My visits to the summerland/Contact with my Spirit Guide

[poeticblue]

Hi everyone. I am here to tell you that I officially believe without a shadow of a doubt in my mind that these spirit guides exist. It took a good amount of dreams and incidences that have happened over the course of my whole 27 years on this earth to finally stop doubting everything. I woke up this morning and I can honestly say that all of this is real, we are always being watched over, and that we are never alone. I know that this may belong in other sections of the forum but I didnt know where exactly to post it.

Let me start out by saying that I kinda do have a "gift" (as Roberta had put it in another thread of mines), of remembering my visits to the summerlands in my sleep. I wont tell of them all in this thread but I can tell you one of my most longest dreams(which isnt very long). I can only remember very short "snippets" when I have these dreams. Hopefully with time I can somehow remember more and more.

So with that being said, in my younger twenties I had a dream that I saw a very androgynous woman walking in a building. She looked to be Caucasian, had very broad shoulders, short pixie like hair, and was very tall. It dawned on me at that moment that I was dreaming (lucid as you may call it) and I have always had lucid dreams ever since I was a child. I thought to myself that I must ask her a question before I wake up. I started to lose my sight of her and started to panic thinking I would wake up any minute and finally I turned around and she was standing right in front of me. I shouted out in panic "What is the name of my spirit guide?" She took her hand, placed it on my shoulder, and told me in a very gentle voice to "remain calm and that it is Kristen". Then she was trying to show me something on some kind of display board but I couldn’t make out what she was trying to show me. I turned my head and she was gone. Realizing that I am somehow able to stay in this "dream" I noticed a door that was slightly open so I went and opened the door and the light that came out of it was brilliant. I had somehow transitioned to another place. First thing I saw were these little kids playing near a pond or a lake. All of them had full cheeks, happy, and filled with laughter. They were blowing bubbles only the bubbles weren't small nor did they pop like how they do here on earth. They were huge and they stayed afloat in the air. I just couldnt take my eyes off of these bubbles that these children were blowing. The rainbow colors in them was magnified alot more than what one is normally use to seeing on earth. And I was looking at them float up into the sky and I noticed that there were people in the sky haha. Speaking of the sky.. it was golden.. kinda orangey gold. Like a sunset but still bright as if there was a sun.. but there was no sun. There was another lake near where the children were playing and flowers everywhere. Inside this other lake were humongous colorful koi fish. I’m telling you these koi fish would put koi fish on earth to SHAME. I'm thinking to myself that I've never seen so much water and nature everywhere. No roads, no cars.. just one big beautiful piece of land filled with nature. Now here on earth I'm not a big fan of being outside and playing in water and sitting under a tree and exploring nature AT ALL. The bugs and humidity get on my nerves and to be honest nature walks bore me to death. But what I was seeing and feeling in my dream was very much different. The opposite of the atmosphere here. I wanted to stay. I wanted to see more. I wanted to jump in the water. I know I sound like a kid talking about it but it was really just exciting to me. And the thing that gets me when I look back on this dream was that I was alone by myself at this point and yet I did not feel alone. The people there wore either regular clothes like you and I or white robes. The children and younger people I see in these dreams usually wore regular clothes and the adults usually wore white robes. I sometimes find myself looking down to see what I am wearing and I’m sometimes wearing normal clothes and I am sometimes wearing a robe. So its your choice! You can wear anything you want! I then felt myself levitate off of the ground and that was when I woke up. I have had alot more of these visits that I will save for other threads one day. I remember these visits about once a month. Each one with the same plush landscape, lakes, flowers, sunset sky, and I'm either levitating or flying. I wish I can remember them in even more detail but I cannot.

So lets fast forward to now when I contacted my spirit guide last night. I had a friend that I would speak to everyday about spirituality and life and he has told me that he enjoys these types of conversations with me and that he sometimes never wants these conversations to end.. so everything seemed happy and dandy until I got into one of my moods. He called me and I told him that I did not want to talk and that somehow led to a conversation about my trust issues. He was telling me how great of a person that I am and how I needed to share that with other people and not close myself off when I get scared. I knew that what he was saying was correct but I got defensive and said that its best if we not talked anymore. He seemed shocked by it and inside I'm thinking that wasn’t the right thing to do but we hung up the phone and I prayed last night asking for my guide to visit me in my sleep because I needed some guidance.

