Literally-Cosmos Dreams

I had a dream last night that reminded me of a series of dreams about the cosmos…  Here are a couple that came to mind after last night's lovely dream:

Age 4 1/2 - (How do I know I was 4 when I had this dream?  We moved when I was 5 and I remember the bedroom where I woke up after this dream).  My great uncle was a scientist who would probably be diagnosed with Asperger's nowadays; we got along famously.  He taught me to read at a very young age and to play checkers.  Back then, the three-level checker and chess boards were a big fad - the kind with clear levels and you made moves veritcally and horizontally.  I remember very clearly dreaming I was standing on the top glass level of the board floating in space.  I wasn't smaller, the boards grew to people-size.  I remember looking around at all the stars and the incredible silence.  I looked down and saw the other levels of the glass checker boards wondering as a 4-year-old would, how did this happen!  I wasn't afraid, I remember feeling this was really cool and I didn't want to wake up.

Age 18 - Flying through space at the speed of a rocket, only flying in my regular clothes and just myself, no rocket or space ship.  Noise, like crashing planets it was so loud.  Hovering like hummingbirds do, watching something horrible in a sort of holographic form.  This startled me into waking.  This dream came true, 12 years later, in waking life.

Late 20s to present - Dreams of floating up and through my tent or ceiling of home, out into deep space.  Looking down wondering where to go, where to visit.  Often, the places I visited in these dreams became places I lived or worked later- not deja vu, but exact.  Once, I dreamt I was at a friend's house in France petting his gorgeous golden labrador.  I felt kind of funny wondering how I got there and took back off flying into deep space again.  He called the next day to tell me his dog went beserk the night before, enough out of character that he got up and out of bed to look around and see if anyone was there.  When I visited, that dog was my shadow.  My friend said his dog moped for days afterward.

2006 - I was managing an FQHC health clinic at this time in waking life.  I found myself in a dream with one of my billing staff wandering a gorgeous old historical house.  High ceilings, wood floors, the whole deal.  We walked into a large lemon-yellow painted room with beautiful handrolled glass windows.  I can still recall the hollow sound of our footsteps from the dream.  On one wall was Seurat's famous painting, wall to wall, floor to ceiling.  Now, I'm not a big fan of pointillism, but I did remember that painting as a child in an art book I loved to look at whenever my mother was taking a nap.  In the dream I saw a sort of fuse box thing on the painting wall.  My colleague told me to step away and I wondered why.  I opened the little door and behind the painting was the cosmos.  I smiled and went through the little door, which of course now magically was my size, and floated out there, feeling so contented, happy, peaceful.  My colleague began freaking out so I asked her to come out and see how amazing this was and she said no way and pulled me back in.  Then the door vanished.

Whether I just have a big imagination or there's more to these dreams, they were pretty cool to dream :)  Kind of like free entertainment.  As a kid and young adult, I thought everybody dreamed like this, but I soon learned if they did, they sure didn't talk about it!

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Hi Ephemera,

You are very observant in the dream state. You have identified three of five different dream bodies. The first being very similar to your physical body. The second has the ability to hover several feet off of the ground. The third can fly extremely high and fast like Superman or Superwoman. The forth dream body is when you are formless.

There is more detailed information on this in the Dreams of the Gods Workshop files that I am attempting to make available to the general public.

It is pretty facinating material, especially if you can become lucid after determining a dream body. For instance, while in the third dream body you can access information from past lives or from the “Akashic Records”.

- Mark -

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I think you are truly blessed to dream this way.
I also believe you are aware of your'e astral travel -
and are again blessed in the way your'e dreams are
structured and to remember them so clearly.
Lucky you!

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Thank you Mark and Sandy :)

I have always dreamt so clearly and remembered dreams vividly.  But I soon learned most people didn't talk about these things and found them a bit odd instead of interesting.  So until finding this space, I was quiet about them.

They can come in handy, too!  For instance, remember that old movie, Gremlins?  I had a funny dream one night they were playing in my car's engine.  I woke up laughing thinking, Whoa, too weird!  But that next day, my car broke down and I ended up needing a new catalytic converter and fuel pump even though I keep it well-maintained. 

Yeah, sometimes they're pretty entertaining :)  It's nice to be able to explore here.

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Ephemera,

That is an excellent example of a precognitive dream. Many people are of the old school of thought and still beleive that for it to be a precogitive dream you would have been able to see where you were when the car broke down, exactly what you were wearing, the mechanics name and face, etc.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work like and that and your dream is an excellent example of how they do work. It is said that 80 percent of dreams have precognitive elements in them.

