Telepathic dreams and other phenomenon??

[Flower]

Hi everyone, I stumbled across this forum while looking for advice about my dreams. Maybe somebody here has experienced the same things and can tell me what is happening or what these experiences are called. Since my Mum passed away 2 years ago I've been experiencing odd things, sometimes related to the senses such as smelling flowers when I wake up, and being woken up in the night to feel a cold blast of air around me like air conditioning. A troubling thing that happened recently was when I was walking in my street and passed an old boy who was well known in the community. I said hello, but had this weird feeling, like there was something eerie about him, like he was a ghost. He wasn't a ghost at all, but a couple of weeks later I saw a notice in the chemist window saying the old boy had passed away, with details of the funeral, all welcome. Did I experience some kind of psychic thing, like a sense that his soul was preparing to leave his body? If so then that scares me. I hope I don't feel it again around anyone else!

Aside from all that, there is the matter of the dreams. These are quite fun, but rather confusing. When Mum died, I started having dreams like never before. I met Mum in the dreams three times, and each time I found I was in control of the dream and there was a bizarre sense of reality. It felt extremely real, even down to the details in my Mum's skin. I asked her how she was and she told me she was very pleased, placing her hand on her heart, and said that all the 'emotion was gone' and she felt so light (she passed from cancer). From that point on I've been having intense dreams. I dreamed I met an old friend and we talked about how our daughters really missed eachother since we moved away. I asked her if I could give her a call and she said 'sure'. When I woke up, I didn't think much else of the dream until later that day when my daughter's school passed on a message to me. My old friend had called the school, leaving her phone number and asking if I could get in touch with her. That was rather uncanny. I didn't ask her if she'd had the same dream as me, but it got me wondering if it's possible for our souls to meet up in the dream world. If so, what's the name for this phenomenon?

This post is turning into a novella, lol. One more thing though, and this is probably the most confusing experience to me. I'd be very grateful for any words of wisdom regarding these next dreams. I keep dreaming about a man I know. I've hardly spoken to him in real life, but when I do we are both very shy. I get the feeling he likes me, and I certainly like him. Now, five times I've met him in my dreams and each time the dream suddenly grows in realism and all my senses suddenly increase. The dreams have been innocently romantic and each time they start getting 'interesting' I wake up! No fair, lol. The thing is, in one dream he told me his name, but it was different and he implied that we had known eachother before and he had lived and worked on a ship. I just don't know what to make of these dreams. My gut instinct is telling me that it's happening again and the dreams are more than just dreams. But another part of me is telling myself that I'm going nuts. Any thoughts?

[reality_trap]

Hi Flower.
We're all nuts, to different degrees, my first piece of advice is to learn to appreciate your nuts-ness. I am off to a bad start as far as a first impression so I'll move onto the topic of your thread.

I too am a prolific dreamer, at a time I used to prefer that state to the wakeful one. I often tried to merge the two together, hoping to create a hybrid state of being. Wishful thinking.
In fact, the two states were so dissimilar that I eventually found myself lost in them both, wandering around in 'reality' and in my dreams, doomed to repeat things that I was too afraid to face, and change.

The recurring dreams baffled me, so real that I would even feel pain, or intense bouts of emotion, they baffled me to the point that I would question my own sanity. This is a good thing Flower, questioning your sanity, because in the process you may just expose how insane [U]everyone[U] really is.
I'm veering though, dreams...are a funny thing, but I would say that they are tied to our brains, our brains being the bottleneck between the great outside and the bottle itself.
Which is the bottle, and which is the 'open air'(that seemingly limitless void)?
Are our dreams just loose ends bouncing around in the bottle and the wakeful state the limitless expanse or vice versa?

I do sometimes feel freer in my dreams eventhough usually I have little control within them, but I think the sense of freedom comes with the lack of the daily worries that limit us so greatly in our wakeful state (aka reality).

Back to the matter of your dreams.
The strange coincidence with your friend is good evidence that there is connectivity in the dream'world'.
Perhaps even the dead have access to this 'plane', 'dreamworld' may be an inaccurate term since dreams are more like looking through the keyhole of a locked door that holds beyond it the spiritual 'plane'.
You may be a lucky dreamer who has opened that door, or has had it opened for you, by your mother perhaps.

With all this said I doubt that you are immune to the subconscious ramblings of your brain, the dream with the man would seem to stem from the uncertainty of your relationship with him and posibly from your unfulfilled desires for intimacy. The fact that his name differs in your dream is strange, but leads me to think that this is not a 'spiritual' encounter.
Are you sure that the name he goes by is his real name, maybe he's a russian spy?

Another novella! I'm tired. Off to bed...to sleep perchance to dream.

[Xyna]

I may be wrong, but those dreams with the man. He may be a soul mate. I know how weird that sounds but still. When you to met in a past life and have now met in a new one, it usually points to soul mates.

[WhiteFlame]

Dreams are just another form of experience. They are usually your brain attempting to simulate reality to work out repressed issues, unanswered questions, worries, or even practice a new trick or task. I'm not kidding. You shut your eyes and slip "away" from your senses, and your brain tries to set up new experiences to fill the void. Hence, dreams tend to be disorderly and weird and even highly metaphorical, if you're that kind of person.

But that is not to say that dreams can't be portals into "weird" experiences, like you mentioned, Flower. You are never really disconnected from your senses, they just remain unfiltered into consciousness when you're dreaming. Sometimes a few will "seep in" and cause the dream to veer off in different directions.

If you're already predisposed to notice the subtler clues of the world around you... If you're a psychic, it is highly possible that dreams may become an extension of that. Your experience or prognostication of "old boy's" death could easily lead you to have spiritual contact with your mother, or vice versa.

It seems to me, your dreams are hinting at a wider spectrum of reality than your waking mind has been willing to accept before. Follow that and see where it takes you, but keep your head about you. So much in the New Age or any other spirituality is metaphorical--because we do not have a proper science or methodology to understand it yet.

As for the man: Are you attracted to him? Talk to him. Get to know him just like with any other friendship/relationship. It doesn't automatically have to be a romantic soul-mate: there are different kinds. Sometimes, we're just meant to be friends or companions for a while.