Interference in Dreams from Movies

Interference in Dreams from Movies

In 1998, two movies opened on the same topic: an asteroid hits the earth. Deep Impact and Armageddon both hit the silver screen less than two months apart from each other. Deep Impact opened May 8th and Armageddon opened July 1st.

More than a year before the movies opened, and long before any trailer hit the screen, I dreamed about a major disaster on the earth involving a giant meteor collision. I saw heroic shuttle pilots going out to somehow intercept the asteroid. I even included in my notes how one of the astronauts was a woman. I recorded several details. All the details appeared in one movie or the other. Most, but not all, of the details were from Deep Impact. These were actually several different dreams related to the theme of an asteroid hitting the earth. I thought it was a persistent dream, an important message attempting to push through into my conscious knowledge.

On the night of October 20, 2011 (2 days ago, as I write this) I dreamed about a man who belonged to God, but who left his post and was living to fulfill his own desires. I saw he did not understand where he was. Then I saw a body of water. I heard the word, “Livermore” (a town 40 minutes from Modesto). In the end of the dream, I saw he was killing fish.

This dream really bothered me! Although the man did not look like me at all, I really worried whether the man might be me. I wondered, “What am I doing wrong in life?” I even talked it over with my wife.

Last night, I went to the Red Box in the super market to rent a DVD movie. There are two boxes, and I scrolled through the options in the first rental kiosk until I selected “Black Death”, a film about knights, a monk, and some soldiers who ride out to investigate rumors of a necromancer. After receiving that movie, I checked the second kiosk. I took, as a backup, “Peacemaker” with George Clooney.

At home, we first inserted Peacemaker, and began to watch it. Nicole Kidman, wanting to know the radiation output of a nuclear blast in Russia, asks, “What does Livermore say?” I looked at my wife, “Livermore. Can you believe it? That was in my dream last night.” After a few minutes more, we both realized that we had previously seen the movie, and replaced it with the Black Death DVD.

The main character in Black Death is a monk who leaves the monastery to help the knights and soldiers because he is in love with girl. The body of water which appears is a swamp surrounding the town where the necromancer lives. In the end of the movie, because the necromancer witch tricks the monk into killing the woman he loved, the monk becomes a swordsman, killing young women accused of being witches.

So, the bothersome dream was actually a movie! This has happened many other times. I suspect this is somehow facilitated by the fact that dreaming and watching movies both find the brain in a Delta wave state. However, it may also be that some percentage of dreams are simply the dreamer seeing beforehand what he/she will personally see at some future point in space-time.

Summary:
So, I have three examples shared in this article of how a precognitive dream was actually a scene from a movie: asteroid impact in Deep Impact and Armageddon; The word Livermore from Peacemaker; scenes from Black Death; and even a cartoon scene from a Play Station game.

I have previously written about how a cartoon dream was actually a precognition of playing a Crash Bandicoot game:

Dreaming in Cartoon

Types of Dreams

Two Jews’ Dreams about Alexander the Great

The Prophet Daniel

The first Jew to dream about Alexander the Great was Daniel, a eunuch slave in Babylon. This was a vision at the River Shushan in the land of Elam.

Daniel 8:5-8 “And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat [had] a notable horn between his eyes. And he came to the ram that had [two] horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.”

The “he goat” is Alexander the Great. Alexander destroyed Persia, the “ram”. The great horn was Alexander’s Empire. The four “notable” horns that came up afterward were the four regions into which that empire was divided after the death of Alexander.

Rabbi Jaddua

The second Jew to dream about Alexander was Rabbi Jaddua. According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Rabbi Jaddua saw a dream in which he wore his priestly robes and took his official head priest staff and went to see Alexander.

Rabbi Jaddua understood the dream was from Jehovah, and did as he saw in the dream. When Alexander saw the rabbi, he dismounted his horse and bowed to him. (Some accounts say he fell prostrate on the ground.) This was very rare for Alexander to bow to anyone. Parmerio, Alexander’s top general asked about the bow. To this, Alexander answered that he had seen the man in a dream and understood that the God of this man was the one who gave him victory. So, he had bowed to the god of the rabbi (Jehovah), and not to Rabbi Jaddua himself. Some accounts say that Alexander saw this rabbi, attired in royal robes, go before him in every battle.

