Last night, prior to going to sleep, I stated intent.  I prayed to God, asked my higher self and loved ones to guide me, to let me be alert and remember any dream experience I had.  I also stated a sincere attempt to help someone in need.  I drifted out.

I found myself in a hallway, it was in a hospital, there were people crowded around a sick person's bed.  I was being asked to solve and crack a "difficult" case.  There was a young looking man there lying in a hospital bed.  His face and upper torso appeared normal.  On his lower extremities, there was extensive damage, so much so that skeletal remains were showing through damaged skin.  Interestingly, I remember thinking how composed his face was without signs of disease.

This was a dream in which I was semi-conscious, but asleep.  I assessed the situation, and found myself looking directly at the man and saying to the man, that the problem was not a difficult-to-diagnose disease, but in his belief.  The astral wounds were due to his persisting belief in them.  He had died, either through trauma or a ravaging disease.  This was some kind of recovery area in the astral realm.  I remember two thoughts at the time, watching events unfold.  One was, how unlike me it was to focus on belief systems when a patient was so obviously ravaged like this - I of course would not do this in the physical world.  But as you know, in dreams, sometimes we find them unfolding without having complete power to speak as we would here in the physical world.  I ascribe this to the difference between intuition and training.  In my astral dream state, I said what my truest thought was at the time; if we were in a physical hospital, I would have been purely rational at first, going through a list of possible diagnoses with the patietnt and a plan of treatment. 

I emphasized to the "patient" that his present state had to do with the belief of persisting disease and wounds and that he must see them as not being there.   That he must change his belief to obtain a true healing; to see the wounds as healed, and to drop the need for them to be there.  There was a general sense of approval and relief from those around the bed for what transpired.

Was this a retrieval?  Was it someone I was taken to by guides or myself?  Was I healing a fragment of myself - I don't think so.  The reason I think this was  a retrieval, was that I stated intent prior to falling asleep.  I wanted to travel to where I was needed and to help someone.

This brings up another important point, that retrievals and these experiences may happen during sleep or wakefulness. 

Matthew

That is a great retrieval story. I agree that we participate in our dreams too. I just wish I could wrap my head around how the higher self gets lost in the first place. That's where the whole retrieval process starts to break down for me. Surely there is someone to help them at first moment of passing over. I'm working on it. And I  do believe they happen.

I can see that if the character we play on earth is somehow given it's own life outside of the Actor/Higher Self.

Woops,

Was just reading on another thread about Higher Self.
It seems to me the term Higher Self is used two ways:

A Higher Consciousness that is with us while we're on earth that can communicate back to the afterlife and with other Higher Consciousnesses better than perhaps our constricted consciousness will allow us (or me  anyway);   and
the Disk center/ Higher Self that is over and the sum of many probes/ people who are incarnated and some who are not.  It gets the info from all their experiences faster than if it were singularly on its own.

Which is it 'really'?

Bets

I actually was kind of angry when I woke up, because it seemed in the dream, I was telling the patient rather sternly and in a not-very-compassionate way that the problem was not his ravaged body, but his belief that it was that way. 

I always envisioned that I would be more like I am in the physical and have a lighter touch.  But somehow, maybe this is what he needed to hear.  I don't know.  I didn't stay to see what happened, and I didn't recognize individuals around the bed, that I can remember, though there were at least 6-10 people.


Matthew

Thank you Matthew, this whole thread was so very helpful for me. I recall asking back a year or so, what exactly a "retrieval" is, but I never really did grasp it. I suppose I have now.  Nanner

Hi Matthew,

I agree with Recoverer and just want to add my congratulations !

Now you're seeing the afterlife from 'both sides of the veil' and I just know you'll do so well with your increasing discoveries and well-thought out vantage point!
I'm very happy for you 

Bets

Hi All: I find it disconcerting that the universe doesn't stay on my schedule... I don't officially learn retrieving until I do lifeline in June... but, this is the third retrieval I kind of think I did or at least made an attempt to do.. go figure.

S.