- Mark -

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These are very interesting dreams, ephemera. You reminded me that when I was in my early twenties I had a cosmos dream, too. It didn't reoccur, though. I got so excited about the dream I woke up and painted “space” and the threads I had seen connecting me back to earth.

I've had the hovering dreams as Mark explained. When one happens, I usually have fun floating and sometimes dance with a partner, spinning and twirling in the weightless state. Very rarely do I ever explore that third and fourth dreaming body Mark told us about. That's my goal, though. I'd really love to fly in dreams and to become lucid.

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Another point to ponder here is that when one dreams of exploring the cosmos it can be said that they are exploring the deeper reaches of Self, the aspects of Self that are “distant” from the ego personality.

As both Pixellator and Ephemera have pointed out, these types of dreams can bring a great deal of pleasure and joy.

- Mark -

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Mark, you make a good point.  I think a defining factor for me is when what happens or what is seen during a cosmos dream occurs in waking life (precognitive).  Sometimes though, it's fun to have a dream where it's just entertaining.  I find I dream in sepia, b & w or color, depending on type.  This is amusing to me that my dreams are “organized” :)

Pixellator, what wonderful imagery!  Mmm, it made me smile to imagine experiencing that.

Dream on, dream wide :)

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Hi ephemera, it's great to recall dreams in such a vivid manner isn't it.

I had to look up Seurat and pointillism, befroe I could begin. I was also wondering which of his paintings was expressed on the wall.

An impression which came to me associated with a description I read about pointillism, was the concept that is being visited now in a forum that Mark and I are familiar with. It is the concept that the self that we know, is the physical representation, in any particular moment, of the expression of a sea of selves, which makes up the whole of our physically represented psyche.

Sort of how the crest of a wave would be supported by all the water of the wave, as well as the whole of the ocean beneath it.

So then this dream, and the particular artist choosen as imagery, might in part be imagery from the larger you, that is bringing the awareness that you have many aspects to yourself, and these all come together to then become a whole picture or painting expressed in the moment, and experienced by yourself.

Certainly it is interesting for me to encounter this metaphor, right after I had explored this concept at another site.

Great dreams ephemera, Chuck :)

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Hi ephemera,
[with reference to para. 4 - in your 20s]
To add a bit to what the others have said, don't forget that we do leave our bodies when asleep and do things - I woke up my neighbour when I was walking through her house with a long package under one arm and heading, it would seem, toward the psychiatric ward of the hospital some miles away as the crow flies [ or as I fly! ] where my partner was at the time - according to Cayce some even give spiritual teaching lessons when the body is asleep! But then, who can say what one can and cannot do!

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Thank you everyone, for your thoughts.  I was looking more to share under this cosmos thread than I was looking for guidance under an analysis thread, as I believe I understood/understand these cosmos dreams and enjoy sharing with others and hearing their  experiences too!  I believe the dreams that resulted in Visiting and the dreams that involve seeing something happen which is later realized, go beyond the ego/self category.  I do believe in what is popularly termed astral travel and precognitive dreaming.

For instance, the title of the painting in the last dream is not important to me because it was the fact that I recalled that painting from an art book I could only read when I sneaked it.  The reason was that as a child I was steered toward Latin and business classes and prohibited from taking art or music (which I did anyway, without telling my parents!).  In my environment, one could not feely discuss art, music, nature, dreaming…”frivilous” and “esoteric” interests.

Therefore, I took the painting to represent something wonderful (high ceilinged-room, beautiful wood floors, cheery yellow walls) that I loved (“forbidden art” et al) and my happiness in discovering Flow and what creativity and love of such pursuits brings - higher awareness.  When my colleague - from “sensible” life was afraid of the door through the painting and I was not and went through and fully enjoyed the experience floating around, then my colleague pulled me back in out of fear of the unknown, this reinforced others' fears of the unknown.  It also reinforced my experiences with difficulty finding others who understood these things.

Sorry if I wasn't clear about just wanting to share and have some fun talking about these topics!  I did enjoy everyone's perceptions and comments; we learn something new every day!

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Thanks much for sharing!

I really liked the dream where you astral travelled with your friend's dog.  I fully believe animals are out there astral travelling in their sleep, too, possibly even more than us due to their lack of inhibitions and natural playfulness!  I aspire to more exhilarating astral travels like you've described there.

;-D