I had one specific experience that prompted me to join this website. I am hoping somebody out there has some input or a similar experience they can share with me.
Here goes..
I had a very powerful dream, that had many layers like the movie "Inception".
In my dream I started out drinking (I am 5 months sober, but used to have a problem) I get in my car and try to drive home...I black out and wake up walking down a city street in the hard rain looking for shelter.
I find many churches all lit up and I have this sense that I can go to anyone of these and be welcomed in with open arms. So I go to one and motion through the glass door to the people inside I need to come in for the night.
They let me in and are very nice. I spend a few days with these friends and they are great. They have all the love of a church, but with none of the rules that never made sense to me. Very free and loving people.
A few days pass and I start kissing one of the girls from there. Woo hoo
Then I see a friend of mine, she is like a Goddess. She tells me "this is like your heaven" and I say that it must be my heaven because she is there ;)
She lights up and smiles. She tells me that I have to wake myself up. That my friends can't do it for me. She tells me I had a car crash and I've been here for three days...
This is all a bit shocking...
Soon I take it all in and realize I have to wake myself up. So I try to do just that. Lo and behold it works and I'm laying in the mud on a river bank. It's raining. But I woke up and was thinking it had all just been a dream. I look behind me and see a bunch of old friends and I give them hugs... So after that I wake up again.
At this point I'm just like "Wow...I just inception dreamed!~"
But then...
In my true awake state I see a white figure with shoulder length hair approach the left side of my bed.
about 5 feet tall. They startle me and I kick in their direction and the figure disappears....
I remember in the dream that I was in heaven for 3 days...
So I gave myself 3 days to process what had happened. It was really shocking.
I didn't even have words to describe it all the first day. Just knew that I had a very profound and moving and startling experience to say the least.
That's about it.
Does anybody know what that figure was?
or and idea what this is all about?
OM
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I believe it to be a guide of some type. Sounds like your mind is still in the process of healing from the drinking. Some of the mental processes I believe are slowed w/drugs and drink. Sometimes this creates a confused & unclear screen through which normal dream images would move easily. This is a price the drinker pays, unfortunately. I hope you are able to stay free from this thing. It's not really worth it. And other people are never quite able to understand (most people anyway).
I never seen the movie inception but, now I want to :))
This sounds pretty amazing. This may have been a true experience of yours and it was such a traumatic event that you are now starting to remember pieces of it.
..according to Toltec shamanic worldview, there are 7 stages in Dreaming.. they call it the 7 Gates of Dreaming..
u have reached the 2nd Gate, in this dream..
"In the 2nd gate u find yourself wake up in the dream into yet another dream. This task builds the ability to change dreams at will."
-from "The Art of Dreaming" by Carlos Castaneda
http://www.maya12-21-2012.com/2009/03/seven-gates-of-dreaming.html