From time immemorial dreams have been regarded with an interest transcending mere superstition. Their cause and their meaning have been the subject of study and investigation by learned men throughout the ages. The many reference to records concerning dreams which turned out to be “events casting their shadows before them” can leave little doubt as to the importance of dreams is history.
What are dreams? Well, through the past centuries, dreams were defined as “state of consciousness occurring during sleep.” We inherited this paradoxical definition before the rise of physics; but since the mid-nineteenth century a great deal of scientific research has been done to try to establish more clearly the nature of dreams.
Dreaming certainly belongs to our most intimate experiences. Generally during waking hours, our reaction to our experiences is mainly emotional because dreams are a concentrating agent for our various subjective motives. They also constitute an interrelationship between the now, the past, and the future of human experience. In our dream we create a world where space and time have no limiting power. Dreams help us to inspect those hidden depths of our existence which are mostly beyond our reach during our waking hours. A dream can warn us from within with the voice of a watchman stationed at the central observatory of our spiritual life. And our dream can also warn us of the dangerous steps we have already taken.
The ancient Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, and others did a great deal to disseminate the dreams lore of their times. And today, almost two thousand years and mountains of research later, it is still true that nothing is either impossible or ridiculous in a dream; because a dream can be linked to a very private script, written, produced, and directed by the dreamer. Sometimes the dreamer takes the leading role, but in all cases he or she is the only audience, and each time he or she falls asleep, there is an opening of a new show, because everybody dreams-every night! At this point you may be saying, “I don’t; may be other people, but not me!” This may seem to be a reasonable reaction, since even those who know they dream may claim to remember times when supposedly they did not.
But reasonable or not, the reaction must be completely discounted. According to extensive scientific research, and countless learned institutions all over the world, it has been conclusively proved that everybody dreams every night. Furthermore, these scientific studies found that you have a minimum of three dreams a night, but you can have as many as nine. It has also been established that children as young as eight months dream, that people of very low IQ dream no less than those of very high IQ.
You may be among the small minority who remember most of your dreams in vivid details; or you may belong to the large majority who remember only vague parts of your dream, or you may be one of the sizable group who forgets everything. But no matter what you or don’t remember about your dream, and regardless of who you are, it is certain that you do dream. Dreaming is a natural process like breathing, and there is no way, except for the right combination of drugs, or overindulgence in alcohol, that you can prevent it.
However, Temple of Destiny, believes that dreams can often be used to expose problems that we may refuse to recognize consciously and by so doing can lead to positive and corrective action. Our current avenues of investigation now show that certain types of dreams nor classified as “clairvoyant,” “pre-cognitive,” or “retro-cognitive” are locked into one’s genetic coding through the experiences or emotions of one’s ancestors.