Dreams were historically used for healing (as in the asclepieions found in the ancient Greek temples of Asclepius) as well as for guidance or divine inspiration. Some Native American tribes used vision quests as a rite of passage, fasting and praying until an anticipated guiding dream was received, to be shared with the rest of the tribe upon their return.
In modern times, both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung identified dreams as an interaction between the unconscious and the conscious. They also assert together that the unconscious is the dominant force of the dream, and in dreams it conveys its own mental activity to the perceptive faculty. While Freud felt that there was an active censorship against the unconscious even during sleep, Jung argued that the dream's bizarre quality is an efficient language, comparable to poetry and uniquely capable of revealing the underlying meaning.
Fritz Perls presented his theory of dreams as part of the holistic nature of Gestalt therapy. Dreams are seen as projections of parts of the self that have been ignored, rejected, or suppressed. Jung argued that one could consider every person in the dream to represent an aspect of the dreamer, which he called the subjective approach to dreams. Perls expanded this point of view to say that even inanimate objects in the dream may represent aspects of the dreamer. The dreamer may therefore be asked to imagine being an object in the dream and to describe it, in order to bring into awareness the characteristics of the object that correspond with the dreamer's personality.
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"Food" can trigger some wild and unusual dreams.
Take note of what you ate and make certain to avoid eating what ever it was.
"Health" subconscious knows a lot about you that you don’t. Practices or lifestyle to tip you off about what its needs are.
Dreams try to get the point across to you in possitive views or negative.
"Psychology" meaning relationships and social situations could be involved but the subconscious tries to get things organized.
Spiritual world dreams are when you do experience them, you get the feeling that something special has occurred. A visit from past away loved one, Even if you can’t figure out what it means, there is a profound sense of purpose or message behind it.
When experienced, they become landmarks in many people’s lives leaving them with a permanent and unforgettable impression of other worldliness embedded deep within their subconscious minds.
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You can get clarification by going back to the source.
Prior to falling asleep, think about what type of information you need to clarify a previous dream.
Instruct yourself to have a clarifying dream and when it comes, to awaken you.
Be sure to have a note book or paper and pencil .
Remember! Don’t give up after only one try, keep trying and you’ll get something.
Put them together and it should come clear.
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Astral projection, or astral travel, denotes the astral body or double leaving the physical body to travel in the astral plane.
The astral body, in classical, mediaeval and renaissance Neoplatonist philosophy as well as that of the later Theosophists and Rosicrucians, is a body of light intermediate between, and uniting, the rational soul and the physical body, while the astral plane is a world of light, composed of the spheres of the planets and stars, likewise intermediate between heaven and the physical world.
These astral spheres were held to be populated by gods, angels, demons and spirits.
The subtle bodies, and their associated planes of existence, form an essential part of the esoteric systems that deal with "astral" phenomena.
In the neo-platonism of Plotinus, for example, the individual is a microcosm ("small world") of the universe (the macrocosm or "great world"). "The rational soul...is akin to the great Soul of the World" while "the material universe, like the body, is made as a faded image of the Intelligible".
Each succeeding plane of manifestation is causal to the next, a world-view called emanationism; "from the One proceeds Intellect, from Intellect Soul, and from Soul - in its lower phase, or Nature - the material universe".
Often these bodies and their corresponding planes of existence are depicted as a series of concentric circles or nested spheres, with a separate body for traversing each realm.
Similar concepts of "soul" travel appear in various other religious traditions, for example ancient Egyptian teachings present the soul as having the ability to hover outside the physical body in the ka, or subtle body.
A common belief is that the subtle body is attached to the physical body by means of a psychic silver cord.
The idea of the astral figured prominently in the work of the ninteteenth-century French occultist Eliphas Levi, whence it was adopted by Theosophy and Golden Dawn magical society.
The Theosophists also took note of similar ideas (Lin'ga S'ari-ra) found in ancient Hindu scriptures such as the YogaVashishta-Maharamayana of Valmiki.
