I have always been a light sleeper.
I also have incredibly vivid dreams and nightmares. Occasionally I take something to
sleep although I try to stay away from doing this in case my spirit guides try to contact
me through my sleep. Do I wake up in the middle of the night in a sweat and stay awake
so I can try to figure them out or do I allow myself to take something so that I can fall
back asleep and be rested for my daytime job? I’m constantly at odds with myself!
Do you ever dream about family or friends that are deceased?
Have you ever felt that these were actually visits from loved ones? I remember a dream
I had about both my sets of Grandparents who are all in the spirit world. I dreamed that
we were all out to dinner together at a restaurant, sitting at a long table. It was so
wonderful because we were celebrating some sort of occasion and it was the fact that I
was there! Going out to dinner when they were alive was always a fun and special treat.
I remember hugging and telling them how much I missed them and thinking that this is
just like old times! Now this would seem like just a regular dream, maybe a memory.
What made this dream different was that other people who are in the spirit world were
also there! My grandparents’ best friends that I adored when I was a little girl were there
with us. They went to our church so I saw them often. I hadn’t thought of this couple in
like 20 years because they had both been gone for so long. I knew this dream was a
special visit because they were all there and they were all so happy to see me.
Have you ever awoke from a dream because someone whispered something in
your ear?
Oh my goodness, this has happened many, many times to me. It is one of those things
that makes you sit bolt upright from a dead sleep! I’ve pretty much noticed this my
whole life and when I was younger I felt like it was usually just someone saying my
name. Weird. Like your Mom calling your name to wake you up but she’s not there!
Once I was sleeping in the bedroom in the basement of my home and I heard
someone whisper in my ear, “Someone’s trying to break into your house”!
I sat up and thought, what the heck was that? I got up, went upstairs even though I just
wanted to crawl under my covers and hide! I turned all the lights on in the house, took
my blanket and pillow and slept on the couch. I got up in the morning and was getting
ready for work and I opened a small window in my office and noticed something strange
and I noticed that the screen in the window was gone! Panic overcame me and I
realized that even though that was a small window, I had actually left it unlocked
overnight. I looked out the window and the screen was bent up and lying on the ground.
Under the window was my HVAC unit and it had a footprint on it. I called the police and
they said it was lucky I woke up and I probably scared off a possible intruder by turning
all the lights on. Wow. I was really freaked out by this. I immediately thanked my
Guardian Angels for looking out for me.
Dream Visits
I have a friend from high school that passed away suddenly when we were in our 20’s. I
recently gave his sister a spirit reading. Now I have had dreams about this friend ever
since he passed and I would say they happen once or twice a year. I always feel like
they are visitation dreams. The night before her reading I had a conversation with him in
my mind and told him how excited I was to communicate with him the next night and
give his sister his messages.
The next day I told my friend that I had a dream visit from her brother that night before
and that in my dream he was hanging out with a woman who had long dark hair that I
didn’t know. The woman was actually the one speaking to me in the dream. She told her
sister later what I had said and the sister forwarded an email from another of his friends
who lives out of state. She has had dream visits from him over the years, too. In her
email she had told about a dream she’d had a few nights before and also mentioned an
unfamiliar woman with long, dark hair. Wow.
Setting Intentions
I’ve learned that there is much to be said about setting intentions in your mind and
surrounding yourself with beautiful, white, healing light. I am fascinated by crystals and
their energy properties and I keep amethyst under my pillow because it helps with
insomnia and dreams and is an overall wonderful stone to own. I keep 4 large sticks of
Selenite under my bed to bring white light to me and chase away negative energy in
addition to a beautiful selenite lamp. I also diffuse oils at night to help with relaxation. I
have several favorites but mostly lavender is the main ingredient. I have a Himalayan
Salt Lamp and these help create a calm atmosphere among their many benefits. If I
have a series of bad dreams then I’ll perform a smudging ritual to rid my room of
negative energy, and I find that the next few nights my dreams are more pleasant.
However I think one of the most important things that has enlightened me about my
spiritual learning is that I can say prayers of protection and feel so much better. When I
was very young I remember my great-grandmother helping me to sleep one night and
she taught me a prayer to say at night and told me that my guardian angels would
watch over me as I slept. For years I would look up at the wall above my bed and thank
my angels for watching over me.
What Do You Dream About?
Do you have recurring dreams where you dream about the same thing over a long
period of time? Do you work out your problems in your sleep? Do you dream about
something that you just watched on TV? Do you dream about someone and then you
run into them the next day? Do you have dream visits? Or do you just have plain
nightmares or crazy dreams that make no sense? Try keeping a dream journal to help
you figure it out! Keep it near your bed and write it down immediately when you wake
up.
