DREAM DATUM

Category: Self discovery articles Clearing of Karmic patterns   Beside having insights and realisations, karmic pattern clearing is equally important for effective transformation to occur.. In the earlier stages, one works at the level of conceptual thoughts. This level is using reasoning or logic to transform the behavioural patterns. The process involves discovering and uncovering our reactions and responses to certain situation. Many of the times we are not fully aware of these reactions and responses in a conscious manner. For example, when a certain situation arises, certain feeling and emotion naturally arises but the speed of the arising is too fast for us to be conscious of the reaction.
This earlier to intermediate stages are where skills in dream analysis come in very handy. Oftentimes, we can only be aware of certain reactions or behavioural patterns within us when the reactions have been played out. Usually, there is a dream event that corresponds to and is a symbolic representation of the waking hour drama that unfolded these reactions or behavioural patterns within us. We can now see how understanding our dream can be of good use. Dream serves as a pre-empt and when the event occurs, it also serves as a mean for us to discover the patterns within us that led to the reactive responses. At this stage, a good practice constitutes the following: 1. Noting down the content of the dream. At the same time, pay attention to the feelings and emotions during the dream. These feeling and emotions will give further clues towards the discovery of the reactive patterns and their underlying rationale. 2. If a drama unfolds not long after the dream has occurred, compare the reaction that one has during the occurence to the content, feeling and emotion of the dream. Harnessing one's innate intuition, the links from waking hour drama to dream symbolism can be discovered. Once the links are discovered, one can realise the rationale within us that triggered certain emotions which in turns triggers certain reactions and behavioural patterns.
I have noticed that if the karmic release takes place, there is usually a feeling of bliss and relaxing away of tension. This is an indication as to whether we are successful in releasing the pattern (at that moment) or not. Very often, when we try to let go of certain feeling or patterns, tension and unease can't seem to go away. This can be an indication for the following occurrences: 1. The letting go is just a conscious willing. Subconsciously the habit is still operating. 2. We have mis-identified the root of the problem and/or unease. In another word, we are trying to let go of a pattern even though it is not the cause of the unease. Usually, being overly-mental can lead to this occurence. This is because there are many mental activities going on within the given span of time, making accurate 'targetting' of root cause/s both difficult and tricky. As one progresses further, one's accuracy with self-discovery improves and works closer to the level of dynamics. Gradually there may be less reliance on modalities such as dream analysis. More and more, tensions may be released the moment they arises due to the enhanced clarity. For your necessary ponderance. Thank you for reading.   Search this website