So Um I've Been Havin Dreams Options

and like they seem so real and like their future dreams. i believe in some weird stuff which explains this but im not used to prophetic anything so i was wondering if any one has any advice for what to do cuz its starting to move outta control on me and i don't know the first thing about controlling anything, in that typa aspect.

can you tell me symptoms of the "gift of sight", some ex. to "control" it, and what some people WHO REALLY HAVE THE GIFT have done so that i can get a general idea of what im up against
thanx

You make it sound like you're only assuming they are about future occurences - have any of them actually come to pass, or are they just very vivid dreams?

FIrst of all, some necessary things to have on your mind. Having prophetic dreams, does not necessary constitute prophetic ability - this is because just as you can reliably predict some events just based on logic alone, so can your subconscious mind. If you've had some particular situation that you're involved in or that you know about, and there is some kind of logical outcome or pattern to it, it's possible to dream that outcome and then see it come to pass and think - wow, I must have had a prophetic dream.

Example: I dreamed that my grandfather died, three days before it happened. He was, however, very sick with several different types of cancers. My first instinct was to think that I'd had a prophetic dream, but if it had happened in five days instead of three I would have thought the same thing initially - fact of the matter is he was on his way out and I knew this.

Some events that you dream about couldn't be chalked up to logical progression of events - natural disasters, sudden accidental deaths, unexpected windfalls, etc.

Example: I had a dream about a tornado falling on my grandmothers house, while I hid in the basement. It was my childhood home for some time and I lived in the basement. THree days later a tornado hit my mothers house, and dropped a tree through the backyard which busted out the window in my old room - the connections there are obvious.

In either case, if you think you are having prophetic dreams, you should keep a journal. You should keep a dream journal anyway as a general practice - being involved with the occult, your dreams will shed a great deal of light on whatever it is you're trying to accomplish, can let you know how energy is moving around you when a ritual is coming to fruition, give you insight into what sorts of things to focus on when actually doing any kind of magick, and act as the medium through which your higher self, spirit guides, angels you are working with, etc., can communicate to you. Until you have practice analyzing your dreams, applying them to your waking life, and even before all of that recalling them accurately, a lot of that possible communication can be missed.

As far as controlling it, the best that you can really hope for is to know when it is going to happen. Record a short entry in your dream journal before going to bed what you did just prior to sleeping, how you have felt that day, how you feel at the moment you write down this entry, and then follow it up the next morning with your dreams that night. This will slowly start to demonstrate patterns of thinking and feeling in conjunction with the things you dream about. How you feel just before you sleep has a large impact on the nature of your dreams. You may notice over time that you feel a particular way before you have prophetic dreams, and in still more time you can learn to get into this feeling before going to bed to raise the chances that you will have such dreams. Likewise you'll learn how to 'control' what kinds of dreams you have - not lucid dreaming, which is a different practice; but can happen simply as a result of your conscious attention to dreaming.

Similarly to my first point of confusion on your post here, I'm not sure what you mean by 'getting outta control' - you mean that you are plagued somehow by these dream, etc.? If I understand you right, the only thing I can think of to say is don't be a drama queen about it. Maybe they come to pass, maybe they don't, but either way they are just dreams. Maintain a level head throughout this, and all other occult practice and experience. You can't lose objectivity when subjectivity gets out of control on you. You have to balance between the two and when subjective experience gets to be too heavy, switch to objective, and simply observe what's happening and look for evidence of why. There are no short answers in this field of study and practice, regardless of what element of occult or metaphysical you're involved in. It takes time, observation, hypothesizing, testing, and more time.

Hopefully i've given you some ideas to think on, but in the end you have to decide for yourself what you're going to do, how you're going to handle it, and how much effort you're willing to put into getting real answers to replace your assumptions and fears.

peace

This post has been edited by Vagrant Dreamer: Sep 20 2008, 08:46 PM