A Faraway View: a blog about dreams: Inception

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Inception #atozchallenge

Inception (2010) is one of the ultimate dream movies. The film is about dreams and dream researchers and nearly all of action takes place in dreams. Many of the dream sequences are very effective because they so realistically present dream scenarios. The theories presented about dreaming are also very credible and probably based on actual dream research.

For the sake of coherence and continuity there is a story that is easy to follow. The story may still be confusing to some viewers, but the basic action makes sense unlike most of our dreams. In the end we are left to wonder what is real and what is a dream. If you're interested in dreams and have never seen Inception, this film might be well worth your time.

Have you seen Inception? Should dreams in a movie have a ongoing interconnecting story that is essentially logical? Do you think it may one day be possible to enter and influence the dreams of another person?

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Shared Dreams and Telepathy

telepathy (Photo credit: jox.)

In our previous post our guest Stephen T McCarthy related a fascinating dream experience that seemed to involve telepathic communication between him and a friend in another city. This story would suggest telepathy or perhaps even messaging from a supernatural source. It seems highly unlikely that this was just something that happened out of the blue.

Shared dreaming or communication among dreamers or between a dreamer and someone else is a theme that has been explored in movies as diverse as Inception, the Freddy Krueger films, Dreamscape, and many others. These dream concepts have fired the imaginations of the authors of fiction as much as practitioners of true and pseudo scientific dream research.

Many people have given accounts of telepathic and shared dream experiences, including some of those who commented on Stephen T McCarthy's post. Evidence suggests that there may be real substance to these dream communications.

We'll save dream messages from those who have passed, spirits, and God for another post. In this current post I would like to only think about dream communication between individuals whether both are sleeping, one sleeps while one is awake, dreamers in the same room, and dreamers in different locales.

After I had entered my twenties, my father became more spiritual than he had ever been before. My sister who is a year younger than I and I had moved away from home. She was living on one side of town and I was living with some friends in the mountains about fifteen miles from my parents.

One night I was experiencing a very deep traumatic depressive state that caused me to think strong suicidal thoughts. Fortunately I did not follow through in any way, but the thoughts were powerful. The next day my worried mother drove up to check on me (we did not have a phone in our cabin). She told me that during the night my father had dreamed that I was in trouble. Had he heard my anguish in his dream or was it a divine message? I do not know, but I was very impacted by this.

On another occasion my father awoke from a similar dream concerning my sister. He and my mother got up in the wee hours and drove to my sister's house. I don't recall what the exact problem was, but I do recall that it was serious enough to warrant attention that night. After I was told the story days later I was once again amazed by this uncanny ability my father had acquired. It was an ability that he demonstrated on other times in later years according to my mother.

I never asked my father about any of this and I haven't discussed it with my mother since her initial recountings of the stories. I can't determine exactly what the communication was, but it caught my attention and has been something for me to wonder about.

I cannot recall ever having personally experienced dream sharing or telepathy that I could verify, but I have had many instances where I suspected it could have been a possibility. There have been dreams in which my connection with a dream character was so vivid and palpable that I had an acute sense that a communication was occurring. I only wish I had been able or made a better effort to see if this had occurred.

In fact, since having started blogging, I have had several occasions where I have dreamed of other bloggers--people I have never met. The dreams seemed very real and the characters seemed very credible. I wonder. Have any of you ever dreamed of me? Perhaps we have had a telepathic dream experience.

Have you ever shared the same dream simultaneously with someone else? Have you ever inexplicably dreamed about the same topic as someone else at about the same time? Do you have any telepathic or shared dream stories to tell?

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Can Telepathic Communication Occur in Dreams?

Cover of Inception

In my last post a discussion began in the comments about the phenomena of simultaneous or shared dreams and dream telepathy. Since these are topics that I have often pondered and have been portrayed in various movies such as Inception (2010), I thought we might consider the idea of telepathy in dreams. Next week we'll look at the idea of shared dreaming a bit more, but today I've invited the blogger who opened up this topic in last week's comment discussion. Stephen T. McCarthy is my earliest blogging friend and can be found at Ferret-Faced Fascist Friends.

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My bloggin’ buddy Arlee Bird has invited me to tell this story here on his dreamy blog, so here goes . . .

Near Easter Day in 1996, my Pa passed away and shortly afterwards I helped my Ma sell her house. She bought a smaller one here in Phoenix and I moved in with her. I was spiritually fired up then, meditating regularly and recording what I learned in my meditation sessions and in my dreams.

