Dream Analysis
March 9, 2007
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.”
– Carl Jung
Plenty of modern-day motivators instruct us to dream BIG. Bigger than life. (What is bigger than life anyway? LIFE is as big as it gets!) And then there are the old-fashioned pessimists who tell you to keep your head out of the clouds and your expectations low.
Super-sized or minimized, reaching for someone else’s dream is a sure way to keep bliss at bay.
THIS WEEK: do a little dream analysis. Create two columns on a page: “My Dreams” + “Because Why”. On one side, write down the dreams you have, or used to have. Go ahead and include the dreams you “think” you should have, or would be “cool” to have.
Then, for each dream, recall what inspired that dream (a movie, a tender inkling in your young psyche, the dying wish of your grandmother?) And ask yourself why you desire that dream to come true. What would that new reality feed in you? How would it make you feel, change your look, inspire you to act? What would it prove, and to whom? How would that dream-come-true affect others? And where might you go from your new reality?
Consider if some dream modification is in order. What needs to be colorized, amplified, re-fuelled, and sprinkled with extra-strength wishing dust? And what needs to be tossed, smashed, or burned in the sacred fires of your evolving self?
Dreams from the heart are always real.
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March 9, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Many years ago, my dream was to be a teacher. Inspired by the film, Dead Poets Society, I set out with a fervent idealism that was put to its best possible use. I now see that the genuinely positive effect this dream had on others would have had an indisputably negative one on my family had I not decided to let it go.
It was agonizing decision to leave a well-paying, secure job, for which I’d spent half of my life training. But I regret nothing. It allowed me to feel accomplished, smart, influential, and respected. What more could you ask?
Well, if you’re a real dreamer, you can always ask for more.
And so, my current dream of creating for a living was inspired by my immediate connection to the words, ‘You’re a storyteller”. (Guess who said that?) This feeds a certain self-assurance and passion. (There’s probably a need for attention in there too, if I’m honest.) It makes me feel recognized and skilled. Being able to use my voice for a living proves to me what I’ve suspected all along – that’s I may not be cut out for a normal job. I can be all too easily bored or besieged and if there is no creativity to the work, I go insane.
The first time I saw my work published was the most exhilarating thing I’d ever experienced. I was fifteen and submitted a review to the children’s page at the Toronto Star newspaper. (The pessimist naysayer has never been welcome in my mind, and I am one of those people who are genuinely surprised when they don’t win the lottery. So I just kept submitting and they kept printing them and even starting paying me for them!
Why I buried this dream years ago is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that I found it again, and with a little polishing, it will shine.
March 9, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Yeah…a writer with all those typos. How embarassing.
March 11, 2007 at 4:13 am
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April 12, 2007 at 6:25 pm
oooh i am liking this idea!!! thanks gals!!