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so once more i focused my concentration on the glass counter with perfume bottles .and with an identical result. once again the light began to glow behind the row of bottles once again the explosion/implosion (only this time it was red-copper) once again the bottle was moved from 3RD to 4TH. and now the spiral was a vigorous copper. the response of the crowd was wild. and now for the fourth and final one. this time the spiral bottle was faint green. and this counter had 11 bottles. as before, i gazed and concentrated . and the same thing happened . the same pattern was repeated. this time the color of the light was white-green. and now with one difference: instead of being 4TH from left the spiral bottle was now 5TH from left. it was now a bright and vivid green. the applause from the crowd was deafening. the young woman ,smiling came over to congratulate me. the tall man did too. in the crowd i heard several languages. Castilian Spanish,Aragonese Spanish, Asturian Spanish, standard French,Provencal French,Occitan French .standard Italian ,Ligurian Italian ,Lombardian ,Veneto, Mandarian Chinese,Cantonese. Russian, Ukranian, German,Swiss-German ,Dutch and several other languages i did not recognize. this dream is rife with symbolism . such as, why in the basement of a library, and then why the perfume bottles- i saw several brands i recognized, such as ,Guerlain and Giorgi Armani- and why was the spiral bottle always 3RD from left,then 4TH,(except at the end ) and why the different languages in the crowd? both you and i may be hard put to find meaning in this dream. but i think we will,
Hi James,
There is nothing to compare to the type of dreams you send me. The library is a symbol of a place where you gain knowledge, and you could maybe say that the basement is going to the depths. The knowledge you are gaining in this library is not like linear-cognitive type. It is more about how to access your intuitive abilities. The difference between the two is that with cognitive abilities you are actively using your mind to follow lines of reasoning and putting things together like through deduction or induction. Intuitive abilities are receptive in nature rather than active. You prepare yourself and then things come to you without a logical sequence. What happens to me when I work with a client is that I will start out in the linear mode following the trail of what is happening with the person and then somewhere in the middle the intuition will chime in. When I go with it, it takes the direction to where it needs to go. It is interesting that a woman invited you to participate because women are usually stronger in intuitive abilities than men. When you go with it, astonishment happens, and things move. You cannot give a very rational explanation because we don’t have minds to explain intuition. In the rational world there is a beginning, a middle, and an end. In the intuitive world there is not beginning or ending. The end can be the beginning and vice versa. Time and logic are suspended by the larger Mind. It tells you probably to lose yourself in awe or add more awe to your life. I am going to reflect to reflect some more later on the languages and the perfume. I will say this that when my sister-in-law senses the presence of another spirit in the room she can smell them. It is not how I do it, but it is pretty cool
as usual, you have gotten past the superficial appearance of things and delved down to the essence . and you are right about this being about intuitive knowledge more than linear knowledge. as for the perfumes i myself am still figuring out that one. why perfume bottles and not just bottles. a spiral can symbolize rotation and movement back from one level of consciousness to another. a friend of mine explained it like this: the leftward turning spirals symbolizes introversion and inner knowledge and the right turning spiral symbolizing extroversion and outer knowledge. in short the left turning spiral indicating the interior and the right turning spiral the exterior. in this it is perfectly symbolic,as you said of no beginning and no end. the 4 colors are symbolic too of course. previously faint colors are bright and vivid,so that could be symbolic of regeneration. what an unusual ability your sister-in law has. in fact somewhat similar although not identical to mine. i too can detect certain forces unperceived by the sense of smell. sometimes,though less commonly by taste . there is a technical term for this ability. it is called Clairalience. the 2ND ability is called Clairgustance. but with me it happens very rarely. what the perfumes and colors symbolize may be related to this.
