{"id":34,"date":"2009-08-25T19:38:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T01:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/?p=34"},"modified":"2010-08-04T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T18:17:14","slug":"how-some-dreams-inform-the-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/dreams\/how-some-dreams-inform-the-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"How Some Dreams Inform the Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dreams come in many types.\u00a0 The majority of them are like fleeting mental and emotional regurgitations from experiences we have while awake.\u00a0 As we sleep our minds bring them up and chew on them for a while before swallowing them back down again.\u00a0 That many dreams are influenced by bodily functions and external factors is certain.\u00a0 Yet some dreams are more vivid and leave us with a notion that they are important.\u00a0 The dreamer usually knows when a dream is important.\u00a0 Additionally, since the subconscious mind is impartial the dreams we sometimes have can inform us of our conscience especially when we are suppressing it.\u00a0 It\u2019s these kinds of \u201cimportant\u201d or \u201cinforming\u201d dreams that I will write about in this blog.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in a Catholic book on dreams here is one with an imprimatur: The Secret of Dreams by Pedro Meseguer, S.J.\u00a0 It is out of print but I was able to find a copy on Ebay.\u00a0 It is scholarly and examines psychoanalysis too heavily in my opinion but you can find a few suggestions in it for the practical application of dreams as an aid to informing the conscience.\u00a0 The author recommends such interpretation be done with the help of a suitable spiritual advisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/dreams\/how-some-dreams-inform-the-conscience\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>&#8230;since the subconscious mind is impartial the dreams we sometimes have can inform us of our conscience especially when we are suppressing it&#8230;. If you are interested in a Catholic book on dreams here is one with an imprimatur[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[55,58,42],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-catholic","tag-dreams","tag-interpretation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicbookwriter.com\/goldenarrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}