Dreamscapes and Inner Journeys with Guest, Megan Mary

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It's a new week and a new episode of A Witch, a Mystic and a Feminist with your hosts Marlena, jamie and Christy.

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On today's episode, we welcome writer, intuitive and dream worker Megan Mary.

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Megan is the founder of Women's Dream Analysis, specializing in the analysis of Women's Dreams.

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Welcome to the show, megan.

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We're glad to have you here.

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Thank you, christy.

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It's a pleasure to be here.

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Yay, dreams.

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We've been talking about this forever.

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Oh good, yes, I'm so excited.

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Welcome to the show, Megan.

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Thank you so much.

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Jamie, this will be juicy.

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So, speaking of dreams, can you tell us a little bit about what you do and explain to our listeners a little more about that?

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Yes, so basically, I work with women to help them embrace the transformative power of their dreams and by that I'm talking about nighttime dreams, dreams that you have while you're asleep and I really feel that they are the portal to self-discovery and personal transformation, and so I'm really on the path to spreading the word about that.

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It was very integral in my spiritual journey and I was called to do this work.

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So here I am, doing that every day, and it really is to me a really mystical aspect of ourselves that we just aren't embracing, that we've not been taught to embrace.

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I agree.

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What would you say to someone who doesn't dream or doesn't remember their dreams?

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Yeah, yes.

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So I hear this almost every interview and I know I really didn't anticipate that when I started, because I have multiple dreams every night and so to me it was kind of shocking that some people would say they didn't remember them.

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But of course there's exterior and internal reasons.

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So the exterior reasons could of course be if you've had any kind of injury to the brain or if you are taking any kind of medication.

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Certain things like that can be an exterior influence on that.

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Interior influence can be if you subconsciously turned off your dream recall at some point.

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So you're not really aware of it, but at some point you had a dream that you didn't know what to do with that.

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You didn't want to listen to the message, and so you subconsciously said I'm not listening to that anymore, I'm turning this off now, and you're subconscious said okay, we'll stay quiet, and it just kind of repressed that message and so you're kind of living in that state of I don't want to know, like ignorance is bliss type state.

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That's interesting.

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I identify with that, because I didn't actually think that that was something you could do.

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But just recently I was like I'm gonna, I really want to remember my dreams, and so I feel like I turned it back on somehow, or I was like allowing it, you know.

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And so then in the last couple of months I've been remembering or calling my dreams more, but I honestly didn't think I had that power.

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Yes, you know, yes, power of intention and let's, you know, let's not underestimate that.

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So, when you want to remember your dreams, that there's really one of the ways to make it happen, it's to say I'm going to do this, I want to do this, and having that it's dedication, but also, just, really, just the intent is very powerful.

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So how do you get women to interpret their dreams?

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Like for me, if I have a dream and I can't really, you know, pinpoint what it's supposed to mean, I'll just go on Google and be like dream analysis and you know whatever this is and how is what you do different than that?

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Yes.

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So I encourage everyone to break up with their dream dictionary, because it's not really giving you the right advice.

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I'm guilty of a tube from a long time ago.

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I used to do that, and that's partly because people just don't know what to do with that guidance and they're not used to turning into their intuition and they don't know what to make of it.

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And the way I approach dreams is that there's stories, essentially stories from our subconscious, and stories are told in a language, and that dream language is unique to you.

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So it's a lexicon of your subconscious which is comprised of everything that you've ever experienced, and as well as perhaps in past lives, if you believe in that, and so it's really something that is very specific to the dreamer.

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So, even though there might be these universal archetype, trope, cultural things that we all experience in as part of our human experience, the dream story is couched in a multitude of details that are unique to you, and so it makes that message unique to you in regards to your life.

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So what I help women do is decode their dreams essentially and help them understand what their dream language is, so that they can gather that message and that wisdom from the dream and then use that to improve their life moving forward.

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Hmm, so does every dream have a message?

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Can sometimes it just be I don't know what you last watched on TV before you went to bed.

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I mean, can it just be simply the book you just put down when you fell asleep, or whatever?

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It's great that you use that example, because that is one of the number one reasons that people disregard their dreams.

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So say, well, I just watched that movie last night.

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So of course I was dreaming about sharks because I just watched that movie, and that's just silly.

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But look at the context of it, because you did a lot of stuff yesterday and a lot of that isn't in it in the dream.

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So, yeah, I really feel that they all have a message and I feel that your subconscious just takes different things to be part of the puzzle, to create the scenario.

