{"id":3300,"date":"2011-09-22T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2011-09-22T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:07:16","slug":"wake-up-and-dream-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/09\/wake-up-and-dream-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Wake up and dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The bumper sticker on my car reads WAKE UP AND DREAM. I am not the first to realize that dreaming may be a way of waking up.<\/p>\n

The Egyptian word for dream is rswt<\/em>. It literally means \u201cawakening,\u201d and in hieroglyphics it often appears followed by a determinative depicted as an open eye.<\/p>\n

This makes sense when we reflect that in much of waking life, we can find ourselves in the condition of sleepwalkers, driven by schedules and other people\u2019s agendas, too busy or too stressed or too \u201cout of it\u201d to remember what it\u2019s all about. The Renaissance physician and alchemist Paracelsus put it like this: \u201cThat which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

For many ancient and indigenous cultures, the dream world is as real \u2013 even more real \u2013 than everyday waking life. \u201cThe dream world is the real world,\u201d say the Seneca Iroquois Indians. For most human cultures, across most of history, dreams are of vital importance for two key reasons: they offer a place of encounter between humans and the more-than-human, and they may be prophetic, revealing events that lie in the future.<\/p>\n

Both functions of dreaming are possible \u2014 in the understanding of our oldest psychology \u2014 because in dreams we travel outside the laws of Newtonian physics and because in dreams, we can receive visitations. This understanding is reflected in the vocabulary of cultures that place a high valuation on dreams.<\/p>\n

For example, among the Makiritare, a tribal people of Venezuela, the word for dream is adekato<\/em>, which means a journey of the soul. \u201cWhen we dream, the spirit goes on walkabout,\u201d says a wise woman of the Kukatja, an Aboriginal people ofAustralia\u2019sWesternDesert. Among the Australian Aborigines, personal dreams may be expeditions into the Dreamtime, the place of creation.<\/p>\n

Other gifts and powers of dreaming play hide-and-seek in the vocabularies of other peoples. In the Irish, an aisling <\/em>may be a dream, a vision, a poem, or all three. In Hebrew, to dream (halam<\/em>) may also be to bring yourself good health. Among the Iroquois Indians, to dream (kateraswas<\/em>) is to bring yourself good luck, and a dreamer (atetshents<\/em>) is also a shaman, a healer, and a physician.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Adapted from The Three “Only” Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination<\/a><\/em> by Robert Moss. Published by New World Library.<\/p>\n

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