However the expression came to be used in two different ways. Whereas for the classical and mediaeval philosophers astral "projection" was a journey to other worlds, such as heavens, hells, the astrological spheres and other imaginal landscapes - a meaning which it kept in the Golden Dawn and among some Theosophists - by others it was taken to mean travelling, in a ghostly form, around the ordinary physical world.
It is this latter meaning, perhaps, though strictly it has nothing to do with the "astral", that is now most widely recognised.
Later Theosophists such as Leadbetter and Bailey designate this latter "etheric" travel.
Astral projection Commonly in the astral projection experience, the experiencer describes themselves as being in a domain which often has no parallel to any physical setting, although they say they can visit different times and/or physical settings.
Environments may be populated or unpopulated, artificial, natural or completely abstract and from beatific to horrific.
A common belief is that one may access a compendium of mystical knowledge called the Akashic records. In many of these accounts, the experiencer correlates the astral world with the world of dreams.
They report seeing dreamers enact dream scenarios on the astral plane, unaware of the more extensive and varied non-physical environment they feel surrounds them.
Some also state that "falling" dreams are brought about by projection.
The astral environment is often theoretically divided into levels or planes. There are many different views concerning the overall structure of the astral planes in various traditions.
These planes may include heavens and hells and other after-death spheres, transcendent environments or other less-easily characterized states. In contrast to astral projection, etheric projection is described as the ability to move about in the material world in a etheric body which is usually, though not always, invisible to people who are presently "in their bodies."
Robert Monroe describes this type of projection as a projection to "Locale I" or the "Here-Now", and describes it as containing people and places that he feels actually exist in the material world.
Robert Bruce refers to a similar area as the "Real Time Zone" (RTZ) and describes it as the nonphysical, dimension-level closest to the physical.
According to Max Heindel, the etheric "double" serves as a medium between the astral and physical realms. In his system, the ether, also called prana, is the "vital force" that empowers the physical forms in order for that change to take place.
From his descriptions it can be inferred that when one views the physical during an OBE, they are not technically "in" the astral realm at all.
The subtle vehicle remains connected to the physical body during the separation by a so-called “silver cord”, said to be that mentioned in Ecclesiastes 12:6. Stephen LaBerge suggested in his 1985 book Lucid Dreaming that all such "out-of-body experiences" may represent partially lucid dreams or "misinterpreted dream experiences", in which the sleeper does not fully recognize the situation. "
In the dark forest, one may experience a tree as a tiger, but it is still in fact only a tree."
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An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE), is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside of one's body and, in some cases, perceiving one's physical body from a place outside one's body (autoscopy).
About one in ten people has an out-of-body experience at some time in their lives.
Scientists know little about the phenomenon.
OBEs are often part of the near-death experience, and reportedly may also lead to astral projection. It is claimed that those experiencing an OBE sometimes observe details which were unknown to them beforehand.
In some cases the phenomenon appears to occur spontaneously; in others it is associated with a physical or mental trauma, use of psychedelic drugs, or a dream-like state.
It is possible to induce the experience deliberately, for example through visualization while in a relaxed, meditative state.
Recent (2007) studies have shown that experiences somewhat similar to OBEs can be induced by direct brain stimulation. Relatively little is known for sure about OBEs. Some of those who experience OBEs claimed to have willed themselves out of their bodies, while others report having found themselves being pulled from their bodies (usually preceded by a feeling of paralysis).
In other accounts, the feeling of being outside the body was suddenly realized after the fact, and the experiencers saw their own bodies almost by accident.
OBEs often occur during the borderline stage between REM sleep and arousal when sleep paralysis may persist and dream imagery may mingle with sensory input.
Some neurologists have suspected that the event is triggered by a mismatch between visual and tactile signals.
They used a virtual reality setup to recreate an OBE. The subject looked through goggles and saw his own body as it would appear to an outside observer standing behind him. The experimenter then touched the subject at the same time as a rod appeared to touch the virtual image. The experiment created an illusion of being behind and outside one's body.
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