How to Dream the Future Precognitive Dreams Premonitions

Being able to foresee an unfortunate fact of life like death, disasters, illnesses, etc. through a dream is very common. Anyone may dream of something good or bad happening to someone else or even to themselves. Do dreams serve as a premonition?

Before we proceed in answering the question, let me first give you the definition of premonition and dreams. Based on dictionary meaning a PREMONITION is a presentiment of the future; or a warning in advance while a DREAM is a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep; a wild fancy or hope or a reverie.

Let us first talk about dreams. We all know that dreams do play a role in our daily lives. The majority of people pay little attention to dreams. Dreams can help us find solutions to our daily problems and see things from a different perspective. Whenever we are dreaming, we can be who or what we want to be, regardless of the fact that in real life, sometimes it cannot be. Dreams have their own interpretation, like for example when you dream about loose, rotten, or missing teeth, it indicates that a family member or close friend is very sick or even near death. You can learn of your dream’s meaning through a Dictionary of Dreams.

Now, what about premonitions? As defined earlier, it may be a warning in advance. A lot of people have had premonitions in different types of situations. When we say premonition, it is conveyed through dreams. A certain foreboding of what will happen in the near future but in a vague sense. Many cases of premonitions were documented like the disaster when Titanic sank and killed a lot of people, wherein there were fifty counts of premonitions. Some of the passengers who had a premonition cancelled their tickets before riding the Titanic, were saved from the horrible disaster that took place in 1912.

Do dreams serve as a premonition?

Well, it actually depends on the dream itself. If a person dreams about the whole scenario of an event, it can or may happen in the future. Yet, in another view, it can be just a dream that he had had but has a different significant meaning for it. A dream can serve as a premonition yet at the same time it also cannot be.

We could say that a dream served as a premonition when the dream itself foretold something that could happen in real life. But, if your dream was something out of a grandiose anticipation of what you have been thinking of, it may be just from your subconscious mind. My answer to the question “Do dreams serve as a premonition?” is IT DEPENDS, whether the dream you had has something to do with what could happen or maybe just out of a wishful thinking sense that your subconscious mind revealed through a dream.

Dream Interpretation: What do our Dreams really mean?

The interpretation of dreams by dream experts may be almost as old as dreaming itself.  We know that all humans, and many animals, dream every night, and humans have always been fascinated to learn what causes dreams and what they mean.

The interpretation of dreams dates back at least as far as 3000-4000 B.C.  We know that because the interpretations of dreams were recorded in permanent form on clay tablets.  It is thought that many primitive peoples were unable to initially distinguish between the real world and the dream world.  In many cases, these people looked upon the dream world as an extension of the physical world around them, and in many cases they saw the dream world as more powerful than the waking one.

Dream interpretation was such an important field to the ancient Greek and Roman world that dream interpreters often accompanied generals and other military leaders into battles.  Dreams were taken extremely seriously, and the Greeks and Romans in particular often viewed dreams as messages sent by their gods.

Dreams also had a religious content in ancient Egypt, and priests their doubled as dream interpreters.  Dreams were among the items recorded by the ancient Egyptians in the form of hieroglyphics.  Those whose dreams were especially vivid or significant were thought to be blessed and were given special status in these ancient societies.  Likewise, people who were able to interpret dreams were thought to receive these gifts directly from the gods, and they enjoyed a special status in society as well.

There are over 700 mentions of dreams in the bible, and people in biblical times saw dreams as very significant.  Dreams and their interpretations are mentioned in many of the most significant books of the bible and other holy scriptures.

In many cases, dreams were often seen as a form of prophecy.  People often interpreted their dreams as omens or warnings, and adjusted their activities accordingly.  Dreams were often thought of as omens from deities, as messages from spirits, or as messages from departed souls.  In some cases, dreams were even seen as the work of demons, meant to confuse and trouble the dreamer.

Dreams were so important that they often dictated the actions of political and military leaders, affecting everything from the prosecution of a battle to the outcome of a political decision.  Dreams were also thought to provide vital clues to healers, and they were used in the diagnosis and treatment of all manners of illness.

