Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

This is hopefully a calmer, more positively energized, post that is not so much full of self-hating/loathing like the others, but that touches on the same topics, because under all the anger I really do have a serious question and I'm trying to ponder it more. I'm also back to posting it on my main account because while one of the main posters here blocked me I want to respect their block (and I was only posting through another one because I was trying to contact a different poster their blocking had cut me off from).

The question is, given what was mentioned in the post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spirit_workers/s/BW63jBO08q

regarding dissociation and its connection with traumas and with trance, it seems a key part of the reason I'm thinking a suitable form (forget about "who has it worse" bullshit, that is bullshit that just invalidates, I'm sorry for indulging it even if self-directed) of trauma is "necessary" - regardless of questions about "getting personal strength and character" - in specific regard to the question of trances or shaman's journey is that it seems it has the effect of "prizing loose" the integrated self/body, thus making it possible to access things and parts of one's consciousness one would not otherwise be aware of, including possible messages from Spirit or visions of Spirit realms.

But the question is, absent such a suitable trauma trigger - as again, dropping "who has it worse" BS, it is a fact that the kinds of traumas I went through, though very much having had consequences that have rippled down to this day, were not of a kind that caused intense, acute dissociation, because they were more "chronic" and "continuous", not sudden, shocking "blows to the system". I have not ever had any experience in my life I can say is very dissociative, except for a few subtle ones - for example when I slipped into a depressive phase a few years ago following a massive upsurge of a mental problem (itself rooted in past traumas) that I've described here as "the Suppressor", I would experience strange times while laying in bed with my hands behind my head and leaning into the depression, but still not sleeping and a ways from sleep, I would get the sense they seemed to "become ghostly" and start "mixing" or "phasing through each other" like if the right hand was below the left physically, it would feel like each "ghosted" through the other so as to have the left hand how below the right. It was never something I brought up with any therapist because I mostly didn't feel it was significant enough to bother, and never became a major feature, while also going away as I got help for the depression.

And thus what I am wondering about is two things. One is whether that, without sufficient dissociation, I am limited as to how far I will be able to get with the trance, no matter how much practice, or if practicing the trance itself can help one to dissociate, at least if done long enough (and perhaps one year is not long enough) and/or maybe with the right techniques. In this regard, it is worthwhile to note I've also tried some exercises to "astral project" but I feel mostly like "I" am "tight fixed" "in the body", for lack of a better description, like I cannot "peel off" into the dissociated state. ("The Suppressor" also seems to make its presence felt and tries to compulsively cause me to "pull" back into my body the moment I consciously register any even slight sense of potential dissociation.) Though to be fair, I have not practiced such techniques with the same dedication as just the trance, so it may just be a question of insufficient practice. The other question is, and building on that, whether there is some method by which one can, without having to do something stupid (as understood by the wise, not by "society") or "wish you had more trauma" perversely, force or induce a dissociative state in a way that will also make it easier to reach it simply by trance. I had mentioned in one of the more angry posts and out of desperation the use of a drug agent like ketamine (the so-called "K-Hole", which is described to be comparable to an out-of-body experience and thus presumably also a "true color" SHAMAN's journey); though since I have neither played with that particular agent before nor dissociated hard yet, I would want to have an experienced "sitter" ideally and so it is likely not going to happen for a long time - and to honor Rule Six, I will not ask how. What I am wondering is not the how, but the could: whether the experience of dissociation induced with such pharmacological agents would actually "count", in the sense of whether it transfers back to one's ability to reach in trance when the drug is not present. As if it does not help to "loosen things up" for the trance, then it does not seem it would be worth potential risks, even if it would generate the experience.

On that last point, I'd also want to say that even if a drug could help, I'd be unlikely to pursue it any time soon anyways because it probably makes the most sense to make sure one's other foundations are solid. If, as one poster here told me, not having had an acute traumatic life "is a gift", then it should not interfere with my spiritual development; if anything, I should be able to do it more effectively than those who have such things induced by trauma because I would have a level of conscious control over the process, which implies precision. (This is a thought that I did not want to entertain in the previous posts because of fear of arrogance, but in line with "f--k fear" I'm gonna entertain it anyway.)

