What are you missing by not remembering your dreams?

Thursday 20 October 2005

As a medical intuitive, one of my goals is help people get in touch with what their bodies are trying to tell them. I’m forever saying, “Your body is talking to you. The challenge is for you to listen.”

The body tries all sorts of ways to get your attention. You might be familiar with the common examples – butterflies in your stomach, tension in your neck or shoulders and the classic – migraines. All of these are mechanisms employed by the body to get the message across when we are conscious.

But as you should know, the body is resourceful and has other tools at its disposal. One of the most valuable and overlooked comes into play when we aren’t even conscious at all – dreams.

Dreams guide us, heal us and serve as a powerful link between the mind and the body. They can be literal or shrouded in symbolic representations. They can comfort us or unnerve us. But one thing for sure is that they always speak the truth. In other words, as far I’m concerned:

Dreams are too valuable to be forgotten!

Now I can hear some of you already protesting that you don’t dream. Nonsense, I say! Everyone dreams. And I mean everyone. This includes nearly every type of mammal. Haven’t you noticed your pet dog in a state of deep sleep with their legs twitching as if they were running? Well, they are – or more precisely, they are dreaming that they are running.

Scientists estimate that we dream for approximately 90 minutes every night. That means that over the course of a lifetime we spend about five years dreaming. We’ve all heard the expression to dream one’s life away, but what if your dreams could be put to good use? What if you could uncover secrets of your past, present and future in your dreams? Well, you can!

For years, I’ve been relying on my dreams for insight. And you can as well. It’s easy but it does require commitment and takes some practice. But in a very short period of time you can become your very own Dream Analyst. Here’s how.

Get a notebook to serve as your Dream Journal. Choose one that isn’t too big or unwieldy. Mine is spiral-bound. Put it on your nightstand within arm’s reach. You don’t want to have to get out of bed for it as you’ll want to be able to grab it in an instant.

You see, dreams vanish almost immediately upon waking. Hence why so many of us think that we don’t dream. The key is to jot down as much as you can as quickly as you can before they slip away back into the depths of the subconscious. If a dream wakes you in the middle of the night, you’ve got it – you have to scribble. Speaking from experience, you might think you’ll remember it all clearly, only to find that in the cold light of day your dream is all fog, if there at all.

The actual analysis of the dream is easier than you think and can be fun as well as insightful. If the message isn’t obvious, then you might consider checking out one of the classic works on dream interpretation, such as Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols or Creative Dreaming by Patricia Garfield.

Whether you dream full-length feature films in Technicolor or black-and-white film noir symbolic snippets, your dreams are messages. I for one cannot think of a single valid reason why you wouldn’t want to listen.

Just remember, the body is often trying to tell you something, either in dreams or in more prosaic ways.

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Until next week,

Kindest regards,

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