Sunday, September 20, 2009

The Power of Dreams

Isn't it really awkward to have dreams...??

Dreams of the car u saw the other day.. dream of that awesome chick half naked.. dream of getting top score in exams... dream of the first salary.. dream of snakes, birds and other animals... !!

Yes it is... really, that's one simple thing which even Science cannot explain, how it establishes its relation with the reality yet to come.. does our mind time-travel and collects info and displays us the matter ???

DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT !!... but it does work... and what you perceive in dream is not the reality but its meaning is real.. Confused??

i meant, if you see someone screaming at you.. then its not that someone will actually shout at you... but, to hear or dream that someone is screaming indicates that some friend or family member is in need of your help.


Weird ???
Yes, of course... even i used to say the same.. then a few personal experiences and i started believing too.

Lets first get on to the meaning of Dreams... !!
but before that, let me tell u essence of what i had learned from myBlack Magic Endeavors.. Firstly, Its a really shitty thing to get into, don't ever even think of doing it, bcoz its totally based on Equilibrium, if u want something to happen, something has to pay up...
and, it requires a great deal of concentration... Anyhow, i thought of building my concentration levels first...

Steps for building your concentration levels, is as follows:
  • Free your mind... for this you need to worry your mind n body from every crap u have, like, water n electricity bills, idiotic boss, monotonous workload, soporific lectures... EVERYTHING.
    And do so, sit down, close ur eyes... imagine a really big Trashcan.. imagine yourself putting all these worries into it... do it for 3-4 times a day (if u are novice).

  • Build up Concentration Level.. for this, (after completing level 1), maintain a diary and a specific Black PEN (black body, black ink).. every night, before going to bed, keep it besides you... and say to yourself "I will note each and every thing i see in my dreams... and will raise my Concentration Levels..". Now, Sleep.. when u wake up... spend at least 15 minutes recalling what you saw in ur dreams and jot it down in ur diary... initially, it will be more in points but as u will advance you'd be able to recall dreams completely.

By this, you'd be able to raise ur concentration level and build up a good channel between your conscious and sub-conscious mind...

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Dreams, there are plenty of confusing definitions for it, ranging from core myth to scientific reasoning... from new born child to the old guy in neighborhood...
lets first start with the generality of what Dreams really are...

Dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being. That's it! Now that you are thoroughly confused let me explain in layman's language. Our brains are in constant activity. Different states of consciousness (like awake, asleep, alert, drowsy, excited, bored, concentrating or daydreaming) cause different brain wave activity. Our conscious mind, or the part we think with, our "window" into life, only takes up a very small portion of our brain activity. (some say this is only 10%) Other areas control things like breathing, heartbeat, converting light to vision, sound to hearing, balance when we walk, etc. etc. This too has it's own percentage (small). Another area controls imagination. This area is widely an undiscovered frontier.


Imagination is more then dreaming of a new car or picturing someone with their cloths off! When you look at clouds and see shapes, or wood grain and see images, this is the "order from chaos" part of your imagination. The mind cannot deal with chaos very well, in fact it will resist it and sometimes manufacture order. (very important to the dreaming process.)This too occupies a small percentage of brian activity. Then there is memory. Memory is vast! And I believe it occupies more of the brains resources then most people believe.


And then there is the activity called dreaming. I think that to a certain extent, we dream all the time. Even while awake! But the process is functioning in our subconscious mind, out of view from our "window". If defined precisely, they may not be referred to as dreams technically, but the activity is very closely related. During certain cycles of brain activity while asleep, we can "view" these dreams with our conscious mind and record them in our memory. (this is why we sometimes remember them, thou i remember most of them, God's Gift.. Or probably that's because i had practiced remembering them).

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So, What are dreams?

Well, with the above kept in mind (especially the order from chaos part) try to imagine this.; Your brain mind and spirit, while at rest "review" and analysis in it's own way long term, short term and spirit memory. It kicks around emotions, thoughts, ideas, actions and interactions of the short term memory. It has in it's background the trends of your life and philosophy to influence it. Your mind is also processing spiritual data, your beliefs, whether or not you violated them, your information gained through psychic intuition (we ALL have this to a certain degree) and of course, any communication from God. ALL THIS data, as well as your subconscious "reading between the lines" of what people do and tell you, is then processed unsupervised by you!

All this data is a form of chaos, and your mind (like seeing images in wood grain or clouds) puts it all together in a form of visual "screenplay", a medley of sight, sound,emotion and imagined interactivity. The end result is.... You guessed it, a dream!

