Anna Sayce

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  • 7 Surprising Signs You Have the Psychic Gift of Dreaming 

    I’ve written extensively in the past on my blog about the various clair gifts that a person can have, which can be used to communicate with Spirit. However, there is another psychic gift that I haven’t written too much about — the gift of dreaming.

    Dreaming is another very powerful way to connect with Spirit and get guidance about your life. And in this article I’m going to go over 7 clear signs that you have this gift.

    But first, let’s have a look at why dreaming is such an effective way for Spirit to give you guidance.

    Why Dreaming is such a great way for spirit to get messages to you

    When you go to sleep at night, your soul leaves your body (although it also remains tethered to the physical body), and it goes off exploring in the astral planes.

    What are the astral planes?

    Have you ever felt like in your dreams, that you are visiting a ‘place’ or you recognise some mysterious landscape in your dream, that you’ve been to before? It isn’t just in your mind! You feel like you’re visiting a familiar place because you are “visiting” the same places in your sleep — but they’re in the astrals.

    There are believed to be seven positive and seven negative astral planes around our planet, and most people visit the positive astrals in their dreams.

    Note that the astral planes are not the same as the ‘other side’. They are located halfway between heaven (AKA the other side) and Earth.

    So how does this make for easy spirit communication?

    Well, usually when you communicate with Spirit, you have to meet Spirit halfway and Spirit has to meet you halfway, in order for that communication to happen. This is because the spirit realm is far removed from the earthly realm. And the astral realm is halfway between the two.

    So, when you go to sleep at night, you’re in the astral realm, which is halfway between the two realms. And so you’re already in a convenient “location” in which to communicate with Spirit.

    Spirit may be trying to communicate with you during the day, but perhaps you are too busy or you don’t notice because your clair gifts are not yet honed and so you’re not able to build your half of the “bridge” to contact Spirit. For that reason, it’s much easier for Spirit to come to you in the astrals when you’re asleep. And some people are very good at receiving messages this way. Let’s find out if you’re one of them.

    So here are some signs you have this psychic skill of dreaming. Let’s have a look at the first one:

    1. You have a very active dream life

    You know you have an active dream life if you have interesting, eventful, symbolic or meaningful dreams at least once or twice a week. This is probably the biggest sign that you’re a strong dreamer — you dream a lot. This shows that you’re already in a position where you will easily receive guidance from Spirit in a dream.

    Personally I’ve always been someone who regales those close to me with the stories of all the crazy things I got up to last night in my dreams! If you often find yourself doing this, you’ve clearly got an active dream life and this is one of the big signs you’re a strong dreamer.

    Let’s have a look at the second sign:

    2. Your sleep is a bit weird!

    I’m not sure why this is, but I’ve noticed that those with a strong dreaming gift often have something a bit unusual going on with their sleep. Sometimes they have a sleep disorder, they often need a lot more sleep (or a lot less) than the average person. They often have had experiences of sleep paralysis, and they may sleepwalk or talk a lot in their sleep.

    This doesn’t apply to everyone who is a strong dreamer, but it is something I’ve often heard about among strong dreamers.

    3. You find it easy to remember your dreams

    This one is pretty obvious, but some people don’t remember their dreams. And so of course, if you don’t remember your dreams, you’re not going to be able to receive guidance this way — messages from the spiritual realm are simply not going to be able to reach your conscious mind.

    So in order to be a strong dreamer, you have to be one of those people who remembers your dreams.

    4. You feel you have had dreams with spiritual beings in them and you tend to have these dreams just before waking

    If you have had an experience before where you sensed the presence of an otherworldly being in your dream, this is another strong sign you have the psychic gift of dreaming.

    The being you met could have been an angel or it could have been your Spirit Guide or maybe it was your Higher self. It doesn’t really matter which being it is, but for this one to apply, you have to have had an experience where you felt Spirit came to you and gave you a message in a dream that was helpful for your life.

    How will you know if the being you met in your dream was a real spiritual being, or if it was just a regular dream?

    I would say, you’ll just know (or at least you’ll have a pretty strong inkling). You’ll wake up from that dream feeling touched by a positive energy, or with a lovely feeling when you wake. And you may have received helpful guidance for your life, too, during the dream.

    In this article: Angels Defined & How They Can Help You, I detail an encounter with an angel that took place in the astral planes while I was asleep:

    I dreamed that I was waiting in line to buy a ticket at the local coach station. There was a woman right in front of me, with her back to me. In the dream, she turned around and looked me in the eye and said ‘you go in front of me’ and smiled. Looking into her eyes, it was clear that she was an Angel. A wave of emotion swept me and I felt very nurtured and loved. The eyes of the Angel were kind and gentle but also the kind of gaze that burns when you look at it. I woke up moved from my dream and that feeling lasted for hours.

    I hope that gives you an idea of how these dream encounters often feel.

