My visits to the summerland/Contact with my Spirit Guide

[vic smyth]

I saw the movie "Ink" a few days ago, maybe I heard about it on this forum, not sure, but it's all about spirit guides, dreams and astral travel. It was fascinating. It also was able to convey the feeling of what it's like to be in non-linear time.

With Lovingkindness (metta),
vic

[Roberta Grimes]

Wow! These are some great dream stories! Thanks for sharing!!
Mikey tells me that dreams are a very powerful way for spiritual communication. Mikey says that communication with loved ones or guides can occur in other places besides the Summerlands. Your dreams can "occur" right above you as you sleep. (I actually had one like this with Mikey a few months after his accident. It was crazy awesome and it gave me incredible strength and hope at that point in my grief journey.) He said dreams are not always Astral travel. But these "Astral dreams" can really feel real to you! He also says you absolutely can have past life dreams. These dreams are giving you an open window to your past. Interesting! Mikey says always remember that dreams are huge for sipritual communication.
Carol and Mikey "in Spirit"

Dear friends, this is fascinating to me! One of my unresolved questions has been exactly this: do we go to the Summerland every night? Only some nights? Do we astral travel to other places too? Do we have meaningful experiences during sleep that don't involve astral travel? And in one little paragraph, our wonderful Mikey has told me what no amount of research could. Isn't it great to have our own friend and "secret agent" to help us learn all these details? Thank you yet again, dear Carol and Mikey - you are an incomparable gift to us!!

[sijachanges]

hi there poeticblue x.
i am in an amazing place right now. i have been dreaming about a place that i called the 'summerlands', inside my own head, since i was a teen. i only discovered last week, through a random(/) conversation, that not only did other people know about this wonderful place, but some, like me, have been there.
my head has been blown-but in an absolutely fantastic way!!! i'm now 49, so for many years i had no idea that other people knew of summerlands existence. i knew in my heart and soul they are real, but people find me odd, as it is, so i never discussed it. it was a special place, in which i could rely on for respite. i was a bit scared that if i shared my experiences, that through ridicule, somehow they (summerlands) would be taken away from me.
that is a sort of telling exposition about the way i have led my life and its sad, but now i am so excited-to discover that im not mad-i always knew, but niggles of doubt do creep in.
well bianca i read all you had to say, on this thread and all your replies. the more i read, the more excited i became.
i'm still a bit overwhelmed, at this discovery after so many years,so i will leave the discussion here for now. i hope we can share more experiences at a later date-there is so much i could tell you and no doubt, you have much that you could share.
anyway may you feel blessed and loved, for you truly are x. sija

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.

[poeticblue]

hi there poeticblue x.
i am in an amazing place right now. i have been dreaming about a place that i called the 'summerlands', inside my own head, since i was a teen. i only discovered last week, through a random(/) conversation, that not only did other people know about this wonderful place, but some, like me, have been there.
my head has been blown-but in an absolutely fantastic way!!! i'm now 49, so for many years i had no idea that other people knew of summerlands existence. i knew in my heart and soul they are real, but people find me odd, as it is, so i never discussed it. it was a special place, in which i could rely on for respite. i was a bit scared that if i shared my experiences, that through ridicule, somehow they (summerlands) would be taken away from me.
that is a sort of telling exposition about the way i have led my life and its sad, but now i am so excited-to discover that im not mad-i always knew, but niggles of doubt do creep in.
well bianca i read all you had to say, on this thread and all your replies. the more i read, the more excited i became.
i'm still a bit overwhelmed, at this discovery after so many years,so i will leave the discussion here for now. i hope we can share more experiences at a later date-there is so much i could tell you and no doubt, you have much that you could share.
anyway may you feel blessed and loved, for you truly are x. sija

Sijachanges:

Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm going through a difficult time right now with someone I care about and it seems as though I'm getting a lot of support from people here who had no idea I've been feeling down lately. I don't know what it is about people here who can easily sense when things are wrong. Or maybe you didn't sense anything wrong but felt the strong urge to bring one of my old threads back to life and comfort me. What you said makes me feel somewhat temporarily better this morning.

