Dream Work

((ripped from 3D journal))

When I was conceived

My parents were on a MDA trip. It was February and they were tripping under a tree.

At one point, while making out my mother hallucinated - my father had become a silhouetted field of stars. In her altered state, Mom realized there was an entire universe within him. She dove in Stars, Stars, everywhere.

...I read that to mom a couple weeks ago.

She called me not so long ago.
"You know," she said, "I think that was the very moment you were conceived."
"I know," I said, " That's why I wrote it."

My mom is a nurse, a therapeutic touch and Reiki 'practitioner'. The proper term is "Master", but I prefer to use the word practitioner.

Mom called as I mentioned already. She wanted to talk about dreams, mine specifically and also my thoughts on the importance of dream work. She's recently begun to have reason to believe that dream life might be as, if not even more important than waking life.

I responded with, something along the lines of; "well as dry is to wet, up is to down, left to right and all that stuff, dreaming is to waking. I don't think it's any more important, I think of these two polar opposites of consciousness as being complimentary. "

"Right," she said, "In balance."

"Well, ideally." (Me)

I'd like to add now, the interaction of the two states, sleeping to waking and back again is what allows us to synthesize, harmonize or balance our experiences and our evaluation of those experiences.

In short, it's the mechanism that allows us to be sane.

Sleep disturbances often appear hand in hand with cognitive distortions. Sleep deprivation can induce states of madness, even death. Being able to sleep restfully, and productively (meaning achieving REM) is crucial to our intellectual, psychological and physical health.

According to some of the brightest minds studying the mechanics of dreams and dreaming there is mounting evidence that being able to dream, is an evolutionary gift. And as such has an active role in our survival as a species and in the survival of the individual.

I tend to agree with that assessment wholeheartedly.

I've begun a journal to jot down my notes, philosophies and dream experiments in response to mom's request, "I wish you would write about your dream works".

Okay Ma, this work is for you.