Your Experience Is Remarkable

Thu., Oct. 17, 1996

Nancy Huseby Bloom

Dear Nancy: When I woke up from this dream I was disturbed. The events that took place within the next few days and weeks would clarify the message of the dream.

My mother and my husband are telling me that my daughter is going to live with us. I keep protesting vehemently, saying, “No, she’s not. No, she’s not.”

My mother has been dead for many years and it had been a long time since I had dreamed about her.

I had this dream on a Friday. The following Tuesday, my husband had a stroke and, within a few days, died. After the funeral, my daughter moved in with me for a few months to help me deal with my husband’s business affairs and help manage the household.

This dream was proof to me that there can be messages from people who have “crossed over.” I just wanted to share this experience with you and your readers. - Emily

Dear Emily: Thank you so much for sharing this amazing dream experience.

Tips for readers: Are you having a hard time remembering your dreams? Here are some points to ponder and some suggestions to improve dream recall.

We all dream several times during the night, but the dreams we remember the most easily are the ones we have in the early morning hours. If your desire is to recall several dreams per night, try drinking plenty of water before bedtime. When you wake up to relieve yourself, take a notebook with you to the bathroom and jot down any dream memories or impressions.

Be sure to keep a dream journal. When you commit to recording your dreams each morning, you are signaling your psyche that you truly desire to recall your dreams. This is an important step in dream work and will greatly enhance your dream recall. Even dream fragments are important to record.

Remembering and recording emotions such as sadness, fear, elation, etc., can trigger the rest of a dream into consciousness.

Be sure to add comments about your daily life-situations in your dream journal. Include any particularly disturbing or touching events and conversations. This information often gives us clues to our dreams.

Through my experience in working with dream groups and my own dreams, I have come to realize that recalling dreams seems to be “cyclic” in nature. In other words, we can go through weeks of little or no dream recall and then experience prolific recall for a period of time. These cycles can be different for everyone. One person’s dream recall may be affected by the various seasons, while another’s may be influenced by the cycles of the moon. For women, recalling dreams may be affected by their monthly cycles.

Don’t get discouraged if you don’t remember many dreams; you may be in the “resting” part of your cycle. Just keep asking your own psyche, your higher self or God - whatever you are most comfortable with - for the dreams that will encourage you, give you wisdom and heal the parts of yourself that need healing. Be patient with yourself. They will come!

This column is intended as entertainment. But psychologists who work with clients’ dreams say that dreams can hold a tremendous amount of significance; a particularly disturbing or repetitive dream may indicate the need to see a therapist.

, DataTimes MEMO: Nancy Huseby Bloom has studied dreams for 16 years. Dreams may be sent to her c/o The Spokesman-Review, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210-1615, or fax, (509) 459-5098. Please send a short summary of the circumstances in your life and include your name, address and phone number. Nancy conducts dream groups on a regular basis. For information, call 455-3450.

Nancy Huseby Bloom has studied dreams for 16 years. Dreams may be sent to her c/o The Spokesman-Review, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210-1615, or fax, (509) 459-5098. Please send a short summary of the circumstances in your life and include your name, address and phone number. Nancy conducts dream groups on a regular basis. For information, call 455-3450.

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