I’ve been pondering this word Dream.

For some it seems to mean a goal you set for yourself, that you work towards achieving. For others it seems to mean something that happens beyond your control whilst you “sleep” which often makes very little logical sense when you “wake” up.

How is it logically possible for much which occurs in dreaming to actually occur? What does, for eg being naked and swimming in a pool full of tofu mean? How the heck can we “fly” in a dream or merge with things that appear external to us and how is it possible to be dreaming and think you are awake, only to wake in the physical and realise you were dreaming?

My Macquarie Dictionary has many definitions for the word dream:-

1. Succession of images or ideas present in the mind during sleep.
2. An involuntary vision occurring to one awake.
3. A vision voluntarily indulged in while awake.
4. A wild or vain fancy.
5. To think or conceive of something in a very remote way.

Dreamland is described as – the land of imagination or fancy.
Dreamworld – The world of fancy rather than of objective reality.
Dreamtime – In Aboriginal mythology – the time in which the Earth received its present form and in which the patterns and cycles of life and nature were initiated.

So… given these various western definitions one would be led to believe that dreams are not “real”. This is our conditioning, that whatever occurs in the realm of dreams and dreaming is not actually a reality.

Oohh contraire!!! I totally do NOT agree with these definitions.

Then we have all those, imho, totally useless Dream Dictionaries that dictate this thing definitely means whatever someone says it means. Sorry, but bullocks to all that I say and I would love to ceremonially burn all the very limited definitions of this definitely means whatever someone else says it means.

Many speak of “higher” self, many speak of “the Spirit World”, many speak of “clairvoyance”, and many speak of being “psychic” as if only the gifted or blessed have access to these states of consciousness (which is actually just one) and I can’t even begin to imagine how much money folk have spent or do spend on seeking “guidance” from others about what their “future” may hold, or about whatever is going on in their lives they don’t yet have answers to, or even when folk reach a crossroad and don’t know which direction to take.

Many speak of re-connecting with the Divine, of lower and higher vibrations of energy etc. etc. Many speak of meditation allowing them to re-connect, past life regression, astral travelling, a need to “protect” themselves from “negative” energy, many who seek only “light”, who don’t want to face, feel and accept their own pain and darkness and so it goes on.

Then we also have references to Mediums who channel whatever entity or energy they channel. There are also many references to good/evil – heaven/hell as if all of these labels we have given these things are somewhat separate to us.

They are not, all of this and so much more is within each and every one of us – they exist within The Dreaming as I prefer to call it. None of us have EVER disconnected from the Divine/Life Force Energy of Creation within us – if we had of how would we even exist? Many speak of “God” as being separate to us also. What it appears to me has occurred is that many of us have just forgotten the truth of who we are. Like we have all just been living in a coma that has spanned 1,000s of physical years or perhaps more.

Life speaks to us in a language so many of us have forgotten whether we are “sleep dreaming” or “awake dreaming” – by way of images, words, thoughts and feelings.

So whether you experience what we commonly know as a “dream” either in this so-called awake reality or whether we have it in what we term being “asleep”, truly KNOWING what your own personal symbolic meaning for something is – is akin to having a free golden treasure map that allows you the freedom to navigate not only this physical reality but also what many refer to as the dreams they have when they are “asleep” with confidence, ease, peace and clarity. The reality being – it is ALL one huge dream of our own creation, or nightmare – we get to choose – for we all have the “God” given gift of free will.

Cheers, Cheryl.
© Cheryl O’Connor 2014.

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