On My Dreams And Their Eventual Reality
You don’t want to read my notebooks, trust me. Piled up in the corner of my bedroom, getting dusty. If you do, however, I’ll tell you exactly what you’ll find: mostly 3 kinds of lists…
1) To Do Lists
2) ‘What’s Alive?’ Lists
3) ‘Great Ideas’ Lists
Here’s a brief explanation of all 3 before we continue…
To Do Lists
Simple, practical tasks that need (or at least I think I need) to be done. ‘Send rent to Javi’, ‘order new shoes’, ‘clean house’ etc etc.
‘What’s Alive?’ Lists
What are those areas of my life (or ideas) that feel most inspiring and fulfilling RIGHT NOW? By bringing attention to them, I’m able to better maximise my relationship with them.
‘Great Ideas’ Lists
These items are more concerned with the future… what might I wish to manifest in the coming weeks, months or years? Typically, many of these never happen, or at least not straight away! Often a more ‘realistic’ version is what eventually results…
It’s remarkable how the human mind works; like a radio antenna I feel, much more than a generator of anything substantial in and of itself. Our dreams, ideas, creations and methods become ‘fish’ that we have caught from the ocean of some external, infathomable reality.
They are not ours. They are everyone’s. And yet, I have a better capacity to notice and capture certain kinds of fish than other people do, and vice versa.
Different person = different kind of antenna = different fish.
Furthermore, the fish I notice is rarely the ‘real’ fish it seems. Once I’ve captured and built a relationship with the idea, project or invention then it immediately changes shape. By the time It’s fed to others in the form of a workshop, a blog, a book, a conversation etc, it’s a shadow (or rainbow?) of how it first appeared.
A dream, after all, is just a dream. And it’s almost always pretty damn far away from reality.
“A lot of dreams die while suffering” (David Goggins, pictured here)… one way to analyse the true ‘worth’ of your ideas is to have a strong physical practice. Why? Because only when the body is deeply in the moment can it give us accurate and helpful answers.
The dream is required though, nonetheless. It’s what draws in the soul; captures the spirit. Once the spirit’s been reached then everyday life can slowly integrate the magic into it’s more mundane (but more realistic) alternative…
Dream + (Time x Awareness) = Conscious Reality
I’m in a bit of a ‘mathematical formula’ mood these days, it seems… it helps me sometimes though, to translate something rather subjective and complex into it’s more linear version.
There remains a (sort of) problem however. And it’s usually involving the ‘time’ part of the equation I find. One of two things, specifically, often result in a messy, tiring sequence of post-dream events:
1) Not taking ENOUGH TIME (to put it simply).
Homeopathy is the medical approach involving subtle, gradual changes over a long period of time. Although usually related to healing/rebalancing the body, the same approach can be applied creatively also. Many weeks, months or even years are necessary to manifest an authentic, inspired everyday life. A great idea or vision is one thing (and it takes a single moment only), but it’s real life application is truly something else.
In conclusion: ‘take your time’ when inspired…
2) Actively NOURISH your dream.
Write, research, read and talk about it before throwing it all haphazardly out into the world. You might realise that your dream is not meant for you at all in fact (a great gift of realisation actually), OR equally you’ll have a better idea of how, why, where and when to manifest your ‘fish’ than you did when you first caught it. Either way you win.
In conclusion: take it easy, observe and disect without ‘underlining’ anything just yet, and let the natural course of things unfold…
For me, it’s a dream just to have the time, the tools and the courage to put words onto a page and send them out into the world.
After many, many years of publishing experiments, the ‘dream’ of being a writer has become mostly a simple habit that a small handful of people (occasional readers both locally and globally) take a little something form.
With many more ideas (various types of fishes) swimming in the sea of my imaginative mind, this may all change again. But for now, I am more than happy that you’re reading and wish you all the best in your future fishing.
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