It begins! You lay your head upon the pillow and start to drift off, to what you hope will be a restful night's sleep. As you stand on the brink of the dream threshold, with your physical ego on one side of you and your nonphysical dream-self on the other, you wonder what awaits you in that elusive doorway just ahead. Your physical body is at rest now. You open the dream doorway. As you enter this beckoning portal, you leave what sanity you had behind you, and enter into world where reality gets put together by a whole other set of rules.The dream door melts away just as quickly as you walk through it, and you are standing in your yard talking to a man. A moment or so later, the man turns into a bird and flies away. Then, as you turn around, to follow that bird, your environment shifts and your are 100 years in the past, looking at two horses tied to a saloon hitch. With that, you turn once more and come face to face with the gas man. Now, all these happenings would be bizarre and chaotic enough on its own; however, in your next breath, your reach out and take the gas bill from the gas man, as if there is nothing wrong with the gas man being present in 17th century America. Now, you are truly nonsane!
From a physical perspective, your dream self does do all sorts of things, which would get you committed, in your society, had you been physical when you saw and did these things. Frankly, telling anyone a story like the one above, without adding that this was a dream, is enough to get a second and third look from people. If you don't believe us, just try it! Events in dreams often seem chaotic and to follow no set pattern. However, your dreams are the most creative and deliberate thing that you engage in. The level of sophistication and elegance with which despairingly different elements come together, to form a perfect psychological painting, would even make DaVinci modest.
You see! All the elements in a dream come together to form a message and a story with which you can explore and enjoy. Some of these dreams are fairly simple and seem straightforward, almost as straightforward as physical reality. However the real masterpieces are those dreams that possess several elements, or several layers of elements, all blended in one dream. These dreams are multidimensional in nature, possessing a depth that goes beyond the surface, and, with each deepening level, the meaning deepens and so does the information that it carries to you...READ MORE...
