Dreams and Spirituality
Dreams are ephemeral things, phantasms of the night, sometimes sensual, sometimes violent, mostly disturbing and almost always strange. In them we sometimes see ourselves, often see things we do not wish to see and on occasion see familiar things in very weird ways.
There are careers, books, and websites devoted to dreams, to trying to figure out what they might mean or to interpreting the symbolism in them or even to just why we have them. Dreams seem to be necessary – they’re perhaps the major reason why we sleep and if someone is deprived of sleep for an extended period, their functioning becomes, to say the least, erratic.
In dreams our bodies seem disconnected mostly. The link between brain and body seems to be blocked, so that even though the same brain areas that, during waking times, will cause us to run, move and react may be firing, the body doesn’t normally move.
On occasion the severed link seems to get overwhelmed and the body moves – often this brings us out of the dream into wakefulness. Sometimes even stranger events occur as we rise and begin to do apparently normal activities even though our minds aren’t aware of them – sleep walking is poorly understood and while some experience it consistently throughout their lives, others might only go through it once or for a brief time.
I wonder how many of you have had strange experiences with dreams? Are there any readers who have had dreams come true, or who have gained new knowledge or understanding because of a dream?
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