Dreams and Dreaming

“Dreams! The royal road to Integration” Fritz Perls. 

Dreams and Dreaming Part 1: If we live for sixty years, we will have been asleep for twenty as we spend a third of our life in sleep. During this sleep state, we dream for many hours, not just one dream per night! If we experience any kind of problem, we are often advised to ‘sleep on it’ as this is a recognized way of accessing wisdom that not available to us throughout the day.

The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Druids, Native Americans and almost every other culture have used dreams for gaining wisdom. Sigmund Freud said the examination of dreams is the “royal road” to self discovery.

Interesting dreams have been recorded throughout all time. Sir Christopher Wren dreamt that a woman gave him dates to eat and when he bought some the next day, it cured him of his crippling colic condition. As a child, Lady Seymour dreamt of nine finches in a nest. When she married the Earl of Winchelsea, whose name was Finch, she had nine children. Before the Coronation of King Edward VII, the Duke of Portland had a dream that the state coach was stuck under Coronation Arch. When measured, the coach was indeed too large. Otto Loewi dreamt he won the Nobel Prize before it was awarded to him. 

It is well known that President Lincoln dreamt of his own assassination. In the 1850s Friedrich Kekule was involved in molecular research. He dreamed of snakes biting their tails, and this helped him to realize the structure of the Benzene ring and receive a Nobel Prize. More recently, the champion golfer, Jack Nicklaus had a dream where he swung the golf club in a new way. He tried it and won many tournaments. Not so long ago, a mathematical genius in India, Svinivasa Ramanujan, often saw in his dreams, handwriting on a screen that demonstrated new mathematical solutions. On one occasion, he dreamed that a Hindu Goddess appeared to him and showed him a new formula. Of course, many of these people are not aware that their spirit guide is working through them, but still they still gained extraordinary insights from their dreams.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, Graham Greene and Stephen King used their dreams to provide the characters and plots for their fictional books. Barbara Cartland dreamed the Stephen King used their dreams to provide the characters and plots for their fictional books. Barbara Cartland dreamed the story-lines to her novels - in fact, she believed God gave them to her in this way! Many artists have been inspired by dream images, especially Salvador Dali and those of the Surrealist Movement. The composer, Giuseppe Tartini wrote the entire ‘Devil’s Sonata’, following a dream. Edward Elgar wrote the first theme of his Cello Concerto and Igor Stravinski composed an entire octet whilst asleep. The music for Paul McCartney’s favorite and most successful record, ‘Yesterday’, was heard first in a dream.

Though you might not have outstanding dreams that bring about new inventions, you could still have amazing revelations during sleep. Before sleep, ask your spirit guide to help you find lost objects, uncover the answer to a difficult problem, show you or tell you about an underlying health problem, or any other situation you are concerned about during the day.

'The dream is the hidden door in the deepest and most intimiate sanctum of the soul.' Carl Jung 

By Wendy Stokes https://wendystokes.co.uk

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