Dream Meanings Have Changed Over Time
For as long as
people have been sleeping, they have searched for the
meanings of dreams. There has always been someone
around who thinks they know the meanings. Over time
a lot of the meanings changed but some are the same.
This site gives the means as depicted in the nineteenth
century. You may or may not be surprised at how people
thought back then. It is easily determined that these
meanings where written by a man. Oh, how things have
changed, or not.
How To Develop The Power To Dream
Keep the mind clear and as free from material rubbish as
is possible and go to sleep in a negative condition (this
will, of course, have to be cultivated by the subject). A
person can, if he will, completely relax his mind and body
to the receptive mood required for dreams to appear as
realities, or true explanations of future events. To dream
you are conversing with a dead relative, and that relative
endeavors to extract a promise from you, warns you of coming
distress unless you follow the advice given. Disastrous
consequences could be averted if minds could grasp the inner
workings and sight of the higher or spiritual self. The
voice of relatives is only that higher self taking form to
approach more distinctly the mind that lives near the
material plane. There is so little congeniality between
common or material natures that persons should depend more
largely upon their own subjectivity for true contentment and
pleasure.
Dreams Exaggerated
The will is suspended during sleep, so the dream mind is
more a prey to excitability than the waking mind. Thus when
images appear upon the dream vision they are frequently
distorted into hideous malformations that fill it with fear
and excitement.
Contrary Dreams
The constant dwelling of the mind upon certain things
distorts their shapes upon subjectivity, thus throwing
dreams in exactly opposite channels to the waking reality. Yet the dreamer always feels a sense of being awake in
dreams like these, and on awakening experiences no
recuperation of mind or body after such contrary dreams.
Sleep is not fully sustained while the dreamer is held by
material ideas in the subjective state. |