interesting thread. I've been keeping a dream log about 7 years and definetely going somewhere with it insofar as the symbols of the future, personal only, but sometimes involving friends or retrievals, the symbols are getting more literal and less open to interpretation error. there is an emotional body which has a different movement out there developed over the years. it now glides instead of walking, well, it feels graceful because thats how I feel in my emotions these days. this movement out there my guides told me long ago had to do with C1 "pacing" myself, which would reflect when I go gliding as I've been calling it.
this is the way I become lucid, through realizing I am enjoying the gliding movement.
and then the experience will unfold as it will.

also I have a theory developing. TMI teaches us we have unlimited mind, and C1 is limited mind, this is following up on Dude's thought.

the collective mind, chock full of symbols is where the unlimited aspects of mind reside, where we dream at, what is called mostly unconscious.
my theory involves us "blinking" in and out of consciousness, from one reality to the real time reality. we can blink out while in a dream state and blink back into another scene of the dream and be somewhat conscious, the scenery has changed, but we don't know how we got there. we blinked out.
then we awaken into C1, we are now blinking back into this other dream of physicality.
throughout the day we may try to concentrate on our work, or projects and find we are blinking out again here too into a day dream. we may be driving a car on automatic pilot blinking out. I've trained myself not to do that in a car.

my theory during the ascension process, or call it the shift in consciousness, is that the blinking on and off become of shorter duration until the mind is one stream of awareness and phasing in that case is one of the signs this is happening, the limited versus the unlimited areas merge like a river flowing.
this fairy is what my emotional body "feels" like somewhat when phasing or dreaming or obeing..
I believe the emotional body would be a different body than the mental body awareness: but a picture denotes the movement I was trying to explain:
in any case, we are definetely a lot more than what we express on this physical level of expression..the bliss and freedom of movement, and the magnitude of experiencing ourselves in these inner treks, are quite a fringe benefit to the shift in consciousness.

thats right Rondele. I used to keep a journal back in the 80's for while. then some author turned me off from exploring the dream world by saying something I took negatively, so gave up dreaming for many years as of any importance to my well being or growth.

they said dreams were subconscious desires expressing out there only. wishing to be buddhist and not understanding that philosophy wholly, I wished to be without desires. so I dreamed not but sporadically, although its said we dream whether we remember or not, or whether we want to or not. some dreams still impounded with enough force to recall with definite messages in them how to live my life.

later when I got serious again and began writing them down, I figured this author just hadn't gone far enough with it. sure, we have desires which can outpicture, but there's so much more out there than desires. theres retrievals and other floaters and travelers with their own bodies of awareness that you can meet. there's family relatives who wish to get  message through, theres a future road to walk down and see the end result of.

but most people don't put stock into the dream landscape as of worthy of study.
so it has to be a conscious decision to find out about yourself to go this route and it takes courage to face yourself out there because of the belief system crashes you can bring back to C1.  the crashes get easier to face them, replaced by a sense of accomplishment that you understood who you were and why you did what you did, either here or there.

so its a matter of focus..where you wanna look. there is no wrong, there is no right, there is just life in its myriad expressions. its a phenomenal type of journey all in all.

love, alysia

Does anybody have dreams from years ago that they still remember?

For example, years ago, when I first started to check out the spiritual market place, I attended meditation classes with a teacher from India for a short while. One night I had a dream where I was standing at the end of a plank that was sticking out from the upper level of a high scaffold.  The room was black. I could either jump off of the scafold and hope I could fly, or I could walk back to the scaffold where the teacher was. I chose to jump with the hope I would fly astrally.

After this dream I decided to stop seeing this teacher. It was a good move. His motives weren't pure. He couldn't get his own guru thing going, so he ended up being the translator for a very well known, but phoney guru, who has a history of doing some really negative things. I believe the creator of my dream was looking out for me.

Alysia:

Interesting pee dream.  Made me laugh so hard I almost wet myself.

Just kidding, I couldn't resist a pee joke.

Perhaps early on you were being reminded of something.

There are a couple of repeating dreams I had as a kid (a few times each).

In one, I was standing in a boxing ring that was made completely out of rope. It was suspended in the air. The dream would end after I fell through a trap door.

In another, I would be smothered by my pillow.

I never figured out what they were about.

I remember quite a number of dreams from years ago during periods when I was keeping a dream journal.  The remembered dreams were intensely felt but I don't think they were nearly as dramatic or potentially scary as Recoverer jumping of the scaffolding.  I agree you made the right choice.  Don't know if I would have jumped though - kudos for your courage.

Remembering old dreams somehow seems different than ordinary memory.  In part it seems like I am able to reexperience the dream as opposed to pulling up memories of it.

dear Blink, I could write a tragic and glorious folk song  just based on what you described. I won't probably, but I be understanding kiddo!!!

isn't life amazing how we write our own scripts outside of linear time?

On a sidenote...

Anyone here ever read the book "What Dreams May Come"?  I saw the movie (with Robin Williams) when it first came out and years later a friend of mine suggested reading the book.  Ironically that was the very book that got me thinking about God again.  And ultimatley began me on a journey of discovery and seeking truth. 

I can also remember after watching the movie looking at my girlfriend and exclaiming...Now THAT'S what I hope the afterlife is like!! 

Just wanted to mention this because it was a huge stepping stone in my life.

Much Love,

tmerc8

I've always said to my wife then when I die whoever greets me better have my cat with them...That's how much I loved him.  No matter how physcotic that sounds...

He meant that much to me....Which brings me to another question....Do animals/pets share past lives with humans?