The other night, I had a dream about my mom and stepfather, both had passed on moons ago. My hubby and I were in their house that was already long time sold and gone. Inside the house, I noticed that it got bigger with extra rooms added to the house. The house looked spacious and clean. In my dream, both my hubby and I were a lot younger and, we seemed to like the idea that the house was quiet. We had keys to the house most likely entrusted to us by my mom.

I looked outside to check where my hubby parked our SUV, but then I realized that he parked it in a parking lot a little further from my mom's house. In my mind, I started remembering that the parking lot was narrow and it concerned me if our vehicle could cause some problems for other cars to get out. It was only a brief moment of distress because the next scene in my dream took me to my mom and stepdad's room where I found my hubby. He was relaxing and I started playing some music and we started to dance. I could feel being silly with him and just enjoying the evening that was so quiet.

After a while, I ventured to the family room and kitchen and I started checking these rooms I had never seen before. I heard some noises in one of the rooms and when I checked it, there were a few men that came out of the room. I did not recognize anyone of them, but one seemed to be the leader of the pack. In his actions, I noticed that he knew me and he knew my mom and stepdad. He seemed to be familiar with the whole house. He acted like he was a caretaker and was housesitting. His behavior indicated that my mom and my stepdad put a lot of trust in Him.  I asked him if he knew where my mom and stepdad went. He indicated that they went somewhere for the weekend or two. I asked if he saw my mom and that if she is well. He said that everything was great with my mom. At this instance, my mom's phone rang and this guy picked up the phone and I thought it was my mom. He handed me the phone telling me that the person on the other line wanted to speak to me. I realized it was my sister. I asked her if she knew that the house was renovated and the driveway was updated. She was also surprised of the changes, but did not say very much. The end of the dream.

As I was recounting this dream, all of a sudden I had this thought in my mind. Would this man who seemed to be a caretaker of the house be Jesus Himself? Was I given a dream about being in heaven? I hope that this is not a vision of some danger approaching that maybe affecting me and my loved ones.

At any rate, one of my dreams came true. It was about a job that I was sort of let go because I confided to my manager that I was thinking of changing job fields. It happened to my daughter in law. For many months, she was very unsatisfied with her job and her work time schedule. Their mortgage payments and monthly bills were forcing her to put up with the office politics and swallow the pain pill. She decided to apply for a position in another department within the company, but the manager was concerned of the repercussions it may cause as the department where my daughter in law was working was short handed. After that private talk, she started sensing that her own manager set into motion of finding faults with my daughter in law's work and started acting indifferent to her. She gave her resignation last week and she was immediately let go sans two week notice. She immediately started looking for another job and hopefully, she will find one soon enough because there are obligations they need to meet every month. My son told me that his in-laws will help out with their finances and would take care of the additional expenses while his wife is looking for a job.

My son also casually told me yesterday that a new employee in his job started sharing his faith with him. The new employee gave him some phamplets to read. My son took a liking to this new employee and has been showing him the ropes in his new job. He has been giving him the do's and don'ts of the job. I think in turn the new employee who is a Christian was compelled to make a disciple out of my son. I started laughing out loud and told him that God really wants to connect with him. I told him that God placed that person where he is right now and reminded him that everything that happen in our lives has a reason. My son is not new to this sharing as I have mentioned things to him from time to time as he knows I am a born again Christian. I shared many books and tapes with him, so he is very aware of all of what his new friend at work was doing. I asked him if he told him what he already knew. He said that he kept mum about it and took the phamplets and thanked the guy, and he kept the phamplets in his locker. Before I could add more to it, he changed the subject and did not want to hear anything more. I guess that's the reason why God placed someone else on his path.

It reminded me of the Bible story about Jonah. God pursued Jonah for quite sometime until Jonah was swallowed by a big fish. God was after Jonah for a job He prepared for him to do. He did not feel like obeying God. But God chose him to do a job that would save people from being destroyed and into damnation. But Jonah was not in the mood to do it. To get away from God he boarded a ship but in the middle of the ocean, they experienced a violent storm. Jonah knew right away that the storm was sent by God to stop him from running away. He told the ship crew to throw him overboard where a great fish swallowed him whole. He was in the belly of this fish for three long days and nights. It made him think of what he was doing to God. He prayed to God for help. God commanded the big fish to vomit Jonah out on to the land.

