Remembered Nocturnal Visit ~ Write it down! Immediately!

You wake up. Perhaps you remember a visitation? If so, quick, grab your journal and pen. Write it down. Go back through what you wrote and see if it jogs your memory and you remember even more. If you do, record that too.

If you wake without a recollection of dream visits. Then lie perfectly still. Don’t stretch. Don’t roll over. Lying still, reexamine your mind. Ask yourself, Did I have any dreams? Did I dream of anyone who is dead? If so, it was probably a nocturnal visit. Whether just a crazy dream or a for real visit, record it in your journal. Often, things connect and make more sense upon reading the entries at a later date. The practice of recording with immediacy is vitally important. Why? 

The primary reason is, if you wait, you will most likely forget it, or at least forget fragments of the experience.

This practice of recording with immediacy is also important because:

If you review your writing down the road, you will often see things that you did not see initially.

ie: A few years ago, I dreamed of my cousin Bobby (who died of a heart attack at 42.) The dream place where we met was a lovely wooded spot. On a shaded side hill, we sat on pine needles and talked. I knew he had died.

Bobby said he had come to tell me that my youngest daughter was in danger of being hurt badly. Then he talked about a bad tire on her car and said not to worry because he would get a new tire for her.

There was more to the visit, but this is enough for you to see that when I later went back and read this entry, I was astounded. My daughter’s husband died of pancreatic cancer, very quickly and soon after my dream. Widowed with two young boys, she was hurt badly, indeed.

Did Bobby get her a new tire? You tell me. She remarried four years later and they are very happy.

The act of recording that dream resulted in my finding courage upon reading it after my daughter was widowed. I knew Bobby was looking out for her. Again, I advise, as soon as you recall a dream, record it in your journal.

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As a toddler, Sue Baumgardner made up stories for herself looking at books she could not read and later spun tales for her younger sisters. After she had her own children, she told them tales and eventually wove a new pattern into the fabric of their lives. As the three sat together, one would begin with a story idea of her own. She spoke perhaps a paragraph or two or three, then pointed to the next who would take up the thread and continue with her own evolution of the story line passed to her, until she pointed to the next. The third person wove her own ideas into the story progression. After the three each had a turn, anyone could end the story, in their turn, whenever it felt complete to them. After her children were adults, Sue studied writing, first poetry and then prose. After six semesters in adult education, she was thoroughly hooked on the story art form. Sue continued with dozens of classes, seminars and writing retreats. She studied writing and publishing under the likes of James Patterson, Peter Behrens, and Mark Dawson. As a contributor to the Discover Maine Magazine, Sue received her first check for her prose. Her poetry has been published in The Aurorian. She has six of her paperbacks along with four ebooks published. They include fiction and nonfiction for adults and fiction for Middle Readers. Her very first publishing though began with Greeting Card Universe, where Sue’s greeting cards with verse are sold across the world.

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