Dream On!

A few days ago we did an article on Dreams and Dreaming. Since then I have slept on this subject some more and we came up with a couple of other points.

-A dream experienced by lots of people is that of flying.
-Dreaming that you're flying usually means that you feel in control of your life; that you're 'on top' of things.
-The stronger willed and confident you are, the more likely you are to experience flying as part of your dreams.
-Flying dreams can also occur if you've just gained a new perspective on someone or something.
-If you're flying in a dream but feel scared whilst doing so, you may have confidence issues and not feel that you're up to the challenges that you're facing in your life.
-If you have difficulty maintaining flight in your dream, someone or something in real life may be preventing you from having the level of control that you want to have.
-By identifying what it is in your dream that stops your flight progressing, you can identify what it is in your life that stops you progressing.
-Many people have reported having dreams in which they're falling and can't stop themselves from doing so.
-Falling dreams are an indication of anxieties and insecurities in your daily life.
-Some say that dreams involving falling come at times of loneliness; having no-one to hold on to being represented by having nothing to hold on to.
-Feeling inferior to other people in your life can also result in falling dreams.
-Sometimes when people have falling dreams, their bodies twitch and shake to the extent that they wake themselves up.
-It's been said that you can die in your sleep if you don't wake up from a falling dream before you hit the ground; however, there's never been any evidence to support this.
-Dreams involving drowning are very similar to dreams involving falling and are interpreted the same way.
-It's common to have a feeling of being chased in your dreams.
-The typical chase dream scenario involves being pursued by someone or something that wants to hurt you, whilst you run away or hide.
-Chase dreams represent the way you've been dealing with an issue in your life; running away from and avoiding something rather than confronting it.
-After waking from a dream in which you've been chased, ask yourself who or what was chasing you; establishing that will let you know what issue in your life you've been running away from.
-If you don't recognise the person pursuing you in a dream, it may be part of yourself (your own feelings of anger, fear, jealousy, stress) that you're running away from.
-A more direct interpretation of chase dreams is a literal fear of being physically attacked; this may be based on something that's actually happened to you in the past.
-Chase dreams will often recur over a period of time; to stop them you should mentally tell yourself as you try to sleep that you'll turn around and face your pursuer.
-A dream experienced by many people is that of taking an exam or being late for an exam.
-As part of dreams involving exams, people encounter problems such as: not knowing any answers; questions being in a foreign language; pens not working; not being able to find the place of the exam.
-Exam related dreams can result from a feeling in your life that you're being scrutinised / tested by someone.
-Some say that if you dream of taking or missing an exam then you're anxious about an upcoming challenge in your life that you don't think you're up to.
-An alternative interpretation of dreams involving exams is that you've forgotten to do something important.
-Pressure and anxiety is thought to bring on dreams of exams because those feelings subconsciously remind us of the stress endured as a child at school when taking exams.
-Some people dream of either the death of themselves or the death of someone they love.
-Dreams involving death may occur when you feel emotionally hurt or have a fear that Death can arise in a dream to signify the end of a phase in your life and the beginning of new one.
-If it's you dieing in your dream, there's likely something within you (typically a strong feeling you have) that you need to let go of so that you can move on with your life.
-The death of yourself in a dream could also indicate a deep regret of something you've done.
-If it's someone else dieing in your dream, it may mean that your relationship with that person is suffering and needs attention.
-The death of someone else in a dream could also signify either a fear of losing them or a desire for them to leave your life.
-Being confronted with natural or man-made disasters in a dream isn't uncommon.
-Disaster dreams come in many variations: droughts; earthquakes; floods; nuclear bombs; tidal waves; tornadoes; volcanic eruptions; war.
-A disaster scenario in a dream tends to occur when a crisis is taking place in your life or you feel that one is approaching.
-Dreams involving disasters can represent a loss of hope or a time of change in your life.

Sleep tight, don't let the ded bugs bite!

Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E ! and as a paperback H E R E !

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