It's the same way with my son. God has set His heart to pursue my son. He was born for this reason and I knew it ever since my son told me many things in his life when he found himself being where his life was in a brink of death. God heard prayers of a mother concerned about her son's welfare as he was growing up and out there where evilness prevails. I may have become a born again Christian to make my son recognize and acknowledge God. His path ever since is leading to where my son will one day publicly proclaim God's goodness through Jesus and will do what God is commanding him to do.

In the meantime, I just really love and enjoy listening to my son's stories of his everyday life. My son was born with the ability to talk readily, glibly, and convincingly, a talent that God gifted him, but he does not know yet where it would really lead him.

I was watching an Angelina Jolie movie entitled A Mighty Heart late last night and of course, I was not surprised that my dream revolved around her and her famous coupling with Brad Pitt.

My dream indicated that I knew the Jolie/Pitt and their children personally. I was playing with their kids and have a nurturing spirit for them. In my dream, they are typical kids who have a joyful existence provided by their loving parents. In my dream, they seemed to be not the spoiled kids, which is common in the world of entertainment people lavished by glamor and charm.

Anyway, in my dream the Jolie/Pitt clan was in a hotel taking a well deserved rest. I could see that the hotel rooms seemed to be like a broadway stage. The rooms are opened for me to see. Next to the room of Jolie and Pitt was a stage for a band. They were setting up their musical instruments and getting ready for a show. When they started playing for the crowd, of course, it disturbed the Jolie/Pitt clan from their slumber. Angelina was upset and peeked in the window and was so dismayed that they were in a room next to all the noise that even a night owl would not appreciate.

People started to check out the commotion in the room of Brangelina. They started asking me what's wrong. In my dream the people seemed to not recognize the world famous couple. I told them that the loud music woke up and startled Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and their kids. The people acted like "so what?" and left.

The only thing that this dream could relate to my own life is I have a three year old grandson and I dote on him. Somehow I worry that his innocent mind can be easily corrupted by the world we live in. Once a child started going to school, as he will be a preschooler soon, he is out of sights from those that care for him the most. With all the bad news, no one is safe out there. The world is full of the enemy's cohorts and they work in the minds of those who especially do not resist them and blinded by the  truth of the dangers they like to inflict in humans so they could fall out of God's grace and into their dominions.  It's pretty scary and you just don't know who you could trust the life of this innocent and pure little man.

There is hope though that constant prayers to God about these concerns would shield this little child with God's protection.

Watching A Mighty Heart made me see more of the perils of being nonchalant of the danger brought on by being in another country whose people mostly hate the Americans, and a double whammy if you are also Jewish.  There's nothing wrong to be passionate with your work, but risking your life to do what you are passionate about is suicide... it's murder waiting to happen. It's well known that Muslim countries do not have love for Jews, whether they are religious or not. It stemmed from that story of who Abraham offered to God as sacrifice-- Was it Isaac or Ishmael?

The Holy Bible is clear: Genesis 22 NIV... Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied. {2} Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."

But the Muslims believe that it was Ishmael. And the rest that followed is history of conflicts between Muslims and Jews.  These conflicts continue to this day, so why would a Jewish man be in the land of his forefathers' enemies? Did any of his Jewish family warn him of that?

SOURCE OF EXPLANATION: http://www.answering-islam.org/Shamoun/sacrifice.htm

My dream last night was about leaving a job for another one. In my dream, I found out that I passed the finals to become a teacher. I was wondering why I finished the course so fast, but I was glad. The person who was handling the exams showed me my grades and I was satisfied.

