Following a Call

Jo,

Thanks for inviting me to this blog post.  It's a lot of food for thought.  I want to ponder if for awhile and come back later to post some thoughts on the subject. 

The phothgraph is beautiful as well. 

It's nice to “meet” you.

Peace,
Dawn

:-)

Hi Jo,
I am going to listen to the podCasts  A dream in its normal function is that powerful original mechanism called the imagination compositing or creating new pictures.  It can be a frantic effort to orient just to locate so we feel secure.  It is a pretended knowingness because we of course, aren't in these places.  Some dreams follow a sudden loss in an effort to orient oneself and get something back.  It can also be a resymbolization of efforts of spirit.

Yes Jo! I have had premonitions… many of them. When I was home from college in the Summer one year, I had the premonition that something bad was about to happen to my girl friend that night. I was at a friend's house 30 miles away. I shook it off as crazy even though I felt that I needed to get in my car and drive to her.

About an hour later, I got a call from Cindy, and she recounted that a man had attempted to rape her that night as she left work. She was an X Ray Tech in a hospital working night shift. I am so glad she escaped, and I began to pay closer attention to premonitions and intuitions. The last 4 years have been loaded with them.

Towards the end of last year, I felt a big change coming on. It was an intuition that something big is going to happen. Since I am a feeling type, I get a sense for how I will be feeling with this change. I felt large personal inner change coming on and possibly career changes.

All of it is currently unfolding now 8 months later, and it has been the most profound personal change. At work, we are going through a merger, and I should know in the next 2 months some of the implications for me professionally.

When I get those premonitions and intuitions Jo, I listen. If they are big enough I reach out to a gifted intuitive friend and Astrologer. I rarely use Astrology, but when I feel something big coming on, I get collaborative help. Nancy is hugely helpful and almost always on target.

I don't do any dream work. I have had one recurring dream on and off for most of my adjult life. The location of the dream has me back at college. The scenery changes, but the story is the same. I am failing all my classes, and I feel so hopeless. This stretches back to my childhood and the fact that early on in school, I didn't see the point of education. It took parents, teachers, and a whole lot of trouble for 10 years to get with the program. It was very traumatic, so I imagine I have left over fears of performing up to standard based on all that. That is my best guess.

Otherwise, I don't usually remember my dreams or look to them for meaning.

Interesting topics. I will check out the podcasts as soon as possible. I have read Larry Dorsey. He is very interesting.

Deep Bow!
Ben

Thank you, Jo! I do have occasional vivid and sometimes terrifying dreams, but I don't consider them premonitions (perhaps because I'd rather not consider the implications). I'll go ahead and listen to those podcasts, though; perhaps they might shed some light. And I'd be curious to learn about what else nightmares might indicate…

I read in a book recently that the more lucid your dreams become the more dream like the waking world becomes. All dreams are meaningful but some are more significant and it's funny that I should happen upon this today after having a significant and disturbing dream last night. The meaning in that dream is being amplified and augmented in my unfolding day today!
Sometimes I wish I could still blow it off as irrational!
Well of course it is irrational but that only accounts for a small percentage of our experience, the rest is magic. 

imagination is such a good survival mechanism.
When dreams become a reality as hers did where she followed her dreams
and was willing to relocate to follow them and have a new love… one thing to remember is we all have receivers and sometimes we shut them off.  These type of dreams were more than just the dream Kes speaks of which are real.  Hers were more premonition and destiny guided… Like a Lost in Seattle.  It would be a good film for TV.  Listening to the author puts a lot of sanity into knowing valid premonitions vs. fantasy.

I do love working with dreams and even more I love examining our approach to our “waking dream”- aka life. I try to help people learn from the freedom they experience in lucid dreams and apply that same fearlessness to their everyday. From the POV of the highest- all of this is just another sort of dream.

Ahhh… I dreamed I read this great blog on a beautiful networking site filled with extraordinary people. No wait, that wasn't a dream. That's happening right now.

I was at a party yesterday and several of us were speaking about whether the world of reality exists when our eyes are closed or open. Sometimes the two actually blur a bit for me. Wonder if anyone else is expereincing that also.

Jo, I don't remember having a specific dream that changed my life as you describe. But I have had VERY lucid dreams that stay with me for a long time after I wake up. Maybe those change me in ways that I don't even realize.

Thank you for this great discussion. You've tickled my brain.