Mining the Dreamscape

It is a strange feeling when your dreams turn out later to be premonitions of the future. It sometimes makes you want to not fall asleep. I find that more often than not, I am having dreams of this sort. I trace it back to when I started my daily meditation practice. I guess it may seem cool to some, “oh you can tell the future, you can predict happenings.” I cannot tell the future. I cannot predict anything. I do not decide what I dream about and I would be a false prophet if I lead you to believe otherwise.

I have always been a dreamer, even if I take a half-hour nap in the middle of the afternoon, I enter the dreamscape. I decided some time ago to start a dream journal, attempting to record the dreams that I remember, those that were most vivid and seemingly held some meaning. My journal is almost full.


The literature speaks of dreaming serving as a warning or as reassurance. Some even believe that we time travel in our dreams either into the past or the future. Others see dreams as communication with our Higher Selves and spirit guides either assuring us that we are on the right path or warning us to course correct. The times when we dream about our friends and families or events, I think they serve to allow us to offer advice and comfort when needed.

For example, recently, before a sick relative died, I had a dream of him smiling and waving goodbye to me. I asked him where he was going, he did not answer but the grin on his face made me realize it had to be someplace good. When he died about three months later, I was able to offer comfort to my family, reassuring them that he was in a good place. A similar experience occurred when a neighbour went into the non-physical after years of fighting cancer and two nights after her death I had a dream where I saw a choir of angels welcoming her home. The music was loud and the light was very bright and everyone was celebrating as if a hero had returned from a long, hard-fought war. Having this dream allowed me to relate what I saw to her family member and I am sure that it brought comfort to them.

I do not see these experiences as super extraordinary but simply a tool to help me along my spiritual path by allowing me to be a source of comfort to people and I am further blessed by it.