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Dream On
 Artwork above courtesy of Josephine Wall by Barb McLaughlin The topic of dreams has been the source of debate, intrigue, fear and wisdom since the dawn of man. When the first human being who awoke to realize there were images in his mind that didn't represent waking reality tried to understand them, the relationship of dreams to dreamer began. Down through the ages, dreams have been considered in many diverse ways. Man has looked upon them as messages from the gods, clairvoyant visions, entertainment, nonsense, past-life memories, communication from departed souls, re-runs of waking reality, and many more things. It is my belief that dreams are all of these. The purpose of each dream is very individualized, depending on the needs of the dreamer at the time. Perhaps even the ones believed to be nonsense at least temporarily distract the cynic from stresses that seem inescapable, thereby giving the dream purpose. Far back in the history of man, the idea that dreams were important and full of purpose was taken for granted. As man became progressively more occupied with material pursuits than spiritual ones, dreams were pushed further and further to the back of our minds as less important than waking reality. They were something, if even remembered, to be forgotten (in the case of nightmares), or dismissed lightly, if pleasant. Intellectual and physical matters took precedence over the spiritual realm, and, not surprisingly, we found ourselves less fulfilled and constantly searching for something that was missing in our lives. Though it seems we are working harder at life, we are less and less fulfilled, as society supposedly becomes more advanced. Our dreams of happiness have been squashed by he pursuit of proving to others by our possessions that we are successful. The very definition of success, in my opinion, has been perverted to mean only material things. What about the simple man who has only enough food, clothing and shelter to get by, but is completely happy because he listens to his Higher Self speaking to him in dreams and shares all he has with those in need? Is his happiness less valid than the high-powered executive who claims to be happy in waking life while dreaming each night of being buried alive? Perhaps the simple man's success is much more valid. If we are tortured by our waking thoughts or our nighttime visions, what would we have to lose by paying attention to the messages given to us in dreams? Is it possible that the "evolution" to which we have laid claim is, more or less, a sham? Many of us have come to ignore our spiritual selves and the healing messages our dreams have to offer. In my opinion, it seems the most plausible solution to embrace our dreams and pay attention to the lessons the Universe is trying to convey - lessons we are unable, for the most part, to accept in our daily waking reality. To accept the dreaming state as an alternate reality is to open up approximately one third of our lives to a whole new array of possibilities for life in the other two thirds! The phrase "dream on" is used to point out that pleasant wishful thinking has no practical place in the real world. Perhaps "dreaming on", if it were validated as important as it relates to our waking lives, is just what we need. Could it not be that the road to happiness we never truly seem to find through knowledge gained from reading books, the escape of drug-taking, surrounding ourselves with possessions, or attempting to bend others to our will may be with us each night in our dreams? If we are to escape the need to "hit bottom" in order to learn important life lessons which our souls long for our personalities to understand, it is my belief that we must pay attention to the messages it is quite possible to learn to correctly interpret from our dreams.
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