You’re really smart!
In a single day your brain generates more energy than all the cell phones on the planet.
You are a thinking being... daytime thinking is a “building” process - a gathering of facts. Night-time thinking (or dreaming) is a “sorting” process... deciphering what is important to you.
Don’t you feel smarter all ready?
And here’s more…
Before the tsunami disaster hit near India in 2005, animals of all kinds headed inland for safety. Is it only animals that have these extraordinary senses?
This information is coming from two books. The first two ideas are from “Switch On Your Brain” by Dr. Caroline Leaf, who has worked in the field of cognitive neuroscience for 30 years.
The last one is from “Warning Dreams - Sleeping with Your Eyes Open” by Craig Groethe.
And this means…?
So how do these books relate?
They both suggest that the human being has more potential and opportunity for awareness than we have been using.
Craig Groethe spoke at a Cannon Falls library session a while back. He focused on the importance of your dreams.
He has been interpreting dreams for 16 years. Has done about 7000 dreams, had a radio show and taught small groups.
Groethe believes that dreams can be a guide to lead to healthier and happier lives.
Dreams are…
He suggests that you know more than you think you do. Dreams are a symbolic language. Dreams can give you insight, direction and warnings.
One time a man dreamt of a car accident... where he swerved and killed a man. Ten years later he was driving along and saw the very same “accident” unfold in front of him. His dream came back to him and he made a different decision as to how to swerve and the death was avoided.
Historical dreams…
Historically we have dreams like one recalled by Abraham Lincoln... where he walks into the east room and asks the guard, who died in the White House? He was told: the president was assasinated. About two weeks later the tragedy happened at the Ford Theatre.
Or Paul McCartney’s dream of a song back in 1965... which he titled “Yesterday”. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein based on her dream. And the theory of relativity was touched on in a dream by Albert Einstein.
“Gut” feelings…
Groethe explained that we can base our decisions on our “gut” feelings. Intuitively, man has learned their importance.
He continued, the dream might not be literal so look at it symbolically.
Every morning he and his wife talk over their dreams at breakfast. He had suggested that you write down your dreams during the night... or use a recorder or smart phone. (Although talking to a recorder in the middle of the night may a little disturbing to your partner!)
Groethe believes that dreams are knowledge, insight, direction, or the future. Repetitive dreams mean some information is trying to get through to your conscious. Like the man who repeatedly dreamt of losing his billfold. Groethe suggested he was losing money but didn’t know where it was going. Later on the man filed bankruptcy. Groethe wonders if he would have been able to avoid that if he had figured out his problem sooner.
What to do…
Some of Groethe’s suggestions to learn from your dreams are:
Write them down in a journal. The main facts, colors, emotions, the date and time of your dream, and give a title to the dream.
Ask yourself what the dream parallels in your own life.
Look for the unusual or what is out of place.
Share it with people who are “safe” for more insights, from them and you.
Research what the symbols in your dream might represent. A rainbow may not mean the same thing in every dream though.
In his book Groethe reveals more of his faith or belief system.
In his book Groethe reveals more of his faith or belief system.
What was learned…
But what I got out of the thoughts of these authors is that we really are smarter than we think we are!
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