I am a slightly religious person if you class meditating whilst humming a mantra religious but this morning I had an extremely lucid dream. I walked through some doors like big hospital doors and walked up to a counter/reception window. I was met by a 50 something man with a German accent wearing shorts and a tank top. We had a conversation regarding who he was and he said he was God. Then we talked about my life and other people I knew who had died, and he showed me to my room. I became aware that my 4 year old son was with me as we went into the room. Then we all layed down in a big bed in the centre of the room. The whole place was quite dark, not the stark white I would have thought it to be. When my son and I awoke my wife was there. I asked her what happened to her and she said she had died of cancer. Then we took our son to school accompanied by God and he sat in a big class with all sorts of people of various ages. We left him there and went off with God to look at Heavens facilities but within a few minutes my son had found us and wanted to stay with us. Then I woke up. I have checked a few books but there was nothing about going to heaven and meeting good. Pretty trippy but very positive dream. Very relaxed and neutral feelings. Anyone got any feedback or interpritations?? Stu
Hello icebergstu, I think we go to heaven all the time. This is when we open our heart space ... and each person you meet in your life, be it waking or dreaming, eventually becomes a door to heaven then. Heaven is the school of love. As for dream interpretation, you are your own best interpreter by far - no pre-made concept will match your own better knowing. And each dream holds multiple meanings ... but what you do with it is what feeds your dream then and maybe all you wanted to know is that the dream is not gone, and heaven is right here. So maybe you want to try and go into the dream and bring back the awareness, and act on it through your waking life for now. Just thoughts.
Dreams usually represent true feelings of what's going on inside of you, so it sounds to me like you're at peace. Sweet, man. Teach me how to induce this type of dream!
Your dream is nothing to be worried about, iceberg. A dream about meeting God and being in heaven is nothing but a good sign. The only caution I would take is your wife. In the dream she said she had died of cancer. There is a possibilty of that being an precognition statement, but other than that, as you said, the dream pleasant and positive, and should be interpreted as such. As for your son. I remember you saying he left school to find you guys. That could be interpreted into a urge of closeness with your son. Unless you're spending ample time with him already, see if you can't hang out with your kid more. But, as I said, it seems like the dream wasn't a warning, more of a vacation. So look at your life, and if you have very little to fix, you're in a good place.
sometimes i think my parallel dream universe might BE heavin. i don't know a i've ever met god or gods there though. the're usually off somewhere else on other bussiness. i've met something that felt like god awaike in this universe though, out in the woods meditating, and that was a totally cool and happy experience. =^^= .../\...
this bussiness about "meeting god" in some litteral sense, reminds me of something i read in the sayings of nasrudin. there was this guy on a platform and he said to all the peasants "the king spoke to me"; and they all cheered and went away happy, except for one 'village idiot', who hung arround to ask "what did he say to you", to which he replied "get out of my way". not that i'd accuse anything worthy of the name of god or a god of that kind of rudeness. if anything, something well meaning and all powerful can afford to behave humbly and probably find amusement and even gratification in doing so. it is however a comentary on expectations and the pretentions of claiming to know what is not known. among other, more of less obvious things. or things that ought to be. =^^= .../\...
I guess it depends on how you represent God for yourself. If you think God is a old man with long white hair and beard with a white robe and a gold crown sitting in a bad ass trone in the clouds. To me, God is simply everything, the universe's energy... But when Life's come directly to me, she usally come to me as a voice of a woman to wich I always directly think is Mother Nature.
well for me there are no voices, just a lot of wonderfully green countryside. voices invariably are attatched to visible beings of some form, usually standing up bipeds, though furry four leggeds communicate too, though generally not vocally. in shared mind images and sensations generally instead. there are also the sense of invisible presences and the sharing of hugs with them. but nope, none of this voices business. other then life forms of some sort speaking to me or each other. the invisible ones just hug and sometimes project images. =^^= .../\...
I was reading, The Unconscious God, and there is a chapter on how the spiritual unconscious is present in our dreams, and how the spiritual unconscious is seen through the latent and manifest content of the dream itself. Apparently, this has been proven empirically to be true, and uses examples of such dreams. In the example that he gives, the woman shows signs of turning the concept of God into symbols that she already associates with God (Frankl proposes that these symbols aren't the bulk of God, but rather, we try to symbolize God the best way that we can using whatever we already know). In her dream, the symbol for God, for her, was a priest that she knew. And in this dream, the priest appeared outside the window and then disappeared. Another part of the dream is where she is holding a box with letters written on it, and she tells her doctor that she tries very hard to rub off the letters the best way that she can. It is important to note that this woman writes about theology. To Frankl, he translates the priest disappearing outside the window to mean that making a symbol for God doesn't do God any justice, because symbols are merely objects and God is no object. Also, rubbing off the letters from that box was translated to mean that she is embarrassed about her exhibition of her beliefs... that her beliefs aren't merely to showcase, because merely showcasing would make her beliefs less significant, and to Frankl, this embarrassment is healthy because it shows trueness in what she believes in. How does this parallel to you? It parallels to you because, perhaps you do not want to see God as a mere object (dark room). Frankl talks about how psychologists try very hard to turn all of these things into objects, as instinctual drives. That God is merely our subliminal understanding of our father. To Frankl, God symbolizes a father because in many senses, he is our father, and that the current explanation given in the psychological community is overall wrong. Anyway... There is so much to go into... and just felt like sharing.
What a nice dream! God is the symbol of moral values. Perhaps you turn towards such values, together with your family? Perhaps you feel happy ('I'm in heaven') with the life you have now.
"God is the symbol of moral values" Or to say, God encompasses these moral values, and reaching this is reaching heaven on earth. That's a pretty interesting interpretation, too. That seems to be a part of the spiritual unconscious.
You will probably soon set out on a spiritual quest (probably over many years.) You will probably return to where you are now, perhaps abandoning what you've learned in the interim. The dark room could represent ignorance, lack, the womb, or nirvana. However you see it (and it will change over time), it will be a conscious choice (even though that choice keeps changing.) That realisation will cause you to abandon the search, the realisation being that you need not go anywhere else.
Well when the man said he was "god" I think he meant I am "nobody special" not I'm god no one else is... he meant it in a sense of oneness... Perhaps he was a great spiritual lead on that astral plane... You found an astral plane, that was heavenly. Thus you did go to "heaven" But there are infinite planes... heaven is just a word to describe the really incredible pleasurable and loving and beautiful ones.
