Icky Snakes

Lots of dreams lately about icky snakes. It's troublesome!!

July 11

I had a dream that I was in an old church basement. Jake was getting baptized and I asked to be baptized as well. We had to crawl through tunnels to get to the location in the basement where the baptism would take place. There was a large amount of storage around us in the basement. Ben was going to baptize us both. I was going to ask Sam (maybe because I felt more comfortable with him at the time or because I thought that maybe he was more connected to heaven), but I didn't because I didn't want Sam to have to get wet and change when Ben already had to. It was less trouble that way. Ben's mom was there. She asked me if I wanted to use a shrug to go with my dress. My dress was white and black, long with long sleeves. The dress was mostly white but it had a strip of black in the front down the middle as well as down both of the sleeves. The shrug was sheer material and it was black with small white polka dots. I didn't end up wearing the shrug. I questioned why the dress wasn't all white, but I shrugged it off. My hair was in a braid. The baptism took place in the basement but the audience watched from directly above through a glass window on the floor. From what I remember, Jake and I were baptized and everyone returned home. The next evening I was trying to get ahold of Ben because I had a dream that I was to get baptized that night as well. Actually I was to be baptized three nights in a row. I went and met up with him but he was leaving the church already. I remember there was a long moment in which both of us made eye contact. He asked me if there was anyone in that area that I knew needed help with anything. I said no, but I went and asked a girl in one of the houses. She said that a man who lived just over the hill needed help. I went to tell Ben, but really we didn't hav a lot of details about where he lived. We decided that maybe we would let a dog loose and he would show us the way. The dream fizzled out after that.

July 8

So I've been writing down all of my dreams lately...at least the ones I feel are important to record. Lately I've just been writing them down in my notes app on my iphone. (Probably not the smartest decision being that there isn't a lock on my phone and everyone has access to everything I've been dreaming). Anyway, I realize I haven't been posting on this blog and I think the reason is because I don't always have an understanding to my dreams right when I have them. However, I feel like its important for me to record my dreams on here. Therefore, I think for now I am going to simply post what I record about my dreams. A simple copy and paste. I will also try to change up the names so it stays somewhat confidential. However, if you know me and others I associate with, it may be easy for you to decipher. I'll do the best I can.

That being said, I'm back in Texas for the next two years...sad! However, i've had some rather interesting dreams since I've returned.

July 8, 2014

I had a dream that involved Josh and Mike and a few other young individuals. We were all gathering together to do things the Lord had asked of us. Almost as if it was going to be a night of performing ordinances. There was definitely a big storm that night. Josh had a young daughter that wanted to participate but she seemed to be infected with something that made her unsafe to bring along (like bitten by a zombie). Josh and Mike came up with a plan on how to get themselves, myself and the other few young individuals to the location without having Josh's daughter realize because we didn't want to hurt her feelings. However, she noticed and we just had to be blunt with her and tell her she couldn't join us. She acted out with rage and then we left. I felt bad and asked that we pray about letting her come. However, the answer was no at that time. Most of us were riding in Mike's truck and Josh and Mike informed me that it would probably be best to let go of some of the belongings I had because they might slow me down if we had to run to get somewhere. Then I mentioned to Mike that Josh shouldn't be in the back of the truck because of the storm and because things would try to attack/attach themselves to him. So we pulled over to get Josh inside the truck. The rest of the events are fuzzy but I know that there were an equal amount of male and female in the group. I also know that people began to not participate in some of the events that were planned for the night. Some decided to go home early. Josh left and went home to his wife. Before that night, the house was an orange color. Later, his wife kicked him out and the house was painted very bright colors with different colors covering different sections of the house. The living room section was painted a very bright red on the outside of the house and there was a lamp on. Later I told the daughter that she could make an effort to change josh's mind by riding a horse through the town. She began to do so but was pretty upset when the effort she made wasn't enough to convince Josh that she was no longer infected.

