Have you ever had a dream in which you discovered something that changed your life? Did you quit your job and started doing what you really like after a dream? Did you realized something that helped you take an important decision?
About two years ago, I used to work with a girl I liked a lot. Everyday her hair seemed more and more gorgeous, her eyes more and more beautiful and her smile more and more heartwarming. I was falling in love, but I had a girlfriend and she had a boyfriend and our respective relationships were getting serious. Since students in medicine don’t stay long in the same department, I stopped seeing her ten hours a day. I still saw her regularly, at parties, in the ER, during lectures or in the library. After a year, I believed my feelings for her were gone, I barely thought of her, maybe once or twice a month, even after she broke up with her boyfriend.
And then I had a dream, a dream that changed everything. I wasn’t lucid, I thought it was real. I was buying groceries when I saw her outside, she waved at me. I dropped what I was holding and went outside. We hugged and looked each other in the eyes, she said that she missed me and we started kissing. That feeling I had when it happened, I knew she was the one I really loved.
I woke up, my heart was racing. I needed a few moments to realize it was a dream, and separate dream from reality. Then I was very sad, I realized what big mistake I made in letting her go a year earlier. I broke up with my girlfriend and started dating the woman I loved, my feelings were reciprocal.
Without this dream, I would have never realized I loved her so much and that she loved me in return, my life would have been very different from what it is now. I spend years chasing my SC in LDs, and it finally talks to me in a NLD! But that message was clear enough.
i haven’t had such amazing dreams. well… some, but not like this. when i was younger, i once had a dream i would die on a specific date. i didn’t know what to think, i didn’t believe it, but as the day was getting closer, i couldn’t help but feel strange. i didn’t die though but it meant a lot to me. i think i might have changed after that day.
also there was one time when i was severely sick for a half a year. nothing helped me, i had been seeing doctors and taking various pills, but nothing was any good. i’m not really Catholic much (just by family tradition), but i had this really strange dream one night. i was a child, walking on a pier with my grandmother. and i saw a statue of the holy Mary, it was said to be alive and it moved. it went down and gave me a flower… and you won’t believe it, a half a year of bad suffering… right after this dream i found an incredible doctor and the disease got taken care of with the right medicine in UNDER A WEEK. i still don’t know what to think about this dream, but i have to say i feel thankful. that was the hardest sickness in my life so far.
so my experiences are not entirely like yours… but still something
that dream really is something! ]congrats with your love life!
and glad your dream helped you also avalinah!
With me being only 16 ive never really had any “life changing moments” as such but ive had a few dreams which have inspired me to change!
At the time i had this dream i was feeling pretty stressed in RL and all my schoolwork etc was getting to me, but in the dream i started at the bottom of this hill and there was a single pathway almost carved out in it with a castle type building at the summit. I started to walk/climb up and it was begging increasingly difficult,tedious and exhausting. When the steep gradient finally levelled out and the building was ahead of me i looked over the edge of this hill/cliff and the most amazing sight was there for me to behold. the clouds were colours indescribable in RL and below was the sea with waves crashing against rocks and this euphoric feeling taken over my body. For the remainder of the dream i simply stared out over this edge.
Now although this dream is nowhere near as significant as the two above it really made me take a more positive outlook on RL at the time and changed me for the better
Last Christmas break, I tryed meditating while laying down. I did it for quite some time and eventually fell asleep, but I was lucid in my dream. The most lucid I have ever been in a dream. I was floating above my body while it layed on my bedroom couch. It was very strange for me… almost scary. I began floating upward toward my ceiling, but I was still facing my body. I went through my ceiling, but entered another room. I was inside of a huge cylindrical tower that had no ceiling and reached up into the sky for miles and miles. It had wires and electricity flowing through every part of it. I eventually realized that this was the inside of my mind, because all of my lifes memories and thoughts were spiraling in a gas form throughout the inside of it. It reminded me of an aurora because of all the different colors of the swirling gases that were my memories and thoughts. As they flowed through me, I was brought back to memories that I had not thought about for a very long time. That’s when I began thinking, if I ask this tower to show me things that I have always wondered, would it? So i yelled at the top of my lungs, “what is my destiny?” Instantly, i was shot through the top of the tower, through the atmosphere, and through very deep outer space. It was extremely fast. I came to a stop in front of a huge nebula looking celestial object, but I wasn’t at all sure what it was. It was full of beautiful colors that gave me a very good feeling inside. All of a sudden, it exploded. All the colors mixed together while they shot outwards around me until I could no longer see. When I could see again, I was back in my minds cylindrical mass tower. I wanted more out of this and had to ask what I would look like as an old man, so I yelled the question. I was instantly standing in front of a mirror that showed me as I was. But then the face in the mirror began to slowly age until I was around the age of 55. I don’t exactly remember what I looked like but I do remember a profound feeling of happiness. Somehow I ended up back in the tower but I can’t really remember that little detail. I asked my mind why it is that humans have little control of our brains, for what reason would our mind hold back from us? It gave no answer, but the swirling memories in the air came at me very fast causing many memories and thoughts to run through me. I became a little angry because I didn’t understand. So I yelled the question again with a little anger. The same thing happened as before, but this time the memories and thoughts would not stop and It caused me to wake up. It was the wildest dream/obe I have ever had.
This was a very sad time in my life because my highschool graduation was getting close and I was sad to have to grow up because things were going to change so drastically. It inspired my life with positivity for the future and has made me look at life in such a different way. The thing is though, is that since then, I have had zero luck with lucid dreaming.
When finishing college there was this most important assignment, spanning a full year, to be done in groups. We made some internal work assignments in order to bend the assignment rules to our favor, but they were not respected by my mates, and we eventualy had to split up. This left me alone with a lot of work already made, but which had little meaning on it’s own. Considering the remaining time frame and that I was by myself I could not turn what I had into a full product. I was a little lost and stressed out about what to do in order to ensure I would successfully finish college! Of course the teachers tried to guide me, but they were also a little lost by the situation and no one could come up with a proposition that made me felt secure.
Then I had this dream I was in the college laboratory with one of the involved teachers, and I told him about my concerns. He very light-headedly responded I should present my work as the conclusion of all I learned through college. And I moved on IRL to carefully prepare a presentation with quotes from several teachers and their respective source material, in an attemp to cover every major studied subject and relate it to what I had. This turn out to be quite decent and got me a high grade, despite me being alone and not having something really concrete to present!
Probably not as awe inspiring as the other dreams here, but I got to feel like one of those scientist who solve issues in their dreams It’s quite a fond memory, as it felt like a true “wrap-up” conclusion to college. Nowadays I use this same presentation (reformatted and updated) when meeting a new client, and they also seem to like it!
but it meant a lot to me. i think i might have changed after that day.