What Are Dreams?
Are they messages from beyond, or from within?
The last thing I remember saying in my dream just before waking up this morning was, “I hate hoarders.”
The first thought immediately upon awakening was, “Okay, Rasheed, what are you hoarding?”
Are dreams an extension of ourselves in a different dimension? Does our subconscious communicate via dreams while we’re sleeping, just as it does via intuition while we’re awake?
Carl Gustav Jung was among the first psychoanalysts who worked with their patients’ dreams to reach into the deeper crevices of mind to help discover issues that were difficult to uncover. Through his work, he has shown how the superconscious works with precise synchronicity with the surroundings to help us gain a higher and more in-depth understanding of ourselves.
Ever since I was a teenager, I have been using dreams to reach my higher self to look for answers, which I knew I couldn’t find elsewhere.
I have studied various aspects of dreams and dreaming over the years to get a better understanding of what they are and how to use them more effectively for my benefit. I have learned through my research that everything in our dreams represents some aspect of ourselves.
In my dream last night, the final scene was about my interaction with a couple who was responsible for tires. I found a tire in our collection that was an oddball. Not only was it unique in size and shape, but it also didn’t fit around the wheel. It was too big and wouldn’t hold any air. Besides, there wasn’t anything around for which it can be useful. After examining it, I suggested that we throw it away.
The lady said, “Just set it aside, I’ll see what I can do with it.”
“I hate hoarders,” I said to myself, and instantly woke up.
Before I could lose the intense emotional taste of dislike with which I awoke, my Higher-Self posed the question, as if to strike the iron while it was hot.
“Okay, Rasheed, what are you hoarding?”
The question was not only an invitation to reflect but also a challenge to look deeper within.
You see, I am a minimalist. I live in a Mobile Domicile of less than 200 square feet. Everything I own and use personally I’ve stored within that space. There is no room for anything extra. Hoarding is out of the question. Yet, the query was there.
Before I could repeat the question to ponder on it, I knew the answer.
I am hoarding a lot of negative thoughts, a lot of negative self-talk. It is time for some housecleaning.
Speaking of housecleaning, I have been ignoring cleaning my living quarters for a long time. Have I been hoarding a lot of dirt? My own or someone else’s? Could it have some other implications? I don’t know yet.
One thing I know for sure. For the last year or so, I have been very intentional about self-improvement, and I have been paying attention to subtle messages in all forms.
When you make a commitment, the Universe conspires in your favor. H Scott Murray has said it best:
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance that no man could have dreamed would come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
I have magically come across just the right book, the right podcast, or the right dream at precisely the right time.
Make a commitment for yourself and see what happens. I promise it will be worth it.
Thank you for reading.
I am a self-proclaimed weirdo, Jack of Many Trades and Master of Some. I live the Freedom Lifestyle — life on my terms, and help those who are interested in doing the same. (Join the Tribe)
“You can let others tell you what it means to be successful, or you can decide it for yourself.”
