Anyone dream of meeting their Higher Self?

I've had maybe 3 or 4 lucid dreams. In one, once I realized I was dreaming, I decided I wanted to meet my higher self. What I got was totally unexpected.

I knew my higher self was behind this door and I was suddenly very afraid and had to force myself to go to the door and open it. My higher self was a witch. Not an ugly witch, but a pretty witch with shiny black hair, but gave me a very scared feeling. She was behind a large bubbling cauldron, stirring it and cackling. Then I woke up. :confused:

I really didn't expect to find that when requesting to meet my higher self. Anyone else ever try it?

When you are awake, what do you imagine your higher self to be?

That seems hard to put into words, but I think it would be more highly evolved or wise, kind and helpful to me in this life... a higher perspective. I wouldn't have imagined it to be scary. Kind of weird. I didn't try that again, but that was many years ago... if I become lucid soon, I might like to try it again.

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Originally Posted by Facepaintingfun

I've had maybe 3 or 4 lucid dreams. In one, once I realized I was dreaming, I decided I wanted to meet my higher self. What I got was totally unexpected.

I knew my higher self was behind this door and I was suddenly very afraid and had to force myself to go to the door and open it. My higher self was a witch. Not an ugly witch, but a pretty witch with shiny black hair, but gave me a very scared feeling. She was behind a large bubbling cauldron, stirring it and cackling. Then I woke up. :confused:

I really didn't expect to find that when requesting to meet my higher self. Anyone else ever try it?

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That sounds very interesting, however, I can see how scary that can be. I haven't been lucid enough times to try and find my higher self, etc.... but I might try it once I get a better handle on my LDs :P

Facepaintingfun -
I have recently been focused on connecting with my "higher self' while lucid dreaming. I think it is very probable that the form that we see when we encounter our higher self is largely dependent on our thoughts and feelings about our "higher self" both consciously and unconsciously. To actually face your higher self in a lucid setting can be very intimidating and even scary for our egotistical mind if we have never tried such a thing before. I think that our ego consciousness is very used to believing that it represents the whole gamut of our consciousness, and even though some of us are becoming more open minded to the idea that the ego consciousness is not all that there is to us as identities, the actual "face to face" conscious encounter with our "higher self" can be a bit threatening the first time. That expectation/reaction on our part can and will shade the appearance of our higher self in that our own intimidation, and fears, or misgivings about such an encounter will be reflected back at us in the form that our higher self takes.
The next time you try contacting your higher self in the dream state (and I definitely think it is a worthy endeavor), you can even ask her or "him" why they appear a certain way to you. You can ask them any question about their nature, or your nature, or about the relationship between the "two" of you.
I think you are definitely on the right path, and you should go further with it, and not let fear or intimidation hinder you. Once you establish a more familiar and relaxed relationship with your higher self, I think you will find that the image it takes will not be so intimidating.
I have been chronicling my lucid dreaming and related experiences lately in a blog. This is a link to the first consciously induced lucid experience I had with my 'higher self." If you get a chance to read it, let me know what you think!

My Higher Self Manifests In A lucid Dream « Larther's Journey

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Thanks Larther for the reply. I'll go ahead and check out your experience. Sounds interesting! :)

The answer may well have been completely correct in relation to your current psychological development. You may be able some day to see through the metaphor and see something good.

I think the dream self is the higher self

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Originally Posted by saltyseedog

I think the dream self is the higher self

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If you believe the dream itself is/represents the higher self, how would you go about having a more conscious direct contact with the higher self?

I remember a question put to the class in 9th grade about the higher self. There were a number of people who came before me, all wanting to be doctors, lawyers, astronauts, etc., when it came my turn, I said I wanted to be a wino--could not imagine getting any higher than that. Sides, I still have not overcome my distaste for alcohol, and maybe some day I will address that issue, but right now I am just plain too busy. I do, however, still ask people if they have seen me walking around anywhere. If I run into myself, I am sure to take a measure and see which one of us is higher.