Which leads me then to consider the various "initiation rites" in traditional cultures involving extreme, painful ordeals, which produce intense pain/suffering, but in a controlled and regimented fashion. In this regard, I've just started experimenting with things like pushing through exercise to where it hurts - no marathons, but I did try 5 minutes of handstands yesterday, which may not sound like a lot but because I have hardly done many I had not so much strength and so I had to bite and claw at those 5 minutes, i.e. the muscles would fail then I'd rest and try again and try and try until I had accumulated all 5 minutes no matter how gruelling. Probably took a half hour or so due to the rest intervals while also being intent on making sure I got the whole total no matter what. It is quite impressive how intense the pain gets from a simple exercise brought to the limit, and I remember saying forceful, confident words like "I dedicate and offer this pain to SPIRIT!" and yelling for "Spirit" and at "Spirit" and "this is for YOU" to generate motivation while my feet were starting to slide down the wall and my eyes were blinding with pressure ... and man that felt so f--king good man and really kept me gassed up to get it all done. Don't feel more dissociated, but do feel slightly more accomplished, and it was also a great way to vent out all the anger, frustration, and insecurity that I'd expressed toward myself in the posts before. Likely will/may continue this further ... at the very least I will get good at handstands if nothing else and have hot triceps & delts.

What do you say?

This is a sort of follow-up to my previous thread that I hope will be a bit more "calm" and less self-deprecating. I mentioned in some later posts there how that I had, after receiving some advice on the thread about the need for intent and clarity, was able to undertake another "shamanic journeying" attempt that yielded quite a bit of fruit, though as usual I'm not sure what all is "spirit" vs. "ego", something I've always been trying to think about ever since "day 1" and which leads me little closer to an answer, though I do feel I am noticing more things in that regard. I repeated the "journey" last night, too, with some variation, and got a somewhat different result. I had a writeup about the previous attempt but it was very long (7-8 pages!) and I didn't want to post that just yet because I didn't wanna make anyone here do a ton of reading.

But as I've been thinking, meditating and also having done a repeat on the journey last night under somewhat different conditions for the sake of experimentation, I've started to notice some things within that might be at the center of my confusion and also the anger I described and expressed in that "be brutally honest" thread. And one of those is that I feel that at some level I am basically a weak person, and I hate that. I feel that for whatever trauma I suffered, because it was mostly/entirely "online" and all problems I've dealt with are mostly psychological and not "real, physical pain" due largely to having spent most of my life in a homebound existence in turn a result from serious social awkwardness and rejection leading to withdrawal (due in large part to the psych. conditions together with the availability of home schooling options that allowed me to short circuit the usual school system while still getting a strong book education), it wasn't "good enough". Forget about "spirit" stuff or "shaman paths" for a moment, I mean it wasn't "good enough" in that I feel I was deeply shortchanged of "real pain" basically meaning what makes you GENUINELY strong, and I feel I deeply above all else really want that GENUINE "strength" - because again, as I implied in my other post, nothing at all I consider worth doing that is not genuine. (Though to be fair, about 8 years ago my social awkwardness did almost result in me getting arrested in a foreign country, and I was "saved" only by that I was fortunate enough to know one person in the country who was linguistically savvy enough to defuse the situation and callable by phone.) Merely making an appearance of something is something I consider an utter waste. It is like paying ten pounds of platinum to get an ounce of wood smoke. I have never been literally in a hair's breadth of death, but I want on some deep level that strength that I would have had perhaps had I, and I've often thought of self-destructive ways to get there, but I suspect that is not the "best" way. And so I feel that chance has dealt me a cruel hand spiritually, because I feel that such things are necessary for spiritual growth. That is, I do not see suffering or tribulation experiences in the same way perhaps that the "conventional" societal world sees them; but then this different way of seeing is married with a cruel, evil poverty of both experience and guidance that I am tremendously angry at, like someone wanted to fuck up my soul by impeding its development. Not saying there is such a "someone" "out there", just saying how the anger feels and how boiling it is.

Which is interesting to consider in light of (and would have described in that writeup) the aforementioned "journeying" attempts because one theme that seemed to very solidly come up in the first one was a rather adamant prompting and sense that I should not be "judging" what does and does not count as "real" pain or "valid" pain, that to make that judgment itself is a form of ego in its own way even if it "feels like" trying to defeat ego in the form of arrogance or unjustified aggrandizement.