I'm not sure if you've had the chance to read my blog yet. But I've always had vivid dreams since I was a kid. They didn't start off spiritual at all until I became suicidal in my late teenage years. I knew a heaven existed and that there was a God but that was pretty much it. At the time I never even heard of a "Summerland".. didn't know that much about reincarnation (never even believed in it at the time). I also was not aware we had spirit guides or that where we went when we died was pretty much a better looking form of earth. I thought it was just all clouds and halos. So when I began having these dreams of vast lands with a multi colored sky and people dressed in white clothing with an overwhelming feeling of love I would wake up thinking I felt like I was just in heaven. I remember dreaming I was flying and holding someone's hand and telling them I never wanted to leave "this place". Then I would wake up feeling like I absolutely wanted to die and go back to where I was. I started to do some research and to my surprise read from multiple studies that we visit heaven in our sleep at night. And so the more I began to research the afterlife, reincarnation, spirit guides, the stronger my dreams became. Instead of waking up feeling depressed I started to seek comfort in these dreams as well as guidance.

I soon realized that I can induce these experiences via an OBE. I often find myself floating or flying in these dreams and I can literally feel my astral body lift out of my physical body. This can only happen when I'm in a meditated sleep state that happens in the odd hours of the morning (anywhere between 2-4 am in the morning). Sometimes I would find myself in the middle of a normal dream then become lucid and somehow think myself there when I ask my guides for help. Always I would feel myself levitate out of my body when I transition from a normal dream to a summerland dream. With that being said, there are alot of times I have an OBE where I just end up floating around in my room or out the window. The transition from this realm to the afterlife is very quick. I'm still working on perfecting my technique as I want to be able to feel my transitions from here to there more clearly.

Jurgens the "Multi Dimensional Man" is able to meditate at odd hours of the morning and realize his transitions. Where as I have to fall asleep to enter the same meditated state that he does and often just end up there rather than realizing my transition. Also I have to ask my guides for help or else I will end up in a nightmare or some place I don't want to be.

I could go on and on about this subject. Please feel free to visit my blog: http://theastralwoman.wordpress.com/ . I give detailed accounts of what I've seen in the summerlands and how to differentiate a normal dream from a summerland dream because there are many beautiful dreams that I have had that weren't summerland dreams. Usually a car randomly driving by would give it away

Again I think you for your kind words. Please share your experiences. I will be honored to hear all about them as well as other people. I've been praying almost every night for a quick exit from my body and a fast entrance back in when I sleep because I wanted a break from the OBE's. Being as I'm feeling slightly emotionally down, I might ask for the OBE's to resume themselves and try for another summerland visit. I seem to remember my visits to the summerland when I'm stressed out or down the most. I know I hear my spirit guide talk to me a lot when I'm sleep. She has a very calm voice and she is so wise. There is no way I could be making this stuff up in my head. My vocabulary is nothing like hers!

Also you are not crazy. I'm glad you have opened up about this. More people need to come out the closet about this. My mission is to get the afterlife word out. Care to join me in my afterlife league??

[ilovelearninhg]

Sijachanges:

Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm going through a difficult time right now with someone I care about and it seems as though I'm getting a lot of support from people here who had no idea I've been feeling down lately. I don't know what it is about people here who can easily sense when things are wrong. Or maybe you didn't sense anything wrong but felt the strong urge to bring one of my old threads back to life and comfort me. What you said makes me feel somewhat temporarily better this morning.

