Dream of Food Shortages

On April 19, 2015, I had the following brief dream. I dreamed I was talking with the leader of China. He said that in three years they were going to have a difficult time with food shortages. I saw a map of China, and he identified a spot where I took him to mean the problem would start. He didn't give the cause of the food shortages.

This dream was posted in May of 2015. I mention it again because we are approaching the three-year mark.

I have several new items I am preparing to post. The first is a dream that I think relates to the current appearance of friendship on the part of North Korea. I say appearance because my dream suggests it is not real. The second post is about the digital age and some of the dangers that may not be apparent to everyone. The third post will be an update on my dreams about the stock market. I’m not sure the current volatility is over, so I want to wait a few more weeks before I provide an update. I think several danger signs still exist such as the 10-year bond yield approaching 3%. Also, I have great difficulty understanding the addition of debt by the Federal government when interest rates are rising and the economy is reasonably healthy. The deficits will increase, which should make all of us nervous. I am not an economist or financial expert, but the recent weeks have illustrated just how quickly things can change in the markets.

The weather conditions around the world are getting more volatile each year. In a previous post of a dream in August of 2015, I described a dream that indicated the weather would get much worse during the next ten to fifteen years. We are still early in the cycle, so I expect the losses experienced due to extreme weather to only increase.

Dreams and Disease

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.

Reflections on Hurricane Irma

I have several points to make in this post, but first I must say that I did have a very strong dream warning about Irma. Living in Florida, I always have a watchful eye on reports of hurricanes from late June through early November. During the last eight years, my time in Florida, I have not had any dreams of warning about hurricanes. I watched the news and followed the progress of many, but they did not become dangers to the surrounding area or me. Irma was different. A few days after it left the African coast and was reported as a potential major hurricane, I had a dream that was brief and to the point. In the dream, I looked east toward the Atlantic, and I saw a gigantic wall racing toward the coast. I was terrified when I saw the size of it, and in the dream, I said, “There is no avoiding this one. We are going to be hit. There is no escape.”

Irma was still several days away when I had the dream and its final path was not yet known. Now, at that point, I could have left Florida. However, family members, including my son, could not, so I decided to stay. Adequate shelters were available, in the event that I had to leave my home. We all watched its progress, wondering where it would affect Florida. At first, the meteorologists thought it would travel up the East Coast of Florida, but when it reached the Caribbean, it began to move farther west than expected before it turned north. Suddenly, where I live in Tampa Bay was in the target path. Many people decided to leave, but they faced a new problem. The Interstate going north was clogged with traffic of people trying to escape Irma, and gas stations along the Interstate ran out of gas. Fights became cancelled, and those still leaving were booked solid. When it finally became clear that Tampa Bay would be hit, there was no good escape route.

Major supermarkets like Publix were out of water several days before Irma hit. Other items like milk and mayonnaise also quickly disappeared from the shelves. Some batteries were available, but certain sizes were sold out. Local gas stations ran out of gas because they could not get deliveries. Fortunately, I had filled my gas tank right before the shortages developed.

Irma reached Tampa Bay Sunday late afternoon, and soon thereafter, I lost power. I was without power for exactly four days. A family member had power throughout the storm, so we all congregated there during the day. The Publix near me was closed for two days, and when it reopened, some items like water were unavailable. Items like baking soda and mayonnaise were completely sold out. Since people had to clean out their refrigerators because of the loss of power, baking soda was one of the first things people tried to purchase. And mayonnaise was good for sandwiches for quick meals.

Many people are now interested in digital currencies like Bitcoin. They may be fine if there is power, but everything changes when stores cannot process credit cards. On Tuesday after the storm, I went to the small shopping center near me where a Publix is located. Several restaurant are located there, and they were open for business. However, a few had cash only signs on their window. They could not process credit cards. This was the same situation at some of the gas stations.

The major damage in Tampa Bay was to power lines and trees. Several large palm trees were uprooted in my neighbors’ yards, and the sight was common throughout the area. In my neighborhood, the remaining debris from Irma has only been cleaned up this past week.

I think there are several things that I learned firsthand:

     First, and most important, my dream did warn me that Florida would be hit and there would be no escape. Irma managed to hit every major city in Florida before it left the state. Some people thought they were fleeing Irma by leaving the Miami area and going to Tampa Bay. They moved right into its path. The path a hurricane takes is unpredictable, and this one fooled the meteorologists.

