Why Do People Dream?
In this article I discuss why people dream. I’ll begin by telling you about one of my most memorable dream experiences.
When I was eighteen, I went to work in a hotel in France for the summer, with the aim of improving my French. While I was there, I had the strangest dream I’d ever had. This is what happened:
I was in Paris, outside a locked car which was parked in the street. Inside the car was an African baby. There was no air, water or food in the car and the baby was dying. There were many people around the car, some who wanted to rescue the baby, some were just observing. There was a sad, inevitable atmosphere in the dream – we were waiting for the baby to die and we could not prevent his death.
In the night, I woke up, feeling quite disturbed and haunted by the dream. When I went back to sleep, I dreamt of the same thing. It was so awful that I kept waking up. I tried to sleep a couple more times but each time, I returned to the same dream. And the very last time that I fell asleep, the baby was out of the car and someone was holding him. He died in their arms. After that, I gave up trying to sleep as I did not want to dream about it again.
I went into work really tired that morning and the radio was on, as usual. Literally the very first piece of news that I heard was that a baby of African origin had been found dead in a locked car in Paris, they thought he had been left there overnight and died of dehydration. Of course, when I heard that a shiver ran down my spine, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I got goosebumps (Ok, maybe not all at the same time, but suffice to say that I was freaked out!)
And I thought about the experience a lot over the next few days. I wondered what this experience was. Was it just a dream – a ‘coincidence’? Or was I actually there in Spirit?
If I was of a more skeptical mindset, I would probably have attributed my dream to a coincidence. But instead I concluded that my dream was somehow linked to the actual event. I felt haunted by the dream, in a way that a dream had not haunted me before. I felt some sort of connection to the baby.
Prior to that experience, I had never really thought too much about dreams – I had lots of weird dreams, sure, but I did not pay so much attention to the meaning of them or think they were ‘real’.
Later on, when I did my training in Soul Realignment, I learned that our dreams are real experiences, which take place on the astral planes. Some of them we have because we need to learn something from them. Others we don’t need to remember as much.
Here are three common activities that we do when we’re dreaming:
1. Learning through Role-playing
Have you ever had a dream that taught you a real lesson? Some of our dream experiences happen because there is a lesson contained within them, that we are meant to remember and take on board.
Here’s an example: if you’re someone who is very giving, to a fault, in your daily life, and you need to learn to balance giving with receiving, you could be in a dream situation where you experience direct negative consequences as a result of giving too much to others. And when you wake up, you realize that it doesn’t serve you to be the one who’s always giving and never receiving.
Sometimes your guides and teachers can be involved in your role-playing, to help you to learn these lessons and at other times, you may see souls in your dreams whom you do not recognize. These souls are undoubtedly ‘Dream masters’ – souls who serve you by playing parts in your dreams, to help you to learn something. You could be a Dream master yourself – especially if you have lots of dreams that don’t make sense or have any lessons for you in them.
2. Consulting with guides, angels and spiritual teachers
Some people aren’t skilled at connecting with their guides because they’re too afraid to open up. The most un-scary way that your guides can pass on a message to you is in a dream, and they often do this, but not all of them are always remembered by the conscious mind. Sometimes guides can show you metaphors, sometimes you have conversations with them. Mine have even played songs to me to give me a certain message. If there is something which I am missing about any aspect of my life that I really ought to be seeing, I know that my guides will come to me in a dream and let me know about it.
The last time they did this was last year, when I heard from an old school friend of mine that our high school Spanish teacher, Mr Owen, had passed away. I was sad and sorry for his family – he wasn’t even that old. But then shortly after hearing the news, I had a dream in which one of my guides informed me that Mr Owen wasn’t dead and that it was just a rumour.
I wanted to check, so I wrote to my old German teacher to ask her if she’d heard the same news. She replied to say that she rang Mr Owen and he was alive and well – so, it was a rumour, nothing more. Now I always pay attention when I remember having spoken to my guides about something in a dream!
If you don’t really make use of your guides or are looking to develop your psychic abilities, it helps to intend to speak with your guides in your dreams. I say that firstly because it’s so easy for your guides to reach you when you’re asleep. They may even have some tips or instructions for you to contact them in your waking hours.
3. Helping other souls to cross over (Third Order work)
The Third Order is the spiritual order (group of spirits) which comes for you when you die, to help you to cross over to the other side. Some of us have worked in the Third Order in between our physical incarnations and if so, we bring our Third Order skills into the physical with us.
Obviously, when you’re in a physical body, you can’t work as a member of the Third Order. But I have read for quite a lot of people who belong to this spiritual order and a few of them have told me that they dream of helping spirits who are earthbound to cross over or of helping souls who are otherwise ’stuck’ to set themselves free.
This could have been what I was doing in my dream about the African baby. Lately I often dream I’m helping stuck or earthbound souls. The souls that I dream about are very real to me. Maybe I should start demanding astral payment!
