TonytheRainbowHealer

One of the first things people sacrifice in our go, go, go fast-paced world of smart phones and the 60+ hour work week is sleep.  Modern society’s quest for more success, job titles, degrees, money, power, and material possessions and experiences has left society with a plethora of people not completing one of the critical nightly processes for a healthy and sane human body, mind, and spirit.  It is unfortunate that humans have ditched sleep time and over-caffeinated themselves mostly in the name of working to acquire material success that in the end means nothing and that you can’t take with you at the end of your life.  It is my hope to shift perspective on this and start a sleep revival with this post.  Take back your sleep!  It is good for you and society as a whole.  You get less sick.  Your body is able to process food and water better.  Your thoughts and actions throughout the day are clearer and sharper, and one is able to have more focus.  You are less of a danger to yourself or others should you do something like drive a car. Sleep helps your memory, and it helps your body repair itself from damage due to injury and illness.  It helps with stress, anxiety, and depression. It helps one to feel revitalized and pretty much makes one a more sane and normal human being ready to tackle whatever the day may bring.  Most people are well aware of the physical, emotional, and mental benefits to getting a good 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night (and yes you do need this much sleep; a good rule of thumb: if you need an alarm clock to wake you up, you probably have not scheduled yourself enough time to sleep, and are probably living life not fully rested).  I am going to focus this post more on the spiritual processes of sleep and dreaming because they serve a vital function in our lives, and more people are unaware of those functions.

1.  Dreams synthesize, sum up, and store what went on in our day.  One of the main functions of our dreams is to take what we have learned and experienced for the day and process it.  This is why you will often dream about things that just happened during your day or people, places, and experiences that you came into contact with.  This is to help the memory retain it and for your spirit to mull over the lessons it is learning and the choices it has to make as it goes through life.

2.  Dreams allow us to connect with friends, family, guides, and loved ones.  Our dreams are a perfect time for those that have crossed over to visit us.  The sleep state allows us to move closer to and enter into the spiritual realm where they reside, and they can meet you there in order to communicate with you.  This can be an immensely beautiful and moving experience to have someone you have lost come and communicate with you.  This is your chance to hear their voices again and to hug them and tell them you love them and miss them, and it is their chance to tell you they are just fine on the other side and that they will be waiting for you when you get there or for them to let you know that they are always there with you.  Your guides, angels, and ascended masters and spiritual teachers will meet you in your dreams to help discuss what is going on in your current life.  You will often notice them as familiar faces even if you don’t know how you know them, and they will often be asking questions or making comments that will help give you information for your journey in this incarnation.  You can even try to ask questions of them before you go to sleep and see if you can get answers in your dreams. I ask my healing team and guides I work with to give me healing work on my body while I am asleep. Our dreams can also allow us to connect with people who are still alive in the present moment. I’ve had relatives give me messages in my dreams that prompted me to call and check in on them. I have also had dreams that gave me insights into what people in our lives might currently be going through in their lives. Every living being is ONE with the whole and connected so dreaming allows us all to access that collective consciousness through the spiritual realm when we sleep at night.

3.  Dreams can indicate when there is a physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual crisis that needs attending to.  What happens in our lives affects us in our dreams.  Our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual states shows up in our dreams.  The things we think about or feel in our lives (both on a conscious level and what is hiding under the surface) will pop into our dreams.  Even physical problems such as illness or addiction will show up in our dreams and spiritual problems like lack of self love or lack of love and compassion for others will show up in our dreams.  This is not just limited to ourselves.  What is going on with other people and other situations can show up in our dreams.  Other peoples’ energies can affect us, especially if we tend to be somewhat empathic, absorbing other people’s thoughts and feelings.  We are all ONE and connected, and our energies all play off each other in this world.  Paying attention to dreams will give us an indication and sometimes insights and answers into the questions that perplex us about our relationships with other people and the world around us.

4.  Dreams give us information about the past.  Information from our past comes to us in our dreams.  This can be information not just from our current lives but also from previous incarnations.  Pay attention to the different cultures, times, places, people, and customs you notice in your dreams because this is possibly a hint as to areas and time periods you have lived before.  Sometimes our energy systems will bring this info up to be healed so you might have unpleasant experiences coming up in dreams such as traumatic experiences from previous lives.   Losses you experienced, ways you were scared, sad, hurt, tortured, or died can all come up in your dream state.  It is not all horrible though because many times our energy systems will also bring up pleasant experiences from this life and previous lives to remind us of good times or to take some of the lessons learned and growth gained from those experiences to apply to the present situations in our lives.  Our past lives might not have been in the past from your current perspective in this lifetime either because on the other side there is no time and space. It is also possible you could have lived somewhere that wasn’t even on planet Earth.