I told my manager my plans of changing jobs. Although she was happy for me, she seemed irked and led her anxious for me to leave. She was very happy that I did a good job and that many employess were able to benefit from what I have contributed to the department. As she was telling me about my accomplishments, I opened the filing cabinet where I have my personal files kept, like job procedures and manuals, but it was almost empty. My stuff were almost gone from the cabinet. She was also going through the new employees with me to let me know that these employees learned a lot from my procedures. In those that my manager introduced to me, there was a child-like little person among them. He was sort of bratty and ostentatious to the hilt. In my dream, there was an employee who gave me a corset for a going away present. It did not look like a regular corset, but in my mind it was. My manager showed me how to wear it. I was naive on how to wear it with all those tapes attached to the corset. My manager was sort of ticked off with me and blurted out that that was the difference between me and her. She said that she could wear the corset better than I do. I just let what she said slide and my attention suddenly was focused on this child-like person trying to either fax or xerox something. He was wearing a sign that said: "I am grumpy right now, so don't talk to me." It was rather funny to me to see a sign hanging on him, but my manager said to let him be. That's his way of trying to get attention.

Anyway, in my dream, I was somewhat worried that I did not time it right to tell my manager about this job change. That I should have waited because I was not sure when I was going to start with the teaching job. Somehow I tried to convince myself that it would maybe take a month, and I have enough savings to last longer than a month. It would also give me a chance to do the things I could not do when I was working.

In this dream, I felt the following emotions: happiness, gladness and sadness. I was stunned, I wondered a lot, I was humored and I was worried. How this apply in my life is not clear to me right now. Although, my son is looking in the future to become a teacher. He took a short course to get a certification and he said he passed it. He took his final exam and he believed that he passed it with flying colors. So my dream may likely be concerning my son's future endeavor. In the back of my mind, I am somehow worried that he may make a decision to quit his present job without making sure that his new job would pay enough to cover his monthly expenses, including a house mortgage.

So, I am hoping that this anxiousness in my heart about my son's pending job change has no basis at all and that my son is relying and trusting God that He will direct his path. All I can do is pray for him that he will always have the smarts to make the right decisions.

I had another dream the other night. I was in a place where some men were enjoying themselves while eating bread. I did not recognize these people in my dream, nor I recognized the bread they were eating. The pieces of bread looked small in the plastic bag and the bread did not look unusual to my sight. It seemed like when they eat the bread, these men become very loose, all their guards down. They seemed to look joyfully drunk. I started to get curious and I wanted to try the bread, too. When I openned the package of the warm, fresh bread, the bread expanded and got bigger. I tasted the bread and it did not have the usual bread taste. The taste was sort of bland, but the more I ate it, the more I wanted it. And I started feeling euphoria, like I feel nothing matter except what I was feeling. It seemed like I lost touch of reality. I saw a friend of mine in my dream, but why she was there, I can't recall anymore. There are more to my dream, but I can't remember the rest of it. What stood out in my mind was the bread and how people reacted to it. The production of this bread keeps on coming and as they come, the people keep on eating them and they also keep on getting laxed and they totally lose sight of the danger coming on board.

The way I interpreted this dream was that a person can't recognize danger brought by sin. We could delve into things that look attractive and seem harmless without realizing that we are getting deeper into sin and separation from God. If we are not hurting anyone, then everything is okay. But is it okay with God? That is the big question. But since sin is not recognizable to people who are living with it, they don't have the care in the world. They live for the moment and for them what matters is what they enjoy and desire now. They are totally oblivious to God's moral instructions to them. Unbeknownst to them, they are living in the curse of God. But since they did not know that and they do not have God in their hearts, they are destined to where God did not want for them to end up in the first place. Their choices bring consequences that would snap the daylights out of them in the later years of their lives, or maybe sooner.

PROVERBS 9

v7 Do not stop someone who is insulting other people!  He will only insult you.

Do not correct an evil man!  He will attack you.

v8 Do not correct someone who is insulting other people!  He will hate you for your interruption.

Show a wise man how he is wrong!  He will love you for your correction.