Alexander the Great went to the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem and worshiped Almighty God. The rabbis showed him the text of Daniel chapter 8. To this, Alexander rejoiced and he believed (correctly) that he would fulfill the vision.

What Percentage of People Dream in Color?

What Percentage of People Dream in Color?

This dream teaching blog has run a poll in the left margin for most of its existence. Let’s discuss the results of these polls. First, please realize that these are not exactly “scientific” polls and must admit to some bias. First, those visiting this blog are more active and interested in dreams than most others. Second, by choosing to read this blog, visitors are obviously more intelligent and possess greater class than those who read other blogs. So, there is a fair scientific dissenting commentary for the following poll results.

The poll asked “Do you dream (mostly) in:” and four options were given from which to choose. These options are: color, black & white, cartoon, and “audio only”. Here are the results of 114 respondents over a period of more than a year (Thank you to everyone who participated!):

Color: 105
Black & white: 7
Cartoon: 1
Audio only: 1

Total: 114

So, those who dream in color are in the majority: 92.1%. However, it is interesting that 7 people dream in black & white. This means 6.1% of the cool, wonderful people who visit this blog dream mostly in black & white. Those who dream mostly in cartoon or who dream only in audio are unique. Less than 1%, or just 0.88% of our respondents dream in these two ways.

There may be even other ways in which people dream. I listed the four above options because I have had examples of these formats in my own dreaming. An interesting note is this: after blogging about dreams in cartoon, I had two more dreams in cartoon in the following two weeks. If you have never dreamed in one or more of the above formats, perhaps, after reading this post, you will!

Dream about Russian Invasion of U.S. West Coast (& Dream Training Notes)

Original Dream: 1994 or 1995

I dreamed this while living in Philadelphia. I was convinced it was a dream of historical California. But, after intense research, I never found there to be any event like it.

Dream:

First scene: I am with my wife. We pack our belongings into a cart pulled by a horse. We are fleeing ahead of the Russians. The Russians have gained control of the area and all the current occupants must leave.

Second scene: I am at a pier waving goodbye to my sister and her husband as they leave on a ship to France. Everyone is moving to France. I do not have enough money to buy passage. But, I will remain until I can get working passage. I go and return to where everyone is living in a makeshift shanty town. I go to a soup kitchen. The price is very low, just a few coins. As I arrive to throw my coins into the collection, I see an interesting coin. I trade one of my quarters for this other quarter. Someone sees me and thinks I am stealing. I tell him I collect coins. There is a discussion about if I have stolen from the collection pile. Others in the line confirm I traded a coin for the coin I took.
My real reason for taking the coin is that I have a gift of dreaming and that I know I need to grab this coin to convince my own self, who dreamed this dream many years ago. Then, I look at the coin. I see that the back is different than all coins were in 1994. As I stare at the coin, I begin to talk to myself: Look at the coin. The back is different! See the different coin!" I do this to convince myself that the dream is real.

Notes:

At the time I saw this scene via dreaming, I thought the coin was a 1976 coin and could not make head nor tail of the message I was sending to myself. Thinking about it now, I realize I was providing proof to myself: the coin, I am sure, is one of the "state quarters." I was relaying to myself a validation of the dream by focusing on a quarter which would not come into mint until 1999. I trained myself to do this in the mid-90's. Since that time, I have found myself, in the middle of an interesting moment, doing something expressly to put information in front of my eyes so that it may be seen in a precognitive dream. In the same way that a dream-vision is written and choreographed to communicate information, you are a real-time, embedded choreographer in the dream. If you can think of it, work to infuse more information into the scene.

Here is an interesting mention on this practice: In the first dream you receive, you will watch yourself performing some side action with the sole purpose of transferring information to yourself sometime in the past via a dream. However, when the actual real-time event comes around, you will remember that you have already dreamed this event, and that you performed some special action to show information. You will then think, "I need to fulfill that action in order to fulfill the dream."

