Are Dreams Just Dreams? (Dream Stories #2) – Ep. 109

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[00:00:06] Enjoy the show. when I was in the second grade. I had a dream about a neighborhood in my area that I had always ridden by on my way to school, but had never entered. In the dream, I walked into the neighborhood and then to a certain apartment building. The dream had a blue a weird feeling of deja vu, and kept asking my mom if we had been there before. She kept saying no until she got annoyed and told me to be quiet.

[00:03:00] We pulled up to his building, to dogs, and my mom has a really bad reaction if she pets them or is even around them. I remember thinking, that's weird. So what was that dream about anyway?

[00:04:21] I guess to warn me about my friend and his mom's intense allergies?

[00:05:27] and being devastated. I woke up in the middle of the night, just sobbing and being so afraid that my cousin Tyler had died in real life. I went to check my phone, and there were no

[00:05:33] messages, no calls, nothing. I finally calmed down and fell back asleep.

[00:05:41] The next day I went to work, and at one that caused him to swerve off the road, hitting a tree. They had to be going so fast because the car split in half, separating the front seat from prayer or good energy? All I know now is that if I have a dream like that or similar,'s all thanks to therapy. If you're thinking of starting therapy, give BetterHelp a try. It's entirely online, designed to be convenient, flexible, and suited to your schedule. Just fill out a brief questionnaire to get matched with a licensed therapist and switch therapists anytime for no additional charge. Celebrate the progress that you've already made.

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[00:09:45] to get 10% off your first month. now, and I've always wanted to submit something, and was sad that I couldn't think of anything that would fit the general theme. That was until I heard a story submitted about someone's dreams, and I realized I had a treasure trove of both my own and families. Each of my family members have different tendencies with their dreams, such of my dreams, and most of the time, I am someone else. I have been people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, or even watched from a third-person perspective. I typically repeat the dream once or twice as a different person or sometimes the same,

[00:12:20] but make different decisions.

[00:12:23] Most of the time, I recognize I'm about, if I ask for more information. When this happens, I always take the advice seriously, and these moments, it feels different. It's hard to explain, but it feels like the real world, not a dream. The last time that this my boyfriend as soon as I did, and he was also clearly having a nightmare. He had the same exact dream, except he was behind the creature, yelling to me, warning me. We've had several dreams about the same problems

[00:15:00] facing different people that we know. I always also a huge hedge maze with sectioned off rooms for groups of graves. There are chained up old bones to the ground. We eventually find an area deep in the maze that is empty.

[00:16:22] We set up our little orange tent and have dinner.

[00:16:26] Everything is lovely until we wake in our sleep successfully grabbing my brother. Now I always wake up soon after. I have no idea what the meaning behind this dream could be, but it always leaves an impression on me. I'd love to hear others' opinions on it. The last dream I'd like to mention before this gets too long, hardly even felt like a dream. It was my first and only dream of only sound.

[00:17:44] It's the second scariest dream I've I hope that I never the only one there. I remember waking up with the strangest of feelings, at around one or one-thirty in the morning on 9-11. I had got to work, and I will never forget what she said to me. It's happening. Oh my God, your dream. It's happening. I remember freezing in place with the old landline phone in my ear.

[00:21:40] I can't remember what I said or begin with. Your thoughts are appreciated. with them online. Once you find the doctor you want, you can book them immediately. No more waiting awkwardly on hold with a receptionist. And these doctors all have verified reviews from actual, real patients. You can filter specifically for ones who take your insurance, are located near you, and treat basically any condition you're searching for.

[00:25:31] Dreams or Did I Die by Missa? Four years ago, at the time of this dream, I lost my younger cousin.

[00:25:36] It was sudden and completely unexpected.

[00:25:39] He was 27 but had a much younger mentality.

[00:25:44] We were close, more like a brother and a little backstory on me, I had only recently found out I was type 1 diabetic, and I'm being treated with insulin. I fell asleep one night, and I found myself dreaming such a beautiful dream.

[00:27:04] For the first time since my cousin died, I felt't be here. It's not your time. Isabella needs you. You have to go back. Isabella is my daughter. He kept shoving me. And suddenly I felt cold. I could feel the pressure my relationship with my father. He and I were always close. I always thought he was the most amazing person. My mother hid everything that was bad about him from me, until the day she couldn't,

[00:29:45] until the day that he should be living right now. He has too much alcohol in his system. The point of that is to explain that our relationship was full of ups and downs.

[00:31:02] During my childhood when he was living with my mother, however, I was naive and thought

[00:31:07] he walked on water. tell me that my father had passed away. I remember trying to call him and having to leave a message on his cell phone, which I later found out he saved. I assume he was too embarrassed to talk, given his state. He had died alone in his car, homeless and cold. This hurt me in a way I cannot begin to express. I don't recall a lot of details of the dreams, but what I do remember was that it felt so different than other dreams. I've never dreamt about any my eyes, and looming above me was a dark entity. The surface of the creature was moving and fuzzy, like it was made up of static or smoke. It was dark in both color and presence, humanoid,

[00:35:03] with stretched out proportions that weren't quite Then it was gone. I had the distinct feeling that I had made the right move and it realized it wasn't

[00:36:23] going to get a fear spirit attached to me, but as a curious person, So I surprised my entire family, saw another friend of mine. I hadn't seen in nearly 20 years. And of course, seeing you is always a treat. Yeah, I'm really happy you made it out. Let's see. What did we do? We finally got to get a margarita at that restaurant and play some pool.

[00:39:00] And I'm still looking forward to making my way out to Utah when it gets a little warmer. Yeah, same for the most part, but for my actual measurable goals, I started a couple months ago actually, but it's basically just to read every day, no matter what, for at least an hour, no more excuses. And journaling before bed, even if it's just a couple of sentences, I finished a few books

[00:40:22] on stoicism that kind of blew my mind and wished I had picked up a little bit earlier a book called Dreaming the Soul Back Home by Robert Moss. I'm going to say the fifth dream book that I started last year. It's about shamanic dreaming and dream healing. It was really cool to get a submission this week from a Native American who has a history of dream work in their family and culture.

[00:41:41] One cool thing that I've learned about from the book so far is this technique called soul retrieval.

[00:41:46] Ooh, I'm intrigued. in my beliefs that we're traversing different realms or realities. I just think that there's far more to it than just our brains working things out, so to speak, or putting on a show. You know what I mean? Yeah, I'm inclined to think it's something in between. Our subconscious me to this place. And in this one, we get a new puppy. He's super cute and really tiny, like super tiny. And for some reason, he's aquatic. Like he likes to be in the water and can live in the water. And I look down and the apartment is flooded

[00:44:21] up to about three inches of water.

[00:44:23] And this is so that the little puppy can survive.

[00:44:26] Then there's a killer well But the kicker is I was on house arrest and got revived as soon as I was pronounced dead. I remember thinking every week, here we go again because this group of people would show up to my house dressed like medieval executioners They'd hang me and I'd wake up inside a dungeon with some plague doctor who brought me back to life. Whoa