CosmicSandBox’s Weblog

Last post I wrote about the little song, “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” which we all know and love. Most of it is about going with the flow of life, instead of striving to turn the tide or push the river.  But the last line and meaning to the song is that life is but a Dream.

            I know. Everything in your mind and body is rising up and shouting, “ NO IT’S NOT!”.  How could we be on this planet in a physical body and be living a dream, which we equate with a fantasy.  We all object to that idea. We feel it would make our life here irrelevant, because we think our dreams are irrelevant flights of fancy.

            But the truth is that life here in our physical form is a dream. We don’t realize it because we are still asleep. For example, when you wake up in the morning, you realize you were dreaming, and you think that what you dreamed didn’t really happen. Didn’t it? What happens to you when you slip into unconscious sleep? Where do you go? Who is experiencing the dream? Think about this a moment.

            Have you had dreams in which you committed acts that you could never imagine yourself committing? What do you suppose that was about? Most of us try to squelch those dreams. Even some fun dreams can unsettle us, because they are so vastly different than what we think of as ‘real’. We’re flying or doing supernatural things, or we’re being romanced by a movie idol.

            We just don’t take our dreams too seriously. Besides that, most of us don’t remember them unless they’re shocking nightmares or very bizarre. Most scientists or other ‘authority’ figures don’t give dreams any credence. But some are beginning to.

            In our manic culture, all of us are dream starved in the same way so many are sleep deprived. We are being kept so busy just staying alive and keeping up with the pace of life that we are becoming like robots. Our greatest gift as human beings is consciousness and we are ignoring it. We are allowing ourselves to go unconscious and to be led around by the loudest barker at the carnival.

            Our dreams reveal our inner, hidden intentions, shed light on problematic issues, foretell a future event, or delight us with magical experiences. As I mentioned before, 99% of our minds is tucked away in our subconscious. If you could take a microscope to your consciousness you would be overcome with amazement!  You haven’t even begun to tap into the universes that exist within you. We are all Harry Potters. We can get glimpses of this when we dream.

            However, we have to put in some effort to learn the language of our hidden self that is attempting to communicate with us. Our dreams are encoded with symbols which is the language of our subconscious.

            Decoding dreams begins by understanding their purpose. First, we dream to keep us sane. Even if we don’t think we dream, we do. If we didn’t dream we wouldn’t be alive. Secondly, the other important function of dreams is to expose our shadow side to us so we can integrate and/or heal it. All that we have stuffed and denied stays filed away in our subconscious; and, when we dream it surfaces as people and things that are symbolic representations of our hidden feelings. These continue to effect our lives by keeping us stuck, fearful, hurt, etc.

            We can ferret these blocks out if we become aware of them as they show up in dreams. The first step is to notice how they make you feel. As you contemplate the various images from the dream you will begin to uncover some hidden secrets. Maybe you discover past hurts you thought you were over long ago. Your dream is alerting you that you have unfinished business. Until the original wound is healed and cleared it will continue to resurface and influence your life and your dreams. This is just one example of how insights of your dreams can serve you.

            Our Higher Self (or whatever you like to call it) is using dreams as one way to make you aware of how and where you may be stuck or moving in the wrong direction. When your ego mind is “sleeping” and silent, your Inner Mind can speak to your heart without interference. We all have this fantastic inner guidance system built in. We haven’t been taught how to use it until recently.

            Remember, ‘life is but a dream’. Don’t you want to understand your dream?