"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt Disney
Dreams are important. They teach us to look to the future, figure out a plan so we can later take action.
My grandmother taught me a different way of dreaming. I was a child with endless questions and she was a heart of limitless patience. I always took advantage of our one on one time to extract stories from her.
I remember a time in particular where she was telling me about a dream she had. In the dream one of her long gone relatives came to speak with her. She said she had these dreams often since she learned to call them through prayer before bed and ask them questions.
So in this particular dream, her long gone relative appeared to give her a sequence of numbers which she wrote down immediately after waking up. A few days later she marked up a lotto card with these numbers. Back then the live drawing was on a Saturday. She waited for the weekend to arrive, sat in front of the TV as the numbers were announced one by one as the winning numbers of a small prize.
I don't know how much truth was in her stories but she did teach me to tap into the power of dreams. As of now the scientific research of dreams has not been able to give us concrete conclusions for the meaning, content or purpose of dreams. My personal conclusion is that during sleep we go in and out of various levels of consciousness. I see these levels as file drawers for different types of memories; short term, long term, images, real and imaginary, etc. A massive storage place for everything we've ever read, seen and imagined. I don't know specifics of how but during sleep we access these special places of our brain.
By preparing yourself before sleep through mediation or prayer you can concentrate on a question to be answered during your sleep. A recent example: I was stuck while writing a story so I thought about it before I fell asleep and in the morning I had my answer.
I dare you to try it.
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." Anais Nin
"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet." Victor Hugo
"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams." Madonna Ciccone
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." M. C. Escher
"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." Tupac Shakur
"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths." Joseph Campbell
5 comments:
great post...love the story and content. I too try to meditate as I drift into dreamland.
Once again, Letty I love your insights and the manner in which you weave a story into your post. I believe that in this period of great tumult and uncertainty, the power to access our ability to dream will be an antidote to the madness that disquises itself as rational thinking.
Thank you both. I agree Ramon.
Today I had a strange dream with my best female friend. By coincidence Lucy had one. The neat part was that accidentally she díaled my number about the same time we where all dreaming about her in our house.
I believe dreams connect you in ways that cannot be explained easily.
I have had messages sent through dreams from lost loved ones in strange occasions. Some people might not believe it but until you have the experience you don't understand.
Yes, I get what you're saying Raul. It's about being open and connecting with others on a different level. We are human, made of the same things including energy and there is so much we don't scientifically know yet. I have had many dream experiences.
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