Dream ~ Neurons

Well, I am now going to start sharing all my special dreams...              
the ones classed as lucid dreams and hope you will find them interesting. 




I had a dream earlier this year about the brain.

I could see as if I were travelling myself on an electric current or flow at incredible speed, inside my brain.

I can't remember the beginning of the dream or how I got there but I could understand perfectly how it all worked.

I could see how the function of a neuron was to receive information from other neurons, to process that information, then to send information to other neurons. The neural communications started with an electric zap down a neuron stimulating chemicals into the synaptic gap. These chemicals in turn became an electric zap repeating this process over and over again in symphony of fascinating complexity billions of times.

This grid, where so much bright light was travelling was identified as the synapses. 

While on this flow I was being told how neurons can generate themselves from any cell of the body and work perfectly fine as neurons! Every cell has the potential to become something else because what it true to the individual it true to the whole.

Upon waking up I thought of this and thought of the different layers of the dream.

If the information was just for me, I could understand that one cell could potentially create something else in the body, sounded like fun.

If the message was more global it could mean that we all share this potential, probably as a human race all together.

In the 4th layer, a more universal layer the meaning was perhaps that what is true to an individual is true to absolutely everything as One!

Later I stumbled upon this article on the news... Amazing!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13567321


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Carolyn

Dreamers Dictionary

Remember that no one is a better expert at interpreting your dreams than yourself.  

The great theorist Sigmund Freud attempted to bridge brain and mind by theorising that dreams helped protect sleep by partially covering up disturbances, while letting them blow off a little steam. Swiss analyst Carl G. Jung also tried to bridge the brain-mind barrier with his theories of dreaming. 

Do dreams have any significance?

Yes, dreams have a significance. The images in our dreams always contain hidden meaning which goes far beyond the outer appearance. The language of dreams is symbolic and not to be taken literally. The significance of dreams is personal and dependent on your own personal experiences. However, there are many universal symbols.

I found this website to be the most complete so far:

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/

So to guide you with your dream interpretations, this website has listed keywords, symbols and over 20000 different meanings in their ever expanding dream dictionary. 

These meanings are in no way, the final say in what YOUR dream  means, but it will hopefully inspire you to explore and offer a suggestive starting point for understanding your own dreams. 

I often dream I'm flying in all sorts of circumstances but other symbols and themes will give you an insight to your own feelings and insecurities. I had a look into their dictionary to see what it means and I will share below :

"I'm Flying"

Flying dreams fall under a category of dreams known as lucid dreams. Lucid dreams occur when you become aware that you are dreaming. Many dreamers describe the ability to fly in their dreams as an exhilarating, joyful, and liberating experience.

If you are flying with ease and are enjoying the scene and landscape below, then it suggests that you are on top of a situation. You have risen above something. It may also mean that you have gained a new and different perspective on things. Flying dreams and the ability to control your flight is representative of your own personal sense of power.

Having difficulties staying in flight indicates a lack of power in controlling your own circumstances. You may be struggling to stay aloft or stay on set course. Things like power lines, trees, or mountains may be obstacles that you encounter in flight. These obstacles symbolise something or someone who is standing in your way in your waking life. You need to identify what or who is trying to prevent you from moving forward. Difficulty flying may also be an indication of a lack of confidence or some hesitation on your part. You need to believe in yourself and not be afraid.

If you are feeling fear when you are flying or that you are flying too high, then it suggests that you are afraid of challenges and of success. Perhaps you are not ready to take the next step.

In reality, we cannot really fly, of course. Thus, such dreams can be representative of things that are beyond your physical limitations. In your mind, you can be anybody and do anything. Another way of interpreting flying dreams is that these dreams symbolize your strong mind and will. You feel powerful and that nobody can tell you what you cannot do and accomplish. Such dreams are sure to leave you with a great sense of freedom.

I might start to share one of my dreams on my next post.

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Carolyn

Dreams Landscape

Glasgow

There are a few layers to the dream. Imagine a landscape and the way things are significant to you alone, then more to the people that surround you, then more to all of humanity and finally a message that is universal, not only valid here on Earth but everywhere in the universe. 




The layers of a dream can be described as follows:




The first layer is for the dreamer, the individual who is dreaming. Everything has to do with the dreamer her/himself. This layer holds much truth because it is personal. While trusting your ability to interpret your own dream you will find the result you are expecting on a personal level. 


The second layer is more about the group of people you interact or live with. Or the community or city you live.


The third layer is a global one for humanity. It has more to do with a collective guidance, some global activation for people in general. All connected in energetic synchronicity. 




