What Dreams May Come

What Dreams May Come : Director; Vincent Ward , Producer; Ronald Bass, 1998 DVD . Starring Robin Williams , Annabella Sciorra , and Cuba Gooding Jr.

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The themes that I am going to discuss : Awareness, Existence, Personal Reality, Afterlife Reality, Personal Haunting, Spirit Guides, Suicide Souls, Pets in the Afterlife, Physical body vs. Soul body, Meeting loved ones that have already passed when you pass, Emotions, feeling, and memories creating your soul body, Rebirth and reincarnation, Connections to Egyptian and Greek/Roman Mythology.

I rented this movie because I remembered that it was visually stunning. This is the movie that prompted me to finally begin this blog. The movie opens with some heavy themes of children passing before their parents. IT continues to get deeper as the main character (Robin Williams) gets out of his car to help a trapped car wreck victim, and then gets struck by a passing vehicle. He then begins his journey of death, and entrance into the afterlife.

The themes of afterlife echo Sylvia Browne's personal descriptions that she receives from her Spirit Guide Francine. The theme of Awareness equalling Existence and in essence reality is strong at the beginning of the film. It is a theme that the spirit guide of the protagonist (Cuba Gooding Jr.) tries to get him to understand throughout the first third of the film. It ties into the theme of the physical body being tied to the soul body only in life and not throughout your journey in the afterlife.

The theme of personal reality creation in life and through the beginning stages of your afterlife journey reminded me strongly of how I perceive God creates the universal three dimensional common reality that we all experience each day. It strengthens my notions of the fact that God is within us all, and like God we are continuously creating our own personal realities as well as our day to day experiences. This theme is continued throughout the movie as Robin Williams' character finds his children represented in the afterlife in their own realities of their versions of "heaven".

Continuing through his journey in the afterlife he continues to hold onto his wife that is (at this time in the movie) still in life. His holding on to her strikes her into a deep depression as she can still sense, and feel his presence because of his thoughts and emotions connecting to her. It is this connection that his spirit guide is trying to get him to let go of. This theme of the people that have passed having to let go was slightly new to me. It can be experienced as a personal haunting, visitation, or emotional distress. It is not always a good thing. I looked more at it in the past of the living people having a struggle to let go of the person that has passed. I never looked at it from the soul that has passed having to let go, and effecting the living.

Again the themes above are heavily looked into in many of Sylvia Browne's many books. They continue to view the afterlife. Explaining a common afterlife where souls can congregate and work. Yes work on the other side. Sylvia Browne explains this process of work on the other side. They go into it slightly in the movie telling of souls that help souls to let go of the physical, and other jobs being to help souls on the process of being reincarnated.

The movie continues on as Robin Williams wife commits suicide. She then goes to a version of the afterlife that is on the side of what one may call "hell". It is her personal afterlife cage as I took it. Where she is stuck in a continuous cycle of depression, and dark thoughts.

Each persons afterlife reality is shown to come from a culmination of their personal experiences in life. As Robin Williams daughter takes on the physical identity of a flight attendant that she once saw her father interact with, in a scene from a three dimensional diorama stage that she played with as a child.


The movie then continues forward with more action and movie themes than spiritual information. Watching this movie I sensed that there was insight in the screen writers mind that went above and beyond the thoughts of just a good film. This movie was made to make people think, and question their personal beliefs of what happens when you pass. This film was also a persons view of what happens, and one reality of explaining the process that we all will eventually go through.

In some ways this film comforts people trying to explain the process that happens when we pass. In others it makes them question their entire views, and still in others they may get upset. For some they may think this is just a movie.

With my personal gifts that I have been using professionally for the last 6 years I see deeper into most things in my every day experiences. I know that there are universal common messages that the Earth, Universe, and God / Mother God are sending out on a continuous basis. These messages are received by people on the planet, and everyone receives these message. It is the way that the individual receives these message that makes each of us special. Many people throw the information to the back of their thoughts and never do anything with it.

My blogging is designed to help people see that these messages come out in the media, and other methods.

The person that is closely aligned with the themes of this movie of the afterlife is Sylvia Browne. I have read many of her books, and they really are continued reading if you would like to further research and understand these themes. The movie and the book The Secret also deeply explains what I call Personal Reality Manifestation which is heavily gone over in this film as well. One other television show that deeply goes over the theme of afterlife is the show LOST. I placed these in the blog as ways that you can further go on with these themes, but also to show that it is not just movies, or television, or books that have the messages. It is reality that has the message and God, Mother God, Goddess, whatever you believe, or that is above is speaking to us on a daily, hourly, and even minute by minute. We just have to tune in.

Until next time keep looking deeper!