What does your dream plane look like?
If there’s anything Piscean energies have taught me this year, it’s that there are secrets and answers within our dreams, which are a pivotal part of our Unconscious.
In previous posts, I have talked extensively about shadow work and the importance of making sure it reaches into the Unconscious.
When you’re first starting out, you may be removing (or paying someone to remove) one or two limiting beliefs or curses at a time. And you’ll be talking about Sub-conscious limiting belief rewriting or rewiring. That’s great but don’t stop there. Keep going until you get to the Unconscious because that’s where it gets real.
“OK but how do I know when I get to the Unconscious?”
While this may very well manifest in different ways for different people, here’s a common clue: things get weird! Like you have to really leave logic at the door. Imagine the movie Inception. Or the Mirror Dimension from Doctor Strange’s Multiverse. It needs to be weird to those levels or even more.
Starting with myself:
I’ve never suffered from Insomnia, nor did I have trouble falling asleep, or sleeping for long periods of time without waking up. This all sounds amazing except that even if I sleep for 7-8 hours, I rarely wake up feeling rested, nourished, relaxed, or rejuvenated.
As a matter of fact, I often wake up in a panic of being attacked. And often enough, I do remember being attacked in my dreams.
This is also a big part of the reason why I am not a morning person.
Having done the energy work on this for almost a year now, I can say that I’ve made progress where I can remember my dreams better now (used to not even be able to do that). Also, I get attacked much less. But nonetheless, the dreams are still not pleasant. I wake up feeling paranoid, or lonely, or confused.
This is why I’ve made it a priority again to focus on my Dream Plane, or Dreamscape.
Yet, for everyone who is not in a similar situation as me, the question remains:
“Why are dreams such a big deal? So what if I don’t remember my dreams? Or have nights where I get nightmares? I mean…I wake up, take a few minutes to recalibrate, and get on with my day. As long as my days are pleasant enough, who cares what happens with dreams?”
To answer this, let’s start by going back to when we were children, and remembering what quotes we were told about dreams.
“Follow your dreams.”
“Dream big.”
Now I’m going to Google quotes about dreams and here are the first few that came up:
“Let your dreams be your wings.”
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.”
These are very inspiring quotes, but do you see the problem here? They all assume the following:
We all remember our dreams
We all know what they mean
Our dreams are pleasant and we should pursue them
How many people out there can put their hand on heart and say these criteria apply to them? And by dreams, I mean literally dreams. The ones we have when we’re asleep and unconscious. I’m not talking about our conscious wants and desires, like I want to start my own business or I want to own a Ferrari or I want to be the captain of the volleyball team.
Now let’s put the quotes into context here. If I can’t remember my dreams, then can they be my wings? Do I have wings? If my dreams involve walking alone in creepy mansions and getting lost, do I want to make them come true by living them? If I’m being chased by people trying to hurt me, what does that have to do with dreaming big? I’m just trying to survive here!
This is why inspirational quotes on their own don’t make a lot of sense.
This is also why, as I’ve come to realize for myself, that I’ve had so much trouble “dreaming big” and “pursuing dreams” all my life. My Unconscious, the part in my Dreamscape, was blocking me.
My life, on the outside, appeared mundane. There were rarely major ups and downs, compared to most others. There are those who have experienced darkness in their Conscious, and their lives read like a soap opera or horror movie sometimes. They’ve experienced the trauma consciously, like almost overdosing, near-death experiences, sexual abuse, domestic violence, heart attacks, losing loved ones suddenly, living with cancer, getting divorced several times, alien abduction, etc. But I’ve had none of that. My Conscious issues seemed really miniscule and trivial, like getting a flat tire, being passed up for a promotion, arguing with my in-laws, friends standing me up for coffee, etc. Almost not even worth a mention.
But this is why it gets tricky. We all have our traumas somewhere. For some it’s super obvious and these folks wear their traumas on their sleeves like a badge. In those cases, it does save effort when it comes to diagnostics. But the ones who seem to “have it together” are the ones who require serious digging. Often because they also feel more self-conscious about it, like I feel guilt and shame just being here, like there are people who have real trauma and physical injuries to prove it and here’s OK me, glam on the outside, wondering how to heal…am I just capitalizing way too much on first world problems that don’t even really exist?
