Below are some signs that I often dream about with their interpretations/meanings:
LIGHT: To see light in your dream, represents illumination, clear mind, guidance, plain understanding,and insight. Light is being shed on a once cloudy situation or problem. You have found the truth to a situation or an answer to a problem. Also consider the color of the light for additional significance
ENERGY (usually a feeling or a ball of energy): To dream that you are energetic, symbolizes growth, activity, expansion and insight. You need to channel your energy in a positive way.
FOREST: To dream that you are in or walking through the forest, signifies a transitional phase. Follow your instincts.
LEOPARD: To see a leopard in the wild in your dream, signifies that through persistent efforts, you will eventually overcome your difficulties. If the leopard is in a cage, then it suggests that you will overcome any obstacles.
SCHOOL: A dream that takes place in school may be a metaphor for the lessons that you are learning from your waking life. You may be going through a "spiritual learning" experience.
FIRE: Depending on the context of your dream, to see fire in your dream can symbolize destruction, passion, desire, illumination, transformation, enlightenment, or anger. It may suggest that something old is passing and something new is entering into your life. Your thoughts and views are changing. In particular, if the fire is under control or contained in one area, then it is a metaphor of your own internal fire and inner transformation. It also represents your drive, motivation, and creative energy.
CEREMONIES (spiritual ones from different cultures): To dream that you are attending a ceremony, symbolizes the sacrifice and devotion necessary for success. You may be going through a crucial moment in your waking life that requires your commitment. It is a time for introspection, self-discovery, and inner changes.
LOVE: To dream of love of being in love, suggests intense feelings carried over from a waking relationship. It implies happiness and contentment with what you have and where you are in life.
NATURE: To dream of nature, denotes freedom, tranquility, restoration, and renewal. It may represent that your internal instincts are experienced and expressed.
These are just a few for those who are interested.
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Education- "Don't Question, Just Regurgitate the Information"
Recently, I was watching a video on YouTube in which the well known, David Icke was speaking about a number of sujects that resonated with me very much. One of the things he mentioned was education, and how things really are regarding it. In this blogpost I'm going to talk about some of the things he said and state my own opinion in amongst them.
Education. What comes to mind when you hear that word? Teachers? Books? Learning? Blackboards and pens? Principals and horrible cafeteria food? That's all very well, but what are all those things really? They are camoflauge to hide the bare facts of what education truly is. Effectively, when you come of age, you are sent to school in which you learn how to read, write, play and socialise. This continues, but as you grow older and move onto harder work and less play, education is nothing more than a competition and mind control.
Students are fed information over and over again. They're repetitively taught the same information until it's grounded in the logical side of their brain (left side). When exam time rolls around, students are expected to regurgitate the information from the left side of their brains that they've spent months learning onto an exam paper. An throughout this whole process, the children are not taught to think and question this information while using the creative side of the brain to come to their own opinion about it. Really, education is saying, "Don't question, just regurgitate the information!"
I now want to address the competitive side of education. Because I myself attend school, I am a witness to this very nature that education presents. All through your school life you're encouraged to be the best, get the best marks, climb higher up the ladder and don't stop for anything or anyone. It's cold, hard competition that is staring us in the face but is camoflauged. Any why be the best? Well, so you can get a good job that earns you money so you can buy nice things. And then you try to climb up the ladder in your work life too, so you can be the best and achieve. All to gain what? What can you possibly gain that's worth something from doing so?
Education. What comes to mind when you hear that word? Teachers? Books? Learning? Blackboards and pens? Principals and horrible cafeteria food? That's all very well, but what are all those things really? They are camoflauge to hide the bare facts of what education truly is. Effectively, when you come of age, you are sent to school in which you learn how to read, write, play and socialise. This continues, but as you grow older and move onto harder work and less play, education is nothing more than a competition and mind control.
Students are fed information over and over again. They're repetitively taught the same information until it's grounded in the logical side of their brain (left side). When exam time rolls around, students are expected to regurgitate the information from the left side of their brains that they've spent months learning onto an exam paper. An throughout this whole process, the children are not taught to think and question this information while using the creative side of the brain to come to their own opinion about it. Really, education is saying, "Don't question, just regurgitate the information!"
I now want to address the competitive side of education. Because I myself attend school, I am a witness to this very nature that education presents. All through your school life you're encouraged to be the best, get the best marks, climb higher up the ladder and don't stop for anything or anyone. It's cold, hard competition that is staring us in the face but is camoflauged. Any why be the best? Well, so you can get a good job that earns you money so you can buy nice things. And then you try to climb up the ladder in your work life too, so you can be the best and achieve. All to gain what? What can you possibly gain that's worth something from doing so?
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Connect With The Earth
Money, money, they’re all in it to win it.