What do you say about this "not feeling enough" stuff? Again, I feel the issue, as I've had it crop up many times in other areas of life, is that I am not enough in terms of character matters like that strength I mentioned, and/or that I know much more is possible and I also deeply desire that for myself - that is something that is perhaps "self" or "ego" I know for sure and I think may underlie some of my confusion. It's not that I wanted to seek out the "shaman path" per se, but that where the ego element I feel is coming in is that I want the strength that I know comes from having had to overcome "real" adversity of the type many on it describe - something I actually didn't know about when I first "slipped into" the path but only as I started learning about it while taking my first steps, so it is also not what motivated me to choose it. I feel whether "the path" itself is actually appropriate for me or not (though I did pledge to "100% commit" to it and I refuse to break the integrity of my word, esp. given I "swore it to Spirit", not sure what that does but regardless as I said I at the very least do not want to make a hypocrite of mySELF), that I absolutely want that character I mention, and I madly want it before I die and would not mind dying trying, given that we're gonna die anyway some day so who cares? But I also think if you "be an idiot" then that actually annuls it, so I really don't know what to do at all.

What do you say?

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Tell me I have NO spiritual potential in this lifetime. I'm talking this article here:

"There Is So Much "Fluff" Out There About Developing Psychic Abilities.

The advice given (the propaganda) is meant to make people feel good about themselves. Usually so they buy the book or read the article. The messaging gives people such grandiose expectations that ANYONE can be a psychic, anyone can be a medium, shaman, or clairvoyant. In my experience this is not the case. You either have it, you have the potential for it, or you don't have it."

Read my posts, whatever, though I'm obviously not asking you to spend time that would be burdensome for you.

I have not had anything I can unambiguously say without any doubt at all was a loud "psychic" event before 18, though I cannot say for absolute without a doubt I have had none either. The thing is, I am not afraid of anything (ADD: see below, I was intending much more to say something like "I do not care to be deterred by fear or labor, but I am deterred by lack of genuineness") - risk, years for work, etc. required to be genuine and I have intense, maddening to the breaking point sincerity in that anything I do should either be genuine or it is not worth doing AT ALL. That's how I see it. There is ZERO, if not NEGATIVE, value in living lies. The thing is, there's a part that does not belong to I, and that part seems to recede into the background after posts like that one.

FWIW, I have not had desire to get "psychic power" I just want murderous clarity about who I am. My life has been pathetic, because I was too sheltered and all trauma was "trivial", merely years of OCD causing me to rub my nose in online - not physical - bullying for 4-8 hours a day during my late childhood and teens, where I was told over and over how stupid and troll I am. Because of those facts I have NOTHING I feel except my own fucking vanity in this spiritual path and I want myself disabused of all bullshit and told I would actually be doing evil to try and pursue the spirit path at a high level. Hardly anyone gets real talent and everyone thinks they have more than they do. I have none by cold statistical logic. Maybe a little secular talent, but that's it. I am just using the actual truth of things.

End of story. Tell me to go get lost. Because it's not just that talent "may lie elsewhere" it's that spiritually at least I should just FORGET IT TOTALLY as something to spend any more than trivial effort on even if I would want to as there is no talent there ANYwhere.

By the way, all anger in this post is self directed. I have nothing against any of you. On the contrary. I am ferociously angry that everyone tells people "feel good lies" to the point I can't trust anything I know. I burn with a need for truth so bad it makes me feel like I wanna punch a hole in a wall sometimes when I am frustrated and unclear or feel I've been lied to and cheated and schemed by fucking liars, cheats, and scams (not in these matters directly but because I feel EVERYTHING is invaded by this "feel good lies" pathology and I hate it to the bones of my being because I want sincerity and genuineness more than anything else). And I want HONEST people like YOU to utterly destroy all falsehood. Definitely. I admire your kind of people and think you are necessary.

I thank God for making life UNfair. God's character is how we should be. Difference is beautiful. Unfairness is beautiful. It's being utterly truthful and God is TRUTH first and those who Hate truth are the truly wickedly sick. Those who would utterly reject generally accepted systems of value in favor of ones that can LOVE the truth whoheartedly without reservation, are the truly healthy.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Trauma creates dissociation, it pulls you outside of yourself so that you can endure difficult life events. These dissociative states can be as mild as day dreaming to as extreme as not being able to feel one's arms and legs. While dissociation is often viewed as "bad" it's also somewhat required for spirit work. It's just that you want to be dissociative "on command" rather than due to being triggered. Trance is also a type of dissociation. It alters a person’s awareness to be not just present with themselves but also slightly somewhere else too. These kinds of liminal states are what is required for spirit work.

When people bypass trance and move directly into guided meditation work they’re not able to break the barrier of the physical world to the spirit world. Instead they’re interfacing and tapping into their own subconscious mind.

