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!

For an update on the statistics see a later post: What Percent of People Dream in Color?

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.