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Daily Ramblings – Spiritual Sunday – Dreams

23 Sunday Apr 2023

Posted by Dave Gardner in Spiritual Sunday

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Adventure, Dream Journal, Dream symbols, Dreams, ideas, Ides, Lucid dreaming, Prophesy, Spiritual Sunday

Like a daily report card, dreams show you how you are doing in your spiritual mission, even if you don’t know you have one.

Sri Harold Klemp – The Spiritual Life

Dreams for many are just creations of the mind, but oh are they so much more. If you read across the history books, you’d hear about people who have had revelations, prophesy of the future, a business idea, or something to invent. Dreams can be of you as a player in the story or an observer. If you develop the ability, you can smell, touch, taste, see, and hear. This is a different set of senses, however. These ones are spiritual. They are different than they are here in this physical world, but they do take practice to cultivate.

When I first read about a spiritual mission I was in the dark. Later, I began to realize that a person’s spiritual mission is literally where their passions are. If you are outdoorsy, your mission may be to take care of the environment from a spiritual sense. One of our close family friends said that his mission after he passed would be to take care of trees. You see he owned a tree farm and just loved taking care of them.

When you first think of a spiritual mission, you think of the grandiose. Spiritual missions are as varied as there are Souls in the universe. Spiritual missions could be mothering, fathering, writing, policing, serving in the military, or any number of things in everyday life. Being a mother or a father is no mundane task, as many of you are aware. But these roles are important.

I have found that my dreams have become more vivid, and I am more conscious of the dream state during my dream adventures. It was explained to me many years ago that a dream journal would help improve my dreams. I started a dream journal and my dreams and my recollection of them has improved dramatically. I’m not talking bells and whistles, but clarity. I am finding my dream worlds to be much clearer. It’s like the difference between the black and white Kansas and the full color of Oz.

If you have never tried a dream journal, give it a whirl. It will make drastic improvements to your dream worlds and may even begin to make more sense, particularly if you keep track of the symbols you see. Water, stairs, doors, bridges, homes, animals, and pretty much everything else, has a specific meaning for you. These are the internal communications between Soul and mind. Overtime you’ll have a collection of them and know exactly what is going on, simply by recognizing the symbols that are relevant to you. These symbols are the keys to the “black box” which is you. Happy adventures!

Well, that’s all I have for today, folks. I hope you have a great Sunday!

May the blessings be.

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Spiritual Saturday – Journaling

22 Saturday Aug 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Spiritual Saturday

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blog, Book, Communicating, crystallize, Dream Journal, Imagination, journal, Story, Writing

Some days I open up this window of my life and have absolutely nothing to say. I’m a blank slate. I stare at the whiteness of the background, waiting for something to come and it doesn’t. Some would call this “writer’s block.” Perhaps it is.

There is always something to write about, however. Some writers I’ve learned from suggest that you just free-write about anything. Others recommend working on a different writing project. Still others recommend a walk or some other activity.

If you’re a fiction writer, you know that stories unfold. It is rare that you will write out something as complicated as a novel without taking breaks or working on different aspects of a plot. It is the same for any writing project. The work begins as an idea, translated to the page, then alters itself as the author refines the story and crystallizes the pictures to the page.

The dream journal is a writing project. It brings your dreams to the page. Unlike other writing projects, your dream journal or personal journal is “for your eyes only”. Subsequently, you just write in it. Grammar doesn’t matter, spelling doesn’t matter, nothing matters but getting the things in your head onto paper or a digital document.

The more you journal, the more you can get out of your head. You can settle things with yourself. You can iron out past mistakes, relationships that didn’t work, failures, successes. Whatever you bring to your journal is something you needed to get out of your head.

Journaling is a way to talk to future generations. When you’ve left this life, your journal will be left behind. Can you imagine what wisdom is embedded in those pages for future generations. Do you think Marcus Aurelius ever thought someone would publish his journals? What about Seneca, Epictetus, Virginia Wolfe?

Writing is your way to communicate. It is a way of making the imagination come alive and join our world. Have a great Saturday!

Until next time…

Dave

Weekly Ramblings – Journal Series – Your Dream Journal

05 Monday Mar 2018

Posted by Dave Gardner in Journaling Series

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Dream Journal, Dreams, Insights, journaling, Past lives

Journaling Series

For this week’s rambling, I wanted to start a series of articles about journaling. This article will discuss what I call a dream journal. Follow on articles will deal with gratitude journals, diaries, journals for reflection, and so on. I hope this helps you decide what journals will serve you best.