George W. Bush in the temple

So I know I haven't posted in a while. It definitely does not mean that I haven't had some pretty cool dreams. I have really gone through some craziness lately trying to do everything the Lord wants me to do, whether or not I, myself, would like to do them. Because of this, and because I currently do not have internet at my home, I haven't posted in a while.
I wanted to tell you all of a really important dream that I had a while back. Some have already heard it, but I think its important that I record it here. I had this dream back around October of 2013. In the dream, I was in the LDS temple. I was going to be doing an endowment session. I remember as I was getting ready, I either put my dress on backwards or I had forgotten to put something on and had to go back and fix it. (I was still pretty new to the whole endowment in the temple.) I remember going out into the hallway and waiting for it to be time to go into the endowment room. All of a sudden, all of the people in the temple that were waiting to do a session began to chatter loudly and run over to a central location of the temple. There in what appeared to be a chapel inside the temple, was George W. Bush. He was there to give a talk. People became angry because they were unable to get front row seats. There were still sessions going on and I definitely wasn't going to waste my time and miss my session by listening to Bush. (I had no negative feelings towards Bush prior to this dream). I realized that I had forgotten my stone (very special) in my locker and went back to retrieve it. I found myself stuck walking slowly behind this couple. I finally got past them and had to walk past George W. Bush in order to get to the dressing room. He was already giving his speech and I didn't seem to care. I had to walk past him and realized that once I got up to him that I was going to have to walk on the train of his white wedding dress in order to get by. I did and went and retrieved my stone. This was the close of my dream.
Some have interpreted this to mean that gay marriage is actually happening inside the temple or will happen within the temple in the near future. Others have interpreted it to mean that the church is corrupted. I leave it up to you to pray and find the interpretation.

Covenants

This is one of my favorite dreams! During the last week of September I had been praying about how to make covenants and seeing and conversing with angels. One evening during the last week of September, I read a portion of a book titled "Beloved Enos" by Denver Snuffer. I then decided to get ready to go to sleep. In my prayer that night I prayed about covenants.

In my dream I was approached by an angel. They grabbed my hand and were going to take me to the Father to make a covenant. I awoke from a bright light. I went back to sleep and when I awoke I had the words "ark of the missing covenant" in my mind. I had to get up out of bed because I was extremely hot and sweating.

It was short and I only have slight images. However, it really is amazing to think about. It is also wonderful that at this point in the process, I very much receive answers to questions I ask in my prayers through my dreams.

Anywho, this process of making covenants was later confirmed by an individual who spoke about covenants later that week. AMAZING!

Up on the Mountain Top

The dream that I am about to include here is one in which I haven't shared with many people. The dream occurred at the end of June and was on the night that I had gone through the temple and had become an endowed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

I came to find the church through a family who were members of the church. In my dream I had received a facebook message from the mom of this family. I was unaware of what exactly the message said because it was written in spanish. The last paragraph however was in english and included a few sentences congratulating me for going through the temple. I then took the message to another individual to ask for a simple translation of the message. I was told that the message had said "You will go to the top of the mountain to meet with the Lord." I then awoke.

After sharing this dream with a close friend, she asked if I felt like that was a personal invitation from the Lord to go to Zion. Invitation or not, I do not know. But this sentence has and will always stick with me.

How many steps does it take to get to the center of dreaming?

I wanted to take a quick moment to go through some things that I have felt make a difference on your dream state and allow you to be more open to recieving dreams.

First off, sacrifice. Sacrifice your fans, music, noise of any kind (sorry if your husband/wife snore, can't really get rid of them). This summer I noticed a difference from when I would turn my fan or music off at night vs when I would listen to music and have my fan on. I really do think the noise level affects your ability to have these amazing dreams. It could also simply be that I was sacrificing something. I expressed to the Lord why I was doing it and it seemed to make a powerful difference.

Next, don't pray for good sleep. If you want good sleep, then you probably don't want dreams. I wake up and toss and turn throughout the night. I definitely don't get good sleep. And when I do, those are usually the nights that I don't have any dreams to reflect on. I usually pray and ask for dreams and express my desire to sacrifice my good sleep in order to obtain dreams that will answer questions to my prayers.

Food consumption. I have absolutely positively noticed that the types of foods you eat, definitely affects your ability to not only receive prophetic dreams, but overall be in tune with the spirit. Watch what you eat. If you eat healthier and drink lots of water, it is likely your dreams or ability to remember the dreams will improve.

Pray pray pray. Have a complete desire to recieve dreams and then ask for them. Then proceed to ask very specifically. Include in your prayers that when you say "tonight" you are meaning in the earthly time frame. The Lord is on different times than we are. Be VERY specific and of course ask that your physical body will remember it during the whole next day (enough time for you to write it down). (again, on your earthly time table).

Have a journal under your pillow or next to your bed. I have occasionally set my alarm clock for 4 AM in order to wake up and write down my dream in the middle of the night. I promise you that you will have much more information from your dream if you write it down in the middle of the night vs when you wake up in the morning.

Be actively engaged in your scripture study and connection with the Lord. Love Him and have a desire to use His gifts for the welfare and establishment of Zion. And as always, do not become prideful.

Just a few thoughts about the dreaming process that I thought I'd throw out there.