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When we work with our dreams,
Speaker:we wake up to the reality.
Speaker:We wake up to our own inner selves,
Speaker:we wake up to the greater
potentials that exist in our life.
Speaker:Hello and welcome back to
Remember Why You Are Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives
where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect to yourself and remember the
most important thing of all - why you're
Speaker:here. I'm Asia Suler,
author, earth intuitive,
Speaker:teacher,
Speaker:and in this podcast episode today we're
going to be talking about one of my
Speaker:all-time favorite things,
Speaker:which is dreams.
So I've always been a very vivid dreamer,
Speaker:ever since I was very young.
Speaker:I can remember having repeated
dreams, having precognitive dreams.
Speaker:Dreaming has always just
been one of my pipelines into
Speaker:the beyond, into connecting with my
own wider knowing and wider self,
Speaker:and dreams in a lot of ways, really led
me into the work that I'm doing today.
Speaker:That throughline was something that
kept me going even in hard times
Speaker:or kept providing clarity for me,
Speaker:giving me direction. And I have been so
passionate about dreams for so long that
Speaker:I've now been teaching
about dreams for 15 years.
Speaker:I love helping other people
connect to their dreams,
Speaker:because even if you're someone
who doesn't remember your dreams,
Speaker:you are still dreaming. Dreams
are still important for you,
Speaker:and they are the message - the
messages - that just never stop
Speaker:being sent. Your dreams are always
coming with guidance, information.
Speaker:They are here to help you through
your life, to navigate your life.
Speaker:And we're going to talk specifically
about what dreams actually are in a few
Speaker:minutes. But just know that even
if you don't remember your dreams,
Speaker:you are still having them. And so I'm
hoping that this episode today is going to
Speaker:help you really get in touch with your
dreams if you're maybe someone who
Speaker:doesn't remember them or it's hard to
sort of get them before they fly in the
Speaker:morning, or if you're someone
who does remember your dreams,
Speaker:this episode is here to help you go
even deeper in understanding what your
Speaker:dreams are, what kind of
dreams you might be having,
Speaker:and how they can be helpful to you in
your life. So let's start with talking
Speaker:about what are dreams,
Speaker:because I think a lot of us were
handed this framework for dreams that's
Speaker:inaccurate.
Speaker:So a lot of us were told from a
young age that dreams are just the
Speaker:random firing of our mind.
Speaker:That dreams is just the way
that our subconscious processes
Speaker:information from the day, that
sometimes there's a rhythm to them,
Speaker:but it's really just all about our
brain processing extra information,
Speaker:trying to problem solve, and that some
dreams are just completely random,
Speaker:that they're just this random firing
of our brain and they're to be ignored
Speaker:or to sort of be laughed at
or looked at with curiosity,
Speaker:but that they're not this font of wisdom
that they actually are. So let's talk
Speaker:about what dreams actually are. And
there are different types of dreams,
Speaker:and we're going to go
into that in a little bit.
Speaker:So I think the different types of dreams
are coming from different places within
Speaker:our psyche and within our
spirit. But in general,
Speaker:dreams are remembrances of our time
Speaker:outside of our body and
outside of physical reality.
Speaker:So they have done studies with
people where they were sleep
Speaker:deprived, but only to the point
where they weren't dreaming.
Speaker:They were still able to get - in terms
of the timeframe - enough sleep within a
Speaker:certain given period to
function, all the things.
Speaker:But if they were prevented
from going into REM sleep,
Speaker:they started to have mental breakdowns,
Speaker:started to have mental issues and
problems. And why I think this is,
Speaker:is that we are all
spirits inhabiting bodies.
Speaker:We come here to be in a physical form,
to have this physical experience,
Speaker:but it's built into our
system to need time away,
Speaker:to need time to escape,
Speaker:to have experiences in
other realms of reality,
Speaker:to leave this reality behind
for a little bit. And yes,
Speaker:to process what is
happening in this reality,
Speaker:to receive guidance from
this unseen world. So when we
Speaker:dream, we're traveling, we're adventuring,
Speaker:we're exploring.
Speaker:And dreams at their
heart are remembrances,
Speaker:they're memories of our time in the
Speaker:non-physical world,
Speaker:our time stepping into the other world
and stepping out of our day-to-day
Speaker:existence.
