Luke – I suppose I am only pointing out possibilities. Even that is difficult because dreams usually deal with what is shown happening in the unconscious – see
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-unconscious/So any insight we might get from a dream is a bit like looking at the inner world of a seed. We could see it has potential to grow into a tree or a flower, and we could see that its growth is dependent on its environment. So in dreams we can see our own potential and the environment it has been planted in. We can see the things that stand in the way of that potential, usually called traumatic life events, attitudes, ideas and beliefs, and our own standpoint.
But all of us have infinite potential. It is only the things that stand in the way – as I explained in the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNZVV4Ciccg – it takes work to remove the things that stand in the way of or potential.
So I am saying that it takes time, because what we glimpse in still emerging to rise above the soil – to consciousness.
The dream world has the potential to be in all places at once. So do we if only we could express it. In the right condition I can reach to any part of the dream world – but although I have travelled far a and wide in the inner world, usually in waking lucid dreams. I have spelt it out in the Introduction to Eye of Dreams:
“Throughout more than five decades I have been involved in a personal search for the secrets of mind and spirit. In those years I have also taught thousands of people techniques of deep relaxation, meditation, and methods of self exploration. Wanting to dig deep I explored the use of dreams and taught individuals and groups of people how to use these visions of the night to discover and heal the deepest issues in themselves, and to touch the high ground of their spiritual awareness. I worked for twenty years as a psychotherapist using several approaches, one of which was a way of honouring the body as a doorway to the unconscious mind, the emotions and spiritual experience.
During the forty years of seeking the wild wondrous beasts of the mind and spirit I dared my own inner adventure. But I also travelled with other people as an ordinary person, not a therapist, sharing their experience of fear and wonder as they unveiled and set loose their fountain of perception. I have travelled countless dream pathways, traversed the timeless with those using awareness enhancing drugs, and wrestled with the vitality of the body as people mimed and shouted their deepest intuitions through movement, dance and voice.
The journeys, alone or with others, led into realms of experience that comparatively few people know exist. They are realms in which the world, our life and preoccupations, are seen from completely new perspectives. In those realms we move beyond thoughts and conjectures, interpretations and dialogue, into the jungle and mountain peaks of the direct experience of what was previously unknown to us – into passions, torrents of energy, oceans of awareness, castles of ancient defence and aggression, into the river of time. They are realms of experience that are incredibly creative, containing treasures equally as fascinating as any tomb of Tutankhamen.”
However, like Blake Elk who said that when he was young he could call thunder and pouring rain, but now as he is old, all that happens is ‘a scant chill rain and muttering thunder without lightening.’ As I get older what I have seen and experienced still lives in me, and yet what I now experience is like a drizzling rain.
Except in dreams that are recurring you tend to experience different things each time, even though the themes are the same. We are wonderfully creative.
“In every dream no one can interpret it correctly because it wasn't meant for them. Rather we our self's must seek the truth and be open minded to our self's about it.” Exactly! A dream is an expression of Life, which has deep, deep, rivers of feeling beyond the thinking mind. Usually we only think about our dreams.
I suggest using a partner if it is possible, this give tremendous power to the effort to explore. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/peer-dream-group/The last question is difficult to answer. But I have noticed again and again that while in the waking dream state for a long time, things are incredible presented in sequence. When LSD was used for psychotherapy it was found that over many session one thing was worked on at a time – spontaneously. And when that was dealt with it would move on to the next in line. And it appeared that the next thing appeared because the previous had cleared the way. (LSD Psychotherapy by W. V. Caldwell).
Tony
