Originally posted by queensofthestoneage
I could stay here listening to you for quite a long time. You are truly wise
what will help there is to deliberately express, to your mind, that not having Memorable Dreams is a point of great anxiety for you.
So should i get frustrated that i dont remember any dreams?[/b]
Yes!
When I was still a young lad learning how to juggle (I wanted to learn how to juggle as a test... figuring that if I could juggle I could also fly an airplane, and, yes, I eventually became an airplane pilot), I found that my left hand was not quite as capable as my right hand, and I intuited a solution to that problem. Every time my left hand 'dropped the ball', quite literally in this context, I would give it painful but not harmful slap... I would give my wrist a 'slap on the wrist'. Well, it worked! The Deeper Me -- the Kinetic Me -- realized that to avoid pain, it would have to perform to expectation.
So, yes, inducing a bit of mental anxiety is exactly the thing that will push your Mind into providing you with Dreams. But remember, it is a two way street there. Your Dream Mind will be aiming toward achieving certain goals for you. So if you do not follow the Path that it lays out, then your Dream Mind may well make your self chosen alternate path uncomfortable for you. Dreams of roads ending in swamps, or streets narrowing to jungle tracks crawling with snakes.
You know, some people, in their youth, had very active Dream Lives, but when things turned ugly, resulting from bad choices they had recurrently made over and over again in their dreams, then they simply gave up, and whether fully consciously or not, decided they were better off not dreaming... or at least keeping their dreams below consciousness where they would not need to be bothered by unpleasant memories.
So a certain amount of Bravery is needed for an Active Dream Life. You will not pass every Test the first, or even the second, or even the third time. And Pain, and even Terror is what our Dreams use to tell us we are making Mistakes. But if we go into our Dreaming with a determination to develop Discernment, then it is inevitable that we will eventually move forward and then upward.
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