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Some dreams cannot be ignored

Posted on January 2, 2014 by angelacwatford
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Waking life:

If there ever is a time that I don’t feel like writing, it’s usually after a nightmare. I apologize for stepping away from the keyboard recently, but I haven’t been able to wrap my head around a series of disturbing, confusing and down right horrifying dreams. It’s only natural that since I dream every night, they won’t all be about rainbows, lollipops and butterflies. But when the inevitable happens, I just can’t bring myself to write it down in detail. Each dream is a unique experience that often feels very real, and can affect me emotionally more than some waking life events. I choose not to relive those moments much like we all try to forget certain events in the past.

My intentions usually are to ignore the messages and mentally delete them as quickly as possible; however, sometimes the dreams poke and prod at my memory – refusing to be shoved aside like yesterday’s leftovers.

The question always is, how should I deal with nightmares?

It’s hard to know sometimes if one night’s sleep is just a random fleeting moment, or if there really is a meaning to it all. I’d love to tell you that I have a scientific formula for dealing with this stuff, but that would be a blatant lie. Usually, I just try to move on with my life and if anything unusual happens, I can look back and make the connection. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always work out well. In the case of one dream, my tendency to ignore potentially psychic messages was exercised at a loved one’s expense.

In that dream, someone special and particularly close to me was extremely distraught, crying in anguish over an illness and the pressing thought of dying. It broke my heart to the very core to see her this way. After waking, I immediately called to check-in and make sure she was ok. To my surprise, she did not seem upset at all, rather she told me that everything was fine. I believed her and decided that the dream was meaningless. It wasn’t until a month later that she revealed to me that she had been severely depressed and actually couldn’t stop crying for weeks. This prompted her doctor to prescribe some much-needed medication.

It occurred to me that what I witnessed while asleep was in fact happening in waking life, and whether she wanted to tell me about it or not, I still found out. If I had listened to the message in the dream or pressed harder for information, I feel that I could have been more supportive to one of the most important people in my life. I’m ashamed that I ignored this dream, and as always, I am learning from my mistakes – even if the only thing I could have done was provide a shoulder to cry on.

Not all is lost, though. This person is doing much better now, and I am especially sympathetic to her situation after having seen her in this dream. Maybe I was never meant to change the outcome, but simply understand and empathize with someone who I love so dearly.

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Be true to yourself

Posted on September 11, 2013 by angelacwatford
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Waking life:

I admit that I haven’t been true to myself over the last few years. I’ve been bottling up my dreams of writing poetry, songs and stories and sharing them with others. As a child, I can remember spending hours dreaming and writing without constraint – without the responsibilities and pressures of the real world to drown out my creativity. Now that I’m an adult, I’ve become so focused on working to survive that my personal time has suffered, and I’ve been too exhausted and overwhelmed by life to enjoy it.

A dear friend recently told me that she actually liked one of my dream posts (I was surprised that anyone read it), and she encouraged me to keep writing. This is the same person who, in my dream True Colors, tattooed a mural on my legs. She forced me to recognize what I love to do, and gave me a way to express myself with a permanent display of colors and ideas for everyone to see. The drawings represented a part of me that I could no longer hide and it was an amazing relief to let it show.

Do you have a hidden talent or passion that you’d like to share with others?

Sometimes we just need a bit of encouragement from our respected friends to move forward with our goals. It’s also equally as important to provide emotional support to our friends. In this way, I’d like to extend my own support to you. Please know that you can and you should do what makes you happy as long as it doesn’t include harming or stepping on someone else to get what you want. That’s not what I’m talking about. To put it simply – just be yourself.

As my father once told me, “Never depend on anyone but yourself to make you happy.” You alone know what brings you joy in life and nobody else can figure this out for you. I’ve realized that after years of suppressing my own passion for writing, I was not being true to myself. Now, I am determined to make my dreams a reality and I hope that you can do the same.

Best wishes and sweet dreams!

 

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