Dream Realities: Explore and Learn the Hidden Secrets of your Life

During the time that you are dreaming, the dream can seem very real.

During dream time, you experience a variety of levels of consciousness, including ones that can be considered "altered states of awareness."

Some dream experiences can be considered to be "more real" than our ordinary waking state. For example, consider a family social gathering where real feelings are masked by the veil of politeness and family culture. Wouldn't the dream where the actual feelings are expressed be more real than the contrived social affair?

Another example is the company meeting where two rivals for the same promotion pretend to be motivated by values that reflect the good of the corporation, when, secretly, they are devising ways to sabotage the work of the other (at the company's expense) to better their chance for the promotion. Wouldn't a dream that depicts the situation as it actually is, if even in the code of symbols, be considered more real.

Basically, any dream that unmasks the pretenses can be considered more real than the charade-drama of waking existence.

There are two other dream reality areas of interest.

  • Dreams of our past
  • Dreams of our future

Dreams of our Past

Dreams of our past include those of our growing up and maturing, but these dreams also include connections to our collective past, and our genetic (built into our genes) memories.

Dreams of our past also include information about past lives that somehow connect to this life.

Probably no one who studies their dreams can come away without knowing that they have lived before in some way.

Exactly how this past living connects to the present life is (more or less) important for some dream lessons, and unrelated to most dream messages.

One function of dreams is to help us live better in the present moment. So, knowledge of past lives is only useful if that understanding helps improve our life now. Few dreams are incursions into the past for the sake of just exploring.

Another reason that dreams are not just past-life sightseeing is that if a past life were observed in real time, then the dream could take years to unfold the story.

And, what if the dream showed experiences that viewed through the perceptions of the character and personality of the past life? The representational systems for the past life would be alien to the present person. In addition, the character and personality of the past life might know even less, be less educated, and be of a different religion, culture or gender than the present life.

Dreams of our Future

No one who studies their dreams can avoid the conclusion that we dream many (if not most) of at least the important events in our future. We do this at varying time intervals before the event happens.

Dreams of future events can be considered.

  • Predictions based upon deduction (if such, such and such are true, then such-and such will happen)
  • Predictions based upon induction (such-and-such is true, so, such is sure to happen)
  • Certain and specific knowledge about what is going to happen
  • Knowledge of what might happen unless conditions change
  • Wishes that just happened to come true
  • Guesses