I'm not sure if you've had the chance to read my blog yet. But I've always had vivid dreams since I was a kid. They didn't start off spiritual at all until I became suicidal in my late teenage years. I knew a heaven existed and that there was a God but that was pretty much it. At the time I never even heard of a "Summerland".. didn't know that much about reincarnation (never even believed in it at the time). I also was not aware we had spirit guides or that where we went when we died was pretty much a better looking form of earth. I thought it was just all clouds and halos. So when I began having these dreams of vast lands with a multi colored sky and people dressed in white clothing with an overwhelming feeling of love I would wake up thinking I felt like I was just in heaven. I remember dreaming I was flying and holding someone's hand and telling them I never wanted to leave "this place". Then I would wake up feeling like I absolutely wanted to die and go back to where I was. I started to do some research and to my surprise read from multiple studies that we visit heaven in our sleep at night. And so the more I began to research the afterlife, reincarnation, spirit guides, the stronger my dreams became. Instead of waking up feeling depressed I started to seek comfort in these dreams as well as guidance.

I soon realized that I can induce these experiences via an OBE. I often find myself floating or flying in these dreams and I can literally feel my astral body lift out of my physical body. This can only happen when I'm in a meditated sleep state that happens in the odd hours of the morning (anywhere between 2-4 am in the morning). Sometimes I would find myself in the middle of a normal dream then become lucid and somehow think myself there when I ask my guides for help. Always I would feel myself levitate out of my body when I transition from a normal dream to a summerland dream. With that being said, there are alot of times I have an OBE where I just end up floating around in my room or out the window. The transition from this realm to the afterlife is very quick. I'm still working on perfecting my technique as I want to be able to feel my transitions from here to there more clearly.

Jurgens the "Multi Dimensional Man" is able to meditate at odd hours of the morning and realize his transitions. Where as I have to fall asleep to enter the same meditated state that he does and often just end up there rather than realizing my transition. Also I have to ask my guides for help or else I will end up in a nightmare or some place I don't want to be.

I could go on and on about this subject. Please feel free to visit my blog: http://theastralwoman.wordpress.com/ . I give detailed accounts of what I've seen in the summerlands and how to differentiate a normal dream from a summerland dream because there are many beautiful dreams that I have had that weren't summerland dreams. Usually a car randomly driving by would give it away

Again I think you for your kind words. Please share your experiences. I will be honored to hear all about them as well as other people. I've been praying almost every night for a quick exit from my body and a fast entrance back in when I sleep because I wanted a break from the OBE's. Being as I'm feeling slightly emotionally down, I might ask for the OBE's to resume themselves and try for another summerland visit. I seem to remember my visits to the summerland when I'm stressed out or down the most. I know I hear my spirit guide talk to me a lot when I'm sleep. She has a very calm voice and she is so wise. There is no way I could be making this stuff up in my head. My vocabulary is nothing like hers!

Also you are not crazy. I'm glad you have opened up about this. More people need to come out the closet about this. My mission is to get the afterlife word out. Care to join me in my afterlife league??

Poeticblue, I'm sorry you've been feeling down lately. I'm fixing to look at your blog again-I love it! My son told me about a week ago he's been dreaming about angels that come to him in his dreams and he says they are "helping" him, but he won't say how they are helping him. He does say they are glowing and white, females, and one put a finger to her lips I guess if to keep it a secret, I don't know. I told him it's a good thing-that most people would love to have angels come to them in their sleep. But I told him before he goes to sleep if he doesn't want to see them to tell them not to come to him. These past two nights he has not dreamed about the angels. He says he doesn't like to see them, because he doesn't want their help, he likes to solve his own problems. He is mildly autistic and 13 about to turn 14 and started a new school this year. We moved from Ga to Ok this summer so that was a huge change for him. I wonder if the angels are trying to help him with the transition, and I also wonder if they are really spirit guides and he interprets them as angels.

[vic smyth]

Sija, Welcome. This is a forum where you can freely share your experiences. You'll find members here very respectful and eager to hear what you have to say, so please share.

With Lovingkindness (metta),
vic

[ilovelearninhg]

Yes, welcome sija. You sound like you have had some interesting experiences.