Now here is the climax of what I am trying to tell everybody. That night when I went to sleep I had a dream where I heard a woman’s voice speak to me as if she was speaking mentally inside my head but I could not see her face. She told me that I need to continue my friendship with "him" (my friend) , because he is in great need of my spiritual help at this moment in time and that he needs my guidance. I couldn’t remember much of what was said after that and it all became a blur. I woke up later and I heard the same woman’s voice say "hello Bianca" which is my name . I heard it as if she was right next to me. My heart skipped a beat and I looked around my room and just laid in bed for a few minutes thinking about what just happened in my dream. I soundly went back to sleep and when I was driving on my way to work this morning I'm thinking that even though I was given the advice to re-connect with my friend that maybe he was too mad at me and wouldn’t want to speak with me. So I had already made up in my head that I wasn’t going to say anything and view this as another lesson learned. Then all of a sudden I received a text on my phone from my friend saying that he already misses talking to me. I was blown away and in shock!!

So after I finish posting this I will apologize to him and tell him about my dream and guidance I received. You never know how much of an impact you are making in somebody’s life whether you realize it or not. I can’t believe that even when my guide gave me advice I was so close to still ignoring it out of my own fear of rejection.

The afterlife is alive and well my friends. Pray at night to remember your dreams and visits.

[Andrew]

Hi everyone. I am here to tell you that I officially believe without a shadow of a doubt in my mind that these spirit guides exist. It took a good amount of dreams and incidences that have happened over the course of my whole 27 years on this earth to finally stop doubting everything. I woke up this morning and I can honestly say that all of this is real, we are always being watched over, and that we are never alone. I know that this may belong in other sections of the forum but I didnt know where exactly to post it.

Let me start out by saying that I kinda do have a "gift" (as Roberta had put it in another thread of mines), of remembering my visits to the summerlands in my sleep. I wont tell of them all in this thread but I can tell you one of my most longest dreams(which isnt very long). I can only remember very short "snippets" when I have these dreams. Hopefully with time I can somehow remember more and more.

So with that being said, in my younger twenties I had a dream that I saw a very androgynous woman walking in a building. She looked to be Caucasian, had very broad shoulders, short pixie like hair, and was very tall. It dawned on me at that moment that I was dreaming (lucid as you may call it) and I have always had lucid dreams ever since I was a child. I thought to myself that I must ask her a question before I wake up. I started to lose my sight of her and started to panic thinking I would wake up any minute and finally I turned around and she was standing right in front of me. I shouted out in panic "What is the name of my spirit guide?" She took her hand, placed it on my shoulder, and told me in a very gentle voice to "remain calm and that it is Kristen". Then she was trying to show me something on some kind of display board but I couldn’t make out what she was trying to show me. I turned my head and she was gone. Realizing that I am somehow able to stay in this "dream" I noticed a door that was slightly open so I went and opened the door and the light that came out of it was brilliant. I had somehow transitioned to another place. First thing I saw were these little kids playing near a pond or a lake. All of them had full cheeks, happy, and filled with laughter. They were blowing bubbles only the bubbles weren't small nor did they pop like how they do here on earth. They were huge and they stayed afloat in the air. I just couldnt take my eyes off of these bubbles that these children were blowing. The rainbow colors in them was magnified alot more than what one is normally use to seeing on earth. And I was looking at them float up into the sky and I noticed that there were people in the sky haha. Speaking of the sky.. it was golden.. kinda orangey gold. Like a sunset but still bright as if there was a sun.. but there was no sun. There was another lake near where the children were playing and flowers everywhere. Inside this other lake were humongous colorful koi fish. I’m telling you these koi fish would put koi fish on earth to SHAME. I'm thinking to myself that I've never seen so much water and nature everywhere. No roads, no cars.. just one big beautiful piece of land filled with nature. Now here on earth I'm not a big fan of being outside and playing in water and sitting under a tree and exploring nature AT ALL. The bugs and humidity get on my nerves and to be honest nature walks bore me to death. But what I was seeing and feeling in my dream was very much different. The opposite of the atmosphere here. I wanted to stay. I wanted to see more. I wanted to jump in the water. I know I sound like a kid talking about it but it was really just exciting to me. And the thing that gets me when I look back on this dream was that I was alone by myself at this point and yet I did not feel alone. The people there wore either regular clothes like you and I or white robes. The children and younger people I see in these dreams usually wore regular clothes and the adults usually wore white robes. I sometimes find myself looking down to see what I am wearing and I’m sometimes wearing normal clothes and I am sometimes wearing a robe. So its your choice! You can wear anything you want! I then felt myself levitate off of the ground and that was when I woke up. I have had alot more of these visits that I will save for other threads one day. I remember these visits about once a month. Each one with the same plush landscape, lakes, flowers, sunset sky, and I'm either levitating or flying. I wish I can remember them in even more detail but I cannot.