Ahh, but would it not be nice if it were that simple! :P
Dreams are easily influenced by factors in your life and spirit, and these influences create "categories" that are almost infinite. We do broadly categorize them in terms like "prophetic, standard, physical and nightmare" (to name just a few) And these we study each their own, in order to gain benefit from them. I look at it this way: Our mind and spirit together with our brain, is actually the greatest computer ever devised! To understand it's "back of the house" processing is to learn more about ourselves, God, our future and each other. Many things can be gained from dreams, better health (mental and physical), entertainment and even financial gain! (dreaming of a invention or idea) Now that you know some of the basics about dreaming and what (theoretically) dreams are you should have a better grasp on how to understand and use your dreams.

Now, this was all i had read n understood about dreams... and now, let me narrate you an incident which turned me from Non-believer to Totally-Devoted.

It started with calls from every corner of India, north-south, east-west.. from people i know , claiming to have seen my death and instructing me to be more cautious than ever... for a second it did left me agape... i had just got up and it was the first thing i heard in morning.. however, i caught hold on myself, migrated my vagrant mind into rahul's room and there was he, telling his story to the guys.. the moment i entered, he saw me and said, 'yaar.. tu theek hai na?? kuch hua toh nahi..?? Tu believe nahi karega ki maine kya sapna dekha...'

I said, 'Ab tune kya dekh liya... !!', still pissed off with those astonishing calls..

rahul, 'Your death... it started like, u wake me up one night, ur face is half charred... Sukhii... mein bata nahi sakta, how horrible it was.. Trust me !!... and i wake up..'

me, 'Abe.. yeh ho kya raha hai.. why is everybody watchin my death !!'

and soon the longing comment from Anurag came, 'Sapne mien maut dekhne ka matlab hota hai ki Umar badh jana... m sure ur gonna live more..'

'LOL.. yeh kya hai !!.. really.. who cares, m already pissed off with this much life.. aur jeene ka matlab hai aur preshaan hona.. !! I wished ki cancer-vancer, aids-vaids ho jaaye.. taaki jaldi peecha chute...!!', I said while taking it all lightly now.

'chupkar.. fir aisa bola toh khidkii se neeche fekk dunga.. tujhe kya lagta hai, tere ko cancer ya aids hoga toh tere parents tujhe aise hi chodh denge marne ke liye.. aakhiri dum tak koshish karte rahenge woh.. kabhi socha hai ki aisa bolne se pahle, ki marne ke baad kitne log dukhi hone wale hai.. IDIOT !! ', rahul said, this came pretty bad to me... Ofcrse i know it.. i didnt actually mean my lines.. i was jus kidding.. lekin ab rahul ko kaun samjhaaye...

'aacha, sudeep aa rha hai aaj.. haina ??? shukaar hai.. ab project mein kuch progress hogi..', anurag said with some tension on his face...

'haan aa toh rha hai.. but..', me, with disgust visible on my foreline.

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'so ja.. so ja.. 5 baje hai abhi...', said my roommate as he switched up the lights.. came by the morning bus.

GOSH kya banda hai yaar yeh... this is was the thing in mind when he came.. anyway, i was too sleepy to say anything so i slept again..

'Ummmmmmmmm...ahhhhhhhh... time kya hua hai...', i said while stretched like a Dog.

'its 2pm... ONLY!! u again missed ur class... anyway, yeh dekh, what i brought from delhi.... tan taaana.. DREAMERS DICTIONARY... only rs. 50, bahut dhoondne ke baad milli', roommate said.

'no way.. cant be real.. sachi.. mann.. nice yarr..', i said, with almost as astonished as yesterday's calls.

'you said na that u can recall dreams but cannot make out what they mean.. this will help u a lot...', roommate...

to be honest, for the first time in 3 yrs i felt so good and thankful to him... anyway, without wasting any time i picked up the book and searched for the meaning of "DEATH", and to no surprise, it did mean Increment in age...

so.. what now, i started dreaming and kept checking the meanings...

for the past few days now, the dreams were vagrant but they're meaning was just close to saying.. you will have a good fortune, financial and reputation gains are expected...
Quite good it was to read them, but they were not strong enough for me to believe them...

then one day, we went for lunch.. and then i slept.. and when i woke up..its was 5pm... my head was really heavy with the drowsiness and longed for a cup of tea... i sprang up and sat in Yogi posture.. trying to recall what i had seen in my dreams..

this time i saw it... clearly..

i saw my ransacked room.. everything was lying here n there in total mess, point to note is that nothing was missing, it was just that everything was mispositioned... and then i open my Bed-box, in their, the Suitcases are missing, i see my quilt in it and on over that... my College Shirt, soiled up.. very very dirty shirt dating back to years.. !!!

this was the dream i could recall... and then in second attempt, i could manage to recall the other part, i.e.

