Meditation and Dreams: Share your experience

[sesame]

I have been in one dream all through the night, quite often.
I woke up several times in between and kept returning to the same dream situation again and again. Sometimes I have seen the same Landmarks in many of my dreams. Viz, A ruin, with tigers, lions and snakes crawling all over the place. There are ancient caves and statues here and there. Its like a lost Greek city.

P.S.: Control your anger, GRH, you are too leery and violent in your dreams. Many years ago I saw my mother die in one of my dreams. I cried in my sleep. When I woke up with tears running copiously all over my face, I found my Mom in perfect health. What a respite that was! Phew!

[GRH]

I'm generally not so violent in my dreams...Interesting, both nights I took a sedative to help me attain sleep...Both nights I had bad dreams. I have taken this sleep aid before...And as best I can recall it created very vivid and bizarre dreams...

But that said, I can have very bizarre dreams without any help. I have dreamt of hell and demons and very graphic violence. I have dreamed entire films in my head where I pass by character once in a dream and have them recur later in the dream...EVERYONE is connected, and every person's actions play into the larger drama. At any rate, I have weird dreams at times.

As for recurring scenes, I have this happen frequently. There are buildings and cities that I visit that I have never visited in real life. Perhaps the strangest such dream moment is this little shack in the middle of the woods. It's on the property of Stone Mountain, and my mother used to take me there as a child. The thing is, I've dreamt of this shack many times before...I can almost picture it now. But what I don't know is if this building is actually real. It's a weird merging of reality and dreams...I'm not sure where the two separate in the case of this building. I believe there is some importance to this location, otherwise it would not recur in my dreams. Perhaps someday the larger significance will be known to me.

[sesame]

Originally Posted by GRH

I'm generally not so violent in my dreams...Interesting, both nights I took a sedative to help me attain sleep...Both nights I had bad dreams. I have taken this sleep aid before...And as best I can recall it created very vivid and bizarre dreams...

I think that the chemicals released by the sedatives block certain nerve centers, mess with the ionic exchange of the synapse-s (The junction between two neurons, axon-to-dendrite). This in turn distort our perceptions and induce horrendous dreams.

So, dont unleah harmful chemicals into your system. Long term use of sedative & analgesic drugs damage the:

1. Central nervous system CNS
2. Heart
3. Kidneys
4. Pancreas
5. Genitals

I am not being paranoid here, I am stating facts.

[GRH]

Well, not that this negates what you're saying Sesame, but perhaps it will put your mind a bit at ease, especially regarding my history...

The sedative I've been taking the past couple of days is a non-addictive one prescribed by my physician. That doesn't make it "safe," but it makes it a lot better than benzos or street drugs.

And last night, I have yet another dream with my grandmother. She is there and trying to give me a dresser and bedroom suite out of their house. I don't know if my grandfather was there or not. As I said, my grandmother has been dead for several years now, and yet I've dreamed about her more the past few nights than I have in all the years since her death. Do you think there is a larger meaning to this? Could the dead be coming in my dreams as an omen that another is about to be taken (probably my grandfather)?

[sesame]

dresser and bedroom suite out of their house....
I had to finish my job of destroying the yard.
The irony is, my grandfather's backyard is
one of my favorite places in the whole world...
In reality, I couldn't dream of destroying it

What do I know about your dreams? They belong to you. But I can tell you my hunches as I read your dreams.

Dreams are sometimes considered to be imbibed with occult significance. But I think everything is inside one's own mind. One part of the mind is pure (the good angel) and another part is tarnished (the devil). They fight constantly against one another. Sometimes Good prevails, sometimes Evil is victorious. So, it is possible that your own Good part is trying to communicate with your conscious level.

So the heritage that you really received from your Grand-Folks is not a Suit or a House or something else. It is the unspoilt body and tender mind that you are battering on right now. Forgive my bluntness, but thats what I felt. Just like you were destroying your Grandpa's garden with the chainsaw, you have been destroying your good health for getting high. But what kind of a High is that, which sucks you down to the Lowest Low?

Can you remain High for ever? Think of a way that affords you that luxury.

Love, sesame.

[sesame]

What is regret anyway? Its a realisation of a mistake.
And admitting ones folly. Its a symptom that the Good part of our mind, the fresh green innocent core is still there hidden deep down somewhere.

"Repent, and you will be saved" The most common idea in Christianity is regret and repentance. The Christian mystics went to great extents in their penance. Consider the self inflicted punishments of Opus Dei (The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei).

Repentance = soul is alive. But I dont like to linger on the feeling of remorse and waste away the rest of my days. Thats a folly in itself. So if you feel bad about your mistakes, its a good sign. But if you are obsessed with guilt, its bad to the extent of being stupid.

Doing something disgusting and not feeling any remorse for it is not an act worthy of much praise. That signifies an insensitive mind that has hardened (and deadened).

GRH says:

Originally Posted by GRH

I have known many addicts over my years, and many of them claim to regret nothing. In my estimation, the drug steals their desire, knowledge, and will for anything better than chasing that high. Without the desire, knowledge, or will for a better life, it's easy to not regret a sometimes miserable existence.

Description of Images:

1. Prayer
2. OMG Ouch Opus dei self-punishment!
3. Drunk Girl happy
4. Same Drunk Girl sad
5. Drug controls the addict

[GRH]

In regards to my dreams, my wife brought a very interesting interpretation to the table. One, being that the fish cooking/chainsaw dream represents spirituality, and that my grandmother has tried to get me to cook fish (be a "good Christian") but it is something I'm not particularly good at, and I always have problems with it (the flames). Thus I lash out and try to blaze my own path, but my family is there to try to stop me. Interesting if nothing else...

My own thoughts are...

My grandfather is not in the best of health and he's in his mid eighties. I have never dreamed about my grandmother before, until now. I wonder if the souls of the dead sometimes come back to help beckon the soon-to-be-dead towards the light. Perhaps while hanging around, my grandmother has visited me in a few dreams and tried to bring a message or two.