5.  Dreams give us information about the future.  Dreams can and do give us information about the future.  These are known as prophetic dreams.  The information that can be given might be about us personally, or it can be about someone else you know or even society or mass consciousness in general.  In general, dreams are about you, but not always.  It does appear some people have more of a gift of prophecy than other people.  I have read accounts of some stunningly accurate dreams of the future that have occurred as individuals dreamed them.  I often have dreams of the future and have had experiences of dreams coming to pass in real life.  There can be a danger in trying to read too much into dreams to try to see the future however.  Dreams serve many functions and to assume all dreams are literal interpretations of what is going to happen can be detrimental to your health (or other people’s if you pass them along).  Here are some examples I have encountered of dreams giving info about the future. Sometimes people will dream about people they are going to meet or places they are going to be at before they actually manifest in the physical realm.  Many people will dream about their future child for instance, before that person is even born or conceived, or they will dream about a future partner.  They will dream about them down to the exact features of what they look like and hear how they speak and see them in places they will actually be in.  Sometimes people will have dreams about traumatic events before they occur such as in the death of a loved one or a major catastrophe such as a plane crash, an earthquake, a hurricane, or a mass shooting.  Sometimes these dreams might be literal, as in the person is literally seeing what is going to happen.  Other times they might be dreaming in a more symbolic way that is still showing the future.   I will mention two experiences I had with this.  Several times I have dreamed of tornados the night before a major tornado happens in the United States.  I don’t necessarily see exactly what happens, but I have noticed that when I dream about them, more often than not, I wake up the next day and hear about a major tornado that has ravaged some area of the USA.  Another example I had was prior to getting a job I was previously employed at.  I had dreams that I was living in Seattle (at the time I was living in Portland, OR).  I had a dream that I was being welcomed into a circle filled with dancing and celebrating (it almost reminded me of a Native American drum and fire circle).  In that circle, I saw all these people I did not know smiling at me and welcoming me.  In the next few weeks, I got the call that I got a job in Seattle and moved.  When I started my job, I recognized a lot of the faces I previously didn’t know in that dream as people I would now be working with.  This kind of stuff does not just happen to a lucky gifted few.  It can and does happen to most everyone.  Most people are just not tuned into their dreams enough to recognize this phenomenon when it happens.

6.  Dreams let us know if there are any ghosts, negative entities, or demons who have attached to our energy system or who are tormenting us.  Nobody wants to talk about this, but it is true, and I am going to go there.  If you have a ghost, dark entity, or demonic presence attached to your energy system or your house, they can and do affect your dreams.  This is a very common reason for having a nightmare.  Ghosts might be trying to get a message to you through your dreams.  They might want you to know how they died.  Or they might be seeking your assistance. Or they might just want you to get the hell out of their house! Darker entities and demons want to scare you so they are going to make your dreams as scary as possible.  They feed off fear and delight in tormenting you, so they will show you situations or faces that make you want to wake up and scream in terror.  They also love to mess with your energy system while you are sleeping since you are clearly not conscious to fight them off or able to take complete control of your energy system and physical body.  They can unground you from mother earth, disconnect you from Source energies, adjust your chakras in a negative way (such as to unbalance them or shut them down or block them), suck off or drain your own personal energy, create dark chakras or negative energy imprints (negative thoughts and emotions) in your energy system, or even put energy imprints into your energy system so they can find you again (healers often call these trackers or tracers).  In very extreme cases, entities and demons can even cause bruises and scratches on your physical body (three scratches is pretty much always demonic), choke you, sexually assault you, crush you, or possess you.  They can do all this to you when you are asleep or when you are awake; however, they love to do this when you are sleeping because they are opportunists who like to take the easy way to wreaking havoc.  I don’t want to scare you by talking about this because the number one rule when dealing with entities and demons is not to go into fear (or a subset of fear such as anger) because this is exactly what they want you to do (this is where they get their power and what they feed off of).  The number one way to fight off entities and demons is to always remain in Love and Light (easier said than done I know).  Most people do not experience such extreme cases, however everyone does come into contact with the dark forces in their lives from time to time whether they realize it or not as they are all around us, and our dreams are often where they show themselves to us.  Should you find that you are having problems in this arena, it is a good idea to have an energy healer do a session on you to help clear your energy system, and it may also be a good idea to have them or someone they know who is qualified to clear your house should you be experiencing problems in your home.  You can also ask your guides to protect you while you are sleeping at night or ask a healer to give you some ways to protect yourself before going to sleep. I’ll write more about this in the future.

