I enjoyed reading this. I find that I am somehow still waiting for this boss-man to show up and yell at me to leave his property or tell me off for the pictures I've hung up on his walls without his permission. Your final words of reflection, however, leave me with a sense of hopefulness. Thanks for sharing this dream with the world!
I sat on my parents kitchen at 23.00 when I noticed this post and I read it through my email app in the kitchen, and was I dipping cinnamon crackers into my tea. I was, by chance, in my childhood environment. And I was really wibing how my childhood dreams felt back then and wondering why I can't hold those kind of dreams together anymore. Maybe the meditation helps, like you communicate more directly with yourself or something. I miss those lush, long dreams!
The types of dreams I experience vary, some periods in my life I can't remember anything either (mostly when I have not gotten enough sleep), but for some reason I have recently had many vivid dreams. It could be that I have started to show more attention to "the inner world", unconscious or what to call it, through meditating regularly, and then the dreams kind of continue on that note.
A usual advice I've heard if you want to remember your dreams is to try to really prioritize sleeping, maybe even create some kind of a ritual before bedtime (though I know this can be difficult at hectic times, I don't remember any dreams from the first year and a half with my baby as I simply could not get enough sleep..) and also to write down any tiny little sliver of a dream that you can remember, this shows the unconscious that you are giving it some attention and care about the messages that come up, however small, and then it tends to open up more.
But still, I can agree that childhood dreams hold something special about them, since back then I remember that the division between dream and reality was much more fluid than now. Slowly but surely we are socialized into dismissing our dreams as less real than the physical reality, and by doing so I think they lose some of their power. Whatever you give attention to tends to grow. So maybe the meditation is a way to try to get closer to this kind of an approach, where internal visions and messages are respected more again, where the inner world gets more attention. At least, that is what I am trying to do myself, and it has resulted in me remembering my dreams more.
I enjoyed reading this. I find that I am somehow still waiting for this boss-man to show up and yell at me to leave his property or tell me off for the pictures I've hung up on his walls without his permission. Your final words of reflection, however, leave me with a sense of hopefulness. Thanks for sharing this dream with the world!
I am very happy to hear this. It can be so hard to know how the writing is actually experienced by a reader, so thanks for sharing!
I sat on my parents kitchen at 23.00 when I noticed this post and I read it through my email app in the kitchen, and was I dipping cinnamon crackers into my tea. I was, by chance, in my childhood environment. And I was really wibing how my childhood dreams felt back then and wondering why I can't hold those kind of dreams together anymore. Maybe the meditation helps, like you communicate more directly with yourself or something. I miss those lush, long dreams!
The types of dreams I experience vary, some periods in my life I can't remember anything either (mostly when I have not gotten enough sleep), but for some reason I have recently had many vivid dreams. It could be that I have started to show more attention to "the inner world", unconscious or what to call it, through meditating regularly, and then the dreams kind of continue on that note.
A usual advice I've heard if you want to remember your dreams is to try to really prioritize sleeping, maybe even create some kind of a ritual before bedtime (though I know this can be difficult at hectic times, I don't remember any dreams from the first year and a half with my baby as I simply could not get enough sleep..) and also to write down any tiny little sliver of a dream that you can remember, this shows the unconscious that you are giving it some attention and care about the messages that come up, however small, and then it tends to open up more.
But still, I can agree that childhood dreams hold something special about them, since back then I remember that the division between dream and reality was much more fluid than now. Slowly but surely we are socialized into dismissing our dreams as less real than the physical reality, and by doing so I think they lose some of their power. Whatever you give attention to tends to grow. So maybe the meditation is a way to try to get closer to this kind of an approach, where internal visions and messages are respected more again, where the inner world gets more attention. At least, that is what I am trying to do myself, and it has resulted in me remembering my dreams more.