dream experience itself, remembered or not, has had an effect. It may simply be simmering on unconscious levels and may come to you as a sudden revelation or as an insight to act upon during the day, though you may not connect such a moment with your incubation at all. The dream's meaning may also only become clear at some later date.
(09:52:24) (host-merri) Throughout recorded history, dreams have been employed for guidance and healing. In the dream temples of ancient Greece, the ill of body or mind would perform a sacred ritual and sleep in a specialized healing temple. The Greek god Asklepios would often appear in a visionary dream, perform a symbolic operation, and the seeker would awaken healed or having received guidance.
(09:53:10) (host-merri) Among many Native American tribes, young adults would travel alone into the wilderness as a rite of passage, where they would fast and pray. After being blessed by a dream filled with guidance or revelations, they would return to their tribe to share their revelations and enact the guidance.
(09:54:02) (host-merri) The best incubation results are achieved by combining a balance of curiosity, playfulness, and respect, since the knowledge gained also generally brings us a responsibility for action that should be made in conjunction with, but not at the expense of, our best waking judgment. Dreams are not a free ticket away from the challenges of life, and sometimes they demand a lot from us, pointing us in directions we might otherwise never consider.
(09:54:48) (host-merri) If we occasionally look to them for insight, honestly contemplate their messages, yet avoid completely relying on them to make decisions for us, then dreams can support our waking lives as the useful tool they are meant to be.
(09:55:23) (host-merri) Perhaps it's most important that dreams provide us with a direct link to the unconscious, allowing a much larger perspective than our physical senses. They provide an ideal means for honing intuition, for bringing about profound feelings and states of being, for self-exploration, and ultimately, for discovering our own true nature. We can even follow in the footsteps of Tibetan monks who master dream skills as a stepping stone on the path to enlightenment.
(09:56:31) (host-merri) This is an article posted on the Dream Institute website
(09:57:25) (host-merri) hopefully some of the tips here will help with your dream recall
(09:57:34) (Sandy) merri, can one force a dream..to see what they want to see?
(09:57:48) (host-merri) yes Sandy
(09:57:55) (Sandy) Bill says eating chocolate ice cream before bedtime works good for dreams
(09:58:04) (host-merri) the is either lucid dreaming or dream incubation
(09:58:29) (host-merri) lol...worth a try!
(09:58:30) (Cris) Keep that up Sandy and I'll be making an emergency run for chocolate
(09:58:51) (Sandy) lol....I'm telling the truth! he must have done case studies :)
(09:58:53) (host-merri) especially since it's chocolate!
(09:59:50) (host-merri) on that note does anyone have a dream to share
(10:01:03) (host-merri) any questions?
(10:02:21) (Sandy) is dream incubation like wait for the rest of the story?
(10:02:37) (host-merri) no Sandy
(10:02:39) (Sandy) or just another term for a forced one?
(10:03:13) (host-merri) Sit on the side of your bed and quiet both body and mind. Next, hold your question or problem clearly in mind for a few minutes, then lie down. As you prepare for sleep, gently ask yourself to have and clearly remember a dream that reveals the answer as either an insight, an actual experience, or both. As you drift off to sleep, keep your question in mind, trusting that the exercise will be successful. If other thoughts distract you, return to your incubation focus.
(10:03:58) (host-merri) The moment you awaken, whether in the morning or during the night, record any dreams or thoughts that you've had. At this point, do not judge content, simply record what you remember. After you get up, read the Dream Interpretation Primer accompanying this article. Then reflect upon any dreams and thoughts that you recorded, and make whatever associations, interpretations, and waking life connections that you can.
(10:04:34) (host-merri) this is an exercise in dream incubation Sandy
(10:04:42) (HealingLady) If I may....I have a question
(10:05:06) (host-merri) ask away HL
(10:05:39) (HealingLady) Suppose the question is asked and the answer is clearly given...yet to act upon that answer is almost impossible....why is that?