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And so, yeah, you watched that movie and it was like, just keep going with that example, as it was about sharks.

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But did you just watch a replay of the movie?

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No, something else happened in that dream.

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So it introduced maybe that same scenario, but then who was there, what was the action, what was the emotion, what was what played out?

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And it's not going to be the storyline of what you watched, it's going to be a completely different scenario.

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And so I think that's what becomes confusing to people many times is that they just say, well, this is just a regurgitation, this is just a combination of what happened to me yesterday and it doesn't mean anything, and I beg to differ.

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I saw on your website that you could sign up for like a free worksheet, right for your dream.

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Yes, you do think sometimes that, well, you know, just watch that movie with this actor and that's why he popped up in my dream or whatever, and you just kind of brush it off.

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But it's.

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It is very confusing.

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When you wake up in the morning you're like what, what was that?

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That's just, it's just crazy.

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I and I do believe there's messages in there, but the craziness that comes with the dream.

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Sometimes you're like where did that come from?

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What is actually going on?

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And there's a lot of different ways to decode it, and I have an online course where I teach a lot of the different methods.

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But sometimes there's even some other things interesting.

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Things like word play, for example, where you'll see something happening or or a sign that says something, or somebody will say something to you that just doesn't really seem to make sense, and then you're telling someone about it, and when you say it out loud, all of a sudden you go oh yeah, okay, now I see what that is, but when you're just repeating in your head or you write it down, you don't really get it, and so our dreams have interesting ways of revealing the information to us.

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So, with your clients, how do you approach interpreting their dreams and empowering them, using their dreams to empower themselves?

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The way I use my method, which I call the dream mirror method, which is what you saw on that, on that sheet that you can download.

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It's basically just a one page sheet, but it gives you the boxes of sort of the different things to look for and to start recording.

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And the way I use that method is to really get you to start paying attention to all the details in the dream so that we can draw out all of those subconscious associations and personal life associations with those objects, people, places, settings, numbers, colors, all those things.

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And then I ask you a whole bunch of questions to act as a mirror, essentially to your subconscious.

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Instead of telling, inputting something and telling you this is what that means, I try and have you tell me what does it mean, because if I tell you what it means, it's going to be totally different for me as a subjective observer.

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And once we derive all of those things, then we look at the dream as a metaphor for your waking life.

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And once you realize, ok, the dreams don't tell us what we already know is the other thing.

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So don't assume that you know what it means and that it was just about that movie last night, and so start to unravel that, and when you do, you get at that deeper meaning that's coming from your intuition and your higher wisdom.

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And when you've obtained that, then the next question is what do I do with that?

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And so I have a process that I call dream integration, where I use different healing modalities to help you integrate the wisdom that you've obtained from the dream, and that can involve different things like meditation, visualization, affirmations, as well as sound frequencies, and in my programs I compile and overlay all of those things to really customize it to your personal dream so that you can really use that method as a catalyst for spiritual transformation.

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I like it.

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Well, I like it because dreams are very personal.

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So if I were to sit there and tell you, I had a dream that I was being chased by the FBI and then, when I went to go hide, I slid into a little space, which then, in turn, turned into another dimension, for example, this was a dream from a couple of weeks ago.

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Very specific, yeah, very specific.

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But for me that would be totally different than someone else, I would assume.

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Absolutely yes, because your conception of all of those things is different.

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Right, obviously.

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Well, I say obviously because we all believe this.

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But we do get visitors from the other side in our dreams and I always tell my lost loved ones please come visit me in my dreams.

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Don't show yourself while I'm getting dressed in the morning, like if you're going to want to make yourself visual to me, come to me in my dreams.

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But I have had people who have lost loved ones that really want to see them in their dreams and yet they don't come.

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I don't know if there's some kind of technique for them other than just saying like we do like, come visit me, come.

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Or maybe they're blocking it out, like you said, sometimes we turn off our dream trigger if you will.

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But do you have any advice for those people out there?

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Because that is kind of a safe space I feel Sometimes dreams to have our lost loved ones come see us.

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But is there a way we can welcome them in a little bit more?

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I definitely have experienced and believe in dream visitations and I have a lot of people come to me with those, and I think, in terms of creating that situation, it falls into the process of what is called dream incubation or dream manifestation, which can be done whether you're trying to achieve a visitation or not, even if you're just trying to achieve a certain kind of dream.

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You're trying to create a solution to a problem.

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Dream manifestation is very much further advanced version of the I'm going to remember my dreams.

