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Dreaming True: How to Dream Your Future and Change Your Life for the Better
In our dreams, all of us are psychic.
-- Robert Moss
Dream True
Change the way you dream...and take control of your destiny
Robert Moss helps countless people live more enriched lives by working with the energy and insight of their dreams and becoming conscious dream journeyers. One of the greatest dreamers of all time was Harriet Tubman, who personally escorted three hundred slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. On the eve of the American Civil War, Tubman was guided by specific dreams to safe houses, river crossings, and friendly helpers she had never encountered previously.
As Moss explains, our own dreams run like an Underground Railroad through our lives, offering us paths to creativity, healing, and mutual understanding. He shows us how to dream true the way Harriet Tubman dreamed how to dream the future, how to go back inside our dreams to clarify their messages and use the information to make wiser choices, and how to bring through life-helping guidance for others.
Dreaming True explores many levels of dreaming and how we can "dream with the body" in order to stay well. Moss offers simple and practical techniques for working with a dream journal to catch -- and act on -- messages about the distant future and tap into our creative source. He shows us how to dream our way toward a better job, a better relationship, and creative fulfillment.
Presented with Moss' trademark humor and down-to-earth style, Dreaming True helps us rediscover what ancient dreamers through dreaming we can become active co-creators of our future, bringing positive energy and insight from a deeper reality into our physical world.
-- Robert Moss
Dream True
Change the way you dream...and take control of your destiny
Robert Moss helps countless people live more enriched lives by working with the energy and insight of their dreams and becoming conscious dream journeyers. One of the greatest dreamers of all time was Harriet Tubman, who personally escorted three hundred slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. On the eve of the American Civil War, Tubman was guided by specific dreams to safe houses, river crossings, and friendly helpers she had never encountered previously.
As Moss explains, our own dreams run like an Underground Railroad through our lives, offering us paths to creativity, healing, and mutual understanding. He shows us how to dream true the way Harriet Tubman dreamed how to dream the future, how to go back inside our dreams to clarify their messages and use the information to make wiser choices, and how to bring through life-helping guidance for others.
Dreaming True explores many levels of dreaming and how we can "dream with the body" in order to stay well. Moss offers simple and practical techniques for working with a dream journal to catch -- and act on -- messages about the distant future and tap into our creative source. He shows us how to dream our way toward a better job, a better relationship, and creative fulfillment.
Presented with Moss' trademark humor and down-to-earth style, Dreaming True helps us rediscover what ancient dreamers through dreaming we can become active co-creators of our future, bringing positive energy and insight from a deeper reality into our physical world.
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384 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2000
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February 22, 2015
I previously read and reviewed ”Conscious dreaming” by the same author, and found it to be a wonderful, inspiring read. I didn´t find this book to be at quite the same level of excellence, but still I found it to be an absolutely worthwhile, valuable and enjoyable read.
The author informs us that dreaming “gives us direct access to the spiritual realms, and allows our spiritual teachers to speak to us directly”. The dream-world is a real world, more “real” than much of everyday life, he says.
A central figure in this work is Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave girl, who lived in the early years of the 19th century and helped other slaves escape by obtaining guidance and directions from her dreams. Harriet´s dreams showed her the specific route she would take, and the houses and barns where she would be given shelter. She flew in her dreams, which thus gave her an aerial map, as well as close-up views of places along the trail.
Harriet had been severely injured on her forehead by her master, and thus had a huge dent there. In the author´s own dreams he often encountered a tiny black woman in “period clothes” and with a dent on her forehead.
Moss tells us that the book is about “finding our way … to fulfilling the secret wishes of the soul – with the help of dreams and the powers that speak through dreams”.
We are advised to keep a dream journal, otherwise we will lose our dreams. If possible, share dreams with a friend.
If we have nightmares, we should try to go back inside the dream and confront our pursuers, if any, or dream the dream onward to resolution and closure. We should ask for help from our dream allies and spiritual protectors. (This is fine, but this requires that we are lucid in our dreams, or “conscious”, as Moss prefers to say.)
