.........חלום – chalom
“Dreams” The word also means “heal” (Radak,Sefer Hashorashim) and may allude to the idea that sometimes dreams help the healing process after a trauma or tragedy. The word also bears a strong phonetic similarity to the word window — חלון —chalon, because a dream is also a window into the subconscious and the soul. A chassidic thinker once pointed out that if we rearrange the letters of חלום we can find either לוחם — lochem — fight, or מוחל —mochel — forgo. He said that when one has a dream, one has the choice to fight for it and make it come true or to forgo it and let it lapse.
Judaism, Dreams & Dream Interpretation
Good dreams, bad dreams--do they mean anything?
The Bible expresses the belief that dreams can contain revelations from on high, as in the dreams of Jacob, Joseph, and Pharaoh in the book of Genesis. The prophetic vision, the Bible states (Numbers 12:6), comes in a dream. A rabbinic saying has it that a dream is a sixtieth of prophecy. Maimonides (Guide of the Perplexed, 3.36-8) develops his theory that in the dream the imaginative faculty is awakened, without which prophecy is impossible.
Did I have a Near Death Experience?
By Julius
During the fall, October or November of 1955;
I nearly died from Anesthetic Shock; anesthesia in those days was very risky. I was scared, very scared and crying as they brought me into the operating room, they put the mask over my face and told me to count backwards from ten, I just cried. The next thing I knew I was still crying and floating near the ceiling looking down onto myself and the doctors, one of the doctors pulled off his mask and said he’s gone, I shouted out “No I’m here, can’t you see me. I’m here.” And then the next thing I knew I was floating in space and still crying,
I saw galaxies and stars, and I heard voices that sounded like a choir. The voices were saying “Dewey, we’re coming for you.” Over and over, (My nick name is Dewey) I was scared so very scared. Then I saw a light far in the distance, and there was a man in the light, the strange thing is I couldn’t see the bottom half of the man, it was like seeing a news caster on TV. The voices were getting louder and louder and the light got closer, but I still couldn’t see the bottom half of the man. Just as I started to step into the light, I woke up in the recovery room vomiting and a nurse came running to my side with a suction tube and started to suction the vomit out of my mouth to prevent me from drowning in the vomit. I never spoke of this until I was 14 years old, my mother told me that I nearly died during surgery, and then I told my mother this story.
