Episode 15: The Books of Dreams and Visions

This episode includes excerpts from The B.O.D.A.V.’s (The Books of Dreams and Visions). It’s a personal collection of fairy encounters and vivid dreams, experienced by a young man from the age of 11 to his late teens, provoked by night time forest walks with his father.

Having had some awareness and interest in the Otherworlds himself, his father had encouraged him to journal these experiences.  Some of these drawings are pictured below.

It’s rare that a child or young person is encouraged to explore these realities with such depth by a parent and for that reason, I feel the collection is rare and of great importance to helping us understand our nature of being as humans. I believe that these states of deeper perception with nature are innate within us and socialised out of us from a young age.

Our guest, now in his mid-twenties and undertaking a Master’s in biological science, was able to spend lockdown reunited with his father. This provided an opportunity to re-read the journals and attempt to categorise some of the beings and events that took place.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this beautiful share.

Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. Some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.

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Recommended further reading:

Martin Brofman’s Anything Can Be Healed is an excellent book for describing how to shift into other realities and see the world from alternative perspectives, notably healing the body, mind and anything that is not working for you, in your life. (Note: I trained with Martin from 2005 until 2014 and his healing system completely changed my life…I will get round to talking about this someday. Let me know if you’d like to hear about it!)

Mike Clelland’s The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee. I would recommend this to anyone interested in reading about people’s extraordinary experiences and how dreams often tie into encounters. I’m reading this at the moment and I find it fascinating. (Note: yes it does involve UFO encounters rather than fairies but there are many similarities and if you haven’t already explored these ideas, then this is an excellent start).

Patrick Harpur’s Daimonic Reality argues that the human psyche extends beyond the confines of the physical human body, and that it may in fact be a part of our reality. It’s a core text for understanding these encounters.

Dr Jack Hunter’s Greening The Paranormal is a collection of essays on humankind’s relationship with earth and what we have come to term as ‘extraordinary experience’. 

Neil Rushton’s blog, Dead But Dreaminghas a world of information about fairies, experiences and folklore. This particular article, Visioning the Fairies: Magical Ointments and Seeing the Unseen provides some excellent references to folklore in this regard, as touched upon in the podcast.

4 thoughts on “Episode 15: The Books of Dreams and Visions”

  1. I totally love this episode and have heard it several times now with Tristan. There is something fresh about hearing it each time, especially when you know the story behind it.

    1. Thank you so much Robert and I know that as people’s understanding of this phenomena expands, many others will appreciate Tristan’s story too. Thank you for sharing and commenting

  2. Really interesting.

    I love this stuff; the experiences people have. I’m personally inclined toward the esoteric, extranatural and supernatural. So of course I find it fascinating. Others are very sceptical, but I think those people are missing out, and not just for the obvious reasons.

    Here is another good reason not to dismiss such experiences; they are extremely valuable for experiental reasons, perhaps one could say psychological too, but that isn’t a field I’m qualified in. I can however paraphrase a prominent psychologist regarding unusual phenomena:
    “Whether it is what they think it is, that is almost completely irrelevant; they have certainly experienced something, as opposed to nothing, or a made-up thing; and that something should be explored and understood, instead of dismissed, buried or ridiculed.”
    So dismissive sceptics could perhaps take a leaf from this quote.

    For me, this was wonderful to listen to. I very much enjoyed it and would love to see a global resurgence in such interests.

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