Where the soul goes each night, who it meets, and why dreams mean nothing at all until free will supplies the intention that makes them work
Dreams are experiences that occur during sleep, most vividly during REM, combining memory, emotion, imagination and subconscious processing. Science has no single accepted explanation for why we dream — the main theories propose memory consolidation, emotional processing, and the simulation of experience.
Spiritual traditions give a second answer: that dreaming is also a space for reflection, symbolic communication and deliberate inner work. This article covers both — the ordinary mechanics of the dreaming brain, and the model taught within You Spiritually, in which sleep is a journey rather than a shutdown.
Where the Last Two Articles Left You
Your body has powered down. The magnet is charging. A fragment of an enormous consciousness has slipped free of a vehicle it was never fully able to occupy.
And you already know what it is carrying. Not equipment — faculties. Senses that were never physical, now operating without the narrow adapters that flatten them all day. It has entered a medium made of the same substance as this world but vibrating enormously faster, where thought reorganises the material directly and perception is more complete than anything available to you awake.
This article is about the journey itself. Where the fragment goes, what it meets there, and why almost everyone wastes the trip.
Because here is the situation most people are in. They sleep every night of their lives. They dream most of those nights. And they treat the whole thing as noise — random footage generated while the lights are off. J's teaching is that they are half right, which is exactly why they get so little from it. Some of it genuinely is noise. But the noise and the signal come through the same door, and if you cannot tell them apart, you throw away both.
The Doorway in the Brain: What Happens When You Fall Asleep
The physical side of dreaming is more ordinary than people expect, and worth understanding, because it explains when the door opens.
In waking life your brain runs in a specific mode. J describes stress neurotransmitters that switch on and hold the system in a state that is, in his words, critical for survival but rather abysmal for any creative activity. This is the beta state. It is excellent at food, safety, movement and threat. It is very poor at imagination.
J makes the point with an observation about animals:
"You will find in nature that animals need not necessarily use their imagination at all, the mechanism by which a bird knows how to build a nest, or a spider knows how to weave a web, is built within regions of their body that would be akin to the cerebellum."
The nest and the web require no imaginative foreplay. They run from an automatic region. And the human default, J says, is nearer to this than we like to admit — the normal waking state trades away the usefulness of imagination in exchange for the basic business of staying alive.
Then you close your eyes. And crucially — J is emphatic about this condition — you do so somewhere you feel genuinely safe. The mode changes:
"Your body changes its mode of operation going from survival to a hypervivid state, the normal flow of blood to the brain changes entirely, and regions of the brain that do not usually - here's the key - receive blood flow, begin to receive blood flow."
Blood, Glucose, Energy arriving in regions ordinarily starved of it. And the consequence:
"As a result of those regions of the brain receiving more energy then they typically do your imagination becomes hypervivid."
That is the doorway — a change in where the fuel goes, releasing the faculty that was being suppressed.
Two things immediately flow into that space. The first is the residue of your day: any experience that left a genuine impression on the soul. The second is random subconscious material, which J notes arrives distorted and strange precisely because it comes from the subconscious rather than the conscious mind.
The safety condition is worth pausing on. A body that does not believe it is safe will not release the survival programme, and the door stays shut. This is not a small detail for anyone sleeping badly.
Your Own Frequency
There is one feature of the dream plane that will matter enormously later.
"All entities have their own personal 'frequency' in this high ether, as does a radio-station broadcast specific frequencies for specific results in terms of your music selections."
You do not walk into a communal dream world. You tune to a station — your own. Every night your consciousness reaches into that plane at your particular wavelength, meets the material there, and objects and abstractions of the mind are created and enjoyed, or in the case of nightmares, not enjoyed.
Hold on to this. It is the mechanism behind shared dreaming, which will be discussed in a another article in this category.
Only a Tenth of You Is Here
To understand what you meet in that plane, you need one figure.
"Let us consider that the amount of consciousness in a human-vehicle is only 1/10th or less. The rest of the Consciousness, the remaining 9/10th's, exists outside of the physical body lest the physical body be damaged by the overwhelming amount of energy."
