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Dreams as the Bridge to a New Life · Remember Why You Are Here

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When we work with our dreams,
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we wake up to the reality.
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We wake up to our own inner selves,
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we wake up to the greater potentials that exist in our life.
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Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You Are Here,
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a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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reconnect to yourself and remember the most important thing of all - why you're
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here. I'm Asia Suler, author, earth intuitive,
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teacher,
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and in this podcast episode today we're going to be talking about one of my
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all-time favorite things,
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which is dreams. So I've always been a very vivid dreamer,
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ever since I was very young.
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I can remember having repeated dreams, having precognitive dreams.
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Dreaming has always just been one of my pipelines into
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the beyond, into connecting with my own wider knowing and wider self,
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and dreams in a lot of ways, really led me into the work that I'm doing today.
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That throughline was something that kept me going even in hard times
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or kept providing clarity for me,
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giving me direction. And I have been so passionate about dreams for so long that
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I've now been teaching about dreams for 15 years.
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I love helping other people connect to their dreams,
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because even if you're someone who doesn't remember your dreams,
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you are still dreaming. Dreams are still important for you,
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and they are the message - the messages - that just never stop
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being sent. Your dreams are always coming with guidance, information.
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They are here to help you through your life, to navigate your life.
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And we're going to talk specifically about what dreams actually are in a few
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minutes. But just know that even if you don't remember your dreams,
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you are still having them. And so I'm hoping that this episode today is going to
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help you really get in touch with your dreams if you're maybe someone who
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doesn't remember them or it's hard to sort of get them before they fly in the
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morning, or if you're someone who does remember your dreams,
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this episode is here to help you go even deeper in understanding what your
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dreams are, what kind of dreams you might be having,
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and how they can be helpful to you in your life. So let's start with talking
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about what are dreams,
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because I think a lot of us were handed this framework for dreams that's
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inaccurate.
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So a lot of us were told from a young age that dreams are just the
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random firing of our mind.
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That dreams is just the way that our subconscious processes
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information from the day, that sometimes there's a rhythm to them,
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but it's really just all about our brain processing extra information,
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trying to problem solve, and that some dreams are just completely random,
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that they're just this random firing of our brain and they're to be ignored
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or to sort of be laughed at or looked at with curiosity,
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but that they're not this font of wisdom that they actually are. So let's talk
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about what dreams actually are. And there are different types of dreams,
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and we're going to go into that in a little bit.
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So I think the different types of dreams are coming from different places within
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our psyche and within our spirit. But in general,
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dreams are remembrances of our time
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outside of our body and outside of physical reality.
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So they have done studies with people where they were sleep
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deprived, but only to the point where they weren't dreaming.
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They were still able to get - in terms of the timeframe - enough sleep within a
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certain given period to function, all the things.
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But if they were prevented from going into REM sleep,
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they started to have mental breakdowns,
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started to have mental issues and problems. And why I think this is,
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is that we are all spirits inhabiting bodies.
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We come here to be in a physical form, to have this physical experience,
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but it's built into our system to need time away,
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to need time to escape,
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to have experiences in other realms of reality,
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to leave this reality behind for a little bit. And yes,
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to process what is happening in this reality,
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to receive guidance from this unseen world. So when we
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dream, we're traveling, we're adventuring,
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we're exploring.
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And dreams at their heart are remembrances,
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they're memories of our time in the
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non-physical world,
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our time stepping into the other world and stepping out of our day-to-day
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existence.
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And I believe that this is why it's so important that we have the time and the
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space to dream,
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why it's essential for our psyches and our functioning.
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And I also think that this is why it's so
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valuable to connect to our dreams,
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because our dreams are a direct pipeline into our wider self.
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And if you've been walking with me for a while,
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you know that I prefer the term "wider self" to "higher self" because from my
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perspective, my higher self is something I'm a part of.
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It's my wider self. I belong within it. I am a part of it.
