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"The personal self, in a normal state, cannot free itself from
the past or from the anxieties of the future. The reader
should ever keep before his mind the fact that no man ever had
the same dream twice. He may have had very similar dreams, but
some detail will be missing. Nature seems to abhor duplicates.
You could no more find two dreams alike than you could find
facsimiles in two blades of grass. A man cannot live two days
exactly alike. Different influences and passions will possess
him. Consequently, no two dreams can be had under exactly the
same influences. Stereotypes are peculiarly the invention of
man and not of God or nature. Since it is impossible to find a
man twice in exactly the same mental state, it is equally
impossible for him to dream the same dream twice therefore, it
is only possible to approximate dream interpretation by
classing them into families.
All men are acquainted with health and sickness, love and
hate, success and failure. Sickness, hate and failure belong
to kindred families, and often ally their forces in such a way
that it is hard to say whether the dreamer will fail in love,
health or some business undertaking. But at all times a bad
symbol is a warning of evil, though that evil may be minimized
or exaggerated, or vice versa, according as signs are good.
Thus, if the dream symbol indicates wealth or fortune to the
peasant, his waking life may be gladdened by receiving or
seeing a fifty-cent piece, or finding assuring work, while the
same symbol to a wealthy man would mean many
dollars, or a favorable turn in affairs.
It is the same in physical life. A man may hear the sound of a
wagon. He cannot determine by the rattle of the wheels whether
it is laden with laundry, groceries or dry goods. He may judge
as to its size and whether it is bearing a heavy or a light
burden. When it objectifies he will be able to know its full
import and not before. So with dream symbols. We may know they
are fraught with evil or good, as in the
case of Pilate's wife, but we cannot tell their full meaning
until their reflections materialize before the objective
sense. Death is more frequently foretold by dream messages or
visions, as explained in another part of this chapter. During
sleep the will is suspended, leaving the mind often a prey to
its own fancy. The slightest attack of an enemy may be
foretold by the unbridled imagination exaggerating
the mental picture into a monstrous shark or snake, when,
indeed, a much less portentous sign was cast from the dream
mold.
A woman may see a serpent in waking life and through fright
lose reason or self-control. She imagines it pursues her when
in reality it is going an opposite direction in a like way
dreams may be many times unreal. The mind loses its reason or
will in sleep, but a super-sensitive perception is awakened,
and, as it regains consciousness from sleep, the sound of a
knock on the wall may be magnified into a pistol shot.
The sleeping mind is not only supersensitive as to existing
external sounds and light, but it frequently sees hours and
days ahead of the waking mind. Nor is this contradictory to
the laws of nature. The ant housed in the depth of the earth,
away from atmospheric changes, knows of the approach of the
harvest, and comes forth to lay by his store. In a like
manner, the pet squirrel is a better barometer of the local
weather than the Weather Bureau. With unerring foresight, when
a wintry frown nowhere mars the horizon, he is able to
apprehend a cold wave twenty-four hours ahead, and build his
house accordingly.
So in sleep, man dreams the future by intuitive perception of
invisible signs or influences, while awake he reasons it out
by cause and effect. The former seems to be the law of the
spiritual world, while the latter would appear to be the law
of the material world. Man should not depend alone upon
either. Together they proclaim the male and female principle
of existence and should find harmonious consummation. In this
manner only can man hope to achieve that perfect normal state
to which the best thought of the human race is aspiring, where
he can create and control influences instead of being created
and controlled by them, as the majority of us are at the
present day.
God, the
highest subjective source of intelligence, may in a dream
leave impressions or presentiments on the mind of man, the
highest objective source of intelligence. The physical sun
sends its light into the dark corners of the earth, and God,
the Spiritual Sun, imparts spiritual light into the passive
and receptive soul. Man, by
hiding in a cave, or closing the windows and doors of his
house, may shut out all physical light so he may steep his
soul in sensual debauchery until all spiritual light is shut
out.
Dreams are said to be your
mind's way of making sense of the various issues it
deals with on a day to day basis-whether it is
work, family, health, or relationships. Dreams help
sort out all the information and events that you
are subject to during your day creating a way for a
person, free of conscious limitations, to
understand what is really going on, to solve
problems, to gain clarity and insight into a
situation, issue, or person."
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