I once ran away with a Gypsy Fiddler

Well zigzag, the Dreamworld was a complete mystery to me, and I was largely ignorant of it until I started with Salvia Divinorum. Even before that I have known of at least one CLEAR case where I saw something in a dream, then I saw it happen Exactly like that in real life, about 6-7 years later. But this wasn't in my main area of interests so I didn't make a big deal out of it. After Salvia however, dreams have become MUCH more important and near to me. See, the state of the brain during a Salvia trip is so foreign and alien compared to our normal state, that the only thing even remotely comparable is deep REM sleep, and our dreams at night. Actually the world that one enters in Salvia trips (Paintworld I call it personally) is very much like the Dreamworld itself, and Dreamworld is the only familiar ground that one can use, to make some sense of it. Rules of reality are far gone and useless :) Since Salvia and Paintworld are of GREAT importance to me now, and Dreamworld is CLOSER to it than reality / normal state - naturally I have started to give much more attention to dreams, and how experiences in Dreamworld connect with reality and the world of the Salvia trips. Not only do I give great attention to it, but I am also working at actively bringing more of Paintworld from up above, from out there, DOWN HERE in actual physical form, in drawings, paintings, videos and practices that I do in my life. In a mindset that I keep, alien and foreign and fresh, coming directly from out there, from Salvia world, where earth people rarely go. Well actually ALL earth people DO go out there every night during their dreams, and they COULD learn a lot out there, but then when they come back here, they ignore everything they saw, and decide as a group that NOTHING worth noticing happened last night in all the dreams. So they learn nothing from it :) Peace and colors to you all :D

I don't know if I ever based a big decision on a dream. I am sure I have decided not to go somewhere if I had a nightmare about such plan the night before. I don't see myself believing in dreams and the supernatural but I guess I do in my own way. As for how to act? I guess I do research on evidence that I could actually touch! I'm one to shrug off a dream unless it really rattled me.

It could have been worse..... You could have been fiddled with by a gypsy! I have read the occasional book on many different guidance doctrines, yes. I eventually came to the conclusion that if any of them were totally accurate and contained the undeniable truth about things like this, then the person who had this knowledge certainly wouldn't be trying to make money from this profound discovery by selling books! There is no "formula" for interpreting a dream because there are so many subconscious factors to consider that vary from person to person. I agree that there can be base metapahorical or representational reasoning used in some cases but this is still a vague explanation. I could have had exactly the same dream as you but it doesn't necessarily mean the same thing. The issue for me is that I rarely seem to remember any dreams I have anymore, so even if I wanted to try to use them as a form of guidance in my life I am lacking the material! Maybe deja vu is arguably a similar thing for those of us that are not conscious of these things so often?

I think it is of considerable advantage to use a bit of each. After all, without a little book-learning how would one be able to invoke the venerable name of Chaucer's Wife of Bath at opportunities such as this. For the uninitiated she was was the cave men used to call an uppity woman. Not only did she have the effrontery to debate the finer points of life with clerics, but she suggested that her own experience might be a tad more valid than all of their authority. She married her first 5 husbands for money but the 6th for love. It was a mistake.

My dreams tell of futures what could be. Often as I go through life, I will remember a scene of a dream in the moment. Many call this Deja Vu or some other mystic thing. I don't know, I just know that most of my dreams are a pure fortune telling. Nothing more nothing less. I do let them guide me though, as well as my books. My books have taught me many things, A smart person learns from their mistakes, a Wise person learns from the mistakes of others. Cheers.