Dream Interpretation – do you every dream about computers?

Computers represent mental functions, according to Gillian Holloway in The Complete Dream Book. Therefore, the memory has to do with your memory, the hard drive with what’s driving you, the computer screen with perceptions, and the printer with carrying through with your ideas.

She suggests to note your reaction to the situation in your dream because this will help you to know how to deal with whatever situation is challenging you that the computer problem in your dream represents.  

Carol Chapman

May a Christian Believe in Reincarnation?

This is a great article referring to many passages on reincarnation in the Bible and ancient orthodox Jewish writings. The article also says that the resurrection as “the end of death” originally referred to the end of reincarnation:

Reincarnation-also known as the transmigration of souls-is not some exotic idea of non-Christian mysticism. In ancient orthodox Jewish and Christian writings, as well as the Holy Scriptures, we can find reincarnation as a fully developed belief, although today it is commonly ignored.

ATMA JYOTI ASHRAM – May a Christian Believe in Reincarnation?

Edgar Cayce Acid-Alkaline Balanced Diet for Wellness

 I have found the Edgar Cayce suggestion of eating 80 percent alkaline-reacting to 20 percent acid-reacting foods to be quite helpful in my life. I’ve often found that eating oranges or even a couple of leaves of raw kale can help to stop a cold in the offing. Of course, it’s best to use prevention and keep away from too many sweets and starches, which seem to predispose me to a cold.

From a blog from Australia:

“Edgar Cayce indicated that cold and flu germs thrive in an overacid system. What can cause this imbalance? Poor diet, stress, and even negative thinking!

Deal constructively with stressful situations by quieting yourself within and looking for positive solutions. Try not to allow yourself to think negatively! Negative thoughts can impact not only your happiness, but your health as well.

The [physical] solution: Be sure that 80% of your diet comes from alkaline-forming foods, such as all fruits (except cranberries, plums, prunes and strawberries), all vegetables (except lentils and corn), milk, molasses, brown sugar, and brewer’s yeast.”

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I appreciate that she also includes the value of positive thinking and also feeling good. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in the food that I forget how important de-stressing through exercise, socializing, and leisure activities can be.

Carol Chapman

Dream Interpretation: Being Chased

Here’s another dream that many people experience: You’re breathlessly trying to run away from someone or something like an animal that wants to kill you.

Gillian Holloway, PhD, says in The Complete Dream Book, that these dreams are about the situation of being chased, not about the person, animal, or criminal gang that is chasing you. 

Your pursuers represent pressure you’re experiencing that reminds you of a situation you could not avoid in your childhood that gave you feelings of insecurity, fear, or  withdrawal. In other words, you are under some kind of stress that is “pushing your buttons.”

It will help to examine the internal conflict you’re experiencing and to realize that it is largely internal rather than caused by outside circumstances. Then you may feel better and more confident.

Carol Chapman

Dozing Drivers A Problem on U.K. and U.S. Roads

I see that Malcolm Stephenson, in his U.K. blog, has noted that British drivers are falling asleep at the wheel.  

An estimated 2.3 million drivers fall asleep at the wheel every year, according to new research.

Of 1,000 drivers questioned in a joint survey by road safety charity Brake and recovery company
Green Flag, 7% admitted to falling asleep at the wheel.

Malcolm Stephenson

Lately, I’ve seen a number of articles in in U.S. publications on dozing drivers as well. Evidently many single vehicle accidents–when a person drives into a tree or a guardrail–are the result of the driver falling asleep at the wheel.

Carol Chapman

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Soul Mate Predestined According to the Talmud

Because I met my husband first in a dream before I encountered him in waking life I have wondered about soul mates and twin souls.  The dream told me about his home, his dog, his best friend, his work, and showed me how he looked. I was delighted to find this description of a soul mate from the Jewish tradition:

Feeling a divine spark might be what is expected when is one finds their Basherte. Beshert is the Yiddish term for pre-destined. But most people know it in its common usage: A Besherte is the person you are pre-destined to marry via a mandate from Heaven. The Talmud tells us that 40 days before the creation of an embryo, one’s marriage partner is determined. This is taken to mean that everyone has their soul-mate in this world… which is up to them to find and marry.

(From the blog of Harry Maryles at http://haemtza.blogspot.com/)

Mr. Maryles describes the Basherte as an unrealistic expectation of perfection in marriage. I agree that perfection in marriage is an unrealistic expectation even with the “Man of my Dreams.” At first, I did expect he would be a “Knight in Shining Armor” because he had come to my attention as if from the divine. However,  I discovered, that we are very different in our natures and are not a perfect match, except, perhaps, in our very stubborn natures.

We may be souls that were pre-destined to marry before conception. And, there was a sense of recognition when I finally mustered enough courage to approach him. He said that when he was with me, he had a feeling of deja vu.

Part of the divine plan may have been to help us grow spiritually as we worked out our differences, which we have managed to do for 14 years.

Carol Chapman

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Dream Interpretation: Unable to Move

Another common dream, one of those you can’t forget: You’ve got to get away, you’re trying to run, but you’re simply unable to move.

According to Gillian Holloway, Ph.D., author of The Complete Dream Book, a dream in which you unable to move often signifies a situation in your life in which you feel pressured but just can’t take action. For example, you’re very unhappy in a relationship but are afraid of leaving for fear of hurting the other person or you need to assert yourself with an authority figure, perhaps your boss, but feel afraid that if you do so, you’ll lose your job.

She suggests that the way to overcome the dilemma is to find  something you can do that is not as drastic as the action you fear. You need to take some kind of action. Is there something less drastic than, for example, leaving your partner or telling off your boss. Could you instead make some friends outside the relationship? Could you talk with someone you trust about your work situation and ask for advice?

She suggests you compromise with your internal expectations and therefore, discover a way of taking action.

I hope this you’ll find this helpful for the next time you encounter that scary dream that sends you looking for: Dream Interpretation: Unable to Move.

Carol Chapman

By the way, for an interesting story about the power of a dream, you might enjoy my book When We Were Gods. In it I recount how my life totally changed when I dreamt about a stranger and saw him the next day in real life. He ended up being my husband, and we’ve been married for 20 years now. He is literally the “Man of my Dreams.”This dream started a series of circumstances, because after we married, I became pregnant, miscarried, and started gaining weight at a phenomenal rate. I went to a hypnotherapist to lose weight. When she put me in deep hypnosis, I not only connected with previous lifetimes that contributed to my present problems with overweight, but also the fabulous world of Atlantis.

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Dream Interpretation: Naked in Public

This is another common dream in the “Dreams You Can’t Forget” chapter of Gillian Holloway Ph.D.’s The Complete Dream Book. Evidently many people dream, at some time in their life, that they are naked in public. However, although the dreamer feels uncomfortable, no one else in the dreams seems to notice them.

According to Holloway, these dreams likely occur after a change in the circumstances of our life. Often the change is a step up in or an improvement in our lives. We receive a promotion, our business flourishes, the love of a lifetime arrives, we are sought out publicly and honored.

We have this dream because we are adjusting to our new circumstances and feel exposed because we are not yet comfortable with our improved status. However, because no one else notices our nakedness in the dream, we are assured that in time, we too will become comfortable with the change in our life.

Carol Chapman