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Dream Recording Exercise
Topic Started: Dec 9 2011, 09:13 AM (556 Views)
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I made a thread like this at the DI forum and it's been interesting. I also remembered a couple dreams lately which is rare these days because I simply haven't been able to recall though I know I dream constantly. I'll excerpt the OP post and a couple other things for this post.





I was just thinking that I might be up to consciously recording dreams just after having them,,, if others might do the same.

It's work, and something I can't keep up with because it involves setting everything aside, including and especially sleepiness, getting up writing down on paper or in my notepad dreams, however fragmented they might be or whatever, at the time I begin recording them.

Short of external disruption, the phone ringing or any other abrupt distraction, a dream can be recorded pretty much intact and shared. It can also be powerful.

A disruption or a bit of time gone by can make it slip right out of your head.

So, if anyone's up to it, dreaming, recording, and later sharing it here, let me know, and then I'll think about doing it as an exercise for however long, at least a few times. Otherwise, I'm pretty much on to my sleep.

ZzzZZZz

I think it would be interesting though to sift through everyone's active dreams and reflect.

What say you?





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Can't do it - I even took a pad and pen to bed last night! As soon as I'm awake, I remember nothing. Perhaps I'm being woken by external noise and as such, it affects my ability to grasp the dream content?

Or maybe I don't dream. Posted Image


Yes it does, amazon. The littlest thing can disturb your memory of the dream, make it slip out and away, right out of your grasp, right through your fingers, no holding on to it. I advise just to try it again another time. There will be a time when you'll wake, you'll still be in the memory, and you can proceed to record however hastily or whatever fragments or pieces might get lost on recording. Just write what you can.

Often, but not always when we wake up... it's because we have to pee! Haha. And things we hear externally can be triggers that cause us to partially wake up and then our bodies realize we are waking and send the signal it's time to go relieve!

I don't know if you guys have ever had the experience of feeling your bladders are just starting to fill up right upon waking.

Geez, why am I talking about pee? LOL. Because it's real and a part of waking up I reckon, so why hide it eh. Gawd. Kind of awkward and embarrasin subject innit?

Anyway, that in itself can be a distraction. Sometimes you can write while under the pressure, and sometimes you can go relieve yourself and still retain the dream keeping focused and eyes kind of closed and come back and start recording. There's not really a set rule. It just depends.

So, with all that in mind, and all those things to factor in, I say.... do your best! You'll arrive in due time, to the pencil, the paper... the laptop and notepad if you've left it on... or whatever device you keep handy for recording at that instant.

There will always be new opportunities to record your dreams, even if sometimes it doesn't work out.

It really is an applied exercise --that takes energy, focus, and concentration-- and not the easiest thing to do, but it is doable under the right circumstances and conditions.
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A couple days ago 12/07/2011

Was inside a place looking out. An apartment I would say and the complex (not laid out even) was not in the middle of a city but there was land or terrain beyond. All these soldier types medieval looking matching clothing and sort of hood type head cover that matched clothing pouring in and about, coming in numbers on foot from the outskirts and towards and into the complex to get in rooms I think. I remember saying to one then another Assalamualaikum wa ramatulahi wa barakatahuh only I slowed down on the wa ramatulahi and wa barakatahuh as if it was slowly coming back to memory as I spoke. I don't remember being responded to except what seemed like surprise and recognition in the face and eyes of whom I spoke it to, at least the second one who had come in the apartment. The first seemed a passer by outdoors who didn't even acknowledge or I have no memory of that. I don't even know where I was with the first I just remember saying the words a first time.


Today 12/09/2011

Was at some place there was a building I think in a rather isolated place. I can't remember what it was or was for. I was outside and with someone else, a female I think, and there were paths to take. We were looking for a special path to which we'd been before or was just the one we wanted to take. We went out from the building area and were looking in the directions of the different paths to see which one we were wanting to take. Each one of these paths was nature of some type (not with buildings or people) and each had a different terrain. One looked like a crevice that went between a mountain or hills and I was thinking wow. You could tell they went far away.

