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Good points Albert. And interesting accounts too.
Recoverer said: "If a person's Oversoul knows that such person will pay attention to his dreams in order to receive information, that Oversoul might try to pass on information this way.
On the other hand, if a person doesn't pay attention to his dreams, an Oversoul is less likely to try to pass on information this way."
crossbow's reply: Yes, exactly. An individual's dream language (the meanings of representations/symbols) is their own, from the use of such a language at all, down to the detailed symbolic meanings, and to the degree of symbolism (representation) to actuality/literally (non-representation). Much of their dream language is automatically acquired through the experience of life, by things acquiring meaning through experiences, and some of the chunkier aspects of the language may be shared with others due to our common living experiences. And if we know how to, then we can formulate and fine tune our own dream language between ourself and our oversoul. There's a bit of skill and knowhow required to do it though, for it must coincide/harmonise with our automatically acquired dream language, so we must have a reasonable understanding of that first, which requires a fair bit of particular self awareness. A consciously built up dream language is done in meditative/prayerful arrangement with our oversoul, and piece by piece, gradually over time, being careful to harmonise it with and not create discord/contradiction with our automatically acquired dream language.
Some communications between oversoul and soul can be had in dreams without the need to be representative/symbolic, depending on the individual's mental ability to fathom the concept actually, but in most cases not, because freewill must be maintained and because most concepts are communicated in their vastest or most extensive or most widely applicable meaning, and symbols do that best. Symbols are also most easily transferred/communicated with least energy, or with most meaning for effort. They are economical.
There are so many kinds of dreams though, with so many purposes and uses. Science is a long way from understanding them. The individual can study them himself though and learn much. It is a slow learning curve, but every incremental advance is a significant and interesting one.
I used to often have other people's dreams, particularly with one person, because I thought it was fascinating to do so, but after a few years of doing it I consciously decided not to do it any more, not for anyone. So don't think I ever drop in, it won't happen. It causes difficulties for people, no matter how accustomed they think they are to occult (for need of a better word) matters, to dream of someone and have that someone tell them about it as they recall it is unnerving, particularly for some dreams, and particularly if it occurs frequently. There are all sorts of difficult possibilities involved and it can be disruptive to another's life and tasks, unless it is very carefully and discreetly done. I think I mentioned elsewhere the communication issue (?). Sometimes though it can be harmless and fun. I once took someone across the Pacific, over Canada and the great lakes there, and they remembered it well. That was harmless. Other times I have attended night classes with others. I used to enjoy asking someone to think about their dream then tell them about it. So many difficulties can arise though. Nowadays, even if someone comes to me in a dream and discusses something, I will not let on when I next see them, even if they talk about it. Same with people's past lives. It is all kept secret now.
A few anecdotes too:
1. The Australian aborigines are an interesting people. They were until recently, pure stone age, and had been for 60,000 years, so their stone age ways are well genetically and customarily settled in. What they term "the dreaming" is important to them. The dreaming is a broad and elastic concept taking in not just dreams, but also the behind the scenes world, the afterlife, the distant past, the origins of things, stories, certain dances, and all manner of what we might term psychic phenomena. The dreaming is not just a belief system that the old full bloods follow, it is something deeply established in their being and is like two worlds which blend into each other. I have knocked around a bit and one time with a group of bush full bloods one of them woke up in the night and started yelling and kicking another one for something he had just done in a dream. Then they went back to sleep. A couple of hours later another one awoke and did the same. Later in the night, one moment everyone was asleep, then suddenly a loud and violent group fight erupted. Then they went to sleep again. These fights are due to the overlap the dreaming has with daily life. (As you can imagine, alcohol and drugs cause havoc with them, for they are not genetically tolerant to alcohol and the dreaming gets effected too. Also they are not smart in an intellect sense so reason and impulse control can be a problem. I'm generalising of course, commenting on a recognisable pattern within a majority. There is much variation too.)
2. When my aboriginal friend and neighbour died in the night he came to visit me in a dream as clear as can be and told me he had died and that he had two jobs for me to do. Then he said goodbye and faded away. I laid there awhile partly doubting it, then his wife rang on the phone and told me he had died. I went over and saw immediately what the two jobs were and attended to them. His totem was the wedge tailed eagle. At his funeral on his property a wedge tail circled overhead all day, and when I left it followed me home, circling over me until I got home and went in my door, then it went back to his place until the last person left the funeral.
We should not take dreams too literally, for they may be representative:
3. I dreamed several times of being surrounded by hundreds of dying people laying on the ground around me, some of the dying had living people attending to and comforting them. I walked amongst them feeling as if I had an overseeing and helping role. When awake I thought the dream might signify a great calamity with many deaths. Then a little later I was offered a job terminal nursing at a hospice. For the next 6 years I was surrounded by the dying.
Or if literally correct, the context may be different than might be expected:
4. I dreamt of looking through foliage at a great dark cloud with lightning flashing through it and believing I was about to die. When awake I wondered if the dream might signify a war or some other cause of such a dark cloud leading to my death. Later that day (I was working out bush) I was high up a tall tree (for reasons I'll leave out to keep story short) hanging desperately and exhausted from a branch by my hands and about to fall to my death. While hanging there I looked through the foliage and saw the same cloud and lighting flashing scene as I saw in my dream. I knew I would die if I fell and I managed to heave myself up onto the branch to safety.
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