Speaker:And I believe that this is why it's so
important that we have the time and the
Speaker:space to dream,
Speaker:why it's essential for our
psyches and our functioning.
Speaker:And I also think that this is why it's so
Speaker:valuable to connect to our dreams,
Speaker:because our dreams are a direct
pipeline into our wider self.
Speaker:And if you've been walking
with me for a while,
Speaker:you know that I prefer the term "wider
self" to "higher self" because from my
Speaker:perspective, my higher self
is something I'm a part of.
Speaker:It's my wider self. I belong
within it. I am a part of it.
Speaker:And remembering your dreams is a
direct line to connect into your wider
Speaker:self. So if you are someone who is
interested in talking to your higher self,
Speaker:your wider self, receiving
guidance from the beyond,
Speaker:connecting with those on
the other side of the veil,
Speaker:having this bigger picture of reality,
Speaker:you are getting dreams every night
that are giving you that potential,
Speaker:that are opening that doorway for you.
Speaker:And there are techniques and methods for
you to be able to really remember those
Speaker:dreams and to start to work with them.
No matter what of dream you're having,
Speaker:when you interact with your dreams,
Speaker:you're interacting with your own
consciousness. And that's powerful.
Speaker:We come here in part to
have this experience in a
physical body on this planet,
Speaker:but we also come here to know ourselves,
Speaker:to know the shape of our own
consciousness and dreams are a direct
Speaker:pathway to doing that as well. Now,
Speaker:one of the central tenets
of dreamwork as I see it,
Speaker:is this theory that dreams are
these beautifully-packaged,
Speaker:storied metaphors of your
time outside of this reality,
Speaker:outside of this time
and space in this body.
Speaker:And those metaphors and those stories,
Speaker:they're perfectly packaged for
you: not for anyone else, for you.
Speaker:And this is why dream dictionaries don't
Speaker:necessarily work. And I say
this as someone who's dad,
Speaker:as a psychologist, literally edited a
dream dictionary when I was growing up.
Speaker:There is validity in the dream dictionary
in that there are certain archetypical
Speaker:things that, when we dream about them,
Speaker:we might be tapping into a
collective consciousness piece.
Speaker:And yet we all have our own
life experiences, our...
Speaker:the things that are utterly
unique to us. So yes,
Speaker:while we might dream about the ocean,
Speaker:and there's certain archetypical
understandings of the ocean depth,
Speaker:the unconscious, the
vastness, the mystery,
Speaker:you might have a really particular
association with the ocean that cannot be
Speaker:found in a dictionary.
And that's really where the
Speaker:vitality comes in in our dreams,
Speaker:is you being willing to
be your own interpreter
Speaker:of your dreams,
Speaker:to go through your own storied
remembrance of your life and
Speaker:ask yourself, what does this mean to
me? How does this feel in my body?
Speaker:How did I feel when I
woke up from this dream?
Speaker:And all of that is going to give you so
much more information than necessarily
Speaker:trying to look up what something means.
Speaker:And that can also be a way that our
intuition's going to speak to us,
Speaker:like part of us will know: she's going
to wake up and look up what this means,
Speaker:so let's throw her a wild card and see
what comes up. But at the same time,
Speaker:what you don't want to do is give
away your power because you are the
Speaker:interpreter of this dream.
Speaker:It's a perfectly storied
metaphor made for you - by you,
Speaker:for you.
Speaker:And there's so much richness there
if you can really see yourself as the
Speaker:interpreter of your dreams.
One of my teachers, Robert Moss,
Speaker:a shamanic dream teacher, likes to
say that dreaming is about waking up.
Speaker:And what this means is that
when we work with our dreams,
Speaker:we wake up to the reality.
Speaker:We wake up to our own inner selves,
Speaker:we wake up to the greater
potentials that exist in our life.
Speaker:And on a very literal level,
Speaker:if dreams are the remembrances that
we have in non-physical reality,
Speaker:then just by remembering them,
we're waking up to this knowledge,
Speaker:this awareness, that we are
spiritual beings on a human journey.
Speaker:I've always loved in people's descriptions
of their near-death experience when
Speaker:they talk about the experience
of dying as one of waking up,
Speaker:of...
Speaker:as if their whole life had been a
dream and then they woke up into a
Speaker:space that was more real than
what they were experiencing here.
