Dreams

I dream best in the early morning hours, usually between 3am-8am. In my dream this morning I was doing my best to protect a small bearded child. He was a child of prophecy, supposed to overthrow the dictatorship of his country and start a revolution! We were scurrying from place to place just staying on the move trying to keep him hidden. At one point we were standing in a boat and I saw scuba divers leaving the underside of the boat. Dark figures swimming away quickly. A very mysterious dream, though ultimately it seemed to be a successful dream too. I hope he is able to start the revolution when he grows up.

I also dreamed that I had parked my car somewhere and it wasn't where I had left it, so I got angry and scared and thought perhaps it was stolen when really I had only been confused and had actually left it on a different corner. One thing that had been stolen was my large pink bag, but I saw a funny old trickster woman carrying it and was able to retrieve it from her.

I often dream of being betrayed or having things stolen from me when I'm feeling down or anxious about something in waking life. Sometimes I think it's just the way my subconscious deals with feeling slightly helpless or useless. It gives me drama and then provides me with resolution. A beginning, middle, and end! I think because our waking lives are subject to the laws of time (or at least that we allow them to be), we don't get nice clean circles like in dreams. Our time lines keep moving forward and often we aren't provided the benefit of closure.

Dreams can be wonderful spaces to explore different decisions and outcomes without having to accept them as final. I wonder what work we can do in our waking lives to provide ourselves with a similar sense of freedom?