My visits to the summerland/Contact with my Spirit Guide

[Andrew]

I agree with everyone else - your posts are fascinating! Very, very few people have such detailed experiences as you do! (well, actually everyone has them but no one remembers them ). It is amazing how accurate your experience are and how consistent what you saw is with what I have read!

[vic smyth]

Once in a while, maybe 5 times a year I get a dream that is out of the ordinary. Usually I get some sort of insight, or it's a lucid dream where I'm just observing and thinking to myself, "Wow, look how creative I am in this dream". I get after death communications at times. I rarely get a bad dream where I'm scared. But mostly I get the usual subconscious "brain farts", usually with recurring themes.

I love reading your posts, they help me understand my own dreams, please continue!

Any good book that you can recommend that you found helpful that explains dreams?

With Lovingkindness (metta),
vic

[poeticblue]

I love your posts, too. I don't mind reading your long paragraphs. I am so jealous, I wish I could have dreams like you do. All I want to do is dream of my boyfriend (who recently passed) just to know he's okay. Maybe some day if I'm lucky.

Hi Millie. Don't be too jealous With the gift of remembering the good dreams comes the gift of remembering the bad. Sometimes I just want an honest good nights sleep remembering nothing. I feel I am just as busy in my dreams than in my waking life sometimes. I really do. As far as your boyfriend is concerned, you do dream about him you just dont remember. It boggles my mind how many people have told me they dont dream or they dont remember. Sometimes I wish I couldnt but there's nothing I can do about it. But please before you go to sleep at night, ask for guidance to remember your dreams and visits. It may not happen over night but keep asking and it will eventually happen. You also have to truly believe deep down inside yourself that this can happen. Shed all of the doubt that you may have just because its never happend to you. I'm a normal person just like everybody else. I am not pyschic nor am I a medium. Meditation bores me to death. I cant meditate for 30 seconds without being distracted by something else. Maybe I was just born this way and just have a knack for this kind of thing but I truly do believe that anybody can do it. You gotta tap deep into your emotional self.. the place that you dont want to necessarily go because it may be too painful. You may be afraid to open up to yourself and not necessarily other people. I know it may sound cheesy but I really do think this may work.

Also it may help you to do some reasearch on the internet and figure out if maybe there is something you can do that is non-spiritual to help you dream more vividly. Maybe diet changes (yes changing what you eat can change your sleeping habits) or keeping a journal of your thoughts before bed. Again be very open to this. I'm sorry to hear about what happend to your boyfriend but I believe he's doing just fine

[poeticblue]

Once in a while, maybe 5 times a year I get a dream that is out of the ordinary. Usually I get some sort of insight, or it's a lucid dream where I'm just observing and thinking to myself, "Wow, look how creative I am in this dream". I get after death communications at times. I rarely get a bad dream where I'm scared. But mostly I get the usual subconscious "brain farts", usually with recurring themes.

I love reading your posts, they help me understand my own dreams, please continue!

Any good book that you can recommend that you found helpful that explains dreams?

With Lovingkindness (metta),
vic

Vic I would love to hear about your after death communications! It would absolutley be my pleasure to read about some of them. What reccuring themes in your dreams do you keep having? I'm sorry if I'm prying that is just the counselor/psychologist side coming out of me.. ..

As far as good books are concerned, let me do some reasearch and find out. Its been a couple years since I've had to read one and quite frankly I cannot recall the exact names lol. But I will help find some for you and Millie.

[vic smyth]

Vic I would love to hear about your after death communications! It would absolutley be my pleasure to read about some of them. What reccuring themes in your dreams do you keep having? I'm sorry if I'm prying that is just the counselor/psychologist side coming out of me.. ..

I get after death communications, dreams where I interact with someone who has died, fairly frequently. Whenever I have a dream about someone that I haven't heard of for a while I try to look them up. Recently I dreamed, the first time ever, of an old business associate. Sure enough I found his obituary. Granted he died 4 years ago, aged 79, so I can't quite say that it was psychic information. But the interesting thing about those dreams is that the person seems to be making amends with me in the dream. For some reason I am never judgmental of them, just accepting of what happened. It's like, "Hey, no big deal, it was a minor incident that happened years ago." The dream often ends in me giving them a hug.

Two very striking dreams that I had were of childhood friends that I had that died in their early 20s both in car accidents. Shortly after one of them died I saw him and his father (also deceased) in a dream in a beautiful field of tall green grass having a friendly chat with each other. His father was somewhat distant like so many fathers were back in the 60s, so it was unusual that they would chat. I just had this feeling that they were "okay". This was way before I got into all this New Age stuff. It was only until I read Guggenheim's book about ADCs a few years back that I realized that this was a classic ADC dream.

