Thread: Holding Cold Hands?

Hi,
This sounds like it's very interesting. What I'd like you to is try to recall more information about the dream if you can. If you try to answer the questions below to the best of your ability to recall, I'll happily give you an interpretation of your dream as if it was mine.

Location:
Where did the dream occur? I want you to go back in your mind to your dream and look left, right, ahead, behind, above and below you. For each direction, I want you to tell me what you see. This might seem odd but you'll see in my interpretation how much one can learn from this.

When you're telling me what you see, describe it in as great as detail as you can recall. Tell me what you see, what it's made of, age, style, etc.

If you see any doors, windows or stairs, tell me where they were relative to you the dreamer and also let me know what they were made of, age, style and colour.

Lighting:
What was the lighting like in this dream? Where was it coming from?

Objects:
If you can recall any objects in your dream, please let me know what they were made of, age/style, colour and where they were relative to you the dreamer, i.e. left, right,etc.

People:
Your friend:
Tell me any differences between the dream version of your friend and the "real life version" of your friend. Any differences are important to note.
Then tell me where they were relative to you in the dream, i.e. left, right, etc.
Let me know if they were sitting, standing, etc.
Then tell me what hands you were holding trying to warm up and what of your hands were used.
Finally, tell me of any thought or conversation exchanged between you and your friend. Be exact as you can recall.

Others:
Were there any others you saw or felt in the dream? If there was, please describe them as best you can and where they were relative to you the dreamer, i.e. left, right, etc.

Thoughts/Feelings:
1. Tell me your thoughts/feelings as the dream began.
2. Then tell me your thoughts/feelings as the dream progressed.
3. Then tell me your last thoughts/feelings as the dream ended.

Thanks in advance for your efforts.

With kind regards,
Guy

Hi Guy!

Thank you for your reply. Any help is greatly appreciated and I will answer your questions in blue. If there are any other questions, please let me know!

Location:
Where did the dream occur? I want you to go back in your mind to your dream and look left, right, ahead, behind, above and below you. For each direction, I want you to tell me what you see. This might seem odd but you'll see in my interpretation how much one can learn from this.

When you're telling me what you see, describe it in as great as detail as you can recall. Tell me what you see, what it's made of, age, style, etc.

If you see any doors, windows or stairs, tell me where they were relative to you the dreamer and also let me know what they were made of, age, style and colour.


I totally forgot to document what I saw in the dream as I only remember this specific bit that is my initial question. All I can remember was my friend and I were possibly shopping at a supermarket and we stood in front of one of the refrigerated aisles, maybe in front of the packaged meat section.

Lighting:
What was the lighting like in this dream? Where was it coming from?

The lighting was well lit; I think it was coming from the refrigerated section we were in front of

Objects:
If you can recall any objects in your dream, please let me know what they were made of, age/style, colour and where they were relative to you the dreamer, i.e. left, right,etc.

The refrigerated section we were in front of was an open section and no doors; its sides were made of glass and I think I remember seeing just an array of refrigerated red, raw meat in yellow styrofoam packaging in the display.

People:
Your friend:
Tell me any differences between the dream version of your friend and the "real life version" of your friend. Any differences are important to note.
Then tell me where they were relative to you in the dream, i.e. left, right, etc.
Let me know if they were sitting, standing, etc.
Then tell me what hands you were holding trying to warm up and what of your hands were used.
Finally, tell me of any thought or conversation exchanged between you and your friend. Be exact as you can recall.

There were hardly any differences between the dream version of my friend from real life. I think they were wearing the same jacket they have in real life. We were both standing and they were on the right side of me.

I reached with my right hand to grab their left hand to find it cold and I said somewhere along the lines of, "wow, your hands are really cold" and I intertwined my fingers with theirs and they did the same to mine. I then placed my left hand over theirs and attempted to warm the hands by rubbing my hands over theirs. I felt the coldness and remember it well.