In the event with the coin, as I dreamed it, I merely understood that the reverse of the coin differed from coins at the time I was dreaming in 1995. However, if nothing changes and that dream comes to pass, and I find myself in the soup line in a refugee camp in SoCal, I will recognize the event, and I will then pick up the coin and examine it. My thoughts will be different than in the original dream.

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This is a chain dream. (See post, Types of Dreams) Consecutive scenes show subsequent moments in a developing topic. The topic above could be titled “vacating California”, or “Fleeing Russians”, or even something else. Chain dreams have two major purposes. First, they show you that these things are related.
Second, chain dreams are often the format for warning dreams. Warning dreams contain some smaller links at the beginning which serve as confirmation of the dream chain as a whole. For example, in the warning dream I received in 1998 about Chinese Submarines attacking America, the first scene in the dream showed a missile attack across the Black Sea. That missile attack actually occurred one week after I dreamed about it. I call these links in the chain dream guideposts. In a chain dream with three or more parts, after each part comes to pass, you have an understanding that the last scene is closer than before.

Dream Fulfilled of Stock Market Descent Impending

On April 3rd, I shared a dream of the beginning of the stock market descent. (At least for a few days, I believe). It began with a 4.04% drop. That happened on August 8th, 2011.

Here is a report from Yahoo! Finance on Major World Indices: (click to view larger, use back arrow to return)

In addition, on this date, the S&P dropped 5.55% and the Dow dropped 6.66%

Here is the original post from April 3rd: Stock Market Descent Starts with 4.04%

Dream of Fear: the Shark and the Dolphin

Dream of Fear: the Shark and the Dolphin

Dreams came to me on a regular basis after being saved in a dream. However, many dreams came to me prior to that major event in November, 1993.

One of the early dreams addressed the topic of fear. This remained a major issue even up to 2002. By March of 2003, when I deployed to Kuwait for Operation Iraqi Freedom, fear no longer held influence. It makes a try, but faith always overcomes it- easily.

Dream of Shark and Dolphin

Sometime in the summer of 1991, I dreamed this dream:

Standing on a beach, I hear some people yelling. I look over toward them, attempting to discern their words, which fade beneath the noise of a strong wind and the surf rolling into the beach. Some in bathing suits and swim trunks point out at the waves. “Shark!” I hear someone yell. “Shark!”, I hear again.

Peering into the distant waves, where the water begins rising to form waves, I see a glimpse of something. Was it a fin? I couldn’t tell.

Then, in the dream, I hear a voice say, “It is not really a shark. It is a dolphin. If you don’t have fear, you will swim out. If you are not afraid, you can swim with the dolphin.”

In the dream, I do not swim out.

END OF DREAM


Dream Manifests

The next morning, I woke and sat up, pondering the dream. After a minute, the phone rang. My sister invited me to go to the beach. I normally don’t care for the beach at all. But, one of her cute friends, Toni, was going, so I agreed.

At Santa Cruz, sometime just before mid day, I heard the calls and warnings, “Shark! Get out of the water!” There was no lifeguard. The beachgoers themselves spread the word. I looked out and saw a fin in the water. The voices and visual both presented much more clearly than in the dream.

Recalling the dream, I considered whether I would swim out. I decided it was a bad idea. No fin expert, what was visible above the water, to my left and moving away (same as in the dream), gave little information. However, it was something about the voice that spoke to me. I did not trust it. I stood my ground on the beach. After a short while, the animal jumped high out of the water. The shouting from elsewhere on the shore confirmed what I saw: it was a dolphin.

Notes:

1. The issue of false sources and true sources presented itself very early in my dreams. Today, it is the #1 most important issue for people to understand: some dreams, like this one, are meant to deceive you. This issue saddled me like a heavy rider for years until I finally broke my mind free of religious and scientific indoctrination to recognize that dreams originate from three sources: mind, Kingdom of God, and Kingdom of Satan.