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And remembering your dreams is a direct line to connect into your wider
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self. So if you are someone who is interested in talking to your higher self,
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your wider self, receiving guidance from the beyond,
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connecting with those on the other side of the veil,
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having this bigger picture of reality,
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you are getting dreams every night that are giving you that potential,
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that are opening that doorway for you.
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And there are techniques and methods for you to be able to really remember those
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dreams and to start to work with them. No matter what of dream you're having,
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when you interact with your dreams,
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you're interacting with your own consciousness. And that's powerful.
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We come here in part to have this experience in a physical body on this planet,
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but we also come here to know ourselves,
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to know the shape of our own consciousness and dreams are a direct
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pathway to doing that as well. Now,
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one of the central tenets of dreamwork as I see it,
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is this theory that dreams are these beautifully-packaged,
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storied metaphors of your time outside of this reality,
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outside of this time and space in this body.
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And those metaphors and those stories,
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they're perfectly packaged for you: not for anyone else, for you.
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And this is why dream dictionaries don't
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necessarily work. And I say this as someone who's dad,
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as a psychologist, literally edited a dream dictionary when I was growing up.
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There is validity in the dream dictionary in that there are certain archetypical
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things that, when we dream about them,
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we might be tapping into a collective consciousness piece.
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And yet we all have our own life experiences, our...
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the things that are utterly unique to us. So yes,
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while we might dream about the ocean,
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and there's certain archetypical understandings of the ocean depth,
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the unconscious, the vastness, the mystery,
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you might have a really particular association with the ocean that cannot be
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found in a dictionary. And that's really where the
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vitality comes in in our dreams,
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is you being willing to be your own interpreter
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of your dreams,
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to go through your own storied remembrance of your life and
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ask yourself, what does this mean to me? How does this feel in my body?
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How did I feel when I woke up from this dream?
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And all of that is going to give you so much more information than necessarily
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trying to look up what something means.
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And that can also be a way that our intuition's going to speak to us,
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like part of us will know: she's going to wake up and look up what this means,
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so let's throw her a wild card and see what comes up. But at the same time,
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what you don't want to do is give away your power because you are the
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interpreter of this dream.
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It's a perfectly storied metaphor made for you - by you,
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for you.
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And there's so much richness there if you can really see yourself as the
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interpreter of your dreams. One of my teachers, Robert Moss,
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a shamanic dream teacher, likes to say that dreaming is about waking up.
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And what this means is that when we work with our dreams,
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we wake up to the reality.
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We wake up to our own inner selves,
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we wake up to the greater potentials that exist in our life.
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And on a very literal level,
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if dreams are the remembrances that we have in non-physical reality,
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then just by remembering them, we're waking up to this knowledge,
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this awareness, that we are spiritual beings on a human journey.
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I've always loved in people's descriptions of their near-death experience when
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they talk about the experience of dying as one of waking up,
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of...
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as if their whole life had been a dream and then they woke up into a
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space that was more real than what they were experiencing here.
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And we all know what that feeling is, right?
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When you wake up from a dream and you're like, oh, thank God.
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Thank God this is my life. Maybe you were having a scary dream or whatever.
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But when people describe their near death experiences,
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they often describe it in this way:
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as if they woke up from a very long and yet brief
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dream. In the moment it seemed so long, when you're inside the dream,
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but then you wake up from it and you're like, oh, that was just a dream.
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Well, that's the way people describe dying,
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as waking up into another reality. And so if this is true,
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then dreaming is about waking up and that it helps us see that life
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is this dream, and we are its co-creators,
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we are constantly being sent messages and stories
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that are specifically for us to interpret and understand.
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And that's incredibly empowering.
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And this is the thing that I love about dreams as an access point,
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is that it's accessible to all of us, that all of us dream,
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that all of us have this ability. We do it every single night.
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And it's almost like this doorway that never closes,
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that's always open for us to actually remember who we are and be guided.
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So let's talk about kinds of dreams now,
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because there are a lot of different kinds of dreams.