Others:
Were there any others you saw or felt in the dream? If there was, please describe them as best you can and where they were relative to you the dreamer, i.e. left, right, etc.

There weren't anyone else I saw or felt in the dream or I don't remember seeing them.

Thoughts/Feelings:
1. Tell me your thoughts/feelings as the dream began.
2. Then tell me your thoughts/feelings as the dream progressed.
3. Then tell me your last thoughts/feelings as the dream ended.

As far as I can remember, I don't think that was the start of the dream and no thoughts were running through my head when I grabbed their hand.
When I felt that it was cold, I just thought that I really wanted to warm it for them.


Thank you so much again!

Hi Kotomiku,
Dreams are for each of us to interpret on our own. Therefore, if anything I say below doesn’t resonate with you, then simply discard it. So with that said, off I go…

I first consider the location of my dream. I could have located it anywhere, at anytime in any reality but I am locating it in a supermarket in front of a refrigerated meat section. Why am I locating it here? Hmm…

In my dreams, shops and supermarkets are symbols of places where I examine old beliefs I’ve used in many lives, i.e. I “bought into them” before.

I am standing in front of a refrigerated section.

On a side note:
I am laughing a bit at myself as I interpret this dream. For years I would have dreams with ice, snow and cold, thinking they had to do with seasons, etc. Then, when I learnt to use my higher self, obtainable through meditation, to assist me, I learnt that water is a symbol of my feminine. Then the realization hit me that cold and freezing are symbols of me using old masculine based beliefs to contain my feminine, i.e. freeze it thus not allowing it to flow within me! I am laughing at how long it took me to figure it out! Today, I only rarely come across snow in my dreams and the water is now flowing! So, back to my dream…

So I am standing in front of a masculine symbol of beliefs, i.e. something made of human made materials, i.e. metal and glass. It’s keeping my feminine, i.e. symbols of dead animals, frozen! I have likely been “spiritually eating” these beliefs through many lives.

The dream was “well lit”, i.e. coming from within the refrigerated section. In my dreams, if I am outside or, the sun is shining, this is a symbol of my higher self assisting me. When I am indoors and the light is internal, it’s a symbol that I am preceding on my own, “en-lightening” myself.

Next I note that I am standing. This is a symbol in my dreams that I am now able to spiritually stand on my own two feet to see the effects of my beliefs. When I am walking it’s a symbol I am now spiritually working my way through the underlying beliefs.

So who’s the friend in my dream? Is it them or, are they a symbol? They’re a symbol of my feminine.

On another side note:
In dreams, I find there is what I call a “cast of characters”. Sometimes there are people I know if dreams. Most often there are people I don’t know in dreams. For a long time, when I began to dream journal, I was literally interpreting my dreams…that didn’t work really well for me. Then I had an idea that I should use my higher self, which I had been able to access via my meditations. The dream doors essentially swung wide open and my real spiritual learning journey began.

I have found out LOTS of things about people in my dreams. Sometimes they are who I know in real life. Sometimes they are symbols of my masculine or feminine. Others are what I call “other lives” I am living. Some are teachers, some are guides, some are what I call “aspects of myself”. Some are my over soul while still others are people I’ve incarnated with many, many times.

I recommend to you to learn to meditate and to connect with your higher self. Then you too can figure out what I call “who’s who in the dream zoo!” Last year I felt compelled to create a free website “learningfrommydreams” dot com. There you can find a whole section devoted to different ways of meditation. There’s also a dream discussion paper I wrote describing some of the symbolism I’ve learnt from my dreams. Back to the dream…

I now come to objects in my dreams. These are symbols of beliefs I usually need to address first. The only object I can recall was an open section with it’s sides made of glass. There was no doors. This is actually good. Why?

I am using glass to show myself that this belief compartment has four sides, i.e. beliefs. One of them is now gone. Two others I can now spiritually see through, indicating I am making good progress in recognizing them. The “back of the belief compartment” I still can’t see through.

