sleep

Dreamwork: Dare to Share

One thing that I came across as a young teen was Scott Cunningham’s recipe* for a prophetic dream tea. I have used that recipe for many years now with amazing results. Sometimes we cannot know the results of prophetic dreams if we are not sharing them. One of my favorite stories, a huge confirmation that some of my dreams have more to tell me than basic dream dictionary meanings is the dream about the freezer and the pizza.

This happened circa 2006-2007-ish. I was attending workshops with my best friend’s mom (whom I’ve become really close with over the years). I had dreamt that I was with her oldest daughter. We were in an apartment cleaning out a broken fridge. She finds a pizza at the bottom of the fridge and says that this should be okay to eat. It wasn’t okay to eat. It was the weirdest thing and we ended up throwing it away.

Fast forward that day to the evening time when I would have went over to their house for the workshop. I tell my friend that I dreamt of her oldest daughter, explain the dream – she’s looking at me wide-eyed – I feel nuts. She said, “Oh my god” and called her daughter into the room to tell me about her morning. Her morning consisted of cleaning up the freezer that had broken and leaked everywhere. She had to throw out a ton of food that was completely ruined. Except for a pizza which she thought would be fine, however it was not fine. She cooked it and it was terrible and had to be thrown out too. Hence why she was at her mom’s house that day, because she and her boys needed to eat.

Another experience, which was not necessarily prophetic, but opened my eyes to shared dreams happened around the same time frame as the dream above. I dreamt I was at a house party. I was with one of my male friends, his girlfriend was no where to be found. We didn’t know why she wasn’t there. My boyfriend at the time was at the party, but seemed to wander off. I went out back, the backyard was really long and lead to a wooded area. I could see my boyfriend down in the woods. I yelled and hollered. I couldn’t seem to get into the woods, I have no idea how he got in there. He looked like he was freaking out, but he wouldn’t listen to me so I headed back into the house to join the party.

I woke up and immediately wanted to tell the boyfriend about him freaking in the woods. As I’ve learned sharing what happened in dreams can result in learning. He cut me off to tell me his dream. He was in the woods. Left from the cabin we were all in. It was something like Evil Dead, I suppose. In his dream he was freaking out because he couldn’t get his way back to the cabin. So, this blew my mind, just how similar those dream scenarios were.  We were seeing the other friends later that day and I couldn’t wait to tell them about it.

I was so freaking excited to share our experience with this couple friend of ours. Like I said, mind blown about the alignment of the dreams between me and then-boyfriend. The male friend, who I was at the house with in the dream cuts me off to say he dreamt of us at the party. Even telling me whose house we were at. Saying the same thing, his girlfriend wasn’t there and my boyfriend wandered off. Holy guacamole! I’m still blown away by this experience. My female friend – the girl friend who did not show up to the party in the dream – says she was dreaming about driving around. That’s all she did in her dream was drive around looking for her boyfriend. Him and myself blurts out, “I/He was at the party!”

I am not sure how, what, why inspired that event to happen between the four of us. From then on, I share my dreams with others, and encourage others to share their dreams with me. I have since noticed other alignments, dreaming about similar themes between people, and stuff like that.

I now keep a dream journal online for the world to see (crazy, right?!)
Can be read here: echosidephoenix.livejournal.com

*Prophetic tea recipe by Scott Cunningham:
Or buy my organic blend here:
https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/470231858/christinas-herbal-dream-tea-20g?ref=shop_home_feat_1

2 parts rose petals
1 part mugwort
1 part jasmine
1 part peppermint
1/2 part cinnamon

Brightest Blessings,
Phoenix Rose
–
Connect on social media:
FB – www.facebook.com/phoenixrosereadings
Twitter – @PhoenixRoseCM
IG – echoside_phoenix_rose
Pinterest – phoenixrosecm
–
Shop – EchoSideCreations.etsy.com
Blog – EchoSidePhoenix.blogspot.ca