The Message:

7-12 If you reason with an arrogant cynic (nonbeliever), you'll get slapped in the face;
   confront bad behavior and get a kick in the shins.
So don't waste your time on a scoffer (mocker);
   all you'll get for your pains is abuse.
But if you correct those who care about life,
   that's different—they'll love you for it!
Save your breath for the wise—they'll be wiser for it;
   tell good people what you know—they'll profit from it.
Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-God,
   insight into life from knowing a Holy God.
It's through me, Lady Wisdom, that your life deepens,
   and the years of your life ripen.
Live wisely and wisdom will permeate your life;
   mock life and life will mock you.

EUPHORIA:

The French novelist, Michel Tournier, believed that euphoria carried within its etymology the key to a fundamental transformation in the Western conception of the self. The word, which is now interpreted as little more than a feeling of light-headedness or a general sensation of well-being, originally occupied a much more moral position. Its Greek root of eu, meaning goodness, happiness, or contentment, and phoria, signifying the act of carrying, reveal a more effort-bound situation in which the individual supports happiness or bears themself with joy. The etymology suggests that contentment and joy are states demanding a persistent and active engagement. Tournier draws a parallel with the coterminous etymology of Christopher, from the martyred giant who achieved his sainthood by carrying Christ.

This idea of euphoria as a state achieved through effort and activity has now largely disappeared. With the advent of Christianity and the rise of Calvinism, in particular, a more passive view of the self and its emotions has emerged. Euphoria is now regarded as a state which overwhelms the personality. In medical terms euphoria is defined as a form of mood elevation inappropriate to circumstances, brought on by diseases of the nervous system such as syphilis or multiple sclerosis. In religious terms it connotes the epiphanies and awakenings of passive soul. The American psychologist, William James, described the state as one ‘in which the will to assert ourselves and hold our own has been displaced by a willingness to hold our mouths and be as nothing in the floods and waterspouts of God.’ James offered his own explanation for this connection between euphoria and passivity, arguing that the emotion emerged only when the self gave up its struggle with the world and instead surrendered to the uprushes of the subconscious life.

In recent years, a middle way has emerged between the active and passive models of euphoria. The growing use of euphoriant drugs such as MDMA (‘ecstasy’) and MDEA (‘eve’) has encouraged a new perspective in which the emotional life is seen as the passive product of the brain's biochemistry whilst the self maintains the familiar control and discrimination of the modern consumer.

In medical terms, as well as its association with such drugs, euphoria, defined as mood elevation inappropriate to the circumstances, may accompany mental illness and diseases affecting the nervous system, such as syphilis and multiple sclerosis.

— Rhodri Hayward

In ancient times people believed that dreams were of divine origin and could be used for both diagnosis and healing. This belief fell away until Sigmund Freud wrote “The Interpretation of Dreams” in 1900. Dreams are our subconscious mind speaking to us. By understanding what dreams mean, you can positively influence your health, relationships, creativity and spiritual development. Do you know you even get forewarning dreams that warn you of a future event?

Source: lindaclarke.co.za

I really enjoy dreaming. My mind seems to be so clear and enlightened when I wake up each time, whether I understand my dreams or not. Most of my dreams now I can remember pretty well. When I could not remember the dreams or I just pick up some bits and pieces here and there, it seems like I did not have a restful sleep. I used to have some scary dreams, but now, most of my dreams are about people, places and things. I conditioned my mind through the help of praying to God not to have dreams that would scare me, but dreams that would help me understand a present situation. I've like to connect to God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Father of Jesus. When I became closer to God and started understanding His nature and His wisdom, my dreams became very clear since then.