In it is red, raw meat in a yellow Styrofoam packaging. So I am showing myself how my old feminine beliefs, symbolized by animals, is now “dead’, i.e. it’s no longer working for me.

My “dead feminine beliefs” are contained by masculine based beliefs, i.e. Styrofoam. So, what I need to focus on is the masculine based beliefs, which are restricting my feminine from being spiritually alive in a certain sense. It’s restricting myself from myself if this makes any sense.

I’ve also found that colours in my dreams are very important. Why?

It’s a way of showing myself where the beliefs are causing “dis-ease” in my etheric and physical body. I use the reference for this “The Chakras” by David Leadbeater. This shows my existing masculine based beliefs are affecting my spleen chakra. I make a note to myself to meditate on this.

My feminine is standing on the right, i.e. my masculine side. This is important to note since I am showing myself that my feminine is being controlled by my masculine based beliefs.
Me feminine is wearing a coat. This is a symbol of yet more beliefs I am spiritually wearing covering my heart chakra on down.

I now come to my actions and thoughts in the dream…

I reach to my feminine, using my masculine side, i.e. right hand. I grab their left hand, i.e. feminine AND I FIND IT’S VERY COLD.

This is what I call a spiritual wake up dream. Why. I then say to myself spiritually “Wow, your hands are really cold.” I then place my feminine hand over my feminine and attempt to warm their hands by rubbing them.

This is why I am standing and not spiritually walking, i.e. I am literally interpreting the dream and missing the point of it. In my dream, I don’t see the symbolism of the store I’m standing in, the freezer in front of me, the dead raw meat or, my feminine’s cold hand.

“When I felt that it was cold, I just thought that I really wanted to warm it for them.” I am thinking that this dream is about my friend when it’s all about me.

If this was my dream, I would actually be excited! Why? It’s because, if I chose to, I can come to a major realization of what I have been doing to my feminine abilities by cloaking and freezing them with my masculine ones. I feel I am at the start of a new spiritual adventure if I chose to listen to myself.

I hope that some of what I have written above deeply resonates within you.

With kind regards,
Guy

Hi Guy,

Thank you so much for such a detailed analysis! I definitely learned a lot from reading your reply.
I never really thought of interpreting dreams as a spiritual symbolism and I didn't realize a small short dream as this one was, it contained a lot of symbols and meanings.

One thing I wanted to ask is would it have mattered who was standing next to me? Would it have had a significant change if this someone was a stranger and not a friend of mine?

I often have reoccuring dreams about holding hands with this friend that appeared in this dream and I was curious about it.

Thank you in advance!

Hi Kotomiku,
Well...the honest answer is I don't know. Why? Because it's your dream! I will babble on for a few paragraphs here to try to give you some idea of what I've learnt about dreams and people in them...

Often my wife is in my dream. What I've learnt is that sometimes she's herself and sometimes she's a symbol of my feminine. I don't read through a dream and then guess which one she is. I simply tap into my higher self, ask at the beginning and then "know". As an fyi, when I interpret dreams from others, I simply take the information as it comes and then interpret it as a I go. I find it much more interesting for me to do this as I am in a way sort of testing myself out against myself to see if it all works out!

So, using my wife as an example, she and I could be holding hands in two dreams where in one she is my wife and in the other she's a symbol of my feminine.

What most people do, is they try to literally interpret their dreams. Thus, a friend who's a stranger and appears in one dream, tis assume to be a stranger in the next dream.

What I said in my interpretation is that there are many different types of peoples in our dreams. It could be another life, a teacher, a person in this life who I've yet to meet, a person I've incarnated with many times, a guide, an oversoul, an aspect of myself or whatever.

A person reading this might sort of throw their spiritual hands up in the air and say "How am I supposed to know this?" The honest answer...is learning slowly to listen to oneself. By connecting with one's higher self.

