Spiritual Dreams. What could they really mean?

Can we ever raise ourselves above our limitations without Gods help, or intervention?
@innertalks (20978)
Australia
March 12, 2018 11:49pm CST
The other night I was day-dreaming that I was flying/floating up a high tunnel like shaft. When I reached the top, I was stopped by a heavy man-hole cover that was in place there. I tried hard to push against it, and to lift it up, and to move it away, but with no success. Then I realised, as I kept pushing against this obstacle, that I had been carrying this heavy structure/blockage around with me in my brain for many years. It always seemed to block me from ascending to where I wanted to ascend to in my thinking and consciousness, and also it prevented me too in my overcoming fear, and replacing it with the courage to follow love instead of being stonkered by the fear instead. The man-hole cover was blocking me from entering the higher worlds, and entering parts of heaven right now, it seemed to me. It was keeping me down below in the dark recesses's of the lower worlds. Then in my dream, Jesus Christ came along, walking on the other side of the shaft, and he simply lifted the weighty manhole cover off and away, placing it on a nearby shelf, with a slot in the shelf, marked with my name "Stephen" on it. Then the light streamed down to me from that higher realm. It was like a window into heaven had been created for me to see through. Jesus said to me, "You can only come completely through this porthole when you die, or sometimes, in extraordinary circumstances, you can enter heaven whilst still alive, if you have a near death experience or the like, as you call it down there." It was now like that the heavy brick like restricting force in my brain had been lifted and moved away, and I could now see past the end of the tunnel parts of what existed in the next world, but more importantly its light was now sustaining me, and I was not so much in darkness now then anymore, after this enlightening experience which occurred for me in this particular dream. Such a tunnel separates our heart and our mind, and freezing over either end of it, the heart, or the mind end, stops the light from interpenetrating to both areas freely. This blockage can be caused by ignorance, sin, or wilful ignoring of God's voice, and pleadings in our life, for us to follow his light and guidance, and not fob around in/with our own self trying to find a light that never exists until God lights it into existence within our self. Once lit, love keeps it in flame after that, as long as we love. Photo Credit: The photo used here has been freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com Can we ever raise ourselves above our limitations without God's help, or intervention?
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@yugocean (9965)
• India
13 Mar 18
I have got dreams of Dracula, Ghost and even vampire army; what could they really mean?
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@yugocean (9965)
• India
13 Mar 18
@innertalks I the dreams, I always win. Used to be afraid and run away from them, but later dveloped fighing againest them.
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@innertalks (20978)
• Australia
13 Mar 18
@yugocean @yugocean Yes, I agree with that. We are always in control of our own dreams, ultimately so. I allow myself to be shot in a dream. I jump of cliffs, and watch my body get smashed against the rocks below. I know that none of this can affect the physical me. I am just curious to see what happens, if I give it free rein like this.
@innertalks (20978)
• Australia
13 Mar 18
Maybe it is an allegory, that you are fighting against some part of your self. We all have such inner demons, and parts of ourselves that we need to bring into a better light of understanding too.
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
14 Mar 18
We can, but it takes a lot of work. It's not easy and takes years of suffering to accomplish. Well, if you are trapped on a dark path. The other day I realized that gods are not limited by items that trap a part of themselves off, creating a weakness, so I destroyed the various items around the world containing pieces of myself. It felt nice to not be burdened by past limitations.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
14 Mar 18
@innertalks I know I wish I had looked into the ebook world 10 years ago. I had all the things I needed to have all the time in the world to work on it, but no knowledge that it was there. However, lately I have come to a decision about it. Rather than getting hung up on what I missed out on, I'm thinking of what my future self in 10 years will think about me now, and what I'm missing out on currently. In doing that, seeing myself from ten years in the future, I am changing the past by starting in on future me's goals today. It's a little play with time, but it's what I can do now that matters to me in the future. Also, past me reminded me of a critical piece of knowledge a little while ago. "I wasn't ready." I remember saying that if I got into the working front right away, I would get consumed by that, and at the time, I had to experiment with finding my voice and learning knowledge to move ahead. That, and gathering confidence. I can say I wish I had done things then... but I was doing things. My knowledge today was gathered by the me of then.