We are given some keys to “dreaming true”; 1) Trust our feelings –check whether the dream has to do with a situation in physical reality, whether it is our stuff or someone else´s, and whether we need to do something about it now 2) Reality check – ask ourselves whether it is remotely possible we will encounter the scenes in our dream in waking life 3) Write a personal one-liner, e.g. “I can have more fun at work.” 4) Ask the two basic questions – “What do I need to know?” and “What do I need to do?” 5) Go back inside the dream and look for the character or element that may hold the answer to any question we may have 6) Share the dream with a friend 7) Ask the Consequence tree. This means look for signs or synchronicities in nature or the outside world that may clarify your dream. 8) Look for clues to precognitive elements 9) Study the code of your personal dream symbols, for example, some women dream of fish when someone they know becomes pregnant 10) Determine what action is required and do it.
Moss informs us about precognitive/warning dreams and provides us with absorbing examples from his own dreams and those of his family and clients.
There is also an exciting chapter about “dreaming for others” (though I found all the chapters exciting). Sometimes we pick up messages for other people in our dreams, and sometimes we seem to dream their dreams. We are all connected. “Waking or sleeping, we move through overlapping energy fields and mind fields.”
What was new to me was Moss´ information about how he entered conscious dreams in order to seek information for others. Once he went into a “dark realm on the other side of death” in order to find the missing soul of an 11-year old boy, who had experienced soul loss through sexual abuse by a priest. This astral journey was successful, and the boy-soul was brought back to the adult man, so he could begin to live from his whole self.
In other words, Moss is telling us that we can sit quietly with someone who has lost their joy or their way, and “maybe a chunk of soul” and dream for them. Thus, as he looks at it, you don´t necessarily need to be asleep when you dream. Or rather, Moss´ definition of dreaming differs somewhat from that of most people.
All this is easier said than done, of course. I felt that I could have used more instruction on how I myself can do this entering of a conscious dream in waking state. Also, I feel that Moss has a natural talent for dreaming, including conscious dreaming, entering into dreams and advanced dream work of all kinds, which others do not necessarily possess.
He shares with us how the great Roman orator and statesman, Cicero, who was sceptical about dreams, received forewarnings in his dreams about the circumstances leading to his “most unpleasant” death. However, he chose to ignore these warnings. Hitler, on the other hand, in 1917 in trench warfare had a terrifying dream of his death that guided him immediately to escape from his situation, resulting in his life being saved. Moss remarks that it was a pity that Hitler listened to his dreams, while Cicero did not.
We are instructed on how to find our dream partner, find our dream home, about bringing our dreams to the workplace and into family life.
The author is erudite and articulate, and this book contains references to other dream writers and cultural figures from history, in addition to providing us with a vast quantity of fascinating, personal dream experiences, including the author´s own. All in all, it is an absolutely rich, comprehensive work, since it includes all aspects of dreaming, and so many illuminating experiences. It is wonderfully written and difficult to put down.
Thus, I highly, highly recommend that you read this book. If you are not particularly interested in dreams and dreaming before reading it, you will become so.
The author informs us that dreaming “gives us direct access to the spiritual realms, and allows our spiritual teachers to speak to us directly”. The dream-world is a real world, more “real” than much of everyday life, he says.
A central figure in this work is Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave girl, who lived in the early years of the 19th century and helped other slaves escape by obtaining guidance and directions from her dreams. Harriet´s dreams showed her the specific route she would take, and the houses and barns where she would be given shelter. She flew in her dreams, which thus gave her an aerial map, as well as close-up views of places along the trail.
Harriet had been severely injured on her forehead by her master, and thus had a huge dent there. In the author´s own dreams he often encountered a tiny black woman in “period clothes” and with a dent on her forehead.