     Be prepared well in advance of any hurricanes. I had plenty of water, but those who waited until the last minute had to drive around to find some. And if you don’t have gas for your car, you would be in trouble.

     If you wait until the hurricane path is certain, evacuating by car may not be feasible. You could sit in your car stalled in traffic for hours, and then you might run out of gas.

     Make certain you have flashlights, lanterns, batteries, etc., and that they are working. I had checked one of my lanterns a few weeks before Irma hit, but when my power went out, it did not work. Fortunately, I had backups.

     Keep extra supplies of items like toilet paper, baking soda, raisins, mayonnaise etc. These items began to disappear from some store shelves three days before the hurricane it.

     Make sure you have cash for incidentals, gas, and meals. Power outages affected some stores ability to process credit cards, and without cash, you may not get service.

     You may lose cellphone service. My cellphone service was sporadic at best. For hours at a time, I had no service. Fortunately, I had battery-operated radios for news updates.

     Of course, if you are on medication, make sure you have an adequate supply. If refrigeration is required, you may need backup power. Also, keep basic medical/personal hygiene items like Band-Aids, hydrogen peroxide, toothpaste, etc. on hand in an emergency kit. After the storm, I scraped my left arm and made good use of my medical supplies.

I believe as I have stated in previous posts that the weather is going to become much worse for the next ten years. This could mean larger storms, like Irma that dwarfed the entire state of Florida in size, stronger winds, greater amounts of rain like Harvey in Houston, and severe flooding. Also, weather is not just hotter; it is more extreme. I would not be surprised to see violent storms this winter in the northern part of the US.

I have collected my thoughts in this post as things to consider because I believe many people will experience violent weather conditions in the future. You must be prepared; if you wait, you will discover just how fast stores are stripped of goods. And all escape routes may be closed.

Future Posts

Future posts will deal with the following topics.

I live in Florida, and now the experience of hurricane Irma is over. However, I have several things to say about my experiences and the storm in relation to my dream life. I think what I learned will be of benefit to me in the future and will help others prepare for difficult times ahead.

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.

The stock market is still surging ever higher. However, my last dream concerning the market, which was about a month ago, showed a very dangerous situation similar to the conditions before the 1929 crash. It is not possible to say to what heights the euphoria will drive the market, but the higher it goes without corresponding increases in profits, the more severe the correction is likely to be. I would be happy to say that the market is on a new bull run and things changed so that the crash indicated in my previous dreams is not going to happen if I now saw this in my dreams. However, I have not had any dreams showing this to be the case. If things change, you will see it in a post.

President Trump seems to believe the destruction due to hurricanes Harvey and Irma are anomalies, but I do not think this is the case. I believe budgets for many countries will be strained to the limit as the financial impact of climate change takes its toll. 

Many people believe the changes in the tax laws will provide the impetus for greater growth. Perhaps they are right, but I have yet to see numbers that make sense. I see growing budget deficits with decreases in spending for social programs. The government numbers indicate there is little inflation, but rents and house prices are soaring. Consumer debt is back at levels right before the last crash. 

Houston and a Previous Post About Weather

I think we are all following the tragedy in Houston and far-reaching effects of hurricane Harvey. The amount of rain is considered unprecedented. Unfortunately, I think we are going to see this type of event become more common in countries around the world. If you have not read my earlier post concerning weather changes over the next ten to fifteen years, I suggest you look at the post titled A Dream About Edgar Cayce and Climate Change dated August 18, 2015, which is in the archive.

Dreams Versus Drugs

Recent news reports about the seriousness of the opioid epidemic are getting attention at the highest levels of government. I am not going to discuss the politics or actions that the government might or should take. Instead, in this post, I am going to focus on what I see as two very different approaches to dealing with life’s problems: working with guidance from dreams and the use of drugs.

If you have read my books or have followed my posts, you already know that I think working with guidance from one’s dreams is a far better way to solve personal problems than the use of drugs, even if prescribed by a physician. There is no shortcut to self-awareness or for finding solutions to life’s problems. We must do the work. And for those who are drug dependent that work will still be there when the effect of the drugs wears off. Their work may be even greater because they have introduced an artificial means to help themselves feel good and now must face the dangers and side effects of the drugs, as well as the original problems. And, of course, they have to pay for the drugs.

