Kala Ambrose - The Awakened Dreamer: How to Remember & Interpret Your Dreams

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The Awakened Dreamer: How to Remember & Interpret Your Dreams 2017 by Kala Ambrose.

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Names: Ambrose, Kala, author.

Title: The awakened dreamer : how to remember & interpret your dreams /

Kala Ambrose.

Description: First Edition. | Woodbury : Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd., 2017. |

Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017033315 (print) | LCCN 2017043156 (ebook) | ISBN

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Dedicated to all the dreamers, big thinkers, and visionaries out there.

You know who you are and you know when you dream big,

theres no limit to what can be accomplished.
Dream on!

Contents

: Exploring the Power of Your Dreams

How to Remember Your Dreams

Interpreting Your Daily Life Dreams

Prophetic and Recurring Dreams

Teaching Dreams

Visitation Dreams

Lucid Dreaming

Nightmares

Sleep Walking and Sleep Talking

Manifesting Your Daydreams

: Believing in the Power of Your Dreams

: Common Dream Symbols

Introduction

Exploring the Power
of Your Dreams

W hat if I told you that you had a magical power that has always been available to you and that you had been ignoring it your entire life? That this ability is something every person experiences every day within a twenty-four-hour period, whether they want to or not?

Im talking about dreams, of course, something we all experience. Many people will tell you that they dont dream; however, science has proven that this is not the case. What is factual is that some people dont remember their dreams. Sleep studies have shown that the average person experiences a dream around every one and a half hours of sleep during a regular sleep cycle.

Throughout history, dreams have been recorded by people from a variety of cultures and groups who profess to have had dreams that warned them of danger, storms, wars, death threats, infidelities, betrayals, illnesses, and, at times, better days to come.

In modern times, the Western world has pushed aside the intuitive abilities of dreams and of listening to that voice within, in a sense silencing and creating a disconnect from the soul. Like all good things, however, the secrets of the soul cannot be fully contained, and the power of dreams is being resurrected, researched, and even studied by scientific types to the amusement of mystics, who have always known how magical and informative dreams can be. Many historians have long agreed with psychologists that dreams can tell the future and that they are indeed a form of divination. Some religious scholars share these traditions as well.

In my book The Awakened Aura , I share how dreams were used in the healing process in some ancient temples in order to help healers diagnose the deeper issue ongoing in the mind-body-spirit connection to treating disease. The understanding was that what you think and feel contributes to a feeling of unease in the body, which can over time manifest into a physical ailment. While you could just treat the physical ailment, it made better sense to get to the root of the problem and treat that as well, so that the ailment would not reappear in the body. The healer would watch over the patient as they slept, paying attention to when they were dreaming and taking notes. When the patient awoke, the doctor would ask them about their dream in order to interpret what was causing stress in this persons life.

Some of these dream temples became hugely popular, including the temple of Asklepios in the ancient Greek city of Pergamon, in modern-day Turkey. People traveled to this site to ask for assistance and answers to their problems through their dreams. While this temple conducted a more formal process in order to receive this type of divination, people in many other cultures worked with shamans or priestesses or even communed with their deceased ancestors in dreamtime in order to receive guidance and answers to their daily problems.

Wise women and men still seek guidance through their dreams today. There are reports of people who have a dream about an illness and then seek medical treatment for this ailment before experiencing any outward physical signs of any problem. In addition to these reports, a wide variety of entrepreneurs have shared with me that most of the innovative ideas that led to their success came to them first in a dream. When we ask for answers to a problem or for a fresh idea, many times the response is sent to us through a dream. When we can remember our dreams and then know how to interpret them, we open a new door of communication to the universe that can lead to a wellspring of inspiration, ideas, and guidance.

One of the most fascinating aspects of dreaming is when you have dreams about yourself in which you are acting out of character. Perhaps in the dream you are acting bolder and more assertive, taking risks that you wouldnt normally. This type of dream I often call the stirring of the soul, coming from your higher self or superconscious mind, encouraging you to be brave and to try new things. This often occurs first in our dreams so that we can try it out and see how it feels, preparing our conscious mind for this new adventure. For many of us, our dreams are our first steps in embracing change in our lives.