Amy Newmark - Chicken Soup for the Soul: Listen to Your Dreams: 101 Tales of Inner Guidance, Divine Intervention and Miraculous Insight

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Listen to Your Dreams

101 Tales of Inner Guidance, Divine Intervention and Miraculous Insight

Amy Newmark

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Names: Newmark, Amy, compiler.

Title: Chicken soup for the soul : listen to your dreams : 101 tales of inner guidance, divine intervention and miraculous insight / [compiled by] Amy Newmark.

Other Titles: Listen to your dreams : 101 tales of inner guidance, divine intervention and miraculous insight Description: [Cos Cob, Connecticut] : Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC, [2020]

Identifiers: ISBN 9781611590685 | ISBN 9781611593037 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Precognition--Literary collections. | Precognition-- Anecdotes. | Extrasensory perception--Literary collections. | Extrasensory perception--Anecdotes. | Dreams--Literary collections. | Dreams--Anecdotes. | LCGFT: Anecdotes.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020935181

Changing lives one story at a time

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No one is you, and that is your superpower.

~Elyse Santilli

W hat are dreams? Are they a way of processing the days activities and sorting out your thoughts? Are they a product of your subconscious telling you things youre too distracted to focus on during your waking hours? Are they sometimes a pathway to communications outside the constraints of your own capabilities?

Whatever you believe, this new collection of stories about dreams and premonitions will inspire you to remember and analyze your own. You may feel your dreams are generated by your own mind, or you may think that some of your dreams come to you via more divine routes. Either way, these tales of dreams remembered and advice followed reveal how incredibly powerful dreams can be as a tool for redirecting your life, changing your relationships, and making you a happier person.

Im a practical, fact-oriented person so I fall into the camp that believes that we generate our dreams ourselves, and that they are the products of our subconscious saying, Hey you! Focus, please. Heres what Ive been trying to tell you all day while youve been looking at your phone and doing projects and talking to people!

Rebecca Radicchi, for example, shares one such tale in Chapter 1, Personal Transformation. She had a recurrent dream in which a tidal wave would be roaring straight at her, and shed stand there frozen, watching it approach. Finally, after years of this nightmare, Rebecca decided to analyze it. She realized something very important: Those colossal waves had never actually overtaken me. Not once. Rebecca understood that no matter what kind of awfulness came at her, she would prevail. She says, From then on, I viewed those walls of water as a gift. They reminded me to balance out my feelings with facts. They encouraged me to deal with challenges by facing them. And they reassured me that no matter what comes, Ill never be overcome.

Many of our writers found similar hope, courage, and confidence through their dreams. Others found new pathways for their lives. Youll read about people changing careers, homes, even spouses because of the direction theyve received from their subconscious pointing out to them what they already knew. Youll read about people figuring out what the stressors in their lives are through their dreams, and deciding to do something about them. And youll read about people sorting out their feelings for friends or family members alive or dead through their dreams.

In many cases, its hard to imagine someones subconscious was the source of their inspiration, when the advice theyve received seems to come out of left field. Thats what happened to Jody Sharpe after she lost her daughter Kate in a car accident. Her story in our chapter called Listen to That Little Voice is about a dream in which a voice told her to read Charlottes Web. Jody had never read the book, and she had no reason to know its contents. But she went out and bought the book immediately, and in the last chapter she found the guidance she needed to move forward in her life, finding joy in her remaining children and her grandchildren despite her sorrow for Kate.

Have you ever had a premonition that something bad was about to happen? Perhaps you changed your day to avoid that bad event, or you warned someone else. Youll read plenty of tales of premonitions well heeded in these pages. One of our writers, Marya Morin, had so many dreams and premonitions come true that her parents warned her not to tell anyone. Her story in our chapter called Prophetic Premonitions concerns her discovery of her gift as a young child, and her later reluctance to tell the man she was dating about it, until they were about to have a tire blow out on a mountain road. She screamed at her date to stop moments before their front tire exploded. As they sat in the car on the shoulder of that treacherous road, trembling, she confessed that she had dreamed the night before about the tire and the ravine they would plunge into. Marya says that unlike her parents, He expressed no fear or distaste only relief for saving our lives and sympathy for the many omens Id never disclosed to anyone. Theyve been married for decades now.

I learned a lot about the power of dreams and premonitions while I was making our two previous books on this topic Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and Premonitions (2015) and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and the Unexplainable (2017). If youre interested in reading more stories like these after you finish this book, I recommend those two volumes, which I put together with dream expert Kelly Sullivan Walden and her cadre of dream experts.

One of Kellys recommendations in those books is to write down your dreams the moment you wake up. Even if you can scribble down a couple of keywords youll have a better shot of remembering. How many times have you woken up, said I had the most vivid dream, and then promptly forgotten it? That happens to me all the time. I did have two vivid dreams this spring, though, which I have managed to remember.