Dreams Show the Dreamer’s Value

Everyone dreams. Everyone dreams every night. Because everyone dreams every night its our tendency to assume two things. First, its natural to assume that dreams are so common that we’ll go on dreaming two or three times a night for the rest of our lives whether we remember them or not.

This is not necessarily the case.

One of the principles of dreaming is this: we make room for what we pay attention to. If we don’t pay attention to our dreams we could notice that we’re not remembering them so much. Then, if we continue ignoring and not valuing our dreams, we just might notice we haven’t dreamed in a long time.
The second assumption we often make about our dreams, many times without even realizing it, is that because our dreams are so common they make us like everyone else. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Although you may dream three or four times a night, or even more than that, your dreams are all very personal to you. It is in realizing this that you will begin to value your dreams.
Here’s an example. Recently I was talking to a friend about lucid dreaming. She said that she didn’t remember ever having a lucid dream, but she’d like to. (As a reminder lucid dreams are dreams where the dreamer is able to change things as they dream) Later, she said that after we talked she internalized this desire to lucid dream, and it appears that it made all the difference. The next time I saw her she said she had a lucid dream the night before.

The dream was basic and she changed very little, but it reminded her of a dream she had many years ago as a child. She was actually able to change the headlines of a newspaper that she didn’t like. I thought this was incredible to me, especially since I’ve only heard of headlines of a newspaper appear in dreams to those who were able to see events in their dreams that hadn’t happened yet. What the dreamer didn’t realize was that she’d been given a gift to lucid dream but didn’t do anything with it so it remained undeveloped for many years.

So how do lucid dreams show the dreamer’s value? The answer to this question is found in the power of lucidity in dreams.

If you’ve never experienced a lucid dream you may be thinking that being able to change things within your dreams is really no big deal. Well, it’s not unless you understand a few things about the dream world.
So what if there were ways that your dream life could influence your waking life? What if there were connections between the two world that were so strong that you were able to change things in your waking life by simply speaking in our dream life? What if the friend I told you about who changed the headline on the newspaper in her dream was actually seeing something that she didn’t like in her waking life so she changed it? Being able to do things like that would be very valuable, wouldn’t you agree? It’s easy to think so, but what if a person’s value didn’t come from what they were able to do, but who they are? What if all dreamers have intrinsic value and that’s why our dreams are so personal? What if that was why these lucid dreams can be so powerful and change our lives for the better?
Kind of sounds like love, doesn’t it?

EB

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