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And the more you work with your dreams,
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the more you're going to be able to really feel out those textures.
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So there are dreams where you're just processing your day.
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And I say "just" as if that's not also miraculous and magnificent,
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but you'll kind of know them because they will contain elements from your day,
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you'll be able to actually look at it and see, ah,
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my brain was trying on different scenarios and different options with this.
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They don't normally have a feeling of big profundity or depth.
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If you wake up,
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it will almost feel like waking up after watching a sitcom or something.
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You're like, okay,
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so I was processing these pieces from my day and that's valuable,
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that's helpful.
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We know for a fact that our brains need that time and
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that this is how we learn, this is how we integrate memories,
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and process experiences.
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If we don't have enough time to sleep and specifically go into that REM cycle,
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then we don't get the time to complete a lot of memory-making,
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story-making,
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sense-making processes in our brain. So you'll often know
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it's a processing dream about your day because you will recognize elements from
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it, you will sort of wake up with this more
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mundane perhaps feeling about the dream.
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And that doesn't mean that these are to be ignored.
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These small dreams are still important. And in fact,
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I think writing dreams down is the absolute best thing you
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can do for holding onto and understanding the content of a dream.
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And I say this as a mother to a 3-year-old currently,
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and I used to write down my dreams every single morning,
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several dreams, every single morning.
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And now I'm really lucky if I write down one a week,
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if I remember one a week because I used to have time and space to really
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remember them. And now my day starts out like a hundred miles per hour.
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And yet I know this is a phase, that it's not going to last forever.
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And I try to do what I can still to capture them.
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So if that means really repeating the details again and again to myself until I
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have the time to write it down,
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or the next best option is to literally
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verbally say the dream out loud. So if I have to hop in the car in the morning
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and I don't have time to write them down,
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I will literally speak the dream out loud,
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record myself speaking the dream out loud.
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And I often find that then it's stored in my brain in a similar way as if I had
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written it down.
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But what I find time and time again is that even with these smaller,
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more mundane dreams, when you write them down,
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you can start to actually slow down enough to receive the message.
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And it's so... I have been writing my dreams down now for 20 years,
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and it's so amazing to me how I will think I've
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understood the message and then I'll write it down
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and so much more will come through.
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And so I really encourage you to write down your dreams if possible,
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in writing them down. After you write them down,
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give it a title so you can find it again.
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It also sort of helps create more of a storied framework of what actually
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stands out to you from the dream. And then free associate themes at the bottom,
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write down themes that are coming up for you.
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And what I will find is that I will often have different but similar
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themes come up within periods of time in my life.
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And I might not even realize until I go back and look at it that, oh,
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those dreams all were of a similar theme.
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I was working with a similar type thing. So these are processing dreams.
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We all have them, they're so helpful,
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they're part of how we function as human beings.
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Then there's also dreams that I consider remembrances outside of your
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physical body. So I think all dreams are remembrances of work that you're doing,
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stuff that you're engaging in outside of obviously being awake,
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and being in a body. But I think that there are some dreams that are very
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specifically remembrances of experiences that you are having in
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nonphysical reality. And it's a gift when we get these kinds of dreams.
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And I think they can come in a lot of different forms.
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But I have had dreams where I am with a teacher
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who's teaching me specific things,
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including spiritual teachers teaching me different spiritual tools, techniques.
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You might've had a dream where maybe you were in school and yet it wasn't
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like a school that you recognize here, it was a night school.
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Maybe you were with other souls learning something in particular. I have
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also had kind of wild dreams where it really feels as if
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I have stepped into almost another planet or another
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stream of consciousness,
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like a whole other set of rules to that reality on
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another planet or in a storyline that's completely different from my life.
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And those are kind of fun because I feel like I can recognize them,
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because there's not an element of charge around whatever the storyline is.
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And I come back, and I'm like, how interesting.
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I literally feel like I just experienced this sci-fi experience. And your
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feelings when you wake up,
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they are going to direct you towards what kind of dream you've had and what the
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content is for you to explore.
