Just in your head
There is no drooling
There are many emotions that live in an ordinary human. Desire is one that can account for many of the tasks learned early on and doesn’t just occur when physicality starts to be noticed. But humans don’t like to name their desires. Babies aren’t repeating to themselves about how much they want to walk. But when the impulse finally hits them, they let go over and over and start to do so. We really don’t know what prompts the timing. Most human dreams stay nicely tucked in the odd spaces of our minds. It is almost as if we don’t want to disappoint ourselves by talking about them out loud. Or make mistakes in front of others who may have been listening. The cruel trick of life is that other humans aren’t really listening to us with the same emotional stickiness that we have for our own thoughts. This is good and bad. Good because dreaming while awake is a way to stay off devices and bad because the fear of not completing a desire feeds that little pyre of scaredy cat that lives inside each of us. We might not have the chops. It is encouraging to believe that just creating the odd desire is the actual skill. That will make it easier to really dream a great dream. The bigger the better.
Take Five
Each week this year, read through the suggestions and see how they call out to you.
- What are you in fear of dreaming?
- Can you list your earliest desires?
- What outrageous desire in stuck in your mind?
- What are you willing to bet on when it comes to your future?
- Are you the one killing your own desires?
Come back each day to see if something changes about the effect of an activity. Repeat choices to identify different thoughts. You are not the same person every day. Your life shouldn’t be either.
Live Alive
