Q: What is wrong with dreaming BIG dreams? A: Nothing!
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. Anais Nin

There are two types of dreaming. One is done while asleep, and the other awake. Both are an important means of communication between the unconscious and conscious parts of myself, another way my spirit communicates the purposes of the Universe to me. Either can speak to me in a language that will give me insight into who and what I secretly desire to become. Both can open up that part of me where creativity dwells, the part that isn't shackled to the job of manipulating the outside world.

Factual living, on the other hand, can be brutal. Incorporating the insight and creativity that dreams inspire into my life softens the brutality of "real life," and exposes a part of me that is unfettered by the convention of common thought and action to the experiences of the "real world." Armed with the knowledge and understanding of what the deepest part of my psyche desires for me, my conscious mind can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

It would most certainly serve a positive purpose to record my dreams, but more important than that must be my determination to realize them. In dreams, whether engaged in idle speculation while awake or accomplishing impossible feats (like flying!) while asleep, submerged truth sometimes floats to the top, and stays with me when exposed to the clear light of day.

The experience of my dreams becomes just as much a part of the sum total of my soul as do my waking experiences. Dreaming helps me to progress along the path of my life, guided by the influence of passing illusion and making a tangible difference in my life and the lives of those with whom I come in contact, because I am forever changed by the process of the dream.

Dreams have a life of their own, and I am living in the truest sense when I find a way to live my dream while awake! It is my earnest hope that I never reach the age when regret of what I didn't do takes the place of dreams of what I can do.

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