One of my dreams that I still remember is when I was being guided by cherubim. They were flying above me guiding me in my sleep. Before that dream, and when I started learning about the Holy Spirit, I started having scary dreams. The most significant one was while in my bed dozing off, I started feeling something moving on top of me. I was so scared to look because I thought who on earth would be doing that if not the devil. When I got the courage to look, they were little demons.  I was so stunned and I tried to wake myself up and I was trying to scream. I called my mom who passed away, but nothing seemed to help. I could hear my husband downstairs as he was talking as a response to something he was watching on TV. I tried to call his name, but nothing seemed to come out from my mouth. I was so scared that I had to force myself to wake up. I knew that I was dreaming or was I? It was so realistic that it led me to pray to God so hard that night. And since then, the dream taught me to always pray to God every night and I mostly talk to Him about His protection in this world we live in. I started understanding and became aware that the world is full of evilness and the one that's lording over them will do anything to have men fall prey to his schemes. He will use his deception spiritually and he uses humans to do the work for him. That dream clearly etched in my awareness and left an imprint so clear, that it really made me realize our need for our Creator. No humans without the guidance of God can escape the power of the evil one. Spiritual reality has set in since then and making most of my dreams very clear when I wake up.

Since then, when I analyze my dreams now, I believe that they are lessons for me to learn to apply in the real world. I still cannot identify which ones are dreams that are giving me warnings, not until incidents happened and I connected them to my dreams. Only then that I would I realize I had a dream or dreams that resembled what happened in the real world.  I am still learning to know how I could tell they are warning signs for me to adhere to.

In the Bible, God gave many warning signs through visions from His faithful believers. But I'm careful of what the internet world offers about interpreting dreams. They could sound good but can lead a person away from the true God; they may lead a person back to the enemy's many traps instead and ensnare the deceived way deeper into his dominion.

 

What a long dream I had last night. This dream, too, seemed to be connected to my other recent dreams, which are not so clear, but a certain person in my past keep on being in my dream.  I believe in mental telepathy. Therefore, I do believe that this person in my past has been strongly thinking about me that's why this person keeps on popping up in my dreams.

"Telepathy is about communicating mind-to-mind, getting someone to feel or think or 'hear' something from far away, without the use of sounds or symbols or anything else but bare thought. There are some things in life that are hard to explain outside of telepathy : think, for instance, of how our mothers seem to be able to make us feel guilty no matter how far away we might be. Telepathy is said to come in several forms : telepathic impression (planting a message, image, or word into someone else's mind), mind reading (copying, but not interfering with, what's going on in someone else's mind), mental communication (a wireless phone of the mind, but without the bills) and as a medium for mind control." Source: spirithome.com

Back to my dream... I saw myself packing my belongings and my mom who passed away many years ago was there helping me with my stuff. I have a truckload of stuff that needed to travel with us and we ended up in Arizona. It was very hot in this place where we are. The weather was so unbearable outside that I was feeling dragged down and tired. So we stayed mostly inside a spacious house with aircon. But being inside, I started longing for the things I used to have. But as I thought of those things in the past, the person I was with was no longer my mom, but my husband's stepmom. She was trying to help me sort things out in my mind as I thought about where I used to live, but then I started thinking that I sold that house; and then my mind went to thinking about a recent house and that it was there where things started and drove me packing up my things. I think I was half awake and I was telling myself that I am where I wanted to be. I kept on waking up between my dreams and everytime I went back to sleep, it was a continuation of the dream before.

About mental telepathy, there were many occasions in my life that I suddenly thought about someone and thought about the things I've done with this person in the past, and the phone would ring and the person on the other line was the person I was thinking about. I've changed phone numbers and most people in my past that came to mind very strongly of course would not be able to reach me anymore. They were probably thinking about me that prompted my mind to suddenly think about a certain person.

Dream Telepathy 

Telepathy can come in more than one state.

Dream telepathy also exists.

In dream telepathy thoughts, emotions, and even physical sensations are transferred from one person's mind to another while sleep.

Telepathic dreams consist of the dreamer receiving messages from someone else in another individual's dream or by their telepathic thoughts.

Many cases of telepathic dreams involve ghosts, spirits of dead loved ones, or recently dead spirits using dream telepathy to speak.

Dream telepathy experiments have been done since the 1800s to learn more about dream telepathy and what it means. Dream telepathy experiments involve the monitoring of the subject's brain waves and eye movements while sleeping.

They are usually awakened to describe their dream after the brain waves frequencies have been recorded.

Telepathic senders are placed into a separate room to send the subjects various pictures and messages.