So lets fast forward to now when I contacted my spirit guide last night. I had a friend that I would speak to everyday about spirituality and life and he has told me that he enjoys these types of conversations with me and that he sometimes never wants these conversations to end.. so everything seemed happy and dandy until I got into one of my moods. He called me and I told him that I did not want to talk and that somehow led to a conversation about my trust issues. He was telling me how great of a person that I am and how I needed to share that with other people and not close myself off when I get scared. I knew that what he was saying was correct but I got defensive and said that its best if we not talked anymore. He seemed shocked by it and inside I'm thinking that wasn’t the right thing to do but we hung up the phone and I prayed last night asking for my guide to visit me in my sleep because I needed some guidance.

Now here is the climax of what I am trying to tell everybody. That night when I went to sleep I had a dream where I heard a woman’s voice speak to me as if she was speaking mentally inside my head but I could not see her face. She told me that I need to continue my friendship with "him" (my friend) , because he is in great need of my spiritual help at this moment in time and that he needs my guidance. I couldn’t remember much of what was said after that and it all became a blur. I woke up later and I heard the same woman’s voice say "hello Bianca" which is my name . I heard it as if she was right next to me. My heart skipped a beat and I looked around my room and just laid in bed for a few minutes thinking about what just happened in my dream. I soundly went back to sleep and when I was driving on my way to work this morning I'm thinking that even though I was given the advice to re-connect with my friend that maybe he was too mad at me and wouldn’t want to speak with me. So I had already made up in my head that I wasn’t going to say anything and view this as another lesson learned. Then all of a sudden I received a text on my phone from my friend saying that he already misses talking to me. I was blown away and in shock!!

So after I finish posting this I will apologize to him and tell him about my dream and guidance I received. You never know how much of an impact you are making in somebody’s life whether you realize it or not. I can’t believe that even when my guide gave me advice I was so close to still ignoring it out of my own fear of rejection.

The afterlife is alive and well my friends. Pray at night to remember your dreams and visits.

Wow, what a wonderful experience this was! You're very lucky to be able to remember these types of things so frequently! Everyone goes to the Summerland most nights whilst asleep, but very few people remember it - and even fewer remember it with as many details you are able to. I look forward to reading any future experiences that you feel comfortable posting!

I am very glad that this has convinced you of the truth that you are not alone and that you have guidance. Everything thing that you have mentioned in this experience is consistent both with the dead people's general descriptions of areas in the Summerland, and with those few accounts that I have seen from the living.

For example, the Summerland sky is extremely full of love and light, but yet there is no sun. The colors are magnified in intensity there, and there are even some colors that are not on the visible-light spectrum, so they are impossible for the living to imagine. The Summerland is incredibly huge, and there are city-like constructions in some areas, but there is most certainly a plethora of nature. As you mention, it is like earth, but without the negatives - such as heat and humidity.

It is also amazing that you were able to find out the name of your spirit guide. Did you get the sense that that particular woman you saw was your spirit guide, or that she was someone else? Either way it is remarkable that you were able to remember this experience as well. Clearly you are meant to remember!

I'm glad you have been convinced to follow your guide's advice and keep in touch with your friend - I think that that path will yield the best results for both of you. You can always trust your guide, she will never lead you astray!