Yes, I did meet my higher self. It was a most epic and locquacious dream. I followed a Scout to a town on the Moon. Otherme came out of a house with a needle and thread on the wooden sign by the door.

He gave me a most amazing sword made of a thousand parakeets with which to vanquish my enemies.

Higher Self Dream CLICK

I had a dream long time ago where i was in a building looking like a castle of sort. I was looking around and found a secret room. I entered the room and found another me lying on the couch there staring at me. I dont remember if we spoke but i knew then that it was me and that the other me knew i was him.
So i may have met my higher self but back then i didnt know such thing even existed.

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Originally Posted by juroara

If you believe the dream itself is/represents the higher self, how would you go about having a more conscious direct contact with the higher self?

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On second thought I take back what I said. When I heard higher self the first thing that came to my mind was this:

The self dreams the double. Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self. Your double is dreaming you. No one knows how it happens. We only know that it does happen. That's the mystery of us as luminous beings. You can awaken in either one.

soo I was thinking higher self as the dream body or "double"

But my theory is that there is a spirit. All of our hearts our connected to it. It is intuition. You just have to listen to it. Sooo now I'm thinking that could be interpreted as higher self.
I really don't know....

something like that happened to me. sometimes when i dream, i see a silver/metallic version of myself (kind of like T1000) with bright red eyes asking for a challenge.

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Originally Posted by Facepaintingfun

I've had maybe 3 or 4 lucid dreams. In one, once I realized I was dreaming, I decided I wanted to meet my higher self. What I got was totally unexpected.

I knew my higher self was behind this door and I was suddenly very afraid and had to force myself to go to the door and open it. My higher self was a witch. Not an ugly witch, but a pretty witch with shiny black hair, but gave me a very scared feeling. She was behind a large bubbling cauldron, stirring it and cackling. Then I woke up. :confused:

I really didn't expect to find that when requesting to meet my higher self. Anyone else ever try it?

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Yes, I've had experiences similar to this in two ways.

A while ago I asked to know my past lives, assuming that any past lives such as I might be aware of are 'mine' in the conventional sense. In a dream was given some rectangular plates or film to paint my past lives on, with the idea that I'd be able to see them after they developed. When I was done, a laughing witch with bugs in her mouth took the plates away from me.

At other times, when moving my feeling of identity around with a 'who am I' kind of question, I've experienced myself as being a witch. I don't think this is the deepest part of my being, and its not the only part even at that level, but its deeper than my typical waking personality. I think its true what others say that my conscious and subconscious thoughts about who I am are going to affect my perceptions of who I am, and for that reason my perceptions are unlikely to be totally accurate. However, I think the witch image actually has a fair amount of truth to it, perceptions aside, and it makes more sense to me than an expectation to encounter a wise, benevolent higher self. That wise, benevolent self is in a sense real too, but the witch is in the way, and the witch doesn't just vanish because we overlay it with a thought about benevolence. The witch has to be acknowledged, engaged, and reintegrated with the rest of one's being, healing it that way. Otherwise its kind of like trying to deal with a naughty child by locking them in the closet forever. That mentality is part of how they got twisted to start with.

My witch is female, and I experience myself as female in that context, though I have a male body. I think this is probably because that gender is inherent in the nature of feeling, and also because I polarize that way in relation to my more male intellect.

An interesting way to look at it and I think it makes a lot of sense. From things I'd read from others, I always expected my higher self image to come as more angelic or Godlike, so when I had to face the witch in that dream, what a surprise. And in the dream, pretty terrifying. I hope to get lucid more, so I can explore this further. Whenever I have a lucid dream, I always feel like this is my opportunity to learn more about myself and my purpose in life, etc. I feel like it kind of bridges this life and the other side.