Many times when people engage in “guided meditation” to meet their spirit guides, they are actually embarking on a guided tour to meet their own archetypes. Often when they seek out a guide, they receive one, it’s just not exactly a “spirit” instead it’s a part of themselves. These parts are very similar in concept to “the inner child”. We all have parts or archetypes inside ourselves and each part has a particular role or function to serve. For more information research “sub-personalities” or Internal Family Systems (IFS).

Part of spirit work is doing this kind of archetypal work. Because in order to speak the language of spirits we have to know our own symbols. You can’t understand spirits of the dead, entities and deities without embarking on this journey into the self. You can certainly interact with spirits, but you may not ever be able to connect with them or build rapport. Because to build rapport you have to have a common language.

Many people do not want to put in the work to do this because it’s daunting and slightly terrifying. When you enter “the self” you have to look at your own shadow and that is enough to make most people “slam that door shut”. People want just simple tools to connect with spirits so that they can have an edge up on life, so that they can feel safe and protected from bad things happening, but that is not how this works. To gain spiritual wisdom requires risk. The risk is not just a metaphor to dealing with your own shadow, but it has a real consequence to your own mental health. People who do not take this seriously can become very fragmented mentally and/or disconnected from a shared reality.

As a side note folks who are “spirit-called” (those who endure shaman sickness) do not have the option to not embark on this kind of path. Their mental wellness is dependent on this journey into the self. If they do not seek this path and follow the spirits who are initiating them on it, they may end up with incurable illness, pain and/or madness. So one should never be jealous of such folks, because that path is relentless and often there is a lot of suffering involved.

The best place to start this kind of journey work is with your dreams. Get a dream journal. Write down what you remember every night. You want to start to wiring your conscious mind with your subconscious mind. I recommend dream work for everyone, regardless if you have a trauma history and are “naturally open” or if you have no trauma history and no predisposition to trance work. You have to know your own symbols and the things that you naturally connect to. Dream work is sort of like the Hogwarts sorting hat. For you to know what your spiritual traits are and the kind of magic you connect to, you have to focus on your dreams.

The paths beyond dream work somewhat depend based on your history.

If you have a trauma history you may be already somewhat “wired” for trance work because trauma “thins the veil” or the barrier between ourselves and spirits. That said, in my experience folks with a trauma history tend to have to focus more on learning how to build energetic boundaries in both spirit work, their mental health (relationships), and psychic work. Trauma disrupts our understanding of our connection to our body and also our ability to create and maintain boundaries. So part of boundary work may be looking at the events that created the trauma through a therapeutic lens. While also learning energetic techniques to defend yourself. This is not just shielding, but also centering and grounding.

Note that if you do not cater to those wounds (your trauma history) you can find yourself drowning quickly in quick sand. All paths of spirit work will directly impact your mental health. You have to do both. Have one foot in spirit work and one foot in inner work. This is not a safe path and you have to cultivate awareness. In doing so you also cultivate a kind of power.

If you do not have a trauma history and you still want to embark on this journey then my recommendation is that you get into learning trance work. Trance work can be through core shamanism or through other pathways. Folks who are less "open" may want to focus more on "opening" their abilities. While this was not my path to spirit work in my experience learning trance through "journey work" (ie core shamanism) is probably a better path. While I dislike how core shamanism doesn't prepare people for the savageness of the spirit world (as the spirit world is not a safe place) I do think the foundational techniques are helpful.

I am not trained or certified to teach trance work. So instead I’m going to suggest people seek out reputable teachers who teach that. Read books on trance. Not all trance is stationary, certain kinds of trance involved dancing, singing, playing an instrument or other practices. If you struggle with sitting meditation then you may not be as wired for that. Try moving meditation. If you continue to struggle keep trying. It took me 10 years to figure out how to ground. Therefore I do not have much sympathy for people who haven't spent at least a year or more struggling with something. This kind of work is difficult. What works for one may not work for another. If you can't find anything that works, then make something that works for you. Experiment and be creative.

There is going to be a stage when starting on these paths where you don’t know what is “real”, what is inside your head, and what is spirit related. This kind of confusion is normal. It takes practice and experience to know which is which and sometimes knowing which is which is somewhat irrelevant. Sometimes the point is to simply receive the message. Remember that the spirits (and also your subconscious) speak the language of symbolism, so to understand symbols you have to learn to think differently. It's not necessarily using what we consider "logic" for mundane problems solving, but more tapping into a kind of intuitive logic. Part of this is learning to see patterns. Folks who are creative may find this kind of intuitive logic easier as creative people "see" in a different way already.

