Do you write down dreams? Try it. have a booklet and pen by the side of the bed. reading them over months later is fascinating.
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Changing our mind
I write down dreams when I remember them. This can allow access to deep ideas, not necessarily those associated with the dream. This one is from about six months ago. I will recount the final part of it from my written account.
'Lots of children in uniform are happily being lined up by adults. There is some notion of 'goodness' being applied with 'better' children being lined up at the front, but everyone is cheerful.
A very long train approaches. The first carriages are luxurious, but as the carriages go on they become less so. The last ones are grafitti covered and their windows get smaller. The last few have no windows. The children are to board the train in order, 'better' children at the front.
This is a daily routine for the children, and as they wait to be put on the train their 'teachers' remind them of their behaviour during the day and some students are moved up or down the queue as a result. Everyone remains cheerful.
Caroline has, through no fault of her own, managed to get last in line. She is cheerful and has an apple and a piece of cheese. She has been promised an extra apple and openly says "then I shall have a feast". Unfortunately, the way this 'world' works is that if someone higher up the queue wants something already allocated, then that has to be so.Someone higher wants the apple; "I need that apple for James", and it is so.
I half wake, nearly crying that Caroline is last in the queue but remains cheerful, and she is about to lose her feast and will still be cheerful.' END OF DREAM
As the observer to the dream I can fly from scene to scene in the queue and on the train but can do nothing about it.
Who will be the one who sees through the illusion and has the thought 'it does not have to be this way'.
Through our thinking we can change the way things are. Is it as simple as that? Then why don't we?
