Recent content by Rosemary_Guiley

Much appreciated. I've enjoyed all the discussion, too.

It's true that interpretations are quite subjective and personal and also specific to cultural context -- which is why dream dictionaries don't always translate well into foreign languages. The puns and plays on words in dreams, as well as culture-specific POVs, don't carry over. Also, some of...

If I were a frequent lucid dreamer (instead of an occasional one as I am), I would not question the validity of dreams, but I would be experimenting with directing dream content for the present and the future. The scientists and experiencers who study lucid dreaming believe this faculty to hold...

Many thanks for the testimony. There is room for accepting these kinds of experiences along with pursuing science as far as it can go in relation to the paranormal/spiritual/mystical. It doesn't have to be one or the other... the paranormal is never black and white, just constantly...

When people think their house is haunted, there are often natural explanations for sounds, smells, etc. Many "UFOs" are explainable lights. Nightmares don't automatically mean you've been attacked psychically. Images and orbs in photographs that look peculiar are not automatically spirits...

Hi Ward, As an example in ufology almost without exception all the the information given to an experience by the "aliens" be it predictions or information turns out to be false. A -- I don't think we can lump all contact experiences together as being of the same ilk. It is also difficult to...

I have always advocated looking for natural explanations first. After that, if we're going to make any headway, other possibilities have to be considered.

Yep, it's me. Thank you re the Encyclopedia of M&PE. It's been out quite a long time. I don't see dreams as a substitute for ordinary reality, but certainly they are part of our extended reality. As for logic, anyone who spends much time dealing with the paranormal finds out that logic...

It would take a good bit of dreamwork to unravel all that within the context of each dream. However, most people have recurring themes in dreams that can persist over a long period of time, even a lifetime. Dreams that prominently feature missing connections, slow travel, not finding things...

1--Dreams have their own reality (see remarks about Corbin elsewhere) 2-- We can be visited by the dead, including animals, in dreams. Entities of all kinds can invade dreams. No know limits to the dreasmcape. 3-- Speculation: perhaps certain entities take advantage of natural sleep paralysis...

Any dream can be meaningful. Some of the characteristics that distinguish ordinary dreams from extraordinary dreams are lucidity, unusual colors, pervasive, brilliant light, volition, sensory phenomena (especially touch), an unusual, heavy or electrical "atmosphere," the presence of the dead or...

Since these dreams are frequent and repetitive... if they were my dreams... I would apply dreamwork techniques to them treating the dead as symbols. Repetitive dreams often concern something unresolved, frequently of an emotional nature.

We go into this a bit on the show... direct voice dreams are documented in dream literature, but usually people ascribe them to a "voice of God" or "voice of authority." Yes, some who feel the sudden presence of a dead loved one have physical reactions, including surges of energy... this one...

The dream has a precognitive element (playing with water balloons). If this were my dream, I would interpret the deceased ex as a dream symbol. "Little precognition" dreams (about daily life events) are common.

There is (at present) no way to either prove or disprove that the dead visit in dreams. Dreams reside in the mundus imaginalis, an intermediary world between the sensory plane and the spirit plane. As Corbin pointed out (1964), imagination should not be equated with unreality, but is a way of...