Speaker:And we all know what
that feeling is, right?
Speaker:When you wake up from a dream
and you're like, oh, thank God.
Speaker:Thank God this is my life. Maybe you
were having a scary dream or whatever.
Speaker:But when people describe
their near death experiences,
Speaker:they often describe it in this way:
Speaker:as if they woke up from
a very long and yet brief
Speaker:dream. In the moment it seemed so
long, when you're inside the dream,
Speaker:but then you wake up from it and
you're like, oh, that was just a dream.
Speaker:Well, that's the way
people describe dying,
Speaker:as waking up into another reality.
And so if this is true,
Speaker:then dreaming is about waking up
and that it helps us see that life
Speaker:is this dream, and we are its co-creators,
Speaker:we are constantly being
sent messages and stories
Speaker:that are specifically for us
to interpret and understand.
Speaker:And that's incredibly empowering.
Speaker:And this is the thing that I love
about dreams as an access point,
Speaker:is that it's accessible to all
of us, that all of us dream,
Speaker:that all of us have this ability.
We do it every single night.
Speaker:And it's almost like this
doorway that never closes,
Speaker:that's always open for us to actually
remember who we are and be guided.
Speaker:So let's talk about kinds of dreams now,
Speaker:because there are a lot of
different kinds of dreams.
Speaker:And the more you work with your dreams,
Speaker:the more you're going to be able
to really feel out those textures.
Speaker:So there are dreams where
you're just processing your day.
Speaker:And I say "just" as if that's not
also miraculous and magnificent,
Speaker:but you'll kind of know them because
they will contain elements from your day,
Speaker:you'll be able to actually
look at it and see, ah,
Speaker:my brain was trying on different
scenarios and different options with this.
Speaker:They don't normally have a feeling
of big profundity or depth.
Speaker:If you wake up,
Speaker:it will almost feel like waking up
after watching a sitcom or something.
Speaker:You're like, okay,
Speaker:so I was processing these pieces
from my day and that's valuable,
Speaker:that's helpful.
Speaker:We know for a fact that our
brains need that time and
Speaker:that this is how we learn, this
is how we integrate memories,
Speaker:and process experiences.
Speaker:If we don't have enough time to sleep
and specifically go into that REM cycle,
Speaker:then we don't get the time to
complete a lot of memory-making,
Speaker:story-making,
Speaker:sense-making processes in our brain.
So you'll often know
Speaker:it's a processing dream about your day
because you will recognize elements from
Speaker:it, you will sort of
wake up with this more
Speaker:mundane perhaps feeling about the dream.
Speaker:And that doesn't mean that
these are to be ignored.
Speaker:These small dreams are still
important. And in fact,
Speaker:I think writing dreams down
is the absolute best thing you
Speaker:can do for holding onto and
understanding the content of a dream.
Speaker:And I say this as a mother
to a 3-year-old currently,
Speaker:and I used to write down my
dreams every single morning,
Speaker:several dreams, every single morning.
Speaker:And now I'm really lucky
if I write down one a week,
Speaker:if I remember one a week because I
used to have time and space to really
Speaker:remember them. And now my day starts
out like a hundred miles per hour.
Speaker:And yet I know this is a phase,
that it's not going to last forever.
Speaker:And I try to do what I
can still to capture them.
Speaker:So if that means really repeating the
details again and again to myself until I
Speaker:have the time to write it down,
Speaker:or the next best option is to literally
Speaker:verbally say the dream out loud. So if
I have to hop in the car in the morning
Speaker:and I don't have time to write them down,
Speaker:I will literally speak the dream out loud,
Speaker:record myself speaking the dream out loud.
Speaker:And I often find that then it's stored
in my brain in a similar way as if I had
Speaker:written it down.
Speaker:But what I find time and time again
is that even with these smaller,
Speaker:more mundane dreams,
when you write them down,
Speaker:you can start to actually slow
down enough to receive the message.
Speaker:And it's so... I have been writing
my dreams down now for 20 years,
Speaker:and it's so amazing to
me how I will think I've
Speaker:understood the message and
then I'll write it down
Speaker:and so much more will come through.
Speaker:And so I really encourage you to
write down your dreams if possible,
Speaker:in writing them down.
