Module 2- The Empath
Using Your Dreams To Access Subconscious Beliefs
Do you journal? If you don't, I'm gonna strongly suggest you do so! It doesn't have to be five pages a day but try to write long enough to where you begin spilling the beans on yourself...to yourself. The way you may sit down with a friend or therapist and first just discuss the pleasantries and then suddenly you're like, "Ok so there's this memory I keep having about my ex fifteen years ago and like WHY is it popping up now? He's such a dick why would I be thinking about that? It makes me so upset! What does this have to do with anything!?"
This side of us that suddenly has to spills the beans, is the side that writes and directs our dreams. The subconscious soup bubbling up that we get accustomed to just hushing and telling to stay seated will show up any and every way it can until it gets out attention. So when we give it a moment to speak and be validated even if it's just five minutes a day, our dreams tend to become clearer because we're listening now, they don't have to try and cram it all in in one night. It becomes a paced conversation rather than spurts of yelling and anxiety to get our attention.
Sometimes just making bullet points of dreams will help to connect the dots and repeating emotions, scenarios, and backdrops.
Here's A Lil Homework
Use these questions as a prompt to break apart your dreams and kinda sift out some jewels that are being presented to you!
Are there any environments in particular that your dreams constantly take place in? Are there any people that consistently show up?
Do you have dreams you're waking up from that feel realer than life?
Do you remember any songs from your dreams?
Do you remember any clear statements or conversations from your dreams?
Are you visiting other people in your dreams? Do they recognize and acknowledge you or does it feel more like A Christmas Carol situation where you get to go visit Bob Crachet while remaining unseen?
Are there any emotions you consistently wake up with?
What age are you in your dreams? Current, future, or past?
Do your dreams feel like your own voice, or someone else's?
Do you find yourself setting yourself free in your dreams or highly critical of yourself? Do your dreams show you other sides of people that you deal with in day to day life?
Do the messages in your dreams sound like the voice of your wisdom or your fear?
We will often be told that our dreams are just a mash up of the mind releasing jumbled up trash from the day's thoughts and activities, but from my experience, our daily activities will simply show up as props for underlying messages of the subconscious.
For example, I'll often have extremely personal and insightful dreams played out with characters from Schitt's Creek or whatever recent show my husband and I have been watching haha!
What's so clever about this is that it's much easier to take in and digest views we may not feel accustomed to, as a bystander. Where we can examine it from a perspective where it's no longer a threat to our personal lives or sense of reality. Kinda like a safe sandbox for our psyche!
It's much easier to receive insight in our dreams that we may not allow ourselves to see in daily life while holding a firm stance and discrediting our intuition. In our dreams, we may tune into someone's ulterior motives we tried to ignore, or we may see the good heart in someone we made assumptions about in fear.
Our dreams always seem a lil wacky because they dump out all the puzzle pieces, unafraid to make a mess of our black and white thinking brain. They tend to twist and turn into different directions at any given moment. It's a way we can explore our What If thinking from a safe space.
Simply observing our dreams and asking ourselves, "And how does that make you feel?" can move us into a place of observing our inner selves without judgement and fear.
Have fun with this!
We each have our own fingerprint of inner dialogue and the way our dreams and intuition intertwine with our own fears and wounds. The better we get to know them, the more in depth conversations we can have with them, the better our relationship with our own knowing and intuition. Translating our own dreams is an incredible way to decipher what is our highest wisdom speaking to us through our intuition, and what is our wounded child doing their best to avoid feeling pain again.