Dream visits to the other side? Help please.

[YellowLioness]

[color=brown][/color] I had a series of strange (dreams?) happen about a week or so ago, and I'd just like some random input.

 

I had a dream that I woke up (strange? ) in this very dark room, in a house that was kind of a mix between my grandmother's house and my boyfriend's mother's house. It is a rancher style type of house. Anyway, I was dressed in a white night gown, in an all white room. Even the bed was white. I was trying to find W, my boyfriend. For some reason, I knew he was past the living room and on the first door to the left down this huge dark hall way covered with rooms. (I'm not sure HOW I knew where he was). So, I remember sort of floating off this bed, through the bedroom door and through the living room which was scattered with my old toys from childhood, and had this old couch that my grandma used to have. I remember being scared, and thinking that I had to get to W because he was surrounded by this darkness. Again, since he was in another room, I don't know how I knew this. About half way to the hall, before I could open his door, I was physically woken up by all of these feathery touches on the left side of my body (I sleep on my right side). I woke up panicking, but I was so terrified that I was unable to scream or even move. The feathery touches continued until I was fully awake. I took off out of the bed to P ( My boyfriends mum) and started freaking out. We ascertained that it was not the cat (he was outside) or the dog (she was also outside). I went back to bed after this and nothing strange happened for the rest of the night.

The next day, I drove to W's college to make sure that he was alright. His grandmother called to make sure that we were o.k. from her home in northern Cali. She said that at midnight her time, three a.m. my time, that she was really freaked out and very worried about me. She said that she had this horrible feeling that something was trying to come through me to get to W.

She had no idea that I'd even had the dream, as she lives so far away and contact is very limited.

Anyway, any thoughts on this would be great. I've started praying more, and trying to delve into any spiritual causes for this. W and I thought it may have been an angel or at least a good spirit making sure that I didn't get into any trouble in the dream world.

 

Thanks,

Yellow

[neptoon]

I've learned that white is a very symbolic color in dreams ... it sort of acts as a pointer for me...things to pay close attention to and I seem to retain all information around details in the dream that are associated with white.

 

Common dreams I have are of women and children with white hair. They are not necessarily old but each time, in the dream, those who have white hair -- their faces transform into something very awful. Another common theme in a few of my dreams now...eyes without pupils -- eyes that are all white. Another time, a white fish appeared in my dreams. I had not noticed it for a long time until I started keeping a dream journal and began noticing the recurring pattern with anything white. The recurring themes with white have been going on for two years now.

 

Anything white in my dreams always seem to do really crazy things. I began wondering if I had a brain tumor or if it was my body trying to tell me somehow that there was something wrong with me.

 

The feathery sensation you felt when you woke up -- those are sensory dreams, I think. When you dream, there are chemicals at work in your body. Since your brain is dreaming and your brain is connected to your CNS (central nervous system), that also oversees your sensory receptors, any sensation you dream will feel very real. There is communication between your brain and your sensory receptors at all times. Messages between your brain and your skin are transmitted through neurochemicals. When you dream, the brain is doing brain dumps and transmitting chemicals to and from your sensory receptors.

 

When you wake up, do not trust everything you see, hear, smell, taste or feel for three minutes. Even though you've woken up, the wake-up chemical that your brain sends out may not have had a chance to disperse throughout your whole body yet. A part of you may still be dreaming. It's similar to the scientific explanation for sleep paralysis.

 

If you see, hear, smell, taste or feel anything very unusual, DO NOT DO ANYTHING RASH within the first 3 minutes of when you wake up and do not panic. Close your eyes for a few seconds and verbally count to 10. Closing your eyes will reset your visual receptors from the dream mode. Forcing yourself to perform a function with your brain (like recalling the numbers 1 through 10 and having to speak them) should reset most of your receptors. I've seen, heard, smelled and felt some VERY VERY strange things in the first 3 minutes of waking. One time, I felt a wet mouth sucking on my big toe. Another time, I heard what sounded like big, vicious dogs (I have no dogs in the house) pounding at my bedroom door and I closed my eyes and counted to 10 and everything stopped. I've had sleep paralysis before and forcing yourself to utter something very small helps you to wake up.

[YellowLioness]

Hey Neptune, thanks for the scientific side of things. It's so easy to sit and think that something may be a ghostly or spiritual that the scientific possibilities may be forgotten in the panic. Yeah, the white room and everything was really odd. When I dream that I am asleep (or wake up while still actually in a dream) I have all kinds of strange things happen to me. I hear voices saying, "You are the conduit," or, "Wake up! It's bad, bad, bad"

Maybe I am schitzoid. I do not know. lol.

Anyway, thank you for the solidly scientific approach.

 

Yellow. :-)

[YellowLioness]

Whoops! sorry about your name, neptoon :-)