One of my favorite quotes of all time and I am sure many of you shared my thoughts, a speech by Martin Luther King at the human rights machine in Washington, 1963, which went like this:
"I have a dream that one day in the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood ..."
I want to talk about how to cultivate your dreams. It is the most important thing to do. I want to move away from the interpretation of common dreams, and I will explain why.
From today, pay attention to your dreams, and daydreams. Dreams are important to us in many ways, because they do the following:
First, if you dream, you are busy processing information and feelings.
Second, dreams often involve many senses, so the sensory experience is extremely rich. It is rare for us to use all our senses at once, as we do when we dream.
Third, dreams give us valuable information about what is happening in our lives, whether directly or indirectly in a mysterious or figurative way.
Fourth, dreams come in strong sequence, though often emotionally rather than logically planned.
Finally, dreams draw on a rich list of ignorant, cohesive, creative links between many forms of knowledge.
Some people remember their dreams; others often forget everything but amazing pieces as soon as they wake up. If you dream or dream during the day, give yourself time to play and as much as you can in your mind before the events of the day overshadow you. Remember the story of that dream. Remind yourself of the events, images, emotions and other sensory information involved.
This dream was the product of your mind. Amazing for your ingenuity! Amazing things here; be pleased with it.
If you wake up and find yourself asking, “What did I dream about?” at first you may remember only a few particularly strong emotions or vivid images: write them down and review them regularly. I actually used to write a dream book and write down everything as soon as I opened my eyes every morning. It gave me such inspiration when I needed it.
Naturally, many of you may want to start with a quick interpretation of a dream. Resist the urge for dream interpretation, right?
Do your best not to think that there is one clear meaning that can be interpreted in terms of psychological ideas or books on the importance of dreams or the meaning of dreams. How can your dreams have the same meaning as someone else? Is your mind the same as those people? In the meantime, get rid of the meaning of the dream.
I have found that the most useful thought you can make about dreams is that they have some kind of value to your dreamer: they come from a subconscious mind store of emotions, experiences and images, and they are a practical and useful way of thinking. A very different process - and a useful one like this - processing that is a logical part of your mind.
Often a strong feeling will be your first indication of the meaning the dream has for you: so be careful, and ask yourself about it, but do not try to rush it with careful analysis. The real work of a dream is often done simply by dreaming: the conscious mind does not always have to understand, and when trying to interpret dreams in its own terms it may set limits, just as poems translated from another language. It often loses some of its hidden meanings.
Think about the importance of dreams.
Dreams show a different level of mental functioning in the conscious, direct mind. When you pay attention to yourself, and develop yourself, you learn to become familiar with them, to trust them and to use the full range of your mental resources: in other words, you use most of what you have. Hello, these things will continue to happen, so why not really use them.
The mind works consciously and unconsciously. A conscious mind is officially taught in our education system. Its power is its organized and precise way of handling information. Its limitation is that it tends to be law-abiding and too narrow in its approach to problem-solving.
The brain also processes information at the level of fainting: in particular, this includes and depends on connections, similarities and emotions. This process produces dreams, as well as many other "creative" or "imagined" things. That is why we are often amazed at the automatic communication we make or the understanding we have, as well as our motivation to think: it is not something we could come up with at all, yet it seems somehow completely “okay”. This way of thinking works "sideways" - it grows, goes sideways and finds more ways than one.
We need both types of work if we want to make full use of our brain power. Mind and understanding, discipline and diversity are all important tools that enrich and enable us. But while we are accustomed to working with consciousness, in part because we recognize and can monitor you as it works, most people are not at all confident in self-confidence and use of unconscious processes. Paying attention to your dreams, and deliberately cultivating daydreaming, are two ways to stretch this area.
So let's look at the importance of daydreaming intentionally. When dreams come unsolicited, you may find it helpful to intentionally awaken to daydreams, if, like most people, you do not really appreciate work before now.
How important is it? Daydreaming brings us relief and rest; ideas for the future that inspire and help us achieve our dreams; solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems; inventions and creative opportunities. Daydream conditions allow for unconscious, compacted parts o
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