Inducing Dreams and Visions

spiritvexer:

This is one method of inducing dreams or visions. Highly necessary to the success of this method is personal sacrifice. 

The Spirit World, Higher Self, subconscious, or any number of sources may deliver powerful dreams and visions. To receive one, you need to take several steps to show your serious dedication to the process. In addition, practicing having visions in the first place is a good idea!

If you have been practicing dreamwork and trance, you may be a bit like me: generally unsatisfied with the intensity of the experience. I don’t want to have casual induced daydreams; I want some Real Fuccin Shit to go down. In such a situation, I may use something like the following technique:

Write your goals down and make sure you know what you are asking for. Potential goals for an induced vision may be one of your life’s purpose; your past lives; your hidden abilities; a healing dream or journey, to have a greater bond with a certain spirit, to learn about a topic, or to help another, as a few examples. The magic I am talking about here is serious and not to be played with, so make sure you understand what you are asking for.

Research allies who will help you. Hekate, the Fates, Norns, Freyja, Odin, and other Gods and Demigods of fates and divination will be powerful allies. Spirits such as mermaids and sirens are powerful diviners who can deliver dreams and messages. Animal spirits include bees and owls; plant spirits include star anise and bay laurel. Research your own traditional cultural way of approaching these entities in respectful manner (fun challenge: if your culture has no traditional way of approaching that spirit, choose another spirit). If you are having trouble finding your cultural methods, you are free to borrow mine.

Discover what you need to sacrifice in order to have the experience you want. For me this will be giving up sweets (but not full fasting), prayer, meditation, offerings. You will have your own methods of sacrifice. 

Formalize your petition. It may look something like this: “Spirit World, I, Thicket Moyers, wish to receive a vision of my future. I pray to the great Snowy Owl to send me a vision of the Winter to come. I will pray and meditate for three days; upon the Third Day, if I have shown myself to be worthy, let further instruction come.” Yeppers, showing myself to be worthy. If you want something from the Otherworld, it pays to be humble. 

Announce your petition. Announce it the moment you are ready to begin your process of sacrifice, and no sooner. Announce it with knowledge that failure to show your worth is possible, and that you need to work hard to show the Otherworld that you really want what you are asking for. Announce it with a heart of dedication to begin immediately and forge ahead until you are done. 

Show your dedication to the Otherworld and the spirits you have petitioned by engaging in the sacrifice you have offered. For me, this is extended periods of prayer and meditation. 

But if your sacrifice isn’t meditation, you still kinda gotta. I mean, if you’re praying for a vision you need to actually sit down and make some room and time to have a vision. When petitioning the Otherworld for dreams, journeys, and visions, set aside a little time each morning and night to receive the experience you are looking for. This should come as no problem compared to the strenuous sacrifice you are offering to simply receive the experience itself.

Follow the instructions you are given. Sometimes before I will receive a journey or vision, I will be told I need to do certain things. For example I may need to take a cleansing shower, or eat a healthy meal of I am not taking care of myself. I may need to clean my room or lay out extra offerings before a spirit will arrive to deliver my experience. I may need to go on other journeys or have other visions first, if my request is significant enough. Your intuition, divination, and regular trance will help deliver instructions to you.

Await your experience.  As teachers like to say, you get the grade you earn. If you work hard, show the Otherworld your true dedication, practice remembering your visions, make time for the Otherworld, and offer true sacrifice, you may receive a powerful experience to further your path.