Dream Magick
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Introduction
For centuries, sleep and dreams have been widely used in the magickal/spiritual practices of many cultures. Many feel that dreams reveal much to the dreamer and, sometimes, if one focuses their mind hard enough, one can change their life or, better yet, find their "direction" in life through their dreams.
Since even science hasn't been able to explain away all the mystery regarding sleep and dreams, old fears and ideas about our "nightly adventures" remain today. Just saunter on down to your local bookstore or page through a current magazine on "psychic" phenomena. There are tons of stuff on how to lucid dream, how to interpret your dreams, how to keep away nightmares, tell the future through dreams, etc. Sometimes there's so much "stuff" it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.
In this page, I'm going to deal with the little known practice of Dream craft; a practice within Wicca in which one uses their dreams to bring about needed change and accomplish specific goals. Just keep in mind that my "expertise" is on the spiritual side of dreams. My spiritual practices, beliefs, etc. may or may not reflect your own.
For starters, I will go into just a general description/ over-view of what Dream craft is...
Most of us who keep a dream diary or journal already do some Dream craft. A dream craft-y person (practitioner) recalls their dreams and records them, either by writing them out in notebook form or recording them on audio tape, in order to later study and analyze them. Dreams, I'm sure you'll agree, have a lot to say about us and the way we perceive our world. By studying the Images in our dreams, we can come to a better understanding of ourselves and our world. Sometimes we can weed out specific information from our dreams which we can use to help us deal with a situation or resolve a problem. And what better way to deal with what bothers us than by "sleeping on it?!"
Have you ever, before going to sleep or while in the process of daydreaming, successfully recalled an image of a friend, place, or specific sensation (such as a scent, taste, or sound) and were actually able to re-experience that image/sensation without actually "experiencing" it? This is Creative Visualization and it is the key to all magickal operations/ practices, especially so in Dream craft.
Thinking visually is natural for us, but focusing on your visual Images is a bit harder. Dream craft practitioners, through meditation and actual dreaming, recall and concentrate on a specific image that represents a person, place, thing, or situation which they wish to gain insight on. Through this visual "focusing", they can program their minds into re-experiencing a dream or real life event.
The benefits of this are practical: in order to have power over our "inner-enemies" (which are our problems, insecurities, obstacles, etc.) we must name them and know them and not allow ourselves to walk "blindly" through life where we won't be able to learn from them and resolve them.
When we are faced with a situation where normal answers fail and frustration sets in, the last resort most of us turn to is the realm of the Spirit (this is where prayer comes in--where we appeal to that which is higher than us for guidance and intervention). To a magickal person (such as myself), dreams are an invaluable spiritual and practical resource of helpful information. In dreams all physical laws and worldly logic are set aside. It is here, in The Dreaming, that we can produce the most change--this is what Magick (not the Disney "magic") is all about. Anything is possible within our dreams. Use this power!
The main point of Dream craft is to gain insight on life, confront that which perplexes us, change our perception of "what's going on" to "what's _really_ going on", and do something about it in waking life.
Definitions of Dreams