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And if you wake up from a dream that's even pretty wild,
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but you feel pretty neutral,
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you can probably guess that that's actually a remembrance of you having an
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adventure outside of your body.
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And it's not even necessarily like that's information you technically need right
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now in your life, although you can still gather gems from it,
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but they're almost like you are remembering the entertainment that you undertook
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when you lift your body for a little bit that night.
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And so those can be really fun. Now, I also think there's a class of dreams,
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and I would call them Big Dreams,
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and these are more like soul level communications.
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So I know I mentioned this idea of night school in this other category of
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just these remembrances of entertainment that you've had outside of your body.
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But really anytime you have a dream where you wake up from it
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and you think, wow, something about that felt big,
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I feel a lot of movement inside of me, I feel a lot of charge,
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pay attention.
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And it's these soul-level dreams that are always the dreams that we're all
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wanting and waiting for, right? And they don't happen every night,
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and that's okay. But when these big dreams do happen,
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they can literally change the course of our life if only we slow down enough to
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listen to them. So this could be a dream where you're communicating with a
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teacher, where you're met by a loved one.
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I actually have had a lot of dreams with people who have
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passed,
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specifically people - who are connected to people I love - who've passed.
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And this is one thing I do want to mention because especially if you've lost
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someone really close to you, it can start to feel...
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it can feel really upsetting if they're not visiting you in your dreams or you
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haven't seen them and it can feel like, well, are they still there?
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Is there something wrong with me?
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And what I have found as someone who does experience these type of visitations
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from the other side is that most often the people who are coming to visit me
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from the other side are not directly connected to me,
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or if they are directly connected to me, it normally...
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the communication normally only happens after they've had a period of time of
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integration on the other side. And that's the only way I could describe it,
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is that they've gone through a period of integration enough that they can then
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expend the energy to come communicate with me. So be open to that,
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be open to that... that you might have your loved one come in a dream,
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but you might have someone else's loved one come to your dreams.
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And that I have even found over time that over, for example,
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the 20 years that my grandfather has been passed,
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that I will get periodic updates on how he's doing on the other side.
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And it always comes in at a time too where it's helpful for me or helpful
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for my dad and helpful in our growth too.
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So these dreams are possible.
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These dreams happen a lot. Other big dreams are big creative dreams.
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So a lot of people have talked about the idea that whatever their incredible
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groundbreaking invention is or creation, that it first came through in a dream.
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For example,
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I remember reading that Paul McCartney said that the song Yesterday,
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an iconic song, came to him in a dream.
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What I find really funny about this story though is that it came to him in the
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dream as a melody and he didn't quite catch the words.
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And so he wrote down the title at first as scrambled eggs instead of yesterday.
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And I think that this is just such a funny story and example too of how
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sometimes these creation dreams will come in,
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that we have this big idea - of an invention, a creation, a life path,
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whatever it is - and it will take some interpreting. That it'll come in,
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it'll be there, it'll be this package,
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and yet we do also need to add that layer of filtering
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it through our day-to-day mind to really understand what is actually coming
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through. Like I think Paul McCartney knew that the song wasn't going to be about
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scrambled eggs,
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but that was the stand-in until he had that time to really piece through
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that, that these big inspirations are coming in,
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they're being downloaded by our wider self, our soul, our guides.
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And if you pay attention to your dreams,
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this might be a kind of dream that you have. There are also
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pre-cognitive dreams. So I have dreamt about people before I've met them,
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dreamt about things that have happened before they've come to pass.
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I've been teaching about dreams for so many years now too that I've heard so
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many stories of people also having pre-cognitive,
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including precognitive dreams of loved ones passing, of accidents happening.
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Sometimes if you were a kid who had precognitive dreams,
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it could have been something that scared you. And because of that,
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sometimes we shut down when we have precognitive dreams,
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especially when we're younger,
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when we don't understand that we're actually just sort of peering
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past linear time, and that we didn't cause that to happen,
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that it's not our fault.