So great that you have this ability. My intuition tends to be more tactile, textural. Is there a term for that? I usually start with a texture, and then it leads me to communication.
hmmm…. i don’t know if i know of a technical term for that. just the way your perception operates. sometimes clairsentient too. that is by feeling. in some cases ,much more than i would have liked to have had. what the perfumes may mean and the different languages. this may be something that transcends cultural lines. the perfumes i still have not figured out. the woman and the man were friends and guides.that much i have figured out. it is not easy to be a clairvoyant and an empath
sorry for the typographical error. now instead of being 3RD from left the bottle was now 4th from left and instead of being a pale red it was now bright red. a crowd had begun to gather and some of them were applauding. the young woman encouraged me on. i turned and saw another counter,with a similar arrangement to the first. only here the spiral was dusty blue instead of pale red. so i focused and concentrated. with the same result . again there was light behind the bottles .again the explosion/implosion . again the spiral bottle had shifted from 3RD place to 4TH place. and now instead of being a du8sty blue it was a deep blue. the crowd applauded enthusiastically. there were 2 people that stood out ,one the aforementioned young woman and the other a tall thin man dressed in a black business suit with a black mustache. he said “2 more times” i turned and saw another glass counter . this time with the spiral bottle being caramel color and sure enough,it was third from left i think i should mention one detail that may or may not be significant . the 1st row of bottles had 8 bottles the 2nd one had 7 and this one had 9. {continued}
Hi there, I am hoping you can interpret a dream I had last night I have struggling with things in life lately especially financially and I am lonely I have been asking silently for God or someone that has passed to help me I was close to my grandma growing up and in my dream last night she was there in my dream I went to go see her can’t quite picture where and we were talking she was happy and after I left she passed away and I was told I can’t remember who told me that she was waiting to see me before she passed away shortly after I started seeing signs from her and I remember telling someone I had told her to send me signs and when I seen these signs I remember saying yes that’s my grandma was this her coming to me with a message or is there something else this dream is telling me please help
Dear Tamra,
There are two things that you can take from this dream. First, the appearance of your grandma in the dream is so that you will remember how she treated you. How she treated you is how you need to be to others. When you treat others the way she treated you, then your loneliness will go away and your financial issues will start to resolve themselves. The second thing is that she will send you signs to guide your way so you have to be open to them and then do whatever they say to do. There are always two steps to being successful. The first is the receiving of messages and guidance. The second is a lot of action on your part. When you combine both, you will be assured of success.
Thank you! I just want to mention I do treat people really well often better then myself
Ok, that is great! Then her being a part of your guidance is the really important thing.
I had my first “true dream/vision” as Abdu’l-Baha called this category, which needs no interpretation as it is literal and perspicuous. It comes with a long background story and some contextual complexity, but succinctly, the short dream was a vision of a map of Australia with a finger moving towards, and pointing at, the very centre of Australia, and a voice saying ‘your life’s work is in Alice Springs’…… which is in the centre of Australia…. and where I am now ….. I’m not sure why I was blessed with this level of guidance as it is usually conditional on the qualities of purity of heart and detachment of mind /freedom from false suppositions etc that I surely don’t have. I suspect that it is because my wife and I were about to pioneer somewhere else, and a year previous I had a mystical experience in Alice Springs which included a literal sign which read “You belong here” ….. so it was like “I told you once – let me spell it out”
Anyhow there was another dream soon after that, while we were deciding /seeking guidance about when to relocate. :
I was sitting at a table across from Abdu’l-Baha. Shoghi Effendi was nearby lying on the floor. I was frustrated /impatient with waiting for Institutional guidance and clarification about our relocation, and expressed this to the Master. He simply informed me that he would tell me in one week. ……. one week later (to the hour !) I had this dream/nightmare :
There is a a forestry plantation which has access roads. It looks well-planned and somewhat symmetrical. Except one road is blocked by fallen trees, dead wood, branches etc. I am unblocking it and have built a big community fireplace with a concrete and rock border nearby. I have worked hard and arranged the tree trunks branches, sticks and leaves such that it is ready for lighting. Like a big bonfire. But no matter how hard I try it won’t light up, and just smokes….. Now I am on a very rocky mountain peak, on a small flat ledge at the very apex, it is just big enough for me, and so high up that I am stunned with awe and fear as I stare at the great ocean below, more than a kilometre down ! I see a storm of sorts, with a set of two powerful waves heading in towards the mountain, destined to crash into the cliff far below me, and out of sight. Next thing, the rock I am on breaks off, and we both start to fall off to the side. In a flash I am flooded with (more) fear, thinking that i will surely die, and desperately swing around and reach out to grab hold of the rocky ledge ……..
I awake, heart pumping, and rapid breathing….. (?)
