Welcome to another installment of DreamOsophy, where dreams intermingle with philosophy, but action is the outcome instead of circular patterns of random, useless, fuzzy words. In this post, we’ll cover whether precognitive dreams create reality or merely predict it.
Chris McCleary, 4/17/2014
Predict or Create? That is the question. Do precognitive dreams actually predict the future, or do we simply create our waking life based on the dream?
Camp #1: The Dream Creationists. Some theorists argue that precognition is nothing more than the dreamer simply creating their waking reality in accordance with what they dreamed earlier. Of course, it’s all done subconsciously, which means that they’re not doing this purposefully.
It’s true that much of our dream life is all about the subconscious sphere of mind. The ‘day residue’ from events that happened to us in waking life typically do take a prominent roll in the creation of our dreams. This explains much of those wacky characters or illogical situations that arise so frequently. The same theorists purport that dreams can be a clearing house for these ‘undigested’ thoughts and emotions from our topsy-turvey waking life.
So, if the dream itself is a digestion channel for day residue, then can there really be enough psychological material left from the digestion to still cause a subconscious creation of that dream in our waking life? Good grief, you’re asking, who cares?! Well, unfortunately, this is actually an important point because it reduces its strength when seen from Camp #2 eyes. In other words, if precognitive dreams are nothing more than the subconscious re-creation of reality from a dream, then where does the dream material come from? Chirp, chirp….anyone? Anyone still here? Anyone?
Camp #2: The Precognitive Dreamers. There are some precognitive dream accounts that simply defy the Camp #1 explanation. My wife somehow dreamed that we would be hit by a drunk driver the day before it happened…and since the drunk veered over into our lane to impact our trailer, how in the world did my very-positively-thinking wife create that? The answer is very simple: the dreamer did not create this reality.
Certainly not all seemingly precognitive dreams are like this, though, and we don’t fault everyone for ignoring Camp #2. Skeptics exist simply because they have not experienced precognition for themselves, or their worldview is forcing them to ignore what they’ve experienced.
What’s the utility of all this? Bottom line, we need to see predictive dreams from BOTH camps. On the one hand, they do influence how we create our lives, but on the other hand, they sometimes solely predict things to come (with no creative pull whatsoever). But instead of battling for which one is dominant, I propose that we combine the two poles together, much like the Law of One material. Instead of creating versus predicting, how about we call it creating-predicting (as if it were always a single noun, verb, or adjective)?
So, what is our collective dream creating-predicting? Well, two things are at play. First, the part that we can control is the creating part. As Leslie Beil says: “Each of us, individually and collectively, are responsible for our thoughts, words, and actions as these are energy which creates reality at any given moment.”
This is absolutely and critically true, but on the other hand, there’s a bigger Universe out there that sometimes is beyond creating, beyond control, and the best we’re given is a prediction of what is to come (in terms of precognitive dreams).
The Solution. The good news in all of this is that for utilitarian folk, it really doesn’t matter which camp the precognitive dream comes from…the National Dream Center is working to figure out how to make these types of dreams more useful to us. So this is our starting point and our initial solution:
First, you do what Leslie says above. Take responsibility for your thoughts and behaviors and channel all your energy toward what is best for the future. Your dreams should reflect this for the most part, but when it doesn’t, take heed and begin to synch up with the Universe. What created-predicted the seemingly out-of-synch dream? Was it your thoughts, actions, and energy, or was it something beyond your individual sphere of control? Then by all means bring your dream to a supportive network, like that of the National Dream Center. This is the place to bring those larger dreams that might seem overwhelming. We will deal with these collectively.
Copyright © 2014. Chris McCleary