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And that in fact my understanding of precognitive dreams is that we're
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often shown those dreams not to change the future,
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but just to give us a heads up so that we have the ability to meet it with more
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grace. So if you've ever had a precognitive dream and afterwards maybe had a
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hard time with, why didn't I do something? Why didn't I change something?
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I just really want you to know that this is my understanding of precognitive
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dreams: that there are certain things that we cannot change,
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but given time to prepare for,
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we can just meet with more flexibility and understanding and grace.
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Now, I talked a lot just now about big precognitive dreams,
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but you can also have small precognitive dreams,
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like just little dreams about what might happen that day.
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And those can be cool too because often those dreams,
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which almost function as a little bit of deja vu,
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are often confirmation that you're on the right path,
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you're doing the right thing,
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this is where you're supposed to be. And then there are healing dreams.
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So you can receive healing in your dreams and your dreams
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will also often be guides helping you figure out what you
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need in order to heal. So when I first started studying plants,
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I would often dream about the Latin name of a plant.
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It would come to me in a dream,
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and I'd have to look it up because I didn't know them all at that point.
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I was really learning them. And I'd often be surprised. I'd be like, oh,
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it's this plant, and whoa,
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that plant makes so much sense for what I'm physically dealing with right now or
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what I'm emotionally dealing with right now. I've also had experiences of direct
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healing through dreams.
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Like I had an experience when I contracted Lyme disease of a direct healing that
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happened inside of a dream.
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These dreams are profound gifts when they come,
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and it's not going to be every day,
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but I am bringing it up because I want you to be open to the possibility that
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what you're experiencing in a dream might actually be a healing or might
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actually be an avenue of healing for you. And to pay attention.
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Pay attention to how you feel when you wake up, what's inside your body,
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your psyche, your mind when you wake up from those dreams,
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because it's here to guide you. I think all dreams are healing in this
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capacity, and when we work with them,
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it's like we give them permission to actually root in.
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And this healing can come in a lot of different ways. You know,
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talking about the remembrances or dreams as remembrances.
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I've also had dreams that I am pretty convinced are past life experiences,
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where I am someone else entirely,
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but that person is very, very, very familiar to me.
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And my entire life story is different.
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I've had very vivid dreams from certain time periods with certain historical
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detail that I've been able to look up afterwards and confirm detail that I just
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would not have known in my day-to-day life for any reason. And so be open to
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that possibility too,
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that if you have dreams that are taking place in other time periods or you seem
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to be an entirely different person,
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that this could also be a past life remembrance.
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And those are often coming up to help us with whatever we're dealing with now,
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to understand maybe some of the patterns that we're holding,
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some of the tricky stuff that seems to not shift no matter how much
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we try to address it.
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Sometimes these are rooted in other lifetimes and these dreams can really help
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us work with that. And the final type of dream I want to talk about is my
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favorite type of dream - favorite,
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because it's so straightforward - and I call them text message dreams.
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And these are dreams where you get very specific downloads about what to do.
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Go here, do this, don't do that. Break up with him,
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whatever it is. And these dreams also don't happen all the time,
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but when they do happen - and if they happen for you,
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you know - when they do happen, it's like this clarity piece of like, okay,
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here we go. That's what I'm supposed to do.
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And if you could take anything away from this episode, it's this:
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heed the text message dreams.
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Listen to what the text message is saying because when it comes in with that
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kind of clarity, you know that that's important.
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It was important enough that it was formed into a very direct message for
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your unconscious to deliver to you. Now,
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most dreams won't be text message dreams like that,
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but if you do get a text message dream and you heed it,
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what I often find is that you will then have more dreams.
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And this is the thing about dreams. If you want to remember more dreams,
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if you want to work more with dreams, if you want more guidance dreams,
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more dreams - big dreams,
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like I was just talking about - these soul level experience in your
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dreams,
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then you need to court them. And in
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courtship,
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we receive what is being given.
