To mark one year of this column, I would like to share my own dream that I had when I was first questioning if I should follow the path of a dream guide years back. I had many signs pushing me in this direction, but I was unsure and didn’t want to make a large life change. So, I asked my subconscious before I went to bed to show me how dreams worked, and if I understood when I woke up, I would dedicate myself to this path.
I dreamed that night of being in a place and state of pure bliss and harmony. I knew all and loved all. I was love. I was everything, and everything was me. I understood everything in this place. The answer to my question was so clear, and so simple, that I almost didn’t give it much mind. The information of it felt light and blissful, like everything around me. Then my perspective shifted from first person in this blissful body, to that of an omnipresent observer. I saw that I was floating above the physical world with a colorful light grid between my blissful body, and another version of myself as a human below. I had a tether to that body below but was freely exploring this place of bliss.
I then saw the reintegration of the blissful body above into the human body below. I watched like I was using an interactive digital map, able to zoom in and out at will to best understand what was happening. I watched as the blissful body pushed down the light grid feet first, creating a funnel shape with the grid, to re-enter the body through the top of the head. Like a pencil slowly trying to poke through a balloon. As the blissful body began to enter the human body, the funnel started to spin in a downward spiral with the information that the blissful body was trying to bring with it. As it spun, the colors of the grid in the funnel illuminated and sparkled. Curiously, I zoomed into this light show. I saw that the illumination happened when data passed through it.
I then discovered that when the information passed through, it converted from clear raw information into a predefined visual language. The dream language! I had to know more, so I zoomed in to what felt like the quantum level. This is where it gets heavy, so stay with me…
I saw that this visual language was created of my own definitions of my personal reality, and life thus far — how I defined my world in visuals — what was good, bad, etc. The information, looking like sparkling stardust, was moving through my visual memory database seeking to bond with what matched its frequency best. If the information was too large or complicated, it would split into smaller particles and find its match in a smaller form.
Then I began to feel the frequencies of these information particles. I could feel them like feelings and emotions. They were searching to bond with visual memories or would create newly imagined visuals from my database that held the same feelings and emotions. But the information was always too vast. Too large in scope to be just one image, the final visual products became layered in meaning with what it looked like, felt like, what it would stir in the viewer, and on and on. I watched as a clear message became highly distorted having to convert into this visual language.
I could see how confusing it could be. I could see how the definitions that I had created for my reality were not expansive enough to take the information in its raw form. Even my own personality was gartered with definitions of myself that made this raw information hard to receive clearly.
Then my perspective of the dream shifted once more from the observer to the first person of the blissful body directly in the middle of this re-integration
that was hap-
pening with
the two bodies. I felt heavier and I began to feel confused by what I had just learned. Heavier and heavier until my eyes popped open and I woke up.
A dream of a dream wrapped in the dream. But I did understand.
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