Spinning Dreams

Spinning Dreams by Clark Nelson

Spinning Dreams exposes a common pattern in dreams. After numerous spinning episodes, I have hypothesized a theory. I am obliged to pass it along. I realize that dreaming sequences are improvable by any accepted standards and must stand according to testimony.

Spirit and soul meanings are interchangeable in most spirituality discussion. In this work, I attempt to define them as two different elements of the human psychic. Reminiscent of Maslow's pyramidal id, ego and superego, the spirit and soul are intangibles that identify in the same arena of conjecture. Throughout many of my dreaming sequences, I have found similarities and meanings that occur too often to ignore.

A regular sequence of impressions seems prevalent. First, a slight sensation of spinning occurs immediately prior to entering sleep. Many other people have agreed with me upon having this sensation before sleep. A quick, though not audible, wind-like "whoosh" comes to mind at the last moment of losing waking consciousness. Whooshing feelings can modify to a soft thud or knock when the mind crosses the sleep threshold. Entering sleep admits us to the spiritual realm. Dream content and occurrences randomly vary. Spinning dreams are frequent however, and typically happen in conjunction with dreaming about others. I can report rotating, gyroscopic effects similar to observing or existing inside a penny rolling across the floor.

Previous articles have described dream situations with as much brevity and clarity as I can muster. The spiritual entities I write about deliver to me more about themselves than is logically and naturally possible. A definite feeling of exchange takes place, wherein I trade my knowledge for theirs. My spirit swaps information with their spirit. I assign the word spirit to include knowledge and emotional content. Knowledge is the sum totality of life's memory from birth to death. Spirit spans everything we learn. Ordinary facts such as where we live, our name and mundane information we rely on daily to function combine in the spirit. Knowing the kind of car we drive and the status of the milk bottle in the refrigerator are example topics that accumulate over time. New memories supersede older memories constantly. Each acquired memory or experience gained comes with an emotion associated. Happiness, fear, anger and love are a few instances of emotion that can occur for any given situation. Any combination of a variety of emotions plays a role in our next actions. No matter if we remember or forget something, the spirit records circumstances in progressive order at every moment. The spirit begins building principally at birth and remains as energy after death.

I distinguish between spirit and soul in the context of my writing. Spirit accrues during life's aggregate experiences and has some finite time duration. Calendars are the metric we use from birth to death to measure time. I feel the spirit is a particular type of energy that eventually disperses over extended time. Ghosts and related paranormal activities are manifestations of not yet dissipated energy.

My view combines Father, Son and Holy Ghost in Holy Trinity tradition. Respectfully, the soul is our eternal nature. To borrow an eastern concept, karma best describes the thing I call soul. I apply the word soul to extend beyond the gates of birth and death. Our soul path encompasses eternal credit or debit. I call attention to one special verse relevant to eternal sin. Waging blasphemy in this sense means to reject the entire Holy Trinity. The single unpardonable sin has eternal ramifications for the soul. Sins of the spirit (unto men) are forgivable, whereas this sin of the soul is not.

Matthew 12:31 (KJV)

"Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men."

The soul part of our spiritual energy expresses differently in my later dreaming scenarios. The Bible give several accounts where the "soul was afflicted" according to Judaism. Reddish fire, without heat or intensity, is a common denominator. Abraham, in a deep sleep (Genesis 15:12) saw the fire in a firepot or smoking furnace moving between the sacrificial animal pieces.

Genesis 15:17 (KJV)

"And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces."

Moses beheld an angel of the Lord in a burning bush that "... was not consumed." During the Exodus, the Lord guided the Israelites with pillars of cloud and fire. The Jewish Calendar measured precisely the 40-day and 40-night revelation time that Moses was upon Mt. Sinai in a cloud of fire.

Exodus 3:2 (KJV)

"And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed."

Exodus 13:21 (KJV)

"And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:"

Exodus 24:16-18 (KJV)

"And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud."

"And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel."

"And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights."

Rushing wind and reddish fire is the hallmark sign of the Holy Spirit at the Pentecost. The Apostles were speaking in tongues with red flames above their heads.

Acts 2:2-4 (KJV)

"And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting."

"And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them."

"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."

In earlier testimony, I describe a red ring associated with a married couple. I saw the ring in a dream moving from lying flat toward ending vertically upright. As the red ring approached me, it changed color from pink to crimson or dark red. I had the distinct impression the red ring was rapidly spinning. Special red fire marks situations relevant to eternal fire regardless of the number of people involved. Significant properties of dreams, visions and other supernatural phenomenon include spiritual energy within the mind's energy. Learned behavior, moral attitudes, intentions and ideas combine in the spirit.

Soul is another concept component embedded within our personal makeup. Soul reveals eternal purpose toward the divine or heaven. For some, sins of the spirit without forgiveness result in their lost or condemned eternal life. The soul is our final vehicle. Ancient calendar science attaches our being to an everlasting God.