Dreamwork: Strive to Become Lucid

“To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet
 
In the quote above Shakespeare may have been referring to Hamlet’s contemplation of suicide, I look into it further than that.  Death is often referred to as the big sleep, a dirt nap, including witticisms such as “there’ll be plenty of time for sleep when you’re dead,” and we put our pets to sleep when suffering outweighs the quality of life.
“Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.”
Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (misquote of Edgar Allan Poe)

Why would we ever compare sleep and dreams to death and afterlife?  I am of the belief that this waking life is the real dream.  What we see, feel, experience in the dreamscape is actually closer to what is truly beyond.  Beyond life, beyond death.  The dreamscape gives us a window into the true nature of our core essence. This is why dream recall and becoming lucid is important to our personal growth, and its the reason for doing any dreamwork in the first place.

Dreamwork begins in waking life, or the collective consciousness, or the 3D co-reality we have all agreed upon existing.  By this I mean things that we do in waking life are reflected in the dreamscape.  What we make habit here often becomes habit there.  However, not everything from the waking world runs the same as it does in the dreamscape.  You can use these differences between realms to trigger lucid dreaming.

I will list behaviours that have successfully worked for me as triggers to lucid dreaming.

“Am I dreaming?”

Check the time.  Look at clocks throughout your day.  Most of us already do this, especially when we’re dying to get home from work, but we are not checking the time in a conscious effort.  In my last Dreamwork post I stated that intention is the most important thing with dreamwork.  Rotary clocks work best, but I have successfully used digital clocks too.  Look at the time with intention.  Mentally ask yourself if you’re dreaming. Look away from clock, back to the task you were doing, then look back to the clock. Mentally reflect on whether it’s the same time.  Has only a minute or two passed, or has the clock jumped an hour ahead, three hours behind, again ask yourself, “am I dreaming?” Time is not linear in dreams, sometimes hands may disappear from a rotary clock, or digital clocks will have a messed up display.

Most times asking yourself if you are dreaming will not spawn anything spectacular, but what it does do is create the habit and intention for lucid dreaming.

Try reading or writing.  A lot of us spend a fair amount of time reading and writing.  Whether it be on or offline, great works of fiction, or just piles of work orders.  We all do just as much writing, or typing.  Whether it be filling out forms at work, or writing letters to a friend, or typing opinionated posts on social media, it’s what we do, and it’s a huge form of communication.  It only takes once or twice a day to ask yourself while reading/writing, “am I dreaming?”  Try to do this at a different time from when you checked the clock.  Then think about the words you’ve just read, or wrote.  Do they make sense?  Are they solid and unchanging?  Or is it a new sentence?  Did you forget what you just read or wrote?  If possible take what you just read and put it in your pocket, desk drawer, or cover it, then look again.  Did the sentence change?  Are you dreaming?

“If I was a mirror I’d find another mirror, and look each other dead in the eye – crystal clear!” 
– ICP
 

Look in the mirror.  Mirrors do not have the same logic in dreams that they do in waking life.  In the waking world mirrors reflect back exactly what’s around them.  In the dreamscape mirrors sometimes do not reflect back anything at all.  Think of Alice Through the Looking Glass, the mirror can appear as a doorway or portal in a dream.  Look in the mirror with conscious intention of “am I dreaming?”  Notice whether you look as you do in waking life.  Are you older? Younger?  Do you appear to be a different gender?  Is your features staying the same or is your facial features changing right before your eyes?  Again, do this check at a different time from the clock, and the reading/writing.

These are just three things to do during your day that will eventually become part of your dream world.  If you have not lucid dreamt before becoming aware in a dream may cause you to wake up immediately.  This is normal and will eventually stop, it will become less jarring the more you become conscious in your dreamscape.

I am interested to hear your experiences with these techniques and what worked or didn’t work for you.  Happy dreaming!

