From: brownt@seq.uncwil.edu (brown todd francis)
Subject: Re: DREAM'92 UPDATE -- EXTENSION. PARTICIPANTS PLEASE READ!
Keywords: DREAM'92
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:20:05 GMT

connie@uga.edu (Connie M. Doss) writes:

>I had a dream the other nite and I really would like to know what you
>think.  Here goes:

>My grandmother died last year and my grandfather is in a nursing home.
>Uncle Fred takes care of their house and some guy is living there and
>kinda keeping the place up for the family.  Nice guy.  It's an old farm
>house that needs new paint.  Anyway for the dream.  I went down to
>granny's house to see what the guy had done to the inside.  There was a
>picture of me as a little girl standing in granny's flower bed in front
>of the house hanging on the living room wall.  (I have had the picture
>for two years now hanging in my house).  Any way I looked at the picture
>and couldn't figure out how it got there (knowing it was at my house)
>and my eyes in the picture turned a bluish white kinda like in a ghost
>movie or something and looked upward.  It frightened me but it was as
>though I was suppose to follow the eyes.  I looked up in the sky out the
>window and the clouds had made a picture.  It was God holding granny and
>granddaddy in his arms like a newborn baby.  I cried for a while and
>then went home to tell my husband and parents.  They didn't believe me
>and I told them to come watch the picture and they did.  Nothing
>happened.  But even now 2 days after the dream I can see in my mind God
>holding them and it is and was as plain as the nose on my face.  What
>does this mean?  Help!!  I really would like to know.

>Connie


What a beautiful dream, Connie.  I believe that dreams are real.  
Actually, I believe that dreams are MORE real than this supposedly
"real" dayworld.  By this I mean that as Soul we are closer to our
true nature in the dreamworld.

Your vision of the Divine is simply beautiful.  I don't think you have
to always attach some meaning to dreams like that.  You have been
given a beautiful vision of two close Souls cradled in the arms of
the Divine.  I cannot think of a better Christmas gift.

Think of it in your own way.  How does it make you feel?  For one 
thing it really shows us that separation is just an illusion.

I am currently writing a play about the transition (death) of my
grandfather.  I watched and learned from his visions, both in his
dreams and finally in his waking dreams, in the hospital.  My play
reflects the role of the dream in preparing him for his transition.
There is no "death", only transition.  

I am particularly interested in the Tibetan view of death and how it
relates to lucid dreaming.  For them, in their "Practice of the Night"
lucid dreaming is but a consequence of their practice and it prepares
us for the illusory journey after death.  We have the opportunity to
recognize the images as eminating from ourselves during the bardo
states.  We can then escape the wheel of reincarnation - if we choose.
Otherwise, we can at least choose a womb from which to play out
our next incarnation in the best possible way.  Otherwise, and all too
often, our fears drive us into the illusion of shelter, a cave, a
temple, etc. which is actually a womb and we are reborn yet again
yet again.  I  recommend learning about the Tibetan view.

As as Richard Bach says so well, "There's no such place as far away!"

Enjoy your gift.  Enjoy the holidays.  


Sleep well, dream well, be well.