Dreams



Everyone should have a dream.  A goal.  Something we are working towards.  Something that keeps us motivated to keep moving forward.

I remember being warned about Betty when I first starting working.  I was told to be very careful around her and that she would come into the office late at night and go through everyone's computer.  She was monitoring our emails and what sites we were looking at in order to get dirt on us to fire us.  After I had worked with Betty for a while, I knew that this was simply not true.  Anyone who knew Betty would know that she could not turn on a computer.

That was an excerpt from a speech that I gave in 1995.  Our big boss Betty was retiring after 30+ years with Family and Children's Services.  Betty and I had a great relationship and she had a wonderful sense of humour.  I really thought that this would be a great roast.  It turns out I was the only one who roasted her.  She and her husband laughed until they cried.  The rest of my co-workers sat there shocked and afraid to laugh.  They all thought that I would be fired.  I wasn't.

It was also what I dreamed about last night.  Except while I gave this speech, I was sitting on the top of a slide with Betty.  She kept sliding down inadvertently.  I had to shimmy down the slide, grab Betty, and shimmy backwards up the slide.

I gave the speech in full remembering in my dream some things that I had previously forgotten.  In my dream, I struggled to remember her husband's name and then it came to me in my dream.

I haven't thought about this speech in several years.  I wonder what the significance of the slide could be.  Were we on a slippery slope?  Did my self-conscious want to transport me back almost three decades?  Did my self-conscious think that was a happier time in my life?

I was pleased that it was a gentle dream.  I woke up feeling still dozy and tired.  Does that mean that I wasn't finished and my dream was interrupted.  Regardless, it was a more pleasant feeling than I have been experiencing over the last several months.  My dreams have been so intense lately.  I wake up and I feel like I have run a half marathon.  I am more tired than I was when I went to sleep and my body is tensed and I am sweating.

Still, I felt I needed to know more.  I consulted with several dream analysis websites.  I should have known what the results would be as I have done this before.  If you dream about water or falling, you have lots of results available to you.  If you dream about giving a speech that you gave over 25 years ago, there are no results.  Even the dreams that do have analysis can be interpreted differently by the "dream experts".  Some of these experts indicate that if you dream about this, it is a dire warning.  Other experts say it is a sign of long life and happiness and money coming your way.

It turns out dream analysis is not science.  Your own analysis is probably as good as anyone's.  If you want the dream to be a good sign of fortune, then it is.  If you want the dream to be a dire warning of misfortune, then it is.

If you are looking for what is right, you will find it.  If you are looking for what is wrong, you will find it.  That applies not only to dreams, but to life.

Think about your weekend or your work shift or your last shopping trip or anything at all.  If you had to analyze it like a scientist, you would likely find that 90% was good and 10% was bad.  But, we tend to focus on that 10% to the point that it feels like 90%.

What type of person do you want to be?  It is really a choice.  You can be the one who focuses on the 90% or the one that focuses on the 10%.

If you focus on the good, it can help you bring mastery in your own life.  It is just common sense.

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