And so I would ask: have you looked in your Dream Plane?
Most coaches, therapists, and psychiatrists focus on the big three: health, wealth, relationships. Most healers and energy workers focus on the subconscious, past lives, childhood traumas, and ancestral wounds.
The Dream Plane has all of the above. In the weirdest ways.
It’s like that hidden plank on your wall that opens up to reveal a secret chamber. With all kinds of strange tools in it that you can’t name or know what to do with. Part of you is even wondering: is this really me?
I love shining light on these dusty corners and hidden compartments of myself. And frankly speaking, I need it. Because on the surface, there is nothing wrong with my life. Even if I were to list off my issues, they would appear small relative to others, hardly deserving of urgency. Yet all my life I’ve had trouble with rapid and/or effortless manifestation. It’s like some people sit down at a slot machine and win money without thinking about it. That never happens to me. Some people get grand visions and have the reservoir of energy to pursue their “dreams.” That never happens to me. Some people learn a new skill in a new niche and immediately get multiple offers of work or partnerships. That never happens to me. Whenever I get something out of the blue that appears promising, it always ends up either being a scam or with a million hidden strings attached.
I’ve worked diligently and consistently on health, wealth, relationships, past lives, childhood traumas, ancestral wounds, etc. And I still do on a daily basis. I would say none of these areas are particular sore points right now, as I’ve plucked out most of the low hanging fruit, aka the obvious culprits.
So now, I know I have to go straight to where most of my drama plays out: The Dream Plane.
Remember that everything is like layers of an onion. Peeling off one layer reveals the next one or more beneath. Real shifts and transformation are materialized by consistently subtracting (out the shadow frequencies) and adding (in the light codes and affirmations).
Here is my Dream Plane, Layer 1:
Upon first glance at the items drawn out on the left, they are quite random. Only by reading and labeling them (on the right) do they come into clearer focus.
Even then, some things are still hard for me to consciously reconcile with. Like #3: everything is so messy and chaotic I just want to take a scissors and cut it all up.
In my life, I’m a connector, curator, and builder. I don’t destroy anything. Actually, I can be a hoarder and cling onto objects, situations, and people for far too long. All my stuffed animals, board games, books, and office supplies like stickers and pens from my childhood are still well-kept and in pristine shape. My five year old daughter is playing with and using many of those things as I’m writing this. I’ve never destroyed anyone’s reputation even after having a permanent falling out with them.
So you can imagine #3 would be a hard pill for me to swallow. There is zero physical evidence of it. But that’s also the beauty of this work. Just because I’ve never acted on it does not mean these energies are not in my Unconscious. They are there, giving me nightmares and draining my energy. Blocking my positive manifestation. Have I destroyed things in my dreams? Yes. I don’t remember the details too clearly, but I do remember enough to know that I have. While I can always say that I shouldn’t beat myself up for whatever I did in my dreams, I do need to face up to the reality that leaving these energies in my Dream Plane is not doing me any favors either.
So…out they go. The point of mapping is for the purpose of awareness, but that’s not to stop there. I’m not against contemplating the shadow, but I prefer removing and transmuting on the spot. Like surgery.
Of course, as with everything it takes layers and layers of removal. Some things run deeper than others. Consistency is one of the keys to mastery.
When I was an engineer, I worked in Research & Development. Digging into the unknown is one of my favorite things to do!
Have you wondered what you have in your Dream Plane? So, it’s not necessarily the exact same as what you remember from your dreams. I’ve never had any dreams involving scissors, lamp, nor kaleidoscope. But when I scanned myself, there they were. From the labels, we can see these are just energies. And do I have those energies in my Unconscious? Yes.
Wonderful wisdom, Rachel! I'm an avid dreamer and remember my dreams pretty well, but always struggled with what to do with them. Initially, I deciphered them symbol by symbol -- painstakingly (cos there are so many in just 1 scene!). Then, lately, I tried to recapture my emotions too. I have also received advice to ask my intuition, the Source what they mean (I am learning how to do this.) Your dreamscape energy reading takes the connecting with dreams to a whole new level! I'm really curious for our dreamscape session! :)