F. P. Dorchak

Speculative Fiction (New Weird) Author

Dream Interpretation

The Esoterica Challenge!

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I don’t want this site to just be about me.

I really don’t.

I want others to visit and leave a personal “Just Plain Weird” or otherwise “esoteric” story or two about yourselves! For YOU to share weird things that have happened to you. Things that just didn’t “traditionally add up” in your lives. It can be large or small, doesn’t matter–but it has to be true. I’m not looking to pass judgement, may not even comment (unless asked!)…but I’d really like to bring up the “daily weird” into a more open forum in our lives. I believe we all have at least one or two things that have happened to us during the course of our existence that “just didn’t make sense” in the more traditionally viewed mindset most of us have been brought up in, or work in. I’d also prefer these stories to be more fun or curious.

That’s what ‘d like to see!

NOTE: I’m not looking to focus on the dark and negative, nor am I a “go-to” person to fix any such dark and negative experiences. I have no experience there and there are plenty of others out there who do have that experience. That is not the purpose of this site, so please respect that. The purpose of this site is to focus on the positive and constructive.

And–in the realm of the esoteric–I’m not considered any “great shakes.” I don’t speak, hunt, nor work with ghosts (though I have seen ghosts of two of my dead dogs…and some I know have actually heard a “ghost” of me!). I don’t channel (uh, that I know of…). Don’t interpret dreams (see my post and views on dream interpretation). Don’t paranormally consult. I don’t even make any claims that I’m more advanced than any of you out there. My only real claim is that I’m just like many of you out there…except I may be more aware of some of the weird that “happens” to us…am more open about it. I openly allow the “paranormal” to manifest in my life–but in constructive and positive ways, and I’m a proponent for others to be the same. Sure, many of you are like this too–so this might be more like preaching to the converted for those like you–but I really hope that each of us can be more open to the so-called “paranormal” in all our lives, to not fear it, even laugh at the humoursly strange things that sometimes happen to us (see The Grape)….

So, please, feel free to stop on by and conversate–even if it doesn’t necessarily match the current post. I’m really looking forward to seeing what kinds of cool things have happened to others out there, allowing each of you to acknowledge the esoterica in your lives, since we really don’t get a chance to do so in our so-called “normal society.” I would like this site to be a “safe place” to allow each of you to come and talk about things you might not otherwise be able to…without anyone passing judgement.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

Dream Interpretation

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I believe dreamers should interpret their own dreams.

I also believe absolutely everyone dreams. No exceptions.

It may be amusing or “interesting” to hear another’s point of view about your nocturnal adventures…but the true benefit comes from the dreamer his or herself reviewing his or her own dreams and trying to figure them out. And you don’t need anyone else’s symbolic interpretation to do this. What you need, is to figure out what the symbols mean to you–not anyone else. That doesn’t mean that the symbols of your dream might not mean the same thing to others, what’s important is what they mean to you. In the beginning, it’s also not so much important that you get it all “right”…what’s important is that you just do it…build up your own abilities.

For example, if you frequent a favorite childhood haunt in your dreams, it could mean anything from living in the past to going to your “safe place,” a place from which you draw energy. Or dreams of flying could be freedom…or sex. Fear. Or travel. But whatever they do mean, they’re important to you. And when you begin to unravel your own internal dream language, you begin to better communicate with yourself in ways that open new pathways and possibilities. Gives you more of a reason to remember your dreams. Many even pose questions to themselves just before going to bed and ask for the answers in dreams.

Later, dreamers can even learn how to be conscious during their dreams! Learn how to change dream events–as they happen–and not even worry about dying in your own dreams (I’ve died many times in my own dreams, and was consciously aware of it while it happened during many of them–even laughing at the situation and having some fun with “playing dead” with other people in my dream!)

So, when you hit the hay tonight, give yourself the suggestion that you’ll remember your dreams when you wake up, and try to recall them very first thing when you wake up–no matter when that is. If you can, write them down–or speak them into a recorder. If not, just try to remember them for when you do finally get up. If you don’t recall them still, don’t fret–just tell yourself you’ll remember during the course of the day, and trust yourself that you will. I bet you will! If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again! Practice does make perfect!