Dreams - Post 1

I've decided to go ahead and create a blog specifically for dreams. My dreams have been at an all time clarity and quantity lately. Dreams have always fascinated me. Lately I have also noticed that those of us who share our dreams with each other have been experiencing very similar dreams. It could simply be the collective unconscious working its way into our consciousness through archetypes, etc. I've noticed a lot of apocalyptic dreams lately among a lot of people. Even my mom has been having such dreams, and she keeps asking me if we should all be worried! I'm not big into 2012 theory or anything like that, but who knows, it seems something is definitely being stirred up in the collective unconscious.

My opinion is that for the most part, dreams simply provide us insights into our personal lives, usually very important parts of our lives. It is a way for our own knowledgeable subconscious or unconscious to speak to us, to get our attention. Yet, I do think there are dreams that may have even deeper significance on a more universal level. I also believe the spirits of those who have passed can use dreams as a way of connecting to us. Of course there are people out there who believe dreams are simply our mind's way of playing out the experiences of our day, or neural occurrences in our brains and nothing more. Or maybe just fantasies and have no deeper meaning at all. I certainly think some dreams can fall into these categories, but I think overall,  dreams have much more meaning and depth than that.

I remember as a child, my grandmother was very conscious of her dreams, journaling and interpreting them. I don't remember a time when I didn't dream. I've learned a lot from them and have even very occasionally had dreams that predicted life events exactly as they happened. I knew a woman who dreamt of others when they were about to experience an awful or dangerous experience in life. I'm glad I don't have this ability, but she was truly an angel on earth who helped many people through the messages she received in dreams. I know this first hand, because she helped me (the whole story will be told in my book).

I basically want to open a space here where I can log some of my dreams and connect with others who study dreams or experience vivid and detailed dreams themselves. I've opened this blog so that anyone should be able to leave a comment. So lets start a conversation about one of the most mysterious, sensual, humorous, unique, and sometimes terrifying experience of the human mind and consciousness.

~Namaste~