DREAM SEEDS

My week in the Dream Teacher Training program with Robert Moss was like a week in the wilderness on one of those survival shows. Well, not quite that bad, but really, my idea of ‘roughing it’ is a 40 watt light bulb, so the heat, bugs, outdoor shower building, and the cane assisted long walk to the training site (a Yurt with no bathroom)  several times a day, left me exhausted. I went for five nights on just five hours’ sleep or less each night.  The physical discomfort of course added to the other-worldly quality of the training, made my dreams more vibrant and gave me the ability to be truly half in the surface world and half in the Dreaming for the entire time- and several days thereafter I might add.

 

The training itself- excellent. The people-wonderful. The food-exceptional.  There were 31 people in the training which included peeps who flew in from Romania, Dominican Republic, Australia, Canada and all across the US from NJ to Portland. The training exercises included tracking dreams, dreamwork for healing, precognitive dreaming and also waking dream-journeys into each other’s dreams and to the place between worlds to speak with the departed.  The training was a potent and rich series of experiences demonstrating how this waking world rises from The Dreaming.  

 

The Dreaming and our connection to it is not just about night dreams- it is the primary location of our consciousness- the Home of our soul, and the source of our decision making deep mind- the place where, in addition to working out the mundane events of our lives- we try on possible futures, diagnose ourselves, meet with others, visit real places, speak with the dead, and preview coming events. The Dreaming is where that 2/3 of our awareness ‘lives’ – otherwise known as our Deep Mind or Unconscious, or Subconscious.  This is where many decisions are made that we never know about in our waking life…but we DO know the way coincidence and synchronicity play across our Surface lives, bringing magic and mystery…the logic of non-linear order, to our attention. These are great road signs to follow.

 

Try this at home…incubate a dream…go to sleep with a clear intention to receive a dream about something important to you…healing, a job, your lover, a child…and whatever dream you have, even though you may not at first recognize the connection…sit with it. Be with the dream. Honor it in some way. Let your dreams- both your night dreams and your daydreams- your powerful imagination help you nurture the seeds you plant in your life.

 

No matter what we’re growing, a habit, a business, a relationship, a new story about ourselves or our lives, just like any seed that’s planted, the first thing we need to do when that little seedling sprouts, is put it in the sun, water it and tend it.  As we grow our dreams, they are both the infant and the parent. They are powerful guides and tender shoots that need attention. The thoughts we entertain and the people we surround ourselves with can nurture growth or cause that seedlings death from neglect- also known as distraction.

 

Being kind and attentive with yourself as you learn to listen to and decode your dreams…treat yourself as you would a preschooler learning to ride a bike. The right combination of  encouragement, training, repetition and willingness to push through  fear moves you forward, and can make your best dreams come true.