I was really stumped yesterday on what to write about. Although I gave two separate readings to clients, which went just fine, I wasn’t feeling particularly “wordy” when it came to talking about psychic matters. I think I have a kind of limited amount of psychic energy allotted to me each day, and when I expend it in readings, it isn’t as available for creative mental processes like writing. Indeed, after doing those two readings, I found I wasn’t even interested in watching two of my favorite shows on HBO: “Hung” and “True Blood”!

Spending the evening doing chores like laundry and the dishes instead, I decided to just let myself sleep on it and see what came up the next day. And here it is: why we have freaky dreams sometimes, just like I did last night!

First of all, freaky dreams aren’t anything to be scared of. They are often so ridiculous that they can make us laugh the next day, which is a great gift to yourself. Sometimes they are a way that your mind just seems to randomly put together lots of different elements and issues in your life that you usually try to keep neatly categorized in your head, and apart from each other. Sex, work, money, childhood angst, fears, material wishes, problems with other people, and so on, can all get mixed up in one dream and seem, er, pretty freaky!

When you have those dreams, you are certainly welcome to take some time and dig into them for your own personal symbolism, or you are also free to just chalk it up as a reminder that really, there is no separation in life or in your consciousness. It’s all just in there together, jumbled up like a donation bag at the Good Will. I find that when I have those types of dreams, it actually helps me separate the issues more easily the next day in my waking life. Huh! The mind is a wonderful, mysterious thing, isn’t it?

Some dreams feature really frightening stuff. Nightmares are a drag, no doubt about it. But the underlying truth is, they’re not real, you are still here, you woke up in your bed, and you are still alive and well on this physical plane. So if your subconscious needs to freak out a little at night, and really get your adrenaline going and fight for your life (chasing or fighting dreams are common), then don’t worry about it. When you wake up, just say “Note to self: thank God I don’t have to live that way!”

Clairvoyant dreams are a little tricky, since you never really know if they were actually clairvoyant until you find out that what you dreamed actually came true. If it does, then you can say tell everyone that you dreamed it in advance…you must be psychic!

Clients seem to get the most freaked out when they have Armageddon-type dreams. End of the world scenarios like nuclear bombs, floods, tornadoes, and other catastrophic events in dreams seem to be the most unsettling, since they are so very dramatic and occasionally do happen in real life. They get scared and confused, wondering if what they dreamed was actually prophetic. I tell them that while those dreams are scary, and of course we know that natural and unnatural (i.e. man-made) disasters do occur, the chances are that their dream was not specifically prophetic to a particular future incident. Rather, dreams like this often indicate a major energy shift coming within the client. Perhaps a relationship, or a job, or a dwelling is getting ready to somehow come apart and reform into something new. Perhaps a new leap in consciousness or awareness is coming for the client, where the old perspective on things drops away and another takes its place. Or perhaps the person is signaling to himself that the status quo just isn’t satisfactory anymore, and needs a tremendous burst of energy to get things moving again.

And finally, many “dreams” are actually just recollections of astral trips which of course, can indeed be pretty darn freaky! The fun thing about dreams is, it doesn’t really matter too much what type of experience it is. We have them all throughout the night, every night, all throughout our lives. And yet, we still wake up, still get up, and go about our daily routines. Sometimes I wonder if our daily life is the dream state (many sages agree on this one), and our “dream” life is our actual life!

So don’t worry about your dreams. Enjoy them, learn from them, puzzle and ponder about them, but always remember, dreams cannot hurt you. They can only guide, inform, heal, rejuvenate, or just plain entertain you.

Have fun, and sweet dreams!