Astral Travel Dreams and Experiences

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I had a kind of astral travelling dream last night. I went to my mother’s house during the night and went to sleep with her. I saw her crying, rubbing her eyes. I asked why she crying? She said she had a cold. I haven’t seen my mother for a long time, can you tell me about why I astral travelled to her?

Coldness can describe loneliness in dream language, perhaps your mum is telling you that she feels lonely rather than unwell. Your soul probably went to her in her time of need. 

We Astral travel when there is a need that takes precedence over the other things in our life, a time when we need to understand that we can leave our body and that our soul is not tied to the earth.

Our spirit body/soul acts in the same way in the spirit world and can travel through obstacles and over great distances of time and matter in just a thought, it can also be in many places at the same time. 

A person may have small astral travel dreams intermittently throughout their life, whereby they visit a loved one who lives far away, simply for the fact that they need contact with that person, this is not unusual especially for people who love each other, love provides the energy needed for the contact to occur. Love also provides the energy needed for the soul to pull away (although not disconnect) from the body and travel wherever it is pulled or required to do something. Love is also the catalyst for ensuring we return to our body after astral travelling.  

Another reason astral travel dreams occur is so that you can travel to help or heal another soul, the person/soul may or may not reside on the earth. They may also be leaving the earth to go to the spirit realm (death) and you could be helping them make that transition. It isn't uncommon for some people to help or aid other people through this transition regularly. In other words, they have the type of personality and skills that are utilized to assist other people and help guide them from this world into the next. This requires a strong personality because this job is difficult to do, especially when you consider the type of deaths that can occur.

A type of hand over is needed at the time of death, a living soul hands a transcending soul over to someone who is in the spirit world. This way no soul is ever alone when they die, there is someone with them at every single phase of their passing. The astral traveller who hands the soul over also ensures that the person who is leaving the earth does not feel pain or fear and moves gently into the spirit realm no matter how traumatic or untimely their death is. Their energy is used to support the transcending soul.

Astral travel dreams also occur when a person needs a rest from their body, maybe they are in constant pain and simply need a break from the pain. There is no physical pain in the spirit realms so it is an ideal place to have a short break from your body, you can experience true freedom this way as well.

Sometimes, we astral travel for no particular reason and simply because we need to understand and remember that we are a spiritual being first and foremost. We are not simply body and mind, but mind body and spirit. It is our spirit that leaves the trappings of earth and true freedom is experience through flying around and realizing that when you leave your body you still actually exist as a separate entity than your body.  Everyone is reminded of this at some stage in their life, but usually, they do not take any significant meaning from the experience. They treat it as a flying dream and no more.

Drugs can trigger an astral travel experience, but in this case it is dangerous because the soul might have difficulty getting back into the body. Under normal circumstances a soul is assisted by guides and helpers in the spirit world, they help and sometimes coerce a person back into their body they also ensure that the chord connecting the soul and body is not broken during the experience so that re-entry is possible. When a job has been completed or when the experience has been acknowledged full reconnection between soul and body is pretty simple. When someone has left their body un-supervised perhaps through the use of drugs it can be really hard for them to re-enter the body, and this is when death occurs.

The reason we do not experience astral travel very often is that when we are free from our body we simply do not want to return to it. Our soul understands that the spirit realm is the true home and will happily stay there regardless of who is being left behind on earth. The true soul understands that everyone will end up in the spirit realm (true home) eventually, so is always reluctant to return to the body. This is why spirit helpers and guides must be on hand to ensure a soul will go back to their earthly existence.

Short astral travel experiences are common for this very reason, the longer you are out of your body the less likely you are to want to return. Near-death experiencers often relay the wish to stay in their soul form and not come back to their body. 

An Astral Travel Experience. 

I was going to sleep when all of a sudden I saw light in my minds eye instead of the darkness as you would expect when your eyes are closed, I began to focus and look around me and I realized I had left my body and I was actually somewhere else, but I was still in my house and I thought how pleased I was to get out of my body again, (this has happened before) Anyway, I was excited because I knew I could fly now and would be able to go wherever I wanted. I remember looking in a mirror in my hallway and being confused when I couldn't see myself, it was an odd sensation, to say the least. 

