Your Wildest Dreams Revealed Series #4: Dreams vs Reality

You have sent me many dream questions and I’ve been waiting for a rainy day to answer them. Well, it’s raining. So, I’ve shut off my cell phone and hung the Do Not Disturb sign on my door that I “permanently borrowed” from a hotel room. In order to answer them all, I’ve created a dream series because I believe that by reading the answers to the dreams of others we enrich our waking-life. Each section in the series will focus on answering your dream questions.

Today, your wildest dream questions are my main priority.

Your Question: How do you tell dreams from reality? Are dreams less vivid?

Dreams can be as vivid as reality while you are in the dream state, and that is why one of the types of dream we can have is known as a Waking Dream.

Waking dreams fell like a dream joke. We think we have awakened, are preparing for work or school as we do during our daily routine, and then when the door to the bus or our car opens we see the driver is Harry Potter.

Ding-ding! You are still dreaming.

We wake up and want to pinch ourselves to be sure it’s was a dream and that now we really are awake, because a waking dream can consist of multiple doors. We are relieved when we think we just woke up from Harry Potter, only to find that as we walk out our front door we are now in Jurassic Park.

When do the dreams end and reality begin? “Am I stuck in my dream world FOREVER?” you might ask.

These waking dreams can be so ludicrous that we actually laugh ourselves wake. So how do we know when the dream has stopped morphing between tricky dream realities and our car is just a car?

Pain is awakened reality. Pain wakes us up. Also, true reality has validation.

However, you can also have a Precognitive Dream that is validated in reality, such as a medical report, or meeting the person in your dreams from three nights ago in a movie theater when you sit beside them.

Dreams are magical.

A vivid Lucid Dream is part of your reality. Reality is grounded. An example would be not flying through the air with just our bodies when we are awake.

I hope this helps to answers your incredible dream question. Ask me anything.

Please join us next time on Patheos for Your Wildest Dreams Revealed Series: #5 Celebrity Dreams.

If you missed it, Click the link below for Dream Series #3 Dreams and Dreaming

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/aboveandbeyondthe5senses/2016/02/your-wildest-dreams-revealed-series-3-dreams-and-dreaming/.

ABOUT Dream Expert: Kathleen (Kat) O’Keefe-Kanavos TV/Radio Host/Producer of Wicked Housewives On Cape Cod® believes your DREAMS can diagnose your life. Author/Lecturer of Award winning, International bestseller, Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing: which promotes patient advocacy & connecting with Inner-guidance through Dreams, Prayers & Meditations for success in Health, Wealth, & Love. Learn more @ www.AccessYourInnerGuide.com   & download your free DREAM gift http://bit.ly/My-Free-Gift-to-You

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