When you got to Alice Springs, how did those metaphors manifest themselves? Are they still a problem?
The dream was more-so about WHEN to relocate, while we were still at our pioneering post (Halls Creek) prior to arriving here at Alice. …. Hmmm ? ….. I s’pose it could also be about this community here as well (?) ….. The bigger picture is that during the week/ 7 days that the Master made me wait, we received BOTH of our (seemingly) long-awaited replies from the NSA and from the Regional Council that we were (impatiently) waiting for. The former was in connection with having Halls Creek’s first LSA election, as Ridvan was quite near, and we had recently affirmed there was 11 members still living there, and the latter was more-so re my “true dream” which the Council didn’t acknowledge, and was diplomatically implying I should go elsewhere. Which of course exacerbated the “when” question.
The dream indicates that you couldn’t light a flame nor create a vision of possibilities. The fire wouldn’t start and the mountain collapsed. Since you are revisiting it now, those two elements are probably much more available.
Thanks Richard …… I agree, in that I was unable to unblock that Baha’i Community/Plantation’s growth, and I couldn’t re-ignite their fire.
Also, it was only the very top of the mountain that broke off, and I fell. Until then I was like the king of the mountain, in a sense, as (besides my wife’s collaboration and support) it was all my individual initiatives (and attachment) to rebuild this community. Yet it was surely time to “Let Go” of all this….. detach … relocate, learn more unity, etc ….. I would love to unpack more of this with you, but I have said too much already ….. Allah’u’Abha
Richard,
I hope your fall is off to a great start. A few nights ago I had a dream that there was a small (maybe 12′) green rough snake (Opheodrys aestivus). anyways this snake was trying to bite me on the back on my ankle, but it was like my skin was concrete because it could not pierce it. The people I was with said I had to kill it so I shake it off and try to stomp on it but it moved so quick and boom back trying to bite me and I look down and it is like I am zoomed into its fangs and I am watching it trying to bite me but it still cant break skin I kick it off again and the people again told me I had to kill it so I again start trying to stomp on it again and it kept moving and it went to strike again and i started kicking my feet, but I did it so hard that I woke myself up kicking my feet in bed.
Hi C,
In this dream your skin is like cement. What the dream is trying to show you is that you are tough-skinned, which means that you can take negative things that people try to taunt you with. It is the people around you are having a difficult time, not you. Instead of trying to kill the snake, you can be like this snake, which means you can develop your flexibility. Your ability to be flexible is what is calling you now.
Richard,
I hope all is well with you. I had two intense dreams the past two nights waking me up at 3:03a and 3:33a. The first was that my husband cheated on me and tried to gaslight me about it. I dont recall any further details as I didn’t think much of the dream after it happened. Last night however I had a dream that my husband killed me 3x, in my dream it was known that I had 4 versions of myself living within myself and each was stronger than the last. The first time he killed me I was cuddling next to him in bed and he shot me in the back, through the heart and I could feel myself die. The second time I was in what appeared to be a handicapped stall with a twin size bed and the doors were metal, my oldest daughter (step) was standing over me watching me to ensure I was asleep, but I was awake so I asked her what she was doing, then I noticed the maggots falling off her sleeve and I knew it was the decomposition of the first me that died. She called for her dad, my husband and he came in and killed me. Then I was the 3rd me and back to cuddling in bed and again shot point blank in the back, but I didn’t die so he shot me again on the right side and again I was alive. I tried to stop breathing and play dead but he slid his hand to the front of my chest and could feel my heatbeat, he said damn it and then shot me in the back of my head. I could feel myself die again and then the 4th me saw the 3rd me there with the wounds. Then 4th me was getting ready for bed and knew what was about to happen. So I initiated sex and he was so rushed to get through it, then I said I wanted to shower before going to sleep so I got a change of pjs and headed to the bathroom. my plan was to escape out of the tiny window. I go in and shut the door and lock it and as I am getting undressed my husband pushes the door open, sees I am about to shower and sets his gun on the counter accidentally forgets it and closes the door. this time I double check that the door is locked and shut fully. I am starting to change into my new clothes and I have to poop. I contemplate the time it is going to waste, but the urge was too strong so I sit down to do business and my son then busts through the door and says mom someone is coming. I grab the gun and ensure it is ready to fire if needed and my heart starts racing so fast It wakes me up. I tired to go back to sleep and escape with my 2 biological children to gain peace.