When we were at the building it seemed like there was some sort of big wooden box on the porch in front of the building. I don't know if it had clothes in it or not but it seems there might have been something like that. We were looking out for the people around there though there weren't many. We wanted to avoid them or their attention for the most part as we were doing our own thing. Trying to keep a low profile I guess you'd say.

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December 2011

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Malidoma Patrice Somé

Dagara Wisdom in Action
By Donna Strong
Awareness Magazine, July/August 2011, Volume 18, No. 4
Email: info@awarenessmag.com
www.awarenessmag.com

Quick Links
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Greetings Village!


The following is the conclusion of the interview which was featured
last month in E-Village News (November 2011 issue). We hope you enjoy
the inspiration and wisdom presented here, as we say goodbye to 2011,
a Water year, and get ready to move into 2012---a Fire year in Dagara
culture!


Peace, Blessings & HAPPY HOLIDAYS!


PART II



Donna: May I mention---I read a piece in which you were talking about
how in your culture, that instead of just thinking of a dream as an
interesting kind of phenomenon that's separate, you should interact
with spirit about it. I thought that was remarkable because so many
people in the West are into writing down their dreams and analyzing
them, but you were suggesting much more, because again, it's about
relationship.

Malidoma: Well, it is relationship, as with everything else.
Information that comes to us through the dream channel is part of the
natural interaction that every living being has with the Other World.
Those who don't dream are people who don't have a relationship. But
I don't know anybody who doesn't dream.

The point about it is, well, in the West, yes; people have an
insufficient initiative in reaction to dreaming. By recording a
dream, we don't satisfy the intention of the dream or the purpose of
it. It is important that we understand that a dream is a message from
the Other World that was lodged into our consciousness while we were
resting.

It is an indigenous belief that we are more cooperative when
we're sleeping because we let our defenses go. And that's when spirit
takes that moment to come to us and talk to us convincingly through
dreams.

So instead of waking up and recording it, which is not a bad
idea, it is important to voice to spirits how you have received the
dream. There might be a difference between the transmission of the
dream and the receiver's awareness of the content at the other end of
the line.

If there is something programmatic about the dream, it means that
somehow our intention is being directed toward something that is
urgent, and if we happen to not have a clear idea as to what we're
supposed to do, then this is a good time to ask the sender to give us
more detail. Some dreams may appear incomplete, and in this case it
is a good idea to tell the senders, look, there seems to be missing
pieces in the information, at least from where I am as a receiver.
What happens then is that the Other World takes it into consideration
and eventually corrects or elaborates more on what has been
transmitted.

Donna: Okay, and this might be expressed in events you notice in
daily life as some kind of further transmission, not just in a dream?

Malidoma: Absolutely. Because a dream doesn't just happen when we're
asleep. What we call a dream is assisting a person's instinct, a
person's intuition, and the kind of awareness of sudden insight that
we have about something. You may be walking somewhere and then all of
a sudden you make a u-turn and can't explain why you made the turn but
you were really sure that this was the right thing to do.

You may never find out what was ahead of you that prompted the
loving spirits to find a way to get you to make that u-turn. So it is
important to stretch the concept of dream to include phenomena that
happens while we're wide awake.

Donna: I see. When you were talking about talismanic medicine and
understanding more about the causality of nature, I wanted to relate
the nudges we are getting from spirit to develop more relationships
with other members of creation and the healing involved with that, by
working with nature.

Malidoma: Very well noted, yes indeed. There seems to be an
increasing call that we pay attention, not just to the immediate
geography of our existence, but to make an effort to see the degree to
which the immediate geography is connected to other other geographies
that eventually stretch out and beyond this planet to other unknown
areas that know nature, the places that are hosting us down here.

The issue is this, the intelligence of nature is of such
sophistication that it keeps an open channel to subspace
consciousness, wherein all kinds of sustainable energies are offered,
on our behalf and on behalf of the other species.

