Sunday, June 5, 2022
6 a.m. Gentlemen, Martha’s question that you addressed also asked about “the mechanics of dreams,” which I take to mean, the process per se. Are you up to addressing that?
We will address as much as seems practical, as much as has practical application to your lives. As you know, we don’t wish to go off into abstract discussions of no relevance beyond entertainment. We want to encourage you all to do the work you came to do, not defer it indefinitely while you pretend to work by considering things that require nothing of you.
Except, aren’t we interested in whatever we happen to be interested in? I mean, so we get all involved in this or that field of study that has no practical application to our lives, so what? Why shouldn’t we?
That isn’t what we mean. Examine what you want. Get lost in whatever subjects attract you. How can it be wrong? If you are attracted to a subject however abstruse, there will have been a reason for it, since things don’t happen without reason. But we are not intending to be merely entertainment, nor even a field of study, though we may also be either. Our work is aimed at helping you to do the work on yourselves that will free you from so many knots, and will allow you to use your time. So, we concentrate on practical aspects of your lives. You can obtain your entertainments and your fields of study wherever you wish to, but do so from an enhanced platform. Live a more abundant life. You’ve got only so much time in the studio, potters: Work on your skills.
So, to the mechanics of dreams as they apply to your 3D lives. We must begin, as so often, by quarreling with the premise as stated. Cite it, please.
“I’d love to hear more about how dreams are shaped and how the dream weavers put together plotlines and props.”
Several problems there:
- Shaped
- Dream weavers
- Plotlines
- Props
And you’re going to begin with the final point, as you do so often. I wonder why, but let’s not divert to that.
- Props? What are props in a dream? Everything in a dream may be a symbol for something, or may support a relationship between two or more other things. There is nothing there merely as filler. You are thinking we misunderstand, but we are saying something you may not see immediately. Nothing in a dream is accidental or unnecessary, but it may easily be contingent and unexpected and, surfacing, may turn the dream just by its presence, as we shall discuss.
- Implied is a more finished, rounded, shaped production – like a screenplay – when it is really more fluid than that, something between a screenplay and an improv.
A hybrid between necessity and freedom, like 3D life itself?
You could put it that way.
- Dream weavers. This implies that the dream comes from non-3D individuals in one form or another, and, as we hope to explain, somewhat misrepresents the situation.
- Ah, shaped. Perhaps it would be better to say a dream emerges, than that it is shaped. As we shall explain.
I have a vague sense of where you are going with this. Indeed, I seem to remember getting some of the sense of it yesterday, arranging itself in the back of my mind, so to speak.
Well, let’s see what we can do. In considering dreams, as in considering the rest of 3D life, it is well to remember, always, that you may be considered to be an individual consciousness but you are also a part of the entire consciousness. This we have been calling the personal subjectivity and the shared subjectivity. That’s for the purpose of clarity of concept, but of course it is much like conceptually dividing the air you breathe into your personal air and everybody else’s. That may be true in terms of whatever you happen to hold in your lungs at any given moment, but scarcely anything broader. You live in an undivided ocean of air; similarly, of emotion, of thought, of the elements of dreams and inspirations.
Bearing this in mind, remember too that it is not “you in 3D” and “we in non-3D,” though it is convenient to use those terms as shorthand. In actual fact, you live in 3D and non-3D, and so do we. Reality is divided between 3D and non-3D only somewhat, only conceptually. If it were really divided, do you suppose you could poke your head through the wall?
So now, holding in mind that you are not divided from others nor from the non-3D, perhaps it will not be a great leap to see that dreams are not stage productions put on for your benefit by disembodied others.
I know where you’re going, but I don’t think the connection will be at all obvious.
No? We should have thought so.
You think it follows, but you’re omitting the link that makes it obvious to you.
Which is?
Well, I think you are saying that dreams emerge as the rest of life emerges, as the result of energy flowing into us, channeled and selected by the times, and influenced by our personal and shared subjectivity’s unfinished business.
And that is not an obvious corollary to what we said?
Possibly. It wouldn’t have been obvious to me without our direct link. At least, I think not.
So take it as given. The result, you see, is that dreams are not so much given to you by others as that they emerge. Yes, there can be shaping or even instigation by your non-3D component (only don’t personify it or objectivize it unduly), and yes you may see very polished productions from your end. But this doesn’t mean what you may think it means. It is more organic than crafted, more an emergence than a performance.
I think I can put it more clearly. Dreams emerge into our consciousness created, as you say, by the conditions they spring from. They may be raw material used by you or by our own minds (the parts of which we are not conscious). So, there’s where the inchoate materials come from, and there’s where the shaping comes from. There is an element of chance in it (in that what is available partly depends upon the times and the condition of the shared subjectivity), and there is an element of necessity in it (in that we won’t draw to ourselves what isn’t relevant).
That’s one reason why there are different kinds of dreams. Not all dreams are precognitive, but some are. Not all are global – that is, concerned with larger matters than individual – but some are. Not all are shaped, or meaningful, or therapeutic, or cautionary, or compensatory – but some are. You yourself are always one pole of the magnetic field, of course.
Did we answer the question as posed?
I don’t know, really, but what you provided is interesting. It gives me something to chew on. Shall we call today’s “The mechanics of dreaming”?
If you wish.
Our thanks as always.