I rose up to go through the door and I remembered that I could go through the closed door and could move through physical objects. I loved the sensation of flying and of passing through objects that were in my way. I was relieved to be out of my body and free. 

I was flying around aimlessly it seemed, with no real destination and without intent. I arrived in many different places, one minute I was in one place and then I would be somewhere else. I instantaneously jumped from one place to another, there were people present, it was like I had just landed in their house, took a look and then immediately went somewhere else. I didn't know any of the people that I visited. I knew they were all over the world because I noticed their different language  and I could get the gist of the things they were saying. These pop-in visits were random and I can't for the life of me find a valid reason for some of the visits, although on two of the random visits I helped babies who looked to be in trouble. One baby was being squashed by her sleeping mum and I had to push the mum off her, I was able to move the mum with a mixture of mind power and physical force, next I went to another random bedroom where I stood in the doorway and a little girl jumped when she saw me standing there, she was blue in the face and I could see she was choking so I picked her up and hit her on the back to help her clear a blockage in her airways, she was shocked but hugged me afterwards. 

Next, I was transported somewhere else but I knew this place wasn't on earth, it seemed like a school, (I think it was the learning levels of heaven or the spirit realm) there were people everywhere coming and going and doing who knows what. They couldn't see me but then I notice a bearded man who could see me. I asked him if he could see me and he said that he could, so I asked how come because I was fully aware that he shouldn't be able to. He just said "God Bless" and walked off. 

I found myself in my old school playground alone and decided as I didn't want to go back to my body yet I would entertain myself by dancing, somehow music was being played and I just danced and danced and was able to do manoeuvres not possible with a human body, I suppose I was still flying really so it was a flying dance. It seemed like I danced through about ten different songs and it seemed to go on forever. I was completely happy and contented.

All of a sudden my mum came out of the school building into the playground and she came up to me, she looked so young that I was shocked and I said to her that she looked amazing, she asked me if I was sad? I said, "what are you talking about of course I'm not sad, why should I be"? 

She said, "your leg is hurt and what about the house"? I looked down at my leg which had a massive gash in it, it wasn't bleeding or hurting but I could see it was badly damaged. I looked back at my mum and said: "what about the house, whose house.? what are you talking about and please hurry up and tell me because they are going to make me go back in a minute and you haven't got long to explain."

Before I could get a full explanation from my mum I was forced back into my body, against my will it seemed because I certainly didn't want to go back. I woke up with a start, I sat up in my bed and cursed and cursed because I didn't want to return to my body, I lay down and desperately tried to go back to sleep so I could escape the trappings of my body and earth again. I was angry that I was back in my body and also angry that I wasn't given all the information that I needed. I was told that I had hurt my leg but not what was wrong with the house or whose house they were talking about. 

What was really different about this astral travel dream is that I seemed to be out of my body for a very long time. I had some control over it but the places I went seemed to be controlled by someone else and I flit from one place to another randomly and mostly without reason. I suppose it could be called remote viewing but I like a reason for everything. I can understand why I visited the babies who needed help but the rest seemed random and for no reason at all. I don't understand how I physically helped the children who were alive on the earth while I was in my astral form. But I know they saw me and and I was real to them, perhaps in their mind I was solid and could act as such.  

I was left frustrated because I was told something was wrong but not given any more information and was then dragged back into my body against my will.  I honestly would have stayed out of my body. I love my family more than anything but I was totally aware that their spirits belonged there too (the spirit realm) so I wouldn't have been leaving them. I was really angry at being forced back into my body against my will. It seems that the longer I was out my body the less I wanted to get back in. 

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Dreaming of Home

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Last night I dreamed I was in Chile (my hometown) and I was with my sister. I was riding a motorcycle with her and it was difficult to drive but I managed and I drove through the streets, but there were too many people there and they made it difficult to keep going.

I have been constantly dreaming of my home town, flying over it, or walking the streets in the city and also with my sister, riding bikes or motorcycles.

