DREAM YOURSELF AWAKE

By Elizabeth Anne Wright

“I used to believe that I lived my life while awake and that during sleep my psyche presented pictures to help me understand my life. Now, I know that dreaming gives us the images and vibrations of the Dream Weave-options ready to take form. Dreaming gives us the future.”

After encountering a serious virus and spending thousands on both conventional and alternative medicine, Connie Kaplan was basically relegated to sleeping for 18 months and loosing the most valued parts of her mind. Yet as she describes, it was like “being in a doctoral program in a dream university,” where sleeping in class was not only encouraged but required.

She discovered that dream teachers hold the keys to life, yet women have been taught to not shine too brightly, not ask questions and to perpetually question their sanity. However, dreaming is a woman’s realm. Truth presents itself in dreaming which then takes its form in our waking state. Truth is a dimension that exists beyond language – a dreaming dimension in which one is in direct relationship to energy without limitations of personal or social mores.

There is a sacred connection between a woman's bodily cycles and the moon cycles. The moon sends different types of dreams each night to a woman depending on which astrological sign it is traveling through. These can range from psychological, prophetic, healing, ceremonial or soul dreams. The womb is her dreaming vessel containing secret knowledge of the Dream Weave, which is an invisible force field that connects human thoughts to form.

Could it be that as we are dreaming, an incomprehensibly huge force and intelligence is actually dreaming us? According to Connie this is exactly what is happening. We could actually be human dreaming partners with other sentient beings from this planet and/or others. Gathering in dream circles here to share our dreams establishes the healing, unity and wholeness that can radiate out – not only affecting our world, but possibly others. In these circles women see themselves in others who reflect insights to their dreams, while reminding them that we are dreaming all together and we each have a piece of the puzzle. Dream circles are not analysis, interpretation or dialogue but come from a place of humility and authenticity putting into words as best as possible one’s sacred encounter with truth during dreamtime. It is a group that acknowledges the divinity within each member and supports their journey to reach their soul potential.

Soul is a collective word – one of unity and the impersonal – which has been individuated into one’s own dream story. Many powerful dreamers have been born into the reverse of the dream...ugliness, abuse, or hatred so that they can step out of the numbness and into the radiant truth of their deepest actualized self. As Connie states, “I do not know a woman of power who didn’t experience unspeakable pain in her childhood.”

When we lay down to sleep every night we truly are plugging into the source, which physically is restoring and regenerating us. Science has proven that our immune system is at its peak in REM sleep, while we dream. We also go places and communicate with other beings and, even more importantly, commune with our soul. What does it say about the millions of people who brag about how little sleep they need, the millions who take various and sundry pills in order to just fall asleep but can’t maintain it, or the billions spent on therapists.

I have seen many elderly people swimming in wrinkles whose twinkle of their eyes, or the lift of their walk far surpasses the beauty of the artificially nipped and tucked faces and bodies splayed across our media. Maybe our grandmother’s advice on getting our “beauty sleep” is a much more deeply profound statement than any of us ever recognized. Communing with our soul essence at night allows us to bring it into existence – into the waking dimension – as the true beauty that our soul is meant to be. Beauty is a spiritual power, not a physical asset, yet for some reason our minds can so easily be mislead down other paths, dishonoring our “Self.” Is dishonoring dreamtime and the divine truth therein having an even greater affect not only on us, but also our world?

Maybe a good night’s sleep is more important than the most expensive beauty creams, pills, therapists and all the doing that we do. We all have experienced hearing the truth about something, which basically erased years of our turmoil over a past event in an instant. Isn’t truth a beautiful thing and hence beauty truth? Could we really be neglecting ourselves – the True Self – at night? How could your life and the world be transformed if the sacred space of Dreamtime and its principles of truth were honored and embodied in the here and now?

Elizabeth Anne Wright RN, BSN, CHT, is a Health and Life Coach, and may be reached at 404-256-5998.