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We relish even the smallest little things. We treasure them.
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It's like if your beloved gave you a rose petal,
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you would treasure that because you're in this courtship.
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You want to get to know them more. Well, the same is true for dreams.
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And so if you want to remember more of your dreams,
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here are some tips to do that: The first thing is going to be
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to write down whatever you remember first thing in the morning.
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Even if you can't remember a whole dream, write down whatever is there.
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Is it a feeling? Is it a song? Is it a song lyric?
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Is it a word? Is it a color? Even if it's super subtle,
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writing that down is signaling to your brain that you want to
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remember more of these dreams because this is what we're talking about.
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We know actually through research that everybody dreams.
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You dream every single night, multiple times a night.
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It's just about communicating to your brain and to your waking mind that these
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are important, that this is information you want to hold onto and remember.
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And how do we do that? How do we signal our brain to do that? Well,
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we start by asking your brain to attune to the details.
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So writing down whatever is there,
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taking that time first thing in the morning to do that. Another thing that is
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really,
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really helpful is giving yourself time when you
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wake up, if at all possible. If you are a parent of a little one,
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this just might not be in the cards for you right now, but, maybe!
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Maybe you're someone who feels like you have the capacity to set an alarm for a
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little bit earlier than your little one wakes up and have that
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time. I often find that I remember my dreams a lot more when I have a series of
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alarms. So if you know have to be up at a certain time,
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set a series of alarms 15 minutes apart for the 45 minutes before
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that,
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and you will have a much greater likelihood of remembering your dreams if you
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have those periods of waking up and then going back to sleep. And to add
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on to that,
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to even create more potential surface area for you to remember your dreams,
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when you wake up, linger in that state for as long as possible.
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This is called a hypnopompic state.
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It's the state where we're waking up or we're rising into consciousness.
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And this is really that turning point time when you can either remember your
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dreams or just let it float out of your brain.
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And so the more you let yourself rest in a hypnopompic state as you're waking
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up - just let yourself rest there, try not to think about your day. If possible,
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try not to launch into your day,
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unless ou have a toddler pulling your hair - but you rest there if you
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can,
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and a lot more will have the ability to come back if you rest there.
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And if nothing comes back, that's fine.
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Don't go down a stressful rabbit hole with this.
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Just think of it as quiet time in which you're actually meditating before you
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start your day and you're meditating in this open state to see what might come.
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And you can also really let your dreams know that you're courting them,
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that you want to be in greater conversation, if you practice dream invocation.
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So dream invocation is where you have an intention for your
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dreams, where you're asking to get a certain kind of guidance, clarity,
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perspective.
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My favorite way to do dream invocation is to write it down on a piece of paper
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or in my journal right before I go to bed.
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So to write that down right before I go to bed and put it on my bedside table.
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And really, as I am falling asleep,
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really focus on that invocation,
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really focus on what I want to receive,
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ask for it again and again, keep it in my mind. Just hold it there if I can.
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And then have that right on my bedside table.
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And when I first wake up in the morning,
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write down whatever is there. And what I have often found is that even if I wake
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up and think, okay, my question was not answered. I don't know what that was.
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If I write it down, I'll start to see that there is actually an answer in there,
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that there is a thread. And if you have a really big question in your life,
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ask it more than once. Set the intention several days in a row,
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because what you're doing is you're signaling to your consciousness that this is
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important,
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that you're willing to take the time and the energy you need to focus on this.
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And if you keep asking, you will receive an answer.
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And if you practice the things that I talked about, setting those extra alarms,
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giving yourself time to rest as you are in this hypnopompic state,
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as you come up into wakefulness,
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writing down whatever's there as fast and as quickly as you can - maybe not
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fast, but catching it while it's fresh, catching it in the morning,
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if at all possible. I definitely have written down dreams later in the day,
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at night, but it's a different quality than writing them down first thing.
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You're going to be able to catch a lot more. If you can't write them down,
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try voice notes.