(10:06:21) (Bill) maybe clearly is miss interptrited
(10:06:43) (ron) that may depend what type of dream
(10:06:58) (ron) a criticism, a reprimend
(10:07:06) (host-merri) that is a possibility Bill also the dreamer maynot be ready or like the answer
(10:07:42) (HealingLady) that all makes sense, thank you
(10:10:06) (Bill) consider carefully every facet of the symbols often the symbols represent something far different than we'd expect
(10:11:08) (host-merri) Q-Why am I so dependent upon sleep, and what do I do during sleep?
(10:11:36) (host-merri) A-Sleep is a sense….and is that needed for the physical body to recuperate, or to draw from the mental and spiritual powers or forces that are held as ideals of the body…What happens to a body in sleep? Dependent upon what it has thought, what it has set as its ideal..
(10:12:17) (host-merri) There are individuals who in their sleep gain strength, power, might, because of their thoughts, their manner of living. There are others who find that when any harm, any illness, any dejection comes to them, it is following sleep!
(10:13:00) (host-merri) Sleep is the exercising of a faculty, a condition that is meant to be a part of the experience of each soul. It is as but the shadow of life, or lives, or experiences, as each day of an experience is a part of the whole that is being builded by an entity, a soul. And each night is but a period of putting away, storing up into the superconscious or the unconscious of the soul itself
(10:13:46) (host-merri) Each and every soul leaves the body as it rests in sleep. (853-8)
(10:14:29) (host-merri) Dreams and visions..are of various classes and groups, and are the emanations from the conscious, subconscious or superconscious or the combination and correlation of each depending upon the individual and the personal development of the individual, and are to be used in the lives of such for the betterment of such an individual.
(10:15:18) (host-merri) Hence we find visions of the past, visions of the present, visions of the future. For to the subconscious there is no past or future—all present. This would be well to remember. (136-54)
(10:16:38) (host-merri) In visions there is oft the “inter-between” giving expressions that make for an awakening between the mental consciousness, or that that has been turned over and over in the physical consciousness and mind being weighed with that the self holds as the ideal. In visions where spiritual awakenings, these most often are seen in symbols or signs, to the entity; for as the training of self’s consciousness in a manner of interpreting the visions would be
(10:18:02) (Pete) What is the topic tonight?
(10:18:42) (WalksInSpirit) This is Dream Chat tonight, Pete.
(10:18:50) (Pete) How suiting.
(10:19:11) (Pete) I have a very interesting dream the other night and wrote it down on the computer when I woke up.
(10:19:22) (Pete) So I had it ready to go for the copy and paste already :)
(10:19:26) (Bill) Great :o)
(10:19:36) (host-merri) go for it Pete!
(10:20:05) (Pete) I find myself standing in a canvas tent, a big one. It feels warm, not uncomfortably warm, but a "tent warm" (like waking up in the morning in a tent), with a specific smell I still can't identify...grass, mixed with wet wool, mixed with fertilized mud, mixed with a skunkish, stale odor.
(10:20:16) (Pete) Anyways, I'm standing with my back to the entrance of the tent, facing at least three men (one at least behind a table of sorts) with two of them putting a jacket on me, telling me that it should fit well. But as I look down to my arm (singular!) being led through the sleve of the jacket, I notice that I'm already wearing clothing...a sky blue coat of sorts with white or yellow lacing running across my chest (if it was yellow, it was very faded). I rememb
(10:20:39) (Pete) It felt like I was in a quartermaster's or the new coat had just come from there, or something like that. It was my new uniform, nonetheless, but I was in the field. AND THEY WERE SPEAKING FRENCH. And yet I understood it.. Very odd...I don't speak french but I understood what they were saying.\
(10:20:44) (WalksInSpirit) Pete, cut off at " I rememb"
(10:21:13) (WalksInSpirit) You'll need to only post about 3 or 3 & 1/2 lines at a time in order for it all to show up.