A tenth. That is the portion of you currently operating this body, holding this life together, reading these words. The other nine tenths sit outside — not lost, not distant, simply too much energy to fit through the door. This is the Higher-Self, connected by the silver cord, as established in the articles on incarnation.
Now note what the tenth is able to do:
"Because the 1/10th of consciousness, originally being non-physical, is able to separate partially from the body, it can enter into the basic realm where the Subconscious exists."
The fragment came from outside the body, so it can step back outside. And what it steps into is described precisely:
"This is a personal realm in the Astral which is a collection of all the experiences you have ever had and in equal, potential experiences that you can generate with your own creativity, thus it be the Akasha, or your Energy/Memory 'Matrix'."
Everything that has ever happened to you. And everything that could still happen, held as potential, waiting for your creativity to draw it out. That is the room you walk into every night.
It is worth being precise about the geography. J calls the dream world a limbo — the ground between the physical and the astral proper, a natural means of connecting to the higher aspects of the subconscious while the physical body lies subdued. You are not in the heavens. You are at the threshold.
What You Actually Find There: The Types of Dreams
Not everything you meet has the same origin, and confusing the categories is the single biggest reason people dismiss dreams altogether. J distinguishes several.
Useless babble. J is entirely unsentimental about this. Sometimes dreams are, in their phrase, a bunch of useless images that hold no meaning at all — the random abstracts of a mind thinking to itself. Not every dream is a message. This must simply be accepted, and any honest approach to dream work begins by accepting it.
The residue of the day. Whatever left an impression on the soul comes with you.
The subconscious letting something slip. Here it becomes useful. J says the subconscious will sometimes send images genuinely contextual to your present or your future. It will show you illness in your own body, because it is the part of you actively repairing that area. And it will show you the beliefs you hold most firmly.
The example given is homely and exact. Jordan, the channel, seldom eats meat. Repeatedly in his dreams he finds himself in a restaurant, is handed meat, eats it, and is violently sick on the floor. J's reading: the subconscious mind, which governs digestion and consumption, finds meat sickening and does not require it. That is the message, delivered in the only vocabulary available to it.
Because there is a hard ceiling on what this layer can say:
"The subconscious mind can only really send very simple and crude messages like this, it can tell you the health of your knee or what food your body can correctly assimilate without much trouble. What it cannot do very well is send you very complex things."
Remember that ceiling. The next article is entirely about how it gets raised.
Something deliberately built. When a dream turns vivid and cinematic — structured, sequential, more film than collage — something different has happened:
"When dreams are of a vivid and cinematic nature, the Mental Body has partially separated from 1st Density (the atomic body) and entered into the higher realities. Those things you see and experience are due to the more creative and deeper portions of the Souls Mind designing an experience for its own consciousness to garner lessons from."
Designing. The deeper portion of you constructs a scenario for the shallower portion to learn from. In these dreams you are both the audience and the author, and only the audience knows it is watching.
People you have never met. Some of the figures in your dreams are not strangers at all. J says entities frequently dream without recognising a single character present, failing to realise that what stands before them are their own past incarnations, and the beings who populated those lives.
There is a second and equally important teaching about dream characters — that they are ego layers, absorbed frequencies of everyone whose light you have ever resonated with, now walking about where you can finally see them. That teaching, and the work of dissolving them, is covered fully in the articles Dream Characters Are Your Ego Layers and Transforming Ego Layers Through Dreams.
Visitors. J is matter-of-fact that the universe is abundant with beings of all kinds, some friendly and some less so, and that entities regularly use dreams to communicate with loved ones who have passed, with the living, with extra-terrestrials, and with animals including pets. On the departed specifically, J notes a pattern worth knowing: a recently deceased person tends to pay regular visits to those they loved, and the visits diminish over time, as the entity finds meaning in things beyond this planet.
What Do Dreams Mean, and Why Are They Symbolic?