After you write them down,
Speaker:give it a title so you can find it again.
Speaker:It also sort of helps create more of
a storied framework of what actually
Speaker:stands out to you from the dream. And
then free associate themes at the bottom,
Speaker:write down themes that
are coming up for you.
Speaker:And what I will find is that I will
often have different but similar
Speaker:themes come up within
periods of time in my life.
Speaker:And I might not even realize until
I go back and look at it that, oh,
Speaker:those dreams all were of a similar theme.
Speaker:I was working with a similar type thing.
So these are processing dreams.
Speaker:We all have them, they're so helpful,
Speaker:they're part of how we
function as human beings.
Speaker:Then there's also dreams that I
consider remembrances outside of your
Speaker:physical body. So I think all dreams are
remembrances of work that you're doing,
Speaker:stuff that you're engaging in
outside of obviously being awake,
Speaker:and being in a body. But I think that
there are some dreams that are very
Speaker:specifically remembrances of
experiences that you are having in
Speaker:nonphysical reality. And it's a gift
when we get these kinds of dreams.
Speaker:And I think they can come
in a lot of different forms.
Speaker:But I have had dreams
where I am with a teacher
Speaker:who's teaching me specific things,
Speaker:including spiritual teachers teaching me
different spiritual tools, techniques.
Speaker:You might've had a dream where maybe
you were in school and yet it wasn't
Speaker:like a school that you recognize
here, it was a night school.
Speaker:Maybe you were with other souls
learning something in particular. I have
Speaker:also had kind of wild dreams
where it really feels as if
Speaker:I have stepped into almost
another planet or another
Speaker:stream of consciousness,
Speaker:like a whole other set of
rules to that reality on
Speaker:another planet or in a storyline that's
completely different from my life.
Speaker:And those are kind of fun because
I feel like I can recognize them,
Speaker:because there's not an element of
charge around whatever the storyline is.
Speaker:And I come back, and I'm
like, how interesting.
Speaker:I literally feel like I just experienced
this sci-fi experience. And your
Speaker:feelings when you wake up,
Speaker:they are going to direct you towards what
kind of dream you've had and what the
Speaker:content is for you to explore.
Speaker:And if you wake up from a
dream that's even pretty wild,
Speaker:but you feel pretty neutral,
Speaker:you can probably guess that that's
actually a remembrance of you having an
Speaker:adventure outside of your body.
Speaker:And it's not even necessarily like that's
information you technically need right
Speaker:now in your life, although you
can still gather gems from it,
Speaker:but they're almost like
you are remembering the
entertainment that you undertook
Speaker:when you lift your body for
a little bit that night.
Speaker:And so those can be really fun. Now, I
also think there's a class of dreams,
Speaker:and I would call them Big Dreams,
Speaker:and these are more like
soul level communications.
Speaker:So I know I mentioned this idea of
night school in this other category of
Speaker:just these remembrances of entertainment
that you've had outside of your body.
Speaker:But really anytime you have a
dream where you wake up from it
Speaker:and you think, wow, something
about that felt big,
Speaker:I feel a lot of movement inside
of me, I feel a lot of charge,
Speaker:pay attention.
Speaker:And it's these soul-level dreams that
are always the dreams that we're all
Speaker:wanting and waiting for, right?
And they don't happen every night,
Speaker:and that's okay. But when
these big dreams do happen,
Speaker:they can literally change the course of
our life if only we slow down enough to
Speaker:listen to them. So this could be a
dream where you're communicating with a
Speaker:teacher, where you're met by a loved one.
Speaker:I actually have had a lot of
dreams with people who have
Speaker:passed,
Speaker:specifically people - who are connected
to people I love - who've passed.
Speaker:And this is one thing I do want to
mention because especially if you've lost
Speaker:someone really close to
you, it can start to feel...
Speaker:it can feel really upsetting if they're
not visiting you in your dreams or you
Speaker:haven't seen them and it can feel
like, well, are they still there?
Speaker:Is there something wrong with me?
Speaker:And what I have found as someone who
does experience these type of visitations
Speaker:from the other side is that most often
the people who are coming to visit me
Speaker:from the other side are not
directly connected to me,
Speaker:or if they are directly
connected to me, it normally...
