That dream last night was pretty damn real. You remember.
From the shamanic perspective, dreams are as real as anything else we experience, perhaps even more so. Holding this belief makes it completely natural to move between places and exist in different spaces. Spend some time over there, come back over here. The reality we call “life” is just one of many, and it might not even be the most interesting one.
So what, then, can we make of that?
Well, one thing we can do is to will ourselves awake in our dreams. Through concentration and intent this is possible for anyone to accomplish, and it leads to the realization that it is also possible to use will to navigate through our experiences. By doing this we become active players who can steer the spaceship and affect our adventures. If, however, we never decide to exercise this power, we remain passive and rudderless, just floating about aimlessly, at the mercy of reaction and oblivion.
Just as in our ‘regular’ lives, anywhere we may journey to in a dream is an opportunity to express, to do, to be and to learn. It’s fun, and the best part is that we get to take that experience back here to earth with us and apply it any way we want to.
So, when do we decide to wake up? When do we begin to actively participate in existence and all that it offers, not just here but everywhere else we go? It seems that we do this exactly when we want to. It is the power of our will.
We will ourselves to wake up in our dreams. We will ourselves to open our eyes, to stand up, to fly. We reopen the cosmic libraries of infinite knowledge. We renew the galactic library cards that we lost so long ago. We make use of every single experience, no matter where it is. We see.