The Tangible Reality of Dreams and Dream Land

Most people understand dreaming as the mind's way of processing our internal and external worlds, assisting in our ability to interpret and assess emotional responses to the complex situations we experience every day. Although dreams are a great utility for emotional and mental analysis, we are often taught as young children that they do not possess any greater significance than simple interpretation and are, in a tangible sense, not real. As such with the mentality of the Boogey Man in the closet, so are the benign and nightmarish dreams. However, as someone who is not a psychologist, psychoanalyst, or any expert on human psychology, I must say that from experience, dreams are real and are as tangible to the mind as any object is to the body. In fact, many people in various fields of science have come to the conclusion, in one way or another, that a thoughtform is real to the mind, and therefore, a tangible aspect of our reality, which assists us in creating said reality, more specifically what makes up our internal and external worlds. Simply, our thoughts create our reality, and therefore, since our dreams are expressions of thought and emotion, they are real. The works of Abraham-Hicks, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and others explain how the mind creates by thought and emotion, and as Abraham-Hicks once stated in a workshop on the subject of manifesting by thought (paraphrasing), just because it is in your mind does not mean it is not real.

I am baffled by the notion that there are people who claim to have never dreamed. Perhaps, they do not remember their dreams, but I come from a biased mentality. All of my family, particularly on my mother's side dreams, and my dreams have always been in color. Only one of my dreams (that I recall) was experienced in black-and-white. Some of my dreams are bits of various stories compressed into a nonsensical plotline while others tell a vivid and coherent story, even if I awake to only recall bits and pieces. It was not until I was older that I realized my dreams, both nightmares and "normal" ones were symptomatic of my reality. I was able to surmise why I had the dreams or how they related to my current experience. Ultimately, I realized where I only experienced emotional responses to my dreams as a child, I began to experience physical stimuli as a teenager and young adult, which the sensations often lingered long after waking. These feelings and emotions ranged from the norm, such as fear, anxiety, and excitement to what I deemed at the time as unusual, which were physical feelings of pain, touch, and even feeling the sensation of movement around me in my bed or bedroom as I awoke or after I awoke from my dream. The latter became more apparent after twenty-five years of age to which I had long recognized that some of my dreams were prophetic in nature.

Prophetic dreams? You bet they are real. My prophetic dream "ability" is not as developed as my other abilities, for I do not know what dream is a prophetic dream until I am living the memory of the dream as reality. In that moment of recognition in which I have "seen" this exact moment before, I realized it was part of a dream that occurred so long ago, I cannot fathom when I dreamed it. I have learned that my prophetic dreams generally do not realize until weeks, months, or years later. Yet, prophetic or not, my dreams are real because my mind experiences them as its reality, and therefore, becomes my reality, even if it is for that moment. Once, I had a weird dream that turned nightmarish. A large, alien-like spider attacked me and, I felt the pain from the attack as its tentacles stabbed through my arms. Pain and other forms of energy spread through my chest and head, and of course, fear washed over me. When I awoke, it was not only fear and pain I felt but the spider. I felt it charge across the bed before "disappearing" over the side. I did not see a large spider. I felt it as if an invisible one was in the room with me. This was not the first time I awoke to feel things from my dreams in the bedroom around me or their lingering affects on my body as if whatever it was embedded an energetic impression. In that moment, the spider was real and is real each time I think of it. I felt the crawling sensation of legs against the bed, making a realistic vibration of movement on the mattress as it ran across it. To all of my senses, except for scent as I do not recall smelling anything, the spider was real and was in the room with me until it vanished.

After years of personal experience and reading about dreams and multidimensional worlds, I believe, as some people do, that the place in which we experience our dreams is a dimensional place we go to have experiences that are not always available or capable of expressing in the 3-dimensional world. Some people believe the "dream land" is a 4-dimensional place. I am not so well versed in knowledge and experience to say yay or nay, but I do believe the dream place is beyond 3-dimension where our minds are not restricted by rules and regulations of how things should or must be. They are as the mind wants them to be, and as multidimensional beings, it makes sense that in sleep or dream states, we are free from the restriction of the reality we construct and live while we are awake, and therefore, can experience these wonderful and fearful expressions of our thoughts and consciousness--of our existence in ways that can give us greater insight and clarity we need at any given moment, depending on our present experience and desires.

In dreams and meditation, I have experienced encounters with other life beings and have experienced situations most people would deem unreal, but they are real. There is no other explanation. Not for me. My body and mind are instrumental in interpreting energy and "matter" around me that makes up my world, and the interpretation of my dreams are the same. They are real, through and through. My mind does not accept any other truth, and often, my body does not either. For what makes reality real is the experience, and it is our senses and mind that interprets the sensation of the energy of these objects, beings, and other "things" that exist, whether in our minds or in the space around us.

So, I suppose it is true. In a way, reality is relative because the aspects of reality and of dreams are dependent upon the person who gives their perspective thoughts about them. Therefore, in truth, I am right...but so are you.

What types of experiences have you had in your dreams? How real or vivid are they? Have you had any "unusual" encounters in your dreams...even in meditation? Let me know in the comments!

Jamie Compton is an intuitive energy and reiki healer, a spiritual messenger, psychic medium, and empath. She is the owner of Love, Light, & Roses, and you can connect with her by following Love, Light, & Roses on Facebook and Instagram as well as subscribing to Love, Light, & Roses on YouTube. Subscribe to the LLR newsletter by email on the website.