In an October post, I
wrote the following.
For many years, I
have been helping my son deal with health problems. His condition was
especially difficult because the doctors were unable to agree on a diagnosis.
It has finally been resolved, thanks to a recurring dream he had. I will
provide some history of his problems along with the role that his dream played
in the final solution. Unfortunately, few physicians have any knowledge of
dreams and the role they play in a person’s life. You must do the work
yourself, but if you open yourself to this aspect of your life, you will find
that solutions are there for every problem. You simply must know how to look.
About eight years ago,
my son began experiencing symptoms that included numbness in his hands and
feet, joint pain, weakness in his arms, excessive thirst, and frequent
urination, as well as some other minor symptoms. His doctor ran tests for
diabetes and many other possible diseases. However, the tests were negative for
a specific disease, although the blood tests indicated a serious vitamin D deficiency
and problem with his calcium level. His family doctor sent him to a specialist,
who ran more tests and then sent him to another specialist. During the past
eight years, he has seen an internal medicine specialist, neurologist,
endocrinologist, and a rheumatologist. After many years of tests, he was
diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and was put on some medications. However,
not everything he experienced seemed to fit that disease, so we continued our
own research. We began to feel the diagnosis was not correct, and so did his
rheumatologist. Something was going on in his body that had not yet been found,
despite visits to nine different doctors.
Now, my son has
followed my work with dreams over the years and read my book The Man Who
Sees Tomorrow in His Dreams, but he did not see the study of dreams as a
path he wanted to take. I continued to urge him to look at his dreams because I
was convinced the answer to his health problems could be found there. This past
year as his condition worsened, he began to pay attention to his dreams. He was
scheduled for an appointment In October at the Mayo clinic because his doctor
could not determine what was wrong. His wife had thought his neck was swollen,
but the doctors didn’t see a problem. Anyhow, he began to have a recurring
dream in which a voice said the answer is staring you right in the face. One
day the light came on; he realized that he had been staring at his neck in the
mirror each morning to see if there was swelling. He was convinced that the
dream was telling him the problem was in his neck. So he went to see his
rheumatologist and had her check his neck. She did think there was some
swelling, and after his pleas, she agreed to order an ultrasound. When she got
the results, she immediately sent him to a surgeon. He had a huge tumor on his
thyroid gland.
A top surgeon removed
his left thyroid the day before his previously scheduled appointment at the
Mayo clinic, which was cancelled after the results of the ultrasound, and
carefully checked his lymph nodes for any sign of cancer. A lab analysis was
performed on the growth, revealing a cancer at its center. But they found no
sign of cancer anywhere else. Now, I want to relate a dream that I had right
before his surgery.
I dreamed that I was
looking at the first car he had purchased on his own. In my mind, the car was
strongly identified with him. In the dream, the car had been in bad condition
and wasn’t running well at all, but it just came back from an auto shop where
an overhaul had been done. I remarked that the car was now running better than
it had in years; it was running like new. If you have read my books, you will
know that the automobile often symbolizes the physical body in dreams. After
the dream, I was convinced that his old energy would come back.
It has been two months
since his surgery. A few days ago, we did some Christmas shopping together and
talked for several hours over lunch. He said he now has energy he hasn’t had in
eight years. Nearly all of his symptoms have gone. He still has some pain due
to joint problems, which resulted from his calcium levels being completely off
for many years. This is something that he has to deal with because of the many
years of a serious imbalance in his body chemistry.
I think there are
several observations and lessons here. First, physicians are not God. They rely
on current medical knowledge and run known tests when trying to diagnose a
problem, although it is very strange that none of the nine doctors thought to
run an ultrasound on his neck in eight years. When we began to discuss his
problems eight years earlier, our first thought was they were caused by a
problem with his thyroid or parathyroid. But the doctors thought otherwise.
Your subconscious mind
is aware of the condition of your physical body, and information concerning its
condition can be obtained from your dreams. I have seen this repeatedly in my
own dreams and have provided several examples in my books.
Recurring dreams are
particularly important. The dream recurs because it has an important message
that is not being received and understood. I believe that dreams provide one of
the most important diagnostic tools available for health issues, but they are
routinely ignored by both patient and attending physician alike. I was discussing
my son’s experience with my family physician, and I asked her about her
training in medical school concerning dreams. She said dreams were not covered
at all.
My son has been paying
attention to dreams and now has had insightful dreams related to other aspects
of his life. Over the years, he listened to my thoughts and beliefs about
dreams, but they were only words. Now, he knows because he has experienced the
truth first hand. Help is close, but people don’t see it. They look everywhere
else for answers except the one place where the answer is easily found—within
ourselves.
Finding the truth
requires some effort and a willingness to face yourself. It requires a
willingness to see that you have created the life you live. This appears to be
a difficult thing for people to do. Dreams provide daily guidance and answers
for life’s problems, be we have to be willing to listen and act upon the
guidance we receive.
