6 Tips for Having Wonderfully Vivid Dreams How to Create and Remember Your Dreams - Doreen Virtue Everyone dreams every night. Even if you never remember your dreams, there are steps you can take so that you don’t lose their messages upon awakening. Along with taking care of your physical body and managing your stress levels, try the following tools and techniques for dream preparation. You can follow the exercises exactly as written, or you can use them as a guide to create your own methods. Affirmations An affirmation is a positive statement where you declare that something about yourself is true. It is a form of prayer or intention that focuses on a desirable outcome. When you say affirmations before you sleep, they set the tone of your night journeys. When you set positive intentions, you give yourself permission to unlock the gateways of understanding and recall the deeper meanings of your dreams. Below are 4 examples of dream affirmations. Choose one before bed, hold the intention in your mind, and repeat it until you feel the positive energy in your heart. • My dreams are always peaceful and healing. • My dreams are for my highest good. • I enjoy dreaming, as it allows me to be more creative. • I carry my dream potential with me into wakefulness. Here Are 6 Tips to Prepare For A Wonderfully Vivid Dreamtime Your environment affects your emotional and mental states. Your feelings as you fall asleep influence your mind throughout the night, so it is important to create a calm environment conducive to dreamtime. Think of your bedroom as your personal dream chamber. Below are 6 easy tips to prepare your environment for dreamtime: 1. Decorate your bedroom using calm blues, greens, and earth tones. This will promote a restful sleep. Include any decorations that make it feel intimate, comfortable, and peaceful—let your room be your haven. 2. Be aware of mirrors in your room; they act as gateways for other energies to emerge. Covering your mirrors with beautiful fabrics before bedtime will close off these portals. 3. Place a “dream pillow” underneath your pillow. Fill a small sachet with a combination of herbs, flowers, essential oils, and the like, meant to promote sleep or call forth particular dreams. If your dream pillow is filled with the herb mugwort, this will expand your clairvoyant vision and make your dreams incredibly vivid. Including lavender is also helpful for awakening clairvoyance. 4. Dedicate a journal and pen to recording your dreams. Keep them within close reach of your bed. 5. Before bed, repeat an affirmation or set your intention for the type of dream and subject you would like to bring forward. Call in your dream guide, as well as any other beings, such as Archangel Michael. 6. Consider making your own dream altar. This sends a message to your subconscious that your dreams are important to you. Your altar will act as a vessel that holds the space in the room sacred. It influences the energy of your environment by setting its vibration to one that is conducive to dreams, like a radio set to the station of dreams. How to Create A Dream Altar Dedicate a small table in your bedroom or a space on your dresser for your dream altar. Even a plain wooden crate works. You can paint it, or decorate it with colorful fabrics and different materials that you like. Place personal sacred objects upon your altar to infuse its energy with their vibrations. These objects are like seasoning a dish: the spices add nuance to and enhance the flavor, and the special items that you choose for your altar will similarly amplify your dreamtime. You might choose to ornament your altar with beautiful fabrics, interesting materials, oracle cards, dried or fresh flowers, pictures, seashells, crystals, written affirmations, or anything that inspires you. You can include seasonal or temporary objects with your altar. Perhaps you have a particular situation you want to work on for a while. In that case, you might find an item that represents it and put it on your altar just for a night, or until you feel it is resolved. Then you could replace it with another object or nothing at all. Experiment! Enjoy adding to, changing, and re-creating your magical altar in your personal dream chamber. Be sure to take a moment to visit your altar and meditate on the objects there before you go to bed each night. Music Music is important for dream preparation as well. You can listen to anything while getting ready for bed or lying in bed before sleeping. However, it is important not to fall asleep with the television or radio playing. Your subconscious mind will pick up on all that is being said, whether it is positive or not, which will influence your emotions both while sleeping and when you awake. To promote a happy dreamtime, play soothing music before going to bed. You can play any music, as long as it feels positive and uplifting and elicits the feelings you want in your dreams. Candle Gazing In candle gazing, you look at a candle with a focused intention. This is a powerful technique not only for dream work but also divination, manifestation, and meditation purposes. To begin, first choose a colored candle. The color promotes a specific energetic vibration, which enhances the types of dreams it represents. For example, blue corresponds to the fifth chakra; it also symbolizes calm, inner truth, and communication. For example, by choosing blue, we are promoting dreams to help us seek inner truth and communication. After you have selected a candle, find a comfortable seat, then put the candle somewhere safe (perhaps at your altar) and light the wick. Allow your gaze to soften as you begin focusing on the flame. The fire is transmuting, or “burning away,” any energies you need to release before dreamtime. The color of the candle is setting the intention for the types of dreams you would like to journey through. Water Magic It is important to prepare your dream body each night before you go to bed. This preparation will also help bring you back into a full state of awareness as you awaken in the morning. Open your dream body to the magical doorway of dreams with this sweet ritual: Before going to bed, fill a small glass with water. Hold it with both hands, next to your heart or your solar plexus (in the middle of your rib cage). State an affirmation such as, “My dreams are vivid.” Drink half the water. Place the glass somewhere safe nearby. In the morning, take the half-full glass of water, and hold it again with both hands to your heart or solar plexus. Repeat another affirmation related to recalling your dreams, such as, “I now remember my dreams in vivid color and detail.” Drink the remaining water. With practice, you will now begin to remember more details of your dreams. This dream-inducing ritual works! Why? you might ask. The physical body consists mostly of water. It makes up much of our bloodstream and our cells. When you say affirmations while holding the glass, it changes the molecular structure of the water, essentially fusing your statements with it. Drinking the water “fills” your body with your intentions. You awaken your dream body with this easy technique, thus helping you remember your dreams. To learn more about how to remember your dreams and interpret their meanings, see my book, Angel Dreams that I co-wrote with Melissa Virtue.
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