Brightest Blessings,
Phoenix Rose
–
–
Connect on social media:
FB – http://www.facebook.com/phoenixrose888
Twitter – @PhoenixRose888
IG – @phoenix_rose_888

Dreamwork and Crystal Combinations: Chrysocolla, Howlite, and Unakite

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.” – John Lennon

“All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream” –  Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams have always fascinated me. I will be sharing my experiences in a new dreamwork blog series. I have been able to lucid dream from a young age.  Growing up, and in my adult years, I continue to work with dreams, interpret, read and learn what I can about dreaming, and the dreamscape.
What does “working with dreams” mean exactly?  I purposefully do things in waking life to encourage things to happen in my dream life.  If there are herbs, crystals, foods, drinks, music, or meditation said to enhance lucid or psychic dreaming, you bet that I’m going to try it out.  I will discuss more of this in future blog posts.
First thing I want to talk about is this particular crystal combination because I am thrilled with the results.  (Even though this is not necessarily the most important thing in dreamwork) 
Top: Unakite (Feldspar), 
Bottom left to right: Chrysocolla, Howlite


This is a combination of unakite, chrysocolla, and howlite.  I am new to working with chrysocolla, so I was eager to use it, the other two crystals were picked intuitively by my hubby and I couldn’t have been more pleased with the outcome.  
Working with crystals in dreamwork is simple.  Crystals go under pillow, on night stand, or under the bed while you sleep.  You can hold them first and set your intention.  In dreamwork setting your intention is simply affirming before sleep something you want to do, a common one is “I want to remember my dream upon waking.”  Another common one is “show me the answer to this / show me a solution to this .”

Setting intention before going to sleep is the most important thing in dreamwork.  
Journaling upon waking is the second most important thing.

Why use this combination of crystals?  Let’s look at the metaphysical properties that would aid in dreamwork.

-Chrysocolla is a very calming stone.  It helps to relax and balance your mood.  It’s also good for communication.  Why is that important?  When we sleep is when our subconscious communicates to us.
-Unakite promotes a peaceful sleep.  It is a great accompaniment to the chrysocolla for relaxing and balancing your mood.  Unakite stimulates the third eye, promoting clairvoyance, which is very useful in vivid and lucid dreams.
-Howlite much like the previous stones has stress reducing qualities, however it is also excellent for dream recall, and connecting with higher consciousness.

How did this translate for me and my dreams?  I had a much easier time falling asleep for starters and that is unusual for me!  I place them IN my pillow case, UNDER the pillow.  I can sleep on my side, back, or stomach, doesn’t bother me, though when doing dreamwork I start out laying on my back and do a quick meditation / intention setting.

Meditation:
– Take a few deep and calming breaths
– Focus on the crystals under the pillow
– Visualize their energy merging with my energy and filling my entire body
– I think of the particular qualities of the stone and state it in my mind “chrysocolla to be open to communication, unakite for lucidity, howlite to recall” (they all promote calm and relaxation, so I do not state that)
– If I have a purpose, such as receiving a message from a spirit guide, I state this in my mind now
– Take a few more deep breaths and drift off to sleep as I sense the calming energies around me

For the week that I used this combination of crystals I had very vivid dreams and excellent recall of them.  I did not become lucid as much as I expected.  The biggest thing for me is that I did not have to do any of my other nightly rituals to achieve those dream states.  I highly recommend this crystal combination to anyone looking for a restful and peaceful night’s sleep, those that do not recall their dreams, or those that claim they do not dream but would like to.

Stay tuned for future posts in the Dreamwork series, as I discuss different methods, herbs, crystals, and basics of working with your dreams.

Brightest Blessings,
Phoenix Rose
–
–
–
For more info on healing crystals check out some of my go-to sites:
https://www.crystalvaults.com
https://www.gemselect.com
http://www.healing-crystals-for-you.com/

–
–
Connect on social media:
FB – http://www.facebook.com/phoenixrosereadings
Twitter – @PhoenixRoseCM
IG – echoside_phoenix_rose
Pinterest – phoenixrosecm
–
Shop – EchoSideCreations.etsy.com
Blog – EchoSidePhoenix.blogspot.ca