Consequently, we're being urged to quit being local and to begin
to see the way that anything we do or don't do affects the cosmic
plane. When we start thinking that way, we are not only honoring our
own cosmic relationship, but we're showing the kind of awareness that
is really a contribution to human wellness. It is the kind of
awareness that we try to get into by creating sacred space and
inviting spirits to join us in an effort to take care of something
that is of prime importance to us.

Donna: Speaking of healing, I've never known so many people in what I
would call healing crisis. Having been involved as a healing
practitioner, I don't see healing crisis as inherently a negative
thing, even though it's doing a lot to get your attention. But I'm
wondering what you would say about this. Is it a big call from
spirit?

Malidoma: Well, there are many ways of looking at it. And your way
is pretty good. I like to look at it that way. A crisis is not
necessarily something bad. It could be a fairly profound blessing,
disguised like that. At least in Dagara culture, what is clear is
that ancestors always get our attention in a way that feels like
they're grabbing a stick and hitting our head with it. It hurts. But
also, it gets our attention.

And so in a way, this is a good thing, to be hit in the head like
this because we tend to be so easily distracted by other
preoccupations. And in the same manner, the deepest crisis can also
carry inside of it the biggest blessings ever.

It is perhaps one of the things that we demand, through various
behavioral patterns. One thing we may call the self-destructive
pattern can be a way for us to call on change from the Other World in
that particular way. Catastrophe, whether it is man-made or not,
oftentimes comes simply because the sum total of human energies
combined tend to send a signal that feels like a statement, inviting
awakening.

Therefore, we can see that every step we take is a message we
send to the Other World. Our demeanor is a language. And more than
not, it's a language directed to the Other World, and the Other World
responds. More often than not, the way it gets our attention is quite
radical.

This is why crisis cannot be labeled in this definitive fashion
as something evil or something unfortunate or anything. Maybe fortune
is lodged inside, and in that case, every time we feel ourselves stuck
somewhere we may wonder what kind of blessings is hiding behind this
darkness.

It is not something we should call for or invite. It's just that
at this juncture, we're still growing as a species. I don't know;
maybe we're not qualified yet for even the high school of
consciousness. The way we learn is rather sensory. So when one of
the sensors gets hit, all of a sudden we pay attention, you know? It
should not be dismissed because if it can help us move forward above
and beyond the tendency for pettiness, then there's something good
about that.

Donna: I get it. One of the things I have had a lot of personal
experience with is the call and response between the human realm and
the spirit realm.

Malidoma: Wow! This is perfect, the way you say it---the call and
response. As long as this is going on, it means that somehow we can
move, and though we can take ourselves away from spirit, we can't take
spirit away from us.

Donna: (Laughter.)

Malidoma: You know? The dance is only happening between this world
and the Other World of spirit. So we can run, but we cannot shake the
Other World off of us. Even the most hardheaded person is constantly
sending messages forward that are echoed by the Other World in a way
that looks rather tough. But in the end, it's a great melody.

Donna: You are quite a diviner; you have quite an ability to see
beyond circumstances, I want you to know that.

Malidoma: Oh, thank you.

Donna: In closing I'd like to ask about one of my favorite lines of
many you have written: "It's not a private planet, but a community
initiative."

Malidoma: Oh yes. Yes. We are part of the whole tribal village.
The global village is indeed the place where every so-called
individual personal crisis is the business of everybody. The day when
nothing is personal will be the day when we will see each one of us as
carriers of something that is deemed beneficial to the rest of the
community.

Donna: May I ask one little question of that? What are you seeing
emerge in people you're working with, related to 'being the carriers
of the beneficial'?

Malidoma: They call it their life's purpose. They call it their
gifts. People all of a sudden become lit with a sense of belonging, a
sense of worth in which the fire that was rather dim in their system
starts to go ablaze. It is something very beautiful and stylistically
colorful to look at, and where it takes them is down the rabbit hole
of creativity and imagination.

To see someone all of a sudden burst into life, realizing that
they are worth something and to begin dispensing their gift is, in
itself, a blessing really.


Donna Strong is a writer and spiritual midwife, helping others to
birth more authentic aspects of themselves. For more, visit
www.donnastrong.com
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