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emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 7 Sep 24

John had had a series of dreams where he was on a train, but without a valid ticket. John was always afraid that the inspector would catch him, and so as soon as he became aware that his ticket was expired, or that he had...

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Short Story: A dream reveals something to John about trust, and real integrity

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 30 Jun 22

John's dream showed him how trust is sometimes removed from someone, by a simple act of thoughtlessness. John was dreaming that he went for a walk outside, at lunchtime, from his office job, in some big city. He went into...

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Short story: A zen master analyses his student's dream

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 26 Jan 22

The Zen master, Kerthe Zerbloxski, was talking to one of his students about a dream that this student had had, just the night before. The student had told him the dream, which he described to his master like this: "I was...

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Dreams: Do they have unique meanings only for the dreamer themselves?

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 27 Sep 21

Does each dream have a unique interpretation for the dreamer, or can a dream mean different things for different people, and so are there common dream themes, or archetypal symbols in them? [b]God brings you dreams from a...

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Short Story: John's connecting dreams

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 22 Jul 21

When John was a teenager, he stayed with his Grandmother, in her little country town, of Frezborough. He remembered, at the time, that he had had a dream there, of walking through the bushland, with his brother, Charles,...

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Short Story: John dreams of snakes

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 2 May 21

[i]John Tuvenon was dreaming that he was on some small island, with some other man, and that this man had made a fire, and was cooking snakes, cut up into pieces on it, for them both to eat, as there seemed to be nothing much else...

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Short Story: A singer sings out a real message to his audience

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 20 Apr 21

John Jeremiah Jones, had just woken up from a dream. He realised immediately that this particular dream held great importance for him, and for his life. [i]He decided to try to look deeper inside his dream, so as it might...

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Short story: John's flying dreams allowed him to see the bigger picture view of his life.

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 6 Jul 20

Most nights, in his dreams, John would find himself flying through the air, in some way, or another. Usually, he would be flying along, in his own body, alone. [b]Last night, though, John also had a flying dream, but...

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Short Story: John's dream opens another page of his life to his own understanding

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 7 Jan 20

John Jovling was dreaming that he was in a large secondhand bookshop. He picked up a large one-volume dictionary/encyclopaedia book, and as he was looking through it, he noticed that the page, numbered "41" had been torn...

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Short Story: George's dream of going back to school, let him finally re-school himself

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 3 Oct 19

George was dreaming that he was told to go back to school, as a mature age student, right back into primary school, into grade 1, or prep, it seemed. George went to the school, and he walked along the long linoed corridor,...

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Short Story: Fred has a prophetic dream, about his own life, without recognising it as one

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 18 Jul 18

Fred had a weird dream last week, on a Monday night, where he was simply reading a book in a library, somewhere in the inner worlds. He knew that he was in some other world, by the surrounds, and the general feel of the place,...

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When two things happen more or less simultaneously, are they necessarily always linked, or connected in any way?

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 7 Jun 18

I pose this question, as my title, because sometimes we just assume, quite wrongly, that they must somehow be linked. For example, last night I was dreaming that I was in a hotel room shaving, and I was looking into the mirror to...

dream interpretations

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Why does something already bad often move to something much worse?

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 7 May 18

John was dreaming last night that he was in a gymnasium doing a workout. His wallet, and other clothes had been placed in a locker, of which John had the key, pinned to his tee-shirt. After his workout, John went into the...

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Where is your Life ladder taking you up to??

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 8 Oct 17

Old Alf was getting towards the end of his long life. He was seventy-four years old now. One night Alf had a dream that he was walking down a deserted street. At the end of this street was a large house. There was a ladder, with...

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Our nightly dreams, and our life lessons. How are they interrelated, are they related?

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 6 Nov 16

If we are being taught something from our dreams, does it mean then that something greater than us is really aiding us in our living, and is trying to guide us in this way, or is this just our unconsciousness pointing out things...

unconscious dream learning

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Dreaming about our own death in a nightly dream

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 5 Apr 16

I was dreaming that I was in some type of a field last night, and that I was standing right next to a high stone wall. A large bale of wool then fell off of this wall onto me, landing right on top of me. It did not kill, or...

near death experience

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Repeating dream themes, repetitive life lessons?

emptychair @innertalks (23743) • Australia 16 Dec 15

A few nights ago I had a dream where I felt trapped within the walls of a certain building that I found myself in. I was literally too weak in my dream body to be able to climb over these surrounding...

dreams

dream meanings

feeling trapped

repeating dream themes

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First Lucid Dream in quite some time

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 3 Aug 15

Maybe mylot's homecoming had something to do with it? Kidding. A lucid dream is where you know that you are asleep and dreaming but are able to manipulate the dreamscape. That is just one definition as I have read several others...

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Dream Interpretations

aero89 @aero89 (422) • United States 3 Jan 13

Are dream interpretations ever accurate? Or can they be compared to having your future predicted by a fortune teller? Are they so vague that they can fit into anyone's life if they are looking for it to? I've looked up a lot of...

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Do you always remember your dreams? Do you dream?

kayla_7602 @kayla_7602 (704) • Canada 16 Feb 09

So i think i heard once that we always dream every night...i dont know if i believe it but I cant rule it out because i really dont know. Some mornings I will wake up and have the slightest of memories of a dream I was having...

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