DREAM REALIZATION

A MEDITATION FOR
INSPIRATIONAL
WRITING IN A DREAM
JOURNAL

by
Henry Reed, Ph.D.


Introduction

      My most satisfying moments of rapport with a dream
have  occurred  when  I  stopped  trying  to  interpret  the
dream,  when  I  quit looking at it and began looking with
it,  trying  to  see  the  world in the way my dream sees it.
While   looking  through  a  dream  out  into  my  life,  as
through a metaphorical looking-glass, I'll have flashes of
lucid  vision.   "Aha!  Of  course!"   I  am  surprised  by  a
recognition of the truths operative in my life, and  I  feel
elevated  into  a  superconscious  awareness  of meaning.
The  dream  remains uninterpreted,  but it doesn't matter.
The  dream  becomes,   not  exactly  understandable,  but
rather a poetic best expression of truth. The dream itself
is  transparent;  it  is life that glows with meaning.  I'll be
awed  by  the  dream's  uncanny  ability  to  envision with
images so personally suited to transform my experience.
I  then become acutely aware of the Presence,  of  the  "I
am,"  and  realize once again how,  for "that  that  I  am," a
dream is a most natural mode of seeing.

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