Lastly, because I see so many people trying to get into spirit work I'm going to give some generalized advice. If you want to get into spirit work to “help” spirits then that is a subconscious cry that you need to help yourself first. For all the "rescue mediums" and "healers" out there, I strongly suggest you look into understanding the “rescuer archetype" because that rescuer in you, can be as temperamental as a wounded inner child. A beginner helping/healing spirits would be like the blind leading the blind. Beginners can't help or heal anyone but themselves. If you have a NEED to rescue others, it's likely because nobody rescued you.. and that is a wound you need to address ASAP.

Cross posted from my website UnchartedWaters.net

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

I'm a hypnagogic clairaudient- and voyant medium. Ihave this issue that lesser or even plain evil spirits are pestering me when i try to fall asleep. At the point of falling asleep, they startle me by yelling at me or playing mindtricks with me by putting weird thoughts in my head. This can go on for hours until i fall asleep. Also, when i wake up too early, it's hard for me to fall alseep again because of them.

Are they allowed to do that? Do they have to pay consequences when they eventuelly transcend? Is this bad for their karma? I've read this somewhere, but i don't know if this is true. If i tell them what they are doing is wrong (to scare them, so they stop doing it), they answer me with things like: "So what? I'm already dead". More evolved spirits always respect it if i say i want to sleep.

Also, it seems to me some spirits don't know they have to transcend and incarnate again. They actually believe they have to stay in the lower realms...

And yes, i tried grounding and shielding meditation. It doesn't work... For example: when i picture myself surrounded by white light, they usually just mock me that this doesn't scare them... Anybody any advice so my sleep can improve? Are they allowed to pester me?

The only thing that works a little bit for me are anti-psycotics. But they have annoying side effects, and are very toxic. So i rather avoid using them.

A thing happened some time ago that I would appreciate some help with if at all possible. While my ability to discern has improved (I feel) quite a bit, over a year later, this still has me stumped. I wasn't sure this was appropriate for r/Mediums so hope it fits here.

This took place at my then-friend's home. An older woman who taught me pendulum work and whom I had thought of as like a mentor.

When this occurred, we were sitting and talking, or rather she was talking and I was listening. I can't recall the subject, but at one point, looked down or away for a moment then back again and that is when I saw it: the profile of an old woman superimposed over hers for a good few seconds. For comparison, she has pale skin and and is of rather stout bearing. The face I saw was gaunt, dark skinned as in weathered, and there was a feeling of deep bitterness and unhappiness.

I saw this quite clearly in a physical way and not in my mind's eye as it normally happens, which was a little shocking. I think if she had seen me startle, she would have asked, but she hadn't, and I wasn't sure what to say at all.

The initial reaction at that moment was that I was seeing her soul or potentially the darkness of it. But this was a new and unknown experience to me, and things I have since read could mean a type of attachment. How should I be looking at or thinking of this to best to discern what it saw?

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nb. Our friendship ended a few months after and even without, had previously stated that she did not want me to do any clearing or dowsing done without her permission.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Hi. I’ve read numerous new agey type spiritual texts that refer to the idea that your soul sat down with spirit guides and agreed to undertake various tasks in this life time before deciding to incarnate. They never seem to reference where this idea comes from. Can anyone tell me the origin of this?

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

Welcome to this week’s dream sharing post! Here, you can share any dreams you’ve had over the course of the past week. Feel feee to include your interpretation. This is also a great way to ask for help from the community, as well. Remember, though, that your symbols are your own so *you* are the most qualified person to interpret what they mean.

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Don’t remember your dreams well? If you’d like to start, try journalling your dreams when you wake up each morning. This helps train you brain to think dreams are important so that it begins to hang on to more and more details. Journalling your dreams is also a great way to keep track of recurring symbols and themes.

What is the exact definition of the Self? Is this the human vessel? The physical brain? The mind behind it? The higher self? Is it the human, along with all other beings and the whole universe? Is it the human AND the universe AND god? Is it an illusion? Does it exist? Does it not exist? What is the precise metaphysical or spiritual definition of this word, Self? Where does the usage of this word come from? Did it emerge from ancient Hinduism? Did its usage independently emerge from different traditions? Do people even have a precise definition of this word? I have of course seen it used all over, in many many different spiritual, religious and metaphysical contexts.

Apologies if this is a really basic question, but I don't know how to search for the etymology or history of usage of this word, strictly in a spiritual or metaphysical sense.