When we dream of our workplace and our salary, we are often reflecting on how much others seem to value us and how that mirrors our own sense of self worth…
Crumbling Teeth
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When we dream that our teeth are crumbling, there is something in our waking life that is causing us to lack confidence. By identifying what this is, we can deal with it and start to smile again…
Hairdresser Dreams
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When we dream about our hair, we are dreaming about how others perceive our thoughts and ideas…
World on Fire
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When we dream of fire, we are dreaming of creative transformation in our waking lives…
Fever Dreams
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Fevers can make us restless when we sleep so we tend to wake more often during the night. This can make us more aware of our dreams and so we seem to dreaming more and having more dreams with a more vivid content…
Night Terrors and Sleep Paralysis
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Night terrors and sleep paralysis can be a frightening experience…they are usually caused by a completely relaxed body and over active mind…
City Conflict
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When we dream of a city wide conflict, we are often dreaming of some tensions we are observing, but not inolved in. Our sense of detachment gives us a wider perspective and helps us lead others to safety be helping to resolve their conflicts…
Living Your Dreams
April 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
[kml_flashembed movie="http://ianwallacedreams.com/wp-content/uploads/flash/full-moon-cloud-banners.swf" height="180" width="240" /]We all dream. Every single one of us. Everyone dreams but our modern world often distracts us from the beauty of our dreams and drowns out their powerful songs. Dreaming may have evolved as a way for complex neural networks to process information and pattern match more effectively. It may have developed as a way of synthesising new stimuli with past experience. It may be how a curious and opportunistic universe becomes self aware in all its glory.
When we dream, our millions of years of evolution meet the minutiae of our every day lives. We have evolved into dreaming creatures, organisms that don’t just have the experience of one lifetime, but have the distilled awareness of past generations and know of the possibilities of future ones. Working with our dreams is not merely an airy fairy self indulgence, but a spiritual adventure of great cultural significance to us all. Our myths and legends abundantly express that our unconscious awareness has access to wisdom that is usually unavailable to the conscious mind.
Only our unconscious really knows what our conscious strives to know. Our dreams are answering questions that we don’t even know that we are asking, and remembering all that we have consciously filtered and forgotten. This is what Sufi mystics termed anamnesis, the end of forgetting who we really are. When we dream, our fragmented identities connect to a more fundamental awareness and we begin to truly understand the mystery that we are trying to unravel.
Solving the mystery of who you are, who you have been and who you will be cannot be accomplished as a detached observer, evaluating your situation from a distance. Stepping fully into your dreams is the only real way to meet the person who you dream of being and to truly live your dreams you really have to be in them. Your dreams are not some vague things that may or may never happen. They are happening right now as you read these words and you can choose to immerse yourself in them or try to keep hiding from them.
And if you try to hide from your dreams, they will keep searching for you until you truly find your own self and can at last speak your own clear truths. As your dreams discover you, you begin to realise that you are not just living ‘the’ dream, whatever that might currently be. You are living and breathing your dream, the one unique, big dream that only you can dream. This dream is not just something that is happening to you, you are happening to the dream.
Remembering how to dream is as simple as becoming aware of the space and time that we unconsciously create. Our dreams take us to the edge of the known and unknown and illuminate all our realisable possibilities and potentials. They eloquently celebrate our individual uniqueness in a wider celebration of our universal awareness. Dreams invite us to step into our true power which can be scary. And magnificent. They honestly show us our beauty, our love and our truth. Your dreams are in the spaces all around you, waiting to be dreamed. Be your dreams now.
Mother’s Death
April 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dear Ian in 1997 i lost my mum , we were very close . I was told to attend work the day the hospital had said she would not last much longer . and also did not see her to say good bye at the chappel of rest . the day before she was due to be burried i had a dream about her i was with my daughter we some how ended up at my perants home . mum and dad were there she seemed large as life we chatted and before i was due to leave she tryed to hand me some money , i said i dident need it she then said thst she was to leave the next day and i would not see here again , i said that i dident want her to leave . she said she had to it got a bit emotional , well i did i then woke uk crying and still wonder what it meant dad past away in 2003 i never dream about him but was there when he past a way and even attended the chappel of rest , p.s sorry about the spelling mistakes hope you can help
Dream Meaning
Thanks for getting in contact and please don’t worry about your spelling – our dreams are the language of our unconscious and they don’t follow any grammatical rules.
When someone very close to us passes away, part of our grieving process is accepting that they are no longer here in this physical existence with us. When your dad passed away, the fact that you were there and attended the chapel of rest meant that it was much easier for you to accept that he was no longer with you.
With you mother, this was more challenging because of work circumstances, you could not be present at her passing and say good bye at the chapel of rest, which made it more difficult for you to accept that she was gone.
So what your dream is doing is helping you to accept your mother’s passing by acknowledging that she had to leave. When we dream of money, we are dreaming of our worth and our value to others, so in your dream, your mother is telling you how valuable you are and encouraging you not to be afraid of showing your value to others. Although you didn’t accept the money in the dream, the message from your unconscious is that your mother was extremely proud of you and that you should not be shy or worry that sometimes others don’t seem to realise your value. You should just be your own man and do what you feel is right, rather than doing what others expect you to do.
It’s very difficult for us when we lose a parent, and while we have to let them go, we know that their love never leaves us.