A majority of the findings show that the dreams often contain the specific images the sender sent through the other room. There is a lot of different views on dream telepathy but it does exist.

Many people claim they've been warned or sent a special message through dream telepathy.

Dream telepathy can be a very rewarding for individuals who gained a better aspect through receiving the message or comfort through an image. A loved one's message can be the closure that individual needed.

A friend or relative in another state sending a message through dream telepathy can save a person's life depending on the situation.

Twins have been known to have not only a strong ability of telepathy beyond childhood but dream telepathy as well. Thoughts are extremely powerful and make up the world we live in. Our lives are simply the thoughts we have and the thoughts of others around us. Telepathy is the way we communicate with the world and others without saying a single word. Source: squidoo.com
  

Last week, Saturday to be exact, I had a dream that the American President (I did not know which one in my dream) declared marshal law in the United States. There were chaos on the streets and people were burdened with fear. In my dream, I was at work, but I was outside in a tent with my other co-employees. One of my officemates and a good friend of mine was in my dream and she answered a phone call for me. She sounded like she was talking to my hubby because she was joking around with the person on the other line before she handed the phone to me. When I got the phone, I found out it was my older brother who's in another country. He was telling me to be very careful as there's big demonstration on the streets, particularly on London Bridge. I told him that I am in the U.S and not in England. But he told me to be very careful just the same.

It seemed like in my dream, the whole world was in great disorder and confusion. This dream could have a connection on my uneasiness about the coming presidential election this year. I am not so thrilled with Obama at all. I just have these eerie and frightening feelings about him. There's  something  about him that could lead this nation in turmoil and disarray. Someone that could put this nation in danger.

I had so many dreams but I was just preoccupied to post here. Then as much as I dream, is as much as I easily have forgotten about the dream, especially if I had another dream that popped up the next night. One that sort of stood out was a dream of Mariah Carey. I forgot the whole detail of the dream. All I remember is that I was Mariah's confidante.  She was asking for advice on certain personal things in her life. I'm not too sure now if the dream was before or after she got married. The recent dream I had which was yesterday was about trying to have a photo souvenir with a young guy that was leaving our department and moving to another department where I used to work. When I was able to get his attention for a photo, my camera was not working. I told him to hold his thought and that I would be back in a flash after I got hold of a working camera.

As I was getting another camera, a woman who I seemed to know very well in my dream engaged me in a long conversation. I tried to politely cut the friendly chat short, but she was not getting the message. As soon as we were done talking, I grabbed my IPhone which has a built-in camera and rushed back to my photo subject. I asked someone in his department to take the picture, but this person was having a problem focusing the camera. I was showing her how to work the camera, but she seemed not able to take photo shots at a little closer range. They were either too far, not clear, out of focus and just bad photo shots. I was getting real frustrated, but thank goodness that the young guy was very patient and did not mind waiting until I could get a much better photo of him and me.

I finally got a hold of a close friend of mind to take the photo. This friend of mine in my dream was let go by her manager for not meeting expectations called for by her job. Anyway, she obliged to take the photo, but by now the IPhone camera seemed to not work. As I tried to fix the problem, she told me that she needs to attend to her job responsibilities as it was getting late and nearing 5:00 in the p.m. That's when her work would get real busy just before closing time.

As I was about ready to give up the photo souvenir session, one employee who I was acquianted with during the time he was still in our area working on a big project, came to my rescue. He worked with the camera and he even said that we could take the picture ourselves. So he focused the camera facing us for a sample. It was getting dark and my photo subject probably had gone for the day. I did not mind as this guy who was helping me was taking lots of pictures of the both of us and at each shot, the guy was turning into another person I've seemed to meet in my life, but did not really get a chance to know much in real life. When he got ready for the last shoot, it was that employee again that I've got acquianted with in my job. As he tried to focus the camera to us, he said that this is in memory of the day we've met. It's a day that would reveal of his big crush on me which he kept secret, but he's not trying to change my life or his life just because he revealed this secret of his. He was just relieved that he was able to release his feelings and gave his last big smile for the camera. End of my dream. 

