Dreams are amazing, inspirational tools.
Dreams exist in contrasting worlds:
One world exists while you are awake. This world, where we spend most of our conscious time, has many perceived constraints and limits.
The other world, which comes alive while you slumber, holds endless possibilities and options for courses of action that would be incomprehensible in the waking state.
I’ve found that one of the hardest things to do (when it comes to your dreams) is to sift out what is feasible to put into action, and what is not.
Sometimes, it is important (albeit difficult) to look at this reality vs. fantasy paradigm. Herein lies a fundamentally existential dilemma.
When a person is given the ability to see things for the way they could be, but not the guidance to know the way to get there, there is internal discord.
The most enlightened and visionary people assert: there is no difference between the possibilities of reality and those that exist in fantasy.
The world I live in was created long before me. It has been affected by many important individuals, events, and cultures, and it continues to morph in countless ways before my eyes.
Although I did not directly have any influence in constructing this world, there is an opportunity for me to influence the way in which it will evolve.
As the world I live in exists now, all-consuming machines live and breathe alongside of me.
They work overtime to make sure that the old-world messages of individualism, vanity, and financial gain are hard-wired into my brain.
These messages say: keep consuming, with our guidance. All will end well.
The culture, the mores, and the emphasis on the negative which the media propagate are not flush with my personal the values or beliefs.
What’s more, it does not seem that the society to which I belong is focused on the business of dream realization, and certainly not on the betterment of humanity as a whole.
Thus, this idea- of transforming dreams into reality- is difficult to understand, tricky to enact, and even more challenging to bank on.
Where does this leave me then?
It leaves me wanting more.
My heart longs to completely understand the words and the ways of the visionaries and the enlightened.
I am ready to take the dream of living in accordance with the genius of nature, the fantasy of evolving humankind, and the reality that many others want this shift as well and fuse them together.
To be an integral individual in this collective effort to re-green our Earth and re-warm our hearts.
Beginning to meld my fantasy and reality into one beautiful existence on this planet is exciting, and, while it has the burgeoning constraints of waking reality, it also holds the promise for the unbounded opportunities the dream state affords.