Speaker:the communication normally only happens
after they've had a period of time of
Speaker:integration on the other side. And
that's the only way I could describe it,
Speaker:is that they've gone through a period
of integration enough that they can then
Speaker:expend the energy to come communicate
with me. So be open to that,
Speaker:be open to that... that you might
have your loved one come in a dream,
Speaker:but you might have someone else's
loved one come to your dreams.
Speaker:And that I have even found over
time that over, for example,
Speaker:the 20 years that my
grandfather has been passed,
Speaker:that I will get periodic updates on
how he's doing on the other side.
Speaker:And it always comes in at a time too
where it's helpful for me or helpful
Speaker:for my dad and helpful in our growth too.
Speaker:So these dreams are possible.
Speaker:These dreams happen a lot.
Other big dreams are big creative dreams.
Speaker:So a lot of people have talked about
the idea that whatever their incredible
Speaker:groundbreaking invention is or creation,
that it first came through in a dream.
Speaker:For example,
Speaker:I remember reading that Paul McCartney
said that the song Yesterday,
Speaker:an iconic song, came to him in a dream.
Speaker:What I find really funny about this story
though is that it came to him in the
Speaker:dream as a melody and he
didn't quite catch the words.
Speaker:And so he wrote down the title at first
as scrambled eggs instead of yesterday.
Speaker:And I think that this is just such
a funny story and example too of how
Speaker:sometimes these creation
dreams will come in,
Speaker:that we have this big idea - of an
invention, a creation, a life path,
Speaker:whatever it is - and it will take
some interpreting. That it'll come in,
Speaker:it'll be there, it'll be this package,
Speaker:and yet we do also need to
add that layer of filtering
Speaker:it through our day-to-day mind to really
understand what is actually coming
Speaker:through. Like I think Paul McCartney knew
that the song wasn't going to be about
Speaker:scrambled eggs,
Speaker:but that was the stand-in until he
had that time to really piece through
Speaker:that, that these big
inspirations are coming in,
Speaker:they're being downloaded by our
wider self, our soul, our guides.
Speaker:And if you pay attention to your dreams,
Speaker:this might be a kind of dream
that you have. There are also
Speaker:pre-cognitive dreams. So I have dreamt
about people before I've met them,
Speaker:dreamt about things that have
happened before they've come to pass.
Speaker:I've been teaching about dreams for so
many years now too that I've heard so
Speaker:many stories of people
also having pre-cognitive,
Speaker:including precognitive dreams of loved
ones passing, of accidents happening.
Speaker:Sometimes if you were a kid
who had precognitive dreams,
Speaker:it could have been something that
scared you. And because of that,
Speaker:sometimes we shut down when
we have precognitive dreams,
Speaker:especially when we're younger,
Speaker:when we don't understand that
we're actually just sort of peering
Speaker:past linear time, and that we
didn't cause that to happen,
Speaker:that it's not our fault.
Speaker:And that in fact my understanding
of precognitive dreams is that we're
Speaker:often shown those dreams
not to change the future,
Speaker:but just to give us a heads up so that
we have the ability to meet it with more
Speaker:grace. So if you've ever
had a precognitive dream
and afterwards maybe had a
Speaker:hard time with, why didn't I do
something? Why didn't I change something?
Speaker:I just really want you to know that
this is my understanding of precognitive
dreams:that there are certain things that we cannot change,
dreams:but given time to prepare for,
dreams:we can just meet with more flexibility
and understanding and grace.
dreams:Now, I talked a lot just now
about big precognitive dreams,
dreams:but you can also have
small precognitive dreams,
dreams:like just little dreams about
what might happen that day.
dreams:And those can be cool too
because often those dreams,
dreams:which almost function as
a little bit of deja vu,
dreams:are often confirmation that
you're on the right path,
dreams:you're doing the right thing,
dreams:this is where you're supposed to be.
