10 Tidbits for Total Recall

If you have the urge to explore your dreams, then your intuition is guiding you. When you hear the term 'Total Recall,' you might imagine the sci-fi film with Arnold Schwartzenegger.  You may also reflect on useful tips to unlock messages in your dreams.  Its possible to help jog the memory and follow the thread back home. 

Whether you are pregnant and wishing to connect to your unborn child, someone who wants to use dreams as a problem-solving tool, or see dreams are key to emotional healing or guiding you in other ways, its helpful to know you can train the mind to recall dreams consistently and in detail.  You might ask where to begin?

As you gain confidence with basic recall, you grow aware of different layers dreaming and may ready learn about astral projection. Consider ten tidbits for dream recall.  Never underestimate the power of intention.

1) Set the intention to remember

• Raise awareness of your ability to recall dreams

Pay attention to your surroundings while awake. If you aren’t already recognizing how you use your senses, how can you expect to train the mind to multi-sensual awareness while asleep? Start simple: simply notice beauty and details on route to work. Do you detect smells easily? What did you feel of trees in bloom, or even the prickly weeds that grow in your lawn? Know you hold power to recall. Notice what you tend to overlook.

2) Meditate

• Ensure you're comfortable and can achieve deep states of peace.

If it appeals, check out library books, instructional CDs, online chats or local in-person meditation groups. It’s a kind of mental training that requires discipline to teach you to move between conscious and unconscious states at will. This is not a process of forcing yourself to exert effort to quiet the mind.  Its about shifting attention away from noise and choosing to focus on messages your body is already sending and also listening.

3) Create sleep rituals.

• Schedule your sleep for a consistent sleep cycle.

Deciding to regularly get a good night’s sleep promotes clearer thinking and reflection in the morning. Do what you do to unwind. Some people read. Others engage in sex. Whenever you’re ready, prepare to sleep. Lay back flat. Take a few minutes to relax all muscles. Make a habit of saying aloud, “I will remember my dream.” Tell other people of your intention to do this.  Verbalizing makes it stronger.

4) Keep paper and pen handy. 

• Make it a habit to write or draw spontaneously (without thinking)

It makes sense to record whatever you recall just as you awaken. Many begin to recall pieces of dreams as symbols or images. You need not make sense of it.  Don’t get up and brush your teeth or use the toilet before. Change in temperature (outside bed) and altered perception of surroundings tends to affect dream recall. The fewer movements and disruptions, the more you’ll gradually  remember.

5) Develop a 'pre- get up' routine.

• Make it a habit each morning to reflect on your dreams

Allow yourself to awaken without an alarm or before an alarm sounds. To be shocked awake may lead you to lose the dream thread. Keep eyes closed. Ly still. Tell yourself to permit dream images to surface. Imagine following a thread back through whatever events are still accessible within your unconscious. Repeat what you sense aloud. Record what you remember; objects, sensations, moods, feelings, colors, or anything.  Explore possible significance later.

6) Share your dream thoughts.

• resist doubting what you see, feel in dreams

Choose people with whom you would like to share your dreams. In some cultures, this is common practice among families from childhood. Speaking about dreams can make the experiences feel more real and can bring on revelations about their meanings. Other people may help shed some light, but ultimately, you’re the best person to decipher your own dreams.

7) Explore creative memory process.

• allow yourself to free draw impressions or feelings of what stands out in dreams

To decode your dreams, explore drawing, painting, sculpting, gardening, pottery, or other appealing pursuits. Dreams aren't always easily described in words.  Some people compose music or find other creative outlets to express what is flowing through them.  Be opten to inuition. Sense new inspiration and revelations.

8) Be aware of the influence of energies.

• recognize possible external influences on dreams

Every night, between 2am and 5am in every time-zone, is when ELF and microwave transmissions are the strongest.  This is when mind-control instructions are emitted by satellites, control towers, and can compress, transmit and embed programs in the human brain.  The active waking up to go to the toilet for instance, sets the unconscious program in the mind. Your daily routines may also seem to influence how/ what you dream.

9) Keep a journal.

• When ready, maintain a dream journal every morning after you wake up.

If dreams are hard to recall at first, simply journal about what is going on in your daily life. It may simply be a few lines per day. This kind of regular, conscious reflection will help you discern patterns in emotions, feelings and behaviors that begin to stand out in your dreams. If you are writing a work diary, pregnancy journal or keeping notes for other reasons, you may notice correlations between night dreams and reflections you transcribe elsewhere.  Everything is inter-connected.  Dreams are internal messages inviting you to see this more clearly.

10) Tap into the power of mantras. 