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Instead, it's I'm going to have this kind of dream, and it's utilizing that same power of intention.

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It's utilizing that the power of the mind, mindset, intention, affirmation to create the reality that you want to achieve, as well in the 3D world, as well as in the 5D and above worlds that exist in the dream world.

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And so I believe that you can very much manifest a dream that is a visitation if you call upon that.

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And so one of those methods is just to use a journal, and it doesn't have to be your dream journal or, if you don't remember your dreams, it's just your normal journal, but write down what you intend to have happen that night and who you'd like to be visited by, or what questions you have or what you're trying to solve, and your subconscious mind is going to go to work on that for you and your spiritual energy is going to put out that request and when you ask for help from the universe, you're putting out that open invitation that is going to bring that information and that wisdom and that those other spirits to help you and be around you.

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I like that dream manifestation.

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With that, though, do you think that, for both yourself and the spirit, that they sometimes maybe wait until you're ready for that visitation?

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Yes, so when the student is ready, the teacher appears, as they say, and so when you're ready to receive that information, it will come to you.

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But you can also ask.

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So I feel, in this world, in this 3D world, we very much of course have that illusion anyway of free will, and if we, we know we all have spirit guides and spirit assistants, but they're not going to intercede, they're not going to help us unless we ask, unless we invite them and invoke them, in other words.

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So I think that's part of it is that when you're ready and you do that invocation, then it's allowing that to come in.

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You're opening that door right.

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So you're just kind of saying, okay, I'm ready.

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Yes, Well, I asked that question because when my father passed away and he would send me different types of signs throughout the day, but I always wanted him to visit me in my dreams and it took about a little over a year for him to actually finally visit me in my dream, and so that's why I was like, but I was also going through a lot of grief, I was having a really tough time, you know, but I kept asking for him to visit me in my dream and so just Okay, yes, yes, and when my father passed, it was, I think, the third day that I had the first visitation, so it just was, and then it's always happened after that.

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So You're all every night.

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He's there, he's there.

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They don't go away.

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They're always with us.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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So also, what are some of the common symbols or themes that you find with some of your clients and their dreams?

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As discussed before.

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I think that we have commonalities and experiences, but our dreams are very unique.

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So there might be people that have dreams about losing their phone or being lost somewhere, or finding out that they don't have any clothes on, or their teeth are falling out or they're drowning, or I mean those are all very common dreams.

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But if you Three, you said down this morning and shared your dreams, and one of you said I had a dream about drowning, and you said I did too.

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Well, let's not just leave it at that.

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What was yours about?

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And it's not going to be the same dream, because you could be drowning and then you saved someone, you saved yourself, or you made it to shore and you felt super empowered.

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The other person could have sunk to the bottom.

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You don't know what the outcome is going to be or what your actions are going to be.

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It's very much like in this world where we can't really decide what's going to happen to us, but we can decide how we're going to react.

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And so in a dream, you might be presented in the middle of a scenario, but what's going to happen and who's with you and how do you feel at that moment, and that's going to be unique to each dreamer and very different.

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So I had a weird instance and maybe it wasn't weird, but for me it was.

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So a couple of weeks ago my husband and I both I woke up and I had a dream and it was all about snakes, montages, like snake thing, and I wrote it down.

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So I tell my husband I'm like I have this dream about snakes.

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And he's like, oh my God, I did too.

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And I said what.

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And so I'm like so I was like, okay, I was like so what was your dream about?

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So his snake dream was that there was like a small, thin snake around like a bottle, like a Coke-like bottle, and he was showing someone the snake and he went to pick it up and it was probably a gardener snake, you know something like that.

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But he went to go pick it up by the neck but grabbed it more towards its center and it started to strike at his right hand.

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But he said like the bites didn't hurt and he just kept going oh, what are you doing?

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I'm just gosh, you know.

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And that was the end of his dream.

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And then my dream was not small snakes, but like long, girthy, like like huge snakes, and I had there was a one bit where I was aware of the snakes, definitely not scared, but just a little bit apprehensive, but knew they weren't there to harm me in any way.

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And so one of the snakes was an orange snake with diamonds down the middle that I recognized for my childhood.

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I lived by a railroad track and had come down through the ice plant and into our court and my neighbor actually like killed it with like a pitchfork and flung it back into the ice plant and I'm like, oh, that's, it's great, okay, but in the dream it slithered toward me and passed me safe, right, didn't get killed.

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And then there was another sequence where there was a king snake in our backyard a few years back and its head was up and coming really proudly towards me.

