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: www.dreamhealings.com
Dream
I’ve had this dream many times. It’s a reoccurring dream that I’ve had since I was young and it’s disturbing. I haven’t had it in a while, but I recently visited my sister and had the dream that night.
In the dream, my sister is choking me and I can’t breathe or speak. I’m trying to tell her this and she just keeps telling me, “You’re fine!” and “It’s fine!”
I never die in the dream, because I wake up before I die, but I think if the dream continued it would end that way. I get along fine with my sister, apart from those words that she does say to me all the time when we are together when I have an issue.
My question is, when we get along so well why would I have such a disturbing dream about her? It makes me feel weird every time I have it.
Interpretation
This dream is a visual representation of your energy bodies and how they are interacting with each other in the energy field. You have this dream often because this is often happening in the energy field with her. There are many reasons this dream might have started, but to dive deeper into that would be best suited for a one-on-one session where we can re-enter this dream safely and privately. So instead, let’s dive into what’s happening in your energy field.
We often forget how much our energy affects others. This is the most poignant take away from this dream. We can send energy to others in many ways and most of us do this many times a day unconsciously. We can send energy in the form of thoughts, emotions, actions, inactions and, of course, verbally and physically. Thoughts can be the most subtle form yet they are the most common. Your dream is a visual representation of thoughts that are being sent to you.
When our thoughts are loud enough they generally are sent with or without our conscious agreement to send them. This means that your sister may not be meaning to send you this thought. A “loud” thought means a thought is in the forefront of the mind and often has an inner dialogue narration to go along with it. Even loud dreams can be sent.
Picking up on energy sent in thoughts is just as unconsciously easy — for better or worse. Have you ever thought about someone and then they called or texted? This is a perfect example of picking up on the thought message that is being sent loudly from someone else. They are thinking, “I need to reach out to this person” loudly and therefore send that message to you energetically just as they pick their phone up to call.
When we are unaware that energy is being sent to us it often ends up coming to us in a dream afterward. This is because we go through processing the day’s events in our dreams with what happened to our energy body just as much as with our physical body. You are replaying in your dream what happened between the two of you in the energy field when you were together. Your sister’s energy was trying to silence yours. It’s important to note here that all dreams remembered are on purpose.
You’re remembering this dream so that you may work out this unspoken energy between the two of you. You can start with the invitation the dream is giving you to begin in your dream realm where it is safe, but you can go further if you wish.
Energy field dreams can easily shift into astral projection dreams. This is because you are interacting with a realm (the energy field) that makes up the astral realm (where the soul exists), the physical world and all other realms and dimensions — because everything is energy. Astral projection in dreams means that you can move through the energy field unbodied, or in your “astral body” or “soul,” instead of being tied into your personal dream and dream realm. In your astral projected body you can affect your reality because the energetic field overlays the physical. That’s the true invitation given here.
Because your sister is sending this message out only with her energy and not with her actions, it could be assumed that she is unaware altogether or, at the very least, unaware of why she’s doing this. In the energy field you can discover the why and work directly with each other’s astral bodies to heal together. This can be done in a conscious lucid dream work session.
We may think of dreams as not being able to affect our waking life, but our physical bodies are products of our energy bodies. We are constantly communicating in the energetic field affecting ourselves and others. This dream is such a testament to how important it is to become conscious of what it is we are saying to each other.