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Adults have nightmares, too. Nearly everyone (83.7%) reported having nightmares and twenty-one percent reported having nightmares before the age of fourteen. In fact, sometimes people are prompted to investigate their dreams because of a nightmare that is so vivid and scary it really gets their attention! Common nightmares include being trapped or chased, teeth falling out, or being in school and suddenly finding out that there is a test for which you are unprepared. Nightmares occur when the subconscious mind tries repeatedly to relate a dream message but the message is ignored. This might occur when you don’t recall dreams often or when you give little attention to your dreams at all. A nightmare is when the subconscious mind “yells” at you to get your attention to shock you into remembering the dream. By learning to interpret your dream messages, you can understand what your subconscious mind wants to convey. When you apply the message to your life and make the necessary changes, you change, and as a result, your dreams change. You experience fewer nightmares. As you increase in Self awareness you find that you rarely, if ever, will have nightmares because your conscious awareness is aligned with the Truth contained within your subconscious mind.

The common nightmares just related mean the following: when you are being chased by an unknown person, this means that there is some part of yourself you avoid or do not want to face. When you face yourself, admit your insecurities and then take steps to learn what has been previously unknown, this kind of dream will change. You will literally begin to face yourself. Being trapped or unable to move indicates that the dreamer in his waking state thinks that he is limited in his choices or has no choice. In truth, the dreamer’s use of imagination is limited. He probably causes himself to be paralyzed mentally, by negative thinking, doubt, or hesitation. The dreamer could talk to other people to stimulate his imagination, identify what he wants, and set goals. The solution is to make choices that are purposeful and act on them. “Food” in a dream symbolizes knowledge. Teeth are what we use to chew and digest our food; therefore the dream of teeth falling out indicates that the old way of receiving knowledge is no longer applicable to the dreamer. Oftentimes people who have this dream have learned something new in their life but have yet to apply it in all areas. “School” in a dream symbolizes the way that a dreamer learns about him or herself. Frequently adults do not view their life experiences as a classroom; they think of learning in terms of school subjects like geometry or English or chemistry. In our everyday life experiences, we have opportunities to learn about ourselves. When one dreams of being unprepared for a test, it means that the dreamer has lessons in life that keep being presented, but he or she is not learning them. Asking oneself, “Why?” and then answering it with action is one way to apply this dream. For example, suppose a woman who is rather self-effacing and who keeps saying to herself, “I need to believe in myself” has the dream of being unprepared for school. If she examines her life, she will find that she has opportunities every day to be more confident. Perhaps she has a really good idea that she hesitates to tell her boss because she is afraid it is not good enough. Learning confidence and belief in herself requires practice. Therefore, when she musters the courage to voice her idea she is taking some beginning steps to learn to believe in herself. If she does this, that night she might dream that she has a test in school and receives a good grade on it! She is learning in her daily experiences.

When you learn to interpret dreams and use the messages to cause change in yourself, you can mark the progress of your expanding consciousness by seeing how quickly your dreams change in response. They are a very accurate gauge.

People in Dreams

Dream research conducted by the School of Metaphysics verifies that everyone in a dream is an aspect or quality of the dreamer. For example, a spouse represents the inner subconscious Self, a child represents a new idea or way of life, an employer or teacher represents the dreamer’s High Self and a stranger symbolizes a part of the self of which the dreamer is unaware. The highest percentage of respondents (17.9%) reported dreaming mostly of strangers, closely followed (17.1%) by those who dream mostly of friends. Dreams of strangers indicate a need for the dreamer to know the Self. Only 7.3% reported dreaming of their spouse most often and 6.5% dreaming of children. On the opposite end, 8.9% reported dreaming of their spouse the least. If the dreamer is married and never or rarely dreams of their spouse, it shows that they need to learn to create using their whole mind, to know their inner Self.

A majority (58.5%) said they dream of people who are currently in their life and 25.2% reported dreaming primarily of people from their past. You will dream of people in your current life when you give attention to the people in your day-to-day life and when the qualities you perceive in them are within your own character. Since all dreams relate to you the state of your conscious awareness, the presence or absence of particular people in your dream indicates what you have or have not made a part of your awareness. For example, more than one-tenth of respondents (12.2%) reported dreaming of their minister the least often. This would occur because the minister symbolizes one’s High Self, or spiritual Self, and a dreamer who has not made spirituality a part of their conscious awareness is not likely to dream often of such a person. When your dreams are populated primarily by people from your past, much of your thinking and attention is in the past. When you learn to bring your attention into the present, these dreams will change.

When a family member or friend dies, it is fairly common for the deceased to visit the living in the dream state. Research shows that when a deceased person communicates in a dream through telepathy or other nonverbal means, that entity is communicating to the dreamer in the dream state. If the deceased person speaks and their mouth moves, then that person represents an aspect of the dreamer.

A majority (52.8%) of those surveyed have dreamed of departed relatives or friends. Nearly one-third (30%) believe the dream was a visitation from the deceased and 36.6% said the person spoke to them in the dream, often offering reassurance and comfort. Some of the impressions described from such dreams are, “Comforting, [a] loving experience,” “He spoke to me to comfort me and tell me he was happy -- I believed him,” “It felt comforting to have dreamed of my grandfather who had passed away,” “ I felt like they were trying to make me at peace with something going on or a past issue” and “I felt it was their spirit actually speaking to me. It was very positive and loving.” These dreams, as the statistics indicate, are normal and are usually comforting rather than frightening. They can help us resolve some of our questions about death, showing that life exists beyond the physical existence and that we are never truly separated from those we love nor from the love within ourselves.

©2002 School of Metaphysics

http://www.experienceproject.com/dream-dictionary/

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[Perna]

Some interesting stuff there, thanks for posting it! I use to belong to the International Association for the Study of Dreams http://www.asdreams.org/index.htm a professional dream study organization and that has lots of good links. It wasn't quite my thing, too technical/professional researchers with PhD's but I did take an online course and belong to a dream group put on by one of their premier officers/members http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/library/index.htm and that was really helpful to me.