As for my recurring dreams. I used to be a remodeling contractor about 20 years ago. Ever since I quit I get these dreams that I am working on a house, either a customer's or mine, and that the project is going badly, behind schedule, or shoddy workmanship, or that the job is getting blown out of proportion like a small leak in a roof turns into half the roof missing and rain pouring in.

Another recurring dream is that I am trying to get home from someplace either on bicycle, train, or car and I end up getting lost, going through a bad neighborhood. Though lately at the end of the dream I at least get close to my house. These dreams are never scary. In a matter of fact I am always amazed how creative I am in the buildings that I see and scenes that I can create. If I could put these dream scenes on canvas I'm sure they'd be hanging in an art museum.

Thanks,
vic

[BrentGorcie]

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.

I have been searching the internet for days...trying to find an explanation to something similar that happened to me. I was visiting a friend in northern California and I stayed in his guest room for about a week. It's very warm and dry in his house at night because he keeps the heater blasting so I opened the window above my bed before going to sleep. Well, after I fell asleep, I know I was having a lucid dream within a my first REM cycle and I ended up calmly waking up right after it ended. Nothing worth remembering, it was just random dreams. THEN, I dozed off again and it was an experience unlike anything I've ever felt before; (first of all, it didn't feel like a dream...it felt real)

It felt like I was transported to a place that was surrounded by ancient temples. It was day time and there were lots of trees beyond the temples as if in the middle of a jungle or forest. I was in a strange robe and kneeling down, holding a small plate that held some kind of strange flower. It was small, white with a black outline that had some parts on the vine that looked like corn or something... I was guided to eat it apparently, so I did. Next thing I know I'm hovering over this large camp fire at night (felt like real time). There were modern native Americans surrounding it and they were chanting something that was very repetitive. Then I heard a voice that was talking to me. It was a very deep voice that sounded like an older native American. Very soothing as well. I wasn't scared at all. And although I cannot remember word for word everything that was said, I was also shown visuals which helped me remember what he was implying. He kept referring to me as "Wild Wind", as if it was my name. And he showed me two different paths. One of them, I was happily married in a very happy large home...and the other, I was homeless and amongst people that I did not like. And then the last thing he said was; "Go as it goes...with the wild wind." and then it faded away and I calmly woke up just as the sun was starting to rise...

So, I laid there for like a half hour and tried to process what just happened. It felt like there was some group of indigenous natives, maybe six or seven of them, a normal and modern native people, that did some sort of evening ritual of chanting around a camp fire. They must have ate something, like peyote or something like that, and then started trying to channel a spirit. It felt like they succeeded and then that "spirit" somehow channeled me into their space. I was also under the impression that they have been trying to channel the spirit into channeling me for days but could not...until I opened the window!

Anyway, it was very bizarre and after reading your similar experience I felt like I should share it. I'm not exactly sure how to do research on this type of thing. I know nothing about native Americans or even REM sleep, dreams, hallucinations, spirits, etc. This isn't even in my lexicon to be able to process these types of scenarios into a dream.

NOTE: This all happened two nights ago. (early yesterday morning)

[Andrew]

Once in a while, maybe 5 times a year I get a dream that is out of the ordinary. Usually I get some sort of insight, or it's a lucid dream where I'm just observing and thinking to myself, "Wow, look how creative I am in this dream". I get after death communications at times. I rarely get a bad dream where I'm scared. But mostly I get the usual subconscious "brain farts", usually with recurring themes.

I love reading your posts, they help me understand my own dreams, please continue!

Any good book that you can recommend that you found helpful that explains dreams?

With Lovingkindness (metta),
vic

I don't know of any books, dear Vic, but you might find this interesting: "subconscious brain farts", as you call them, don't actually come from he brain at all - most of the time. Typically, these strange dreams happen when we are astral traveling (which we do almost nightly in our sleep). Whaterver we are thinking of just happens, because that is what happens in the astral realm. Of course, the brain will confuse the whole process by trying to make sense of it, but the actual events are from the Mind a good deal of the time.