I have had years of lucid dreaming but for the first time I remembered to ask to be taken to my higher self just two nights ago. I was dreaming I was in bed dreaming(dream within a dream) and was floating higher. It felt nice and was aware I was ascending. It was very black, but peaceful. As I got higher I was aware I was near the top and asked to be taken to the eye of the storm! At this point, I realised I was lucid and said - no change that and take me to my higher self. I continued to rise higher in the blackness when suddenly, what appeared to be a strange creature, swam very quickly in front and above of me. So it was like I was in a pool. (I have dreamed of a pool of consciousness before) It frightened me, making me jump and I quickly awoke both back to the dream I was having and then in reality. I had thought I would pop out the other side of this pool expecting to meet my higher self instead it was quite frightening and I didnt get there. I feel a bit wary of repeating this again. Maybe next time I remember I will be in a different scenario altogether so it wont be so scary.

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Originally Posted by Philosopher8659

I remember a question put to the class in 9th grade about the higher self. There were a number of people who came before me, all wanting to be doctors, lawyers, astronauts, etc., when it came my turn, I said I wanted to be a wino--could not imagine getting any higher than that. Sides, I still have not overcome my distaste for alcohol, and maybe some day I will address that issue, but right now I am just plain too busy. I do, however, still ask people if they have seen me walking around anywhere. If I run into myself, I am sure to take a measure and see which one of us is higher.

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That would have been funny except you cant get high off alcohol?
Maybe if you rephrased it with marijuana?

The extent of my fascination with this topic makes me unsure if I live in LaLa Land when I think about it, but here goes. :)

It is interesting that there seems to be a hint of a pattern in this thread, the potential pattern being that in these dreams the higher self is surrounded by fear or is something frightening.

If your higher self is aware of and is all aspects of what you are (the negatives, the positives, and the neutrals), but transcends those aspects as well, then to see your higher self, you might see your entirety, including what you have repressed into subconsciousness and have yet to include in consciousness and transcend.

Maybe what you are seeing is not your higher self, but a step on the path to seeing and becoming your higher self. Or maybe your higher self uses its crazy wisdom to appear as what is appropriate for you to face at this moment.

Regardless, processing the feelings that come up when you see or imagine you see your higher self might lead to interesting insights.

I have seen many dream characters that seemed to be of much higher awareness, but I haven't tried to see my higher self, now I want to try it!

How did you achieve meeting your higher self?
What did you say while you were lucid to find that?

I hate to brag, but if I ever met my higher self, they would have to be on a step ladder.

@FallenAwake Ha! If you succeed, you'll have to share! :) I'm really interested in others experiences with this.

@Mellie... When I realized I was lucid, I just gave the thought that I wanted to meet my higher self and everything followed after that strong desire. You only have to think or say the desire while you're in the dream and it happens. That was my experience.

That makes perfect sense if you were to meet your higher self it would be a total sum reflection of who u are as a being. I've never met with my higher self but nor do i really desire to, i tap in to that part of me for information purposes and its infinite im sure. Now I do have a desire to meet the source of all energy and had an opportunity to ask but chickened out, instead i got to know my spirit guide a little better.

Well, I had a lucid dream last night and I asked to see my higher self. I'm all excited. :) I've been trying to update my dream journal so that I can get to entering last night's in the proper order, but gah, now I'm burnt out on writing and editing.

A superficial summary: the dream was interesting, dim, emotional, and inspiring. It also had some similarities with other experiences posted here in terms of darkness. I don't mean to tease but my mind is in writer-warped mode and I don't want to misrepresent my dream with crappy writing. I'm too excited about the dream to not at least post something. :p

not sure if ive met a higher self, but i remember having a very pivital dream, i was fighting myself, struggling, a stronger me and a weaker me, in stature and personality, the weaker me stabbed the other with a long knife, as he of course was desperate being weaker and all i guess, then the stronger me looked up at me(now the weaker me) and said "So, thats how its gonna be eh?" I remember thinking the wound was not fatal, and that he would be back one day.

