Dream Interpretation

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."Edgar Allan Poe

Oh Poe, how I admire your poetic musings. Dreams do seem to hold such a particularly sentimental place in your heart. In that sense (although, I'm afraid I can't claim in many others), I feel you a kindred soul.

 "In the Forest of Peace" - Kinuko Craft

I was 15 when I bought my own Dream Dictionary. It was compact, precise & full of Freudian symbolism. In my mind, it was the guidebook to my inner being, not just a response to the devilish part of me that reveled in purchasing items from the "New Age" section of the bookstore (although, I must admit, I did also like that it swayed in that direction a bit). I'm afraid I wore through the binding of that book very quickly indeed. You see, I believe dreams are more than the nonsensical images that we sometimes remember & sometimes don't. I believe they are, in fact, very literal expressions of our emotional self. In our dreams we don't think "I'm afraid of heights." We live the fear, we overcome the fear, in jumping from a cliff or soaring through the sky & we live it in an environment free from repression. In my dream-state, it's ok that I see a giant pink dinosaur chasing me. It's ok that I jump off a cliff & land in a field full of marshmallows. In my mind, those marshmallows saved my ass, so WHO CARES that it's that kind of thinking that gets you locked up in the loony bin?

No one can stop me from dreaming nonsense. My dreams are mine, & at least some part of me is of the persuasion that they represent pure creativity & invention,  my true artistic self, painted canvases of symbolic forms. My dream zombie, is nothing more than an expression of my helplessness. My swamp dream is nothing more than my emotional muck & shame. A dream is nothing less than the inner self's way of expressing to the conscience self its true state.

Here's what I know: we can run, we can hide, we stall until the cows come home, but we cannot avoid the fact that the state of our inner self determines our reality. As James Allen brilliantly stated,

"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors, that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires...Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance."

All I'm saying, I suppose is, well 2 things. First, don't just laugh away your nonsensical subconscious visions. Delve into them & you will truly know yourself for better or for worse. & Second, your truth is my truth. Don't forget to share if you find it first :)