{"id":5820,"date":"2013-12-05T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2013-12-05T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T14:30:09","slug":"dreaming-at-the-breakfast-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2013\/12\/dreaming-at-the-breakfast-table.html","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming at the breakfast table"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"-<\/a>Guest blog by Wanda Burch<\/a><\/p>\n

On May 10, I will be participating in the The World Day of Active Dreaming<\/a> by inviting dreams to breakfast among a group of people interested in vernacular architecture. This is architecture of the everyday folk whose built environment reflects the social and political trends of their surroundings. The people at this breakfast table will understand the dreaming of the people who lived on the land and they will readily identify their personal dreaming with the cultures they study.<\/p>\n

How do I know this? I live next door to a nineteenth century general store, a store of \u201cthe people,\u201d with a pot-bellied stove, old creaky floors, and a daily breakfast gathering of farmers and folk that you would not think would be interested in sharing dreams. They might be the first to say, \u201cI don\u2019t believe in dreams,\u201d but, knowing who I am, if I am in that store, they always add, \u201cbut there was this one dream\u2026\u201d Then everyone stops drinking their coffee and eating their toast to hear that one dream and to see where we go with it.<\/p>\n

They have enough community experience with one another to begin with\u2026\u201dreminds me of that time when you\u2026or I\u2026or whatever comes to mind in their experience\u2026\u201d and they go on. \u201cReminds me of that time\u201d is their own way of saying \u201cthis is your dream\u201d but \u201cI just might have a memory that will help you with that dream.\u201d And they always want action. One man loved the song \u201c76 Trombones.\u201d Everyone else hated it. So he dreamed one night that I was in that dream and told everyone in that store that they had to buy or bring in a kazoo and sing that song with him.\u201d You know what, the next time we all gathered, everyone had a kazoo and they played and sang \u201c76 Trombones\u201d so loud that that farmer had his fill for a long time and to this day tells the story.<\/p>\n

Others come out of the kitchen or up to the table and say, \u201cI had the weirdest dream\u201d the other night; and they stand \u2013 or sit down \u2013 and expectantly wait for people to share in their dream. The results are always satisfactory, even if sometimes a little outside the box. I have heard of the dead visiting with obituaries [no the dreamer didn\u2019t want to see it because she was ready to go whenever that event might happen]; a future husband hanging in the closet; and a dream of ethereal voices rising from a boulder in the middle of a farm field.<\/p>\n

The experience of breakfast dreaming in my hamlet gave me \u2013 an outsider moving into a 200 year old town – a voice and a special place in the community and gave voice to the dreams of people who never thought they would be sharing such intimate inner life experiences with one another. They were already people who worked close to nature and close to the land; now they understood a bond with one another they never \u201cdreamed\u201d existed. That\u2019s how I know that the breakfast table will be humming with dream stories on May 10, 2014.<\/p>\n

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