{"id":3508,"date":"2011-11-13T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2011-11-10T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:07:09","slug":"make-a-date-with-your-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/11\/make-a-date-with-your-dreams.html","title":{"rendered":"Make a date with your dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Salvador Dali, "Still Life Moving Fast" (1956)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before you go to sleep, write down an intention for your dreams. Make this a juicy <\/em>intention \u2013 eg \u201cI would like to be healed\u201d or \u201cI want to meet my soulmate\u201d or simply \u201cI want to have fun in my dreams and remember.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have pen and paper ready so you can record something whenever you wake up. Write your dream in a journal later, give it a title and see if you can come up with a personal motto or \u201cbumper sticker\u201d distilling the message or quality of the dream.<\/p>\n

You don’t have much when you wake? Be kind to fragments. Even a wisp from the night – a word, a color, a snatch of music – can provide interesting clues.<\/p>\n

If you try this and don’t remember anything from your dreams, don’t fret or tell yourself you’re a bad person. Write down whatever thoughts, feelings and sensations are with you. We all have a dream hangover even if we have forgotten the dreams that gave it to us. Sometimes we find the night has given us guidance and direction, and a certain kind of energy, even when the dreams that delivered this have flown.<\/p>\n

And remember, when you step out into the daylight world, that what is going on all around you will speak to you in the manner of a dream – through symbolic pop-ups and the play of synchronicity – if you will pay attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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