Do you always believe your dreams?

[blueangel]

I don't often remember my dreams but when I do they are often full of messages. Do you believe the messages your dreams send you?

[Tullip Troll]

depends on the dream, I think most dreams are just your way of sorting things out.

[blackroseivy]

MY dreams involve people & situations from the past - most often the ones I least want to think about. Whatever they may mean, I don't think that they are anything to pay THAT much attention to as they are really just rehashing old stuff.

Having said that, I have had at least 2 quite SPECTACULAR precogs in my time; so they aren't all errant nonsense. It just only happens a few times in my lifetime to pay attention to that stuff at all... I rather envy people who get things more often than this (though I must say I wouldn't if it was about death!).

[aranarose]

When I do remember my dreams, they tend to be things that I've been dealing with during the day, so no messages that I know about. Though I've been having the same recurring dream over and over again lately... we shall see if that one comes true, but I doubt it.

[LisaT4P]

I agree that most often my dreams are a way for my subconcious mind to work things out that are happening around me.

Sometimes though, I'll dream about a friend that I haven't spoken with in a while, and it'll seem like something weird is going on with them. Then I will call the person and tell them about the dream and they can usually relate to something in it. I take those dreams as a kind of "Call so-and-so (call your mother!)" message. LOL

[RayneStorm]

I usually get a feeling if my dream is trying to tell me something. There have been many times where this has happened. The latest one was reguarding my husband and his "activities". A couple of days later I clued in.
But for the most part, I think they're just stories being told, things being gone over and generally sorting things out.
Rayne

[Hope]

no

you will find that there are many people, in fact we have MANY threads here
where people desperately want to have their dream mean something grand and amazing

and it can simply be you feel asleep watching tv -- or the great message you are about to receive, really was the phone ringing and waking you up and just how you justified the interruption in the dream space

sometimes it can be your brain trying to help you recall an event, sort through something say a work assignment, a death in the family, a fear you have etc

then there are the times when you are really "dialed in" to your energy and the energies around you and the dream is something more profound, some message etc.

dreams vary, just as people vary, experiences vary

people tend to think but gee it seemed so real, i must have been selected so explain it to me

umm nope odds are it was what you ate, what you heard, where you slept etc

the most honest message often, is see you CAN recall a dream now write it down
and learn what YOUR cues are and start working with it

love
t

[Torulf]

No, most often I do not believe they have something important to tell. However there are times when one knows that it is best to take the hint or advice given in the dream. To often have I ignored such hints and it has resulted in at best humiliation.
Just as you say, when you remember them very well there often seems to a message or such.
And again, a bit off the record, your cat is lovely.

[Sequoia]

Yes. I believe that I really did kiss that prince and take over Shrek's kingdom.

(I moved in the dream to kiss him and in real life I hit my head on the bedpost... what a way to wake up!)

[M.O.Darkness]

Sometime I believe in my dream
Naturally,I always consider each case of dream and make sure
"It's only dream or Dream Oracle"
It often only dream , ^ ^

[Brightshores]

Most of my dreams are just your average, run-of-the-mill dreams about normal people and situations that aren't too outlandish - easily had, soon forgotten. However - some of my dreams are much more vivid, and will often stay with me throughout the day or longer. For me, these dreams are the ones that have messages of some sort, or the ones that (rarely) have precognitive information. Those I pay attention to.

[SweetIsTheTruth]

I don't often remember my dreams but when I do they are often full of messages. Do you believe the messages your dreams send you?

It depends on the dream. I recently exited a relationship. Right before the last full moon, I was having a bit of yearning to be back in that relationship. That night, I had an extrememly vivid dream, which served to remind me why I left that relationship.

These are the kinds of messages I definitely pay attention to.

[Zhr Morgana]

I use my dreams to try and understand whats going on within myself, what my true feelings are. I realize the truth in my dreams the same way I realize it when I'm drunk. When inhibitions are lost, I see how things really are and what I am capable of.

[Sharpchick]

I don't often remember my dreams but when I do they are often full of messages. Do you believe the messages your dreams send you?

I know I do. Some of them are direct messages, which I never ignore. (I journal all my dreams that I can recall.)

But the majority of the messages - dead on - that I get, I receive in a dream where I wake up and say to myself (and sometimes aloud), "Now what was that about?" I have dreams that would appear to the rational and analytical mind as bizarre and unexplainable, with seemingly disconnected parts of the whole. Yet hours, days and sometimes weeks later, I find myself standing in front of a place, person or object, stunned to recognize something from a dream. The sensation frequently is accompanied by physical sensations of electricity in my scalp and a taste of copper in my mouth. Sometimes a scent or a sound (particularly of nature or a strain of music) will do the same, and make me look up and examine my surroundings in more detail. When it happens, I have what I call a "flashback" of a tiny little relevant segment of the dream.

[HedwigHarfang]

Dreams are unique to the person involved and largely involve - for people not accustomed to working psychically and consciously with spirit - the subconscious actively either scrying to give you lessons regarding life at the moment OR premonitions the angels/fairies/your subconscious will need to know later. For example, I had a dream in which my soul-mate, a nationally famous politician, was arrested; it was late March when I had it and I could find nothing on the news about it the next morning. In October (when I had given up watching the news, given that I had political premonitions which I kept detailed notes on throughout 2005, 2006 and into 2007 that had not yet come to pass) I caught a broadcast showing him "helping police with their enquiries" - a euphemism if ever I heard one, at least over here where there is no Freedom of Information Act - over fraud and corruption charges which were later, thank God, quashed. The fact that I'd seen him in the dream in some kind of prison van scared me, and when at last we met early this year he explained that the questioning was done in rather a worse place than his own front room in London.

To work with dreams what you really need to do is keep a detailed notebook and ask angels or guides or Spirit for help remembering them. After a while - unless you get to the stage where you are trying too hard to fall asleep in order to dream - you will notice they become clearer and often more tactile; I saw my soul-mate come to me in a dream just after the October broadcast to reassure me that he was all right but could not yet come to me properly; I put out my hand to touch the wall and found to my surprise that not only could I touch it but that I could touch his pet dog which was yapping and barking round my feet...I didn't dare touch him, LOL, but that happened in a dream just before we finally were able to meet in reality...the wedding will be before Christmas! Persevering with more than just a sense that you are just downloading extraneous thoughts means asking WHY are you having dreams about this or that? Freud kickstarted the revolution in dreaming techniques but outside alternative therapies and the better private psychologists, mental health services have actually regressed to a stage where dreams or clairvoyance is ignored or (at worst) treated as "psychosis" with often lethal drugs.

It is better to acknowledge dreams as part of your psychological make-up than to ignore them and wander into the trap of ignoring your subconscious desires, feelings or hang-ups.