That was something as I was not even thinking about this person or the other people involved in my dream. But I know that dreams could relate to something else, which at this time, I don't have the slightest idea in what area of my life this dream I could possibly associate it with.

On another note, this bedroom seems to bring peace and tranquility to someone who is in need to unwind after a busy day.

I had three dreams this week that I can still recall. I actually had quite a few dreams this week, but I have forgotten most of them. When I have another dream, the previous dream or dreams I had vanished in my memory. That's why the dream experts always say to write them as soon as you had the dream.

I am not about to wake up and get up and start writing them down though. I tried doing it before, but I could not go back to sleep because I was too wired up writing down the dreams as they happen. I love sleeping and I love the feeling of being so relaxed. So, I chose not to remember the other dreams.

This week though, three of my dreams stood out and remain in my memory bank so long as to where I can still post them here.

My first dream was about my former job. I was being audited for files that I processed years back. It seemed like a certain company filed a lawsuit about an existing fraud going on and was now discovered. I had this dream Tuesday this week, but it stucked in my mind. When I was preparing the files, a friend of mine and my co-employee, who already left the bank about 4 months ahead of me, was also in my dream. She was telling me that she knew all along that there was something wrong with the files. She was not putting the blame on me but she directly implicated our department higher ups who allowed and approved the files. My friend seemed to be helpful but also was intimidating at the same time. Somehow, in my consciousness, I knew that I was dreaming and that there's no way that we would be responsible for files that were initially processed by another department, and not us. When I woke up after this dream, I started thinking that my former job was correcting somehow, instead of initiating. It was more of the tail end of the life of a loan. I used to do foreclosures and bankruptcy, the end result of a loan or loans turning bad.

What's amazing about this dream is receiving a mail today from my mother in law where she enclosed a write up about a mortgage fraud probe.  The article said that six people associated to a mortgage broker and real estate firm have been charged for creating 21 loans that were made from November 2005 to August 2006 and found 18 of them in foreclosure or are in the process of foreclosure.

I used to work many years ago with a mortgage broker who initiate loans and approve them based on the guidelines of lenders where they will sell these approved loans to in the secondary marketing. I could see that it will be very easy for brokers to doctor up documentation because lenders do not do their own set of gathering data because that will be time consuming. Lenders review what were presented to them and if they look feasible and agreeable to them, loans passed the probing eyes of the lenders' loan reviewers. It is really based on trust, but once that trust is broken, the mortgage broker in question may just as well close shop because no one in their rightful mind will buy loans from them anymore.

The documents that can be easily doctored are the employment and cash on hand paper work. The appraisal values can be sort of inflated and could pose a danger to the rest of house values of the rest of the homeowners. These erroneous appraisal values could easily have caused the house boom and the proceeding downward spiral of the real estate market. The damage has been done. I've seen many houses went to foreclosure and many homeowners filing bankruptcy in my lifetime. It is a sad, sad situation, and most of the time, it's our department who have tried to mitigate the losses if the loans can still be salvaged. But our department also could be the end of the line for some mortgagors. They lost their hard earned monies through foreclosures of their houses. It can be a gamble, but dishonesty has a price. If some players involved in the house market are not playing with a full deck, chances are the other players down the line will surely get affected. Honesty is still the best policy.

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My second dream was about a romantic relationship. In my dream I found myself involved with a guy who was an attorney I was dealing with in my real life at my former job. It was strange that I had that dream because I was not even thinking about this person. It was a remote thing in my conscious mind. In my dream, he looked more handsome, a true looker, an adonis type.  Anyway, it seemed like it was a new loving relationship. I would go to his office and wait for him to finish up with his clients for the day. His office was an open space. He seemed to be always busy with people. Along the way of this dream, I've come across a woman who was deeply agitated with her relationship with a man who works in the same office where my believe to be boyfriend was also working. This other guy was also good looking, a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasurable activities. He was taking this woman who loves him so much for granted. I felt so bad for her and I tried to find ways for them to get on the right footing, but no one would give in. Somehow, my memory got clouded and I could not remember what happened to them in my dream. In my own relationship, I was introduced to the young daughter of my supposedly boyfriend and his family. When asked if she liked the new girlfriend, the young daughter announced and without reservation how she felt. She did not like the new girlfriend at all. In my dream, I took it in stride and went on my merry way of romancing her dad, who fortunately was enjoying the affection I showered him. That was a good feeling when I woke up, but still puzzled as to why I had that dream.