[poeticblue]

Poeticblue, I'm sorry you've been feeling down lately. I'm fixing to look at your blog again-I love it! My son told me about a week ago he's been dreaming about angels that come to him in his dreams and he says they are "helping" him, but he won't say how they are helping him. He does say they are glowing and white, females, and one put a finger to her lips I guess if to keep it a secret, I don't know. I told him it's a good thing-that most people would love to have angels come to them in their sleep. But I told him before he goes to sleep if he doesn't want to see them to tell them not to come to him. These past two nights he has not dreamed about the angels. He says he doesn't like to see them, because he doesn't want their help, he likes to solve his own problems. He is mildly autistic and 13 about to turn 14 and started a new school this year. We moved from Ga to Ok this summer so that was a huge change for him. I wonder if the angels are trying to help him with the transition, and I also wonder if they are really spirit guides and he interprets them as angels.

What your son experienced reminded me of a dream I had where I was surrounded by 3 women dressed in white and they were laying their hands on my head telling me everything is going to be ok. I remember in this dream crying stating that I couldn't handle life anymore. That's when they layed their hands on me to comfort me. What I always notice is that these entities are always calm. They never raise their voice .. not even when you are shouting at them franticly . The tone of entities in the afterlife will always be calm and loving.

Like I said, I hear my spirit guide talk to me when I am asleep.. she has a wide range of vocabulary and everything is always so eloquently stated.

I've read that if your guides or spirits from the afterlife scare you when they visit that its ok to tell them to "lay off" ... they will simply communicate and visit you other ways like in dreams...I sometimes would often get a sense that someone was standing in the room with me at night and I had to sleep with a night-light on. I use to politely say outloud that I am trying to get some sleep and not to scare me. Now I dont get scared anymore.. but they wont take offense if you tell them to go away. They will never essentially go away because your guides are always with you, but I figure that they have a way of making their presence less known if they are scaring you.

And I'll be ok. I just gotta figure out how to approach a situation that is extra fragile right now. Something is telling me just to give it time. I feel like I simply cannot wait though. I want to fix things now. A recurring theme that I have not dealt with easily in my life is patience. I know I need to learn how to be more patient with things. Once I learn what it means to be patient I pretty much would have full-filled a huge chunk of what I needed to learn here on earth. I know how to be patient with my daughter. So the next lesson is learning how to be patient with friends.

[ilovelearninhg]

What your son experienced reminded me of a dream I had where I was surrounded by 3 women dressed in white and they were laying their hands on my head telling me everything is going to be ok. I remember in this dream crying stating that I couldn't handle life anymore. That's when they layed their hands on me to comfort me. What I always notice is that these entities are always calm. They never raise their voice .. not even when you are shouting at them franticly . The tone of entities in the afterlife will always be calm and loving.

Like I said, I hear my spirit guide talk to me when I am asleep.. she has a wide range of vocabulary and everything is always so eloquently stated.

I've read that if your guides or spirits from the afterlife scare you when they visit that its ok to tell them to "lay off" ... they will simply communicate and visit you other ways like in dreams...I sometimes would often get a sense that someone was standing in the room with me at night and I had to sleep with a night-light on. I use to politely say outloud that I am trying to get some sleep and not to scare me. Now I dont get scared anymore.. but they wont take offense if you tell them to go away. They will never essentially go away because your guides are always with you, but I figure that they have a way of making their presence less known if they are scaring you.

And I'll be ok. I just gotta figure out how to approach a situation that is extra fragile right now. Something is telling me just to give it time. I feel like I simply cannot wait though. I want to fix things now. A recurring theme that I have not dealt with easily in my life is patience. I know I need to learn how to be more patient with things. Once I learn what it means to be patient I pretty much would have full-filled a huge chunk of what I needed to learn here on earth. I know how to be patient with my daughter. So the next lesson is learning how to be patient with friends.

I know patience is surely one of my lessons. Sometimes time does work things out. Lots of times I just have to "let go" but it's hard to do that. Thank you for your input on my son's experience; it's nice to know you experienced something similar. I like the things you wrote on your blog about soul groups.

[Highlander]

Poeticblue, I also am reading and enjoying your blog. I swear you have a good book inside you just itching to come out. Don't make us wait!