Dreams baffle us all but yet they tell us so much! Dreams are the subconscious way of communicating with us and telling us what’s really going on in our life. The things we are willing to see and the things we aren’t.
My entire life I’ve had vivid and seemingly unexplainable dreams. Before I learned to manage my intuitive gifts most of these dreams were nightmares. I dreaded going to sleep almost every night and eventually made myself a nightly routine.
Seems excessive right? It was. However, when you’re having night terrors every night you do everything you can to put yourself in the happiest mindset possible. For years I thought maybe I was just a dark and demented person without realizing it. I didn’t realize that I was just extremely clairvoyant and was leaving myself wideeeeee open.
I still dream vividly but now the dreams are happy, telling, and include visitations. For so many years I thought everyone dreamt this way, I was wrong!
My husband does not dream…like at all. I don’t understand it, it baffles me, and actually makes me a little uncomfortable. Why isn’t his subconscious communicating with him or has he been able to block it out that effectively? Usually when I tell him about my dreams he laughs, stares at me blankly, or jokes me. I continue to share my stories because I like these encounters…they keep things interesting.
The other day, however, was a bit of a different story. We were driving down the road and I started telling him about a recent dream where I was communicating with a dolphin. (Spirit guide? I think so!) He usually responds with something like “please don’t tell me any more, I will never be able to look at you the same.” This time it was different, dare I say he was intrigued? He cut me off mid-sentence and with a tone of surprise and curiosity he said…
“How do you not wake up, like how do you have these things happen in your sleep and you just roll with it? I feel like I would never sleep if I were you!”
I was so surprised by his curiosity that I was perhaps a little overly excited to share with him the inner workings of my sleeping mind.
Dreams are powerful and if we pay attention to them, they will tell us everything we need to know. They can show us what we are afraid of, where our subconscious anxieties lie, and what we need to do to heal. Dreams can show us exactly what we need to do to be happy and provide us with wisdom we didn’t even know we were searching for.
During a night’s sleep, we can be visited by deceased loved one’s, spirit guides, and other energetic beings. I like dreaming now, but I didn’t always.
You see, when you’re a medium (even before you know it) you’re open to being contacted by spirit. Your sleep state is when it is easiest for them to communicate with you; there are no outside distractions. The negative side of this is if you don’t know you’re a medium, chances are you’re ungrounded and open to any and every spirit that can see your light. This is why mediums, like myself, often have lifetimes full of nightmares…until they get it under control that is.
I learned to wake myself up out of my dreams at a young age. Back then my husband’s theory would have been correct, I never slept because I was always waking myself up. I loathed going to sleep at night for fear of what I was going to see.
As I came to understand my gifts and learned to manage them all of the nightmares went away almost immediately! I learned to connect with my spirit guides and now instead of having to wake myself up, I enjoy my dreams and visitations.
Dreams provide us with so much valuable information but it’s our job to decode the message. Sure it would be nice if our guides would just be straight and to the point with us, but what would be the fun in that?
Spirit loves to speak in metaphors so it’s a good idea to start keeping a dream journal! Dream journaling is a great way to keep track of your dreams over time and watch for repeating patterns, this is how you start to decipher those cryptic messages!
How to keep a dream journal
Keep a notebook and a pen next to your bed
Set the intention before you fall asleep to remember your dreams
Ask your guides and your higher-self to reveal to you now what you need to know. What you need to be focusing on.
If a dream wakes you up at night write it down!
No need to write down everything just hit the key points. Example: I was in a floating chair talking to a monkey in a bow tie.
Upon waking up in the morning don’t just open your eyes and pop out of bed. Take a few minutes and ask yourself what you were dreaming about? Recall the dreams and write them down.
Keep this up for 30 days and then go back and read through your notes. You will be surprised at the connections you make!
If you would rather not keep a journal out in the open for everyone to see you could always use the notepad on your phone! This is what I do in a pinch!