Dreams provide a safe way to understand yourself and help you find solutions to even the most difficult problems. When you work with your dreams, there is no withdrawal, no side effect, no addiction, and no financial cost.

There is no drug high that you can experience that you cannot experience in a safe way through true self-awareness. However, there is no shortcut to a mystical experience; tragedy awaits you if you try. You must do the work of resolving each issue that clouds your vision until you see clearly; no one else can do it for you and no chemical is a substitute.

We live in a society that seems obsessed with immediate gratification. The desire for fast food, quick casual sex, and expectations for immediate wealth attest to this. Many who struggle with obesity would like to lose weight by simply taking a pill so they can continue to eat whatever they want. The cry is for a simple, quick fix for every problem.

Guidance from your dreams does not provide an immediate solution to all your problems. Time and effort are required to understand the dream messages and then apply in daily life what you have learned. I do not think the effort required is beyond most people’s capabilities, but a daily consistent effort is required. The rewards are enormous, but you must do the work.

Recently, I received a message from someone via Twitter asking for an interpretation for a dream. I do not interpret other people’s dreams. The purpose of my books and posts is to help you interpret your own dreams because only you can really know the full meaning of the dream and all of its symbols. I do not sell or charge for any kind of prescription service. My books are for sale, but I do not sell anything else.

The synthetic drugs like fentanyl that are finding their way into the market are particularly dangerous. The human body has no experience with such drugs and does not know how to handle them. Drug overdoses and deaths are occurring at an alarming rate as bodies shut down from the onslaught of such drugs. If you are drug free, but someone you know is dependent on drugs, encourage him or her to seek help immediately. In addition to counseling and group programs, longer-term help is available through meditation and dream interpretation for those overwhelmed by problems. Heroin and opioids are not the way and only make existing problems much worse.

I hear stories of people taking drugs because of a breakup with a partner or a failure in a job or school. Whatever happened to facing problems and working through them? Technology has helped us in many ways, but it has also given us better ways to destroy ourselves. Humankind seems to be in a race between using technology to solve the its problems and using technology to destroy itself. 

During my lifetime, I have faced challenges that I believe were as great as the challenges faced by many people who regularly use drugs to cope with their problems. However, I did not turn to tranquilizers or other drugs of any kind. The reason is simple: I had a better way. I was fortunate in finding a better way through my search for answers and my study of metaphysics and mysticism. My books and posts is my way of sharing what has helped me find the better path. I believe the answer lies in education, and in my own way, I am trying to provide some of that education.

A Dream About Gold

In the early morning on July 24, I had a very clear dream that involved a meeting with a colleague at Kodak, the company from which I retired. I am not going to give the details of the dream, but I believe the dream indicated there will be a sudden, huge move in the gold market in the near future. Often the time of occurrence of a future event is not indicated in a dream. However, in this one, the business colleague who was integral to the message said it would be soon.

If my dream of last night was my only one related to the gold market, I might not post this yet. However, more than a year ago, I had a brief dream in which a man whispered a message about the future price of gold. That message is consistent with my interpretation of this latest dream.

I think this event may be related to my dreams about the stock market. Perhaps, some event causes major moves in both the gold market and the stock market. Or maybe one market influences the other. In this recent dream about gold, part of it seemed to indicate the move related to currency exchange rates. In a previous post, I said I do not think we will have to wait long to see if my dream about a stock market crash was precognitive. I have a date in mind, but I am not confident enough to post it. 

I realize that the stock market continues to be strong and is making new highs daily, although warnings about the potential for a large selloff are becoming more frequent. Often, just before a collapse in a market, there is a strong spike, so I would not be surprised to see more highs in the short term.

I am not a financial advisor and I am not suggesting that someone reading this take any specific action. My purpose in providing dream messages about future events that are potentially global in nature is to show that such events do not just spring from nowhere at some moment in time, but they are registered on a subconscious level long before we become consciously aware. Unfortunately, if I only discussed dreams that related to my own personal future, I think few people would be interested and even fewer convinced that dreams provide the answers that we all seek. When people become aware that dreams can provide financial guidance and insights about Earth changes, often in the way of warnings, they begin to pay attention. Hopefully, more people will begin to investigate dreams and discover their purpose and potential. Maybe then, they will see that dreams can lead them to better and more fulfilling lives.