And then there are healing dreams.
dreams:So you can receive healing in
your dreams and your dreams
dreams:will also often be guides
helping you figure out what you
dreams:need in order to heal. So when
I first started studying plants,
dreams:I would often dream about
the Latin name of a plant.
dreams:It would come to me in a dream,
dreams:and I'd have to look it up because I
didn't know them all at that point.
dreams:I was really learning them. And I'd
often be surprised. I'd be like, oh,
dreams:it's this plant, and whoa,
dreams:that plant makes so much sense for what
I'm physically dealing with right now or
dreams:what I'm emotionally dealing with right
now. I've also had experiences of direct
dreams:healing through dreams.
dreams:Like I had an experience when I contracted
Lyme disease of a direct healing that
dreams:happened inside of a dream.
dreams:These dreams are profound
gifts when they come,
dreams:and it's not going to be every day,
dreams:but I am bringing it up because I want
you to be open to the possibility that
dreams:what you're experiencing in a dream
might actually be a healing or might
dreams:actually be an avenue of healing
for you. And to pay attention.
dreams:Pay attention to how you feel when
you wake up, what's inside your body,
dreams:your psyche, your mind when
you wake up from those dreams,
dreams:because it's here to guide you.
I think all dreams are healing in this
dreams:capacity, and when we work with them,
dreams:it's like we give them
permission to actually root in.
dreams:And this healing can come in a
lot of different ways. You know,
dreams:talking about the remembrances
or dreams as remembrances.
dreams:I've also had dreams that I am pretty
convinced are past life experiences,
dreams:where I am someone else entirely,
dreams:but that person is very,
very, very familiar to me.
dreams:And my entire life story is different.
dreams:I've had very vivid dreams from certain
time periods with certain historical
dreams:detail that I've been able to look up
afterwards and confirm detail that I just
dreams:would not have known in my day-to-day
life for any reason. And so be open to
dreams:that possibility too,
dreams:that if you have dreams that are taking
place in other time periods or you seem
dreams:to be an entirely different person,
dreams:that this could also be
a past life remembrance.
dreams:And those are often coming up to help
us with whatever we're dealing with now,
dreams:to understand maybe some of the
patterns that we're holding,
dreams:some of the tricky stuff that seems
to not shift no matter how much
dreams:we try to address it.
dreams:Sometimes these are rooted in other
lifetimes and these dreams can really help
dreams:us work with that. And the final type
of dream I want to talk about is my
dreams:favorite type of dream - favorite,
dreams:because it's so straightforward -
and I call them text message dreams.
dreams:And these are dreams where you get very
specific downloads about what to do.
dreams:Go here, do this, don't do
that. Break up with him,
dreams:whatever it is. And these dreams
also don't happen all the time,
dreams:but when they do happen -
and if they happen for you,
dreams:you know - when they do happen, it's
like this clarity piece of like, okay,
dreams:here we go. That's what
I'm supposed to do.
dreams:And if you could take anything
away from this episode, it's this:
dreams:heed the text message dreams.
dreams:Listen to what the text message is
saying because when it comes in with that
dreams:kind of clarity, you know
that that's important.
dreams:It was important enough that it was
formed into a very direct message for
dreams:your unconscious to deliver to you.
Now,
dreams:most dreams won't be text
message dreams like that,
dreams:but if you do get a text
message dream and you heed it,
dreams:what I often find is that you
will then have more dreams.
dreams:And this is the thing about dreams.
If you want to remember more dreams,
dreams:if you want to work more with dreams,
if you want more guidance dreams,
dreams:more dreams - big dreams,
dreams:like I was just talking about -
these soul level experience in your
dreams:dreams,
dreams:then you need to court them.
And in
dreams:courtship,
dreams:we receive what is being given.
dreams:We relish even the smallest
little things. We treasure them.
dreams:It's like if your beloved
gave you a rose petal,
dreams:you would treasure that because
you're in this courtship.
dreams:You want to get to know them more.
Well, the same is true for dreams.
dreams:And so if you want to
remember more of your dreams,
dreams:here are some tips to do that:
The first thing is going to be
dreams:to write down whatever you remember
first thing in the morning.
dreams:Even if you can't remember a whole
dream, write down whatever is there.
dreams:Is it a feeling? Is it a
song? Is it a song lyric?
dreams:Is it a word? Is it a color?