Dreaming was often looked upon by indigenous peoples as a way to commune directly with gods and spirits, and dreams are still used in this way by cultures around the world.  Many people believed, and some still do, that during dream sleep the soul leaves the body and communes with the spirit world.

The Chinese were one culture who believed that the soul left the body each night during dream sleep.  They believed that if the dreamer were suddenly awakened the soul may not be able to return to the body.  That is why some Chinese are still leery about the use of alarm clocks.  This is just one example of how ancient legends can linger into the modern world.

Some Mexican and Native American societies share this ancient view of the importance of dreams, and share the belief in a separate dimension that is visited during dream sleep.  These people believed that their departed ancestors lived in their dreams, and that they were able to take forms like animals and plants. Thus dreams were seen as a way for them to commune with their recent and ancient ancestors, and to gather wisdom and knowledge that would serve them in their waking lives.  Dreams were also seen as ways to gather information about their purpose or mission in life.

The respect for dreams changed radically early in the 19th century, and dreams in that era were often dismissed as reactions to anxiety, outside noises or even bad food and indigestion.  During this period of time, dreams were thought to have no meaning at all, and interest in dream interpretation all but evaporated.  This all changed, however, with the arrival of Sigmund Freud later in the 19th century.  Sigmund Freud stunned the world of psychiatry by stressing the importance of dreams, and he revived the once dead art of dream interpretation.

How to Meet your Spirit Guide and Spirit Animal Meditation Hypnosis

How to meet your spirit guide with Hypnosis

Many people have asked me "what is a spirit guide?" and "how do i discover my spirit guide?" which are both excellent questions if you too are learning to harness and develop your own inner psychic powers. A spirit guide acts as a medium between you and 'the other side' in much the same way as a Ouija board, pendulum or dowsing rods can be used to relay information from spirits. Rather than using a physical tool a Psychic or medium who is in contact with a spirit guide can receive clairvoyant messages at any time.

Many mediums and psychics describe their spirit guide as an entity or spirit which acts as a guide or protector over their soul. A spirit guide can take many forms and is unique to each individual. Your spirit guide could be an old family member who has passed away, a significant figure from history such as Abraham Lincoln or Pythagoras, theres nothing that says your spirit guide even has to be human! The notion of spirit guides are not something new its a phenomena that has been recorded across many cultures and times. The Native Americans, Chinese and Egyptians all have examples of spirit beings and mystical guides in their folk lore. 

The Native Americans for example would embark on a spiritual journey known as a 'Vision Quest' where a teenager or someone approaching 'manhood' would enter the woods and be deprived of food and water in an attempt to achieve an altered state of consciousness in order to encounter and interact with the spirit world. In the case of Native Americans this spirit guide or totem would usually come in the form of an animal, known as a Power Animal. Each power animal guide has a different skill and representing different supernatural abilities which would then be transferred to you, so you could be strong and powerful like a bear or cunning like a fox.  

Often a medicine man or shaman would use hallucinogenic drugs such as mescal, peyote cactus, thorn apple, psilocybin mushroom, green tobacco, jimsonweed and devil's weed to achieve these spirit visions. This again is a common experience in the ancient world, of 'tripping balls' and 'becoming a man'. I have a way that you can meet you spirit guide, a way for you to discover your spirit guide in a way which isn't harmful to your brain, you can meet your spirit guardian without having to take illegal drugs or starving yourself in a field somewhere. We know through our studies that achieving these kinds of altered states can be achieved through a number of methods. Clairvoyant visions can occur in meditation, prayer, lucid dreaming and even hypnosis. 

Please try the guided meditation / hypnosis session at the top of the page and you too can discover your spirit guide. I would love to hear about your experience? Did it work for you? What form did your spirit guide take? Please head over to the forum and join in the discussion:

http://psychicinvestigation.forumotion.com/t536-spirit-guides#5521

HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT IS REAL?

Descartes: I think therefore I am.