Finally got done cleaning up the writing of that higher self dream so I could post it in my DJ. Here's the link. Dream: Spirituality's Just a Clunky Flashlight

The lucid dream is in purple if you read it and want to skip the meditation before, etc.

there was this building it was securly locked and the only way to open it was to hack into it, but was not as simple as that because there was a goliath out of mass effect guarding the place and i mean this thing was Huge. there was 4 of us and

2 of them distracted the goliath from its station and there was a big shoot up and 1 of us got shot and died, so there was me trying to hack this terminal which i succeeded with 2 attempts and managed to somehow detonate the goliath aswell and

we ran and mannaged to slide under the security door before it closed again. Now this is where it all starts feeling important to me, the first door had a mirror on it and had a spy camera there so we got rid of that lol. we opened the door which

had no handle and turned right and then went into this other room it was a bedroom on the left there was another spy camera so we destroyed that. there was this tele i ould hear the static come out of it i mean really loudly and on this table

there were to bugging devices well i destroyed them but funny thing was when i was twisting the devices the frequency of the tv changed and out side of the room i could hear ppl say shut up turn it off, so we did. We ran out of room and now

there were only 2 of us for some reason. i now went down some stairs and saw this guy lying on hay he didnt look to happy got up and went to grab me but i shut the doors and locked him in this is where i ran lol. my mate dissapeard so it was

only me now. I ran up the stairs there where doors everywhere i went in one then ran up these spiralling stairs and at each floor there was about 4 doors i ignored them and kept going up until there was only one door left. NOW this it the special

part this door was different, i opened it and there was this lady she was beautiful she had yellow hair shoulder length egyptian style make up and i cant remember her top she was wearing but she had white tights. She said to me she has been

waiting for me for along time. I now feel like i know her and always have she pulled me to her and yh she ripped a hole in tights and had no knickers well you can see where that leads to something intimite and well yh i woke up, i never got her
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Originally Posted by Facepaintingfun

I've had maybe 3 or 4 lucid dreams. In one, once I realized I was dreaming, I decided I wanted to meet my higher self. What I got was totally unexpected.

I knew my higher self was behind this door and I was suddenly very afraid and had to force myself to go to the door and open it. My higher self was a witch. Not an ugly witch, but a pretty witch with shiny black hair, but gave me a very scared feeling. She was behind a large bubbling cauldron, stirring it and cackling. Then I woke up. :confused:

I really didn't expect to find that when requesting to meet my higher self. Anyone else ever try it?

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I did several years back... but had messed up results; going somewhere I had no wish to be.
I think most of the times, especially recently, I AM my HS in Dreams of a certain type. I do meet and talk with others Higher Selves if the need comes up (for them, or myself)

There's this series of games called Persona. It is one of my personal favorites in that explores what it means to be the true self, and to understand one's own soul. Main characters have what is called a Persona, an personification of their own soul that usually helps them to fight. A Persona represents the truest parts of the person good and bad. When one accepts these qualities within themselves, they are granted the ability to call on their Persona. In different games, Personae are summoned in different ways, either crushing a card, calling it out, or using a gun shaped device called an evoker (This one was rather controversial in the games, rated Teen-Mature).

In my enjoyment of the series, I would try to imagine what my true self would be, and I tried to meet he/she/it in my dreams. I tried to facilitate a sense of open mindedness to allow a Persona to take form naturally. The first chance I was lucid, I tried summoning and succeeded. It was a male figure, wearing what resembled a wizard's garb. It was kind of fuzzy for me, but the image got clearer and clearer with time The Persona told me its name, and I innately knew its essence, it was the sum of all of my ideals and traits I liked about myself in its truest form. At a later date in a dream, while I was momentarily lucid, I was in front of a wall of mirrors. I tried summoning again, hoping to get a better look at my positive Persona. However, this persona that manifested was the opposite. He was a red skinned figure. He had wings, and a bit of a grotesque appearance, but it was not malevolent, just the darker parts of myself that I don't like to acknowledge. I knew his name and qualities without exchanging a word.

I'm not sure if I would call them my higher self, but they've come to reflect my truest self, and I draw upon their strength when I need them in my dreams.