Moss tells us that the book is about “finding our way … to fulfilling the secret wishes of the soul – with the help of dreams and the powers that speak through dreams”.
We are advised to keep a dream journal, otherwise we will lose our dreams. If possible, share dreams with a friend.
If we have nightmares, we should try to go back inside the dream and confront our pursuers, if any, or dream the dream onward to resolution and closure. We should ask for help from our dream allies and spiritual protectors. (This is fine, but this requires that we are lucid in our dreams, or “conscious”, as Moss prefers to say.)
We are given some keys to “dreaming true”; 1) Trust our feelings –check whether the dream has to do with a situation in physical reality, whether it is our stuff or someone else´s, and whether we need to do something about it now 2) Reality check – ask ourselves whether it is remotely possible we will encounter the scenes in our dream in waking life 3) Write a personal one-liner, e.g. “I can have more fun at work.” 4) Ask the two basic questions – “What do I need to know?” and “What do I need to do?” 5) Go back inside the dream and look for the character or element that may hold the answer to any question we may have 6) Share the dream with a friend 7) Ask the Consequence tree. This means look for signs or synchronicities in nature or the outside world that may clarify your dream. 8) Look for clues to precognitive elements 9) Study the code of your personal dream symbols, for example, some women dream of fish when someone they know becomes pregnant 10) Determine what action is required and do it.
Moss informs us about precognitive/warning dreams and provides us with absorbing examples from his own dreams and those of his family and clients.
There is also an exciting chapter about “dreaming for others” (though I found all the chapters exciting). Sometimes we pick up messages for other people in our dreams, and sometimes we seem to dream their dreams. We are all connected. “Waking or sleeping, we move through overlapping energy fields and mind fields.”
What was new to me was Moss´ information about how he entered conscious dreams in order to seek information for others. Once he went into a “dark realm on the other side of death” in order to find the missing soul of an 11-year old boy, who had experienced soul loss through sexual abuse by a priest. This astral journey was successful, and the boy-soul was brought back to the adult man, so he could begin to live from his whole self.
In other words, Moss is telling us that we can sit quietly with someone who has lost their joy or their way, and “maybe a chunk of soul” and dream for them. Thus, as he looks at it, you don´t necessarily need to be asleep when you dream. Or rather, Moss´ definition of dreaming differs somewhat from that of most people.
All this is easier said than done, of course. I felt that I could have used more instruction on how I myself can do this entering of a conscious dream in waking state. Also, I feel that Moss has a natural talent for dreaming, including conscious dreaming, entering into dreams and advanced dream work of all kinds, which others do not necessarily possess.
He shares with us how the great Roman orator and statesman, Cicero, who was sceptical about dreams, received forewarnings in his dreams about the circumstances leading to his “most unpleasant” death. However, he chose to ignore these warnings. Hitler, on the other hand, in 1917 in trench warfare had a terrifying dream of his death that guided him immediately to escape from his situation, resulting in his life being saved. Moss remarks that it was a pity that Hitler listened to his dreams, while Cicero did not.
We are instructed on how to find our dream partner, find our dream home, about bringing our dreams to the workplace and into family life.
The author is erudite and articulate, and this book contains references to other dream writers and cultural figures from history, in addition to providing us with a vast quantity of fascinating, personal dream experiences, including the author´s own. All in all, it is an absolutely rich, comprehensive work, since it includes all aspects of dreaming, and so many illuminating experiences. It is wonderfully written and difficult to put down.
Thus, I highly, highly recommend that you read this book. If you are not particularly interested in dreams and dreaming before reading it, you will become so.