[poeticblue]

Wow, what a wonderful experience this was! You're very lucky to be able to remember these types of things so frequently! Everyone goes to the Summerland most nights whilst asleep, but very few people remember it - and even fewer remember it with as many details you are able to. I look forward to reading any future experiences that you feel comfortable posting!

I am very glad that this has convinced you of the truth that you are not alone and that you have guidance. Everything thing that you have mentioned in this experience is consistent both with the dead people's general descriptions of areas in the Summerland, and with those few accounts that I have seen from the living.

For example, the Summerland sky is extremely full of love and light, but yet there is no sun. The colors are magnified in intensity there, and there are even some colors that are not on the visible-light spectrum, so they are impossible for the living to imagine. The Summerland is incredibly huge, and there are city-like constructions in some areas, but there is most certainly a plethora of nature. As you mention, it is like earth, but without the negatives - such as heat and humidity.

It is also amazing that you were able to find out the name of your spirit guide. Did you get the sense that that particular woman you saw was your spirit guide, or that she was someone else? Either way it is remarkable that you were able to remember this experience as well. Clearly you are meant to remember!

I'm glad you have been convinced to follow your guide's advice and keep in touch with your friend - I think that that path will yield the best results for both of you. You can always trust your guide, she will never lead you astray!

Hi Andrew.. you were just reading my mind. It is funny that you asked me whether or not I felt if this particular woman that I saw in my dream was my spirit guide. As I was typing all of what I said earlier it just dawned on me that she just may have been her! Because when I franticly asked her what my spirit guides name was she didn't say "her name is" or "his name is" she just gently told me to be calm and that it's Kristen. But she said it in a way as if she was referring to herself. You know like she was telling me her own name and not some other person. All these years I never put two and two together until today when I typed this whole thing out. I was like wait a minute.. that was her! So to answer your question, at the time I most certainly knew she was a spiritual being based off of her "stature" and the "calmness" that I always notice about people in the summerlands. But never till today did it dawn on me that it was my spirit guide. I was just happy to have had my question answered at the time and it happened several years ago when my mind wasn't completely made up about the spirit guide thing hence why I was seeking answers such as my guides name in my sleep.

I know I just keep rambling on and on but this kind of stuff is so exciting to me now because I now know what I've been dreaming about. I mean some of the scenery you would have thought came straight out of a fantasy movie and I don't watch fantasy at all. I'm more of a thriller and horror fan myself. But anyways, yes yes yes the white buildings as I mentioned briefly in my other thread... they were everywhere! This happened in another dream where I was walking with another person and we both were wearing white flowing "robed" like clothing..not like shower robes obviously and not even like the typical roman clothing although some were! But I remember the person I was walking with was wearing a VERY long sleeved white top and the sleeves were very loose and flowing.. almost so loose and flowing that you could probably fit somebody's leg through the sleeves but it was very pretty and she had a long flowing skirt to match (so at a glace it may have looked like she was wearing something robed like) but it wasn't.. and I was wearing sort of the same. We were headed to some sort of event that was taking place and we were walking down a path following the other people who were headed in the same direction and they too as well were wearing white flowing clothing. You know we use cars and trains and so forth to get to where we are going here on earth but everybody was walking by foot. I remember rose bushes surrounding some of the buildings and the cobblestone/concrete paths we were walking on. I say concrete but I'm not sure if that's what it really was. Again these buildings were white and very pretty. Like something you would find in Rome Italy centuries ago . I say that and still I cant even compare them to anything here on earth. This was more of the "city part" ... more people with more activity ... my memory started to fade and I woke up as soon as the person next to me started to tell me something (that always seems to happen) .. but I knew in this dream she was just a friend I was walking with. Dont even get me started on the sky again! On more than one occasion I have taken a glimpse at the sky and the only thing I can compare it to is the most beautiful sunset but brighter (not dim like how we would normally see it when its about to get dark)... the sky as I saw it was mostly a deep orange, yellow, and red with some purple and blue colors mixed all together! I dont even see how blue and purple mixes with all the rest of those colors but there it does!

I contacted my friend just like my guide told me too and he confirmed exactly what my guide told me in my dream before I even told him about the dream! To quote him he said "I have made a difference in his life."

[Wonderer]

Hi Bianca, thank you for sharing your experience, it surely is amazing!!!

