Meaning Of Dreams In Chinese Medicine
Topic: Dreams
Do dreams carry any meaning? Does it foretell a future event?
What do dreams mean, especially recurring unfavorable ones?
What about sweet dreams or scarry dreams?

People frequent ask me but I am of not much help as this is not
my area of expertise. In fact dreams interpretation is a
separate skill by itself.

Recently I read a book on Chinese Medicine and there is a
section on how dreams can assist in Chinese medical diagnosis.
This is from a section in the Yellow Emperor's Medicine Classic
called the Miraculous Pivot. I find it extremely interesting and
I would like to share some of their findings with you.

The classic says that fearful dream is a result of lack of qi
in the heart and gallbladder. It can also be due a prolonged
illness or excessive anxiety.

Angry dream is caused by stagnation of qi in the liver and
gallbladder or hardening of the liver. It can also be due to
the presence of gallstones. Conversely, happy dream is due to
the smooth flow of qi and indicate quick recovery even if you
should fall sick.

Sad dream is due to deficiency of qi in the heart and lung,
deficiency of yin in the liver for example with chronic liver
disease and tuberculosis. Melancholic dream is due to imbalance
in the liver and spleen.

What about dreams where you are continuous striving for
something? This is due to reverse flow of qi in the liver and
gallbladder and increasing yang in the liver for example with
hypertension and poor food digestion.

Floating and falling in dreams are amongst the most common type
of dreams. Floating dream is due to excess in the upper part of
the body but deficiency in the lower parts like deficiency of
the kidneys, excess phlegm or coronary heart disease. Falling
dream is due to deficiency in the upper and excess in the lower
part. This is often seen in water retention in the kidneys and
deficiency of yang in the heart.

What if you dream of looking for food or water? Looking for
food dream indicate a weak spleen and deficiency of yin in the
stomach. If you dream of looking for water it can imply
excessive yang and depletion of bodily fluids for example due
to high fever or dehydration.

What about looking for toilet dream? According to the classic
this dream is often caused by painful urination, inflammation
of the intestines, poor digestion or diarrhea.

Finally what is the cause of the most serious form of dreams,
sleep walking? It is most likely due to stagnation of qi in the
liver or distractions!

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A deeper explanation of dreams
Topic: Dreams

The Nature of Dreaming: A Doorway into Multiple Realities   by Julie Redstone

There are different kinds of dreams that we dream, and each has a value in its own right and must be taken seriously as a representative of an aspect of our consciousness.

Some dreams seem peripheral to everyday life. They have fantastic characters, absurd plots, and linger in our minds for a very brief period of time because they seem to make no sense at all to our conscious waking experience.

Other dreams have a strong emotional message that can be felt in the body, even if the actual content of the dream is not entirely understood. Often, the emotional component of a dream message is the central aspect of the teaching, and so it is often not necessary to understand the content further, no matter how much it might add to our knowledge.

Finally, there are dreams whose emotional content and meaning is very clear and very relevant to our conscious waking state. These dreams also fall into several distinct categories: There are those that have to do with everyday life - with relationships, past or present, with longings or fears that we are aware of, with repetitive themes in our mental or emotional experience. These dreams seem to offer a commentary, directly or indirectly, on the life we lead.

There are other dreams, however, which seem to catapult us into a different life and often into a different reality altogether, where space and time feel different, where we experience ourselves on a deep inner level as different from our normal self-perception, and where a message from the beyond may come through to our consciousness that is as real and as potent as anything that we might feel or think that is more familiar to us.

These messages from the beyond are not all fashioned out of words. Some come in the form of visual displays of things that have no correlates on the human level. Some come in the shape of sounds that affect our consciousness with a meaning that only our deepest self can translate. Some come with words that arrive as a thought or as a voice that conveys a purposefulness and a direction that we are being asked to follow. These dreams can be premonitions. They can be glimpses of our soul's essential nature. They can be visions that we have carried into the present lifetime which have lain dormant beneath the threshold of awareness. These awaken during sleep when the ego and mental processes are less in charge.

The dreams that are visionary or that bring us into a different reality are not always dreams. Some, are the visual translation of messages that were seeded into our consciousness prior to incarnating into a human body, containing things that we were supposed to remember at a particular time. Others are wake up calls that are sent from helpers and teachers with whom an association exists, whether or not it is known to the more conscious self. Still others are actual events that are taking place primarily on a different dimensional level - events which are being translated into our semi-awake mind, even while we sleep. These other-dimensional events may be happening to our physical self or they may not. We may be taken somewhere or carried somewhere in what seems to be an energy body that is very close to our physical body. Or we may exist in a dream as pure awareness, simply in touch with a knowing that could never have occurred in a waking state.

The 'akashic chronicle' of the world's life and the akashic chronicle of our own individual life are often made known during dreaming, especially when one has embarked upon a spiritual path and is pursuing a deepening knowledge of the sacred. These chronicles contain the history of our actions and consciousness and of the world's actions and consciousness. Both chronicles reveal the moral and spiritual weight of events that have been, are, and will be. Both convey to the self that is aware, a possible or probable future, or an actual or alternate reality of the past. When we sleep, the absence of mental vigilance can lead us to experience our own akashic chronicle that contains our soul's memory existing outside of time. This ledger extends both to the past and to the future. It brings to us experiences that have already happened at another level that have yet to happen at this one.

All that we know of dreaming cannot fathom the mystery of intertwining multiple realities which dreaming can provide a doorway into. Far from being just a commentary by the psyche on the psychological aspects of our inner life, dreams can create a world of their own and a life of their own which in many ways may seem more real to us than our everyday life. They can engage us with a larger reality that we are already living, though our conscious waking self may not be aware of it. The experience of other-dimensional realities in which we also seem to be living and that we feel touched by is increasing now, as the distance between planes is simultaneously decreasing, and as the physical plane is being drawn closer to the higher realms. Because of this increased proximity, there is a 'bleed through' that can happen more easily now from one plane to another, both during waking hours and while we sleep.

When we become able through time, effort, and the illumination of our total being to experience our multi-dimensional self in a waking state as well, it is then that our dream life can become just another layer of our being - one that can easily be incorporated into the ongoing sense of self that lives within time, and one whose other-worldly experiences can be accepted as having equal validity to those we experience during our more awake states. To accept the experiences of dreaming as an extension of our ordinary self into the multidimensional self that we already are, is to recognize the great complexity and expansiveness of the human psyche which, while fully present on the earth, has yet one foot in worlds that are far away which dreaming brings closer.

About the Author

For additional writings by Julie Redstone and Messages by Request see Pathways of Light, a part of www.lightomega.org.