Even if it's super subtle,
dreams:writing that down is signaling
to your brain that you want to
dreams:remember more of these dreams because
this is what we're talking about.
dreams:We know actually through
research that everybody dreams.
dreams:You dream every single night,
multiple times a night.
dreams:It's just about communicating to your
brain and to your waking mind that these
dreams:are important, that this is information
you want to hold onto and remember.
dreams:And how do we do that? How do we
signal our brain to do that? Well,
dreams:we start by asking your brain
to attune to the details.
dreams:So writing down whatever is there,
dreams:taking that time first thing in the
morning to do that. Another thing that is
dreams:really,
dreams:really helpful is giving
yourself time when you
dreams:wake up, if at all possible. If
you are a parent of a little one,
dreams:this just might not be in the cards
for you right now, but, maybe!
dreams:Maybe you're someone who feels like you
have the capacity to set an alarm for a
dreams:little bit earlier than your
little one wakes up and have that
dreams:time. I often find that I remember my
dreams a lot more when I have a series of
dreams:alarms. So if you know have
to be up at a certain time,
dreams:set a series of alarms 15 minutes
apart for the 45 minutes before
dreams:that,
dreams:and you will have a much
greater likelihood of
remembering your dreams if you
dreams:have those periods of waking up and
then going back to sleep. And to add
dreams:on to that,
dreams:to even create more potential surface
area for you to remember your dreams,
dreams:when you wake up, linger in that
state for as long as possible.
dreams:This is called a hypnopompic state.
dreams:It's the state where we're waking up
or we're rising into consciousness.
dreams:And this is really that turning point
time when you can either remember your
dreams:dreams or just let it
float out of your brain.
dreams:And so the more you let yourself rest
in a hypnopompic state as you're waking
dreams:up - just let yourself rest there, try
not to think about your day. If possible,
dreams:try not to launch into your day,
dreams:unless ou have a toddler pulling
your hair - but you rest there if you
dreams:can,
dreams:and a lot more will have the ability
to come back if you rest there.
dreams:And if nothing comes back, that's fine.
dreams:Don't go down a stressful
rabbit hole with this.
dreams:Just think of it as quiet time in which
you're actually meditating before you
dreams:start your day and you're meditating in
this open state to see what might come.
dreams:And you can also really let your
dreams know that you're courting them,
dreams:that you want to be in
greater conversation, if you
practice dream invocation.
dreams:So dream invocation is where
you have an intention for your
dreams:dreams, where you're asking to get
a certain kind of guidance, clarity,
dreams:perspective.
dreams:My favorite way to do dream invocation
is to write it down on a piece of paper
dreams:or in my journal right before I go to bed.
dreams:So to write that down right before I go
to bed and put it on my bedside table.
dreams:And really, as I am falling asleep,
dreams:really focus on that invocation,
dreams:really focus on what I want to receive,
dreams:ask for it again and again, keep it in
my mind. Just hold it there if I can.
dreams:And then have that right
on my bedside table.
dreams:And when I first wake up in the morning,
dreams:write down whatever is there. And what I
have often found is that even if I wake
dreams:up and think, okay, my question was not
answered. I don't know what that was.
dreams:If I write it down, I'll start to see
that there is actually an answer in there,
dreams:that there is a thread. And if you have
a really big question in your life,
dreams:ask it more than once. Set the
intention several days in a row,
dreams:because what you're doing
is you're signaling to your
consciousness that this is
dreams:important,
dreams:that you're willing to take the time and
the energy you need to focus on this.
dreams:And if you keep asking,
you will receive an answer.
dreams:And if you practice the things that I
talked about, setting those extra alarms,
dreams:giving yourself time to rest as
you are in this hypnopompic state,
dreams:as you come up into wakefulness,
dreams:writing down whatever's there as fast
and as quickly as you can - maybe not
dreams:fast, but catching it while it's
fresh, catching it in the morning,
dreams:if at all possible. I definitely have
written down dreams later in the day,
dreams:at night, but it's a different quality
than writing them down first thing.
dreams:You're going to be able to catch a lot
more. If you can't write them down,
dreams:try voice notes.
dreams:And this works particularly well if you
are someone who wakes up in the middle
dreams:of the night and you remember
a dream, get your phone,
dreams:leave yourself a little voice note
about what you just experienced.
dreams:And when I do this and
I listen to them again,
dreams:I'm often blown away by what
I was dreaming about because
I will have completely
dreams:forgotten about it or I'll have
forgotten 90% of the detail. And so if
dreams:you practice these pieces,
dreams:your dream invocation will just get
stronger and stronger and stronger,
dreams:and you can start to use your
dreams as a kind of oracle.
