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Thursday July 24, 2008

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The Inner Wisdom of Dreams

Once or twice a month I am bolted awake in the middle of the night by a dream of a prowler standing outside wherever I’m sleeping that night (home, hotel, a friend’s guestroom). The prowler is fumbling with the locks on the door to my room. Suddenly he’s inside... I hear his footsteps... he’s turning the corner... he’s standing above me... I can see his outline...I feel him reaching for me...I bolt up in bed. I’m too frightened to remain unconscious; I need to find out whether the prowler is a rapist, a burglar or even a friend who’s come to tell me something.

I’ve discovered a pattern to my “predator” dreams. They usually pop up in my unconscious world when there’s something I don’t want to face in my conscious world. Something I’m avoiding. Something I would rather run away from. The predator comes to shake me to my senses, leaving me sitting upright in my bed asking, “My Lord, what was that all about?” That’s enough to make me rummage through my mind to discover what’s inside that wants to move from periphery to the center of my consciousness. Mind you, I didn’t say that I am willing to deal with whatever it is. I just said that the startled feeling the dream leaves me with prompts me that it’s time to look at it.

Perhaps you have a recurring dream that visits you from time to time. It may be a scary dream, or it may be hilarious in the way it patches together bits and pieces of your life that, on the surface, have nothing to do with one another but on second thought have everything to do with one another. One thing is for sure: Dreams bring us messages from our unconscious. They come to tell us about the places within us that are emotionally dissatisfied or satisfied.

Explore your recurring dreams right now by journaling about them and listening for what they might be telling you.

--Renita Weems

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Recurrent dreams....now thatis interesting.I used to have dreams offalling down and find that I fall onto my bed safely but that experience was scary.Once ot up and saw someone by my bed and no-one was really there-could have been a "visitor'" from my dreams or a being of my thoughts-scary again because it was dark.More thoughts later.

Posted by: ranjini Pillai | May 2, 2008 11:53 AM

Hi Rev. Weems,
I have been trying to figure out my dreams for years, especially the one where I seemm to be too fat to get out of an enclosed sliding board and my husband is about to pull off from the park that he'd been searching for me at and I'm crying to hard to scream. Then I let out one: a loud scream!
Although I have felt a need to divorce my husband for almost 49 years, (which is how long we'll be married come June 7th, of this year,)he is the only person who I feel cares enough about me to protect me or save me from any sort of harm or danger.
I have a real love/hate relationship with him which keeps me extremely confused.

Posted by: Rose-2 Jennings-Edwards | May 2, 2008 6:22 PM

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