Do you think all dreams have a message or some of them not?

In dreams, we return to our home or hometown when we have left something of ourselves there, this could be happy memories or loved ones, it can also be because it was a place and time where we felt carefree. 

Home is where the heart is, and home is where you start your journey in the dream. The journey is an important symbol and relates to the life journey you are on with its many twists and turns, obstacles relate to the obstacles you come up against in your life journey and the motorbike represents the resources and energy you have available in order to move forward and make progress with the direction you have chosen.

The motorbike or cycle is a single person mode of transport and this helps you understand when the journey you are on is one which you must travel alone. I do not mean that you are alone in the sense of being single but what you are learning and experiencing in life is something that you alone must negotiate and learn to come to terms with. This might link with the fact that you have had to leave your own town or country; this can be a lonely experience which people around you will not truly understand. They say home is where the heart is and living in a new town or country and having to leave family and loved ones behind can bring personal anguish which is difficult for other people to fully appreciate.

In your dream you drove the motorbike and although you did find it difficult you managed to ride it and at the same time keep your sister on track as well. This explains how you have previously chosen a route or path for your life to take and at times you have wondered if you made the right choice, but you carried on regardless. You have also maintained closeness with your sister even if you are not living close to her now. The fact that you keep returning to her in your dreams means that you still want and need her in your life and are not fully ready to give that bond up. 

You dreamed that there were many people that blocked your way forward and this could be symbolic for the people in your life who stand between you and where you want to be.

Flying to your home town is simply a way for you to astral travel there.

What you need to work out is why you want to keep returning home, have you fully come to terms with your new life elsewhere?

In another stage of that dream, there was a concert in the town. I think somebody told me there were only two tickets left. A friend of mine was going and I told him to meet me in the city center but he told me it would be impossible to find each other with so many people there. I think I finally went on my own but the concert didn't sound good at all.

Then I wanted to take my father for a meal. I thought of a Mexican restaurant which was very cheap and the food was good. Suddenly, we were in the restaurant but the food looked like burgers with sauce. Talking to the people at the restaurant we found out that the owner had died  not long ago. We went out with our food and then I decided it would be better to leave it in the car while we were going somewhere else.

This is perhaps a continuation from the first part of the dream, the concert wasn't all it was expected to be, now, this can either describe the fact that the journey you have chosen isn't all that you expected, or that returning home wouldn't be as perfect as you think it would be. Not being able to find your friend with so many other people around is also simple to understand because it explains how you are concerned that you will not be able to see your true friends any more because of all the other people who take up time and place in your life. Moving away from the security of old friends into the new big wide world so to speak!

Later, you wanted to take your father for a meal which explains how you want to be able to take care of him and provide what he needs to be happy and content, the food you are given in the dream does not meet with your expectations and this relates to how you are unable to provide the care you would like to give him.

Shops and restaurants are used to symbolise the places where we go to get what we want or need, they can be used to describe what is available around us to provide for our physical and spiritual needs, the fact that the shop/restaurant owner had died is kind of telling you that this stage of your life has died and you must move forward and accept that you cant go back. 

You are trying desperately to cling on to your old life while at the same time move forward with the new one. You want your family and old friends to be part of your new life but find it increasingly difficult to maintain this ideal.  

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Recurring dream that I am packing my suitcase!

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I've been dreaming constantly about packing luggage.

This is quite simple to translate, you obviously want or need changes to happen in your life, you keep planning to make changes but are unable to see them through. So you begin the process again at another time.

Luggage symbolises travel of course, but is also used as a symbol when you start something new, a new phase of life or a new and exciting journey.

Packing luggage is also used to describe the process of packing up your troubles and moving on from them.
An overpacked suitcase represents the idea of putting too much pressure into something that is already over-filled. You are doing too much and need to release some pressure before you explode. Stop trying to be everything for everyone. Consider what you are putting in the suitcase, clothes represent the character that you show to other people. Or the character you create for the people around you.
Changing your clothes is a representation of who you are 'trying' to be for everyone else, in contrast to who you really are.
An empty suitcase can describe the emptiness you feel inside.