• listen to instrumental music when falling asleep and also to jog memeory of dreams

Mantras are a repeated series of words with psychic effects.  Some people listen to mantra music like O mani padme hum as a way to relax with eyes open or closed. Some people repeat mantra chants when falling asleep or when awakening into conscious awarness.  The words and stressed vowels of mantras stimulate chakras, which heighten sensitivity in astral realms. 

"A man is a genius when he is dreaming." - Akira Kurasawa

Energy surge & mind over matter

The vast majority of people are unaware of the extent to which the mind almost automatically interprets everything. You may assume you perceive how things are outside of you and inside. Yet, as you become more attuned to yourself, you realize the mind evolves to interpret and force experiences into familiar, and reassuring patterns. This trend will continue, unless you decide to do things differently.

Think about this: when you're asked to relay an experience, what you likely say is not so much what happened, but what you thought it meant. You compare what you you've already done. You generally select words you have used before. Why do you think that is? Do you intuit no other way? What about unexplained energy surges?

Some people believe their view of human existence is a rather limited one. A certain number of people seek to explore beyond physical matter. You may feel uneasy about some of the thoughts this may inspire. You may prefer not to question. Yet, you may succomb to unconscious suggestions during meditation. You may also begin to wonder how to discern the difference between hallucination and stages of dreaming.

If you lay down and start to fade into sleep, to the point where your body spontaneously seems to vibrate, almost uncontrollably, see if you sense a steady frequency. Does this happen mysteriously, unpredictably? This may be the beginning of repeated occurrences of vibrations that enable you to become more fully aware of your potential. Vibrations are always present at imperceptible degrees, but experiencing them on new levels will change the way you sense everything.

When you begin to feel what you sense others do not, you may float and bounce and be startled to look down at your body in bed. Evolve to where there's no discontinuity in consciousness. Sense every step of your evolving journey. It may never end.

Unblock what ails you

Some people block their minds and souls simply by living as they do and possibly always have. This could mean hurrying around, not being fully aware of your life or surroundings. Perhaps you consume mindless ideas or devote yourself to things that don't uplift the spirit? How many people do you know who would say apathy or indifference make a meaningful life? Does that sound healthy to you?

You stay in physical, emotional, psychological or other states you choose, by telling yourself how you feel is okay. To tap into the centre of the soul is where you can experience deep serenity and assurance that you're loved for who you are. You can experience feelings that radiate out into the world in a positive light.  Believe you have meaningful gifts and love to share. Communicate directly from the heart.

Unblocking what ails you means that you'll cease all thoughts that prevent caring for yourself and how you can serve. You can decide nothing anyone says or does will cause you to give up a sense of soulfulness. You value laughter and a lightness of being that share your thoughts as love energy.

When you're ready, you can fulfill your sense of purpose by sharing parts of yourself to all who are open to hear them and act upon them with gratitude. As you follow your path of healing, in whatever forms seem most appropriate, you can also take steps to empower others to heal too. You can learn to pass on your gifts without physically being in places. Be an emissary of light. Make a conscious or unconscious choice to shift your vibration higher.  Step back and review your lifestyle: 

1) Boost your energy with regular physical and mental exercise

2) Eat high-vibrational foods (fresh fruits & veggies)

3) Rest properly & take time out to mediate

4) Choose pursuits that generate positive feelings for you & others

5) Surround yourself with optimistic, encouraging people

6) Open yourself to the joy and excitement of possibilities

7 incentives to learn astral projection

Astral Projection is the process by which human consciousness temporarily leaves the physical body and functions independently. Its amazing to realize the power of that invisible silver cord! (It case you didn't know, its what's severed by divine beings at the moment of 'passing over').   Loads of people experience astral and concur its very real. Will you choose to take their word? or, explore it yourself?

Now, astral travel is not unconscious dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a stage when you become aware that you are dreaming. Astral is another step where you also travel after a conscious projection. This is a level of heightened perception. As you explore the astral dimension, your senses can seem sharper and sensations appear more real.

Mark Pritchard, who teaches an Astral course, explains Astral describes the first two planes of the 5th dimension. You may be more familliar with the first three (length, width& height) of the physical world. Time occupies the perceived 4th dimension. The 6th is the electronic dimension. The 7th is the spirit dimension.  A variety of perspectives exist on what inter-dimensional travel feels like. What is yours?

You may ask, why desire to learn Astral anyway? Maybe you're even thinking it could be dangerous? Consider these 7 incentives which motivate astral travellers:

1) Improve clarity and conscious memory. Who doesn't desire a sharper memory? The more lucid your dreams, the more aware you become in a conscious state and the easier is to access memory. Yet, you must raise consciousness to a certain level in waking life before you will recall dreams or grasp your potential in astral.

