Dream Sending

Dream Sending in Magic

Dream sending is the magical art of entering, influencing, or directing another person’s dreams. In occult tradition, it is used to deliver a message, inspire a particular dream, awaken hidden feelings, or influence thoughts and actions through the dream state. This practice is ancient, appearing in love magic, temple rituals, sympathetic magic, and forms of spiritual communication.

The most common use of dream sending has traditionally been in love spells, especially workings intended to make another person dream of the sender or feel drawn toward them. However, dream magic has never been limited to romance. It has also been used for prophecy, healing, warnings, spiritual instruction, and communication between souls.

Dream Sending in Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egyptian priests and magicians were believed to perform rituals to cause specific dreams in others. One famous legend connects dream magic to the birth of Alexander the Great.

According to lore, Nectanebo, the last native king of Egypt, used dream magic to convince Olympias, the Greek queen, that the god Amun would come to her in a dream and make love to her, resulting in the birth of a divine child. Nectanebo is said to have used sympathetic magic, pouring the extracted juices of desert plants over a wax effigy of Olympias while reciting a spell.

He then turned his magic toward Philip of Macedon. By speaking a spell over a hawk, he sent the bird to the sleeping Philip to tell him in a dream that Olympias would bear a child who was the son of a god. When Alexander was born, his divine origin was accepted as part of his legend.

Greek and Roman Dream Magic

The Greeks and Romans were also skilled in magical and proactive dreaming. Their rituals often involved petitioning intermediary spirits, angels, or divine messengers to carry dreams from one person to another. In the Greek magical papyri, these beings were described as forces that could reveal “the heart’s secrets” and carry hidden desires into the dream world.

Some traditions speak of twelve spirits or angels who govern the hours of the night under the authority of Selene, the goddess of the Moon. Dream-sending rituals were performed in the middle of the night, with the correct angel invoked according to the hour.

The sender would call upon Selene and ask her to dispatch a sacred angel or holy assistant to reach the chosen person in dreams. These invocations were often intense, emotional, and aimed at stirring passion, longing, fear, or desire.

Dream Sending and the Subconscious Mind

Those who work deeply with dreams often discover that dream messages can sometimes be sent successfully, especially when the sender is in a relaxed, liminal state between waking and sleep. This twilight state allows the conscious mind to quiet down while the subconscious becomes more receptive and active.

The psychical researcher Harold Sherman found that his best results with sending and receiving impressions occurred when he was deeply relaxed and close to sleep. He would visualise the desired outcome, such as meeting someone he needed to see, and believed that the subconscious mind could help attract the conditions necessary to manifest that result.

Sherman also experimented with sending thoughts or images when he believed the recipient was asleep, reasoning that a sleeping person might be more open to telepathic impressions than someone fully awake.

Timing and Magical Correspondences

According to magical lore, dream sending is best performed during the waxing Moon, a period associated with attraction, growth, increase, and manifestation. The Moon has always been connected with dreams, psychic perception, the subconscious, and the hidden world of emotion.

Practitioners may invoke Selene, goddess of the Moon, or Gabriel, the archangel traditionally associated with Monday, lunar magic, dreams, intuition, and spiritual messages.

Ethics of Dream Sending

While ancient dream-sending spells often focused on desire, control, or persuasion, modern practitioners should approach this art with care. Dream magic may be used to send love, healing, comfort, apology, clarity, or spiritual communication, but it should not be used to violate another person’s will.

A dream may plant an image or message, but it is unlikely to force someone to act against their deeper nature. The dream world is powerful, but it is also sacred. The most meaningful dream work respects both the sender and the recipient.

Enter the Dream Gate

Dream sending remains one of the most fascinating branches of magical practice because it works through the borderland between sleep and spirit, imagination and reality, desire and manifestation. It reminds us that dreams are not merely random images of the sleeping mind. In magical traditions, dreams are doorways, messages, omens, and meeting places between souls.

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