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And this works particularly well if you are someone who wakes up in the middle
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of the night and you remember a dream, get your phone,
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leave yourself a little voice note about what you just experienced.
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And when I do this and I listen to them again,
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I'm often blown away by what I was dreaming about because I will have completely
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forgotten about it or I'll have forgotten 90% of the detail. And so if
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you practice these pieces,
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your dream invocation will just get stronger and stronger and stronger,
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and you can start to use your dreams as a kind of oracle.
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You can use your dreams as a source of guidance to really direct you in your
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life-and not only direct you in the decisions that you're here to make or the
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big steps that you're contemplating,
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but dreams will also download into your body,
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into your energy system,
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a greater sense of your own soul and your own capacity.
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You'll start to feel more and more and more like you are awake inside
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the dream of your day-to-day life.
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You're able to see yourself more as the creator of your existence and
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really step into that empowering piece of I am here to
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co-create my life, that none of this is happening to me,
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it's all happening for me,
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and that I am invited into this as a co-creator and
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I'm excited to be a part of this dream. So if you are getting excited about
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dreams and dream work and the idea of working more deeply with your dreams -
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especially in connection with the living world, with plants,
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with the earth - is something that's calling to you,
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then definitely stay tuned for the Intuitive Plant Medicine sale that I'm
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running next week.
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Intuitive Plant Medicine is my longest running course - I think this will be the
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ninth year that I'm running it - and it is the place where I've taught most in
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depth about dreams along with many other things,
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including working with plant allies, on the body treatments,
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land healing, flower essences, channeling,
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ancestral plant work. And in Intuitive Plant Medicine,
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we go even deeper into how to dream with plants,
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how to work with your dreams in conjunction with communicating with the living
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world of receiving guidance from the living world.
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We talk more about plants for dreaming, which is a whole nother topic.
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And one I'd be super excited to get into another time.
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But if any of this is interesting to you,
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then definitely stay tuned for that because that sale is going to be the biggest
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sale I've ever run on Intuitive Plant Medicine.
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And that's happening next week. And if you are someone who
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has had big dreams or if you're listening to this and you're like,
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I have questions about dreams, I would love to hear them.
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Leave me a voice message.
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I have an answering machine over on my website at AsiaSuler.com/remember.
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And I just think talking about dreams is one of the most delightful things ever.
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And if there's enough interest,
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then we'll definitely do another episode about dreams,
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because there's just so much richness here.
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There's so much to talk about. And speaking of dreams or things that are dreamy,
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or things that are dreamlike,
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it has been so dreamy for me to receive your feedback,
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to see your reviews, to read them,
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to hold them close to my heart.
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They're like a little light on dark nights. And I just,
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I've been so honored by all of your ratings, all your reviews,
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all your feedback.
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And if you are loving this podcast and you want to make a little dream for me
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a reality, I would love it if you left me a review or if you rated this podcast.
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It really helps this podcast reach more people.
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I've already seen this literally in action, reaching the right people,
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reaching the people that I dearly want to be in contact with,
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that I want to be in connection with, and that are part of this community.
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And so if you have the time and the space to do that, it would be dreamy for me,
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and I would thank you so much. So I often find that just by talking about
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dreams, we signal to our consciousness that we're ready to remember them,
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that we're ready to work with them more, that we want bigger dreams.
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So I want you to know that just by listening to this podcast today,
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you have set that in motion,
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that you are reconnecting to your dreams. And to say that piece too,
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that we go through seasons in life, seasons when we are really connected,
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and seasons when things are just busier.
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But I want you to know that this is the doorway that never closes.
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It's always open. It's always there for you.
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It will be there for you when you have the time and the space again.
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And if you're listening to this podcast,
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then it's probably because that doorway is beckoning to you now,
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and you have the tools that you need to begin connecting and to begin dreaming
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big. So until next time, may your dreams be deep,
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may they be wild,
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may they guide you,
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and may they bring you into connection with the most important thing of all:
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remembering why you're here.