Dreaming into Knowing

Dreaming Into Knowing

We can dream our way into knowing. To do so requires a shift in how we perceive and experience. For example, we don’t live in the awareness that we’re light and sound. To do so may make us feel out of sorts in our manifest reality-based life. Our lives are sensed and noticed in the context of the loci of physical manifestation in which we experience through our mind’s senses at a significantly slowed down rate from how we might experience things in a non-manifest or dream reality. If things are too slow we may not notice that we dream at all. But if we use dreaming as a way to peek behind the curtain of physical manifestation, and thereby shift our perception, then we may learn that life is more reflective than what we’d been experiencing.

Often we only recall a dream when something significant is at hand. And we tend to notice the dream and dismiss the process that led to receiving its streamlined information through the act of dreaming. Our tendency is to reduce what comes through to something that has to do with our outer lives. By jumping to an outer view, we miss what may be being revealed about the aspect of our being that is more than our outer life. Things such as our relatedness to light and the dream manifest and unmanifest.

I believe that we’re light and sound and beyond light and sound too. We are essence. I believe light and sound are related in a similar way to time and space, which also relates to out-breath and in-breath. Recognizing how the nature of the breath works and is tied together reveals that we have a higher and lower self, and it shows us that we also exist beyond all and at the essence of all things. Everything is everything and we are that. There’s nothing that is separate. My dreams have shown me that breath is where the worlds come together. Light, for example is associated with the out-breath which is trying to bring something through that is associated with time. The breath also has another aspect, the interval, which is at the bottom and the top of the breath. And the top of the breath, just before the exhale is a still point. Likewise, it is so with the bottom of the exhale. Here in the intervals, there is a flash of creation, ineffable and yet in need of human experience. If we experience this interval then we may find a very subtle expression of meaning that has to do with light coming down and touching the plane of manifestation.

In my experiences learning to dream, music has come through, and I’ve had healing experiences whereby my life has been saved. I hear voices which I try to remember because what they convey is reflective, meaningful, deep, and poetic. The information is symbolic, and sometimes it seems to be beyond light and sound.

My explorations have led me to see human beings as reflective of the reflective. We think that our reflection is of light, which we call hypnagogic, but our eyes capture a mere two percent of the light spectrum. We’re more. We see light as a subtle substance full of information. Some have codified this into a study, the chakra system. In the Bible this system is referred to as the colors of man, seen in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. To my experience man is just like this. I also sense that we can go below the scale, which is what Christ did. Some say he existed on the 12th chakra. I used to interpret dreams in terms of light. But today I find this to be a limitation because we have senses that go beyond it. Solomon is quoted in the Bible speaking about the vanity of vanities which I relate to the limitlessness of light. It says, “For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his soul?” (Mark 8:36 KJV) I have experienced an eighth chakra in which oneness goes through everything, and in which the experience of I am you and you are me are in an inextricable intertwinement. When I see this, naturally I stop working on myself as me, myself, and I and realize that the dream world is taking me somewhere which keeps opening up. This reminds me of the master who said to the conceited surgeon in the movie Dr. Strange, “It’s not about you.”

To dream our way into knowledge we must not personalize any of it. We must not act from our beaten up, bombarded, bewilderment in the manifest reality, as to do so would be to act from amnesia and from our inborn tendency to reduce experience to an existing understanding, to a common sense frame, and thereby limit it so as to perceive it, and turn it into a common thing.

I dream in black and white. I think this may have to do with being a man, men being more oriented towards power and control and also less rooted. Women more easily appreciate the beauty of things, rainbows, and animals. Women are more grounded, and so they tend to dream in color. Women more often have difficulty interpreting their dreams which I believe is because of their receptivity. If a man can grasp his dream and write down what he believes it to mean it will seem like a crock when he returns to it days later. The dream may still have luminosity, but what has been written down about it won’t stand... I learned to trust that the Divine will teach what the Divine will teach. I learned that the parts of myself which are essence and the Divine will keep working at it until I get better at it… a well-pulled-out dream can save years of work in the outer life, and take us further still.