The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. – William Arthur Ward
The Dream of Life: Navigating the Map
At any given moment, we have the ability to connect the dots. A few decades ago, when I first began to notice how these connections formed, I called it Manifest Dreaming. The key is learning to identify the dots: the touchstones, the internal billboards, the signposts that remind us who we are and why we’re here. They don’t always spell out our destination, but they do affirm we’re on the right path.
Here’s one example of how this unfolded for me:
7/06/07 – I dream of someone I care deeply about. They’re driving but recklessly ignore a red light and a roadblock, heading uphill. Suddenly, an earthquake strikes. The road collapses, and the vehicle flips over a guardrail into deep water. Inside the car, I tell them we must wait for an air pocket before opening the door and following the bubbles to the surface. I’m holding him, but he’s limp—unresponsive. I realize I can’t save us both unless I let go. I release him, hoping for the best. Then, something shifts—I become lucid. I recognize this as a dream and declare, “This is not a dream I want to have.” The scene dissolves.
7/08 – Over the next few days, I begin noticing references to an event called Fire the Grid on several blogs. I’m intrigued and make a mental note.
7/14 – I purchase the book Extraordinary Knowing, after seeing it mentioned again online. I skim through it.
7/16 – The day before the event, I receive an unexpected email from someone I wouldn’t have anticipated hearing from, suggesting I look into Fire the Grid. Now curious, I dig deeper. The backstory of the event—a near-death experience and miraculous survival—echoes my dream.
7/17 – I participate in Fire the Grid for the final ten minutes. What I experience is incredible: a surge of energy, a beautiful vision, and a deep sense of connection. In the vision, I see a golden ring encircling the Earth, with hundreds of thousands of hands resting upon it—a sacred joining, like a marriage between humanity and the planet. I feel it in every cell: I am connected.
7/19 – I return to Extraordinary Knowing and flip to a section I hadn’t read before. It describes a client whose dreams begin to mirror the life of her therapist. Another mirror. Another dot.
This is just the beginning—the visible tip of something vast and unseen. These synchronicities form a language of their own. The events we notice become reference points in the greater dream we call life. When we pay attention, we gain the ability to shift the energy of our reality—across dimensions. We can leap ahead, resolve the past (any past), or simply tune in to what’s next.
✨ All of it—dreams, signs, books, blog posts, and emails—becomes part of the dialogue. Life is always whispering. The question is: Are we listening?
Lighting the dots on the path
The Dream of Life – at any given time – we have the ability to connect the dots. 1997 – when I first learned how this connection came into play, I called it Manifest Dreaming.
I came to realize the variables make it difficult to teach because it is personal and unique to each experiencer. The trick is to identify the patterns and the repeating symbols to find the dots, the breadcrumbs we laid out to remind us and guide us on the path – highlights on our life map.
They may not tell us exactly where we are going (although they can) but they do affirm our connection. This is the tip of the iceberg … these are all reflections…The events are a frame of reference and an example of how we navigate the dream of life. When we are paying attention, we can shift the energy of our reality on multiple planes, skip ahead, make peace with the past (any past), or simply figure out what comes next.
Related
Jung on Synchronicity
Jung on Dreams
Robert Moss on Dreams
Lucid Dreams – The cognitive neuroscience of lucid dreaming. Link
Previous material is Refreshed and reposted from my blog. Original post dated June 2007.
Holding my breath
The edge is calling – rabbit hole vs. quantum leap. TBD. [To be determined.]
The Edge is Calling
Most people never hear it.
Not really.
The edge doesn’t shout. It hums.
Low. Electric. A whisper just under reality’s static.
Clara heard it.
It started on a Tuesday, which was unusual only because she was still pretending Mondays were her reset. But this Tuesday, her nightlight blinked twice at 4:44 a.m. That was odd. She hadn’t used the nightlight in years – not since the energy bill made her reconsider sentimentality.
Then came the dream.
A hallway that curved like a Möbius strip.
A mouse with a compass.
And a sign that read: Welcome to the Edge. Choose wisely: Rabbit Hole or Quantum Leap.
Clara stood at the threshold of choice.
She knew the rabbit hole. Everyone did. It was recursive, familiar. A spiraling descent into mystery, mirrors, and madness.
But the Quantum Leap?
That was something else. It wasn’t about descent – it was discontinuity.
It was becoming someone new without explaining what happened to the old version.
Still groggy, Clara rubbed her eyes. The mouse looked up from its tiny map and said, “Well?”
“Do I get to come back if I leap?” she asked.
The mouse twitched its whiskers.
“Not as you were. But maybe as you were meant to be.”
She stepped forward. Not into the hole. Not off a ledge.
She stepped through… a shift in frequency. A recalibration.
When she opened her eyes again, the nightlight pulsed once more.
Only this time, it spoke – not in words, but in her bones:
TBD.
A thread: Time syncs, Dreams, and My reading list
Foreshadowing a future post…
Confession: Our Hidden Alien Encounters Revealed, Robert Hastings and Dr. Bob Jacobs, Amazon Review: “I admit I was shocked by the premise for the publication of this book – to disclose that both authors have been Contactees and Abductees for much of their lives. Hastings and Jacobs present their disclosures in detail with complete candor, acknowledging the risks inherent in being lumped in with UFO Abductees, and possibly ruining their professional credibility.”
UFOs: The Ultimate Abduction, Author Raymond E. Fowler: “I concluded that UFOS originate from the dimension NDErs describe and that we are transitory citizens of that world of Light who shuffle back and forth between a particle dimension and a wave (light) dimension through reincarnation.”
Passport to Magonia, Jacques Vallee – “Challenges readers to consider the nature of reality and the possibility of other dimensions and intelligences.”
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