I have also known a case to be used as a symbol for a court case. The symbolism of an empty case can easily explain a situation where there is not enough evidence. Or the other way round of course and the bulging case can deliver the message of lots of evidence.

Luggage:
Travel

A fresh start!

Pastures new!

Change!

Carrying your problems around with you?

You want to leave a situation behind!
You want to move on!
Escape!
Baggage!
A desire for freedom!
Pack up your troubles!

Recurring dreams happen when:

You haven’t achieved what is needed!

You haven’t learned exactly what you were supposed to learn!

You have not moved on from something!

You haven’t understood the real meaning of the dream!

You keep making the same mistakes!
You ignore something!

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Dream about a fridge on fire

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I had a dream last night and it seemed very real to me. I was going to my father’s flat. I opened the door and I feared that a fire could be in the flat. I saw a light when I opened the door. It was like something about to get on fire. It was the fridge. I didn't switch the lights on, fearing the flat may explode. I opened the fridge’s door. It was hot and some smoke came out of it. Then I opened the freezer’s door. It wasn't too hot and there was food inside still frozen.

Then I went to my father’s room who was sleeping (as expected at that time of the night. (That’s why I say it was very real to me) I turned on the light and woke him up to warn him. He woke up and was looking very young and slim (He is 74 actually) with a brown leather jacket. We went to see the fridge and we found out that I left it on +3 temperature. We put it back to normal temperature and I told him to go back to sleep.

I feel that the dream you had was a form of astral travelling whereby you visited your dad while he and you both slept. (Your soul/spirit visited him) The reason for your visit to him might be because you have some concerns for him, you were checking up on him to make sure he was alright, and as you suspected things were not safe. This doesn't necessarily mean that things are not safe in his flat (always worth checking though) more likely that in your opinion he doesn't take care of himself properly.

Looking at the symbols and scenario of the dream backs this up:

The fear of an explosion when the lights are turned on is a way of expressing the fear that you have when if light (knowledge) is known, a situation might explode into something bigger, in which case you will then have to deal with it. Perhaps you fear that if you look too closely at your dad, his health, and his ability to take care of himself properly you might then have to deal with the consequences of that.

The fridge symbolises coldness or neglect, and this backs up the idea that maybe he neglects himself to some degree. 
The freezer is a way of expressing the idea that something is frozen in time, food is being kept in a state of rigidness, food equals sustenance/fulfilment and might symbolise aspects of your dad's situation, perhaps he isn’t feeling particularly satisfied with his own situation but lacks the inclination to do anything about it.

The fact that the appliance is a cold store appliance but is overheating can help to explain how the situation he is in at present is beginning to become more of a problem, it needs action from someone else to find a cure or remedy, you seem to be that person and it might mean a bit of practical help to ensure things are safe at home or emotional support to encourage him into finding new interests, or taking care of his health. It's hard to say what support he needs without knowing the whole situation but I am sure with some delving you can work out what he needs. After all your dream was designed to bring your attention to your dad’s vulnerabilities.

The end of your dream gives an example of the fact that with a little effort and care things will return to normal and he will return to his usual vibrant self. If I were you I would encourage him not to leave things or put them off. Tell him it’s easier to deal with small problems when they arise, if something is left for too long it will escalate into a bigger problem.

I dreamed of black smoke coming out of my fridge. 
The top of the fridge seemed like it had boiling metal at the center. When I decided to unplug it, the glass door was broken and I tried to cover it with plastic food wrapping to preserve the coolness of the frozen meat inside.

A fridge is often used to describe the idea of preservation in dream language, water is always used to represent the emotions and in this case, the boiling metal would symbolise emotions that become overheated and could boil over. Boiling metal in the place of boiling water would suggest that emotions have been hard and unmoving for quite some time, they have been cold, rigid, and uncaring. Whose emotions are being highlighted, is it yours or your partners or both? 