Am I supposed to believe
This printed paper is worth something?
Like robots we roll through the industrious streets,
Ignoring those around us and focusing only
On what we need to buy with what’s in our wallets.
I want trace back my roots and gather what the Earth has given us,
Collecting wild berries, nuts, harvesting crops and breathing the plentiful oxygen.
Forests are the remnants of this once new born planet long ago.
If only the same compassion burned within us,
As factories burn material which in turn emits toxic fumes.
She is dying, and we know it, but ignore her cry for help.
Am I supposed to believe
This printed paper is worth something?
Like robots we roll through the industrious streets,
Ignoring those around us and focusing only
On what we need to buy with what’s in our wallets.
I want trace back my roots and gather what the Earth has given us,
Collecting wild berries, nuts, harvesting crops and breathing the plentiful oxygen.
Forests are the remnants of this once new born planet long ago.
If only the same compassion burned within us,
As factories burn material which in turn emits toxic fumes.
She is dying, and we know it, but ignore her cry for help.
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
A Spiritual Lucid Dream?
Monday 21/12/09 – Tuesday 22/12/09
Bed time: 11:50pm
Wake up time: 6:00am, then slept in until 7:49am
Lucid: Yes
Total hours slept: 9hrs 29 mins
Dream: I was floating in total darkness. In fact, it felt like I was floating in a void, in nothingness, there was only black surrounding me. I was floating in an almost “Jesus position” with my body straight, my face looking upwards and my arms several inches from my sides. The bizarre thing was that I was completely and utterly naked. And at the time, I didn’t feel embarrassed or conscious of it. It felt natural.
Suddenly, I started feeling these mild vibrations tingling all over my body. It was the strangest sensation I’ve ever felt in all of my life. I wasn’t frightened by this when it was occurring; again, it felt natural and comforting. After several seconds of the vibrations, without warning this bright white light burst from every inch of my body. The bright light was emanating from me, and it was so bright, that I looked like a huge ball of energy. The original colour of my flesh was no longer there, I was a human shaped white core. The mild vibrations were still there, but got no stronger and I felt as if I was sending out positive energy into the darkness that surrounded me. That's the strong sense I had.
It was very hard to hold onto the dream, and although I was lucid, I had no control over the content; therefore I couldn't rub my hands together to prolong it (a common tactic to prolong a dream). I could feel my lucidity wanting to drop from layer 3, to layer 1, in which layer you usually wake up at. Strangely though, the dream just faded away, but I didn’t awake, I moved onto another dream, in which I was not lucid.
Some people may consider this a spiritual dream with my higher being/spirit guide, others my think it was just a dream. Who knows? But it was beyond anything I'd ever felt before.
Bed time: 11:50pm
Wake up time: 6:00am, then slept in until 7:49am
Lucid: Yes
Total hours slept: 9hrs 29 mins
Dream: I was floating in total darkness. In fact, it felt like I was floating in a void, in nothingness, there was only black surrounding me. I was floating in an almost “Jesus position” with my body straight, my face looking upwards and my arms several inches from my sides. The bizarre thing was that I was completely and utterly naked. And at the time, I didn’t feel embarrassed or conscious of it. It felt natural.
Suddenly, I started feeling these mild vibrations tingling all over my body. It was the strangest sensation I’ve ever felt in all of my life. I wasn’t frightened by this when it was occurring; again, it felt natural and comforting. After several seconds of the vibrations, without warning this bright white light burst from every inch of my body. The bright light was emanating from me, and it was so bright, that I looked like a huge ball of energy. The original colour of my flesh was no longer there, I was a human shaped white core. The mild vibrations were still there, but got no stronger and I felt as if I was sending out positive energy into the darkness that surrounded me. That's the strong sense I had.
It was very hard to hold onto the dream, and although I was lucid, I had no control over the content; therefore I couldn't rub my hands together to prolong it (a common tactic to prolong a dream). I could feel my lucidity wanting to drop from layer 3, to layer 1, in which layer you usually wake up at. Strangely though, the dream just faded away, but I didn’t awake, I moved onto another dream, in which I was not lucid.
Some people may consider this a spiritual dream with my higher being/spirit guide, others my think it was just a dream. Who knows? But it was beyond anything I'd ever felt before.
Lucid Dreaming Challenge Update
As you may already know, I've been attempting to master the "art" of lucid dreaming. I've been trying to achieve this for a total of 12 days, and so far, it's been more promising than I originally thought it would be. From day 1 until now, I've had about 4-5 lucid dreams, a religious dream and a spiritual dream (which I had just two nights ago). This is very significant, because I'm the person who couldn't even recall having any dreams in let's say a week or even a month! I feel so enlightened and encouraged by them, even at this minor stage.