I dream a lot too, and remember most of my dreams, but I think they are just dreams as whatever is see is always like our earth and it involves people I know on this earth.

It would be amazing if one day I would remember my summerland dream!

Cheers
Wonderer

[poeticblue]

Hi Bianca, thank you for sharing your experience, it surely is amazing!!!

I dream a lot too, and remember most of my dreams, but I think they are just dreams as whatever is see is always like our earth and it involves people I know on this earth.

It would be amazing if one day I would remember my summerland dream!

Cheers
Wonderer

Hi Wonderer. Being able to remember your dreams is the first step to how it started with me which I've always been able to do since my childhood. And like you, they were normal dreams with people I knew...

It wasnt until my late teenage years when I was going through a very difficult time in my life that I began to have these glimpses of somewhere else. I remember the first time it happend to me, I woke up and the first thought that came to my head was that was the place where we go when we die. Funny cause I remember Andrew stating that when we wake up usually the first thoughts that come to our head is from our spirit guide. I have never even heard of the term "summerland" at the time. I immediatley started to cry. I tried to tell my friends what happend and that this experience was very real but they would always give me a blank stare as if it was impossible and that it was only just a dream. So I thought that maybe they were right. But then these glimpses kept happening again and again and again so I started to do some research about the afterlife and learned that we went there in our sleep. Blew me away. I never knew that back then. So I began to pray and ask that I remember more and gradually over time I did! I dream every night usually about family or work.. but like I said, I get a short glimpse of the summerlands about once a month (that I can remember).

[mac]

"I also read from one of Roberts sites that when one constantly dreams about being in school that its a symbolic spiritual sign. A lot of my dreams take place in a classroom setting. At first I could never understand why I always dreamt of being in school. It can be a high school or a college university.. sometimes I find myself trying to run to class and make sure I'm not late. I never could understand why I dream about school alot. I would ask myself if it had to do with me wanting to be schooled "spiritually" and wanting to "pass my tests" that I came to earth to learn from. I always often wonder why I dream of being late for class as well. In real life I got perfect attendance and no tardies when going to school. So I dont see it as a fear dream. I see it as a spiritual/symbolic dream that I want to pass my tests on earth and be schooled, and showing up late for class means that I possibly could have missed an important lesson."

Perhaps the above relates to me too? I'm regularly dreaming I'm in school, mostly with elementary kids and usually teaching or providing learning support.

But that latter role was one I was employed to do for real over the last ten years of my working life so I'd always equated my dreams to my missing being with kids and in my former role.... So does my dream position me as a pupil or the teacher?

[Bella]

"I also read from one of Roberts sites that when one constantly dreams about being in school that its a symbolic spiritual sign. A lot of my dreams take place in a classroom setting. At first I could never understand why I always dreamt of being in school. It can be a high school or a college university.. sometimes I find myself trying to run to class and make sure I'm not late. I never could understand why I dream about school alot. I would ask myself if it had to do with me wanting to be schooled "spiritually" and wanting to "pass my tests" that I came to earth to learn from. I always often wonder why I dream of being late for class as well. In real life I got perfect attendance and no tardies when going to school. So I dont see it as a fear dream. I see it as a spiritual/symbolic dream that I want to pass my tests on earth and be schooled, and showing up late for class means that I possibly could have missed an important lesson."

Perhaps the above relates to me too? I'm regularly dreaming I'm in school, mostly with elementary kids and usually teaching or providing learning support.

But that latter role was one I was employed to do for real over the last ten years of my working life so I'd always equated my dreams to my missing being with kids and in my former role.... So does my dream position me as a pupil or the teacher?

Poeticblue: Thanks for the validation for so much of what I've been experiencing. When I was feeling psychically open this summer, I too was dreaming about people I did not know, and in fact, seeing faces flashing in front of me while in a hypnagogic state. What would happen if the next time you are asked "Why are you hurting yourself?" you respond and ask another question? Is that the kind of thing that you ask in your dreams or do you strictly just receive, rather than ask information? As for the schoolroom, I had no idea that this symbolized spiritual growth!

