Understanding Premonitory Dreams and Subconscious Communication
to establish connections and understand that communication can be viable. So this is a very interesting exercise. Then we have premonitory dreams. These are veridical dreams, that is, they are communications that our subconscious makes about something that should still happen. Because, if here there is a very strict temporal line, the further we go in this consciousness, the more unstable the contours become. Also because here the subconscious has perception of a sea of unconscious forces that are influencing. Therefore, it's like a logical consequence: it already knows that something is about to happen and tries to warn us. These premonitory dreams can be very easy to understand. For example, I once dreamed that my grandmother was coughing and falling. So, I immediately understood the dream. And, in fact, a month later she died falling to the ground due to pneumonia. This was a premonitory dream.
Question - Can this happen without us sleeping? Can it happen when we are awake?
- Yes, but that's something else. But yes, it can also happen. We have to realize that there are millions of different states of consciousness, therefore, the world is vast with things that can happen. For example, they can happen as in the case of Jung, the great psychologist who, and he didn't tell anyone, in 1914, before the First World War began, had an experience while walking: he saw rivers of blood, devastation, he was horrified. He had four other visions. He said nothing and stayed away from the world for a year, analyzing his subconscious and beginning what later became the development of his research on the collective unconscious. These are prophetic situations. Therefore, there are many things that can happen.
Premonitory dreams can be very easy to interpret, to analyze, like this case. You don't need to be a prophet to understand what the dream was saying. It's clear that when a dream is premonitory, true, the person immediately feels that the dream is important, that it's not part of these common dreams and that there's a meaning behind the dream that needs to be interpreted. Other dreams are premonitory and should be interpreted. And there's a code to interpret them, which is not so elementary.
For example, if you dream of an empty purse, the empty purse means acquiring wealth. Why? Because the subconscious manifests an empty purse and this means inside, in the subconscious, in the person's psyche, that economically they are not well. They are in an economically problematic situation. Then with their strength they will achieve, they will try to adjust the situation and will manage to do this. Therefore, when you dream of an empty purse, it means acquiring wealth. Similarly, for example, I once dreamed that I was killing a spider and this means winning a battle, it means overcoming a very important challenge. Or then, for example, if you dream - and this is very common - that you are losing a tooth, this generally means the loss of a family member. But this dream must be relevant because, otherwise, it's a state of bruxism. That's something else. But, if on the contrary, you really dream of a tooth falling, this means loss of a family member.
As we have seen, the threshold of consciousness, when we fall asleep, is very, very high. That is, before we wake up, if there is a person who is next to us, they can also suggest some things when we wake up. But the physical things we do can often influence oneiric plots of the subconscious, therefore, if we have bruxism, it may be that a person visualizes teeth falling. For example, once I was on retreat in a house and this house only had a fireplace to heat it. I spent days and days, continuously, with the fireplace burning, burning, burning until, without knowing why, I got tired and fainted. In the dream, I saw my father - who is a doctor - looking at me in flames and saying: it's better to wake up. So I, with great strength, outside myself, woke up and immediately understood that the fireplace was closed and, therefore, all the smoke was inside the house. In fact, it was because of this that I fainted and it was a very, very dangerous situation, as it causes many accidental deaths and my subconscious was warning me, through the dream, telling me to wake up. Therefore, the...