Dreams, Premonitions, Purges, and Protections
I found myself in the conundrum of trying to decipher what was a premonition and what was something else. What was a purge?
September 13, 2023
Nobody in my family really talks about it, but we all know it; there is a weird thing going on with our insights. I think that some people would call it a gift. We all have some form of it. Dreams, inklings, hearing, seeing, speaking, knowing… whatever comes through the strongest for each person. Some of them overlap, some are more frequent than others. But they’re all there in their respective ways.
My dad knew what I looked like before I was born. He dreamt it. I have dreams too, regular ones of course, but sometimes they are undeniably communicating something. Sometimes the dreams are not just mere amalgamations of my what was stored from my daily activities; they are messages attuned to something hidden within me or something happening outside of me. I’ve had dreams that I know have been with or from ancestors, others that have just told me what is occurring or what will occur, and some from another version of myself. I don’t lucid dream, though I could if I wanted to. I almost always know that I am dreaming, and I usually have a full stream of thought while asleep. I once corrected myself while speaking Korean in a dream (I don’t speak Korean, I know five words). Suffice to say, dreams mean a lot to me, I hold them in high regard.
A rather recent while ago, I was having dreams that felt like they should be (not were, but should be) premonitions, but they made me feel so strangely afraid and uncomfortable. They felt wrong—negative without any evidence or foundation. Premonitions don’t always feel good; in fact, most of my dreams that are direct communication are telling me something that I don’t want to be true or something that I won’t yet understand the significance of. Despite that, they still feel grounded in truth, so I have no choice but to accept them. Life ends up showing it to me in the physical world anyway. So these dreams that seemed to have a message but felt erratic and unfounded were creating a sense of panic in me. I was scared of what would happen when I went to sleep because I feared that I would have another falsely negative dream. I couldn’t understand what was going on, so I cleansed my room, prayed with my peoples, set protections, and non-physically boobie trapped my bed. I do not play about my dreams.
I found myself in the conundrum of trying to decipher what was a premonition and what was something else. What was a purge? Though this issue arose in specific respects to my dreams, it could be used to properly identify any unexplainable knowings that one receives. Sometimes I’ll write down my dreams in my notes or in a journal if they feel noticeable. In looking over these notes, I uncovered some answers for myself. A premonition is a message preparing you for events that will follow in real life. A subconscious purge has no movement towards any events and is a temporary, icky feeling that you are passing through and releasing.
On January 9th, I wrote in my notes a dream that I had of someone digitally watching me and yelling at me over the phone. They weren’t listening to anything I had to say in conversation; they didn’t care. I blocked them in the dream and felt different after that. I didn't think much of it until the blaringly obvious signs in real life showed up twice in one week, followed by another strange dream in a calmer but similar vein. At the end of February, the dream materialized into reality.
At the time, I found myself wondering if I thought the situation was so strange in real life a) because it was truly so strange, b) because it was strange in the dream and I projected those feelings onto real life, or c) because the dream was telling me what I needed to know in advance? I think all three are true at once. Sometimes I do act funny in real life because people are shown to me when I sleep. I don't feel as though I should disregard my dreams when they have such direct insight, but I have to truly know which ones are actually communicating with me vs. which ones are just releasing something. In reflecting upon my experience, a premonition will have concrete synchronicities that follow. There will be hints that create this domino effect of the subject of the dream happening. In this specific case: dreams, sign (view), sign (notification), then the event. A premonition does not stand alone.
Subconscious purgings, however, are like detoxes for the mind, body, and spirit. I would hold things in without even knowing I was doing it. I let my fears linger. And when it's time for them to be released, they have no choice but to come up one way or another. That is what those dreams were doing. What I thought was supposed to be a premonition because it was showing me something was really only showing me unfavorable parts of myself and fears that I had created in order for them to make an incredibly dramatic exit. Those dreams felt like yucky goop seeping out of my body. If you ever have a dream like this, I would advise you to wash your bedding. My subconscious purgings made me anxious because I thought they were premonitions that something was going to go in a direction that I feared, but they had no action, only release. And now I know that even that is not something to be afraid of because it serves a greater purpose as well. I am not a storage container for everything that I have ever experienced or thought, things will have to exit in order for something else to enter.
How to protect your dreams:
Sleep in a clean bed. Clean sheets, clean blankets, and CLEAN PILLOWS! Also cleanse with Florida water, incense smoke, etc.
Spray or sprinkle Florida water on your pillow.
Get a small drawstring bag, preferably purple or white. Add salt and herbs. Ex: lavender, agrimony, angelica root, anise, juniper berries, mugwort, nettle, St. John's wort, valerian. The herbs should have relevance to your intentions and feel relevant to you. Don’t just add something because it should do what you want; it has to feel correct as well. Add other things that align with your intentions: crystals, charms, or anything significant to you. Take a little piece of brown paper bag with all of the edges torn (i.e., no cut edges) and write out your intention on it. Fold it in toward you three or so times and turn clockwise each time. Add intention or essential oils, or don’t. Pray over it somehow. It can just be you asking for protection over your dreams while dreaming, praying a Psalm, or something else. Close the bag, tie three knots with the strings, and put it under your pillow. Feed the bag with oil when it feels necessary. If your dreams are terrorizing you, pray over the bag nightly.
Wake your dad up in the middle of the night and tell him you had a bad dream. He will tell you to say "Allahu Akbar" four times, then go back to sleep. (This one is entirely specific to me as a child, but it works.)
Use a nightlight.
5a. You should always sleep with at least one light source on in your house. I’m not quite sure why, but everyone in my family does it, and it feels wrong if there is no light. I think that it kind of guides and anchors your spirit. It's also practical when you want to get water at three in the morning.
Say thank you more. Say thank you before you go to sleep. Say thank you when you wake up. Thank all of the people who came before you. Hug your mom. Kiss your stuffed animals on the forehead.
Relax before sleeping. Stay off your phone. Do something that allows you to properly wind down. Ex: yoga, journaling, reading, taking a bath
Drink a sleep tea and pray over the tea before you drink it.
Wash your hands as soon as you wake up. (This won’t protect you during a dream but it will cleanse you upon waking up.)