Mac, you are a teacher in your dreams? I would interpret this as meaning that you have confidence as a spiritual leader. I do think it is a mark of confidence, as I have never dreamed that I was the teacher. It's very interesting, since I have been a teacher for so long and feel so confident in the classroom while awake. This must mean that, since I was always a searcher, I was never confident enough to be a spiritual leader.

It's interesting that I have chronic dreams of being late for my classes, and in fact, dreaming that I have signed up for courses only to miss class after class, leading to my failure for the semester. I could not seem to stop these dreams. In reality,like you, Poeticblue, I was compulsive about attendance, never missed class, and compulsive about getting the work done perfectly and on time. I taught high school and have been a college professor for the past 11 years. Now I understand why I am having these dreams. It must mean that I was not learning life's lessons on time - that I was on the road to failure.

Lately, I haven't been having those 'late for school' dreams, perhaps because I have learned my lessons. So what I hope to do now is practice Robert Waggoner's techniques for remembering my dreams, being proactive, and learning from those people that appear in my dreams. I have tried so many things. This takes a lot of practice, but it seems a most effective way of gaining insight and growing spiritually. Waggoner actually met his spirit guides while in his dream state.

[poeticblue]

Poeticblue: Thanks for the validation for so much of what I've been experiencing. When I was feeling psychically open this summer, I too was dreaming about people I did not know, and in fact, seeing faces flashing in front of me while in a hypnagogic state. What would happen if the next time you are asked "Why are you hurting yourself?" you respond and ask another question? Is that the kind of thing that you ask in your dreams or do you strictly just receive, rather than ask information? As for the schoolroom, I had no idea that this symbolized spiritual growth!

Mac, you are a teacher in your dreams? I would interpret this as meaning that you have confidence as a spiritual leader. I do think it is a mark of confidence, as I have never dreamed that I was the teacher. It's very interesting, since I have been a teacher for so long and feel so confident in the classroom while awake. This must mean that, since I was always a searcher, I was never confident enough to be a spiritual leader.

It's interesting that I have chronic dreams of being late for my classes, and in fact, dreaming that I have signed up for courses only to miss class after class, leading to my failure for the semester. I could not seem to stop these dreams. In reality,like you, Poeticblue, I was compulsive about attendance, never missed class, and compulsive about getting the work done perfectly and on time. I taught high school and have been a college professor for the past 11 years. Now I understand why I am having these dreams. It must mean that I was not learning life's lessons on time - that I was on the road to failure.

Lately, I haven't been having those 'late for school' dreams, perhaps because I have learned my lessons. So what I hope to do now is practice Robert Waggoner's techniques for remembering my dreams, being proactive, and learning from those people that appear in my dreams. I have tried so many things. This takes a lot of practice, but it seems a most effective way of gaining insight and growing spiritually. Waggoner actually met his spirit guides while in his dream state.

I'm going to get off the topic for a second.

Bella: There is one thing that jumped out at me which will cause me to get off subject and I apologize ahead of time. Its when you said that you dreamt of missing your classes which made you fail the semester. You take this as you being late in learning the lessons that you came to earth to learn. I say that one is never late in learning a lesson. It just took you longer to learn them. And lets say that you died never having learnt your lessons. Its still never too late. You just come back and try again. And if you choose that you are simply done and don't want to come back to try to learn what you came here to learn, then that is your choice. But I tell you, one can say over and over that they are "never coming back". I use to say it all the time. But I almost guarantee that if there was a crucial lesson that was not learned here you will almost always come back because your soul will become restless after having recovered in the afterlife. Ever slept too much that you feel "off" ? If you still have lessons to learn, a little bell will go off saying "ok its time to go back".. The kind of restlessness that one would feel in the afterlife is NOT the same as one would feel on earth. In the afterlife, its just a little nudge in your soul telling you to get going. And you will! And now that I'm saying this, I can see why a lot of research states that suicides come back. But I don't want to open that can of worms right now. I'm just saying that, if there was a lesson not learnt here one will almost always come back. And they don't have to come back for a full lifetime. They can learn that crucial lesson at the age of 15 in the next life and then take their exit. Here is an example of what I am talking about so that people who may be rolling their eyes when they read this, will understand. (Cause I know that eyes will roll)