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@innertalks (20978)
• Australia
14 Mar 18
I am not sure that many of us could do that too. Past limitations trap most of us. Decisions made in the past, cannot be changed, and the ongoing effects from our making of them are also very hard too change. For example, the fact that I bombed out of University, years ago, cannot be changed. The effects of that decision still haunt me, because my life might have been a lot different if I had finished my course, and my education.
@innertalks (20978)
• Australia
15 Mar 18
@OneOfMany I suspect that at least once in everybody's lifetime they will connect to this power that's within. The light from above is always trying to penetrate the darkness, and to try to find a gap in its wall. Our higher self is always trying to help us I think, and this means that we will all leave our darkness when it is the right time for us to finally leave. By then, we will have done the work, had the experiences, and gained the wisdom and understanding to cope with our living from this higher self, and its powerful light of truth.
• Dallas, Texas
29 Mar 18
As regard to the last question on your post, I would have to say, I myself need God's help to assit me to rise up above my limitations.
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• Dallas, Texas
29 Mar 18
@innertalks , You are so true.
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@innertalks (20978)
• Australia
29 Mar 18
Yes, I am so lost in my limitations, without God's help, I would always be so limited.
@innertalks (20978)
• Australia
29 Mar 18
@lookatdesktop thankyou!!
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@Shiva49 (26190)
• Singapore
14 Mar 18
Dreams may tell us of the possibilities and give us hint of our potential. We feel limited due to our own mental blocks that weigh us down. I have dreams that mostly do not make much sense at least for now but I try to make sense of them with a positive take - siva
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@innertalks (20978)
• Australia
15 Mar 18
@Shiva49 Yes, I was reading a bit about Stephen Hawking this morning. He used to think that something could be lost in a black hole forever, and totally annihilated lost to the Universe, but he was later convinced that nothing can ever be lost. There is even an escape clause then, even from a black hole, as you just said.
@innertalks (20978)
• Australia
14 Mar 18
Yes, dreams can be a welcome outlet, and provide us with an inspirational direction change, and give us new hope, that were stonkered before in us, because of our outlook on life, seeing more only its difficulties, and our own mind thinking weighing us down, as you put it there. That's very well summarised siva. You have a way of cutting to the truth behind these types of complicated issues, which I tend to just complicate more...LOL...
@Shiva49 (26190)
• Singapore
15 Mar 18
@innertalks Thanks Steve, I make more sense out of your posts than my dreams for sure! That may not be saying much anyway! Hope led by love for having been given this opportunity here makes up for the temporary reverses that are part and parcel of every life. The rich are afraid to leave this shore while some are hoping for a better place beyond. The former would rather stay put here! As I saw in a comment, it is not easy to start all over again to go through the tough grind again and again. So what we do here should matter. Stephen Hawking will know more about black holes now; he comforted us that all is not lost even if we find ourselves there. He had soothing words for us not to lose hope: “Black holes aren’t as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. Things can get out of a black hole, both on the outside, and possibly to another universe. So if you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.” - siva
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@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
13 Mar 18
Wow!What an experience! I love reading stories like this because it helps me to know that I am not the only one who has them and I've had many. If I can upload this photo, it is of a poem I had written a few years ago. It also contains a photo that I had taken (quite unexpectly) while I was in Vancouver.
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@innertalks (20978)
• Australia
13 Mar 18
Thanks. That's a great poem, with encouraging words for every type of person to hear. I think if we ask most people, most people have had at least one or more of these types of experiences in their lives too. I was surprised once, when I asked my grandmother about that, and she told me a wonderful experience of her own then too.
• Canada
31 Mar 18
@enlightenedpsych2 Thank you! I wrote this one right off the top of my head. :-)
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• Canada
31 Mar 18
@enlightenedpsych2 I LOVE IT! That is very creative and so true! I love acrostics. :-)
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