How do we know what is real? How do we know that we are experiencing reality? Its a simple question and the simple answer is: We can see/feel/hear/smell and taste the environment and therefore what we are experiencing must be actual reality. But this is not so. Our senses lie to us in every moment of every day. You feel how the ground is steady? Well its not, its moving at thousands of miles and hour.. 

All the things which we SEE in the physical world are a translation, by our brains, of the sensory input received through the eyes. Vision is merely the interpretation of light touching the retina. The brain then decodes this information, flips the image the right way up and filters out anything it deems to be unimportant in that moment. This all happens instantly, its an incredible feat of human brilliance.

The famous philosopher Rene Descartes understood this and posed the following question: How do I know that I am not just a brain in a jar? His point being that electricity and therefore magnetism could be used to stimulate the brain in such a way that it could see things which are not there or be tricked into experiencing other sensory information. We've all seen the Matrix, its a similar question. How would you be able to determine if what you are experiencing is a real event or just a complex fabrication made by your own mind? Those of you who are apt at Lucid dreaming will have struggled with this question also. I have often been awake and had to question myself "is this real?" or "am I asleep?"

Do you actually see whilst astral projecting or do you just imagine moving? I would have to ask the question when you are imagining do you actually see? I know that I do for sure. Stop.

When you make a picture in your mind what happens to the rest of the room? I've had people angrily say at me "what are you looking at?" and I've been like huh? I was in a trance state and my eyes may have been pointing at them but my mind was off and away somewhere else. For years they've told you off for "day dreaming" but I ask you whats the difference? How do you know that what you're experiencing right now, sitting at your computer or on your phone reading every word of this, and then you swallow.

How do you know any of this is real?

All the stresses in your life, your boss, your teacher, your husband or wife, how do you know they are not all fabrications of your own mind? We know that the mind has the ability to do remarkable things like that, be it in a dream state or the Persinger god helmet.

Then after writing all of this I realized that we still, now some 400 years after Descartes still don't have a water tight answer to this question. So I put it to you, how do you know that you are alive and that you are experiencing reality at this moment?

How to Lucid Dream Control your Dreams and Manipulate your Dreaming Experience

In a Lucid dream you are no longer bound by the laws of space or time.

Have you ever wondered How to Lucid Dream? Ever wished that you were able to control or manipulate your dreams? We have found that Lucid dreaming is an ideal place to train your psychic powers as you are not restricted by the laws of time and space. However, Lucid dreaming is not just for those with psychic abilities. Its something we can all do, and something I would strongly suggest as it is one of the most fun and enjoyable, life changing experiences you can have.

For me, the most important thing about lucid dreaming is that you, the dreamer, must be able to distinguish between being awake and being in the dream state. 

We've all had experiences where we've awoken from a dream and felt "that was so real" or later in the day have been unable to decide whether something you experienced was real or in that dream state. I have in the past woken up from a dream, in which my wife has been horrid to me and I have felt actual anger towards her lying there sleeping because the dream I just had felt so realistic, conversely sometimes I hear my phone alarm go off during the day and think "I better not be asleep right now!"

So how do you know if you are dreaming? Well the cliched method is to pinch oneself. The logic being that in the dream world you won't experience the physical pain that you would whilst being awake. However how do you remember to check whether your in a dream state whilst you are dreaming. If your subconscious mind is in control of what you are seeing, hearing, sensing and thinking how can you control that consciously?

Obviously the key is to make this process of testing whether you are awake into a subconscious one. There are countless things we do subconsciously without even realizing, both in the dream state and whilst awake, things such as breathing, regulating heart rate, or digestion. If you are able to make it so that you subconsciously check which reality you are experiencing every so often, eventually you will find yourself doing this in a dream state.

And what an eye opener it is the first time it happens to you. The moment you become conscious in a dream state for the first time is incredible, its literally like being god. You are able to manipulate your physical environment, you can fly, you can transform, anybody you want can be there and you can do whatever you want, however you want. If you can imagine it you can do it. What could be more kick ass than that?

Telepathy Ganzfeld Experiment Mind Reading

What is the Ganzfeld Experiment?

