When Teresa sat in the hotseat in Asheville in May 2007, she asked Abraham about
dreams. This dialogue is the basis for her new approach to dreamwork. A transcript of the dialogue follows.
QUESTION: I would love to hear you talk more about using dreamwork as a process and using it in a group setting as a process.
ABRAHAM:
Well, when someone awakens from a dream and they have a vivid
recollection of the dream, not just the details of the dream but the
way they were feeling while they were in the dream, there is a lot of
very good information in that because what you're thinking and what
you're offering vibrationally and what manifests in your life
experience always match. And what you've been thinking and how you've
been feeling and what manifests in dream state is always a vibrational
match.
So you can utilize your dreams as sort of advanced
announcements of what you're doing vibrationally. And by that we mean,
once you activate a vibration within you consistently for a while,
eventually it's going to manifest in your physical experience. But even
in shorter time it will manifest in your dream state. So the dream
state is a wonderful opportunity to get a check on what you're doing
vibrationally.
A lot of times people hear us say, What you think
and what you feel and what manifests always match -- but they don't do
anything about cleaning up their vibration until it has manifested. And
once bankruptcy is manifested or once a divorce is manifested or once a
physical condition that is not wanted has manifested, it's more
difficult for you to clean up your vibration because now you've got the
manifestation that you're observing that is adding to the holding of it
into your experience. So awakening from a vivid dream which gives you
strong emotional feedback is a wonderful opportunity to you to say,"
Oh, I've got some vibration going on here that I didn't realize I had
going on."
QUESTION: What about non-vivid dreams? I often will
linger in bed and kind of wait and a dream sort of butterflies through
and I grab it and jot it down.
ABRAHAM: Some people say, "I
don't remember my dreams." And yet everyone is dreaming. But all that's
happening is, they are regaining consciousness and getting focused on
other places and then taking themselves away from that. In order to
recall a dream, you have to be somewhere near the vibrational vicinity
of it. And in most cases you are. When you put yourself in your bed at
night, you're offering a vibration. Let's back up. We can give you some
really good information here.
So, all day, you're having
response to life. Some of it you're doing on purpose, some of it you're
having knee-jerk reactions to things. The more deliberate you are about
the thoughts you think, the better off you are. The more knee-jerk
reactions you're having to what's being shown on CNN or what you're
reading in the paper, or what you're hearing from others, the less
control you have in your life. But all day, every day, you are
observing and thinking and therefore offering vibrations on a lot of
different subjects.
And you are developing a sort of vibrational
average so to speak. Somewhere in there is a vibrational common
denominator. While you feel better about some things than others,
you've got a sort of average (so to speak) vibration going on. And that
represents your point of attraction. Point of attraction eventually in
real life experience -- fortunately there's a buffer of time so you
don't manifest instantly -- but you're on your way to those things.
Dreamscape manifestations: more quickly.
Most people are not
consciously aware of what they're offering, in fact most people are not
consciously aware of how they're feeling in the sense that they want to
think differently and change the way they feel. Most people just think
and feel, or observe and feel, and then the way they feel becomes sort
of normal. So it's normal to be overwhelmed, or it's normal to feel
ornery, or it's normal to be pessimistic, and so on. The longer you
live, the more things you find to fuss and worry about. And so the more
you acclimate to those vibrations and the more they feel normal to you.
Well, the longer a negative emotion feels normal to you -- if you're
thinking and feeling and it doesn't feel good, but you've done it long
enough that now you're not noticing that you're even doing it -- this
is where dreams really are helpful. Because the dream will give you a
vivid depiction of what you're offering vibrationally.
Now
getting back to what you were just asking. What if I don't really
recall my dreams. Well, once you have convinced yourself that there is
value and good information in your dreams, then when you put yourself
in your bed at night, make the statement, "If there is anything of
importance from my dream state, it is my intention to recall it when I
awaken in the morning." And just ponder that, set that suggestion
before you go to sleep. When you awaken in the morning, lie in your bed
and just ask the question, "Is there meaningful information for me
here? And if there is, give me a piece of it." And right away, within
two minutes, if you get a piece of it, then follow the thread of it. If
you don't, get up. Lying there longer isn't going to bring it.
QUESTION:
What do you think about the practice of what's been called incubating a
dream, where one sets a question to the universe at bedtime and asks
for a dream to answer that question.
ABRAHAM: Well, the thing
that's interesting about that is that you have to understand that you
could ask the universe a question anytime in the wake state, and the
universe is answering that and, as our friend said earlier, will give
it to you in different ways. Different things that happen will give you
your messages; they turn up in the path of least resistance for you.
But
you have to understand that when you put yourself to sleep, you
withdraw your consciousness and you re-emerge into alignment with who
you are. So in that aligned state, you're getting all kinds of answers
to all kinds of questions. But when you awaken, you return to the
vibration of where that vibrational average was. So when you return to
that vibrational average, now once again you don't have access to that.
