Hi, I had the opposite of this happen last week.
I’ve been having trouble keeping the faith, although I’ve gotten some “small” successes recently.
I read on the main NG sub about someone saying it was “easy” to get a message from someone. The commenter said that they had had a nasty falling out with person they got a message from (and also that person said they would never speak to the commenter again).
Anyway, there was someone that really irked me last year and I had a nasty falling out with as well. Similar to the commenter, that person ended the conversation by saying I would “never hear” from them again.
That comment inspired me to get a message from them. When I did SATS, I think I only maybe did it a few times, definitely no more than three. To be honest, this success was a bit easy and ended up seeming more like a coincidence because I still remembered all of the little nuances of how that person spoke so “constructing” a message from them felt natural.
I admit that I checked my email a bit obsessively at first, then I pretty much forgot about it. I didn’t give up, but it just wasn’t on my mind. A week or two later, I had a very vivid dream of receiving that message.
And then last week, I got it — pretty much word for word what I imagined and saw in my dream. There were no other indications that this message would be sent or that that person was thinking of me, since we haven’t been in contact for over a year.
I didn’t reply because that wasn’t really the point and I had nothing to say to that person, but I just wanted to see if it would work. Sometimes it still feels like a coincidence, but the timing was a little too convenient to just write it off.
So if I can bring this back to you, I think you should just leave it alone. Neville wasn’t a prophet, just a teacher, so I don’t think he had all of the answers, but he was pretty close. All of the things he teaches from the Abrahamic faiths say the same thing about prayers, but they also have teachings about dreams as well. I’m not sure that Neville ever delved too deep into that subject area.
But I generally categorize dreams into three areas (based on my religion):
Subconscious ramblings — ie processing info you’ve been thinking of, very vague and forgettable
True dreams — extremely vivid and memorable. These take on the “tones of reality” even if the events that take place don’t coincide with normal laws of the “natural world.” I would also include dreams that give you info about a decision or situation you’re unsure of and dreams that are “warnings” in this category as well (but ones that leave you feeling sufficient like you’ve gotten a piece of info, not ones where you feel scared). Additionally, I would also include lucid dreams in this, except for in the case of the next point
Nightmares — in my religion, these are supposed to be from the “devil.” You can interpret this as your human fears and/or lack of faith. Also, in my religion (but a good thing to do) is to disregard it and seek refuge (in Islam, we seek refuge with Allah) and tell absolutely no one about it.
I get true dreams here and there, but not often. There’s a whole science behind dream interpretation in Islam, but from my experiences, they’re pretty easy to distinguish from “subconscious ramblings” and they always come true for me. Sometimes it takes a while or sometimes they unfold gradually (I had a dream last year that has only partly come true, but the whole dream was so vivid that I have faith it’s still being brought into fruition).
Also, when I get “true dreams,” I don’t do much about them. For example, I’ve had other dreams of people contacting me and after I get these dreams, I just wait until it happens and know that it will. The only time it didn’t “work” was when I disregarded the dream and believed it wouldn’t work. It’s not that I felt bad about it, but for some reason, I just intrinsically didn’t expect it to happen.