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USING INTUITION WITH YOUR DREAMS
10-18-09
If you believe the findings of modern
psychology, then you believe in the value of watching your dreams for
insights and guidance.
If you believe the Bible, you believe in the importance of dreams.
Dreams are all over the place in the Bible. If you just compiled the
dreams you would have a large book.
When my mother was in the hospital for the final 16 days of her life,
one doctor was insensitive to her feelings. He may have meant well and I
will not mention all the particulars but I did develop a lot of ill will
toward him.
When she died I was haunted by the ordeal she went through. I was so
relieved that she had died and was out of pain that I could not cry for
months. One medical procedure in particular angered me. I would have
nightmares in which I would kill the doctor and mother and I would drive
around hunting a place to dispose of him.
This kind of dream disturbed me but I knew it was just the psyche’s way
of emptying out the pain.
I began to pray for a more positive dream and one night, it came. In the
dream, I was watching my father work in a wheat field and he walked to
me at the end of his work day, dressed in his finest preaching suit
(yeah, everything in dreams does not make sense). We walked to a car I
once owned. He got in the back seat and I drove us home.
When we arrived at home, without even talking, mother materialized to
the left of the car, dressed in her favorite pink dress. Dad took her by
the hand and they walked up on the front porch, embraced and kissed and
the dream faded.
This dream was so real that I never worried about my parents again. I
knew they were together and were happy. It was that real.
My favorite Quaker friend and writer, Mariellen Gilpin, shared this
dream with me:
“Recently I shared in worship an experience of being asked in a dream by
my mother, dead 12 years, to forgive her.”
Someone asked me, “Do you think of the dream as a working out of your
feelings about your mother or do you think of it as a real conversation
with her?”
“Both and,” I replied.
“How do you know it was a real conversation with your mother,” he asked.
“I know it for a couple of reasons,” I replied.”For one thing, there was
a physical sense of release. For another thing, you have probably had
the experience of being in total darkness with someone you love. You
cannot
see the person in pitch darkness, and yet, before the person speaks you
know they are smiling at you. It was like that -- a communication at
some level other than sight and hearing.
“Another experience that may argue for a mystic way of knowing: when I
was growing up on the farm sometimes I had to find the cows after dark.
I didn’t use a light to find the cows at night because the light would
spook them. I knew all the cows by name. I often couldn’t see them, yet
I recognized them all by their personalities. Each had a characteristic
way of being. I knew them without the usual sensory cues.
John Gilpin once defined intuition as “responding to minimal cues.”
Maybe mysticism, intuition and knowing are simply responses to cues from
sensory modalities, some not scientifically labeled and studied yet.”
I studied my dreams almost daily for several years and Mariellen’s
witness harmonizes with my experiences. My intuition became so honed
that I had a definite inner witness to the truths embedded in my dreams.
Nothing has ever been more real to me that the dream I described about
my parents.
The longer we record our dreams and tune into them with our intuition,
the more we will learn from them.
~~~~~
The best dream interpretation book I have found is Wilma Tanner’s,
“The Marvelous, Mystical, Miraculous World of Dreams.”
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