Hi C,
Those were pretty intense dreams. The four different versions of yourself symbolize that ever growing inner strength that you are developing. Killing you is done through shooting you in the back that affects your heart. This means that you have been attacked people who are fearful of your growing strength. They do and say things behind your back that has an effect on killing your spirit. Becoming empowered or strengthened is always experienced as a threat to existing power scheme especially for people who have always had an advantage like men. They want to do whatever they want and are counting others being weak, particularly women. As some point in your development of inner strength you will reach a threshold of empowerment whereby their put downs and tactics will no longer have an effect on you. At that point the perpetrators will cease their methods and things become more equal. The dream happens because you still have an association of being put down when you are trying to empower yourself. It is asking you to take the next step in being strong. I cannot tell if your husband is your actual husband or represents a lot of men(people) in general that use negative put downs to gain ego power. Anyway, the dreams tell you that you are a really great path of inner strength. Keep it going. Be strong.
richard. I literally just woke up from a bad dream and I feel unsettled and nauseated. So in the dream my mother is dead and she died more than 20 years prior. She was killed by my dad’s best friend Aaron because my older sister dated Aaron and broke his heart. In waking life my mom is alive and well and my sister did date Aaron and did break his heart but he died in the line of duty as a cop maybe 5 or so years ago, I was so deep and scared in the dream that I couldn’t remind myself of this truth. Anyways back to the dream. I was renting like an air bnb and across the was some construction workers moved it, (it started at a trailer park, then was a housing addition then I was a house but apartments were across the street on two sides and that’s where these workers were. They were not building and the subtle changes were normal sleeping but it was something I noticed.) I befriend two of the workers (oh I work construction in waking life at the main regional office). The guy was Aaron but I didn’t know until someone else pointed it out because he has something wrong with one eye. Like a little blue spot on the white of his eye. I acted normal as my new gal pal came over, she tried to give me medicine wi declined because I felt like it was poison, she then proceeded to lift me up like it was a fun game but I knew it was to gauge my strength and her power. After she left I felt so unsettled. I ended up letting one of their people know I knew he was aaon and I was suddenly in their living space and I can’t recall what happened but I came back barefoot with a bloody foot and knee they were after me. I tell me kids to pack their things because we got to go. This rental had a basement so I ran down there and the door is locked. Then walks a local rock singer that I enjoy listening to and it’s his property. I tell him what’s going on and he opens the basement and his security guard walks just me down there. He’s trying to comfort me and says it’s okay I’ve got experience in this because in Canada there are always bomb threats. (I live in Texas and this singer lives in Tennessee and although o dream about Canada often I have never even been there). Then the singer is gone and I’m back upstairs and the front door doesn’t lock, it doesn’t even have a handle it latch properly. There are two side doors. The kids have all their stuff ready and the people are watching us from all the windows and have a car on our roof. Then there is a knock on the back door and I open it and it’s my daughter but she’s like 7 and she was already in the house at her current teenage age, this confuses me and I smaller brown dog also comes in. I yell out the side door COME IN IF YOU WANT TO DIE! And shut and lock the door. The kids and I are about to head to the basement when 1 girl starts beating the glass of the side door with a fire extinguisher. I tell the kids to get back with dad and I grab a gun with a silencer and now my daughter in law is there and the woman who was my “friend” and two others break in. I duck behind the bed that was randomly there and shoot all three, chest, head, and chest. The head shot was the “friend”. You have to walk around these dead women to get to the basement because the basement stairs are just in front on the side door. I start panicking but calmly and the two who I shot in the chest are still alive but dying. One is blocking the door so I pull her back to let there be room for my kids to walk to the basement. I could feel myself being pulled from the dream because of an actual adrenaline rush but I tried to stay in the dream to get my kids to safety, but I woke up fully feeling my body all keyed up.