September 5, 2016
Dreaming true est un document qui aide à redécouvrir ce que les anciens rêveurs savaient : l'analyse du royaume des rêves permettrait d'être le créateur actif de notre futur en apportant une énergie positive et des outils pour comprendre la profondeur de la réalité que nous vivons au quotidien. Dans ce livre très complet, l'auteur Robert Moss apporte ses connaissances dans le domaine du chamanisme en abordant les questions et les thèmes récurrents que nous expérimentons la nuit. J'ai personnellement trouvé des réponses à des phénomènes de rêve qui m'apparaissait, jusqu'à présent, complètement anodin ou carrément inexplicable. C'est un livre très dense qui enferme des centaines d'histoires de rêveurs dans plusieurs contextes et d'époque, c'est pour cette raison que la progression de lecture est plutôt lente. D'ailleurs Dreaming True peut s'avérer lourd comme document et j'ai souvent eu l'impression qu'il fallait que je '' mérite '' les informations pertinentes du livre.
April 15, 2021
This is a dense dream book filled with the most dream accounts I’ve read so far; if you removed them, the book would be half the size.
Two main takeaways:
1) His dream journaling template is very thorough and has now lengthened my own dream journaling. It’s for the best since his style digs deeper into the dream itself, any association, and overall, more self reflection.
2) When you dream about someone and the scene looks like it could be a life or death situation, share it with them because it could save their lives. He had some dream accounts describing this scenario; fascinating stuff!
Two main takeaways:
1) His dream journaling template is very thorough and has now lengthened my own dream journaling. It’s for the best since his style digs deeper into the dream itself, any association, and overall, more self reflection.
2) When you dream about someone and the scene looks like it could be a life or death situation, share it with them because it could save their lives. He had some dream accounts describing this scenario; fascinating stuff!
October 18, 2011
I wanted this book because I thought it would explain why or what to do with it. The title says ''HOW'' but I didn't read any answer to that. It's more a book with dream reports to proof psi dreaming is possible.
December 21, 2019
Robert Moss is one of the best dream leaders currently writing and teaching, and all of his books have something to offer. He's written a number of them, and he does tend to repeat himself from one book to the next. I have been keeping dream journals for years and so I have read many of his books in order to cull information on how to best work with my dreams. Dreaming True is a good one for beginners and experienced dreamers alike.
In my opinion, if you are new to the works of Moss, this is not the book to start with. I would suggest starting with his autobiography, The Boy Who Died and Came Back, and if you are interested in learning more, follow-up with his first book, Conscious Dreaming, which is his foundation text. After that, Dreaming True could be a good follow-up. He goes into Conscious Dreaming techniques with more depth, and includes a great section called Seven Levels of Dreaming, which explores all the different ways we dream. It's the kind of information that other dream educators don't cover, and I think it should be. Luckily we have Robert Moss.
He isn't a big proponent of Lucid Dreaming techniques, as he feels that will come about naturally as you continue to work with his methods. For me that was true. Keep that in mind when you read him, if Lucid Dreaming is your primary focus. For most people who want to learn what they're about in their non-awake life, Robert Moss' work will be the ticket.
In my opinion, if you are new to the works of Moss, this is not the book to start with. I would suggest starting with his autobiography, The Boy Who Died and Came Back, and if you are interested in learning more, follow-up with his first book, Conscious Dreaming, which is his foundation text. After that, Dreaming True could be a good follow-up. He goes into Conscious Dreaming techniques with more depth, and includes a great section called Seven Levels of Dreaming, which explores all the different ways we dream. It's the kind of information that other dream educators don't cover, and I think it should be. Luckily we have Robert Moss.
He isn't a big proponent of Lucid Dreaming techniques, as he feels that will come about naturally as you continue to work with his methods. For me that was true. Keep that in mind when you read him, if Lucid Dreaming is your primary focus. For most people who want to learn what they're about in their non-awake life, Robert Moss' work will be the ticket.
August 13, 2009
Increased awareness of the power of dreaming
September 16, 2010
A finer tuned rehash of the first three dream books.
September 17, 2011
Best dreaming book I have read. Found it really interesting and helpful.
April 13, 2017
This is a great book for dream lovers who work closely with their dreams. Great ideas for journaling, and paying attention to those seemingly random incidents that appear in dreams, that show up later in real life.
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