Letting Go – Day 10

Mary Shelley dreamed up Frankenstein before he was made immortal in the pages of her book; Elias Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine, was inspired by a dream that showed him a solution to his needle dilemma; scientists, entrepreneurs, musicians, artists – so many have been inspired by dreams to try something they hadn’t previously considered, and ended up changing the way others saw the world as a result.

There’s also a letting go on waking, when we realize that the dreams we’ve had offer valuable information, even it was delivered in a cryptic way. We are asked to let go of the attachment to seeing things as they were (in the dream) and instead consider them as symbolic of events or people in our lives. If you’ve asked for something to be shown to you in a dream, it’s important to let go of thinking it will be shown to you in the way that you might have expected. Let go of the dream and re-enter waking life, letting the night-time lessons sink in as you go about your day. Let go of the idea that the possibility that exists there, in the dream state, doesn’t exist in your waking life. It does. Without our attachments to the apparent reality of our situations, we can create from the same place of potential in which our dreams begin.