So, voila – three ways in which dreams can be very, very meaningful. Contrary to what you may have heard, dreams are not always about our subconscious mind talking to us – they are actually part of our connection to Source. And there’s no reason why we would not want to remember dreams, except of course, if we have unpleasant dreams. If this is the case, you could be travelling to the negative astrals.
The negative astrals are a pretty unpleasant place to visit and you will have nightmares and nasty dreams if you go there. If you’re often having disturbing dreams or nightmares, you could have a portal way open in your subconscious to the negative astrals.
To close the portal way, light a candle, sit quietly and focus on your breath for a few minutes, to slow down your vibration, then read the following prayer:
“Creator of all beings, Divine Archangels, my Astral Guide, my own personal team of Guides, Teachers and Angels, please close the portal way in my subconscious, that leads to the negative astrals, for all time, so that it may never be re-opened. Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
Please leave a comment if you have something to relate about your astral experiences!
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Although I typically don’t remember my dreams, or even remember having dreams, there have been some which really stuck with me. Mostly they were either flying / ethereal dreams, or in a couple cases I had dreams which actually then happened to me on the following day.
I really enjoyed reading Robert Monroe’s books – he talks a lot about nighttime “school” for the spirit. I also attended the Gateway Voyage program from The Monroe Institute and had some very interesting experiences… certainly not explainable by traditional science!
Hey Anna
Wonderful article once again!
This has inspired me to master lucid dreaming and channelling. I’ve got the books and the resources. All I have to do is apply myself!
Thank you!
Yang
Interesting. So one of your specializations is the third order, I guess? Perhaps that is why you are not afraid of dealing with death scenes.
I had one of those dreams in which I met my spirit guide and learned a lesson. It happened before I started this spiritual development, and it finally made sense recently. Actually, I wrote about it on my blog recently, along with other things about dreams. Your article is a great supplement so I will link to you.
Blessings,
Akemi Gaines
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How many people actually are dream masters? A lot? A few? Is it rare?
Third Order:
Dont know if I am lunatic, but I believe to be a portal opener for earth bound souls. I feel strong connection with light tunnels and feel I can creat them real fast.
Hi Chris – I love flying dreams, they are my most vivid dream memories too. I’ll have to read something by Robert Monroe, have had his books recommended to me a few times.
Yang – thanks! good luck with your lucid dreaming.
Akemi – thanks for the link! Your story about your guide was interesting. I don’t actually belong to the Third order, apparently, but I feel like I should do as I come into contact with lots of earthbound spirits.
M- Dream master is quite a common soul training among my clients.
Hi Julius – Yes, you’re definitely a lunatic !
Only joking, maybe portalway opening is part of your soul specialization.
Thanx. I am totally fond of opening portals!!!! It must be one of my soul specializations.
Also past years I thought I would be good in helping others to cross to the other side.
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man, everyone’s so productive when they’re sleeping. guess i’m the slacker who dreams of things like cockroaches smoking dunhill’s and making real rainbows for christmas.
Just a question: If a negative entity is about to enter your chakra system while you’re asleep and your soul is in the astral plane, will that confrontation appear in my dreams? And if I do find myself in that situation, what can I do to repel the negative entity while this event takes place on a subconscious level? I am not a lucid dreamer yet. I’m asking that question because I rarely get nightmares or disturbing dreams in my lifetime — at the most just a few uncomfortable dreams and many weird or neutral ones. Thanks.
Cool – I am a portal opener
I love that!
Hi Ariff – funny dreams! I’m one to talk with the stuff I dream about…
Nina – Yes, the confrontation with a negative entity can appear in your dream if it’s attached or stalking you. But obvously not all dream confrontations mean a negative entity has attached. If you suspect a negative entity attachment, pay attention to how you feel, above all, when you wake up, because if a negative entity has attached, you’ll notice it at first like a subtle grey raincloud above you. I’m sure you don’t need to worry about it too much. Remember, energy flows where attention goes, so don’t waste too much energy fearing negative entity attachments.
Hi Anna!
I’ve only recently begun entering into the realms of unlocking spiritual truths. I have two questions for you with regards to dreaming.
1.) If dreams are real experiences occurring on the astral plane, how does Lucid Dreaming work with regards to that? Do we take control of our experience on the astral plane? And if we have full control over our dream/astral plane experience, how can we learn any lessons?
2.) How does hardcore, full-on meditation (like four hours straight) work? You keep your mind completely clear for four hours. How is that more restful than sleeping and dreaming, and what happens to our “astral plane” experience if we don’t dream?
Hi Ace,
In response to this question:
“If dreams are real experiences occurring on the astral plane, how does Lucid Dreaming work with regards to that? Do we take control of our experience on the astral plane?”
I have to admit I’m not an expert on lucid dreaming. But from what I understand about it, lucid dreaming is about more consciously directing what’s happening and what you’re learning in the astrals. Being in control doesn’t have to mean that you’re not going to learn the lessons the same. Also, we’re not always learning in the astral planes – sometimes we’re just exploring, enjoying or renewing ourselves.
