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KIT 78 - A Dream in a Dream

Several components of your being are trying to speak to you in
your dreams. Or is it that what you think you are is interrogating
your deeper self, only to find that the layers of your being are
part of a many-tiered puzzle in infinite regression. Will you ever
reach the elusive depths? Umpteen obstructions block your access.
Yet those thwarted pieces of your being beg for recognition, cry
for expression - to play their role in fashioning your being.
Imagine what we are missing out by neglecting to listen in!

Of course thoughts, emotions, images are jumbled like radio waves
in the atmosphere or eddies on a lake. To your day thinking, you
only express a slither of what you imply. And what you imply even
eludes your own awareness. Maybe it's the job of the Shaman among
the wiser minds around you to earmark a flash of the emotions
behind you words, your semantics, the effigies of yourself which
you project in your narratives, the myths concealed behind your
reality. But the wise are rare and far between and one is indeed
privileged to have any such wizards around. So one is left with
the alternative of falling back on the wise person mysteriously
lurking within in one's dreams or aroused in rare moments of vivid
lucidity.

The forced tempo of 'real life' estranges one from one's dreams.
Our longing for life to be a dream come true is condemned to the
wastepaper basket of utopia except - except - if one is prepared
to fight for it at the cost not only of great strife and stress,
but pain to oneself and others, and of course incurring the
scourge of being labeled a freak. On the other hand, society sees
to it to marshal people within the limits of the common
denominator called the 'norm', which operates as a salutary safety
valve against whimsical, incongruous aberrations. It is the
correspondence of our dreams to our everyday life that guarantees
their relevance and saves our creativity from the entropy of
erratic fantasizing.

A whole barrage stands between the deep yearning of one's soul and
the 'real world': our involvements, the desires of our bodies, of
our hearts, of our minds, our likes and dislikes, our vulnerable
self-image, our upbringing, our conditioning, sheer survival. One
tends to slip down to the lowest common denominator, the path of
least resistance. One would no doubt find it easier if chances
opened up to give one an opportunity to prove oneself to be a
hero. But they do not come to us that way, we need to create those
opportunities.

Of course in your pensive ponderings, scan yourself, confront your
motivations with the power of truth to eliminate insidious self-
deception and justification. But while revealing its secret step
by step when cross-examined, by virtue of its need to parade a
masquerade of validation, our psyche covers up the deeper
frustrated motivations conspiring in our soul. Unless you succeed
in piercing this smoke screen in meditation (or hypnosis) it is in
your dreams that some clues as to these deep springheads of your
soul may erupt. Images, effigies, scenarios blurred or distinct
may project themselves on the screen of your dormant mind with
sufficient force to buffet your memory when waking up. The chances
are that our interpretations of them are afflicted by wishful
thinking or sheer conceit or dusky misgivings.

If in deep meditation, turning within, you may be able to spot a
deeper motivation that your psyche will concede - the cause
spurring the cause, whereas turning upwards, you may grasp lots of
different values, sometimes at loggerheads, sometimes reinforcing
one another. Is it your quest for beauty? Is it your pursuit of
excellence? Is it your honoring truthfulness? Is it your concern
for compassion? Is it joy? Is it peace? Is it love? Is it
accomplishment? Is it wisdom? Enlightenment? Freedom? These may
conflict and not tolerate any compromise. Your soul may be
pummeled, pulled in opposing directions as in a tug of war, or
etiolated in a challenging quandary. In no way could you expect to
solve the riddle you are faced with because everything is
important, everywhere are priorities and priorities of priorities.

Your dreams may however prove of good counsel because they bypass
the mind's commonplace rationalizations. The key is accessing your
dreams through your meditations. Meditation skills may be devised
to auto-suggest to yourself a pilgrimage into your dream world.

But watch out for the emotions lurking behind the imagery of your
dreams featuring fleeting incongruous effigies. This is where the
message incubated in your dreams explodes with the greatest
thrust. Gauge its compelling urgency, its insidious forcefulness.
It may catch you unaware, not realizing how important the
emotional need it conveys is to you. The emotions of the heart are
imperative enough and cannot always brook their inability to adapt
to real-life situations. But the nostalgia of the soul is
overwhelmingly compulsive when unmasked and arouses a challenge to
the status quo of one's life and the established order or routine
built over years of dedicated hard work, perhaps because it
affects one's self-validation so deeply. This nostalgia erupts in
every recess of one's mind and sparks the emotion of the heart
which delights in rising from the personal emotions into
responding to its more cosmic source.

To access the emotions at the soul level, the ordinary dream will
not suffice. It takes the tour de force of awakening from your
dream into a 'dream within a dream'. You dream that you are
dreaming of images, while realizing that these are mere
projections of your creative mind. But at the level where you are,
there are no forms, no metaphors, no mental constructs just
ecstasy and realization.
    
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