Even if you dreamed it, you won't recall it because it's on one
vibrational frequency and you're on another.
So the only way to
get accurate answers to questions from dream state is to wake up
feeling really good. And the only way to wake up feeling really good,
is to go to bed feeling really good. That's why we say, this is the
work of the processes, this is why we don't encourage you to try to get
the work done in your dream state. Let the dream show you how you're
vibrating, but do the work while you're awake. That's powerful.
QUESTION: So, use the dream as a barometer.
ABRAHAM: Use the
dream as an attention-getter because you feel normal about negative
emotion but when you have a vivid dream -- Esther, one night, after
they got the first monster bus, she dreamed that she was whaling down
the highway, went around a corner, and the inside wheels of the bus
were on the road but the outside wheels were out in space. It was a
very unsettling experience. And when she awakened, she realized that
she had some active vulnerability going on relative to driving that big
bus. And she spent some time talking to herself about how: "I never do
anything that doesn't feel safe, and I'm always aware of my speed, and
I'm aware of the posted signs, and I never let this rig get out of
control, and I will never have an experience where a part of me will go
off the cliff." She just talked to herself and that dream, which had
become a sort of recurring dream, she dreamed it three or four nights a
week for the first month or two they had the bus. Finally that dream
stopped. It stopped once she got a check on her vibration.
QUESTION: One of the most common things people bring me when they know I do dreamwork is recurring dreams.
ABRAHAM:
A recurring dream is wonderful because it says, "This is still how you
feel. This is still how you feel. This is still how you feel."
Esther,
in the early days of being with Jerry, dreamed that she was not with
him and couldn't find him. The phone buttons wouldn't work or the
receiver wouldn't let her hear. And so she said to us, "Abraham, am I
having this dream over and over again because it took us so long to
find each other?" And we said, No. You're having this dream over and
over again because you feel vulnerable about him staying.
It's
like, every subject is two subjects. So you pick up the stick that
says, "I love this relationship" on one end, and on the other end of it
is, "What would happen if it went away?" And you can tell by the way
you feel which end of the stick is more active. So coming together was
thrilling to Esther but then she began to worry, "What if it doesn't
last? It feels so good, I'd die if it doesn't last." But "what if it
doesn't last" was active enough in her vibration that she began having
these dreams to let her know that that vibration could in time keep
them from being together. So she just had to talk herself into
vibrational alignment with her desire.
The value of your dreams is this: your dream will show you where you are vibrating on subjects that are important to you.
QUESTION: So it's sounding like it's not that well suited for group processes as I had in mind, from what you're saying.
ABRAHAM:
Well, you could certainly teach the value of a dream. And you could
teach how to prepare yourself to have meaningful awareness of your
dreams. You could teach how to lie in your bed and get yourself into as
good a feeling place as possible.
You see, in the same way that
we like it when you feel negative emotion -- we like it when you know
the stove is hot. We would rather that you know that rather than lay on
it and suffer the-- Don't put Novocain in your hands so that it doesn't
bother you because it will bother you on other levels. In the same way
that we do not want you to rid yourself of sensitivity in your
fingertips, or sensitivity to emotions, we don't want you to get rid of
every bad dream you have. We just want you to know what they mean.
A
dream that makes your heart soar, when you have a dream that you're
flying -- ever have flying dreams? Oh, those are good indicators. That
means you're floating free. That means you've turned downstream. That
means you're tuned in, tapped in, turned on. That means you're in
alignment with Source. That means you're perceiving life through the
eyes of Source. Those dreams are dreams of empowerment.
But when
you feel bound, when you feel taken advantage of, when you feel shunned
or mocked. Ever have dreams that you are running around in a crowd of
people and you are naked? A lot of people have those dreams. Those
kinds of dreams are serious indicators that you care too much about
what everybody else thinks.
Your dreams give you enormous
amounts of information. But the thing that you want to ask yourself is:
"Did I dream? And how did it feel?" Because how it feels is the telling
information. It doesn't matter what the dream was about, if you felt
invincible, if you felt in love, if you felt powerful, then those are
dreams of alignment and connection. If you felt a coward, if you felt
afraid, if you felt unhappy, if you felt sad, if you're crying in the
dream, those are indications that you've got something going on,
something matters and your vibration's in a different place.
So
you could say, if your dreams are happy, then there's no process that's
necessary. If you're waking up from unhappy dreams, let's do some of
these processes to get you in a different vibration. Also it's helpful
to know that within the dream, not only will the emotion let you know
about where you're vibrating on the emotional scale, but the content of
the dream usually gives you information too. The people who are in the
dream, or the places that are in the dream -- while we would not work
too hard at translating anything literally, if you have a dream where
something is really vivid, something about your resistance is often
tied there. It's often pointing at a place that it would be of value
for you to clean up a bit.
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