“How does hardcore, full-on meditation (like four hours straight) work? You keep your mind completely clear for four hours. How is that more restful than sleeping and dreaming, and what happens to our ?astral plane? experience if we don?t dream?”
When you’re meditating deeply, that plugs us in more fully to Source and creates an opening to receive the vital life force that we can access from Source. We receive that through our Godspark, which is our connection back to Source. We also plug back into Source more fully when we’re asleep, in the astrals, whether we’re dreaming or not.
Hi Anna,
Quick Question: how can I dream in a higher plane? I have been paying closer attention to my dreams lately and I have come to realize that I’m dreaming in a lower plane. It is very similar to earth plane but in slow motion per se. Not sure if I’m making any sense here but I do remember that I woke up and thought whoa yah…low plane dream
Also, I thought I had identified my spirit guide but then i had a dream that she was leaving, she told me she had been ordered to leave. In my dream she always appeared as a service worker of some sort, in grocery lines etc but this time she was in my home and told me that “gepetto” told her to leave.
Maybe it is my imagination, being that it was just a dream…any insight from you would be appreciated. Thank you
I will try to close the negative portal tonight following your instructions listed above
Hi Maria,
How are you feeling before you go to sleep? Are you stressed or fearful or feeling some other negative emotion? If your vibration is low when you’re going to sleep, you can take that low vibration with you into the astrals and your experiences will usually reflect that. Try to raise your vibration before you sleep – for example, relax your mind, let go of any stress or fear and if you read, make sure it’s positive, empowering stuff.
I studied how to Astral Travel and how to be conscious in the Astral Plane. I had heaps of time to do the exercises so I had some success in becoming conscious/lucid there. When you choose to awaken consciously in another dimension and you are definately on a path of Light you can be literally attacked by entities that choose to awaken in darkness. I learnt how to Astral Travel by doing courses withh the Gnostic Movement. I used to say the protective prayer/s and like magic you would see dark creatures/entities of all description be removed and then you would just see light and clouds. If you could maintain where you were and then choose to go somewhere else or ask your guides to show you where to go you would go there. Most times when that happened I would usually wake up. These days I don’t try to be conscious in the Astral Plane (4th dimension) as it doesn’t seem to be hugely helpful or necessary for my spiritual growth. Anna was spot on about the lower astral planes. Thanks for the advice on the prayer/request to ask guides etc to help us close up that part of our subconscious. I didn’t know that was possible. Also I think not to be too scared of dark entities as the Light is always more powerful than the darkness. On the rare occassion that I do experience going to the lower Astral areas – usually if I have a temperature or have eaten heavy food before sleeping – I just quicky say…”I ask for the prescence of the most holy and Divine Light and the living spirit of Truth”. That is so easy and I will say it even if I am back here awake and a bit scared in my bedroom. When we ask for the Light it always comes to help. The polite Light I call it as it will never be invasive or try to trick us like darkness attempts to. The real trick is to become conscious in much higher dimensions….where there is only pure Love/Light….aahh Bliss!
So glad I found your site Anna! I’ve been busily catching up on all the blogs I’ve missed since your site’s inception. Such great information you have on all your blogs!
Just wanted to share some dream experiences and get your insight. Throughout my 32 years of life, I would dream of insignificant things and at no distinct time frame (weeks, months, even years down the road), this dream would become reality and I would usually get the feeling first then the recollection of having seen it in my dream. I have no idea why this happens…it seems so insignificant to me. It could be as insignificant as looking at a piece of reading material or exchanging a conversation with someone.
Also, I frequently dream of flying which is so wonderful. Usually though once I touch the ground in my dream, I find it more difficult to fly again. Once, I dreamt that I was flying over a warehouse and wanted to investigate closer towards the ground but didn’t land because I knew that I wouldn’t be able to take flight again. As I was proceeding to fly back up to the sky, a shadow grabbed me at which time I woke up and started praying because it freaked me out!
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Hi Julius, One night at my psychometry/meditation group there was a collumn of Light that our teacher saw created in the middle of the circle. There was a lot of love in the group that night.
She doesn’t usually “see” things like this…but what she saw was earthbound souls slipping into the Light collumn. It made me think of your portals. I come across portals in my dreams at times….sometimes they are in the ocean. They enable me to move from one place/dimension to another very quicky.
Anna it is always so wonderful to read your blogs and website…so inspiring that so many souls are working hard to grow, heal and help others on their path. Love and Light to all. Elizabeth
Hi Claire, I get those dreams too! I believe they’re called precognitive dreams. You’d think you’d get them regarding a major future event or disasters but sometimes they can be about something mundane or insignificant. I’m not sure why they happen. Maybe it’s a preview of what you’re manifesting or maybe it’s a preview of the events you’ve already chosen for yourself.
Hi Elizabeth, Thanks for your comments! Love to you too.