Decoding Your Dreams and Spirit Messages On the Spirit Path with Keme and Robyn

 

Inside this episode, we’ll discuss:
Our dream work practice  Various experts perspectives on dreamwork from Jung, Freud, Alice Ann Parker and David Fontana. How to interpret their dreams’ meanings. Teach you how to remember and recall details in dreams. Teach people how to identify archetypes, themes and symbolism in dreams. Various types of dream states and waking states. The most popular dream symbolisms and archetypes. Resources mentioned in the show:
*Youtube video: Higher Self Meditation
Articles:
*Your Brain Waves on Yoga Nidra
Apps:
Dream Moods
iDream
Dream websites:
Dream Dictionary
Dream Moods
Movies:
Inception
Inception: Explaining the Dream World
 

*Show Highlights*
Benefits of dream work
“Dreams allow us to connect with the mysterious sides of ourselves. What’s happening on a subconscious or unconscious level. It can reveal deep seated emotions or teach us about things we need to heal in our waking life.”
“I’ve always felt that Some other aspect of yourself doing work in other dimensions. Another dimension of the self.”
Dreams Schools of Thought: Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
“Two of the biggest or most well known thinkers and students of dreams are psychologists Sigmund Freud and his friend and disciple Carl Jung. They did a lot of research on dreams with their patients and their own dreams. And I think they’d agree that dreams show another dimension of the self.”
“Freud believed that dreams- like everything- are subject to cause and effect- springing directly from some aspect of the unconscious mind. Both Freud and Jung agreed that dreams are expressions of our unconscious- that part of us that knows everything about us. It knows your blood pressure right now. It knows everything. That’s also the part we connect with in meditation. An important key to dream recall is wanting to remember.”
Remembering Dreams
“I know for me I wake up and record my dreams right away. I use to write them but now I use a voice recorder app on my phone. And I will just start talking into my phone even while I’m still half asleep or not fully awake.
I have a better chance of capturing the dream if I record it before I fully awaken. Because it does not help to use the waking rational memory functions when trying to remember dreams. When you are fully awake and try to recall a dream with waking memory it often escapes you entirely. Freud called it dream amnesia - because it is a defense mechanism of the ego to repress those details.”
“Meditation is one tool that’s excellent in helping you begin to remember your dreams. They are similar states of consciousness - dreaming and meditation. A lot of times people think meditation is an act (like sitting with your eyes closed)  but it’s actually a state of consciousness that’s why there are so many forms of meditation. Many ways or tools to help you reach that state.”
Sleeping and Waking States
“There’s no exact moment of awaking to sleeping, it’s more of a drop, fade or falling asleep. That’s where waking thoughts and visualizations gradually assume a hallucinatory or visionary aspect. This drifting from waking to sleeping is called Hypnagogia.”
“Kind of like that moment right when you are waking but you are still kind of sleep - it’s a trance like state. You can also experience dreams here as well. These are called hypnopompic dreams.”
“It is an attempt to quiet the ego, drifting from wakefulness to sleep is an attempt of the ego to take control, it’s losing its grip. This is also part of attaining a meditative state - stilling or quieting the ego. It’s kind of balancing yourself between waking and sleeping. It’s quite powerful. That’s how so many wonderful revelations can happen during meditation and we have an enormous ability to heal and transform our lives during these meditative states.”
“In yoga, through an ancient text called the “Upanishad” describes the body as