[Andrew]

I have been searching the internet for days...trying to find an explanation to something similar that happened to me. I was visiting a friend in northern California and I stayed in his guest room for about a week. It's very warm and dry in his house at night because he keeps the heater blasting so I opened the window above my bed before going to sleep. Well, after I fell asleep, I know I was having a lucid dream within a my first REM cycle and I ended up calmly waking up right after it ended. Nothing worth remembering, it was just random dreams. THEN, I dozed off again and it was an experience unlike anything I've ever felt before; (first of all, it didn't feel like a dream...it felt real)

It felt like I was transported to a place that was surrounded by ancient temples. It was day time and there were lots of trees beyond the temples as if in the middle of a jungle or forest. I was in a strange robe and kneeling down, holding a small plate that held some kind of strange flower. It was small, white with a black outline that had some parts on the vine that looked like corn or something... I was guided to eat it apparently, so I did. Next thing I know I'm hovering over this large camp fire at night (felt like real time). There were modern native Americans surrounding it and they were chanting something that was very repetitive. Then I heard a voice that was talking to me. It was a very deep voice that sounded like an older native American. Very soothing as well. I wasn't scared at all. And although I cannot remember word for word everything that was said, I was also shown visuals which helped me remember what he was implying. He kept referring to me as "Wild Wind", as if it was my name. And he showed me two different paths. One of them, I was happily married in a very happy large home...and the other, I was homeless and amongst people that I did not like. And then the last thing he said was; "Go as it goes...with the wild wind." and then it faded away and I calmly woke up just as the sun was starting to rise...

So, I laid there for like a half hour and tried to process what just happened. It felt like there was some group of indigenous natives, maybe six or seven of them, a normal and modern native people, that did some sort of evening ritual of chanting around a camp fire. They must have ate something, like peyote or something like that, and then started trying to channel a spirit. It felt like they succeeded and then that "spirit" somehow channeled me into their space. I was also under the impression that they have been trying to channel the spirit into channeling me for days but could not...until I opened the window!

Anyway, it was very bizarre and after reading your similar experience I felt like I should share it. I'm not exactly sure how to do research on this type of thing. I know nothing about native Americans or even REM sleep, dreams, hallucinations, spirits, etc. This isn't even in my lexicon to be able to process these types of scenarios into a dream.

NOTE: This all happened two nights ago. (early yesterday morning)

I'm glad you found us! Welcome to AfterlifeForums.com! It's hard to say exactly what happened to you, but it could be either an astral traveling/projecting experience - that's really the only answer that I can think of.

Astral travel is the process of leaving the physical body without dying. We do it every night our sleep in our sleep, but normally don't remember it, or think it was just a weird dream. You see, there's are two main areas in the astral realm - the earth layer and the fantastical level. The former is an exact replica of earth and would have been where you went in your sleep, which is weird because most people manage to think themselves to the fantastical level.

Anyway, you would have been able to see the native american group, whether they met in the past or the present, assuming you someone (even subconsciously) thought yourself there. I don't know how this would happen, but it did. Then the man and the two paths could have been a communication message that you got from deceased friends or guides.

We also travel to the Summerland (i.e. heaven) in our sleep to counsult our guides about what we should be doing in our lives. So, that man could have been your guide trying to help you decide about life, or even tell you about a past life. The two examples you saw could have been metaphoric about this life, realities from your past life, or even how you lived in the afterlife before you incarnated.

I have no idea what these two events have to do with each other, or if they are even connected. I'm sorry that I cannot be more specific, there are many possibilities. One thing seems certain - you were likely an indian in a past life - I cannot think of anything else that would cause you to experience this.

[poeticblue]

After having an eyelash stuck in my eye for what seemed like hours I am finally able to type now.

Wow so many great replies and experiences. I get the feeling that this post has opened up a gate, letting people through who have had similiar experiences as I have, seeking answers like I did! So what I gather from your response Andrew was that when we have these vivid dreams ( fear dreams, symbolic dreams, dreams where we have super powers.. ect....) we are creating these dreams in the astral plane because that is where our thoughts and feelings come to life. Mostly in the fantastical level. So our subconciousness projects itself out of our psychies in this astral plane formulating these vivid dreams by using symbolic symbols. As another example, I remember the night before I went out on my first date with a guy that I liked, I dreamt that I was being shot down by people in helicopters in the sky. There was no way of telling where these helicopters were most of the time because they would vanish in the air and then re-appear again. In this dream I noticed that the people who were getting shot were only the people who were "culturally different" from the norm. I'm just gonna put it out there and say that I am multi-racial and I have alot of tattoo work. So in this dream, people who dressed different, looked different, or who were even of a different ethnicity were being shot down while everybody else just casually walked on by. I'm thinking to myself that this is not right and very unjust. I tried to avoid getting shot but they got me at the end. When I woke up from this dream I knew that this was a dream that I had dreamt for fear of being rejected. Being "shot down" by forces that were out of my control (my ethcnicity, my love for tattoos and body art) .. the fear that someone who I liked that would not except me for who I am would essentially feel like I'm being shot down. Rejected. Gotten rid of. Needless to say the date went very well by the way .

So what kind of dreams would we expect on the earth layer? Past life dreams? Contact with our spirit guide and loved ones? Or is our contact with our spirit guide and loved ones always in the summerland?

[Carol and Mikey]

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"