Blog 3

It was so far-fetched to believe that before I began reading this week’s assignment, my mother called and told me about a good dream she had seen. I laughed it off and told her, I have work to do! I called her right back, after finishing the reading; told her what the book had stated regarding extra sensory perceptions and dreams. She began to explain to me that in our religion, Muslims are not suppose to discuss their bad dreams with anyone especially people that hold bad intentions towards each other and that we as Muslims, are to give “Sadaqah,” an Arabic word meaning: charity to the poor.
The reason behind this, she explained: “if we talked about our bad dreams with people who hold bad intentions for us, the bad dreams will come true.” She also stated, “Our good dreams are to be discussed only; in the morning, with someone who has a good intention.” Her reasoning made sense with what the Achuar and the Huaorani discussed, in chapter 7, “the dream is owned not by the dreamer alone”. (pp 125) This made logic since the A’Hadith , saying of the Prophet Mohammad, state that the meaning of a dream will be altered if told to people with bad intentions. (Paraphrased) I was alarmed! Because my religion coincided with what Mctaggart was asking in chapter 7, she questioned “Does what we think or dream influence anyone else?” so researched proved that dreams have influences. It makes sense now, why my mom always told me not to discuss my bad dreams!
Moreover, Ullman and Krippner research provided a lot of evidence supporting how people “empathically feel another’s pain” or how Tart found that “his receivers were aware of his pain, but not on a conscious level.” (pp 127) This also connected me with the reading in an optimistic manor.
Very nice…
It also made think about how we see the dead in our dreams sometimes and The Field states that, “Our dreams, as well as our waking hours, may be shared between ourselves and everyone who has ever lived.” (pp 139)
ahh… (A sigh of relief)
We’re connected to spirits… oooooohh
I guess this means, we are “time and space” like Robert Jahn says. (pp 174) We have the power to control and take into notion that we are the “here and now” and that sometime what is under our feet, just might be what we need to see. We should examine our consciousness sometimes and see if it all plays well. Are we connected, spiritually, physically or mentally and give an importance to life and not the materialist values we hold. As Sartre said, “It is only in our decisions that we are important.” We have to pick up our piece and connect them along the way and see if they make sense. They just might…