The FEATURED DREAM for the week of January 6, 2012

What a perfect dream for the start of a New Year!  While this dreamer does not give us a specific dream to interpret, he does bring up a theme worthy of exploring for all dreamers—the physical body.  In order to understand the meaning of this recurring theme let’s look at the purpose for the physical body. 

From the soul’s perspective the body is a means for gathering experience.  The five senses—sight, sound, smell, taste and touch—are all a means of receiving information.  Try this, pause and allow yourself to receive through your senses.  You might want to isolate one sense at time by listening to the neighborhood, smelling the room or gazing to the right and taking in the view.  When you are quiet and still, the experience of the senses is likely quite different than rushing around trying to get things done.  So what is the difference?  The answer lies in how attentive one is at any given point during the day.  When one is attentive with any of the senses the information that is received is more complete.  This is the difference between hearing half of what someone says and hearing all of it.  It is the difference between holding keys in your hand when you walked into the house and knowing where you set them down.  You may have been sitting reading this interpretation and not hearing the birds singing outside until you gave them your attention.  

Dreams with cars give the dreamer a read on the health of the physical body.  The book Permanent Healing is devoted to educating about how specific attitudes create health or disorder in the physical body.  A dream with a car that won’t start indicates an imbalance or poor health of the physical body.  Referencing the glossary in this book will aid the dreamer to be clear about what attitudes he needs to change to create better health.

In a dream parking a car and forgetting where it is indicates a need for the dreamer to be more attentive to the present moment.  Another way to look at this is that the body and attention need to be in the same place.  The image of the absent-minded professor is a good example of this—always lost in an intellectual endeavor and tripping over the cat in the living room.  These days people who talk on the phone while grocery shopping are separating their attention from the present moment.  Popular culture supports ignoring the present moment with commonly accepted distractions like smart phones and ipods.  Because people are living this way while they are awake, they are having dreams that reveal the separation from the physical body like I can’t remember where I parked my car.