2) Influence humans in the physical dimension. No, this isn't an opportunity to pretend you're a ghost, though you might view it that way. People may be motivated to learn astral to interact with people in the physical realm without touching them. People in the physical can't see into the higher dimensions without remembering the capacity of polyvision.

3) Connect with angels, sentient beings & your deepest self. You can send out a request for general assistance to expand on your understanding and experience of astral. You may even connect with a specific guide or spirit for other reasons. Its up to you to invoke beings or spirits you wish to sense and contact. Dream guides are available to those who ask.

4) Meet other humans in astral. Humans like contacting others in astral. This heightens sensitivities. Yet, you and another only engage in meaningful astral exchanges and recall them in physical realms if both of you are aware in astral. One person can be conscious and see another without being able to convey a message. You can see the astral light of a physical body far away, as in check on a loved one.

5) Gain new kinds of spiritual knowledge. The astral plane offers a wealth of information on many subjects. Much of this is available in symbols. You can also learn from other travellers and beings who go there. Decipher what you choose.

6) Travel backward & forward in time. Lots of people are intrigued by time travel as a theory and wonder if its possible. Astral allows you to go backward to relive events that have occurred. These details are recorded in Akashic files. You can also sense possible future events, since details permeate down through dimensions. Yet, action in the physical can change events that were originally foreseen.

7) Contact departed loved ones. It is possible to encounter departed loved ones in astral since their spirit abides in higher dimensions. As your astral skills evolve, you will be able sense the presence of the loved one's personality, or whatever was most recognizable to you about them in the physical world. You can evolve to communicate and be recognized by them through your own traits and sensitivities.

Just so you know, everybody explores astral every night. Yet, they don't always remember experience in dream realms. Astral travel requires discipline and will power to develop the skills for consistent projection and to achieve continuity.

My related ebook, Expand Consciousness Now is already available. Look out for my coming Harness the Energy of Your Dreams ebook to be released on this website. Contribute queries about possible content in this coming dream book.  Contact me about coaching options to deepen understanding of dreams and practices.

Accept what you already know

Analysis of the week on dream submitted from by V.K. of Melbourne, Australia:

Dream: A series of three dreams is connected; In the first dream, my now deceased husband was in the driver’s seat of a car. I was in the backseat right behind the empty passenger seat. It seemed like the car lengthened. I felt as if I was drifting further and further away. In the second dream, I dreamed the warm body of my husband was holding onto me as I slept on my side. I awoke to discover my electric blanket had turned itself on during the night. In the third dream, I stood with my daughter at a crosswalk. The circulation light turned from red to green. We waited. My husband was to meet us. Yet, he never came.

Predominant Feelings: grief, distress, separation, disappointment, faith, comfort

Interpretation:

Consider feelings generated by your body: People in your dreams may represent different parts of yourself. Note their memorable traits and interactions with you. Do they mirror how you view yourself and treat yourself? In particular, identify why you may feel aloof, reassuring or "stand by your man." Physical distancing only seems to occur beyond your control. To allow yourself to feel restless or uneasy doesn’t really solve anything. Note how you “stretch” yourself. Perhaps you’re over-extending? To be the backseat is like putting yourself down and allowing others to take over areas of your life. Why ‘sit back’ and let this happen? Retrace events that may help to explain possible low self-esteem or low confidence. You may have reason to give up dependence on someone or some situation.  Choose to stop 'drifting.' 

Consider the spiritual world: Remind yourself that no matter where your husband’s soul travels, you are connected wherever you are. No reason to worry.  As you move ahead in your life, you keep his hope and memory alive. All this relationship represents triggers nostalgia. Spirits have been known to visit this plane, convey messages, and make their presence known. Even if you’re unsure exactly what sensing his dream presence means, embrace a profound purpose behind it. Unforgettable impressions are meant to reassure you of something beyond what your subconscious mind suggests. The blanket symbol draws attention to positive feelings: warmth, love, security and also protection. It’s up to you to determine whether reconnecting with spirit offers clues to your future, reinforces what you already sense deep inside or, why deceased or spirit guides visit you.

In general, intersections are like crossroads. You need to make choices to progress. Light is shed on a once cloudy situation or problem. You have found the truth to a situation or an answer to your prayers. You may decide to alter your personality or end a certain life phase. Jog your memory about how you felt. To wait for someone who never came, might simply reinforce what you already know. Someone isn't coming back to where you are now.  Peace is born inside you. You may aim to distance yourself from a sense of loneliness. That is also created inside by choice.