(10:21:13) (Pete) ---Cut off at rememb: just remember its weight...specifically) of this new coat they put on me, also with a pale sky blue with white or yellow lacing across the chest. As I was glancing down I also noticed my pants were of the same colour.
(10:21:33) (Pete) It felt like I was in a quartermaster's or the new coat had just come from there, or something like that. It was my new uniform, nonetheless, but I was in the field. AND THEY WERE SPEAKING FRENCH. And yet I understood it.. Very odd...I don't speak french but I understood what they were saying.\
(10:22:05) (Pete) As I slipped it on the dream ended...
(10:22:16) (Pete) Needless to say when I woke up I was curious and, after a few hours of looking though french uniforms I found something that PERFECTLY matched:
(10:22:43) (Pete) www.napoleon-series.org/image...sthussarsa.JPG
(10:23:00) (Pete) sorry, here: www.napoleon-series.org/images/military/organization/France/Cavalry/Hussars/TimReese/1sthussarsa.JPG
(10:23:11) (Pete) I just want to express how specific this is.....
(10:23:22) (Pete) The armies of Napoleon had hundreds, if not thousands, of uniform differences. Be it infantry of the line, the guard, his calvary, artillery, supply lines, etc.
(10:23:35) (Pete) Each had their own divisions, which had their own companies, which had their own regiments, all of which had their own SPECIFIC uniform. This one matched what I saw myself wearing in my dream flawlessly
(10:24:01) (Pete) Er, regiments had their own companies....
(10:24:11) (host-merri) and what division did it match Pete
(10:24:26) (Pete) 1st Hussar Regiment of Napoleon's light calvary.
(10:24:53) (host-merri) did that trigger any memories
(10:25:15) (Pete) No, but it made other issues I have make sense.
(10:25:28) (ron) preparing for battle?
(10:25:33) (host-merri) aaahhhhh...therefore the dream
(10:25:46) (lilith) Pete - can you check the name Francois Martine?
(10:26:19) (Pete) Lilith?
(10:26:21) (host-merri) a past life memory coming to the surface to help in the present
(10:27:10) (lilith) check that name in that regiment - might give you a personal clue
(10:27:19) (Pete) Well, I weird issue I have is that I have always disliked Spanish architecture, art, and even culture. I've never understood why but it always turned me off.
(10:27:45) (Pete) My mom's maiden name is Martin
(10:27:52) (Qrious) military... lots of information gathering ... hmmm... inteligence maybe...
(10:28:15) (lilith) you-someone close to you - served that regiment wtith similar name
(10:28:49) (lilith) who's the Frank in the family, Pete?
(10:28:59) (Pete) Don't know a frank.
(10:29:06) (Pete) In the family at least.
(10:29:22) (lilith) well, what the heck - half isn't bad! smilin
(10:29:32) (host-merri) Pete do you know the message this dream is showing you
(10:29:44) (lilith) yes there is - Frank or Frances or Franny or Fran
(10:29:56) (Pete) I've always had a strong facination with the Napoleonic wars, but usually I had sided with the British side (Being Canadian)...
(10:30:00) (lilith) nuddkwe bane - simlar to Mary Frances
(10:30:25) (Pete) So it threw me for a loop being French in the dream. But it was so real...down to specific scents and the weight and feel of the clothing.
(10:30:38) (lilith) good grief - similar name to Mary Frances
(10:30:58) (host-merri) pay attention to the putting on of a second coat over one already wearing
(10:31:19) (mark) thanks Merri and All,...blessings everyone
(10:31:20) (host-merri) a uniform of battle
(10:31:31) (Pete) Merri, that was specific to the hussars
(10:31:35) (Pete) The one arm
(10:31:40) (ron) extra protection regarding a possible oncoming confrontation
(10:32:00) (host-merri) yes and what is it telling you
(10:32:43) (Pete) Personally?
(10:32:45) (host-merri) or concealment ron?