I have tried a great deal of the commercial journals on the market and have found that each has its benefits and disadvantages. I’ll give you a review of each of these journals at the end of the series to save you some time or at least some foresight before you spend your money on them.

Enjoy!

The Dream Journal

Like other journals, the dream journal should be something that you use daily. Obviously, you’ll have some nights where you can’t sleep. These nights you won’t dream. On other nights you’ll have no recollection of your dreams whatsoever. These are both ok.

The purpose of the dream journal is to give our inner experiences reverence. The dream worlds we explore are just as real as our daily reality is, if we give them the respect we give our daily existence. When you have a dream, write it down as soon as you can. They tend to leave us quickly when we awake and become reoriented to our present reality.

I use the recorder on my iPhone sometimes. Other times, I will have such a strong impression when I awake that I can write it down as soon as I’m up and about. You’ll be the best judge of that as you move along with your journaling.

At other times you will awake with an impression. An impression is a feeling, nothing more. This feeling, however, does give us some clue as to what we may have experienced inwardly.

There are all types of dreams. Some are affected by what we did that day. Others are random and confusing. Still, others are with people we seem to know and others involving our family, friends, coworkers, etc. If you believe in past lives and reincarnation, some of your dreams could be a glimpse of the future or even some recall of a past life.

How to Start

Simply get yourself a writing pad or journal (you can buy them on Amazon for about $6). Write down the date and write down what the dream was or the impression you had when you awoke. Initially, you won’t have any clue about what your dream means. That’s ok. You’ll start to get an intuition about them over time. You’ll also discover that your dreams become more detailed. You’ll remember more about these inner experiences the more importance you place on them. By writing them down, this part will be taken care of.

Once you’ve gone a few months, go back and review your dream journal. I tend to look at my dreams at the end of the month. This review will help you identify different objects, colors, sounds, and other specifics to your dream world that are unique to you. If you see specific objects come up over and over, you may want to jot these down in another part of your journal we’ll call your dream dictionary. Simply write down the object, color, sound, or other description. Then write down what you think this “symbol” means.

You can also look up this “dream symbol” online to see if there is any particular relation to what you believe the symbol means. Go with your gut. Over time you’ll refine their meaning or even change it.

Why a Dream Journal?

What benefit is a dream journal? The dream journal will unlock a special part of you. Dreams have been recorded by many people throughout history. Some people give their dreams specific importance, particularly when they are making big life decisions. You can too, if you believe there is some guidance you are receiving.

We spend a good portion of our lives sleeping, why not record some of your adventures? You’ll find that recording your dreams in your journal will help you learn more about yourself. You’ll also find that the attention you pay to your inner worlds, the more focused and attentive you’ll be in the waking state. The reverse is also true.

Let’s say you are having trouble with details in your dreams. You can do a quick exercise everyday to help out in this arena. Pick a room or place and simply record all of the things you see. Pay particular attention to colors, things that appear out of place, or even the smells, sounds, and colors. You’ll find this little exercise will pay off in your dream worlds.

Dreams Provide Answers

Have you ever read an article that proposes the act of asking or contemplating a question you have before going to sleep? It works! Now, whether you believe your subconscious mind is working on these answers while you sleep, or the answers come to you from a higher power is best left to you. I believe we receive answers to our questions or hints how to live a better life from a higher power, but that’s my belief. If it works or if it could work, why not try it out.

Past Lives

Again, another sticky area if you do not believe in reincarnation. I believe reincarnation is real. This article was not designed to convince you one way or another. Some believe that are dreams contain pieces of our past, sometimes our present, and sometimes our future. Look through history at any number of people that journaled or wrote about their dreams and you’ll see the importance these historical icons gave to their sleeping hours.

Again, believe this if you want or don’t. I have come to know that past lives are real, through some of the inner experiences I have had throughout my life. I had one dream during my attendance at the U.S. Army’s Ranger School. The dream was literally a depiction of me graduating from the school. From that day forth I had no doubt I would graduate. I did. This is just one example of dreams and their relevance to our waking lives.

I hope this helps you discover your inner worlds.

Until next time…

Dave

 

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