People complain that dreams are cryptic, as though this were a design flaw. J treats it as the opposite:
"The Higher-Self chooses not to bother communicating in verbal language, why ought it? It is able to pass far greater concepts in greater detail through a linear movie of symbolism."
Language is slow and lossy. A symbol carries more, faster, and requires no translation on arrival — only on reflection.
But note the exact phrasing, because it is sharper than it first appears. The Higher-Self chooses not to bother. Why ought it? This is not a limitation of the channel. It could speak plainly. It declines to.
The reason emerges elsewhere, when J are asked directly how one might improve communication with the Over-Self. The answer rejects the premise of the question:
"It is a reality check that is necessary here, not necessarily the ability to as you would understand become better at communicating with the same."
The communication, J says, is already established and working. The difficulty sits entirely at the receiving end, and it takes two forms.
The first is simple incapacity. How is that child meant to understand something so grand beyond their comprehension? The neophyte cannot expect to grasp, on arrival, something originating far above their present level.
The second is less comfortable. Sometimes the message received is not the message wanted — and the temptation then is to treat it as the Over-Self miscommunicating, rather than as an answer one did not care for. J's instruction on this is blunt: do not be ignorant of the Over-Self's message.
So the Higher-Self is not being obscure, and it is not failing to reach you. It is declining to descend. The channel does not lower itself to your level; you are meant to rise to its.
Which recasts the whole difficulty. The symbolism is not an obstacle standing between you and the teaching. The work of learning to read it is the teaching.
The Purpose — and the Thing Almost Everyone Misses
Here is the teaching at the centre of all of it, and the reason most people get nothing from their nights.
"Dreams inherently have utterly no intention, consider you have Freewill Dearest One, if not applied, no Work is done - literally."
Dreams do not arrive with a purpose attached. They are a medium, not a message. Free will is the active ingredient — and if you supply none, nothing happens. No work is done, literally.
So supply some. J gives the example directly. Suppose you think heavily on a real question: What are the blockages in my life? I wish I could understand this. Your consciousness, occupied with that, carries it up into the high ether. And then:
"The thoughts you carry into the night touch the Higher-Self, and the Higher-Self responds by platonically touching you with its Love and Wisdom. In such a way, Work being done yields a result."
You are not petitioning a stranger. You are a tenth of a consciousness asking the other nine tenths — and what comes back is Love and Wisdom, because that is what the larger portion of you is made of.
J elsewhere describes the Over-Self as something akin to a computer of the Gods. The intelligence on the other end of a sincerely asked question is not modest.
This is also where the freedom described in the previous article becomes practical rather than merely interesting. Out of the body, will acts on the medium without a slow vehicle in between. A question carried into that state is not a wish. It is work.
What This Makes Possible
Once you grasp that the medium is responsive and the intelligence is real, the applications stop sounding mystical and start sounding practical. J's own list is startlingly mundane:
"We are reminded of entities who, at this very time, are using their dreams to make gross sums of your prized economic commodity (money). We are reminded of entities who utilise dreams to solve medical dilemmas and problems, of entities who utilise dreams to locate places to go, places to live, the climate and the times, to prophesize, to solve computer problems and difficult concepts."
Money. Medicine. Where to live. Prophecy. Debugging. And the reason it works is the vibration rate:
"If there is work to be done, it can be carried into this high ether, the medium vibrates quickly, it allows for problems to be solved with great rapidity."
A faster medium solves faster. This is not a spiritual reward for spiritual behaviour — it is a property of the plane. J's summary is that consciousness is vast, and entities who experiment with the dream realm begin to realise the scale of what they can construct there.
How to Tell Signal From Noise: Which Dreams Actually Mean Something
Given that some dreams mean nothing and some mean a great deal, discernment is the whole skill. J gives a criterion, and it is refreshingly unfussy.
"The determining factor in this is intention."
If you carried nothing in, expect nothing back. Attempting to extract insight from an unintentional dream will, in J's phrasing, either yield well-fruited results or simply yield nonsense — and you will have no way of knowing which you are holding.
