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The Self can be defined as an inner guiding factor that is different from<\/em> the conscious personality and that can be grasped only through<\/em> the investigation of one\u2019s own dreams.\u201d Carl Jung, <\/em>Man and His Symbols\u201d (MAHS) p. 160<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are sooooo many books written about dreams, what they mean, how to use them. I have a whole shelf of books specifically about dreams and their interpretation. Yes, I have read and highlighted them. But I will disclaimer that my input can neither be academic nor even encompassing. It is experiential, my experience from what I have lived and learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My wish is to convey how useful and insightful and comforting and knowledgeable dreams can be to aid you in everyday living\u2014and, moreso, in finding a raison d\u2019etre (a reason to be) for the life you are living. Dreams are the navigational buoys in the sea of life and Life.          <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c(Dreams) work to accomplish two things. They work to solve the problems of the <\/em> dreamer\u2019s conscious, waking life. And they work to quicken in the dreamer new potentials which are his to claim.\u201d \u201cEdgar Cayce on Dreams\u201d p. 9<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing to know about our dreams is that We are the \u201cproducer.\u201d Some part of us\u2014our psyche, our higher Self, our piece of the Eternal, \u2018the One Within Who Knows,\u2019\u2014the part that holds the Schematic<\/strong>. Always wanting to get us on the true track of our Life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, we play all the parts. Dream about your daughter (or son), think about the daughter (or son) part of you. Dream about your mother, think of the \u2018mother\u2019 in you.  Dream about a \u201ccharacter,\u201d write down a description and see which part of you they might represent. Dream about a scary, dark character\u2014that may be your Shadow that wants you to recognize it. Face it. Look for the Anima\/Animus (opposite sex) to see what additional aspects or attributes of your personality you need to incorporate. See what your starting status is and watch as you deal with each of your Parts and Pieces<\/strong> to get to your true Self. Dreams will let you know if you\u2019re gaining or losing and how to fix the problem. They can also give you guidance for most every issue you face in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know, I can hear you saying, \u201cI don\u2019t remember my dreams.\u201d The best way to press \u2018Start\u2019 on remembering and getting help from your dreams? Buy a blank book and start writing them down. Once dreams see that you are taking them seriously, they\u2019ll make themselves remember-able.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I began with \u2018little\u2019 blank books, the cloth-bound versions\u2014save your money. Go for the 8 1\/2 x 11\u201d letter-sized books or even spiral notebooks (stock up when they\u2019re on sale for back-to-school supplies!)   Once you apply your sincere energy (the operative word, energy) and effort to follow that built-in urge toward growth, it will see that dreams, answers, synchronicities, books, friends, strangers, even podcasts, will keep you going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What some call a \u201cnuminous\u201d dream may even hold \u2018the Call\u2019 that begins a person\u2019s search for their true Self.  \u201cNuminous\u201d meaning it is a \u2018BIG\u201d dream; it holds some sort of divine, spiritual or something-Bigger-than-you-and-I feeling. It sorta demands that you pay attention to it and wonder<\/em> on it for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had what I\u2019d call a \u201cvoice of God\u201d dream a year or two after I had been awakened by The Catalyst<\/strong>. It was before I had that intuitive feeling that \u2018dreams might be important,\u2019 but when you think you might have heard \u2018the voice of God,\u201d you\u2019re gonna remember that dream without writing it down!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I remember is that the night before I\u2019d been watching what is called an \u201coater\u201d in crossword puzzles\u2014an old western movie, may have been John Wayne and a wagon train setting as I recall.  Later that night I had a dream that I was with a wagon train and we were being attacked (dreams do like to play with recent tv fare). Our backs were to what felt like a big rocky cave and I was on the ground furiously directing and helping people pile all our belongings\/\u201dstuff\u201d up in front for protection<\/em>. Working frantically and furiously, all of a sudden\u2026a disembodied voice, maybe coming from the cave, and striking silence all around, quietly announced, \u201cYou Will Be an Organizer.\u201d  That\u2019s all. And it sorta ended the dream\u2014or at least it woke me up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first reaction, again, was, \u201cWhut?\u201d What does that mean? And, again, all I could do was say, \u201cOK. I\u2019m listening.