    Let’s have a look at the next sign:

    5. You have dreamt of a deceased loved one in the past…

    …and you felt that it was a real visitation from your loved one.

    Perhaps your dream had a certain ‘feeling’ or atmosphere to it that felt magical, otherworldly, or just different from usual. Or perhaps the dream from your loved one came at an opportune moment (such as an anniversary or birthday) which felt meaningful to you. This can be another sign you’re a strong dreamer.

    When a loved one dies, those who are strong dreamers do often get visited — perhaps not always straight away — but usually at some point after the death. In some cases, you may be visited by someone who is long dead.

    Now let’s look at the sixth sign you have the dreaming gift:

    6. You have dreamt of something which later came true

    This is another experience that is common among strong dreamers — they tend to dream of the future. This is because dreams do sometimes allow us to see into a possible or likely future scenario, and know how things will likely play out. Sometimes these glimpses into the future can be warnings (i.e. what will happen if we or someone else continues on a particular path.)

    Personally I have dreamt of the future many times before and I detailed some of my experiences in this article: Precognitive Dreaming — Are You Dreaming of the Future?

    Now let’s look at the final sign you have this gift:

    7. You have had a lucid dream or an astral projection experience before

    A lucid dream is a dream where you become aware, within the dream, that you’re dreaming. (Our guest writer Debra Reeves wrote about lucid dreams here.) So, if you have had a lucid dream before, that’s another sign that you are a strong dreamer.

    And if you’ve had an astral projection experience, you get extra points for this, too. An astral projection experience is an out of body experience that you can have intentionally or unintentionally (i.e. it just happens.) The only time I had what I believe to be an astral projection experience was several years ago while I was napping and I described the experience in this article. I’ll quote it below, as well:

    A few years ago, on an afternoon in January, I had an amazing spiritual experience that I still think about on a regular basis.

    That afternoon, I lay down on my bed for a nap with my cat. I went to sleep and had an ‘astral projection’ experience. I dreamt that I asked a higher being what it felt like to die, and I was granted permission to experience it.

    Here was my experience:

    First of all, my soul shot out of my body through my heart chakra and it felt amazing – I felt immense joy and bliss. It was as if my body was like a heavy, old coat that I had been wearing for a while and was quite happy to take off. I slipped out of it joyfully and left it discarded on the floor.

    And there was an invisible trajectory above me in the sky – I couldn’t see it but I knew it was there. I was flying. I was above my house and I wanted to continue on because it felt so good. But I knew I shouldn’t. I saw my cat sleeping on the bed and thought about what I wanted to achieve in this lifetime and I knew I had to stop. And straight away I was back in my body and I woke up. It was exhilarating, but scary too – it felt like flying too close to the wind.

    Other signs of an astral projection experience include: feeling a vibration sensation in your whole body just before the experience, hearing a buzzing noise, or seeing things that are not there.

    So if you’ve had an astral projection experience, too, this means you are likely to have the dreaming gift.

    How many of the above signs did you relate to?

    If you related to 5 or more, it’s likely that you have the dreaming gift. If you related to all of them, you almost certainly do.

    I’m going to end this article with a quote from the spiritual writer Robert Moss:

    You are born to fly, and in dreams you remember the soul has wings.

    ― Robert Moss, The Secret History of Dreaming

    Further Reading:

  • How to Develop Clairvoyance

    How to Develop Clairvoyance

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    In this article I discuss what clairvoyance is exactly and also how to develop this gift.

    Clairvoyance means ‘clear-seeing’. Almost everyone knows what clairvoyance is — it’s the ability to see Spirit through your third eye. Clairvoyants can see energy fields, spirits, symbols and get visual premonitions. Developing clairvoyance isn’t difficult — in this article, I give you some pointers to do this.

    Some clairvoyants see things in their mind’s eye (which is like the movie screen that you see inside your mind when you close your eyes) and some can see with their physical eyes. Both are possible, but it’s more common to see in the mind’s eye. Whereas a clairsentient might look at your photo and pick up on your feelings and emotions, a clairvoyant would probably see your aura, the essence of your spirit and Spirit Guides or Guardian Angels around you. When reading a situation, a clairvoyant may see a symbol or a ‘movie-scene’ which is a metaphor for the situation.

    Receiving clairvoyant images is one thing, but not all clairvoyants are gifted at interpreting what they see. To interpret a vision or symbol, you need to use your claircognizance or clairaudience as well.

    I’ve written articles on the three other major psychic gifts: clairaudience, clairsentience, and claircognizance. The reason why I didn’t write an article about clairvoyance sooner is because it is not really a common psychic gift.

    On the other hand, I felt compelled to write about claircognizance and clairsentience because they are so common and the people who have these gifts often do not know that these even constitute psychic gifts which can be developed. By contrast, in my mini readings, I’ve only read for about ten people who have been natural clairvoyants (that’s about ten people out of 350) and most of those people knew about their clairvoyant abilities. I guess this rare factor could be why clairvoyance is thought of as THE psychic gift to have, because it’s more exclusive somehow.

