Dream Study

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Download this free book, ECK Wisdom on Dreams to find the answer and much more. You will learn how to

• remember and interpret your dreams;
• reunite with departed loved ones;
• get practical help in everyday life;
• grow spiritually with the Light and Sound;
• meet spiritual guides and Masters;
• research past lives;
• and much more.

Try the techniques and spiritual exercises on pages 9, 29, 37, and 53 and experience an ancient promise renewed.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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I dreamed I was in a car and I was eating, paying no attention to the fact that the car was driving very safely on its own. When I noticed that the car was moving, I thought, Boy, am I lucky to have the Inner Master taking care of me. I then decided to take control of the car and drive it myself. When I did this, the seat moved back so I couldn’t reach the steering wheel and the windshield got all foggy. I barely kept from hitting a truck.

Yours is a very good spiritual dream. The car, of course, is your life. The eating means doing the spiritual exercises and living the life of ECK, Divine Spirit.

Anyone who does the Spiritual Exercises of ECK finds his life runs very well because the unseen driver is the Inner Master. You know this. Trouble begins when one sees how well things are going and then takes credit for it. That’s the ego getting behind the wheel. The seat moved back means that the ego and mind are too far away from spiritual control (the steering wheel) to be able to run things right. The foggy windshield means the clouded vision of the ego, or the human self.

ECK dreams will give you all the direction in life you need.

Dreams hint at truth. I say hint instead of tell for a reason: Most people don’t actually want to know the truth. The truth hurts. Dreams can tell us when we’re unkind, unfair, vengeful, selfish, and other unpleasant facts that we need to work on spiritually. But truth makes most people uncomfortable, so they shut it out and forget their dreams.

I’ve tried many dream systems and have kept a record of my own inner travels for years. Of all the systems, the dream methods of ECK are the golden thread that have been of the most use to me for spiritual growth.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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What does the dream state represent that the waking state does not?

There is no difference in my mind. Each person is Soul, capable of being fully aware twenty-four hours a day. The lessons of life come to us every minute, on every level. However, few people today pay much mind to the power of Soul and Its being. The average person goes through life with only the barest sense of his or her true identity as Soul, a spark of God.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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Why do some people have bad dreams?

Your question is one that bothers many people today. So let’s have a look at it.

First on the list of reasons for bad dreams are frightening TV shows and violent computer games. Especially in the evening before bedtime. They tell a lot. One who indulges in them is falling into a lower state of consciousness.

And where do you suppose he dream travels? To the lower Astral plane. So, do pleasant things before bedtime. It will clear up many bad dreams.

Second, bad dreams may come from poor nutrition. This can be from not eating the right foods or eating the wrong ones. Too much sugar is a problem, but so are preservatives in food, like monosodium glutamate (MSG). It’s used in Chinese food and much else. Both sugar and preservatives fray our nerves. So let’s avoid them.

Third, toxins around us can also cause bad dreams. Two common ones are mercury and lead.

The biggest source of mercury pollution comes in communities that burn coal to produce electricity. The burning causes mercury to get into the air, and there’s no way to avoid it. Some seafoods, too, are a source of mercury. Ours is a polluted planet, but we all do the best we can.

Toxins are hard to remove from our bodies. There are often doctors of alternative medicine in larger communities who can help us.

So start with reason number one. If you do your part, it’ll be easier for me to help you enjoy more pleasant sleep. And sweet dreams!

—Sri Harold Klemp

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I walked up into some hills, and it seemed like the Fourth of July. Thousands of people were sitting in the hills looking into the sky as if expecting fireworks. The sky was light blue and free of clouds.

I walked past the crowds until I was alone again and looked at the hills in the distance. They were like hard-packed sand dunes without vegetation. Suddenly, a flash of red went by and stopped long enough for me to recognize it before disappearing. It was me. That made me feel really odd. Looking out over the ridge of hills, I saw that they had undergone a drastic change. They were much lumpier, and a huge boulder with green vines all over it had been raised ten feet into the air.

The dream felt very real. I had just gone through a doorway and was expecting a member of an ancient American race that I had just read about in a Louis L’Amour novel. But I woke up before he arrived.

This is what your dream means: Your walk up into the hills indicates that in the dream you were moving into a higher state of consciousness.

The Fourth of July is Independence Day. The Dream Master used this image to evoke in you the ideal of spiritual freedom, which you can achieve in this lifetime if you set your heart upon it.

The thousands of people are your collective awareness—i.e., the sum total of your thoughts and hopes. You are awaiting the ecstasy of spiritual freedom. The blue sky signifies the Blue Light of the Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ. When you leave the crowds, it means you leave behind your worries and come to rest in Soul, the center of your being.

You are now in the Soul body and look back on the hills, which are nothing more than events in your daily life. From the lofty vantage point of Soul, your outer life seems to be a spiritual wasteland, especially when you let anger (the “flash of red”) flare up.

The image of the boulder is used in a double sense here. First, Soul studies the ridge of hills to see what harm anger might do, and It perceives a “much lumpier” life. Anger makes mountains out of molehills, or in this case, a huge boulder is raised ten feet into the air.

Second, green vines clinging to the face of the boulder show the power of envy or jealousy to undermine a relationship. Have you heard the phrase “green with envy”? The roots of the vines can, in time, shatter the greatest boulder, just as envy and jealousy can destroy the closest relationship, even one that seems “solid as a rock.”

The member of an ancient American race whom you were expecting was the Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ, the Living ECK Master.

This dream gives a most exacting look at yourself. It shows how the Inner Master may shape your dream to help you better understand yourself.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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What is the value of writing down my dreams?

If these inner experiences are not recorded when they happen, most of them will be forgotten. Even if an experience doesn’t seem to mean much now, at some point in the future you might look back at it and recognize its spiritual significance.

Not every dream will predict the future or give some insight into the individual’s life. Dreams are another face of reality in the same way that our everyday life is another face of reality.

Though I often recommend keeping a dream journal, I realize it is unrealistic to expect every person to jump up in the middle of every single night to record their dreams. It can become drudgery.

But there is a way to make your dream study a little easier. If you can’t do it every night, you can pick one day of the week—Friday is very good—when you make a special effort to write down your dreams.

I have always kept a journal of my inner experiences, but it’s impossible to write everything down. Eventually I got into the habit of recording only those experiences that gave me a special insight, even if it would be meaningless to anyone else.

—Sri Harold Klemp