Dreams

SARK says in her book, Inspiration Sandwich: Stories to Inspire Our Creative Freedom, "Transformative dreams await us each time we sleep. I like to ask questions before sleeping, and then dream the answers.  Dreams love to guide us and answer questions we're not ready to ask our conscious mind. I do write down all my dreams, and now have hundreds of dreams in my journals to reread for clues to my unounscious. Dreams are the angels of our spirits."

So I read this and thought I don't remember any of my dreams, so if I ask questions before I go to sleep this isn't going to do me any good... but then I thought about how much DAY dreaming I do! Oh my goodness! I do lots of daydreaming! How fun would it be to start writing down all my daydreams? Do you write down your dreams? Brian Andreas of storypeople.com says, "Dreams are a starting point. Dreaming is a state. It's the state right before things take form." So today, I'm going to start a Dream Journal.

Before today, I had three journals going. I will now have four.  

• The first one is called my "Daily Pages" journal. It is a tool from Julia Cameran's "The Artist's Way". This is where I do a "Brain Dump" every morning; 3 handwritten pages of whatever comes into my head - it goes out onto paper. I LOVE this journal. It frees my mind to start my day.
• The second one is my processing/venting journal... This is the journal that I write in when I'm having a hard time processing information and I'm feeling negative and it's information that I don't ever want to have to read ever again. I learned after I lost my memory that the journals that I kept in the past were very negative - that the only times or most of the times that I wrote in a journal was when I was mad or wanted to complain about something. I used my journals to vent. I made a decision after reading these journals that I was going to keep more positive journals so that when I went back to read my journals or when my posterity (those who live after me) read my journals it will be a positive experience. So this journal is more of a venting/processing journal. I will probably burn them when they're full - it will be a cleansing ritual :-).
• The third journal I have is my Creative Journal. Now this is a fun journal. I took a FREE, yes I said FREE. I liked this FREE Visual Journaling class by Strathmore where I learned to create these amazing journals. I take time at least once a week to create something in my visual/creative journal. I have a page devoted to my husband where I write all kinds of love notes about him, I have another page where I made a cute little pocket that holds all my keepsakes, I have another page where I painted with watercolors and I wrote poems on top of the watercolors what the picture means to me, I have a couple of fold out pages, and I have this one page where I found some really cool pages from a Newsweek magazine about "Brain Freeze" and "I Can't Think" - how our brain's are on overload and it totally described how my brain sometimes feels... It's just been a lot of fun working creatively just an hour or two a week in it.
• Now I have my dream journal! I could even incorporate my dream journal into my creative journal - who knows?

So what are you dreaming about today? Where have your dreams taken you? Where are your dreams going to take you? This website was one of my dreams that came to me less than three months ago... Your dreams can take you many places. Just imagine what you can do...

Many Hugs!

Cathleen