dreams:You can use your dreams as a source of
guidance to really direct you in your
dreams:life-and not only direct you in the
decisions that you're here to make or the
dreams:big steps that you're contemplating,
dreams:but dreams will also
download into your body,
dreams:into your energy system,
dreams:a greater sense of your own
soul and your own capacity.
dreams:You'll start to feel more and more
and more like you are awake inside
dreams:the dream of your day-to-day life.
dreams:You're able to see yourself more as
the creator of your existence and
dreams:really step into that
empowering piece of I am here to
dreams:co-create my life, that none
of this is happening to me,
dreams:it's all happening for me,
dreams:and that I am invited into
this as a co-creator and
dreams:I'm excited to be a part of this dream.
So if you are getting excited about
dreams:dreams and dream work and the idea of
working more deeply with your dreams -
dreams:especially in connection with
the living world, with plants,
dreams:with the earth - is something
that's calling to you,
dreams:then definitely stay tuned for the
Intuitive Plant Medicine sale that I'm
dreams:running next week.
dreams:Intuitive Plant Medicine is my longest
running course - I think this will be the
dreams:ninth year that I'm running it - and it
is the place where I've taught most in
dreams:depth about dreams along
with many other things,
dreams:including working with plant
allies, on the body treatments,
dreams:land healing, flower essences, channeling,
dreams:ancestral plant work.
And in Intuitive Plant Medicine,
dreams:we go even deeper into
how to dream with plants,
dreams:how to work with your
dreams in conjunction with
communicating with the living
dreams:world of receiving guidance
from the living world.
dreams:We talk more about plants for dreaming,
which is a whole nother topic.
dreams:And one I'd be super excited
to get into another time.
dreams:But if any of this is interesting to you,
dreams:then definitely stay tuned
for that because that sale
is going to be the biggest
dreams:sale I've ever run on
Intuitive Plant Medicine.
dreams:And that's happening next week.
And if you are someone who
dreams:has had big dreams or if you're
listening to this and you're like,
dreams:I have questions about dreams,
I would love to hear them.
dreams:Leave me a voice message.
dreams:I have an answering machine over on
my website at AsiaSuler.com/remember.
dreams:And I just think talking about dreams is
one of the most delightful things ever.
dreams:And if there's enough interest,
dreams:then we'll definitely do
another episode about dreams,
dreams:because there's just
so much richness here.
dreams:There's so much to talk
about. And speaking of dreams
or things that are dreamy,
dreams:or things that are dreamlike,
dreams:it has been so dreamy for
me to receive your feedback,
dreams:to see your reviews, to read them,
dreams:to hold them close to my heart.
dreams:They're like a little light
on dark nights. And I just,
dreams:I've been so honored by all of
your ratings, all your reviews,
dreams:all your feedback.
dreams:And if you are loving this podcast and
you want to make a little dream for me
dreams:a reality, I would love it if you left
me a review or if you rated this podcast.
dreams:It really helps this
podcast reach more people.
dreams:I've already seen this literally in
action, reaching the right people,
dreams:reaching the people that I dearly
want to be in contact with,
dreams:that I want to be in connection with,
and that are part of this community.
dreams:And so if you have the time and the space
to do that, it would be dreamy for me,
dreams:and I would thank you so much.
So I often find that just by talking about
dreams:dreams, we signal to our consciousness
that we're ready to remember them,
dreams:that we're ready to work with them
more, that we want bigger dreams.
dreams:So I want you to know that just by
listening to this podcast today,
dreams:you have set that in motion,
dreams:that you are reconnecting to your dreams.
And to say that piece too,
dreams:that we go through seasons in life,
seasons when we are really connected,
dreams:and seasons when things are just busier.
dreams:But I want you to know that this
is the doorway that never closes.
dreams:It's always open. It's
always there for you.
dreams:It will be there for you when you
have the time and the space again.
dreams:And if you're listening to this podcast,
dreams:then it's probably because that
doorway is beckoning to you now,
dreams:and you have the tools that you need to
begin connecting and to begin dreaming
dreams:big. So until next time,
may your dreams be deep,
dreams:may they be wild,
dreams:may they guide you,
dreams:and may they bring you into connection
with the most important thing of all:
dreams:remembering why you're here.