It could also be symbolic for someone else with who you haven't had a good relationship with. 
The black smoke represents when something could ignite, black meaning negative and depression possibly. Unplugging the fridge is a way of showing you that you are attempting to disconnect from a situation that has the capability to cause you problems, or explode in your face. Covering it over with the plastic food covering describes your menial attempts at repairing the situation. You cant keep 'covering up and smoothing things over, wishing everything would just go back to normal because you don't wish to deal with it. 
In a nutshell, it looks like you are trying to preserve a relationship that hasn't been very fulfilling for you both, the coldness and the frozen meat help to explain that. If you want to really preserve a relationship and not let deterioration continue then you have to really work hard, and instead of covering things up and smoothing things over you will have to be honest with yourself and the other person, so you can really start afresh. That means talking calmly and honestly, without emotional outbursts, sometimes we need help from the outside for this to be able to happen. 

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Disaster Dream

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My dream was like a film playing out, there was going to be a nuclear bomb going off and I had to try and get everyone together and I was trying to get my girlfriend to come with me as well. I think we were going to a space ship which was landing to rescue us.

I told my girlfriend to get on the space ship but she wouldn't, she said: “No I have to help other people as well”.

Then the ground cracked beneath us and I was getting really frustrated that my girlfriend wouldn’t get on the space ship. 

We both started running around trying to find somewhere safe but there were looters and muggers everywhere and I just wanted to find somewhere safe to go. We ended up on the top of a hill looking at the sky and then we said I love you. Then we saw a plane crash and I woke up with a jolt.

Disaster dreams very rarely predict global disaster events but often help to explain what the dreamer would view as a personal disaster. From looking at the dream contents and at the other symbols and dominant characters in the dream, i.e. your girlfriend, it isn't too difficult to work out what you deem as a possible disaster in the waiting.

Let me explain:

Your dream suggests that you feel as though you have to protect everyone from any eventuality, even things that haven’t happened yet and also things that are out of your control. Bombs are usually symbolic of explosive situations that can change the way your life is set up, this will link with the fear dream scenario where you have to learn to face your fears. It would seem that your biggest fear is about things going wrong; you would see this as a disaster because you want everything to run smoothly and stay the same. (Fear of change)

The spaceship providing the escape route is a way for you to acknowledge that when things do go wrong you either expect a 'way-out' to turn up and rescue you or perhaps you view the rescue source as a ridiculous notion and have always rescued yourself when times are tough, its hard for me to say but you will know which fits better. You also want everyone to go along with your plans and ideas because you feel it is the best thing for them, perhaps you get frustrated when they have other ideas. Spaceships also represent the unknown and feature when you do not really know what is going to happen next and also when you have to deal with the uncharted areas of life or relationships. It's all a bit alien to you.

In your dream, you want to protect everyone but your girlfriend is telling you she sees herself as the person who looks after other people and perhaps she is letting you know that you do not need to look after her. This in itself would be viewed as a disaster to you because her ideas might clash with your ideas about who does the looking after in a relationship. 

In the dream, your girlfriend will not allow you to protect her and insists on helping everyone else. Perhaps you are coming to terms with having to allow your relationship to find its own level footing, a new balance that you haven’t had to find before. You are very similar characters and this is what might cause the cracked ground in the foundations of your relationship, as described in your dream.

The hill is symbolic of the uphill struggle that it feels like, trying to get two strong personalities (who want to be in control) to find balance and a sturdy ground base. Because you tell each other that you love each other even though you have all this going on, it means that you both want to find a way to make the relationship work because after all, that’s what you have to do when you love someone.

 

A plane crash helps to describe how hopes and dreams can come crashing down, this is a typical symbolic gesture of your situation because as relationships develop from what you expect in comparison to what you actually get, your ideas and dreams quickly come back down to earth. 

Relationships are hard work to maintain and to keep 'flight' you must work together to do this. Of course, you both have differences as well as your similarities, you both have your own way of doing things, but this doesn't mean you cannot find a level ground that works, you need to meet halfway, somewhere in the middle to create balance and harmony within a relationship and of course love is the perfect reason to do this.

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