Don't know about this being my higher self? Here's the dream... I enter the dream using the wild method. As the dream is forming I find myself floating up some kind of brick well. I see a dark shadow at the top of the well. I tell myself I'm going to confront this dark figure and not be scared of it. As I rose closer I realized it was the grim reaper. I told myself it's just a dream don't be scared. I floated up and yelled "I'm not afraid of you!" and tried to look threw the slit in the hood he was wearing. When I made eye contact it was instant chills up my spine. Inside was me! I stand looking at the reaper form of me directly in the eyes. I ask strongly. " what do you represent?" his face turned angry and he gave a deep yelling groan and hit me with what felt like g-forces of pure energy. I flew back down the well depratley trying to stop myself from falling. I thought I was on my way to hell. I tried to make commands to telaport to a happy location. Nothing was working so I shouted your awake. And I woke instantly. This is the only lucid dream I woke myself up. It was that scary.

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Originally Posted by WhatsReal

Don't know about this being my higher self? Here's the dream... I enter the dream using the wild method. As the dream is forming I find myself floating up some kind of brick well. I see a dark shadow at the top of the well....

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Interesting dream. Here's a couple I've had with somewhat related themes:

In the dream I'm sitting in the family room of my childhood home, with the shades drawn. My mind then wanders elsewhere, and I have other less lucid dreams for much of the night. Then abruptly I'm back in the living room, right where the dream left off. A blue-white light floats down the walkway outside of the front window, and the curtains blow inward as it passes. It reaches the front door and comes through the door, at about head height, without opening it. It attacks me, like a scream everywhere at once. I respond with aggressive defiance, while also with another part of my mind appealing to something like 'God' for assistance. Then I wake up. Awake, I feel anger in my heart, and the anger is the aggressive fear of the psychic attack, but experienced from another side.

On another occasion I'm wandering around in a dark building, looking for an intruder that I can also sense. I realize that the intruder is actually myself, looking for the intruder, and there's an instant when they both come into focus as one.

Maybe its not obvious why those dreams are similar to yours, since the forms are quite different, but there's an element there that feels the same to me.

Yes they are similar is some underlying way. I felt the same when I woke... Angry and I felt I was deffinatly attacked by this figure. I feel he was pure evil. I also looked toward "god" to save me as I was falling, although it didn't help.

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Originally Posted by WhatsReal

Yes they are similar is some underlying way. I felt the same when I woke... Angry and I felt I was definitely attacked by this figure.

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Rhetorical question....Was it your evil clone who created the dream, so that he could attack you? Or was the dream created to force an open confrontation that would expose something of its true nature, so that you could see how it attacks you, and defend yourself better? For myself, I go back and forth on this a bit, not always sure what's me, or what's helping me, or what just seems to be helping me so that it can lure me into a deeper trap, or what's showing me a trap that I can climb out of so that I won't fall into a deeper one later.

After my dream, I felt like it had been all of my life's difficult experience compressed down to a couple of seconds, so that I could grasp what was really going on. And I felt I was freed a little bit afterwards.

In another dream, in which I struck a blow against something like an evil android, it seemed that it depended on its true nature not being thought about or discussed openly and honestly.

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Originally Posted by WhatsReal

I feel he was pure evil.

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My demon felt that way also - pure hate, with nothing there to redeem. At the same time, after I recognized my own anger, I experienced the dream as a message, not as an attack, and it felt positive and helpful rather than unpleasant. The hate itself was evil, but not that I was able to experience it in that way.

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Originally Posted by WhatsReal

I also looked toward "god" to save me as I was falling, although it didn't help.

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This reminds me of an anecdote someone told me about an acquaintance who tried to ward off a demon with the name of Jesus Christ. The demon said, "I know who he is, but who are you?"

It seems to me that sometimes a person can't escape from an evil. Once it touches you, it has a claim on a part of you, and then some things just have to play out.

But how do you know that your appeal didn't help? I don't think in terms of 'God', and I'm not willing to worship in any case. But it seems to me that we are heard, and that help is patient, often waiting many years for conditions that produce a more real change than what a quick response would.