\u201d What am I supposed to organize? I decided it wasn\u2019t any project I was working on at the time. Voice of God seemed a little overkill for a tv project. All I could do was file it away (and wait for some other clue) because I sure couldn\u2019t figure it out…or forget it.  It did sound like what I would have thought the \u201cVoice of God\u201d would come to us like, so I did pay attention and wonder on it.  Then all I could do was wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward 12-14 years later (remember, 12-14 years doesn\u2019t even equate to the Eternal part we\u2019re dealing with). Here is the description of a \u201cnon-descript piece of a dream\u201d I recorded in my journal. \u201cThere were lots of mundane on-going dreams, but they were faint, not much registered or stayed with me. I remember thinking about\/realizing I had this dream, seemed boring, just sluffed it off during the night til this morning when I realized it was a wagon train\u2014and it was the<\/u> wagon train I was with\/helping out when I had the \u201cYou Will Be An Organizer\u201d dream years ago.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, \u201cWhut?\u201d I had almost forgotten about that \u2018Voice of God\u2019 dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this dream, the wagon train was starting up again, moving on down the trail. I set about picking up odds and ends of our \u201cstuff\u201d and throwing it into various wagons as they pulled out. I didn\u2019t want anything to be left behind. Twelve to fourteen years later\u2014I was still organizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s where I caution that you have to be awake to Dots dropping so you can connect them later\u2014sometimes much later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember the classmate who wrote the book I felt was an ode to his Anima<\/strong>? In this dream he was the one who \u201cwoke me\u201d that the wagon train was starting up again. What is even more bizarre was that that classmate had been a recurring theme in my dreams for over four years leading up to a class reunion.  His name was used as word play on the changing status of my \u2018art\u2019. Although his name was Art (so I wouldn\u2019t miss the clue), let\u2019s call him Blake Book. (In the beginning he was handicapped but I loved him so much! Probably a very apt description of my \u201cart\u201d at the time.) When I dreamed of BB, it was usually an update on the status of how well I was progressing in my \u201cart.\u201d BB many times showed up in a \u201cReunion\u201d setting which made me more determined to go to the class reunion which I rarely-to-never attended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Blake Book was identified as the recurring symbol for my art, it was my dreams that led me to locating him after having been absent from my home town for a couple of decades. (As they say, \u2018that\u2019s a whole \u2018nother story, Montel\u2019) Four years of BB being the symbol for my art, then I attended the actual class reunion.  The real BB and I talked over 18 hours. I gathered one item from him that ended up in my pertinent pocket. His theory of Marginal Multiples. I really thought his theory had merit, not to mention a little bit of humor, and\u2026 alliteration. MM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 (A quick note: if you understand that when an aggrieved or abused personality splits into \u201cmultiple personalities\u201d for survival, BB had extrapolated and shared his theory of \u201cMarginal Multiples.\u201d He felt all of us take on borderline (on the margin) adjuncts to our personality\u2014nothing too serious, just some oddities to our normal nature that pop up on certain prompted occasions. I already knew that when a child is traumatized\u2014emotionally, physically, or spiritually\u2014at an early age, there will always remain a child of that age (thinking and acting) in the adult\u2019s personality.  Hit a trigger and that young-aged child may stomp, yell or react in his now-adult body! Here BB had come up with a name\u2014Marginal Multiples. (has a lightbulb gone on yet? MM?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was three years after that reunion that I had the dream that BB (symbol for my \u2018art\u2019) woke me up to tell me that the wagon train was starting up again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long time to be remembering Dots dropped, right? They neither drop linearly, nor do they drop conveniently close together. But if they are \u2018pertinent to your survival\u2019, you will. That\u2019s why eyes, ears, heart and soul must be open, alert, and waiting (writing down helps, too). I\u2019m pretty well convinced that the Self\/Unknown\/Eternal that we are dealing with really does not do well in our constriction of the time\/space continuum. Time just isn\u2019t factored in the same way. Or maybe it\u2019s all just to teach us patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how do we use our dreams?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s get Practical, Practical.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re new to Mesmarriah Miracle, it\u2019s best to start at Post #1 and<\/strong> continue in numbered sequence, like Connecting the Dots.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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