firmbeliever,
Yes that does make sense. I'm still checking out the rest of your post and may get back to you on it later.
I was young when I began to dream about dogs and it was only with hindsight in my twenties that I began to recognise a pattern.
My first warning dream to my knowledge - I was nine years old. I dreamed of large dark dogs coming into the house through the window, they could talk, and one of them looked right at me and said, "What the F*** you looking at!" Then they headed for my parents room. Next day I had my parents searching under their bed for "the dogs that came in the window". Not long after that my father was involved in a gang fight. They came to our door and called him out. This was the only time this ever happened and it turned out to be a misunderstanding. - I made the connection much later after a few more warning dreams.
A few years ago I dreamed of a car accident, the car was a wreck, it was a red car. The firemen and ambulance people were medium sized light coloured dogs. This told me that everyone was okay. My daughter and her boyfriend were in a car accident that wrote the car off. I made the connection after the accident. I hadn't met her boyfriend yet and didn't know he had a red car. I shared my dream with my daughter later and with close friends and family who laughed and said, so it's your fault. I am a lot more relaxed and comfortable today sharing these things and can take a bit of ribbing when things happen like I said they would. To this day none of my friends or family will buy a red car. So someone is listening to me.
I had the chance of a second hand car a year or so ago, a bargain. I went to have a look at it and fainted in the street. I have only fainted twice in my life. I felt shaky and shivery. Someone brought me a glass of water. I apologised and blamed the heat and told them I was sorry but I have to go. The car was lovely but it was red. And no, it never occurred to me to ask what colour it was. It was just a great bargain and I was just looking for a run around.
Getting back to 'us doing it', it feels like a part of me knows what's coming and tries to warn me or help me with some guidance. I know how strange that sounds. But this is what I was getting at......... Rather than it being or coming from something outside of us like God, ghosts, spirits or Psychics, maybe it comes from the inside of us. Maybe it is us doing it... subconsciously.
Does some part of us know the future and 'work' to get the information to our conscious mind in order to protect us? Is this what some people call the Higher-Self and others believe to be Spirit or God? I don't know the answers but I have lived with this a long time and cannot ignore the signs or what 'it' feels like to me. I have read a lot in an effort to understand more about this and have come across words like 'the inner protector, adviser and provider'. I also read that this type of extra mental activity/ability is often traced back to childhood abuse or a serious accident involving a bang to the head.
There was a time, when if you tried to talk about this stuff, it was jokingly assumed that you must have been dropped on your head when you were a baby.
But what if that is the case and the reason for this extra mental activity/ability. What if it is something in the brain that we would not normally be aware of but a bang on the head flicked a switch?
Check out this link. It's not exactly what I'm trying to get at but it might come close to it.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"Jaynes suggests that the left and right brains were not itegrated the way they are today. Rather, the ancient brain was bicameral with the two brains working essentially independently of each other. The left half of the brain, the logical, language-using half, generated ideas and commands, which the right brain then obeyed. These commands were subjectively perceived by the right brain as coming from "outside"—as if a god was speaking."
"The bicameral mind has begun to collapse into the modern unicameral mind of the self-willed, self-aware "I", and as a consequence the gods no longer speak to people, as they did in the days of old."
"Jaynes suggests that each person had his own individual "god", which always told them what to do. The theory further accounts for why the gods were so naturalistic and anthropomorphic, rather than supernatural and otherworldly."
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"Is your dreams bad or good when the dogs appear?"
"However, most of the time possession occurs because the Jinn is simply malicious and wicked."
I understand.
The dreams are neither good or bad. Today they are more like a puzzle that I have to work out. As a child I was a bit frightened. Now I simply accept it as a message from some part of me to me. I hope that makes sense.