Life happened.
I did something I have been avoiding for years.
Soon after I got married, the creative rage at the time was to use photos to create beautiful and luxurious photo albums. I became so sucked in.
I loved it and created photo albums for everything. Each album told a story of each experience as if the experience had a pulse and a life itself. Even now as I look at them I can feel the sensation throbbing when I glance at the photos.
With my first child, it was even more fun to tell his story and use the many pics we were taking. I did the same with the second child. And the third and fourth, well, you know that story.
Life happened.
I would not take back any of the life-experiencing moments we shared as a family of 6. We have tons and tons of pictures to tell the story. They are just in piles, boxes, and held up in containers. I have had a line item of ‘bring the photos up and get them organized in albums’ for about 10-15 years. I know it is insidious that I have kept that item on my list for that long.
How often do we carry something with us…in our hearts or in our heads…for years and years not seeming to let it go?
What keeps us holding on?
Why are some things so easy to let go and others are more heart-felt?
The mind is the body’s intelligence. The mind is really infectious when it illustrates a construct and we believe it. We become addicted and want more of that infectious narrative. We can relate more to the agony of self-defeat, self-sabotage, and self-destruction. Our body comforts our mind and it calms those narratives by sensing what is needed.
That is why for some, potato chips, candy bars, a vodka tonic, a cigarette, etc feel so good. They send the exact sensation the body is seeking as it addictively confirms what it believes. The outside source used to enter the space inside only regulates the tension by allocating the exact verification needed to prove the thought was real and true.
This is the illusion and it is insidious. The conditions we believe are true are mere interpretations of our thoughts manifested into physical reality. Think of your life as a stage and your thoughts are acted out on that stage.
AND it is quite challenging to defeat those thoughts and addictive mind games in an effort to locate peace and ease within the body. Peace and ease are the body’s natural rhythm. We just don’t have enough experience with that kind of sensation to construct a firm foundation that is unbreakable. We do not believe it.
This is especially true for those of us who have experienced abandonment, neglect, fear as a child, dysfunctional relating to family members, and intense worrying as young people. If you had to be the parent to your parent, you most likely would find this off-tilted value system where you believe more of an outside resource than your internal locus of control. This is likely because that was your early experience coded into your psyche and so unconsciously you operate from this very undercurrent of unaware territory.
The dream world has been my stage of truth. As I sleep and give credence to the center stage of my unconscious mind, a more universal truth manufactures a narrative. Why do I choose to believe this narrative of images, weird and bizarre storylines, and the antics of an archetypal expression?
Dreams come from higher faculties. They are the culmination of an inner resource of higher vibration. They know no other way than inspiration, imagination, intuition, and higher consciousness.
Not all dreams are nightmares. They are truths that you undeniably don’t trust.
So, why don’t we trust what comes from us and rather trust what another person tells us?
Since the early age of grade school, you were taught that “truth” is the history of scientific evidence. What can be proven.
All history has been told to us and we believe that the wars happened in the way they did. Yet we believe them as truth.
All science, it seems, has been proven which is still someone telling you this happened. We have not seen with our own eyes everything we believe. Yet we believe science if it is called science and comes from the role of scientist or researcher.
In the most humorous way, you are believing other people and what they say more often than you believe what comes from you.
I could even show you some scientific evidence that you dream and you might even believe you dream. Yet you will still question the weird and strange dream story you awaken from as the truth being shown you.
Why?
In my field of study, I believe this is because to believe in ourselves and our human potential would require we also believe in the divine orchestration of higher consciousness. Our human senses could not possibly orchestrate the mystery and magic that pervades such synchronicities.
Trust goes beyond the human capacity to prove. It requires a higher faculty of inspiration, intuition, imagination, and consciousness. It encompasses energy, frequency, and vibration that have been argued as invaluable sources of our truth.
And, we actually need the contrast of differing opinions, discourse, and discernment in order to cultivate who we are. It is how we get to know ourselves.
So, whether you choose to believe in your dreams or not, let’s flow with a realization that they do tell a story and it’s a story worth your sensory-making potential. This, my friend, has been proven to be very beneficial.
Dreams are not binding forces. They are fluid. The narrative and images are concurrent with something you need to know as you enter the very next moment you arise to. This may be a situation with a family member, a conference call with a client, a talk with a colleague, a decision to be made, or a path to choose as your next adventure.
So, the next dream you encounter, why not look at it with a lens of curiosity?
Where is it leading you?
A few weeks ago, I had a dream that showed me it was time to go through the memories so that I could decide what images and stories as I move forward in life.
The dreamscape was set on an island. It included boxes I needed to load up with a camera and items to be shipped back while some were going to stay. There was a female who acted as an authority, sharing that a van coming to pick up the boxes looked sketchy. I decided not to leave the camera so it didn’t get lost. She and I were thinking about what to do with the contents of the boxes. We end up standing in line at a restaurant.
Restaurants have always meant a larger reality and a leap into consciousness as a whole. Islands have represented a specific situation for me in my personal life based on choice. The camera was showing me how to navigate the reality of choosing what memories to keep in my heart and the possibility of even more to come. The authority figure was a part of me talking that was very much wanting to do the “right thing”.
As a result of this dream, I brought all the boxes of pictures upstairs in my home. I am beginning to go through them and resolve happiness with a past that may not have expanded in the way I wanted and the full circle of understanding there is always more going on than we can see.
Letting our dreams unfold us is a premium choice of self-care. Dreams nurture our soul as we listen to their creative expression for truth.
“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
- Carl Jung
Wherever this finds you today, your nightly visions are truth meters for your human potential in this lifetime.
If you feel the sensation that the dream story was a nightmare, that is because you are not facing a truth you must accept about yourself.
If the dream story feels light and airy, there are bigger visions for your life unfolding and your purpose manifests quite rapidly as quickly as a bird flying.
If the dream story seems daunting, explore the images, characters, and feelings to gain access to higher wisdom wanting some discernment.
Do something you have been avoiding for years. It’ll open the pathway or threshold for you to trust your dreams and your life experiences as they magically unfold for you.