But when a real dream arrives, J says you will not be in any doubt:
"When you have a dream and it is rather obvious that this dream is more, it is not random babble, it is a clear message, it is an obvious infiltration of a higher force, then it means that you have carried an intention so strongly into the dream that it gives you access to memories and ideas you never had before."
The example is again plain rather than grand. Jordan dreamt of being fired from a supermarket job — which turned out to be a prediction that it wasn’t for him, because shelf-stacking suited him far less than work involving people. Not a vision of angels. A piece of accurate guidance about a life, delivered as a small unpleasant story.
The rule, then: no intention, no expectations. Strong intention, and pay very close attention to what returns.
The Oldest Idea We Have
None of this is new, and it is worth remembering how completely it was once taken for granted.
Old Testament Joseph read Pharaoh's dream as seven years of famine. In the Quran, Yûsuf dreamt of eleven stars, the sun and the moon bowing to him — the stars being the brothers who would plot against him, throw him into a well and claim a wolf had taken him, before eventually bowing before him exactly as the dream had shown. The Joseph of the New Testament was instructed in a dream to take Mary and the child into Egypt to escape Herod, and told in a later dream that Herod had died and it was safe to return.
Beyond scripture, Buddhist and Hindu practitioners went further still, developing deliberate techniques for inducing altered dream states in order to cultivate self-awareness on the path to realisation.
In more modern times Dmitri Mendeleev famous for formulating the periodic law had a vision in his sleep of a series of patterns that connected the various elements he was studying. With a little bit of time and meditation on the dream, he became known as the father of the periodic table of elements.
Every tradition that took the interior life seriously understood what dreams were for. The forgetting is recent, and it is ours.
Where This Goes Next
You now know what the dream world is, where you go, who you might meet, and the one ingredient — intention — that converts a night of noise into a night of work.
But recall the ceiling. The subconscious can tell you the health of your knee. It cannot send you anything complex. The way past that limit is to be awake while it happens — to remain conscious as the blood flow shifts and the imagination turns hypervivid, and to stand in that plane with your will intact.
That is lucid dreaming, and it is the subject of the next article.
Frequently Asked Questions About Dreams
Why do we dream?
Science has no single agreed answer — the leading theories propose memory consolidation, emotional processing, and the simulation of experience. The spiritual model taught here adds a mechanism rather than replacing one: as the body powers down, blood flow shifts to regions of the brain that are ordinarily starved of it, and imagination becomes hypervivid. The waking state suppresses that faculty in exchange for survival. Sleep releases it.
Do all dreams mean something?
No — and accepting that is where honest dream work begins. Some dreams are genuinely random images that carry no meaning, the mind simply thinking to itself. The determining factor is intention: a night you carried nothing into is unlikely to return anything, while a question held firmly on the way to sleep changes what comes back.
Why are dreams so symbolic and strange?
Because symbolism carries more than language does. A linear sequence of images can transmit concepts in far greater detail than verbal explanation, and requires no translation on arrival — only on reflection. The apparent obscurity isn't a fault in transmission. Learning to read the symbols is itself the work.
Can dreams tell you something about your health?
The subconscious governs repair and digestion, and it will send simple signals about both — the state of a joint, or a food the body doesn't want. It communicates in crude, direct images because that is the vocabulary available to it. What it cannot do well is send anything complex.
Why do I dream about people I've never met?
Many unfamiliar dream figures aren't strangers. Some are the beings who populated your own past incarnations, appearing without being recognised. Others are ego layers — absorbed frequencies of everyone whose light you have resonated with, now visible in a place where you can finally meet them.
Can you dream about someone who has died?
Dreams are used to communicate with loved ones who have passed. A recently departed person tends to visit those they loved fairly regularly, and those visits diminish over time as the entity finds meaning in things beyond this planet — a change in their circumstances, not a withdrawal of love.
How do I get more from my dreams?
Supply intention. Dreams arrive with no purpose attached; free will is the active ingredient, and without it no work is done. Think heavily on a real question before sleep — a blockage, a decision, a problem — and carry it into the night. The thoughts you take with you reach the Higher-Self, and what returns is Love and Wisdom.
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