Me, my brother and one of College friend, we are in Nirman Vihar Park (the one besides the Jain temple).. its full of water.. depth of water is almost around that of a swimming pool.. Dirty Brown water... and we are competing in it..

I immediately pulled up the Dreamer's Dictionary Book and looked for the meanings..

Dirty Clothes
- Health needs attention... it is possible to fall Ill easily.

Swimming - To dream that you are swimming, suggests that you are exploring aspects of your unconscious mind and emotions. The dream may be a sign that you are seeking some sort of emotional support. It is a common dream image for people going through therapy.
To dream that you are swimming underwater, suggests that you are completely submerged in your own feelings. You are forcing yourself to deal with your emotional difficulties.

To my despair, i could not find any thing related to Ransacked room... tried looking the words Ransack, misplaced, mispositioned, comb... x-(
But, could not get hold on anything... However, i ignored the Health thing (thanks to the SECRET LAW), bcoz had i been thinking about it i would have attracted it and fell ill...

Well.. with these results, i cudn't be one in calm composure... but it was fine, after plenty of good results, i didnt mind having a few bad ones... Reminds me one of the sayings, Good Times are corollary to Bad Times... and vice-versa... Which can make it a big Vicious Circle.. However... its oKay.. ;)

so... a few days passed.. i kept myself busy with the GRE Prep i was doing.. 4th wordlist of the night, last word Rummage and it meant Ransacked room... And the first thing which came to mind was that dream... I came running to my room, picked up the book and looked for the meaning...

Rummage - small gains are expected.

This, brought me back to 7th sky... after a long day, a few emotional heart-attacks... and Tiring GRE Prep, this was the best i could hope for... and then a call from my sweetheart..

Next day came again, got up.. mussled my eyes.. and next thing... AAAAAAAANNNNCHUUUUU....Ummmmmm...AAAAAAAAANNNNCHUUUU....

'Hey bhagwaan.. yeh kya ho gya subah subah...
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Anyway, the whole day went like this only... went to Wakna that day, got my hair clipped... 7inches hair were cropped into 7cm hair !!!...
Everywhere i kept sneezing... that too without any reason... Kicked out of lecture for disturbing the class... fumbled into Dean while i sneezed.. Sneezed while i was trying to have a chuski of Tea (resulting into another nightmare)..

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
... and only God knows why it was happening..

i couldn't even count how many times i had sneezed.. in the end, i fell ill.. cough, cold, fever... had my dinner, took medicine and before going to bed i said to myself "I will find an answer to Why i got ill, suddenly, out of nowhere...".

After this mind make up i slept and now what i saw was a Whitish Image.. and it had said "I had warned u..."..

i woke up.. recalled everything happened and i realized that it was the Straight Answer for what i said to myself before going to bed... "I will find an answer to Why i got ill, suddenly, out of nowhere"... and answer was.. "I had warned you..."

and now, i realized those Dirty Cloth thing... it meant Ill Health coming up... Freaky Isn't it...

But its true, here am I.. in little fever.. totally Bugged with the sickness.. and now, i really believe that, there is certainly something really big and unknown going around...

A magical power which is driving... like my friend said, This world is an illusion, and like this world there are plenty other worlds too... and when these worlds interfere with each other, you have an experience which is out of this world.

Anyway, i can't explain how these thing came to me... Every dream.. every meaning was fitting into life with such accuracy that i can't deny the fact that, YES this is really Amazing and there is really a world and one procedure which lies Unexplainable in front of me..

I hope, you'd be as amazed as i feel right now... and will strive to know your meanings... :))
So, All you have to do is to go this link and check your dream's meaning.. or post me your dream...

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/




or you can buy this book, " The Dreamers Dictionary " by Lady Stearn Robinson and Tom Corbett. It is the one which i personally use to serve the purpose... a Tip: try to breakup the dreams you see in words and then try searching them, look for the feeling is more intense and the outcome in the Book... IT DOES WORK !!





chaao... :))