Comments on: Light in Dreams

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:24:13 +0000

Hi Yiskah, well met. I have a couple favorite ways of looking at that dream. One is that the hallway leading to the door at the end is a metaphor for life and our options for taking on various “rooms” of karma as we travel from one end to the other. I think sometimes we pop into a room and spend our whole lives there working out stuff, forgetting that it is but one room of many and we have the option of just leaving and wandering down the hall if we want.

The other way I look at the room is as a metaphor for the creative process. Particularly now while I’m writing quite a bit, I recognize the act of creation as being quite similar to being in that gray room. There is a feeling of pressure, kind of like matter compressed before the big bang, and each strand of thought I can express is a way to unravel, little by little, the incredible store of matter and ideas in that room.

Maybe it is an inside view of the brain, I don’t know. It is not a particularly comfortable process, as any writer can tell you, but neither is birth. And books don’t talk back or need rides everywhere, so there is that.

By: Pax

Pax — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:03:42 +0000

Thank you for sharing your dreams. I so seldom remember any of my own dreams that I am often envious of folks who are capable of remebering their own, much less those folks who are lucid dreamers!

To answer the question you pose at the end of the post, NO! I don’t think you can seperate creativity and spirituality because I think that the creative act brings one in better touch with the Creator.
Peace,

Pax

By: Yiskah

Yiskah — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:30:57 +0000

Hello Anne. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your synopsis on this wonderful talk on light! {No wonder Jeremy told me that I should make your acquaintance ;) }
I have dreamed qualities of light and darkness, and of striving to bring light into the darkness. JT considers these experiences a call to an awakening consiousness.
Your own dream about the gray room of creativity and possibility seems like an incredible gift! Another luminous teacher whom I think we both have an interest in, Robert Moss, teaches a method of “dream re-entry”- which is a journey back into the fertile “portals” that our dream images present.
If this were my dream, I would heed this invitation to re-visit the last room on the right (MY room), to see what other gifts may lie therein.

Blessings, Yiskah

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:45:46 +0000

I had not even thought of that, probably because in my dream the house is so different than the one we grew up in. See why it’s good to have other people help look at your dreams? Especially those who’ve known you for a long (ahem!) time…

By: sarah

sarah — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:54:36 +0000

Can it be any coincidence that the last door on the right, if you were running down the hallway in our parents’ house from their bedroom (or mine!) to the front door, is the door to your own room? I’m sure you’ve already thought of that, so forgive me for stating the obvious…..

I’d love to hear more about that dream (especially why you would be running away from my room — what have I ever done to you??); then again, OH so many other fish to fry!