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And in real life I freaked out, freaked out.

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I was on the phone and back through my phone I mean like it was terrible and but again it was coming proudly towards me, not there to hurt me, I knew there was.

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It was just kind of like coming towards me and past me, looking for safe passage.

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And then the weirdest scene and I'm sorry not to derail this whole interview, but like the weirdest scene was there was a snake in my son's hamster cage and I asked my son why, why is there a snake in there, like?

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And he goes oh, it's fake, mom, it's fake.

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And I said, but why would you put like a predator in your hamster's cage?

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Like that's terrifying.

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And so I crouched down and I look at the snake in the eye and I swear.

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I see it breathe, like I swear.

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I see that it's alive.

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And my son reaches into the cage and he pulls out the snake and it's clearly a fake rubber snake.

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So he puts it back in and again I crouched to eye level and I see the snake breathe.

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And my dream ends so like, not only because I don't really like snakes, but not only was my dream a little bit weird, but then my husband shared, you know, same subject matter on the same night.

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How have you ever encountered that before?

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Is there like a commonality between that or is that just random?

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I think what's most important of that whole dream account is the different ways the snakes presented and the different ways that you experienced encountering the snake, and you and your husband as well.

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So it's a perfect example, because he was upset by its presence and it was slightly attacking him and he was annoyed and confused and you were not distraught and it was passing you.

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And also the fact that you recognize it as something from your childhood places your scenario and your childhood where for him it would be a question of what is the coke bottle represent to you and what everything about that snake in his dream is going to couch that scenario differently for him, based on his experience.

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And so you're all experiencing something very different and you can see that, if you were to just summarize and share briefly that each one of you had a dream about snakes and isn't that weird?

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And there must be some synchronicity and coincidence.

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Well, maybe there is, but once you get to those deeper layers, you start to really understand that it's completely different.

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Yeah, okay, I've been waiting to hear the snake dream, since we talked about this two weeks ago.

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Oh, here's the snake dream.

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So yeah, but I understand what you're saying.

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They're totally different between the two, right, like how he was frustrated and annoyed and I was just kind of like observing and like knowing that they're not there to hurt me.

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So, you know, got to dig a little deeper to find the meaning behind that.

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Yeah, thank you, I appreciate that.

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So, megan, I have another question with regards to dreaming.

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So, as Christy was having her dream and, in the dream, not recognizing that she's dreaming, what about those that are lucid dreaming and working on their lucid dreaming?

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How does that come into play?

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So lucid dreaming is definitely a process whereby you can purposefully attain a state of lucidity and it can be used as a healing methodology.

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So you can definitely use it to recreate scenarios that you want an alternate ending for.

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So if you have, for example, a recurring nightmare and you want to envision a different ending to that nightmare, you can manifest that dream and enter it and lucidly change the course of the dream.

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Or if you find yourself in that recurring nightmare, you can realize that you're dreaming and then change the scenario of that.

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So there's a lot of applications of lucid dreaming, In addition to the creative and amazing ones, that really allow us to kind of experience a spiritual transformation where we can really just use it to gain more confidence, to gain more agency, to affect change.

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And when we do that, it triggers our subconscious to shift as well and it creates a synergy that really translates into our waking life.

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Lucid dreaming.

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Maybe I don't understand that definition.

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Is what is lucid dreaming?

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Sorry?

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It's when we know we're dreaming.

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Ok, so when you become aware that you're dreaming, inside of a dream is the state of lucidity.

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And so, when you become aware that you're dreaming, you sometimes initially it's just oh my god, this is a dream, what am I doing?

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And then you wake up, because the minute you recognize that it's a dream, you'll kind of panic or get excited and you'll wake up.

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But if you're able to practice it to the point that, oh, I'm in a dream, ok, well, now I'm going to change this.

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Who is this person that's chasing me?

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Or what am I doing with this scenario?

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I want to be here now and you can really change the whole layout and trajectory of the dream with intent.

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I was going to.

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It sounded like what I called taking charge of your dream.

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I'm going to actually know what I'm going to be doing.

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I've had that experience before where it was OK, you're just in a dream.

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And it hits you like you're just in a dream, it's OK, everything's fine, it's just a dream.

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And then I've experienced that where I've been able to change my actions in the dream, or one of those dreams where you are naked walking through a park and you're like it's just a dream, it's OK.

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It's OK Because you wake up in this dream with no clothes on or you're falling off a cliff or something, and it's very hard, it's very.