2. The intention of this false dream was to gain my trust. Though it completely manifested just as shown, it was false. A dream like this serves to gain trust. The devil does not attempt to move a person rapidly from resistant to compliant/deceived. The devil is “more subtle than the rest.” Once trust is gained, the devil leads the deceived person into deeper and deeper delusion.

3. The key thing to recognize was my inherent distrust of the voice which spoke. Later, my science friends would say dreams are random neural firings, and worthy only of a Jungian type analysis. This understanding falls well short of truth. But, the analysis of personal issues via the material of dreams really can produce some psychological benefits. My Christian friends did not believe the devil can send a dream. He can. See Job 4:12-21, this is Eliphaz the Temmonite explaining a dream from a demon, filled with lies and disinformation (which are quoted as gospel in the modern church.)

4. Notice that this is not a self-fulfilling dream. The beach invite came unexpectedly. Nothing about the beach was mentioned to me at all. This is the only time I have ever gone to the beach with my sister or with Toni.

5. If I had entered the water, it would have been an instant loss. Whether I swam with the dolphin or not, I would have moved in obedience and trust in an evil enemy. This would have yielded consequences. Just as Eve believed the serpent in the Garden of Eden over the words God spoke to her, and suffered a penalty: pain in childbirth and expulsion from Eden, I would have brought a penalty unto myself. Later, I was deceived many times, and had to learn to trust the Holy Spirit inside me, which did not like the voice in this Dolphin and Shark dream, and did not like the later lies, either. Unfortunately, I overrode the check in the spirit in those later disasters, and lived what I should not have lived.

Bullet Points:

• Some dreams are false.
• Trust your intuition/ the Holy Spirit.
• You are subject to the voice you trust. Trust God, trust the Holy Spirit.

When the Devil Attacks in Dreams

When a person is about to have a major spiritual breakthrough, the enemy of our souls will attempt to block the progression. Recently, a meeting for deliverance was scheduled in New York City.

Those who made plans to go were attacked. These attacks included nightmares and undesirable dreams.

As I made my way to the airport (real, not dream), my truck began to shake and wobble. The left front tire had ballooned up like a Ball Park frank. I had just 30 minutes to make it to Sacramento International, so I kept driving, with both hands on the wheel. And, I prayed.

I arrived and hurried to the shuttle bus stop. Four busses passed by, all were full. I finally boarded the fifth bus. I packed in with the others from the stop. This was after 10 on a Friday night. Passengers on the bus were commenting on how they have never seen the busses so packed on a Friday night.

When I arrived to check in with Jet Blue, I received more daunting news. A powerful storm set in over New York. All flights were delayed more than two hours. Nevertheless, the flight crew got to Sacramento and the ground crew very efficiently boarded everyone onto the Airbus 320.

We received an immediate clearance. The engines hummed up increasingly, and the plane pushed forward. We quickly accelerated. I watched the runway lights whiz past. Suddenly, the brakes on the plane locked. The craft shuddered and the passengers in our row all involuntary bowed forward.

The plane decelerated to a complete stop. The pilot’s voice came over the intercom, “The brakes on this craft apply abruptly like we just experienced automatically. We have a light on engine number one. It is the design of this craft to brake rapidly when it gets a light like this.”

In the following quarter hour, we learned that the pilots cannot perform a diagnostic themselves. The Jet Blue crew qualified to do so would have to come to Sacramento from San Francisco. We disembarked and filed into the terminal waiting area. After 3 a.m., they made a decision to cancel the flight. Hurrying to the ticket desk, I was able to secure my refund and headed back to the economy parking lot.

At 4:40, I was changing the bubbled tire in the lot. I arrived home after sunrise.

Rat Dream
One of the others who planned to attend was attacked with an asthma attack. He also dreamed a dream with rats infesting it. Both these were very rare for him.

These are all ways the devil attacks you.

So, if you are receiving terror dreams, nightmares, and attacks in the night, ask yourself, “What is the devil working against? Is there a blessing from which he wants to distract me?” In general, the enemy attacks at opportunities, when you are weakened or susceptible. However, when the enemy sees you might rise up, he will work to block that.

Be very careful in attributing too much importance to an attack on your peace when you are doing something that increases your faith or strengthens you.