Dream: I'm in some kind of class or workshop. We meet outdoors, sitting at long conference tables.
A lot of my energy and thought goes into remembering exactly how that 9 dot exercise goes. I remember the first step of the solution, but not the entire problem. How many straight lines are you supposed to use? How do they go after that first one that goes outside the box?
At some point I think "I don't have to figure this out before I wake up. I have the book, The Art of Possibility, and the solution is in that." (So either I had already wakened in the night, or this was a semi-lucid dream.)
Finally though I do remember how it goes. I work it in my mind, not out on paper.
Interpretation:
Waking and washing my face this morning, the thoughts that came were things like "Why have I been reading all these books for guidance? What makes me think that these authors know more than I do about how to live my life? Why don't I just make my bowls and see what happens?"
Also, I thought "if I knew for sure that I'd succeed at whatever I set out to do, then what would I do now?" This struck me as a good free writing exercise for this morning. Let the pen go and see what it tells me.
It's as if "other people's ideas" can be a kind of 9-dot box for me. Maybe my full aliveness is outside this box. The dream seems to be telling me, too, that knowing the first step out of the box is enough. I keep thinking I have to know it all, have it all planned, have the full solution before I can wake up (and live.) Not so.
It's funny that I'd have this dream the night before celebrating finding and buying the land here - celebrating the power of visualizing. Together, the dream and the anniversary could be telling me to visualize outside the realm of what I now believe is possible. Why not?