The forth layer is where the communication between yourself and you guides or Higher Self occur. 
When I have one of these dreams I am aware of a message from myself (my multi-dimensional being) to myself. These are important dreams that stay with me for a long time thanks to the vivid colours and emotions in them.


These are my favourite kind of dreams where I get to meet my multi-dimensional self. They are significant because words and codes are triggers in a multi-dimensional level, when my frequency is tuned in to this imagery during the dreamtime my light-body formation or transformation is taking place.

I consider myself a dream-worker because this aspect of myself is very developed. 

 Somewhere in England

I hope you were not expecting an Inception kind of explanation, HAH. If you were, please see this link: http://taylorholmes.com/2010/07/20/7-layers-of-inception/
And this one: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMXwJDo_n1aQxujFqFY1miRFVLrTtj32Md20r-3wvvJcMTKIGrjNmIxsC6I9a37HKyYZh-ERpOpDdPq78zJsqaYALwa9TUf6nuAObgrGixzIW2Afas51mXWg1UYe4FZ1NbrHrVHlhEsw/s1600/RJxnJ.jpg

Nolan's map of dream layers - Inception

In my next blog I will explain the meaning of certain dreams and a common dream I have as analysed by experts.

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Carolyn

Different Type of Dreams

When thinking of dreams... I assume we all know what we mean, for the most part we understand them to be the nightly dreams but I thought to classify the different types too. There are more different types for sure but I think we can all recognise the ones below. While doing a bit of search on the internet I found some descriptions from Wikipedia, some from myself and some from this amazing website: 
http://www.dreammoods.com/dreaminformation/dreamtypes/

Daydreams


A daydream is a visionary fantasy. Daydreaming is classified as a level of consciousness between sleep and waking state.  Reports show that we have tend to daydream an average of 70-120 minutes a day. It occurs during  waking hours when you let your imagination take you far away. You know when this happens, when we lose focus and the mind begins to wander.

False Awakening Dreams

Did you ever think you have waken up and gone about the usual things you do in the morning, like having breakfast, etc only to wake up "again" and realise that you have just dreamed you have woken up but it was just a dream? That sensation is referred to as a false awakening.   

Lucid Dreams

Lucid dreams occur when one realises one is dreaming inside the dream. You never had this during the dream telling yourself  "hang on a minute, this is only a dream!" Most dreamers wake up once they realised that they were dreaming. Other dreamers are more skilful and remain in the lucid state of dreaming. Making decisions in their dreams and influencing the dream's outcome without waking up.

Healing Dreams

Healing dreams serve as messages for the dreamer in regards to their health. The Ancient Greeks called these dreams "prodromic". Many dream experts believe that dreams can help in avoiding potential health problems and healing when you are ill or when you are grieving. Research shows that asthma and migraine sufferers have certain types of dreams before an attack. Your bodies are able to communicate to your mind through dreams. The dreams can "tell" you that something is not quite right with your bodies even before any physical symptoms show up. Dreams of this nature may be telling the dreamer that he or she needs to go to the dentist or doctor. If you can understand the language of dreams, your dreams will serve as an invaluable early warning system. They can help inform, advise and heal. 

Nightmares

A nightmare is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong negative emotional response from the mind, typically fear and/or horror that causes you to wake up feeling anxious, with your heart pounding and cold sweats, etc. These type of nightmares fall under a special category called Post-traumatic Stress Nightmare (PSN). Nightmares can have physical causes such as sleeping in an uncomfortable or awkward position, having a fever, or psychological causes such as stress and anxiety. Eating before bed, which triggers an increase in the body's metabolism and brain activity, is a potential stimulus for nightmares.

Occasional nightmares are commonplace, but recurrent nightmares can interfere with sleeping patterns and cause insomnia that may require medical help. 

Recurring Dreams

A recurring dream is a dream which is experienced repeatedly over a long period.

A person who experiences post-traumatic stress disorder may have recurring dreams about the traumatic event.

The subjects of recurring dreams vary, and they often include events or settings from the dreamers' own experiences.

Recurring dreams repeat themselves with little variation in story or theme.  These dreams may be positive, but most often they are nightmarish in content.  Dreams may recur because a conflict depicted in the dream remains unresolved or  ignored. Once you find a resolution to the problem, your recurring dreams will cease.  

Prophetic Dreams

Prophetic dreams, also referred to as precognitive or psychic dreams, are dreams that seemingly foretell the future.  Having a prophetic dream suggests that you are experiencing anxiety and that you are expressing a desire for certainty in the future. You are looking to your dream to help you make an important decision or to reassure you that you are on the right path. One rational theory to explain this phenomenon is that your dreaming mind is able to piece together bits of information and observation that you may normally overlook or that you do not seriously consider. 

