How Dreams Can Lead Us Into The Origin Of The Self
Written by: Kristi Peck, Executive Contributor
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Many years ago, I woke early one morning and felt very excited. I lay there basking in the sunlight of my waking life as remnants of a dream world sizzled in my awareness. My body felt warm and juicy with this flirtatious notion of a gigantic bee, an enormous beehive, and honey dripping everywhere.
As I laid there, I remembered thinking for a moment, “Did I dream about this, or did I see this somewhere?”
Dreams are personal. They invite us into an opening that most often we are not conditioned to accept or regard with the utmost respect.
“It is an insult to your Self to be born, live, and die without knowing the answer to the mystery of why you were sent here as a human being in the first place.” ‒ Paramahansa Yogananda
Dreams are the language of the soul. They are also a sweetly orchestrated oracle for that which you are ready to know about yourself. To interpret your nightly dreams is an adventure.
The remnants and pieces of our dreams puzzle us as our dream language is unlike our conscious aptitude for words and meaning. In our waking life, we have been organized into mastery for making meaning. That is exactly the function of the brain and the mind itself. To process images, sounds, words, and so on for the message being sent from another party.
Dreams hold no mastery. Instead, they are a playground for the messy, understated, and often inconspicuous. Dreams are a stage for us to witness that have rough edges and extended textures that far reach into symbolism and metaphors, myths and fantasy, as well as contrasting polarization. They baffle us until we awaken to their significance for our everyday advancement and potential.
My dream about honey, bees, and a ginormous beehive was not meant to display a truth I already understood, yet to excavate an unconscious treasure to be captured. The hunt for truth within the dream guides us to solve challenges in our current situations, commits us to an inner knowing and our autonomy to choose, and resolve a collective conflict surpassing current relevance.
Dream interpretation is not for the faint of heart, for one must be willing to open the shades on what is unknown, rejected, and denied of the hidden self.
If you are ready to extend your adventurous foreplay into your own psychic cave, here are five questions to help you enter into the unknown and uncover the expressive realm of your unconscious mind. These are the heartbeat of a dream:
What does it mean in relation to my outer life/ my waking life?
Who do the characters/things in the dream represent to me? For me?
What needs to happen in my outer life/my waking life? What changes am I being invited to make?
What about me do I need to see in a new way, or is it something I am not acknowledging?
How can I serve a broader capacity to the consciousness of who I am?
The value of your dreams is in no association with the value of your true and authentic self. Our dreams are merely thresholds for us to captivate a deeper understanding of who we are. They are fun and colorful modes of communication as they pass information about you to you and are always for you.
Kristi Peck, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Kristi Peck is an intuitive life coach, a spiritual mentor, author of Coming Home – A Love Story, and a podcast host of Living the Liminal: Finding Joy in the Pauses of Life. Kristi is an engaging storyteller who inspires your heart and soul to take adventurous leaps, thus making choices that are aligned to who you are and your deep purpose. Kristi has a wealth of transformational life experiences and 30+ years as a resource for others. She has coaching certification in Jungian Psychology, Eastern Spirituality, and Social Neuroscience with extensive training in the currency of relationships, channeling, mediumship, and energy healing. Kristi’s warmth and vulnerability have been described as a “soft-toughness” as she leads by example and creates a safe haven for you to open your heart to courageous choice-making and a conscious lifestyle. Kristi has compassion for change and a deep understanding of the human dynamic, which makes her a sustainable source for learning."