    Why Most People Don’t Need Clairvoyant Gifts

    Are clairvoyant abilities better than the other psychic gifts, like clairaudience or clairsentience?

    I don’t think so. All the intuitive vehicles are meant to work together. In fact, I’d say that clairvoyance is not always needed, unless you’re a medium.

    On the other hand, most people need some clairsentience, to pick up vibes from people. Some clairaudience or claircognizance is helpful as well, to get quick warnings from your guides or higher self, like ‘run!’ or ‘don’t take that road’. But I can’t think of any situations where clairvoyant abilities are absolutely essential in everyday life, unless you do psychic/mediumship readings in your work. I personally do not use clairvoyance in my work much. I do sometimes ‘see’ clients’ past lives, but when I need to know details about a situation, my guides will tend to just ‘put’ the information into my brain, rather than sending me symbols or metaphors or images.

    How to Develop your Clairvoyant Abilities

    Even if you’re not a natural clairvoyant, you can still develop your clairvoyance. Flexing my clairvoyant muscles was the first thing I did when I started developing psychically. I picked up a good book called Psychic Development for Beginners by William Hewitt and began using his exercises to open up my third eye (the exercise is below.)

    I have to say that the below exercise opened up my third eye (the centre of clairvoyant abilities) quite spectacularly for a few days, then I got scared and shut it down again! I started to see my guides in my mind’s eye, and I saw things moving in the corner of my eye. I also saw coloured lights around people and I began to have really strange and vivid dreams, in colour. I wasn’t used to seeing so much, and it was overwhelming for me.

    An Exercise for Developing Clairvoyance

    The exercise is this: visualize yourself holding seven balloons, of the colours red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and indigo. Let the balloons go one by one, beginning with the red balloon. Watch them float up to the blue sky until they disappear before you release the next one.

    If you’re not used to visualizing, then this exercise could be quite difficult for you at first. You may find it hard to concentrate or it may be difficult for you to visualize vividly or in colour — it all depends on how developed your imagination muscles are.

    Any activity which uses your visual imagination is good for strengthening clairvoyant abilities, because your imagination is the tool that Spirit uses to send you information, in the form of images. The more well-oiled your ‘imagination cogs’ are, the easier it is for spirit to send you clear images.

    Here’s another way to open up your clairvoyance: Imagine a third eye, between your eyebrows. Visualize the eyelid on your third eye opening up. All visualization does is set an intention to do something. If you visualize this regularly, you’re putting energy behind your intention to open up your third eye, the centre of your clairvoyant abilities.

    Differentiating Between Imagination and Intuition

    So, how can you tell the difference between what’s from your imagination and what’s from Spirit?

    When you receive an image from Spirit, you are not in control. You are not creating the image — it just appears in your mind’s eye without any active participation from you.

    Blocks to Clairvoyance

    A few people who are natural clairvoyants never see any evidence of their gift. When this happens, it usually means there is a blockage or an energy leak at the third eye chakra. At the bottom of this there tends to be some trauma caused by having ‘seen’ something unexpected or unpleasant.

    There are two reasons I personally did not use to put much effort into developing my clairvoyant abilities further: one is that I felt I didn’t need it too much for my work and the second is that I didn’t really want to see, because I had a scary experience in the past.

    When I was about five or six years old, I was playing in my bed late at night. I looked up and saw a woman standing in the corner of my room by the door, staring at me — just writing about it gives me the creeps. I have never been more frightened in my life than at that moment. All I can remember is pulling the covers over my head and hoping she’d go away. I remember my heart beating so fast that I thought it would burst! I think I decided at that point that seeing spirits was too frightening for me and it took a lot of time and some healing before my clairvoyance developed properly.

    A lot of people have a blockage like this, due to some sort of frightening psychic experience. If this applies to you and you can locate or remember what is blocking your third eye, use my angelic healing exercise (method # 3) in this article: ‘Four Ways to Heal Yourself’ – it really works!

    Any general blocks to truth can also affect your clairvoyance (and the overall state of your intuitive faculties). For example, if you live your life in a state of denial or falsehood, your clairvoyance will be weakened. If you want to have strong intuition, get into the habit of facing up to the truth in your life. If you kid yourself about something on a regular basis, it weakens your trust in your own perceptions and intuition and this will affect your clairvoyant abilities.

    Further Tips:

    • Place a lapis lazuli or clear quartz crystal over your third eye chakra, or go into a crystal shop with the intention of finding the right crystal to help you to open up your third eye. You may feel really drawn to one crystal in particular which can help you.
    • When you’re working with your clairvoyance at first, it can also help to close your eyes and use your mind’s eye rather than expecting to see things straight away with your physical eyes.
    • Use the affirmation “I am profoundly clairvoyant. It is safe for me to see”
    • Release and heal whatever fears or trauma you have around seeing spirits.

    Further Reading:

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