Epic Dreams

Epic dreams (also referred to as Great Dreams, Cosmic Dreams or Numinous Dreams) are so vivid that you cannot ignore them. The details of such dreams remain with you for years, as if you just dreamt it last night. These dreams possess much beauty and contain many archetypal symbology.  When you wake up from such a dream, you feel that you have discovered something profound or amazing about yourself or about the world. It feels like a life-changing experience. 

Episodic Dreams

Episodic or instalment dreams are a rare type that always comes in series. Each dream returns you to the same dreamworld, later in time, like chapters of a novel or episodes of a TV or radio show. Episodic dreams aren't merely recurrent; events don't repeat! Time and causality operate in the dreamworld as consistently as they do in the waking world (though time between episodes may pass faster or slower than waking time.)

Mutual Dreams

Mutual dreams happen when two people have the same dream. Very close brothers/sisters can share the same dream, these may be planned, meaning that two people actively work toward achieving one dream scenario. Mutual dreams can also be spontaneous. It's surprising when you find out that a significant other has had the same dream on the same night as you. Not much study has gone into the phenomenon of mutual dreams, but there is a very strong bond that exist between these two people.   

Shared dreams

It is fascinating, that people of diverse backgrounds, of total different life styles, and of different ages can share these common themes. Everyone’s brain is not on the same wavelength while they are awake. While we sleep, our brains actually all fall into the same state of brain function. Our brains all fall into a frequency of about 7 Hz per second, which is about the same as the electric pulse in a piece of quartz. While we are sleeping, the otherwise restricted energy of our brains can piggyback on the energy of those near us who are also sleeping, and you don’t dream alone. 

I like Dr Katya Walter's view on dreams. So thought to share what one can found on http://doublebubbleuniverse.com/Dreamwork.html

Dreams are a gift on your pillow each morning.
Freud said dreams are letters from the unconscious. Dismissing them unexamined is like throwing away unread all the mail that is sent to you nightly.

Why does nature give us dreams?
Why do people around the world have dreams? Why did nature put this complex & yet universal mechanism into us?

Each dream tries to get a message across to help the dreamer. But people usually just shrug them off. The waking ego throws it out as senseless gibberish. Another night letter from the unconscious, thrown away unread.

For instance, I have seen many forecasting dreams. They are sent by the unconscious to clue a person in on the stance to take in an upcoming situation. How can a dream see around the corner of time to know what's up ahead? Well, it happens a lot. It suggests that time is not really what we think in the waking world.

I hope I shed a bit of light on the different types for you and will now focus on the different layers to the dreams in order to share this on my next post.

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Carolyn

Dreaming is Essential

View out of the bedroom window, Scotland.

Dreaming is essential to our emotional, mental and physical well-being. We all dream, 
don't we? Some people could argue that they don't dream because they might not recall their dreams however, we all dream.


I would like to share  briefly about the complex and poorly understood organ: The Brain 

I don't think we are all aware that the brain is 80% water and requires 20% of the oxygen and calories of  the body's daily intake. One could think that the brain is less active during the night when the rest of the body is but the brain is more active when one sleeps. Please check this link to see what regions are more active: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008101740.htm 

Finally, the brain can store all kinds of information, it has the capacity to store everything one experiences. What we see, what we hear, what we smell, what we feel, etc. The information is stored away in different areas of the cerebral cortex, the largest, outermost part of the brain. All of the pieces of information decoded in the various sensory areas of the cortex converge in the hippocampus, which then sends them back where they came from. The hippocampus is a bit like a sorting centre where these new sensations are compared with previously recorded ones. The hippocampus also creates associations among an object’s various properties. Since different neuronal cell types are neatly organised into layers in the hippocampus, it is widely believed to be one of the main neural mechanisms by which memory is stored in the brain.

The different type of neurons transmit impulses that travel at different speeds. This is why one can recall information instantly and sometimes it takes so long to remember something. And... it appears that  the smarter you are, the more you dream (not proven fact.) 

Hippocampus

Our dreams often reflect issues that we struggle with in our life (our day to day routine) therefore one needs to consider one's current life situation to interpret one's own dream. Interestingly, they can offer a creative solution to issues or challenges as well as helping explore one's feelings. 

Once you start exploring and reflecting on your dreams, you will gain a better understanding and insight into your own personality. They say a dream has the fascinating power to unify the body, mind, and spirit... well, what a unique outcome to something we usually disregard when we wake up.

Ernest Hoffman, director of the Sleep Disorders Centre at Newton Wellesley Hospital in Boston, Mass. USA, suggests that "...a possible (though certainly not proven) function of a dream to be weaving new material into the memory system in a way that both reduces emotional arousal and is adaptive in helping us cope with further trauma or stressful events."

