Thursday, June 9, 2022
6:10 a.m. So I went to bed asking for a dream that would be meaningful, that I would remember and understand. The only thing I came back with was a fragment, but I think in its own way it helps address our question. I have forgotten the context, but we were looking for something and I came across an old automobile. First came the idea to turn it, so we could see the front as well as the back, and then in the turning I no longer had an auto but was turning something more easily handled. A toaster, perhaps, or a laptop. The specific doesn’t matter, the point was an example of how dreams turn their elements from one thing into another as the dream proceeds. It is as if it intended one thing, then, needing for the me in the dream to be able to pick it up and turn it, it changed images.
Commentary?
It is an example of a process often not noticed (except sometimes noticed as examples of a dream’s illogicality.) Psychiatrists and others have long noticed how dreams combine things in ways that are physically impossible but are symbolically meaningful. This is another use of the same process.
In other words, in a play, say, the curtain may come down for different reasons: to end an act, to end a scene, to end the play itself. The temporary cutting-off of the audience from the actors may be to meet emotional needs or physical needs. Same action, different reasons and different effects. So in a dream: symbols may associate otherwise disparate things in a meaningful way, or they may conveniently capsulate intricate or complicated things, or may associate things forward – may advance the plot, one might say.
I think you’re saying, the dream makes itself up as it goes along, in the way our conscious lives do. Not always, presumably.
Well – let’s look at it.
Your lives are more improv than following script, as we keep telling you. But improv is itself a rough outline, it isn’t chaos. It sets out certain characters in a certain setting and says, “Let’s see what happens.” So does life, so does the part of life that is dream.
Neither in waking life nor in dream life is the non-3D absent from your background and experience. It would be impossible, like having “down” without “up.” It is important to remember this in context. Your dream, like your waking life, is affected by – stabilized by, one might almost say – its presence. Your time sees the non-3D as “instinct” or “autonomic function” or whatever way it describes something that functions while the conscious mind sleeps. Impossible, of course, but it needs to explain somehow how it can be that birds know to build nests and people continue to breathe while in a coma.
Similarly, when you are dreaming, your non-3D component is dreaming with you. It doesn’t go out for coffee, waiting for you to wake up. Your non-3D never ceases to participate in your life, only its active function during dreaming is different than during your waking.
We make no decisions during sleep.
Exactly. That, and your logical rules are set in abeyance (to differing extents). Thus the importance of sleep: You unstring the bow, thus preserving it to resist, usefully, when restrung, and you open to input that you might normally be unable to receive. You don’t decide during sleep, but you may change your inventory.
Which is the same as saying, you may change it for us.
We may set out alluring possibilities that haven’t occurred to you. We may set out warnings. A lot of things. Life in 3D is hard enough, without venturing out in it without guidance.
So, is our non-3D directly responsible for setting out a complete production, the way we seem to be watching movies sometimes?
This is a little different than you tend to see it. It surprises us that we are having so much trouble getting the concept across, because it is so similar to the rest of your lives. Even when we take a hand – put in our oar, as you say – we do so in the context of the material that is currently activated:
- “The times” allow in certain energies and items corresponding to those energies.
- Your personal subjectivity has things that are particularly ripe for attention.
- The shared subjectivity, similarly, has things at the top of the stack, available for processing.
When we seek to suggest something, it can only be in this context. How would we, dealing with a 3D-centered personality, possibly escape it? So, yes, sometimes we shape things as best we can, but the inventory of things available to be shaped is limited by the three factors.
Well, it’s clear to me, at least at the moment. I had thought we’d go into one of the queued-up questions, but I don’t know if we have time. We are 45 minutes in.
Let us begin, and see what happens.
All right. Louisa Calio asks
I was especially intrigued with Frank’s memory of a concussion which the guys tell him was connected with a fall in Norfolk? I can’t understand what that connection was or what happened later as a result of the 2nd fall. Explain please. What was reactivated by the 2nd fall? Why and how did it reactivate and what does that mean?
This is a slight paraphrase.
We have never tried to explain this beyond the bare statement. In the absence of medical knowledge – which you do not have and cannot acquire – there is no way to explain the physical mechanism involved. But perhaps we can suggest.
The fall was a jolt that for a micro-second (which was all that was required) disrupted the smooth flow of consciousness-maintaining energy. In that micro-second of suspension, we in effect rewired certain mental habits. Understand, this is sloppy terminology. You don’t have the vocabulary that would let us make it precise.
Frank was in the habit of perceiving the world in a certain way, not connecting some things he knew with other things he knew. You might say, things that should have been knowns to him were still only beliefs.
What you believe may allow movement in a certain direction, but only when it becomes known does it allow further development. Naturally, not everything you “know” is actually true, but moving from the sense of confidence that you know a thing is what creates possibilities.
You somehow made connections for me among things that had been only in separate bubbles. Is that what you’re saying?
In effect. You might say that at age seven, certain obstacles were put in your way lest you connect certain things too soon in your life. (This, because of what you came to do. It isn’t like this happens all the time. But it seemed necessary.) Then at the proper time we merely removed the obstacle and let nature take its course, of course with occasional nudges from us.
That obstacle could be described as –?
Oh, a bias, or a blindness, or a habit. Analogy will take us only so far.
You know that people are going to be looking over their own shoulders now, wondering if their lives have been altered by invisible interference.
As we said, we don’t do this every day. Ultimately people decide they trust their guidance or they don’t. Of course there may be quite a lot of vacillation meanwhile.
Today’s theme(s)?
“The non-3D in dreaming and in intervention.”
Try again?
“Dream process; non-3D intervention.”
That would work if it didn’t suggest more of a connection than there was.
Maybe, “Dream process; activation.”
Yes, maybe. Our thanks for all this as always. I know you’re always in there pitching.