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Going on to the third dream, I found myself going back thru time. In my dream I kept on denying myself that I went back to the past. Apparently, I had to face the music and tried to warn the people of things that would happen in the future. I ended up with a group of young people who were busy with life's ups and downs that it was a struggle to get them to take me seriously when I told them that I am from the future. I was telling them of the events on September 11, 2001 and to prepare for it. This dream was a little blurry now although I had this dream very early this morning, the same time I had my second dream that I could recall.

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Anyway, being able to bring back 3 dreams at the same time, I think, is an act of imagination skill or a feat. Without writing them down right away, restoring them in my memory bank is a good way to exercise my brain power, I think.  Pleasant dreams can cause me to become less stressed or anxious, a de-stressor, (not that I am stressed in real life, far from it nowadays), which make me feel like singing this song:


I Like Dreamin' ( CHORUS EXCERPTS) by Kenny Nolan

Chorus:
I like dreamin' cause dreamin' can make you mine.
I like dreamin', closing my eyes and feeling fine.
When the lights go down, I'm holding you so tight.
Got you in my arms and it's paradise 'til the morning light.

It has been a while since I posted here. I had so many dreams. They were just so-so dreams not worth posting. Bits and pieces type of dreams that were not so clear.

Our little grandson is with his other grandparents, so we have free time for ourselves which is sort of nice. We miss the little one but we know he is enjoying his vacation. His other grandparents have a swimming pool and he loves the water. I know that he is enjoying "swimming" everyday.

Back to dreams, I had a very clear one last night. My dream started in a sort of a classroom. In the classroom, it has tables instead of desks. I was scheduled to speak and then sing in the class. I came sort of unprepared. I was wearing a long, yellow dress and flat shoes. But I started to think that I should wear high heels. Far from home, I asked one of my friends in the class if I can borrow a pair of shoes from her. I knew that she has a bigger size of shoes, but what the heck, I might as well try them and see if they will look alright. My friend handed me a pair of nice looking black high heels. When I tried them on, my dress was not long enough to hide my awkward looking feet with these big high heel shoes. So that was out of the plan. I just decided to wear my flat shoes after all. I started to prepare for my forthcoming speech and when I was trying to recall the song I was going to sing, I could not remember some of the lyrics. There were two songs in my head that I could choose to sing. But both of the song lyrics I could not remember for the life of me. I blamed myself for coming not fully equipped.  I was thinking that those ditties are very familiar, no one will ever forget the lyrics of those songs, not even myself. Was I wrong!

Half way through the class, I approached one of the ladies in the class and asked her if she knew the songs. She told me that we could check the lyrics on the internet. One of the songs, which I forgot now what it was, she was able to retrieve and gave me a copy. But I could barely read the words. So I've decided to just sing the other song I picked. I keep on humming the song in my mind until the class started. My friend introduced herself and told the class she is scheduled to speak also in front of the class. I stood up and I introduced myself. By the time I was about to start singing, I woke up, humming the song I was supposed to sing.

This is the other song I decided to sing in my dream:

NAT KING COLE

Complimentary "Nat King Cole" Ringtone

Smile

-Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position # 10 in 1954
-competing versions charted by Sunny Gale (#19) and David Whitfield (#25).
-also charted in 1959 by Tony Bennett (#73); in 1961 by Timi Yuro (#42); in
-1962 by Ferrante and Teicher (#94); and in 1965 by Betty Everett and Jerry
-Butler (#42).
Words by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons and Music by Charlie Chaplin


Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through for you

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile



That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile


Transcribed by Robin Hood

from:  http://www.lyricscafe.com/c/cole_natking/smile.html