Unveiling The Familiar and the Uncommon
Some of the most common dreams we all have include dreams of teeth falling out, encountering tornados, being at school or work dressed only in our underwear, seeing snakes, and flying through the air like a bird. It’s only natural to wake up from one of these dreams and feel relieved that everyone at school didn’t see us in our underwear, or exhilarated after a flying adventure.
More often than not we have the tendency to take what happens in our dreams literally. In reality, our dreams are speaking to us in a secret code of sorts, metaphorical language, where missing teeth represent losing the ability to think things through, where being in our underwear in front of others is a sign of vulnerability and being bitten by a snake is indicative of being exposed to the venom of a lie.
Other times our dreams can be literal and filled with uncommon things. Things like computer code and chemical formulas. How can a person who is not familiar with either of those make any sense of them when they show up in a dream?
When I was in my first year of dream training, my mentor told of a woman who had recurring dreams of chemical formulas. From what I remember, the woman was in her twilight years and had never studied chemistry. These dreams intrigued and confused her so much that she put a notepad by her bed and started writing down what she saw in her dreams — exactly how she saw it.
After some time, her curiosity got the best of her and she decided to seek answers from a chemist. What she discovered amazed her. All the chemical formulas she’d seen in her dreams were not only real molecular formulas but solved real world problems the chemist was trying to solve.
The woman was eventually able to sell the formulas for life- changing money.
Kinda makes a person wonder what they’re missing out on by shrugging off dreams that didn’t seem to make any sense.
I’ve heard music that I’d never heard before, heard words that seemed to belong to a song or a poem or other out of the ordinary things that captured my attention for a minute or two and were gone. Sadly, I believed what culture told me about dreams and ignored everything I’d seen or heard.
I got to thinking as I was writing this blog post that there’s so much more to this life than we know and how at times there seems to be an invisible hand guiding our lives, even our dream lives. Especially our dream lives. Problem is, it’s hard to see where that hand is leading us dreamers without some help. And that’s why I write this blog week after week. To help dreamers try to understand what secrets are being revealed in dreams. To get dreamer into the habit of recording dreams and thinking about them and searching out the mysteries they’re hiding.
EB
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