I watch a guy who's an oneironaut* on YouTube by the name of "ReeceJones87", and one thing I remember him saying is, "Don't give up enlightenment for lucidity..." Basically, he means that you shouldn't forget about interpreting your dreams, even the non-lucid ones, all to gain the power of lucidity. In the end, it would be a pointless climb if you ignored the important information your dreams give you.
*An oneironaut is a person who explores dream worlds, usually associated with lucid dreaming
So, I guess you could say this challenge is going superbly. My dream recall is getting stronger every day. I used to not be able to remember any of my dreams, but now I can remember around one or two per night. In the spiritual dream I had two nights ago, I felt things I'd never felt before in the entirety of my life. It was extraordinary and definately something I'm going to share either on my new YouTube account, (1ThinkOutsideTheBox1) or here on this very blog.
Oh and about my new YouTube account, I'll give you a quick run down of what it entails by letting you read an exerpt from my YouTube channel:
"Welcome to my channel, 1ThinkOutsideTheBox1. Here, I'll be displaying my videos on spirituality, religion, lucidity, dreaming and many other topics. If you wish to have a discussion or chat with me on the subjects, feel free to message me via YouTube.
I was born into a rather strict Christian family where I was indoctrinated to believe that there is such a being named God, who sent his son Jesus Christ down from heaven to Earth to save us from our sins. Because of this early push into Christianity, you can imagine the difficulty I have in believing otherwise. That is not to say I am rooted to the spot in my beliefs. I welcome change with open arms, but I will look at that change with sceptical eyes, as I refuse to self-delude myself with foolish theories.
My goal is to seek the truth through questioning that in which I've been brought up to believe. To open my mind to theories without being naive and self-deluding myself. I seek to interpret my dreams for enlightenment and greatest of all, gain fulfillment in what I choose to believe as the truth."
I watch a guy who's an oneironaut* on YouTube by the name of "ReeceJones87", and one thing I remember him saying is, "Don't give up enlightenment for lucidity..." Basically, he means that you shouldn't forget about interpreting your dreams, even the non-lucid ones, all to gain the power of lucidity. In the end, it would be a pointless climb if you ignored the important information your dreams give you.
*An oneironaut is a person who explores dream worlds, usually associated with lucid dreaming
So, I guess you could say this challenge is going superbly. My dream recall is getting stronger every day. I used to not be able to remember any of my dreams, but now I can remember around one or two per night. In the spiritual dream I had two nights ago, I felt things I'd never felt before in the entirety of my life. It was extraordinary and definately something I'm going to share either on my new YouTube account, (1ThinkOutsideTheBox1) or here on this very blog.
Oh and about my new YouTube account, I'll give you a quick run down of what it entails by letting you read an exerpt from my YouTube channel:
"Welcome to my channel, 1ThinkOutsideTheBox1. Here, I'll be displaying my videos on spirituality, religion, lucidity, dreaming and many other topics. If you wish to have a discussion or chat with me on the subjects, feel free to message me via YouTube.
I was born into a rather strict Christian family where I was indoctrinated to believe that there is such a being named God, who sent his son Jesus Christ down from heaven to Earth to save us from our sins. Because of this early push into Christianity, you can imagine the difficulty I have in believing otherwise. That is not to say I am rooted to the spot in my beliefs. I welcome change with open arms, but I will look at that change with sceptical eyes, as I refuse to self-delude myself with foolish theories.
My goal is to seek the truth through questioning that in which I've been brought up to believe. To open my mind to theories without being naive and self-deluding myself. I seek to interpret my dreams for enlightenment and greatest of all, gain fulfillment in what I choose to believe as the truth."
Monday, 21 December 2009
A Bizarre Religious Dream Last Night (Part of Lucid Dreaming Challenge)
Sunday 20/12/09 (night) – Monday 21/12/09 (morning)
Lucid: Possibly?
Bed time: 11:30pm
Wake up time: 6:00am (then slept in until 9:04am)
Total hours slept: 9hrs 34 mins
Dream: I was walking in a local shopping mall that’s in my town with my two sisters, mother and father. It was so much busier than usual, there was people everywhere pushing into us. As I looked around there was a man in his twenties preaching about God as he walked with his friends. He had long blonde hair, was wearing a woollen hat and had a black coat that reached down to the floor. He was yelling quotes from the Bible, and I think one of them was from the book of John. Anyways it was something along the lines that God forgives and knows all of our sins. Then I heard him say, “Isn’t that amazing?!” I can remember thinking, “I’ve heard this all before, I don’t want to hear anymore.”
