Tune in today and let me inspire you to dream up a better way.
This video is available for one-day only. It's part of a weeklong summit on dreaming up a better world, and it's a perfect lead-up to Friday's group dream for global healing. (It's all FREE)
I'm a Featured Speaker today only, 3/24 during a Free Virtual "WE ARE ONE SUMMIT - Inner Peace to Build a Better Planet." Grab some popcorn and settle in to watch. Then scroll down for
🌱 info on Friday’s group dream for global healing
🌱plus a dream-prompt to help you shift from experiencing dreams as purely personal, toward discovering dreaming as an opportunity to connect with the collective good.
Today's video, in which I explain how and why to dream in community for global healing, is available for 24 hours only and again on March 30 for replay. Pay attention: There’s an adorable cat cameo in the first half!
The Summit continues all week with an array of inspiring speakers and lots of free giveaways. In fact it’s all FREE. You can join the weeklong summit here.
Ready to dream for global healing?
You don’t even need to get out of bed!
Dream with us from wherever you are this Friday night.
+ The 350 Dreamers Group Dream for global healing in the face of climate change takes place this Friday night, March 28. You don’t even need to get out of bed to participate! Plus, it’s free, easy, and it feels good.
Learn more about 350 Dreamers, an international collection of caring souls who dream together for Global Healing here. And join our private Facebook group, here.
If it were our dream
One of the foundational practices in ethical dream sharing, is to resist telling anyone else what their dream means. Instead, we preface our remarks in dream groups and one-on-one conversations with the phrase:
“If this were my dream …”
Rather than tell the dreamer what her dream means. Each dream group member reflects on what that dream means to them.
Otherwise, hearing other people talk about our dream can feel like someone just trespassed on our psyche—or like our dream has been hijacked by someone else’s interpretation.
But in our efforts to protect the dreamer we sometimes lose out on the collective aspect of dreams.
Dreams were never meant only for the analyst’s couch. Dreams were and are meant to be shared widely: around the fire circle — or the breakfast table. In dream groups — or with your seatmates on a plane or bus. On the stoop, in the cafeteria — and in board meetings. (I sit on the board of the International Association for Dreams and we share dreams at the start of our meetings.)
Before disasters like 911, the Covid-19 epidemic, and the Los Angeles fires, to name a few, a significant number of people reported having warning dreams, some of which were only clear in retrospect. Others had dreams that prevented them from getting on a plane or going to work on a day when doing so could have cost them their lives.
And as I mentioned in last week’s post, dreams have also led to countless inventions, innovations, and creative breakthroughs.
That’s why I like to wake people up to the importance of looking to our dreams for both personal and collective meanings.
We can ask, “How does this dream apply to my life today?” And then we can also ask, “Is there a collective meaning for this dream, too?”
In addition to saying, “If this were my dream, it might be telling me …” we can say, “If this were our dream it might be telling us …”
It’s no accident that the word dream means both our nighttime dreams and our aspirational visions for a better future. As active dreamers we nurture our ability to think big, bold, and beautiful thoughts and generate original ideas for next steps and surprising solutions.
Your turn
Rewrite a dream using the first person plural. Rather than “I was running down an alley” try “We were running down an alley”.
What shifts for you when you look at your dream through the lens of the collective?
How does this affect how you listen to other people’s’ dreams?
Until next time … I’m dreaming with you,
