What is a Dream?Quoted from the book: Edgar Cayce Modern Prophet On

 

Mysteries of the Mind by: Henry Reed

 

Going to sleep is a night sea journey. On this trip, we encounter an island of light. As the subconscious mind takes the help normally held by the conscious mind, the soul awakens. The soul is actively conscious, Cayce indicates, only when the conscious mind is laid aside and the subconscious mind becomes the consciousness.

 

We are sleeping on our portion of universal awareness.  It lies dormant within us until we are asleep. The soul brings its own light to our darkness and peers about in our dreams. 

 

A dream is an experience the soul has while we are asleep. With its universal awareness its reach for information knows no bounds. It remembers all its past lives, the lessons learned, as well as the purpose for incarnating this lifetime. It looks upon our daily activities and our experiences and views them in the context of its ageless wisdom. Knowing that a dream I s an experience of the soul makes it easy to understand the source of the extraordinary phenomena that happen in dreams.

 

Dreams have been the mot frequent source of psychic experiences. On the one hand, surveys have shown that people who have had psychic experiences (telepathy, contact with the dead, seeing the future) indicate that dreams were the most frequent source of these experiences. On the other hand, laboratory investigations attempting to demonstrate the reality of ESP have found dreams to be the most reliable state of consciousness for producing verifiable telepathic events. Psychic dreams can be understood as a resulting from the soul’s reach beyond time and space.

 

Most religions can trace their origins to dreams. Besides the dreams heralding the birth of Jesus, dreams also figured in the birth of Buddhism and Mohammedism.  The autobiographies of religious leaders and mystics often contain stories of special dreams of spiritual significance. It is common for people who meditate on spiritual matters or lead an active prayer life to have dreams concerning religious themes. Religious dreams can be understood as resulting from the soul’s concern that our daily activities fulfill the soul’s mission on earth.

 

The ideals of the soul, truths it has garnered from countless experiences, are the standard the soul uses in evaluating the experiences of the physical personality. The impressions the soul receives, comparing our daily activities to its storehouse of wisdom in the superconscious mind, are the basis of the dreams we have at night. The soul has an “ah ha�experience of revelation, but what we remember of that experience is a dream.

 

We remember few of our dreams and only incomplete portions of those we do recall. The symbolic stories we call dreams are the translations made by the subconscious for the conscious of the soul’s experience while we sleep. They are an indirect record of what happened. Yet our dreams are perhaps the primary source of clues that we live more than the material life of time and space. For many primitive cultures, dreams were the primary evidence for the reality of the soul.