Dreaming into Knowing

Leslie Ann O’Dell

Sometimes what our dreams make possible is for us to experience a situation that might otherwise not be possible in real life. And sometimes it is done to give us a sense of where we are heading, or what we are aiming for. In this dream example, a glimpse into a place of emptiness serves to prepare the dreamer for some of the issues that will be faced if that state is reached. And it is the same for our spiritual journey: we are born here to learn how to live by the rules that are required of us elsewhere – if we are able to make that transition. (At the end of this post there are instructions and a link to download this recording to your computer.)

Jeane: So my problem last night wasn’t so much whether I dreamt or not, it was that I couldn’t hold onto the dreams. I was having a long dream, then all I remembered of it was the boots I was wearing.

So that dream felt like it was about kind of starting over on the surface of the planet, what that would be like, and all I really remember is I had like these handmade boots that were kind of a suede on the outside, and came up to just below the knee. And there was something about those boots that was kind of fascinating to me. But that’s all I really pulled out of the first dream.

And it felt like the other dreams were like that, too, that they were kind of restless and they were fast moving. And I only remember some details from the last dream when I’m living in a unit of an apartment building or a motel. I’m there with a guy, and then there’s a woman and a man that I’ve known from the past that are also there.

They’re friends with each other, but they’re staying there. And it feels like I’m kind of struggling with the fact that I have a lot of attraction to the man that she’s with, but I’m also staying there with the man I’m with. And I don’t know quite how to deal with that attraction, in terms of resisting it, and feeling pulled by it, at the same time.

And so I do a lot of avoidance, or approach and avoidance. When I leave the motel at one point – it’s made out of this really pretty kind of bright wood, almost like a log cabin type of effect except, you know, like when the logs are freshly shaved or something – and I know when I come back at one point it feels like the normal entrance is just not there, like when I go in I see that I can’t get through the doorway I’ve gone through.

So I go back out to find the other doorway, which is there, but all the dreams are like that. I felt like I dreamt a lot, but it was all fragments like that.

John: The theme of the dreaming was, how is it that you cope with being in an environment in which there is just an emptiness that exists, in which there’s nothing to do? In other words, the first image is that of you in boots walking about. There’s nothing of any significance about that that you can put your fingers on.

In other words, you’re just a presence in a space moving about. And then the dream progresses into some mannerism that is still something you’re trying to sort out, in terms of the human condition nature that you carry. And what happens is, is because the schematic is placed into an overallness that has to do with an emptiness, and in such a space there’s nothing to have to struggle with, or contend with, you end up getting locked out, or finding that that is very, very difficult to maintain.

I mean you have the image, you had the dynamic, but then at some particular point you kind of let go of it and couldn’t find your way back to the peculiar nuance, or trait, of something going on that was transpiring, or that had been transpiring, as if it was a separate modality in the whole schematic of things.

So I guess the purpose of a dream like this would be to show you what it’s like to be able to experience a quality of a oneness, without all kinds of things having to be contended with by way of your human condition mannerism, or signature note. And from experiencing the dichotomy, you’re able to get a sense of what it’s like to have to carry, or be party to, a mannerism, and notionality, that involves the signature note, and how it creates a kind of struggle, and motion, and sensibility about things from its vibratory correlation. And that you take that out, and you just have an overallness, a oneness, an emptiness in which you are a presence in that – but there’s nothing going on.

Well, for some strange reason, I had to dream the same thing, in other words, what life would be if there wasn’t a characteristic of dharma, which is kind of like where a person catches up with their own inner power and they’re like a kind of thought of God expression that is contangled in the physical in such a way so that you have a signature note, separate or unique, and participating in the oneness. And what I notice by that is that things almost seem kind of blasé; nothing is going on without that signature note.

And it even seems that you have a chemistry here, in which you have a magnetism of things and such that help accentuate a kind of anxiety, or lack of cohesion, that help perpetuate a sorting out that enhances separation, upon which the human being, then, in such an atmosphere buys into the idea of having to contend with that. Maybe it can’t be helped because you do have the gravity of things, and that is what manifestation is all about.

Thus you have a signature note; other than that you would have everything laid out. You would have the future brought to the present, and there’s no surprises. Everything is kind of situated and understood, and you wouldn’t have the future incorporating some sort of semblance of awkwardness, or memories of something in the past, because that wouldn’t exist. You would just be in an overall flow, almost without a kind of human condition freedom of choice.

The freedom of choice seems to come in, which leads to the signature note, when one finds themselves having to contend with their unique conditioning, as a consequence of the senses and the gravity of things, that promote separation as an illusion. You take that away, and nothing is going on.

And so what you did is you start off with it kind of being nothing more than you being a presence in an environment in which you just have the boots on, and nothing more, just an energetic. And then the energetic being in this gravitational space, has needs. You can feel the gravity pulling this way, and pushing that way, so it perceives needs, only to find out that it can’t really go anywhere, by trying to catch up with those needs, because the more natural state in this particular instance of the dream was something that actually presided more than that shadow dynamic. It presided more such that it got to a point where it couldn’t keep that up, because somehow, or another, you know better.

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