Thousands of people have wondered how their dreams can be used to help them find answers. But most of us wake up having no idea what we dreamt the night before. Have you ever considered asking your dreams to give you the answers to the obstacles you might be facing? Lots of people like you and me have experienced a breakthrough, an idea, or an inspiration through dreams. And when they wrote it down, they reach a higher level of consciousness. Just like these examples illustrate
Paul McCartney said:
“I woke up with a lovely tune in my head. I thought, ‘That’s great, I wonder what that is?’ There was an upright piano next to me, to the right of the bed by the window.
I got out of bed, sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor 7th — and that leads you through then to B to E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads forward logically. I liked the melody a lot, but because I’d dreamed it, I couldn’t believe I’d written it. I thought, ‘No, I’ve never written anything like this before.’ But I had the tune, which was the most magic thing!”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley said:
“When I placed my head upon my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think… I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.
Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous Creator of the world. I opened mine in terror. The idea so possessed my mind, that a thrill of fear ran through me, and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around. …I could not so easily get rid of my hideous phantom; still it haunted me. I must try to think of something else.I recurred to my ghost story — my tiresome, unlucky ghost story! O! if I could only contrive one which would frighten my reader as I myself had been frightened that night! Swift as light and as cheering was the idea that broke upon me. ‘I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectrum which had haunted me my midnight pillow.’ On the morrow I announced that I had thought of a story. I began that day with the words, ‘It was on a dreary night of November’, making only a transcript of the grim terrors of my waking dream.”
Imagine, instead of going out and spending money on a dream dictionary, simply ask that burning question to yourself, and let your dreams show you the answer. And when you wake up, make sure you write it down on your own personalized dream book. You’ll find the symbols in your dreams to be in its own unique context. So why not keep a log of them?
How cool would it be to have a dream book which you can share with your friends and family?
Read his great article by Prof. Clancy D. McKenzie, M.D about his experiences on finding answers through dreams to get an idea of where to start . After, prepare that question you need to ask and program your dreams to find the answers. Then try out this experiment by creating your own dream book and tell us about your success on the comment section below or on our community page.
Programing your dreams
Programmed dreams offer a breakthrough in medical and psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. I first learned the technique from the Silva training in September, 1969, and I have been using it ever since.
You may have heard about problems being solved or discoveries being made during sleep or during the dream-state. These mostly are sporadic events, in which people just happen to awaken with a bright idea.
The programmed dream is different. It gives us the ability to awaken with that bright idea or solution to a problem, any night, at will.
You do not have to be a yogi and meditate for 50 years in a cave to achieve enlightenment. When you fall asleep you reach just as deep a level of consciousness – but you are unaware of this state and how to use it.
Utilizing the techniques, you will be able to spend one minute prior to going to bed to formulate a question, and one minute when you awaken to retrieve the answer.
There are two techniques I use, and more are taught in the Silva training program. The first technique is to decide to have a dream about a problem, and decide that the interpretation of the dream will reveal the answer. You further must decide to awaken at the very end of the dream, remember it and write it down.
The second technique is to decide the mind will work on a particular problem throughout sleep, and that when you awaken, your first thought will be the answer.
I will focus mainly on examples – so you will begin to grasp the magnitude of what programmed dreams enable us to do. Programmed dreams are very valuable and are well worth the effort to learn. One of my hospitalized patients, for example, suddenly developed excruciating chest and abdominal pain. The internal medicine specialist thought it might be either a heart attack or a kidney infection – and he suggested transferring her to a medical facility. After persuading him to wait until morning, I told the lady – who was a good dreamer – that she had better have a dream that would tell her exactly what it was, where it was, how she got it, why she got it, and exactly what to do.
She also programmed that I would be able to interpret the dream for her. You can program that you will be able to interpret your own dream – and then you only will have dreams that you will be able to interpret. In this case, she programmed that I would be able to interpret her dream, and oddly enough, I immediately knew the interpretation – even though it was highly complex. It is possible that I understood because that is what she programmed.
In her dream, she and her husband were driving along a winding road where they should not have gone. Then in the dream it began to snow, the snow got deeper and deeper, the car veered off the road and it was covered over with snow. Just beyond where the car went off the road, the road came to a dead end and went into another road at right angles, and then into another road at right angles, and then into another road at right angles leading to the final destination. To me this was an anatomical road map of the intestinal tract, with an obstruction at the ileocecal junction. But I didn’t tell her this. Instead I asked if she would please draw the road map for me. She did, and it even was in correct proportion! The winding road corresponded to the small intestine, the dead-end the cecum. At a right angle to the small intestine was the ascending colon, leading at a right angle to the transverse colon, and then at another right angle the descending colon.
As soon as the car was covered over with snow, her husband said I have to cut off the engine.” The first thing one does for an intestinal obstruction is shut off the fuel supply, the food intake. Then five or ten people came from the city to dig them out. Five or ten in dreams represents the fingers on two hands, and I did not know if this meant laying on of hands or surgery. When they were dug out, she and her husband were OK but the three teenage children were gone. They were the reason for the obstruction. She wanted more of her husband’s attention for herself.
Intestinal obstruction is an acute surgical emergency, so I immediately transferred her to a surgical hospital. Before she left I warned her you better have a dream that will get you over this problem – otherwise they will be cutting you open.”
At the surgical hospital the diagnosis was confirmed, based on x-ray findings of fluid levels in the gut, and blood electrolyte studies. Surgery was scheduled, and she took a nap to program another dream.
In this dream she saw a tall dark man, wearing a turban – like from the Punjab section of Northeastern India – and he was massaging her abdomen. When she awakened, the obstruction was gone! To the non-dream programmer, these two dreams must sound like something out of Alice in Wonderland. But I am only reporting data, and I draw no conclusions about the data.
I further learned that 20 years earlier a surgeon had performed an operation on this lady for intestinal obstruction. I called the surgeon and asked where in the intestinal tract was the obstruction. He answered “the distal portion of the ileum.” The ileocecal junction is the distal most part of the ileum.
Sources: 1. Miles,Barry. “Paul McCartney –Many Years From Now”. NY, Henry Holt, 1997. Print
2. Shelley, Mary. “Frankenstein”. Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones,1818. Print
