23 February 2006
SPIRIT: Dreams Are True
Dateline: A Meeting With 'The Candy Colored Clown They Call The Sandman'
Just in case you hear some moron argue that our dreams are mere random cranial misfirings, here is the real story: dreams are visual metaphors created by our emotional intelligence. They help explain who we are, what we do and where we go. The feelings we feel in our dreams are feelings we are feeling in waking life. Dreams teach us primarily that our emotions are a pre-rational intelligence, an intelligence that can help us answer who we are, what we do and where we go.
It is funny, though, as valuable as our dreams are to ourselves, they are so boring to listen to when other people relate them. Whenever somebody relates their dreams it causes the sleepy switch to turn on. "…And then I was pushing this grocery cart under the interstate…" Please, keep it to yourself.
Always remember that our dreams are on our side. Even scary, disturbing dreams are trying to help us. The scariest dreams can be the most valuable because they warn us about situations in our lives that are dangerous and untenable. Dreams are like very old friends, they always try to get us to be our best.
Ann Faraday wrote two excellent books about self dream analysis. Anybody who reads her books will become a dream expert in short order. But you do not have to be an expert to get something out of your dreams. Simply feel the feelings you feel in the dream. Think to yourself, when do I feel those feeling in waking life? That is what the dream is about.
A very good visual metaphor for our dreams is the compass. Dreams nudge (occasionally bludgeon) us to keep to our own true north.
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Just in case you hear some moron argue that our dreams are mere random cranial misfirings, here is the real story: dreams are visual metaphors created by our emotional intelligence. They help explain who we are, what we do and where we go. The feelings we feel in our dreams are feelings we are feeling in waking life. Dreams teach us primarily that our emotions are a pre-rational intelligence, an intelligence that can help us answer who we are, what we do and where we go.
It is funny, though, as valuable as our dreams are to ourselves, they are so boring to listen to when other people relate them. Whenever somebody relates their dreams it causes the sleepy switch to turn on. "…And then I was pushing this grocery cart under the interstate…" Please, keep it to yourself.
Always remember that our dreams are on our side. Even scary, disturbing dreams are trying to help us. The scariest dreams can be the most valuable because they warn us about situations in our lives that are dangerous and untenable. Dreams are like very old friends, they always try to get us to be our best.
Ann Faraday wrote two excellent books about self dream analysis. Anybody who reads her books will become a dream expert in short order. But you do not have to be an expert to get something out of your dreams. Simply feel the feelings you feel in the dream. Think to yourself, when do I feel those feeling in waking life? That is what the dream is about.
A very good visual metaphor for our dreams is the compass. Dreams nudge (occasionally bludgeon) us to keep to our own true north.
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