Dream interpretation is a good way to start
understanding how the subconscious mind works. Our subconscious mind cannot
hear, read or write, touch or smell. It only understands feelings. Feelings are
deciphered in the form of electric impulses generated during any act. When we
indulge in any activity or think about indulging in it, we feel something about
it. The feelings pass down to our subconscious mind as electric impulses. These
electric impulses create energies, which multiply with focus.
Understanding Feelings under Forms
Our subconscious mind is like a computer which only
reads the energies underlying all human activities. It converts all activities
into metaphoric symbols and then processes information.
To handle negative feelings, we have to understand
what a feeling is, as distinct from reality.
The feeling is the energy behind the
reality. It accompanies every real situation, person or thing that we pay
attention to. In fact, reality matters to us only because of the feelings it
conveys to our subconscious mind.
For example, a person matters to us because we feel
good around that person, a dress draws our attention because it feels
attractive, a car matters to us because it offers comfort at the level of
feeling, a television programme matters to us because it gives us an
opportunity to feel relaxed, a house matters because it offers feelings of
security or pride etc.
So, it is only feelings which matter to us, from the
soul’s perspective. The external events which create these feelings are
important only as long as they help in creating the desired feelings.
Negative feelings arise when the objects of desire we
seek, the people we love or the jobs we put effort in, do not satisfy us at the
feeling level. Though the mirage appears like an oasis, our thirst does not get
fulfilled from a pursuit of material glitter, with no understanding of what the
soul desires from possessing that experience.
To be happy in life, it is necessary to connect
feelings with objects, people or jobs. The external objects of desire need to
be pursued only if they can make us happy from within; and not if they glitter
only from the outside. When we pursue work without feeling involved in it, then
we take in feelings of emptiness to the soul. The stress we go through in our
body or mind while pursuing glittering desires which make us feel hollow from
within releases negative hormones in the body.
If we choose desires for satisfying short term body
pleasures, than for gaining positive energy from them, then we may harm our
souls by indulging in them. For example, eating junk food, buying expensive
clothes or playing meaningless video games may give our mind some colourful
satisfaction for a short time but cannot satisfy the creative zeal our soul
desires to feel alive. These activities when pursued consume our energy and we
then, do not have energies or time left to indulge in more creative, fulfilling
work.
Negative energy pre-dominates our minds if the
feelings we desire do not get realized by our investment of energy. Hence, our
inner restlessness rises as we do not get the outcome from our efforts, which
makes us feel optimally satisfied at the soul level.
Any desire is justified only if the feelings attained
by realizing it create more happiness than tension in our life. To
understand how we can decipher the feelings we get from any experience, we need
to know how our subconscious mind chooses feelings.
Dreams help us realize how we feel through different experiences of
life, as they simplify the dynamics involved. When we have negative emotions
coming up in dreams, it implies that our soul is perceiving life as negative,
even though we may be externally ignoring any dissatisfaction.
To find happiness, we have to cleanse negative energy
from our subconscious mind. Dreams are a mechanism used by our subconscious
mind to help us understand how we are harming ourselves by indulging in
negative actions i.e. actions which create negative feelings in our body, from
the soul’s perspective.
Sometimes, the choices our soul demands from us appear
to be irrational from the perspective of conventionally defined norms of
happiness or success. However, if we feel negative within, negative energy
accumulates in our subconscious mind and body, which blocks our soul’s true
happiness.
Cleansing our body from negative energy is like
washing dirt from clothes. Our body and mind can function, optimally, when we
are free from the dominance of negative energy. Negative thinking creates
doubts which blocks the flow of positive life force, and lowers our soul
frequency. Our soul devolves in power by remaining unhappy.
We can feel positive at the subconscious level, when
our soul is satisfied with our choices of life. That happens only when we
realize the desired feelings from the activities we pursue. By evolving above a
subdued negative focus, we can move towards creating happiness.
Happiness does not become our dominant mental state
till we have negative belief systems nagging us, at the subconscious level. The
dream mechanism helps us understand our inner conflicts as they come up during
dreams.
Our inner conflicts, hidden fears and feelings are symbolized in dreams.
Dream Symbols are individually deciphered as each person may associate a
different feeling with each external object or activity. For example, seeing a
train in a dream may symbolize movement in life, seeing a murder in dream may
symbolize an emotional death/trauma, seeing a dog in a dream may symbolize
loyalty etc.
Restless dreams indicate a need for healing negative
feelings by converting our body’s energy into positive.
