Hi Roy,
Dreams: 1) One of the three states of consciousness of humans the the other two are waking and sleeping. 2) The unconscious minds way of satisfying its secret and hidden wishes. (The Soul's wishes) 3) A tool to work off karmic patterns.
Every person dreams every night except only some people actually remember their dreams. Jesus or one of the Christian Saints said "I die daily." That is, he was conscious of leaving his body without having to die first.
There are people who never recall their dreams regardless of how unhealthy they may be or how fragmented their choices of foods and or lifestyles.
There are some other people who are completely healthy, eat a traditional diet that is in harmony with the "order of universe" and even one that I know of who worked with Michio Kushi for a while and is a long time and current macrobiotic adherent who does dream.
Some in this latter group, have learned how to interprete these images and how to do simple techniques to encourage dreaming, and as a result have become more conscious of other states of reality beside what we can see and touch here in our physical lives.
Ah but how to prove what I am saying....
In order to prove that a person would be able to dream, recall their dreams and over time, gain insights into meanings of dreams and satisfy both of our thoughts on this topic one would have to be both a serious student of macrobiotics and openminded enough to try simple techniques in order to encourage the dreaming process.
Roy, if you would ever be sincerely interested in learning how to recall your dreams and then how over time you could learn to understand what your dreams are all about and how this can make you an even more effective neighbor, employee, friend, leader or whatever, and how dreams are just a window into other realties just like our waking lives are a reality, write me privately at
qzw52@yahoo.com.
I also wanted to apologize to you.
A while back I had promised to meet you and others in Rhode Island for a class you were teaching about how to harvest and use seaweeds. I promised to bring a watermelon. I failed to show up. I was on vacation in upstate NY at a cabin we rented which did not have a phone. And while I could have gone to a pay phone, I did not know where to call you once you had left your home for the location on the Island that morning.
That day, when we woke up, I just did not possess the physical strength to drive from NY to RI and then Home after your class all the way back to NJ all in one day.
I've been embarassed to write you since then until now.
Best,
Dave