I had two interesting dreams the beginning of this week.  I dreamed a few nights ago that I was making coffee for someone and drinking it myself as well.  The label was missing off the can so when I went to make it, I had to ask around to see how many scoops to how much water.  Something I would have to do in real life if there was no label.  It smelled so good.  It tasted so smooth and rich and roasty.  I dreamed the night before that I was eating different kinds of chocolate and really enjoying the different tastes. And it tasted just like chocolate and it tasted just like coffee.  But in the dreams I liked the tastes and in real life I don’t.  They were interesting dreams.  And I’m someone who has a lot of interesting dreams.

One thing my brother Jerry and I have in common is that we enjoying listening to the Monroe Institute Gateway Experience cds which contains mental exercises designed to lead you into profound states of expanded awareness where you have available a broader range of perceptions with which to solve problems, develop creativity or obtain guidance. Read about my Gateway Voyage experience here. Jerry and I also create our own programs for ourselves, to lead us into the even farther reaches. I listen to them before I go to bed, so I can naturally drift into the dream state with my intended purpose.  I keep a notebook and pencil nearby for to make notes. Sometimes my dream work is for me, and sometimes it is for friends and clients.

But I seldom dream about food.  I seldom dream that I am eating something and really tasting it.  It’s interesting that the chocolate tasted just like chocolate.  In the dream it was smooth and creamy and sweet and rich and left a velvety taste on my tongue.  In real life I don’t care for the taste of chocolate.  It tastes heavy and viscous and cloying, and I don’t like sweets.  But the exact same taste in the dream I really enjoyed.

What I liked the most about it is that I got to experience in a dream something that is very ordinary for me in real life, yet in the dream my senses were heightened to a hair trigger.  In the dream, the tastes became heavenly, just like the commercials say.  The cells of my body were flooded with pleasurable sensations and I could easily hold onto and recall long after the dream ended.  I could replay it in my mind and relive those same sensations again and again and again.  I can taste the taste on the back of my tongue right now.

It didn’t make me want chocolate or coffee, because, in this case, I know the dream to be better than the reality, and I’d like to hold onto the dream as long as I can.  I do that with my personal goals as well.  If I feel I am not where I want to be on a particular topic, I let myself stay in the dreaming stage with it as long as I can.  As long as it feels good.

I wrote in 7 Steps For Conscious Living that we get what we can picture ourselves doing
We get what we can conceive of, so start picturing yourself doing things you want to do. Start picturing yourself living where you want to live, picture yourself driving what you want to drive, picture yourself being as you want to be and feeling how you’d like to feel. Picture it, envision it, daydream about it, pretend it – pretend is a very powerful word: “Pre” from before, ahead of time and “tend,” from intend, intention, so when you pretend, you are intending ahead of time what you’d like to experience, and it’s that kind of creative visualization that takes you ever closer to your goal.

So relish the dreaming stage while you’re in it.  Don’t hurry to get to the next stage.  Savor it as long as you can.  Because, after all, the journey should be just as delicious as the destination.

Take a bite?

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