FIELD NOTES: Waking Up Inside the Dream
A meditation on the moment you realise you are not just a character in your story, but also its author.
Lucid Dreams: Will you have them?
Along came a friend telling tales on lucid dreams. So the mind started spinning over sealed gifts within.
By the table fantasies whirled, until eyes grew tired and bedtime made its due.
Each night, lips vowed to reveal dreams within dreams at inception. Fatigue claimed its toll and shone a light on new doors.
A key from nowhere that would fall into your hands to unlock an experience, so immersive, that when skilfully played, enriches one’s waking life.
At dawn the diary absorbs your marvels, for you to become a creator of dreams.
One might be surprised by the discoveries found in 'lucid dreaming' or visual preparation. It has raised athletes, artists like Salvador Dalí, figures such as Larry Page, who dreamt his way to the creation of Google… They can serve us more than we think.
The experience of a lucid dream reveals a fundamental truth about our waking lives: much of the time, we are not living, but being lived. We are characters in a script we didn't write.
My question for our community is this: In what area of your life—your career, your routine, a relationship—do you feel that you are "asleep at the wheel?" And what is one small, conscious act you could perform this week to "wake up" and remind yourself that you are the author of your own story?
I look forward to reading your reflections in the private members' discussion.
Trust the hunch. Find the story.
Antoine
