Don't tell people your dreams in an unguarded moment - they reveal your innermost feelings. If you're going to tell them, know what you're doing. Do it from love and wanting to connect.
I once worked with a man who told me his recurring dream, since childhood, where he was being ordered out of bed by someone, but he wanted to stay asleep. He was so frightened of the voice he got up and started to get dressed. When he woke up he usually had some item of clothing on that he's managed to find nearby. What does this tell us about his childhood and his innermost feelings? I felt like I was looking into his soul.
Don't tell people your dreams unless you understand them yourself. Or you are happy for the person you are telling them to to know you intimately.
Last night I had a dream, a powerful one, and it showed me how I was feeling about my current writing project. But I'm not going to tell you the dream. Instead I'm going to tell you what I understood from it:
- I know I should practice the basics, be disciplined, and relax
- I am afraid that if I do this I will lose something vitally important
- To solve the problem I numb myself, even as I know the damage this is doing to my dreams and my creative work
Pretty awesome! Telling people what your dreams have told you is much more empowering.
I am excited to be so close to living my dream of writing a novel. I am afraid that I will either produce crap or have to live a crap life to make my dream come true. And because I'm torn by these conflicting feelings, I tend to procrastinate to take the pain away.
I don't think I'm the first person to have gone through this cycle :-) Dream on!