For example, if we have a dream that we are standing
on top of a building and then sinking in deep waters, it may indicate that the
path of success we are following would make us feel deeply unhappy at the soul
level. The climbing up on top of the building means climbing up the
financial/material ladders of success. The simultaneous sinking in waters
reflects an emotional death of the soul or happiness. Sinking represents a
death of freedom and the drowning of the spirit of being alive. Such a dream
comes as a warning to us that we need to review our choices of life so that we
create happiness by moving up a ladder of evolution. The desire to be
successful comes from the soul as we want to rise to a higher positive
frequency and live in a higher positive dimension, so that our quality of
happiness improves.
The conflict in the dream arises because the soul does
not associate happiness with concrete objects which rising up the building,
represents. The soul does not want to drown in waters by feeling suffocated in
a mainstream profession which gets its success but no inner satisfaction.. Our
soul seeks freedom of the spirit to be happy. The soul seeks to fly, not drown
i.e experience the feelings of moving on, not being trapped. Since our soul can
only perceive energies, happiness for the soul means experiencing happy
feelings through different life experiences. Life experiences which make the
soul feel stressed, tired or bored make the soul sink/ drown in energies of
overwhelming unhappiness.
For working on how to be happy as a state of being, we
need to know which objects, people or choices mean happiness to us
individually, as contrasted with generalized definitions of happiness.
We can feel positive from within when we learn how to
make choices from our subconscious or soul perspective, than by getting judged
by the external aspects of reality.
Situations which feel fatalistic or scary from
the finite Earthly perspective may appear as obstacles to be overcome from the
soul’s perspective.
Communication of our subconscious mind can be
deciphered by knowing how we use symbols in our everyday life. Our dreams
convey to us, predominant energy focus of life by showing us the associated
feelings. Each night when we dream, our subconscious mind converts real life
events into energy interpretations and processes them. The irrational fantasy
images which we see are methods of communication by the subconscious mind. The
words, sounds or pictures are not to be taken literally but only understood by
the meaning they convey. Very often, dreams give predictions. For example,
if you have a school friend called Faith, and she suddenly appears in a dream
twenty years later, and you see yourself going the wrong way because of her; it
may mean that a choice you are making by having faith on a person because you
know him from school, may take you the wrong way.
Dreams appear as fantasies because life is a
fantasy/game for the soul. The unreal energies indicate the meanings we give to
real life events. They indicate how reality appears to the soul, which only
perceives energies or feelings.
Essentially, dream interpretation requires that we
focus on feelings underlying the picture rather the on exact details of the
sequence. The feelings need to be understood and life choices need to be
deciphered or changed accordingly. The interpretation of dreams needs to be
practiced a few times to understand how we specifically, associate feelings or
energies with different objects, people or events in our life.
Some more detailed steps of dream interpretation are
given in my other book – Soul Lessons : Challenges
in Evolution of Happiness , a soul’s perspective )
Types Of Dreams
Dreams can be of several
types. There are: processing dreams, predictive dreams , release dreams, spirit
communication dreams and past life healing dreams.
Processing Dreams
The subconscious mind
processes information absorbed during the day, during the resting hours of the
night. All the feelings that you have focused upon and the observations you
have made or released are processed in the Processing dreams. These dreams
usually occur in the first two hours of the night or in light sleep (These
dreams are also called REM sleep processing dreams. ) Just as an office
assistant summarizes the daily activities and divides them into files, these
dreams encode the person’s feelings through symbols and filming. The negative
feelings and positive feelings are plotted on a
chart and the subconscious
operative mechanism allocates future programs on the basis of the present focus
of feelings.
For example, if you have
feeling poor about your finances during the day, the processing dreams would
ensure that you continue feeling poor the next day also. If you earn a huge
surplus, you would spend it soon so that you continue feeling poor.
Similarly, if you feel that
you have leg pain, the subconscious mind would ensure that you have leg pain
the next day also. Future is plotted on the same line as the present dominant
feeling. The future changes when your present focus of feelings changes. For
example, if you start healing your leg pain through energy therapy, naturopathy
or medicines, your subconscious mind would record the change in your dominant
expectations and give signal to the leg
joints to heal the pain .
The processing dreams are
like the NEWS channel. They only record that which has already happened.
Predictive Dreams
Midnight/ deep sleep dreams also predict the future
depending on how we feel in the present.