And as I was looking around at everyone, I could instantly tell their religious status, (i.e I could tell if they were Christians or not, just by looking at them). As we continued walking, my family and I turned to the left to a shop. The sign above the store read, “Superdrug” (the name of a common drug store here in Northern Ireland). Although, inside there were masses and masses of Bibles, all different shapes and sizes and colours, that were stacked on the shop shelves. People were swarming all around them. So we entered and all of a sudden, my sister and I sat down and had a conversation about my life. I distinctly remember telling her about my doubts in religion and every emotion I’d ever felt (particularly depression, although when she asked me did I suffer from depression, I said “No, it’s more stress than depression.”) Depression seemed to be there for a reason because the day before in reality, I attended a church service. A Canadian pastor had visited and was preaching. On of the things he said was this, “I think depression is not an illness, it’s a state of mind.”
Okay, so back to the dream, my sister and I were interrupted by something that I felt was very important once I’d woken up. But as we turned around to see, my dream faded to an end.
Lucid: Possibly?
Bed time: 11:30pm
Wake up time: 6:00am (then slept in until 9:04am)
Total hours slept: 9hrs 34 mins
Dream: I was walking in a local shopping mall that’s in my town with my two sisters, mother and father. It was so much busier than usual, there was people everywhere pushing into us. As I looked around there was a man in his twenties preaching about God as he walked with his friends. He had long blonde hair, was wearing a woollen hat and had a black coat that reached down to the floor. He was yelling quotes from the Bible, and I think one of them was from the book of John. Anyways it was something along the lines that God forgives and knows all of our sins. Then I heard him say, “Isn’t that amazing?!” I can remember thinking, “I’ve heard this all before, I don’t want to hear anymore.”
And as I was looking around at everyone, I could instantly tell their religious status, (i.e I could tell if they were Christians or not, just by looking at them). As we continued walking, my family and I turned to the left to a shop. The sign above the store read, “Superdrug” (the name of a common drug store here in Northern Ireland). Although, inside there were masses and masses of Bibles, all different shapes and sizes and colours, that were stacked on the shop shelves. People were swarming all around them. So we entered and all of a sudden, my sister and I sat down and had a conversation about my life. I distinctly remember telling her about my doubts in religion and every emotion I’d ever felt (particularly depression, although when she asked me did I suffer from depression, I said “No, it’s more stress than depression.”) Depression seemed to be there for a reason because the day before in reality, I attended a church service. A Canadian pastor had visited and was preaching. On of the things he said was this, “I think depression is not an illness, it’s a state of mind.”
Okay, so back to the dream, my sister and I were interrupted by something that I felt was very important once I’d woken up. But as we turned around to see, my dream faded to an end.
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Is the Bible Really the Truth?
Is the content of the Holy Bible really true? Can we honestly say that Jesus Christ did exist just because a book says so?
I’ve heard pastor’s preaching in the past that we know God exists because we have his holy word, the Bible. In the Bible it says that God inspired writers to document everything that is written in the very book. When I sit in a church service and hear that, I can’t help but laugh to myself. How on earth do you expect to convert someone to Christianity by telling them that this random book which was written thousands of years ago (that might not even be true), proves the existence of a being whom we can’t even see? It's not the ideal way to guide someone into a decision that has a dramatic affect on their life.
Now, the bible is unquestionably the world's all-time bestseller with countless millions of copies in print, but there is no proof whatsoever that the events which are mentioned in the book actually happened. So many people root themselves to the belief that the Bible is true, when they can’t even give any solid evidence that this is so. Usually, they'll just quote the Bible again! It’s like saying, “I receive presents on Christmas morning every year, so Santa Claus does exist!” It’s self-deluding, and I’ve never been capable of putting all my faith into a "possibly" true book.
If Christians expect people to automatically put all of their trust into the words in a book, they've got a lot to learn. I for one, can't do so.
I’ve heard pastor’s preaching in the past that we know God exists because we have his holy word, the Bible. In the Bible it says that God inspired writers to document everything that is written in the very book. When I sit in a church service and hear that, I can’t help but laugh to myself. How on earth do you expect to convert someone to Christianity by telling them that this random book which was written thousands of years ago (that might not even be true), proves the existence of a being whom we can’t even see? It's not the ideal way to guide someone into a decision that has a dramatic affect on their life.
Now, the bible is unquestionably the world's all-time bestseller with countless millions of copies in print, but there is no proof whatsoever that the events which are mentioned in the book actually happened. So many people root themselves to the belief that the Bible is true, when they can’t even give any solid evidence that this is so. Usually, they'll just quote the Bible again! It’s like saying, “I receive presents on Christmas morning every year, so Santa Claus does exist!” It’s self-deluding, and I’ve never been capable of putting all my faith into a "possibly" true book.
If Christians expect people to automatically put all of their trust into the words in a book, they've got a lot to learn. I for one, can't do so.
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