Dear C,
This is a long involved dream. Everything in the dream, after you said you were deeply scared, is a result of the hurt you experienced at sometime in your life. I am not sure if this is metaphoric or real, but the dream says that your mother had an emotional death as a result of your sister’s actions, that left you scared. Being scared put you into a situation where your Self felt shaky like living in an airbnb and being under constant threat for you and your family. Anyway, it is the deep scar that you have to treat. It will help heal your heart, and put you in a stable place. Feel free to ask other questions, maybe in a separate email. When your heart is alive and well, you are stable and connected.
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Richard, last night I had a couple odd dreams. First I was in like this futuristic city, but it was more like the world had ended and been rebuilt, I was walking along this suspended sidewalk and steel that rollercoasters are made from. Then I had to go talk to my son’s teacher because he got into trouble at school. To get to his school I had to walk along the highway and there was the class just around the bend in the grass doing school like it was completely normal. She was telling me that he was talking too much. Then I was hearing a story about a little boy who had done something bad and he was decapitated, but at the eyes with like a wire and that top part of his head was cut off all the way across. This made me uncomfortable and I woke up.
The second dream I was in a bar with my husband and my two oldest daughters, who are minors and I recall looking around in the dream and wondering why they were there because they are not old enough. I ask my husband if he wants to have a lunch date with just him and I and he says no, This upset me so I left the bar and walked outside. When I was outside it looked so weird. The sky was red and gloomy (like how it looks when there is a wildfire). The streets were all brick and cobblestone, but the sidewalks were concrete and everything else looked like today’s time. There was this small amphitheater across the street with a giant black hat sculpture, like a rounded top hat. I make my way to the cross walk and my husband comes out of the bar to comfort me. I begin joking with him like I am still upset but I am not. Then there was a woman next to me at the crosswalk and she begins to walk across the street when the signal to walk comes on. A car comes speeding down the road, hits her and makes a U-turn. I grab the car by the passenger mirror to slow it down. I can see there is a young teen girl in the passenger seat with short hair looking back at the woman they just hit. The woman is laying on the road screaming and crying and people start to rush over. The car starts to drive off and I look at the license plate and it reads “ELEEL” I say the letters over and over and scream them so others know them too. Under the letters was a green line and said TORONTO for the location. The car just pulled off to the side of the street and I look back at the woman and she is silent and cops are putting a black bag over her body. I turn back around and see my daughters and they remark how you can see there is blood running down her face. I look back at the woman and she is bleeding from the mouth as the cops load her up into a vehicle. I look across the street and the amphitheater was now covered in white curtains and the cops say “you can open it back up now” and the curtains pull away, once again showing an empty amphitheater with the hat sculpture. I then tell my husband over and over how he saved my life. I was 9 seconds away from that being me. And woke up. The 9 seconds also seemed important. I am at such a loss of the symbolism of these two dreams.
Dear C,
The key to this dream is that you are in futuristic world that is basically strange and very negative. This means that when your ego mind is looking towards the future, its focus is negative. Basically you are in survival mode. You see negative outcomes for everyone and barely survive yourself. What you want to start doing is thinking about the future in the best possible way. Do not look at the current culture. Here is what you can do. Make a list of all of your positive qualities, and then all of your husband’s positive qualities, and then your daughters’ positive qualities. Put those qualities out into the future and see what they do that is positive for the world. It doesn’t have to be a distant future. It can be next week or a few days from now. When you do this, you will see that the future is brighter than you thought it was going to be. And then you can imagine and even brighter future because you will be bringing new qualities into being.
last night I had a very lucid dream. I don’t remember everything that was going on, but I do remember me saying to myself “look how clear everything is. Use your senses.” I could smell the air. I could feel the temperature. A girl grabbed my hair and told me I needed to moisturize it. I was able to control my thoughts. The only difference i noticed was the sky was a pale orange instead of blue. But everything was beautiful. I controlled my senses in my dream last night.
Hi Celia,
What a great dream for you to have. When dream something positive like this, it means that you are capable of doing in real life what you did in the dream. You can control your thoughts so that you can reach places of beauty in a magnified or enhanced manner. As you experience the beauty around you clearly then you will be lead to where your path wants to take you. Your on the path of beauty.
lol you just don’t know how nice it is to hear good new for once! What’s crazy is i feel like my life is about to change in the way I always thought my life should be like! I didn’t expect your response but boy am I happy to hear it! Thank you so much!