I believe it was in my second day of writing the Minneapolis, Mn 5/20/2015 post entry, that I mentioned I had been having a conversation in a dream with my former, short-stack, and that it was likely just the fact that she was coming into town that brought it into my conscious. In that dream we were working out the issues we had created and what might be appropriate solutions, issues, etc. We discussed all of it while we held hands in my dream. It was something that happened all of the time in our real life, and even though it is a small gesture, it comes with more than the security of holding onto someone close to you, it comes with acceptance of who you are as a person...a human being with shiny and not as shiny parts. It's a good thing when someone holds your hand.
Admittedly, when I remember dreams, I try and take inventory of what happened in them or what was discussed. I forget most of them, but every now and then, my dreams will affect me in a ways I can only explain from days past. I'm a old Bible generation guy, and the Bible is full of stories where people were being given direction in their life at that ever so critical moment in time via a dream. Kings, shepard boys, prophets, your every day person had dreams that either needed interpretation or at least were given some meaning so that they had an idea of what the future may hold.
I believe there is something to them...dreams, and I, at times, take time to write down the gist these types of dreams...especially the vivid ones that involve loved ones. When I was reviewing my text messages from the last number of months ago between the girl and me, I came across a text conversation where she had had a dream. It turns out that dream involved having a baby that she never got to see because she worked all the time as you can see above ( Pics of that conversation were removed cause I couldn't crop us out.). What was interesting was that this conversation took place more than two to three weeks before we actually knew we had things to really talk about in that department. So, I don't discount dreams or what happens in them very easily, but I do put them in the back burner of my mind because you never know what the Universe is telling you.
In the popular book titled The Alchemist, main character has a repeating dream over a few nights. It was the same dream on different nights that would end with him waking up. In that dream, the boy is about to discover something he's trying to find or understand in the dream, and it ends and he wakes in the exact spot each time. He didn't think much about it until one day he decided to ask someone who knew of dreams about it. Afterwards, he determined to do something different with his life and chase after the meaning of his dream. He sold everything he had to get a ticket on the next fairy over the ocean into an unknown land where he was a stranger. He was far away from his homeland. And because he was new to doing things of this nature, he was inexperienced in this new life...or ignorant of all the dangers that await him in his very immediate future. He found that he was robbed, nearly enslaved, homeless, and hungry. Yet, he believed that he had a reason to carry on in spite of his bad situation. By all practical measures, he should've given up because he was broke and could not buy himself a ticket back to his homeland and start over again.
What happened in the story was that he found enough calm in himself to look around and take in what his environment was telling him, and he started to work with what he had, his hands and his willingness to be resourceful and make the best out of a bad situation. He found himself a job for really what was just to be in exchange for food, but it turned out to be more than that. The man he continued to work for from that day onward grew rich because of him, and they both prospered. One because he was willing, and the other because he was able to read the signs or omens as they were called in the book.
Eventually, the boy earned enough money to not only buy back what he had lost the very first day of his endeavor, but he could also buy 100% more. You think he might've just gone home, but he didn't. He remembered the dream he had had, and decided to pursue it because it had grown silent in all his effort to survive. It was always there inside of him waiting for the right moment to remind him of what he needed to do next. Remembering it brought calm to him, and he decided that he needed to follow through with pursuing the meaning of that dream. If he didn't, he would always be in agony thinking about it...that dream and its possibilities.
The dream was the impetus to do something more than he could've achieved by staying home; it was more important to follow...even if he failed, which he did a few times before he got to it--the realization of that dream. Had he chosen to do nothing, the dream and it's memory would have driven him into bitterness because when people are given a task or a driven to see things other people can't see and do nothing about it, they are not serving their purpose...they are not responding to their so called calling in life. He knew he could always return home if he needed, but why when he could now go and chase after something he could never lose if he found it. "He is no fool that gives up everything he cannot keep to achieve the one thing he can never loose (The Bible.)." Although in the story he was after a hidden treasure, he was really after the internal peace that followed in his heart when he got to do what was ultimately his part of destiny.
It took him time. It took lots of courage. It took some believing. It likely took some pain...pain that was becoming greater than the pain change. He experienced loss, but he also experienced love in his pursuit, and it further empowered him to go forward. It even took a wee bit of faith and a personal belief that he was right. He went to the ends of the Earth to find himself but also what it was he was looking. It just turned out that what he was looking for was exactly where he had started. We learn at the end of that journey that it was needed to refine his character and to open his eyes to see what was right under his nose the day he decided to chase after his dream and live out the meaning of his life. ...The Lonely Shepard.
There are other principles that come out of the story that are important to mind including feeling worthy of accepting your dream and its achievement because people may feel undeserving of what they have worked so hard to attain. They see all the other people around them, some of them close, that also tried to realize their dreams but for one reason or the other fail and decide to not get up again. We see and feel we should maybe not accept it, our dreams realization, and kind of just want to stay in the group like everyone else, but we need to realize it is our calling to accept our achievement. We need to not just for us but for the people around us, our real loved ones, that want to see us succeed and be happy. We move forward so that they too can indirectly participate in our success. They need us to succeed as much as we need to because it gives people hope. There are those that may still not like that you achieved and they didn't, but they eventually become neutral. The people that achieve their dreams, according to the author Pablo Cuello, are warriors of light. It is them, that help bring hope to the lost and give strength to the weak.
There is a part of my person that believes in the interconnectedness of people and human kind and the spiritual part of our person where the above plays out. A good example of that is when people that are close experience things the other is experiencing when separated by great distances. A mother knows her child is experiencing a bad event, or when expectant father's experience the pain and discomfort their significant other is feeling (there is research on this when living in the same space) but in a completely different place. We can become connected to a person via our spiritual person over time and experience, but there is reason to believe that we maybe be connected to one of them before we knew them in person, and why people say that time stopped for them when they met their significant other. But, then the body, it's memory experiences, and life. I suppose it could also be any number of things, but I believe.
In there, that 3rd dimension or intangible side of our person does not see time as we do in the flesh and blood, but rather is sees all of time as one single event with nothing separating our beginning and our end (Hawkins). If you think about from that perspective, if time was to be removed from in between all the events in our life from birth to death, everything would happen at one time. Maybe this is why the Universe is all knowing because time doesn't apply Him. So, I think dreams are the visions the spirit side of our person sees and we experience as dreams...along with everything else that creeps into our subconscious. So just maybe..maybe we should take a moment and remember our dreams because they maybe a premonition, a glimpse of things to come or things past, and what we need to be doing in the here and now. Thoughts from a Minnesota man in Minnesota, 'where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and the children are above average." G.F.
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