7. I dreamt what you dreamt!  Beyond all this, there are other strange mystical and wondrous processes that have been documented to have occurred during sleep time.  For instance, there is a phenomenon that can occur when two people have the exact same dream.  This is more common when people have an obvious bond or connection such as being romantic partners or parent and child.  Sleeping in the same bed with someone will bring two person’s energy fields closer together, and something like co-dreaming might be more likely to occur at that point.  This happens far more frequently than people realize because people often don’t remember dreams or even talk about them.

8. Sleep time can be a time for an out-of-body experience or astral projection.  One of the other things that can happen during sleep time is something called the out-of-body experience or OBE (which is similar to a near-death experience or NDE).  My previous post talked a lot about this. Sometimes this is also called astral projection.  This is when our spirit leaves the physical body and travels to other astral planes or dimensions.  People who have left their bodies while sleeping have found themselves looking at their bodies in their bedrooms, traveling to other realms and dimensions.  Astral projection and spiritual journeying can be a great way to connect with Spirit and to get messages and enhance your spiritual development and growth for yourself and for other people. It is something we do naturally as humans, but most people are unaware that they do it.

9. Sleep time is a time for lucid dreaming.  Lucid dreaming is a dream in which the dreamer is aware they are dreaming.  This often occurs when people are in a lighter form of sleep and their consciousness level would be closer to the state of someone who is in meditation.  Some people are very adept at lucid dreaming (myself being one of them).  When you know you are dreaming, you are then able to control what happens in your dreams to a certain extent, and it gives you some free will within the dream state.  The dreamer can do anything from change a situation or environment to change the characters in their dream to change the actions they take in a dream.  Sometimes if I don’t like what I am dreaming about, I choose to fly somewhere else that is more pleasant in my dreams.  A lucid dreamer is more easily able to say “screw this dream!  I am waking up now!” should they be stuck having a nightmare.

10. We also can have recurring dreams.  These are the dreams or nightmares that happen over and over and over until you want to pull your hair out and never go to sleep again.  A recurring dream is something that Spirit is really trying to hammer into your head until you take notice of it.  This can occur for many different reasons.  It could be a significant event that is about to take place, and Spirit wants you to be aware of it or to warn you about it.  It could be a past life or current life trauma that your energy system is trying to heal from so it keeps coming to the surface.  It could be that a certain loved one, guide, angel, ghost, entity, or demon (yes it could be light or dark), is trying to give you information about your present life so that you will take notice. 

As you can see, there are many reasons to explore the dream state.  If you really want to explore yourself and get to know what your dreams are saying to you, I highly recommend you start trying to remember them and analyze them.  An easy way to record your dreams is to start a dream journal.  This is simply a journal you record your dreams on as soon as you wake up while they are still fresh in your mind.  This will give you a way to remember your dreams and also an easy reference to go back to read what the symbols were saying to you when you have more clarity.  Our dreams speak to us mostly in symbols, archetypes, and in the abstract so often times our linear minds do not understand what is being presented.  Our dreams are serving many purposes (they can be doing everything mentioned in this blog all at the same time and more!) so they may seem very jumbled and bizarre.  Only after the fact can we truly grasp the magnitude of what a dream could possibly be saying.  We came to this planet to learn lessons and grow spiritually.  It can be frustrating to analyze dreams, but we would not have as much spiritual growth and learning if our dreams just laid out everything for us and told us everything we wanted to know verbatim.  This is where our faith and our spirituality comes into play.  Dreams are simply tools to help us on our spiritual journeys.  If you would like to use something to help you on your journey, one of my favorite sites for looking up dream symbols is http://www.dreammoods.com/. There are many other dream interpretation sites and books out there though if you do a quick internet search. 

So hopefully all this talk of dreaming got you excited to get back to bed!  I think I might do just that right now!