Now, I must throw in here something I've repeatedly learnt in my own voyage. Just because I can connect with my higher self doesn't mean I am a "spiritual know it all" OR, that I always get an answer to question I pose. Frequently, when I pose a question for my higher self the answer will come back "figure it out on your own.". So a person reading this might think this doesn't make any sense. Why wouldn't a higher self, i.e. my oversoul, give me an answer?

It's because we have free choice. When we incarnate, we intentionally forget who we really are. Why? It's to confirm with the rules of the earthplane we are incarnating into. We have chosen our personalities, our life circumstances, our families and friends we will interact with. For each moment, we have an almost unlimited number of probable futures to select. We select one and it becomes our new present.

I have learnt something that at first is hard to understand. Our life isn't about us "succeeding" at something. It's all about learning from each and every choice.

Therefore, our oversoul knows this. They are there, spiritually right beside us, offering words of support but rarely telling us what to do. That's why we're here struggling away with ourselves, learning about ourselves.

The words of an entity named Silver Birch, who was channeled by a man named Maurice Barbanell, come to my mind as I write this:

"Life is always a polarity. If there were no darkness there would be no light. If there were no trouble there could never be any peace. If the sun always shone you would not appreciate it. You have to learn sometimes through conditions that seem a nuisance. One day you will look back and say, "We learned our best lessons not when the sun was shining, but when the storm was at its greatest, when the thunder roared, the lightning flashed, the clouds obscured the sun and all seemed dark and hopeless". It is only when the soul is in adversity that some of its greatest possibilities can be realised."

That's why I am often told to figure out on my own BUT WITH THE INNER FEELING I CAN.

So, how can people gain the same inner feeling inside themselves? Well, there is no one path, no one book or no one way to do it. Each of us has our own unique personality. What I can tell you is that there are two free ways to begin this journey of knowing oneself; meditation and dream journalling.

Well that's a long winded answer to your question. My advice, for what little it's worth, is to not get all focussed, worried or whatever on particular characters in your dreams. Simply record them and get better at noticing all the small details one creates in one's own dreams. Then, in parallel do two things.

One is to listen to one's own intuition. So if it "comes to you" to do something, to read something, to want to talk to someone, to go somewhere, whatever...do it. It is the most powerful way of changing oneself. Don't quickly dismiss it.

The second is to learn to meditate in whatever way works for you. There are many, many different ways of meditating. Simply do it each and every day for 10-15 minutes. I spent the first 50 years of my life stopping and starting it with no progress. 3 years after a near death experience I decided to this time stick with it. The results are now me helping others, via things like dream interpretations, healings, etc. It has changed my life.

With kind regards,
Guy

Originally Posted by kotomiku

Hi Guy,

Thank you so much for such a detailed analysis! I definitely learned a lot from reading your reply.
I never really thought of interpreting dreams as a spiritual symbolism and I didn't realize a small short dream as this one was, it contained a lot of symbols and meanings.

One thing I wanted to ask is would it have mattered who was standing next to me? Would it have had a significant change if this someone was a stranger and not a friend of mine?

I often have reoccuring dreams about holding hands with this friend that appeared in this dream and I was curious about it.

Thank you in advance!

Hi Guy,

Thank you for your explanation and reply. It has certainly made me look at dream interpretation in a new way and after reading your replies, there are some things that makes sense thinking back to other dreams I still remember. I have always been curious about dreams and sometimes they feel very real and it fascinates me a lot. I sometimes heard about how they could be premonitions of the near future or something of those sorts but what is your view on it?

Thank you so much again,

Hi Kotomiku,
People often will have deja vu where they feel they're been doing what they're doing. If you've had it, you'll know what I mean. Most simply immediately discount it and continue on.

Others will have what could be called "premonition dreams". These can often freak people out because they're of a death, illness or a disaster. They then think that's the only time they get them and it can often heavily weigh on their minds. What I have learnt is much different...

