Dreaming into Knowing

In dreams, as in waking life, we can always ask ourselves: how are we relating to the environment around us? Because in any scenario, we are in relationship to everything else. So, are we going with it, and in the flow? Or does everything seem to have a snag that we have to deal with? These signals, and symptoms, of our situation tell us much more about our inner state than they do about the world around us – we just don’t usually see it that way. (At the end of this post there are instructions and a link to download this recording to your computer.)

Jeane: Well there’s a lot in my dreams last night I don’t remember that well. What I remember most is that the dreams took place at night, and I was in a city, and I was going out into that city and kind of exploring what was going on.

And I remember going into an old hotel, kind of like the Waldorf Astoria in New York, so it was a hotel that was pretty famous. And going up into the hotel and finding a section where some women were living, and I could look into their rooms. And I realized the rooms in that building were actually smaller than I thought, but that that made sense because it’s a hotel that goes way back in time, that has been famous for a long time.

And the women were living up there, and I remembered when I found that place where the women were living, they each had a room. It was a little hard to find the door to get out of that floor, but when I went down to other floors I found one area where people had an art class going on.

What I also remember is going out into the city. At one point it felt like there were some men I was almost either coming back and reporting to, or trying to stay a little bit ahead, almost like they were detectives. And I realized that I was finding out about classes that were available in the city, but they weren’t like classes that were advertised. They were classes that had kind of formed because people had gotten together with a mutual interest.

And so you had to kind of seek them out, and find them on your own. And I remember these men following me to one of the classes, and I’m curious about whether they’re actually going to teach part of the class, because I remember looking over and I saw a man come into the room and he had a canvas he put in front of him, and he was a teacher, but he was in the back of the room. He wasn’t in the front of the room.

I wasn’t sure how his style of teaching was going to be, because even these classes are different than normal. You just find them. And that’s all I really remember about the dreams.

John: The theme of the dreaming which, even when I say what the theme of the dreaming is, it’s not going to necessarily make sense because of the detail of what you’re doing. The theme of the dreaming has to do with the listening center. And, apparently, whatever listening center you have has to be skewered a bit, so everything that you perceive in the dream has a displacement to it.

In other words, you learn what you learn at night, the teacher is not where you think the teacher should be, where you go is broken up into multi-levels, you can be in a level where there’s just women, in another level where there’s just people sewing or something, and so everything has the whole sense of a kind of discombobulation. It’s the matrix of how life is.

You were observing all of that, but in the observing of all of that you were also separate. And in a proper listening center you’re intertwined, you’re not separate. In other words, it’s like if you were in a place where you were aware of things happening at night, what about the daytime? How does that come across there?

If you’re on a women’s floor, how do you reconcile the vibration of that where they’re selling or doing some other act, where there’s some other matrix of activity going on? When you come into something that you have a certain expectation of, how do you reconcile the fact that the teaching isn’t what you had anticipated, nor is the appearance what you anticipated because it teaches in the back, not in the front.

This all makes sense, however. That’s why I say it wasn’t going to make sense to understand that this is a type of listening dream. And how you come to learn to listen, well, let’s put it this way, you’re actually in this dream even though things seem, in terms of what you’re representing around you, seem kind of out of the ordinary or displaced from each other – who’s to say that what you’re listening to isn’t helping to facilitate that?

In other words, it’s like there’s a gap that exists between that space and the world that’s flowing around you. So how do you take that into the space? So the next question is, is why would you have this gap, why have the gap? What caused the gap? Well, the dream doesn’t tell you what caused the gap. The dream just says that whatever it is that you’re experiencing has you gapped out in terms of how you relate to things around you.

Now you’re not feeling bad, or weird, or strange. In other words, it’s not like this dream is a dream that’s giving you a heebie-jeebie or strange feeling. It’s just more of a kind of staring at this trying to sort something out, so to speak. That’s why it has this kind of displaced sense about it. But it’s easy to try to look at something that’s displaced and think that with that comes some sort of bizarreness, in terms of how you feel yourself, but you don’t have that bizarreness. You’re just in kind of another zone.

So it still begs the question as to what causes this. What causes this is not knowing how to relate, in terms of what you experience within, not knowing how to bring it through in a way that touches the world around you, in other words, in an intertwined way. So you’re sitting kind of in a state of aloneness watching, aware, but not actually intertwined.

What would you do different? Well, if you were too talkative or too informative you would probably disrupt that flow around you, and to some degree that would probably by the fact that you disrupted that that would probably disrupt you. And so you sit in this conundrum of what is it that you’re able to communicate, that would then lead to a connectivity and an intertwining, how do you do that? What’s the fine line between something like that and total quietness, of which the essence is really quickened in its aliveness, but not intertwined?

If you are too vocal, you throw things around. Sometimes it can be handled, and sometimes it can’t, and I’m speaking of others and then the others that are you because to the degree to which that doesn’t come across or isn’t handled, or goes to some sort of ego sense or identity sense, then you’re the worse for the wear.

So there is that, and then there is the auric space of you being able to hold a particular note and go around and quietly exude. And how is it possible for that way of being to be an aliveness to all of the states and conditions that you find yourself in? Can you do that? Well, what you’re seeing is that can go on the other extreme of things as a type of being aloof or, in other words, disconnected, almost bewildered, because you’re on a different space. Everything is a different space. It doesn’t necessarily intertwine. It doesn’t make sense in a way that flows, and yet it’s a very, very deep experience inside, not necessarily one that’s translatable in terms of manifestation. It’s a strange state to be in.

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