Haunted By the Living
As twilight nears, the natural instinct for slumber is initiated within the human body. Nestling deep within the peaceful confines of one’s cradle of relaxation, a journey into the subconscious is about to commence.
The human soul was never to be permanently imprisoned by the mortal flesh for the entirety of the gestation on earth. Dreaming and astral escape while the body lie dormant for bountiful hours is crucial to the health and happiness of the soul. Returning temporarily to our home realm on the other side, we subconsciously cross over nightly utilizing our physical unconscious state.
Many people dream of communicating and visiting with departed loved ones, assuming it is merely an illusion caused by the subconscious and imaginative mind. Many times, it is the true, ethereal soul in which you perceive as your former loved one. Through dreams, spirits can directly communicate with you due to the harmonious blending of the realms within dream state.
Astral projection is the literal freeing of the soul from it’s corporeal and carnal confinement. Some people can manifest this blissful and freeing phenomena simply by meditating. Many, like myself, have experienced this release simply by accident or coincidence, but remain aware and cognizant of the adventure.
Vast populations are completely unaware during or afterwards that they have left their bodies at all.
Ghosts are surmised by the masses to be deceased individuals that desire a completion of task on earth. Whether that be revenge for their murder, a message to loved ones or simply a pining for their former existence. In a constant state of limbo, many believe that these beings are either not aware of the living around them or that they aggravate and annoy those on the earthly realm. There is another type of ghost.
Those in the dream state often claim very real and tangible locations where they’ve encountered their unconscious storylines. Some have dreamt of homes that they resided in previously and some have encountered homes in which they believe to be an elaborate fabrication of their mind.
It could be hypothesized that many individuals are truly exiting their physical body while in a deep sleep and traveling many distances potentially having their comatose excursion in an existing environment here on earth. Many of the assumed apparitions and paranormal activity could then literally be caused by a living, yet unaware, individual.
Upon awakening, the person dreaming may well assume that the dream they just experienced last night was an exceptionally lucid and realistic dream. In reality though, they may well have wandered precariously through one of their former residences where they may have imprinted their energy or caused a ghostly mystery within the home.
Next time you vividly recall a dream after a peaceful night’s slumber, consider where you may have gone that evening and who might have experienced you as an entity.
It has often seemed to me that sleep is an extraordinary thing: so ordinary yet so little understood. I have heard it suggested before that we do indeed journey in our sleep: reunited with loved ones, as you suggest, and perhaps even with the source of life itself from which we sprang. It is a comforting thought, if it is true, this nightly journey homewards.
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