Hi Mike,
Here is a short clip
Where Dreams Come From where Jesus explains the different types of dreams we have. I find this helpful for myself when it comes to looking at my own dreams when I wake up.
I have dreams sometimes...like even last night...where I interact with "Jesus" but I wake up and realize after feeling for a while that what I am "remembering" as "Jesus" is actually just a way my guides are helping me to connect to the details of that dream
emotionally and to the specific unhealed emotions that were unearthed and exposed through my feelings during my time in that dreamscape and throughout the various experiences I was having there. In last night's dream "Jesus" was a friend (in a much better condition than I was), calming walking with me through many of the scary and confusing labyrinths of my nightmarish world. But, his "presence" in the "memory" of that dream feels different to me than when I have been with Jesus and Mary in the past in sessions in the sleep state where they are teaching a group I am with or occasionally teaching me something personal to me. In those cases, it feels much more like a real sleep state interaction with their soul.
It is subtle at this stage, deciphering the differences...but it seems to about whether or not the specific details and nature of the particular dream itself that I am remembering is an attempt by my soul, along with my guides, to get me to feel something or to tend to emotions I am ignoring and not fully processing in my wake state. By associating certain people or specific details with the dream, I will have a better chance of remembering it
emotionally as I think of those people or circumstances after awaking up and arriving back in this world.
Like in remembering my dream from last night, where I am in places and experiences that are much more full on when it comes to provoking my terror and confusion about certain things that I, in my awake state, can control exposure to, I can (vaguely at this stage) feel the truth of my real soul condition much more honestly in those first moments when I wake up...and if I can connect to those feelings (regardless of the details themselves...but only what the details provoke feeling-wise) I can benefit more and more from what I am doing while I am asleep and work with my dreams more on a continuum along with my awake life.
So, in the case of my dream, I can feel still this morning how confused I am at the sight of his stillness in the same world that I was terrified, hopeless and lost inside of. It was almost like we were in different worlds even though we were in the same physical places with the same people. And that helps me to see that it will benefit me to keep learning God's Truth about my family history and my right to a safe life and that, even though these people in my dreams are scary to me and have alot of injuries in them too, that it is possible to get into a different condition myself regardless of where they are. That is what having "Jesus" by my side felt like...and that is why I "remembered" my dreams as him having been there. It's like our dreams are transcribed to us in a way that our mind can use to associate the emotions contained in the dreams to us so we can recall the feelings provoked within those particular dream type experiences.
In this particular case, it could easily have been a different guide with me there who I would not recognize if I had remembered him, so I remembered him as being Jesus because the emotions are the same...but remembering him as Jesus helps me to use that dream to grow further in my awake state in continuation of that sleep state experience.
So, what is helping me to better understand and benefit and work more with my dreams is to linger there with the emotions that I am in when I first wake up and as I look toward those dreams. For example, am I feeling the truth about the real size of the terror still in my soul? Was I able to feel my emotions more there in that dream than I do in the environments I am in in my waking world? A world I have built in ways that "protect me" and keep me from connecting to those intense feelings? What are the different feelings stirring in me when I wake up? Why am I back there in grandmother's house? Why am I wandering around a confusing and scary world with "Jesus" by my side? What feels different about those places when "he" is "there" with me?
Here's one more clip on
Dreams, Reality and Night Terrors with a bit more on processing emotions in our sleep state.
Cheers,
Maureen