More about my dream house
Scientists say people who are deprived of REM sleep—when dreams are more visual in content—are prone to irritability, fatigue, memory loss, and poor concentration. Clearly, the Creator has beautifully designed our unconscious. It is meant not to torment us with bizarre visions or leave us vulnerable but to give us a way to work toward a healthier waking life. Dream time helps us recognize important truths about ourselves and our surroundings. They cooperate with our “day” dreams as raw material with which to improve our lives. We are dreaming all the time, Carl Jung believed. Only the distractions of waking life leave us unaware of that fact, he noted.6
Like a house, my life has several levels (or stories) and many rooms divided into public and private spaces. As I bring significance from night dreams or private spaces into my waking life or public places, I remodel my dream home on an ongoing basis. After that first haunted house dream, I began to invest my dreams with regard, recording them first thing in the morning. I let them simmer on the back burner of my mind, hoping eventually to read between the lines of their strange pictures. One thing that facilitated this was sharing dreams on a regular basis with two friends. We not oniy laughed a lot but also found that when you share dreams, you can’t hide anything from one another. We began to see important truths in each other’s dreams that escaped the dreamer’s own perception. The most eccentric dream could turn out to be the most insightful.
When I have an utterly ridiculous dream, an erotic dream, or a dangerous dream, I’m tempted not to document it. Through the years, however, I’ve discovered that the dreams that intimidate me most are the most useful—that is, if I’m willing to explore their territory and understand the questions they ask of me.
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