What Dreams Can Do For Us

Dreams are a natural part of being human. Virtually everyone in the world dreams every night. Many people do not remember their dreams because they are focused more on the waking world and the day ahead rather than they are on their dream experiences. Dreams are often considered unimportant, absurd, or even dangerous by the uninformed or misguided.

Dreams are a state of consciousness much different from that of waking consciousness. Why are dreams so different from wakefulness? Dreams speak in the language of the unconscious, the language of primal symbols and feelings. To our conscious awake rational minds they seem disjointed and irrational, but they actually reveal important knowledge, understanding, and insight. If we are wise we listen to what our dreams are telling us.

Dreams serve many important functions to us as human beings. We have evolved with this capability for many very good reasons. Here are some reasons why we dream:

Problem Solving We dream to solve problems in our everyday waking lives. Even while our bodies sleep, our minds keep working on solving the problems of our lives.

Learning We dream to help us to learn new information. While we dream our minds are actively integrating the new information we have taken in during the day.

Inspiration & Ideas While we sleep we create new things. New songs, new art, new music, new dances, new stories, new inventions, and other new creations have all come to people while they dream. For example, Paul McCartney and Salvador Dali have both created works based upon their dreams.

Guidance Dreams often show us how to proceed in life. What our next step should be. They can warn us of danger or bring clarity and insight to our confusing lives. They can bring our attention to the most important things for us to become aware of in our lives.

Healing Dreams help us to heal. Throughout the ancient world people went to dream temples to be healed. Dreams may be used for healing our physical bodies, for monitoring and treating illnesses and injuries. Dreams may also heal the mind. The founders of psychoanalysis, Freud and Jung, used dreamwork in their treatment of patients. Dreams may also be used for healing the spirit. Spiritual guides and shamans may do healings of all three types.

Empowerment Dreams may help us to grow, to transform, to become empowered, to become the person we want to be. They may help us to overcome our fears, try new things, and move ahead in our lives. Dreams may give us gifts of spiritual insight to grow as spiritual beings. Even our nightmares have lessons to teach us.

Entertainment Dreams are often full of adventure and dramatic stories. They can be very exciting, pleasurable, and fun. We can safely explore and experience our fantasies in our dreams. What have you always wanted to do? They also make great conversation starters when you are at a party.

Manifestation Dreams and visions may be used to help us manifest in physical form our desires in the physical world. What would you like to create in your life?

Travel When we dream we may travel to other times and places, to any where in the world, to any time in history, to other worlds and other dimensions and even into the future. Dreams and visions offer us unfettered and truly unlimited opportunities for travel.

Remote Sensing We can see and hear things from a distance in our dreams, from other places in the world. To see remotely is called Clairvoyance. To hear remotely is called Clairaudience.

Visiting Distant People We can visit our friends and relatives anywhere in the world and talk with them in our dreams and visions.

Visiting Departed People We can visit our departed friends and relatives in our dreams and visions. Death is not a barrier to continued contact.

Visiting Spirit Guides When we dream we may visit and talk with spiritual guides such as wise elders, animals, fairies, angels, and other natural and supernatural beings. They may offer us words of wisdom, guidance, and insight.

Telepathy In dreams and visions we may have mental telepathy, mind to mind communication. We may have a mental connection with other minds. Who would you like to connect to?

Precognition In our dreams and visions we may have glimpses of future events or Premonitions. Our dreams may forewarn us of danger or opportunity. We are wise to pay attention.

With all that our dreams have to offer us, they are too important to ignore. We are wise to listen to what our dreams are telling us. What are your dreams telling you? A dream guide can help you to decode the meaning of your dreams and help you to explore the opportunities that dreams have to offer you. Let Deerheart be your dream guide. He can open the door to new opportunities and insights for you.

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