The Secret World of Dreams -
A connection to the afterlife
Mellen-Thomas Benedict has some wonderful insights about dreams and the near-death experience he had. He states, "When I recovered, I was very surprised and yet very awed about what had happened to me. At first all the memory of the trip that I have now was not there. I kept slipping out of this world and kept asking, "Am I alive?" This world seemed more like a dream than that one. Within three days, I was feeling normal again, clearer, yet different than I had ever felt in my life. My memory of the journey came back later ... What happens when we dream? We are multi-dimensional beings. We can access that through lucid dreaming. In fact, this universe is God's dream. One of the things that I saw is that we humans are a speck on a planet that is a speck in a galaxy that is a speck. Those are giant systems out there, and we are in sort of an average system. But human beings are already legendary throughout the cosmos of consciousness. The little bitty human being of Earth/Gaia is legendary. One of the things that we are legendary for is dreaming. We are legendary dreamers. In fact, the whole cosmos has been looking for the meaning of life, the meaning of it all. And it was the little dreamer who came up with the best answer ever. We dreamed it up. So dreams are important."
Dreamtime
Traditional Australian societies share the notion that human beings and society were created in a distant time period referred to as the Dreamtime which the Aborigines considered sacred time...cont'd
http://www.near-death.com/dreams.html_____________________________________
Meaning of dreams: Precognitive dreams and premonitionsBy David F. Melbourne
About four out of ten reported psychic experiences involve some seeming awareness of the future. The term premonition is in general use, and the more clinical word precognition, ('before knowing'), tends to be used by parapsychologists. In descending order of frequency, premonitions come in the form of dreams, waking thoughts, waking imagery and sleep-onset, (hypnagogic), imagery.
We can define a premonition as an experience, (eg dream, waking thought, etc.), which appears to anticipate a future event that could not reasonably have been inferred from information available before the event. The fact that they mainly refer to unpleasant things is reflected in the term premonition itself, which derives from the Latin word praemonere - to warn in advance. Sometimes the person who has the premonition, (the percipient), doesn't know precisely what will happen but has a feeling that something untoward will occur - it's then a foreboding or presentiment.
As both authors have had personal experience with precognition, they in turn, give their own accounts, starting with Dr Hearne:
My own particular interest in this area of parapsychology was thrust upon me as the result of a personal experience. I had never considered myself to be at all psychic, but one day something happened that made me consider that perhaps I had a slight ability in that field.
In 1981, I was living in Hull and used to visit a colleague, Robin Furman, perhaps once a fortnight or so. Robin lived in Grimsby and the journey involved crossing the Humber estuary - before the suspension bridge was opened. It was a journey I was very used to. However on one occasion, as soon as I sat on the ferry, I experienced a strange feeling of concern. I knew with absolute certainty that there would be some untoward event on the ferry trip. It was perplexing - I didn't know exactly what was going to occur - but something would! The feeling was so urgent that I wanted to tell the captain - but a moment's thought made me realise that he'd think I was mad. I could have still got off the boat at that point, but I was fascinated and intrigued by the episode and so remained to see what would transpire. It was rather cold so I sat below decks...cont'd
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Premonitions/id/6338___________________________________
Dreams prophesize illnesses12/03/2004 18:02
A lot of people, who suffered a heart attack, say that the attack had been preceded with a bad dream
Human brain is capable of signaling a forthcoming disease. Signals are "transmitted" when a person is asleep. They usually mean the presence of a disease, although one may have absolutely no symptoms of it. Dreams may often show, in which part of the body a disease will develop, or which organs it is going to hit.
Any book on dream interpretations says that a dream, in which a person sees raw meat, means that a person is sick or is going to fall ill. As rule, such drams come true, although no one can explain the reason of this mystery. There are other sickness-predicting signs in the dreams: blood, a fight, animals' bites, falling out teeth, fires and burns. People usually find such dreams heavy and impressive.
A dream can be a forerunner of both physical and psychological disorders. If you experience a family conflict for more than a week, you may have a dream about missing a train, getting lost in the streets of a city or being stalked by someone...cont'd
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/14675_dream.html__________________________
Dream Incubation -
A reconstruction of a ritual in contemporary form
This article originally appear in Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 16, No. 4, Fall 1976, pp. 53-70.
Dream incubation is the ritual of going to sleep in a sacred place in anticipation of receiving a helpful dream from a divine benefactor. Drawing upon a variety of contemporary psychotherapeutic principles and procedures, I constructed an experimental ritual of incubation. The ritual consists of selection and preparation procedures and a special presleep ceremony using the dreamer's own personal symbols of a sacred place and a revered benefactor. Examples of some incubated dreams are reported to illustrate the viability of the ritual for seeking guidance and conflict resolution from dreams. Further research applications of dream incubation are proposed, and the methodology implications of a ritualistic approach to research are discussed. Dream incubation is the ritual of going to sleep in a sacred place in anticipation of receiving a divinely inspired dream. Incubation rituals have existed in most older cultures and, having been employed for both guidance and healing, may be one source of therapeutic arts.4
The classic example is that of the dream temples of the Greek god, Asklepios. A person with an illness--it may have been organic, psychosomatic, or strictly functional--would go to sleep in the temple, where Asklepios would appear in a visionary dream to perform a symbolic operation. The person would awaken healed. Alternatively, Asklepios would diagnose and prescribe treatment in the dream, which the therapeutes, the designated temple attendant, would subsequently administer. Numerous testimonies exist concerning the healings and prescriptions which occurred in the dreams of those who incubated in the sanctuaries of Asklepios, and the origin of some therapeutic methods has been attributed to these incubations.7, 12, 19
Closer to home is the practice of incubation among the various tribes of native American Indians. Their use of incubation has not been restricted to healing, and they have attributed significant cultural treasures to dream incubations. Indian dream quests have often been discussed in connection with a rite of passage into manhood. Among the Ojibwa of the Great Lakes, for example, the young boy would go out into the wilderness and prepare himself a ritual nest, where he would remain, fasting, until he received the anticipated dream. In his dream, some representative of the spirit world would appear and bless the boy by revealing to him the boy's particular gifts or abilities. The spirit representative would then instruct him in the use of supernatural aids which might be available to the boy in the future. Having been blessed by the dream, the boy also would incur the responsibility of applying his gifts in a prescribed manner for the benefit of his community, on penalty of contracting an untreatable illness...cont'd
http://www.henryreed.com/publications/incubation.htm________________________________
Dream Sharing in Cyberspace -
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple/________________________________________
Dream Related Sites on the Net:
http://www.asdreams.org/links01.htm
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