Dream Occurrences

          Nightmares are the way in which our subconscious scolds us and says, "pay attention!"  Anyone who has had a vivid nightmare, knows it is very difficult to forget it once you awaken.

          If a nightmare occurs, your subconscious is trying to tell you something very important, perhaps something you have been ignoring or refusing to accept as a truth withing your life situation.  The nightmare may be highly symbolic and very difficult to analyze, but the fact that you brought it to your waking mind is that your subconscious wanted to accomplish.  Recurring nightmares usually have some very deep subliminal meaning.  To get at this meaning requires patience, dedication, and a desire to know.

          Nightmares born of subconscious influences need to be dealt with, one way to do this, is to go to sleep actually "requesting" the nightmare to recur.  Why?  Because you also program yourself that when it occurs, you will change it somehow.  If you created the nightmare subconsciously, why shouldn't you be able to alter it?  Think of a way to conquer your dream.  Take it on and defeat it.  This same practice has been also been portrayed in movies.  I'm sure many of us have heard of the dream nightmare Freddy Kreuger.  The only difference that he is the nightmare that can actually hurt you.  In real life this could never happen, or course, which is what makes it a good movie rather than a depiction of real life.  The point is that, just like in the movies we need to attempt to conquer these nightmares by not being afraid of them and until we step up to our dreams we will continue to have them.

          Sometimes we aren't as reluctant to pass the first time.  We then go on to something else, intending to get back to the other subject at a later date and go over it again, since we need that subject to go further in our life.  Your subconscious will try for a long time to teach your something, but if you just aren't getting it, it may be pulled from the dream curriculum for a period of time.

          However, sooner or later, you have to deal with it again, and the dream theme will recur, maybe weeks or months later.  These dream themes generally pertain to your waking behavior and your actions and reactions to life experiences.

          Many don't acknowledge that OBE's even exist.  Those who do believe in them say there is another part of us called the "astral body."  This astral body is and energy that surrounds our body, but during an OBE it separates from the body, although it does not disconnect.  If the astral body is disconnected from the physical body altogether it is referred to, a term used more commonly, death.

          Now that you know this don't think you can't ever go to sleep again, very few dreamers are ever able to get to this state, so don't think for a second that you can die from dreaming.  In a normal OBE, one not associated to a near death experience, it is said that the spirit simply departs from the body for a short time.  The astral body may not even leave the room.  However, speed is sudden, thinking of a place you would like to be would cause you to go there almost instantaneously.

          Unlike lucid dreams, a person who is experiencing an OBE will sometimes hear a loud roar, described as the sound of a speeding train, a howling wind, or a thundering waterfall.  What is happening is that as the astral body lifts from the physical, the energy level is raised suddenly, like a burst of power and since the body is still connected by a thin line of astral matter, this is transferred to the mind as "sound."  Nevertheless, once the astral body reaches it's higher vibratory frequency level, the sound disappears, through the sensations of speed, enhanced clarity of vision, sound, and sight take over.  The main point is that there is no mistaking a lucid dream for an OBE and you will know, when you wake, if you have had an Out of Body Experience.

Precognition - This is one of the most common types of dream ESP people talk about.  Apparently, they seem to dream about an event before it happens in reality, and in startlingly accurate detail.  Some do not even realize that their dream are precognitive until the event starts to happen in real life exactly as they had in the dream.  If these dreams really do predict future events, this could have great implications.  It may be that they future has already been decided and that we are just following a set path in our life.  There are people without a precognitive dreaming background that believe this as well, but even though it may sound a bit strange, it could confirm their beliefs if ESP in dreams in found to be factual.

Dream Psychometry - This is the most uncommon of the three areas of dream ESP.  These too, are accounts that cannot be proved because they are based purely on what the dreamer experiences.  Dream psychometry is gaining information about an object in your dreams of which you know nothing about in waking life.  The easiest way to do this would be to take a picture of a person you don't know and think about this person before you go to sleep at night.  Then, when you wake up in the morning, record your dream and analyze them for any meaning that could relate to the picture.  You may even want to try this with a book, such as calculus, the night before you have a test on the subject and see if you learn anything.  This is not suggested unless you have no other options, this is referred to as osmosis, when you aren't in the dreaming state.

Synchronous - These are dreams in which the dreamer encounters another familiar character in a dream, and upon awakening and talking to that person they also recount the same dream experience during the night.  If shared dreams are possible, it could prove the astral projection theory that goes along with OBE's.  Even though most people are skeptical about this idea, that is the way we have been brought up, especially in western culture, which is not believing something unless there is sufficient scientific evidence to back it up.  We may never be sure whether any of these theories will be proven, since the study of these rare occurrences is very difficult, so the only thing we can do is keep dreaming and know what we believe for ourselves.