The Ganzfeld Experiment is a parapsychological experiment which consists of two participants in separate rooms trying to communicate with each other using thought transference or telepathy. Telepathy is the transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known senses or physical interaction. This experiment demonstrates that Telepathy is a real phenomenon, that information can be both sent and received using psychic methods.

Person A is deprived of sensory input and is bathed in a red light whilst person B views images on a TV screen and attempts to relay them to the next room. Person A vocalizes any words or feelings felt during the telepathic transmission which are recorded on tape or whatever. These telepathic thoughts and feelings are then compared with the original images send from Person A. 

The results are astonishingly accurate. Time and time again the Ganzfeld experiments have yielded results that deviate from randomness to a significant degree. But this is nothing new is it? We know that Rhine and Zener demonstrated scientifically that Telepathy is a real phenomenon, or that Stamford Research Institute showed us that Remote Viewing and clairvoyance are real too.

Over the course of thousands of experiments, by the standards applied to any other science, ESP has been proven to exist.

Three Basic Easy Meditation Techniques for Beginners

The question here is pretty obvious. What are your meditation techniques? How do you meditate? There are many people out there in need of more meditation ideas. Many websites tell you meditation is important and offer a simple meditation technique. Here we are going to look at a few examples of ways you can induce a meditative trance like state, like those used by the famous psychics across history most notably Edgar Cayce.

I generally offer the classic Hindu method of meditation to beginners as it is a simple method and is similar to what they are expecting to have to do. After all this standard meditation exercise has been spoon fed to us through the media for our whole lives since its legend came over from India in Victorian times. Meditation and visualization techniques can help to can calm your mind and enter a relaxing state. The Hindu method goes something like this:

The Classic Hindu Induction

1. Sit with your back straight and your hands face up in your lap.

2. Breathe in a Pranayama style: breathe with your diaphragm rather than your lungs.

3. Relax your facial muscles and jaw, let your mouth hang open.

4. Begin a mantra of gentle "Ohm's" allow the word to 'drag slightly' as if your singing and you will experience a vibration sensation in your body.

5. Clear your mind of all thoughts and allow a gentle stillness to overcome you.

However this classic Hindu style method may not be the meditation technique you are looking for. Everybody thinks in different ways and may need different meditative methods for inducing a trance like state.  The work of Franz Mesmer into mesmerism kick started a revolution in trance induction in Europe and thus many more inductions were developed. 

The Candle Induction

1. Light a candle and place it on a solid surface where it cannot fall.

2. Sit down approximately one metre away from the candle with your legs crossed.

3. Focus all of your attention onto the flame, watch it dance.

4. Relax your facial muscles and jaw, let your mouth hang open.

5. Clear your mind of all thoughts and allow a gentle stillness to overcome you.

This candle light induction is more more useful for those whole are visually minded and struggle to concentrate for long periods of time. You will be amazed when you notice how easy it is to 'zone out' using this meditation method. Soon the area around the candle will start to disappear from your sight and a white blankness will start to form around the edges of your vision. Sound interesting? Altering your perception through meditation... Well this next one will blow your mind. If you are the kind of person who scares easily then this one isn't for you. If you are still wrestling with the idea that using psychic powers may be some kind of dark satanic thing then this next meditation is not one for you! 

The Dark side Induction

1. Light a candle in a dark room at night and place it on a solid surface opposite a mirror.

2. Sit down approximately one metre away from the candle facing the mirror with your back to the candle.

3. Ensure that the candle is in an area behind your head and that you cannot see the flame in your reflection.

4. Relax your facial muscles and jaw, let your mouth hang open.

5. Stare into your own face, and observe the surreal events that occur.

This last method is not for the feint of heart, trust me it will show you things that you won't believe. Your reading this now in your chair or on your phone thinking "pah!" and those people I challenge to try this. The frankly weird things that you will see differ from person to person. There are those who claim they have had precognitive experiences while doing this exercise, for me something much more terrible happens.

Guide to Interpreting Dream Explanations / Edgar Cayce and The Quest for the Dream Dictionary.

As well as the abilities to see the future in his own precognitive dreams, The multi talented 'American Prophet' Edgar Cayce was able to interpret dreams of others. Cayce was able to tell predict peoples future based on the content of their dreams. Cayce argued that the unconscious mind has access to information that the conscious mind does not.