Below are my meditation notes of Nov. 1, 1995. (Remember this, doggone it, you’ll need it later!)

Meditation - 11/1/‘95

God is the composer and the conductor of the song. We are individual members of His choir. As we sing in harmony with the other members of God’s choir we are able to bring into manifestation the greatest music ever written. As we sing what God has composed and arranged, we actually become His music. The song is in us and comes through us, and it is His gift to us that we are made capable of displaying and sharing in His glory and creation. We are The Lord’s music made audible.

God’s singers are many, but His choir is One.

I strive to sing my part in God’s music.

I focus not on the singers, but rather on the choir. It’s not the singers in God’s golden choir that I see, but the golden choir of God within the singers.

And now here are the notes from my Dream Journal:

Dream - March 30, 1998

One day last week (Tues., Wed. or Thurs.) I was skimming over some of my past dream and meditation notes, and in so doing happened to read a couple of lines from my meditation notes of Nov. 1, 1995. Leaving my bedroom I went into the kitchen where Ma was cooking and I just blurted out, “I am a singer in God’s choir!” And knowing how loony I can sometimes be, Ma just kind of rolled her eyes at me. Nothing else was said between us.

I got a call from Mark D. in Los Angeles and he told me about an astounding dream he had last week, either Tues., Wed. or Thurs. He dreamed that he walked into some kind of massive cathedral-like structure. He knew it was a house of God even though it had no religious icons. It had no roof and it contained segmented boxed areas that reached up almost as high as the eye could see, to a bright light above.

Each of these sections contained a different group of people worshipping God. Each group was dressed in different colored robes; all the colors of the rainbow were represented and there was a mass of people observing and shouting from the floor in a loud and ecstatic manner while the people in the sections were singing praises to God.

Different races were represented in the various sections, and as one section would sing a verse from the song and conclude, another section would then pick right up where the other left off, and in this manner each section sang their praises and gratitude to God, much like fans will do “the wave” in a ballpark.

There was some sort of organized structure to the singing and the song, and yet the song was not so much lyrics but tones and sounds. The place was just wild with joy! And some of the people standing on the floor were just observing while others were shouting and joining in while not exactly a part of the “organization” of the singers in the sections.

The sections reached so high that those singers in them appeared as mere specks to Mark standing down below. Mark said he moved into the group more, and he said that he was just overwhelmed by a sense of being “home”. He said that although he did not think of this as being the “end” of it all (the ultimate Heaven), he knew that this was where he really wanted to be. He said it was filled with this feeling of comfort.

Mark looked around him and up into the bleachers and thought, “Yeah, these people believe what I believe in.” He was very happy to be there and described it as, without question, a very spiritual experience. And then he was following with his eyes each section as it took up its portion of the song.

The song passed to a section midway up there and he saw me mixed in with that group of people. In the cathedral, I was the only person he knew, and he thought, “Wow! That’s Stephen up there. What’s he doing here?” And as he looked at me, our eyes met and I saw him and smiled at him in recognition. Mark smiled back and waved to me. He wanted to shout up to me but he said he knew it would be pointless because I was too high in the bleachers to hear him. Mark said I looked very happy and content. One thing that surprised him so much upon seeing me there was that I, who am usually so reserved and quiet, was mixed in and participating in this really wild, Southern Baptist-like celebration.

Mark said that this dream was so powerful and “real” that he felt he just had to call me right away and tell me about it. He knew he had written my phone number a long time ago on a yellow legal pad but he wasn’t able to find it. But then, a couple days later, after he had stopped looking for it, he just happened to stumble on it underneath a pile of papers, and so he called me.

Mark seems to have been getting more and more religious (Catholic) with the last few years, and I told him this dream is extremely significant for him. I feel it is some sort of calling from God Himself. I know it has tremendous meaning for Mark and he really needs to go within and find out what he is being told to do.

And for me it is far more encouraging than I could possibly explain; it has made me so hopeful. For just as Mark obviously tapped into my thoughts, it verifies for me that there is some real truth to my thoughts and at least SOME of my meditation visions and messages. Despite my many failings, I know I really am on the right track; my efforts have not been for nothing. And it seems I’m not just fooling myself – I really am in God’s choir. My heart is just overflowing now with hope and confidence in The Lord. “Things” really seem to be happening fast now – there IS a quickening taking place!!!

[*Incidentally, the “Mark D.” referred to in these notes is the same “Mark D.” interviewed in this video: ‘Alpha Dad Takes Down Depraved L.A. Cop’]

Thursday, April 10, 2014

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