I am going to compare earth life to a job. You work to provide for yourself and your family. Working keeps a warm roof over your heads, provides food to survive, and stability. Those are the good things about work. The bad things about work is that it can be stressful, exhausting, and tiring. There are also a bunch of people you have to put up with that you may not get along with and sometimes you downright want to quit because the stress can become too much for one to handle. Some people do quit their jobs when it becomes too much regardless of the consequences. (Suicide). Bills start piling up and it creates more problems than what you had before. Of course you can find a new job (come back to earth) but why put yourself through the trouble. I keep having to remind myself of this. Now when we leave work for the day we go home to rest (the summerlands). You realize that by going to your job you are able to come home and rest knowing that by persevering through your work day you are able to enjoy your house, food, entertainment, a car, etc...those are the rewards of going to work. Now here is the hard part. Having to then leave your home (the summerlands) to go back to work (earth life). If you are not retired (i.e. fulfilled all of your life lessons) then you know that the only way you are going to be able to provide is to go back to work! You know its gonna suck. Your bed is nice and warm and now you gotta get back out into the cold, dreary world. But you know that by going back to work (earth life) it will sustain you and keep you provided.

So its never too late to learn anything. We all are on different time lines and if you dont learn some of your lessons this time, its up to you if you want to come back and try again. The most controversial thing, I believe, is when I say that you will almost always come back if you feel your lessons were not learned. Its not clear here. But after feeling rested in the afterlife it will become clear. A lot of people who experience near death experiences report knowing why they came to earth. They didn't even need a resting period in the freaking summerlands to realize that!

[poeticblue]

"I also read from one of Roberts sites that when one constantly dreams about being in school that its a symbolic spiritual sign. A lot of my dreams take place in a classroom setting. At first I could never understand why I always dreamt of being in school. It can be a high school or a college university.. sometimes I find myself trying to run to class and make sure I'm not late. I never could understand why I dream about school alot. I would ask myself if it had to do with me wanting to be schooled "spiritually" and wanting to "pass my tests" that I came to earth to learn from. I always often wonder why I dream of being late for class as well. In real life I got perfect attendance and no tardies when going to school. So I dont see it as a fear dream. I see it as a spiritual/symbolic dream that I want to pass my tests on earth and be schooled, and showing up late for class means that I possibly could have missed an important lesson."

Perhaps the above relates to me too? I'm regularly dreaming I'm in school, mostly with elementary kids and usually teaching or providing learning support.

But that latter role was one I was employed to do for real over the last ten years of my working life so I'd always equated my dreams to my missing being with kids and in my former role.... So does my dream position me as a pupil or the teacher?

Mac,

I believe you are the teacher. But even when you were the teacher in your past, you still learned from your students as well. I feel that your role on earth is the same role you have in the afterlife which is why you regularly dream about teaching and miss it immensely. I do also feel that you dream about school and teaching regularly because you do miss your role of being the teacher here on earth. But you see, your role of the teacher is still very much here but in a different form now. I feel that you posses a teacher role on this forum rather than the student who is seeking help (like me). I will say however that sometimes the roles do flip. Even though I feel like the student many of times I too sometimes feel like "the teacher" but only when it comes to specific areas of studies such as dreams and astral traveling. But when it comes to life as a whole, I am definitely the student who thirsts to learn. But just like my student role can flip into the teacher role, your teacher role can flip into the student role (like right now). Of course in essence we all are students but some have more learning to do than others. The ultimate goal is for all of us to become teachers for eachother.

But dream wise, I definitely think you have those dreams about teaching in school because you do play more of a teacher role here and perhaps in the afterlife. So your dreams are both spiritual, symbolic, and circumstantial. Teaching is just more of the role you play than the student. But realize Mac.. playing the teacher role can itself have its own issues and lessons.

[Wonderer]

Hi Bianca,

So maybe, by time, I will have a Summerland dream!

Having said that, I do have weird dreams sometimes that feel sooo real. Mostly, they are nice but the worst one was this. I was in a small dark room, and this dark entity (looked like a devil hehe) was grabbing me through one of my hands and smashing me with the walls. I felt powerless. Woke up quite shaken that day. I also remember many nice dreams of weird places I've never been before doing strange things, like flying etc.

Oh well, our brain has lots of creativity too, but maybe some of these were in some other dimension.