Carl Jung would certainly agree with Cayce that the unconscious mind was able to relay messages to the conscious mind whilst in a dream state and that images and symbols in the dream could represent things from the dreamers past, present or future. Jung argued that there was a single conscious 'higher mind' which could be what Cayce referred to as the Ashakic record. Jung also responsible for the concept of Synchronicity.

He wrote this short guide on how to see the future in a subconscious state.

• Keep a notebook beside the bed. Record your dreams as soon as possible after waking.
• Suggest to yourself every night as you fall asleep, “I will remember my dreams.”
• If you wake during the night, write down the main symbols, and the entire dream will usually come back in the morning.
• Practice keen observation in your dreams through self-suggestion prior to sleep.
• Look for these components in your dreams: the setting, the people, the action, the color, the feeling, and the words.
• Work on analyzing your dreams every day, otherwise their progression will be difficult to assess.
• If dreams are illogical, three reasons are possible: (1) Only the fragments of the dream have been recalled.(2)The dream is reflecting something illogical in the dreamer’s life. (3) Mental blocks have erased your recall.
• If you are unable to decipher an important dream, suggest to yourself, before your next sleep, that the dream repeat itself more clearly.
• Nightmares, which bring with them an inability to move or cry out, usually indicate the wrong diet. To end the nightmarish dreams change your diet.
• Dreams that are unchanged through the years indicate the dreamer’s resistance to change.
• Dreams of ill health can be either literal or symbolic warnings.
• When a problem confronts you, ask by prayer for guidance to be sent to you through your dreams.
• Be practical in your interpretations. Always look first for a lesson. What have you refused to face or been ignoring?
• Observe carefully recurrent dreams, as well as the serially progressive ones. These often illustrate progress or failure.
• Dreams are the reaction of the inner self to daytime activity and often show the way out of the dilemma. So relate them to current activity, because dreams may be retrospective as well as prospective.
• Dreams come to guide and help, not to amuse. They direct your attention to errors of omission and commission and offer encouragement for right endeavors. They also give us the opportunity to pray for others and to help them bear their burdens.
• If you receive an unusual message, reduce it to common terms. See if the symbolism can be of help in interpreting the dream.
• Look for past-life experiences in your dreams. These manifest themselves not only in color, but in the proper costume and setting of their period. They come to warn you against repeating the same old mistakes; to explain your relationship and reactions to certain people and places; to reduce your confusions; to enable you to better understand life.
• Do not fear conversation with the so-called “dead” in dreams. If the communication is one-sided, it denotes telepathy. If both participate, it may be an actual encounter of bodiless consciousness.
• Dreams are primarily about self. Only a few dreams relate to family, friends, and world events.
• Watch for mental telepathy in dreams.
• Remember, persistence is necessary to learn any new language, and dream symbols are the forgotten language of the subconscious.
• Give daily thanks to God the universe for all things and use daily prayer to improve the quality and reception of your dreams.

-Edgar Cayce

DREAM DIARY: Day One.

What does this dream mean?

When I went to bed last night I cheekily thought to myself "I'll look out for some lottery numbers while Lucid dreaming tonight". After all if my theory is correct I should be able to use lucid dreaming for clairvoyance and precognition.

I hope and pray however that last nights dream was not one of the prophetic variety. The events that I saw were not something I would wish on anyone and I really hope this one is wrong. I have recently started keeping a dream diary as an experiment. I woke up this morning with just two fragments of the dream and immediately wrote them down.

The first image was of a woman leaning over to pick something up, perhaps a hat or shoe, before being decapitated by a fast moving vehicle, either a car or a train. I tried to shout to her to get out of the way but it was very noisy. There was lots of blood and needless to say the poor woman died. I distinctly remember the feeling or revulsion in my stomach the moment it happened. The second part was of a lilac colored piece of fabric, like a scarf or a sarong gracefully falling to the ground.

What does my dream mean? How are the two linked? Is my dream precognitive?- No idea.