Most people, when they think about the potential of dream analysis, they’re just curious about whether you can decipher them into some kind of concrete meaning that is going to give that particular person a sense of a knowing that they didn't have before. Are there really premonitions and all of this stuff? Yes, I will show you all these things. But it is an incredible danger not to recognize what this actually is. Yes, I know you will find it interesting, but you have to get what this really is. We are deeply, deeply programmed creatures, and the programming is so dense that it's no wonder it's so difficult for human beings to break out of it.

Every time I get to a place like this—and there's a certain amount of annoyance in me today because I'm returning to a subject that was really besmirched and confused, and it doesn't deserve that. It doesn't deserve to be turned into dream psychology, it's not what it is about. It is about understanding how each of us is uniquely programmed while we sleep, that's what it's about. Now, that can be a profound insight, and in and of itself it leads to a great movie.

But it's only when you understand that this is the work of the program and we are in a perfect position to be manipulated. And not by what we think we understand of what we dream, but where it impacts us, where it touches us in these dreaming designs. And that out of those dreaming designs when you awake in your awaken state, the way in which that information is going to move through the rest of your system, through genetic continuity, through the genetic chemistry and their links, as it moves through your whole system and programs you. You think you wake up in the morning and you leave the dream behind. No, you don't. It's your dose for the day. It is your programming instructions, literally, for the day.

One of the most fascinating things is when you literally understand this mechanism, you can watch the transits of your sleep and you'll be able to see precisely before and recognize it afterwards that you can predict what's coming. Ah, it's a mechanism; it's just another mechanism. It's what I love about mechanics, you get to cut through all the bullshit, you get to cut through all the illusion about the dream and the dreamer, and you get to see the programmer and programmed. This is what we see.

Excerpt from Night Forces 1: Introduction to DreamRave

Ra Uru Hu was the Human Design System’s founder and messenger. Ra dedicated 25 years of his life to the development and teaching of the System around the world until he passed away in 2011.