(10:32:54) (ron) ok merri
(10:33:11) (host-merri) just another possibility
(10:33:29) (Pete) Ok, well in the dream when it was slid on, it felt thicker than it was historically, and in the moment of the dream I knew it served a protective purpose.
(10:33:31) (ron) light
(10:33:47) (Bill) L&L Folks TY Merri
(10:34:03) (Pete) And historically it was worn to protect the rider's left arm while his right weilded the sword.
(10:34:32) (diane) Thanks for chat merri. goodnight all
(10:34:37) (host-merri) very good Pete
(10:35:27) (Pete) To add to the weirdness of it all, that day my dad was giving me a lift home, after I let him borrow the car..... yes I'm Peter V.... and as I had very recently dislocated my shoulder he mentioned that he once had a past life reading where he was told that he served in the napoleonic wars and had his left arm cut off at the shoulder, which karmically resulted...
(10:36:05) (host-merri) karmically resulted?
(10:36:12) (Pete) ok..
(10:36:50) (ron) so, and additional meaning might hve to do with some oncoming difficulty that is to take place with your arm..so should take that into consideration in the near future regarding a possible mishap
(10:36:58) (Pete) kamically resulted in his chronic dislocations for which he had to have surgery. He jokingly said "it was probably you who cut my arm off"....
(10:37:07) (kazu) peter isnt it you whoes shoulder was cut off?
(10:37:21) (Pete) It was only a few days earlier that my shoulder was dislocated
(10:37:24) (ron) so, protect your arm
(10:37:46) (ron) sounds like a karmic reminder
(10:37:50) (ron) neglect
(10:38:57) (Pete) The psychic then said to him that he rounded a corner "with a feather in his hat (typical plume of the napoleonic era calvary) and had his arm severed by another calvaryman rounding the boulder"
(10:39:31) (host-merri) what is your interpretation of this dream Pete
(10:40:20) (Pete) Although it was such a short dream, lasting for only seconds, I absorbed so much information. I knew what was outside the tent, where my friends where, what my job was, my age, my whole identity...
(10:40:28) (host-merri) because I feel there is a definite message here for you
(10:41:07) (lilith) do you not feel that you were taken to another life you had lived, Pete?
(10:41:14) (Pete) Not sure, merri. My immediate interpretation was that it was a memory.
(10:41:22) (Pete) Lilith,yes.
(10:41:41) (host-merri) yes it was Pete but you had the memory for a reason
(10:41:50) (Qrious) psychic bleedthrough?... possession maybe... psychic viewing of past events simular to psychometry?.. or fantasy..
(10:42:26) (lilith) well, have given you 2 names that were in your past in that dream - might want to check on the one - the Martin one is a cinch
(10:43:12) (host-merri) Cayce tells us pastlife memories in dreams are to aide us in the present
(10:43:53) (Qrious) so.. the dream sudjests not to go to war un-armed?.. lol
(10:44:18) (Pete) I wasn't an officer or anything special like that in the dream, just a normal calvary man.
(10:44:27) (Pete) Francois Martine?
(10:45:13) (host-merri) I would suggest that your dream might indicate you need to protect yourself from something that is being concealed from you
(10:45:22) (lilith) Martine translates to Martin - work on the other one
(10:45:41) (Pete) That was the night before last, and last night I also had another interesting dream, although not one I would say is past life related
(10:46:13) (Qrious) pun on words... Francios..french... Matine.. marine?.. french marine?
(10:46:16) (host-merri) do tell Pete
(10:46:45) (Pete) Ok, well I was sitting with a bunch of Buddhist monks....
(10:47:05) (Pete) They were meditating and I was sitting there watching them...kinda enjoying the atmosphere...
(10:48:32) (Pete) I moved myself into the circle they had made...and I knew they were meditating on their being able to see their third eye....or something like that. As I sat there with them I felt myself absorbed with their energy, and as it grew I could see a blue glow around their heads...