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There's probably ways to practice to get into it better, but it's very hard to have that realization while you're in it.

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But when you get it, it's like OK, it's fine, everything's fine, everything's fine.

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We're in a dream, it's OK.

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It's hard to stabilize it as well.

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So that's kind of like the next stage is really not getting too excited, not waking up, and there's different grounding techniques that are taught to really try to stabilize inside the dream, different things that you can do that will try to keep you there once you realize it, so that you don't wake up.

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And I had a lucid dream once where I was sitting in the back of a limo with my husband and we were waiting for the driver and we were waiting and waiting and waiting for the driver and then finally I said to him why are we waiting?

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This is a dream, we don't need a driver.

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We actually don't even need a driver.

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We could get up there and drive it ourselves or we could just make it go.

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Why are we sitting here waiting?

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And so that was just one of those experiences where you kind of got that light bulb.

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Then, once you had it, you're like, well, what this is so silly, we can do this ourselves.

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It's pretty amazing when you get to do that Because you're like, oh OK, let's go, let's do this or chase that guy instead of him chasing me, or whatever it might be.

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Yes, and it makes you come to that realization that we are sometimes the creators of our own blocks.

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We tell ourselves things, we tell ourselves the way we believe the world to be and convince ourselves, talk ourselves out of possibilities and feel that we're trapped in it being a certain way, and don't realize that we actually have a lot more agency than we're giving ourselves credit for so, imagining there's a way to practice lucidity.

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is that intent as well?

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Yes, absolutely Are there.

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Yes, yes, ok, it's one of the big ones, for sure.

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Another one that I teach often is what I call reality checks, and it's where you, during the day when you're awake, create a habit of asking yourselves am I dreaming?

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So is this a dream, or am I asleep?

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And each time you do that it's just kind of a check yeah, ok, I'm awake.

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And then the more you do it, the more you will do it in your sleep and eventually you'll find yourself saying am I dreaming?

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And you'll go oh yes, this time I am.

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There's also a method of looking at your hands, which is really what the first time I was able to achieve.

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It worked for me, so I love that method.

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So, when you're doing the reality checks, look at your hands and you see how your hands look in this 3D world.

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And eventually I did that in my dream and I had no rings on and I knew I was dreaming.

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Interesting I just looked at my hands.

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I did too.

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I was like wait, wait yes.

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Well, as we start to wrap things up, can you share any tips or insights for our listeners who are interested in exploring their own dreams more deeply?

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Yes.

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So I would recommend going to my website and downloading my Dream Mirror template, because it really helps you look for the things that you want to try to record, that you want to pay attention to, and it gives you that little bit of an outline.

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And then I also have a course online that will teach you a lot more of these methods, from dream recall to lucid dreaming and onward and then start to just tap into your intuition.

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Start to appreciate your dreams the process of dream appreciation is the first step Understanding that they are important, that they hold value for us, that there's wisdom untapped there and that we have it within ourselves to access this wisdom.

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So that's really the first step.

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Then start keeping your dream journal, start asking to remember your dreams, start asking questions to be answered of your dreams, and then utilize the method to really pull out your own associations because you're the one who knows what the Coke bottle reminds you of, what the orange snake reminds you of, because it's your life experience or multiple lifetimes and use that as a basis for your inner work, for your self-care, for your higher levels of spiritual intelligence and expanded consciousness.

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Well, thank you so much, Megan.

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Awesome.

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Yes, thank you, megan.

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Thank you for joining us.

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Yes, thank you for having me.

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Any go ahead and plug yourself.

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Oh, yes, yes please.

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So women'sdreamanalysiscom is my website, and you can find my journal template there, my online courses you can book a free 30-minute discovery call with me as well as dream sessions.

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And then I have my women'sdream transformation program, which is a 90-day program where we work together and we explore your dreams and you pick a few of them, that I create a customized meditation based on that dream that overlays the Sulfurgeo frequency, that helps you achieve the growth that you're looking for.

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And I also have my podcast, women's Dream Enlightenment podcast, where I have women come on and tell their stories of spiritual awakening, as well as bring their dreams and I interpret them live on the show and we have deep discussions, and so that is wonderful as well.

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Check me out there.

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And lastly, meganmarycom.

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I am going to be debuting my first fiction novel this fall, and it's a metaphysical dream mystery, and so I invite you all to follow me for news on that.

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The novel is called the Dream Protectors.

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That's exciting.

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I know, I saw that I got really excited.

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Congratulations, awesome, thank you Well.

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