But I believe dreams are more complex than that...

If one considers the way in which the nightly dream world mirrors one's conscious, waking world. In order to decode the meaning of events in your waking world, and receive inner guidance about them... the dreams are mysteriously the solution. 

DL Zeta's message on July 18th 2010 (http://www.ascensioncentral.org/channeling/DL-Zeta/spiritualpeople/44) explains what I believe dreams might be

Dream Experiences Are Real And Can Change Your Life

Your guides and higher self will always respond to the efforts you make in your waking life to work with your dreams. The effort you make in your waking world to remember and interpret your nightly dreams determines the degree to which decoding takes place within your dreams. At the same time, any conscious attempt to grow spiritually will expand the range of travel itineraries available to you in your nightly journeys.

Dreams Are Multi-layered Messages from Other Aspects of your Self

Any attempt to unravel your dreams is important and will bring results. The act of remembering and interpreting dreams is a first step. Dreams occur at many different levels, each one consisting of layered meanings. Just as there are parts of your waking world that remain unseen and unrealized until your awareness expands sufficiently to comprehend them, additional layers of your dreams are accessed with an awareness expanded by hundreds of simple dream interpretations. It is in this daily practice of working with dreams that you become fluent in the language of your soul.

This fluency opens the door to many forms of intuitive communion. Do not underestimate the importance of your dreams. They are a valuable window to the workings of your inner world. Whether awake or asleep, you are always experiencing multiple dream states simultaneously.

You may wonder how dreams are created and who is sending the messages you receive in your dreams. Both the form and message of dreams come from aspects of your self that exist beyond the boundaries of your conscious mind.

Conscious 'Waking' Dream States

One layer of dreaming involves shared dreams. Your conscious awareness has, for example, agreed to take part in many different dream states with others for the creation of shared experiences. You weave in and out of these many different dreams with variations of intensity. Sometimes you bring your focus into a few dominant dreams for concentrated learning experiences; at other times you expand into many dreams you are sampling in search of veins of needed experience. There is always an expansion and contraction of your conscious dream states depending on the purpose for growth and learning at the time. A soul that has just completed an intensive learning experience may choose to enter into an expanded sampling of many conscious dream states to fish the streams of life's possibilities for a time before moving into another intensive period of focused learning. All conscious, waking dreams seek this balance of learning states that, when observed, resemble the cycles of the in breath and the out breath. This is important to keep in mind as this state of fluidity and flux in one’s conscious dream states can fall into judgment when not understood within proper perspective.

Some shared dream experiences are created by spiritual contracts that sometimes span lifetimes. There are souls you agree to meet while on the Earth plane for specific purposes. These soul contracts are based upon a higher purpose such as learning unconditional love, forgiveness and compassion. Sometimes these shared dreams are created to alleviate karma created in other lifetimes. Alleviating karma is essentially an attempt to gain needed understandings. 

Discernment and Shared Dream States

As your awareness of shared dream states increases, you will become more discerning of the dream states in which you participate. Beware of any shared dream states you participate in by default. In your world, there are those who seek to manage and regulate conscious dream states -- their own as well as those of others. This is sometimes done for material gain by a government or industry. Intentions associated with this management and regulation of consciousness determine its outcome and karmic lessons. Conscious waking dream states are also regulated by motivations set forth as “spiritual” or “religious.” These are generally carried out with a careful interweaving of one's earliest consciousness with belief systems that support regulation through religion. The there also may be friends, family or others in your life who seek to control and regulate your conscious dream states in ways that are not aligned with your highest good. Begin following the threads of your shared dream states to gain awareness of their true essence. This will help you determine if they are worthy of your energy. 

The Awakened Consciousness and Dream States

The regulation and management of waking dream states can only occur when the consciousness is not truly awakened. Once one begins to awaken inside the conscious dream, the outside regulation and management of one's conscious dream state becomes less and less possible. The awakened consciousness takes over the regulation and management of its own waking dream, working in closer communion with one's guides and angels and higher self to develop conscious agendas for spiritual evolution and world service.

This conscious awakening extends into nightly dreams experienced during the sleep state. It is here that the consciousness can truly excel, for the subconscious mind exists outside the time and space continuum of the conscious dream. It is here that the conscious awareness is able to experience other dimensions, perform world service by astral journeying to sites of suffering and catastrophe, and assist lost souls in moving on in their spiritual evolution. Not all the “guides” and “angels” who assist on the earth plane are disincarnate. 

The above message is excerpted from her website: http://www.celestialvision.org/




I hope you enjoyed to know more about why we  dream. I will share the most commonly dream types we can all recognise on my next post.

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Carolyn