Some feelings are taken is as dominant and used for giving warning signs about the future in our subconscious mind maps .For example, if
you are planning to shift your house but are unable to , you may see a dream
where the new house you want is haunted or lacks the infrastructure you require
to stay happy. That is a method of your subconscious mind to show you that your
desire is being delayed till you realize its full implication.
Release dreams
Early morning dreams throw out feelings that we have
feared in the past. Feelings which we have been trying to erase are rejected or
thrown away through dream experiences. After release dreams, we get up with a
feeling of relief that our present reality is better than in the dream. Soul
healing happens through energy release in sleep mode. We may release very old
traumas through dreams.
When we release negative feelings through dreams, we
release traumas from our past which affect our present life.
The energy of an old hurt can be released in the
present as for the subconscious mind, time does not exist. Past is the same as
present, and if we feel sad about an old memory in the present, then for the
soul that reality exists today.
The same technique of deciphering energy communication
which is used for understanding dreams can be generalized for understanding
past lives or childhood traumas during regression therapies.
For the soul, feelings which have not been processed
in past lives or childhood affect our present, as negatively as our recently
encountered feelings do. They come up during dreams.
Negative feelings may have been encountered in our
past life, in our childhood or in our recent life but the negative energy once
absorbed by our soul, has to be released or transcended into positive so that
we can move on to a higher soul frequency. A negative belief, however old it
may be, has to be converted into positive for the soul force to move with
complete belief in happiness.
Being detached from happiness is a higher energy
vibration than being sad is, as it is a deliberate choice to stay positive .
Positive is always greater than minus and we cannot be sad and happy at the
same time. Hence, to be happy we have to let go of sadness by choice to become
detached from how we define happiness and allow the universe to work in
alignment with our soul’s life-plan..
The general method of interpreting dreams is to follow
the following steps:
Stage of
sleep-Timing of the dream – Is the dream early night
–processing dream, midnight/Predictive or early morning - Release/Venting out
type?
Keywords-Psychological or physiological content— I am seeing/doing/hearing ….. .
Describe the dream verbally or write it down with more focus on feelings
Physical
characteristics-Your age in the dream, your body type, clothes… what
were your feelings at the time?
Emotional
frequency of feelings-negative, positive
Symbols-What do the persons, events, objects in the dream mean to you in your
life? Is there spirit communication present? Did people who are far away or
dead talk to you or convey a symbolic message in the dream?
Trigger in
the day/present life-Which experience in your present life could have led
you to feeling the way you are in the dream ; or if unfamiliar faces appear, it
may be that a past life trauma is being released but even then, some feeling
you focused upon in the day would have triggered awake the fear.
Vented out
or predicted concerns-I need to let go of these desires/ I need to free
myself from this bondage I feel / I need to rethink what I want in my life/
have been feeling negative and I need to reassess my priorities/ I need to free
my spirit etc.
Vented out
or released concerns-I am relieved that I do not have to relive those
feelings anymore /I am free because that person is no longer in my life/ I am
glad I did not become the person I saw in the dream / If I take this step, I
may feel I am in danger / If I go that way, I may meet with an accident
emotionally or physically etc.
Spirit
concerns-A spirit guide, a far away friend or child or
relative, a dead parent or past life personalities of yours may appear to
convey their feelings or concerns. Spirit guides may warn you not to repeat
mistakes of past lives which can make you devolve as a soul and make you
unhappy in the long run.
Dark force interference - If you are working for the light, against
conventional wisdom, you may have negative spirits coming in your dreams to
force you to stop your work. If you feel threatened or negative after a dream,
release the spirit and develop immunity to its warning. You would have to trust
your instinct to know whether a spirit appearing is from the light or from
darkness. Positive spirits would give you positive guidance whereas negative
spirits would try to scare you away from a path which leads to your happiness.
Dreams simplify complicated events of our life through
using symbols. By understanding symbols as they mean to our individual
perspective, we can directly access the feelings we experience, subconsciously
in everyday life. We may not realize that we feel negative in a life experience
but our dreams may denote negativity. If we get conflicting or restless dreams,
we need to review our choices or check on our negative thinking habit. Self
-healing can be activated by using the techniques given in my book on
REDEFINING HAPPINESS.
For the soul, only that reality exists which we feel
within, because the soul does not understand the world as we see it. It only
understands our feelings and dream symbols convey feelings.
This blog is an excerpt from my book THE LIFE PLAN OF CREATION VS. AN ASTROLOGY REPORT, a soul perspective , 2015 , chapter 6
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