Natalia Snider is a certified dream practitioner living in Carbondale. She works with people’s dreams and imaginations to facilitate self-healing. Every month, she will analyze someone’s dream in The Sopris Sun. Anyone can submit a dream for personal analysis or inclusion in this column by visiting: www.dreamhealings.com
Dream
I find myself standing on a cliff overlooking a large bay under the full moon. I’m surrounded by large boulders of black tourmaline on the ground beneath my feet. I can smell the moist earth and the salty sea. I can feel the breeze brush against my cheeks and through my tangled hair. I feel moonshine on my skin. I hear the sea breeze through trees that I cannot see, shifting the brush on the ledge in front of me with every gust across the bay. I’m not cold, I’m not warm. I’m not doing, I’m not thinking. I just am. In this moment, I’m safe sitting among the nature shielding me from the chaos, as a child. I’m just being, surrounded by these towering stones that have been here for millennia. The brush doesn’t know my name or where I’m from and it doesn’t matter. The moon looking down is not suggesting anything, not giving me bits of profound wisdom, just standing with me in a moment in space. I’m just being.
Interpretation
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful dream and letting us experience this with you. The message is clear in this dream as I know you felt: to just be. So, we don’t need to interpret this dream as much as find the reason why you had this dream and then how to use it. This is a powerful dream and a dream worth honoring with your use of it.
In all of the serenity in this dream there is a quick moment where we find the why, when you speak of chaos. When we have dreams that feel like a vacation from our daily anxieties, they are given to us because we are asking for them. If you aren’t allowing yourself the time to experience peace but crying out for it, it will come when the egoic body has relinquished control. It will come in your dreams. This is because the only one who is stopping us from experiencing exactly what we ask for is the egoic self — the one attached to our life’s story. The one who believes in the definitions we use to build our future from our past.
All that to say, our subconscious or higher self wants so badly to give us exactly what we want when we want it but is often blocked. However, you may have experienced this feeling of “being” many times previously in your dream state, maybe even every day you asked for peace, but did not remember it. This time you remembered it and that was no coincidence. You remembered this specific dream because it gave you instructions to create this feeling of “being” in your waking life. Thus, giving you the ability to give yourself peace whenever you desire it.
Dreams are meant for so much more than just fond memories. They are meant to be used like tools to help guide us, to grow, to evolve and to connect our waking self to our subconscious self, to our higher self, to the collective consciousness — to connect to all that is.
In each dream there are always hints on how to use it properly. This dream laid out a map through your senses for you to root into the present moment and find this state of just “being.” Following the dream’s guidance step by step exactly as you experienced it in the dream is the key here. Try this first in a calm environment. Begin with your sight; notice your surroundings. What colors do you see? What does the light look like? Then, what do you smell? Notice next the feeling on your face and through your hair. Can you feel the light on your skin? Then open your ears. What do you hear all around you? Now, go inward. The dream suggests here to drop all needs. Drop the need to be comfortable; drop the need to be doing and thinking. Remind yourself you are safe. Remind yourself of your eternal nature and continue to drop every single need. Finally, drop the need to define yourself and just be.
This dream was sent to me so synchronously after receiving a message from my own dream of a conversation I had with my higher self: “If all we have to do is to just exist, then what do we have to do? It’s impossible to not exist. So, just be. What are we stressing about? Just be. There isn’t anything to stress about if all we have to do is just exist. We’re free. We are free.”