“I Have Conquered My Nightmares Because Of My Dreams” – Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk, the scientist who discovered and developed the polio vaccine, said:
“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.”
If you’re like me, it’s not so much nightmares as it is recurring dreams of working things out in the dream state that don’t appear to be worked out in the waking state.
How much attention do you pay to your dreams? Are there nightmares – or are there dreams that you want to be different?
Do you think that your dreams are sending you information of processing on a deeper level that you can find useful on the level of what we perceive to be “reality”?
What do you think Salk meant when he attributed his success at achieving his dreams to his having encountered his nightmares?
Have you been able to use nightmares to the same effect? Are nightmares “teachable moments”?
Nightmares come when your not being true to your Dreams.
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Our Dreams are a the way for our forgotten friend to remind us that anything is possible, we have
just lost sight in our ability to Wonderstand that simple Fact. So, dreams are forced to use any means possible from the wasteland they were banished too to try and reach out to us. (And cell reception is pretty crappy)!
Dreams are the real reality, that is fact.
Unrealized Dreams are the waking nightmares we have
created because we have forgotten little by little that Dreams are not
impossible but pure Truth.
We are the contractors of our limitations. So, the polarity flips and
what we should have in life we only dream about, while what what we
really don’t wish to have is enjoying the pole position.
Doubt is nightmares twitter!
So, simply believe in Your dreams and nightmares ( a bi product of non-believing) will cease to exist!
Oh Look I Have 5 Bars!!! Sweet!
Sleep better, wake up and Dream.
I agree with you about the importance of using dreams to address our perceived limitations. Your point of view about nightmares ceasing to exist when belief in dreams occurs is very appealing, too!
“The evolution of the world is the evolution of our minds development” These words by Ortrud Groen, a German psychologist who is since 40 years into the sience of dreams( born 1925 in Berlin), like nobody else I know.
Dreams are so important, they are the most common way god (through the “subconsciousness”) is talking to us. Yes in parables or similes of nature phenomenon – but is there a better language for all the people in the world?
Here is a link (sorry, its only in swiss German) to an interview of Ortrud Grön. I could not find one in English.
http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/video?id=1ee813a4-2ab9-4ea2-ba0f-5d9a8476c92f
Aloha
H.R.K
Thank you, Rainer! I’m eager to konw more about this man. Dreams do seem to be a common currency among human beings. That was why I was particularly interested in “Inception,” the recent film about dreaming. Thanks for writing!