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Sometimes there are spiritual meanings to dreams, though not all the time. The proposition that dreams can have spiritual meanings is generally accepted, and it’s been true in many cultures and recorded in the Bible, other spiritual books, and by anthropologists and archeologists. Fiction parallels the truth. If it doesn’t, the stories don’t seem believable.…
When it looks like you might have to suffer a night of little sleep, it helps to have a trick to help you fall asleep in your bag. One useful and flexible—and even enjoyable—technique is the fake scenario. Why does it work? Because where the mind goes, the body follows. What is a fake scenario?…
The one-subject dream is quick, a statement from you to your subconscious. Compared to a full-length novel, it’s a short poem. Compared to a symphony, it’s a 30-second-long ditty. Or compare it to one of those 30-second emotional TV commercials that play during the Super Bowl. A multi-season series it’s not. It’s an expression like…
“If you build it, he will come.” So goes a memorable line from 1989’s The Field of Dreams, a classic sports fantasy movie. The same could be said for establishing a notebook and keeping it by your bedside to use as a dream journal. You might think you’ll have difficulty filling it with dreams, but…
You’re taking a fresh look at an old dream in your dream journal. Sometimes dreams make more sense days, weeks, months, or even years later than they do the morning after. When it ruminates in your mind, deeper meanings come clear. Or even if you don’t think about the old dream again after you write…
Continued from: What Nobody Will Tell You About Your Guardian Angel (part 1) Most Americans believe in angels. According to a Harris Interactive poll from 2009, the number was over 7 in ten. That’s an older poll, but there’s no reason to think that today’s number is any less than the majority. If you’re in…
I’m no psychic. I’m not a medium either, nothing at all like that. Some people apparently have that talent—I don’t. Yet, I’ve had some of the experiences from time to time. Anecdotally, it seems to be fairly common. Many people do. I’ll tell you a true story that happened to me. It might help you…
Reviewing information is an essential part of learning. Do you want to learn all you can from your dreams? Introduce your conscious mind to the concerns of your subconscious. Using a format to record and understand your dreams every morning is wise—the format helps you to remember to do that. The 225 man The point…
Sleep music continues to grow in popularity and availability. There are channels on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and a new one on SiriusXM this month. Why wouldn’t sleep music become popular? It’s an easy, drug-free solution to sleeping difficulties. Whichever service you listen to, you’ll want to choose a source that’s not interrupted…
If only the mind came with an off switch. If it did, you could flip it and shut off a racing mind when you needed to sleep. With a switch, you could stop overthinking right in its tracks, right away. The switch couldn’t affect your brain, however. That would be a disaster. You need your…
The American dream is 246 years old today. Sure, people in what is the United States had dreams for their future before we declared independence, but those should have been called colonial dreams. After Independence Day, July 4, 1776, we started having American dreams. What is the American dream? There are many definitions of the American…
Since the human body makes it for itself, everyone should always have enough vitamin D. Reaching a level of 20-50 ng/ml shouldn’t ever be a problem. Yet sometimes it is. When you don’t have enough of that particular vitamin, you get profoundly tired. It doesn’t even matter if you’ve slept enough hours. When the sun…
You see a series of three numbers repeating: 333, 222, or 666. Does it mean something? Or is it simply a coincidence? Some think it means something. They call such numerical series “angel numbers.” They assign such a series of three or four a sacred or spiritual significance. One idea is your guardian angel is…