(10:49:16) (Wanda) sounds lovely
(10:49:35) (Pete) I let myself move deeper into their energy and a third eye litterally appeared on their forehead, and on mine. Once it appeared I could see their auras and sense mine as well...
(10:50:23) (Pete) The guy to my right, the leader/teacher, told me that for a beginner I was very advanced and that in his next lesson he would teach me to link directly with the loving energy from heaven.....
(10:50:31) (Pete) Then the dream changed
(10:51:24) (host-merri) How?
(10:51:37) (Pete) I remember thinking, "no wonder you guys always draw that eye in your art"
(10:51:41) (Pete) dunno
(10:52:02) (Pete) I asked, but he said it had to wait until I learned the lesson he was trying to teach me.
(10:52:26) (Wanda) and that lesson was?
(10:52:32) (Pete) When my eye appeared on my head I felt a sense of enlightenment about what I already knew, or thought I knew, and he said I had a beautiful eye.
(10:52:41) (Pete) Wanda, again, dunno. :)
(10:52:42) (Qrious) keep the eye on the prize?
(10:53:24) (Pete) It was very calming, and sensed a lot of wisdom in him...
(10:53:40) (Pete) Then the dream kinda went retarded.
(10:54:00) (Qrious) bad reception?
(10:54:02) (host-merri) this dream seems like an confirmation of your progress
(10:54:21) (Pete) They moved into three columns....one for the physical, one for the mental, and one for the spiritual...
(10:54:52) (Pete) Napoleonic-era ranks, now that I think of it, actually.
(10:55:11) (host-merri) a balance sheet
(10:55:23) (Pete) The physical rank was in the middle....and they had bows....
(10:55:55) (Qrious) bows.. during the napoleonic era?..
(10:55:55) (Pete) And were telling the one in front of them to move ahead, as they shor their arrows and knocked out, accidently, the rear of the column in front of them
(10:56:12) (Pete) no, they were just arranged in ranks like they did then
(10:56:29) (Pete) wasn't a napoleonic era dream, just thought I would use that as an example
(10:56:37) (Qrious) oh.k.
(10:58:11) (host-merri) how did you feel about the dream Pete
(10:58:49) (Pete) Merri, it depends on the part.
(10:59:12) (ron) apparently, on the physical, material level you need further development...mis-judgements still happen
(11:00:05) (Pete) Interesting way of looking at it, ron.
(11:00:12) (Pete) Didn't consider that
(11:00:20) (Wanda) Maybe take care of the physical. Pay attention to where you are headed in care for the body. Or you may accidentally shot yourself in the butt trying to get ahead too fast?
(11:00:36) (host-merri) LOL
(11:00:38) (Pete) But I'm such a specimen of physical perfection...I can't see how that could be the case. :))
(11:00:57) (ron) the ego?
(11:01:15) (Pete) lol
(11:01:18) (host-merri) I think this dream is a balance sheet of your mental, physical & spiritual progress
(11:01:18) (host-merri) I think this dream is a balance sheet of your mental, physical & spiritual progress
(11:01:56) (Wanda) I agree Merri
(11:02:32) (Pete) Good thought., merri...
(11:03:06) (Pete) After that the dream just went off into one of my normal dream scenarios.
(11:03:16) (host-merri) look to the columns and see which needs the most work
(11:03:17) (Pete) that third eye thing was really neat though
(11:03:37) (host-merri) the awareness
(11:03:38) (Pete) I don't know which column was in the front or rear, but the physical was in the middle.
(11:04:16) (Pete) And I remember thinking - STOP - you're shooting them! :)
(11:05:02) (Pete) Sorry to dominate the chat tonight guys, I've just had very interesting dreams lately.
(11:05:27) (host-merri) glad to have you sharing your dreams with us Pete
(11:05:30) (Wanda) they were very interesting. Glad you shared
(11:05:49) (host-merri) and they are very interesting
(11:06:14) (host-merri) make sure to write them down
(11:06:28) (WalksInSpirit) Thank you for chat Merri! Always great!
