Trust the Dreams

 

Have you started a night with great expectations of sleeping for at least 6 hours and then the darkness brings you something different? 

 

Perhaps it’s not something startling and yet it wakes you up within an hour or two of pulling that blanket up over the shoulder. 

 

I’ve had that experience a time or two in the past and I now pause to trust the dreams that come with the sudden awakening. 

 

Let me tell you about what this felt like. 

 

But first.

What are your thoughts on getting 6 hours of sleep? 

 

I can snuggle into my pillow; breathe deeply three times and I am out for over that amount of time almost every night. 

 

Learning how to trust this process years ago has brought me to the point that I know it will work almost every night.

How I know to trust the dreams that come to me.

That is my baseline and how I know to trust the dreams that come to me. 

 

When I am suddenly popping up after a few hours with it feeling different, I know I need to roll over and wonder about that dream. 

 

It’s time to think more about why I am awake. 

The change in my sleep pattern may be telling me to pay attention. 

 

Dreams have done that for many years in my life. 

 

It may be like ice sliding over the window and the sun trying to come through. 

I need to trust that the ice will still allow the light to work its magic. 

 

Popping through and starting to melt the edges. 

Beginning to trust the dream is how possibilities can appear.

Beginning to trust the dreams is how possibilities can appear when times feel fuzzy. 

 

There is more to this line from the poet Kahlil Gibran that says:  

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. 

 

Now that is how I know to trust in why I wake up and need to pay attention. There are many words being said here that we can go through together. 

 

Finding a hidden gate to eternity sounds fantastic. Forever and eternity is how to bring calm to my soul. 

 

If I can do it through my dreams, then all the better. 

Do you feel the calm that can come with this sense of wellness in a dream? 

 

It’s as if the ice has melted away from the window and the sun is shining brightly.

 

Directly shining to bring comfort and warmth.

My breath is even, and a smile is on my face.

 

Here’s the other thing that this quote brings to my mind as I wake up after only a few hours. 

There are times when it does not come with a nice stretch and solace. 

 

Times when my wondering comes with startle and being perplexed. I don’t know why this happens and yet I continue.

 

Trusting the dreams that have brought my eyes wide awake so that I am seeking clarity, and I can feel alert instead of calm. 

 

Is that even possible? Can I search for the hidden gate while I grasp for the sun, break through the ice and seek for the calm again? 

 

That is my question to you today. 

When I seek to trust the dreams.

What is the way through when I seek to trust the dreams during the moments of eyes wide open after being bolted awake. 

 

Can trust return after my breath has been whisked away by a dream that pulls me out of my warm blankets? 

 

That ice covered window can feel like it is the blanket instead of my comfy pile at times. 

 

Is there a path through at that instance? 

 

Here is what I found for myself over many years. 

 

I must allow for the rustle and bustle of the dream to come with clarity. 

Remember what happened and then feel everything. 

 

If I try to muffle the intensity of the powerful dreams, either good or otherwise, then I miss what is to come next. 

 

Dreams have taught me to be right here, right now with the people next to me. 

 

To also learn from the ones who were here.

Who is on your list? My list is long and includes you. 

 

Being able to trust the dreams that I still have is where the joy and resilience can come next. 

 

Can you feel the audacity of that, my friends? 

 

May your soul be with me on this one. Let’s trust it a bit together.