Natalia Snider is a certified dream practitioner living in Carbondale. She works with people’s dreams and imaginations to facilitate self-healing. Every month, she will analyze someone’s dream in The Sopris Sun. Anyone can submit a dream for personal analysis or inclusion in this column by visiting:
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Dream
I dreamed I was hanging on a rope in “space” and I knew that if I let go, I would die. So I hung on tightly, but it kept slipping from my hands. Eventually, I let go, at which point everything became crystal clear and I instantly knew everything — like all knowledge was at my fingertips — and I felt like I was home.
Interpretation
This is a dream of death — simply that, but so much more. Let me be clear, and let me explain. This is not a dream prophesying your physical death. This is a dream of letting go of one reality to gain access to the next, and the amazing gift of connection that’s on the other side. But no one needs to die to access this gift. This dream was given to you specifically to tell you just that. Ok, now let’s dive deeper into this incredible dream.
You say “space” in quotes as if you know it wasn’t really outer space although it appeared that way. Sometimes when we dream of space we are actually dreaming of our bodies on a quantum level. As above, so below. Although locations in dreams aren’t always so metaphorical, follow me here with this one.
In the dream you were hanging on a rope then died when you let go. This is the tether between the astral body and the physical body in your dream realm. Your “space” is you leaving your body to go deeply inward to the quantum level. Just as an umbilical cord connects inner to outer worlds, your rope is the cord that connects outer to inner realities. You know you will die when you let go, but just like in the womb it is only a change of state. Remember this feeling of changing states in this dream because this is how you get back.
Many believe that when you die you experience just what your dream suggests: full clarity of the mind, all the understandings of the universe and a feeling of being home. The human perspective is said to be a very limiting perspective in comparison to the whole of reality — limited all the way down to only one perspective of life, inside one human body, filtered even further through the definitions, beliefs and values that we each hold. You must die in your dream to access this new reality because you must release all the limiting perspectives, beliefs and core understandings of your physical reality to be able to accept the reality of this place of unfathomable understandings. Like a baby’s mind is clean and clear and able to accept its new realities without any preconception.
The gift of this dream is showing you that you can access this “space” without dying because you can, and already did, access it in your dream realm. Your subconscious gave you the key, by way of emotional experience, how to connect back to this place, a place that some might call the Akashic Records. It’s the place where all collective knowledge in the universe is stored.
I would guess that after this dream your intuition is feeling more alive. This is the knowledge seeping in from this gateway that has been established. Here is a dream work exercise to keep that gate open, if you so choose:
Get into a sleeping position, as close to how you normally sleep as possible without falling asleep. This helps with clarity of dream recall. Then pull the dream forward and go through a chronological checklist of everything that you experienced. See all the visuals, hear all the sounds (even the absence of sound), feel all the feelings. Use all your senses to bring the memory of the dream to life. When you get to the part where you die and gain clarity — stay there.
Expand that feeling so much that you live in that feeling for the moment. Do not try to recall any knowledge. The knowledge will download effortlessly into
you as you experience the remembered feeling of becoming one with it. Work this muscle of connection many times and the connection will become stronger. Next, do this sitting up, and after that do it while you are active.
The information will come as it already has — through intuition — but will be much clearer and stronger. So keep a keen ear to what your gut is telling you and trust it, because now you know where it’s coming from.