Session 670

Personal Reality, Session 670

Your moods and emotions have greater mobility in the dream state.  You may feel rooted like a tree at one moment and in the next experience yourself as a beautiful peacock, in which case you will perceive the tree change into the bird.

Disconnected from their usual daily attraction to physical events, your emotions will often form their own landscapes, utilizing dreams as their creative medium.  I have explained the great correlation that exists between your feelings and beliefs and physical conditions such as weather.  (See Chapter Eighteen.)  In somewhat the same way, you have a part to play individually in the creation of the dream landscape.  It is also the result of your feelings and beliefs on a different level, and while it is not perceivable in physical terms – laid out with its mountains and continents as your planet is, to be examined by your instruments – it exists in terms quite as valid.

This does not mean that dreams can be deciphered by the use of any given [general] symbols.  As you create and experience your daily life through your personal feelings and beliefs, so the same applies to dream reality.

There, however, your thoughts and feelings become “instantly” alive, springing up one upon another, coming full blown as it were.  The dream world exists in terms of energy also, of course, but simply at ranges that are not physically obvious.  Much  of your interior creative work and planning is done at this level.  There must be some differentiation between dream and waking experience just so that you can manipulate in the more narrowly focused daily life.

However, there is no great reason for the vast separation that now exists between your waking and sleeping lives.  As I mentioned earlier (in the 652^nd session in Chapter Thirteen, for instance), the division is largely the result of your mass and private beliefs in the nature of reality, and in the habits the race has acquired of separating “objective” data from subjective.

When you are determined to manipulate your environment, then you separate yourself from it.  Since you are part of it, this also leads you to try to place yourself apart from your own subjective reality.  It is quite possible to take your normally conscious “I” into the dream state, to your advantage.  When you do this you will see that the dreaming “I” and the waking “I” are one, but operating in entirely different environments.  Therefore, you become familiar with depths of experience and knowledge unknown to you before.  You acquire a true flexibility and expanded awareness of your own being, and open channels of communication between your waking and dreaming realities.  This means that you are far better able to utilize unconscious knowledge, and also to acquaint the unconscious with your present physical situation.

Such a procedure can bring you in contact with wisdom you have been denying yourself, help unify your entire life situation, and release energy for practical everyday purposes.  Even the decision to try such a venture is beneficial, since it automatically presupposes a flexibility of attitude on the part of the conscious self.

If you are afraid of your dreams, you are afraid of yourself.

As your present situation with all of its challenges, joys and problems is contained in condensed form within each of your days, so the same applies to your life.  Each night’s dreams then provide you with a rich bed of creativity.  Spread out before you in great profusion, you will find not only any problems but their solutions.

Now, in physical terms it may take some time before your conscious mind accepts or recognizes a diagnosis given in a dream.  It may come to you later in altered form as a hunch or sudden intuition, or an urge for action.  If you do not trust yourself you may ignore such impetuses and not take advantage of the answers.

The enlightened conscious mind is always alert for such messages.  You can also go steps beyond this into the dream condition itself, requesting certain dreams, certain solutions, and therefore shortening the time, so to speak, that may be involved otherwise.