I'm in a beautiful outdoor setting, like an emerald glen surrounded by green trees. My focus is on listening to an inner voice that feels like an inner knowing; it's coaching me to experience the moment as it's being created by me, even as I experience it. Somehow, I'm being challenged to participate in the flow of time differently, moment by moment, as I create it. I know there is a subtle difference that's huge. I have to focus on the subtlety of what I'm being taught to discern how it feels. I woke from this dream with a sense of wonder.
Robert and I used the Lightning Dreamwork game he created and several insights opened for me then, but the illumination of many dreams is gradual and eventual; their meaning evolves out of our lived experience. Very often, synchronicity plays a large part in this process.
The day after I shared my dream with Robert on the air, he posted an insightful description of using the twilight zone for in depth dream adventuring on his blog. I practically smacked the middle of my forehead with my palm as I read his post, of course! My dream is not about this level of reality; not only is time a different sensation, I'm being shown the liminal space where I can experiment with this teaching. I was treating it as a lesson for my waking life, manifestation and all that, but my dream is showing something far more valuable. l have a lush green dream locale where I can experience what it might feel like to relate to time without a body. Through this portal, in twilight dreaming, I can return to learn the types of life lessons that will come in handy when I cross death's threshold.
The synchronicity of finding Robert's post, was followed the next day with more of the same, as if the dream source was working in installments. I spent the day with a dear friend, you can meet her in my first post. She's a healer, a poet and an amazing person. We drummed together sitting on her patio. As I drummed, I looked out and recognized the greenery in front of me; it had an uncanny resemblance to the location I experienced in my dream. I allowed the drumming to take my spirit into the landscape before me and into my dream. I'd found another facet of wisdom from this dream, by magical coincidence. It feels like someone is leaving sparkling bread crumbs for me to follow home.
Elizabeth created this photo art and haiku to honor our beautiful day together and as a gift to me. It captures the entire journey, the dream, the sharing and the honoring over a period of three days perfectly. I asked permission to share her gift with you here; you can find more of her soulful work on Instagram.
The last step in the Lightning Dreamwork game is "how are you going to honor your dream?" I honor "Create the Moment" originally by sharing it with Robert Moss, as it seemed intended I should, by sharing it on my blog with you and by living myself into it, thinking about it and watching for it in my waking life. Using the Active Dreaming guidelines for playing with dreams invites joy and creativity into our every day lives, especially when friends use their loving imaginations on your behalf. I'm grateful for the many gifts I've received through dreaming this way.
You amaze me. Great, insightful post.
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