First I learnt that I have incarnated many times. This took some time to digest.

Then I learnt that in this life I would meet 2,000 of these other lives. This too then took some time to digest.

And then, I learnt something which caused me to spiritually rethink myself...my so called past lives live at the same time as I do.

Then, to confuse you a bit further, I met in my dreams future lives of myself and lives where I live in different realities.

Then there were the probable other lives, from this life, who I met in my dreams.

So...am I crazy, do I have an overactive imagination or...could this possibly be true?

I came across a book written by a nuclear physicist, Tom Campbell, who's had many, many out of body experiences. He wanted to reconcile his experiences with his science. So, he wrote a trilogy "My Big TOE" where TOE Stands For Theory of Everything.

In his books he lays out two hypothesis. One is that there is a universal consciousness he calls "All That Is". The second is that "All That Is" must evolve. He put this in scientific terms, i.e. it must lower it's entropy (which is a measurement of randomness).

Then he goes on to talk about All That Is creating these physical matter realities and non-physical matter realities which are seemingly unlimited. He then goes on to say that we live in a virtual reality simulator of sorts where for each moment, there is an almost unlimited number of future probable realities to select from. We select one and it becomes our new present.

I found that these concepts made sense of what I had experienced. This would allow for all my incarnations to be "living at the same time" as me in different times and realities.

It also allowed for probable lives to exist. My own theory is that "All That Is" wants to explore each and every probability to evolve. Therefore, all of our choices are actualized in parallel digital realities.

It also explains to myself about deja vu and dreams of the future. Each night, when we sleep, we leave our bodies. Then, as part of our activities, we "model" some of our probable futures, in effect, testing them out. Most of the time, we aren't listening to ourselves in our bodies, so what only makes it through are some little fragments which we then experience as a deja vu (to have already seen).

Tom then talks about probability curves. This is a measure of all the probabilities against the likelihood of us experiencing it. As we draw nearer to the actual event, the likelihood of choosing and experiencing a certain event, then becomes statistically higher.

So, I believe and think, that people use this to teach themselves about themselves, by having dreams where something that could happen actually happens. What most people do is shy away from this, trying to forget it. This is part of a learning process.

They think that because they have the dream it makes it happen. What they haven’t yet learnt is to take the knowledge and change the future. I will give you a personal example…

Some years ago, I was in a car with a teacher beside me. They had a video camera that was pointing backwards. So I turned to look back.

I saw a relative driving a car though an intersection and watched as this large truck came through the intersection and instantly killed him.

Upon awakening I knew I was being shown a probable future. I also realized it was my dream and a learning opportunity for me. So rather than forget about it, I summoned up my courage and told my loved one about it. I explained about probable futures and then left them with my dream.

They then thanked me. They changed some of their activities by getting their estate in order. Today, they’re still here.

Now, does that mean that a person who has a probable future dream can stop an event from happening. The answer is…it depends! It depends on the participants of the event and what their spiritual choice is.

If I have caught your attention here Kotomiku, I suggest you get a hold of Jane Robert’s fictional trilogy “Over Soul Seven”. She channeled an entity named Seth through in the 1970’s to 80’s who wrote many books through her. She also wrote on her own and the Over Soul Seven books are the easiest way to convey different incarnations living at the same time in different times.

Science is making some progress in the recognition we live in a virtual reality. On my free website “learningfrommydreams” dot com, there is a resource page. If you click on it and go down to the “Science section” you will find links to the Wikipedia page for Digital Physics, and several links to Youtube videos about digital realities.

All of this can make a person’s head spin. However, if one listen’s to oneself one discovers we are much more than our physical body.

I hope that some of what I have said, resonates within you.

With kind regards,
Guy

Hi Guy,

Thank you so much for your reply! I've learned a lot from your replies and will definitely check out your website. Thank you so much again for all your help and answering my questions!

Hope to talk to you soon!