An ineloquent journal entry about dreams and what they have to do with reality shifting/manifesting
Still thinking about dreams and how the heccccc they relate to shifting. I used to believe dreams had nothing to do with it, because I was in that strict law-of-assumption-is-everything mindset,, where dreams were just dreams, meaningless, and if you gave them meaning, it was only because you decided they did.
But the more I think about it now, the more I canât ignore it. Dreams are too strange, too specific, too⊠*something*⊠to discard sometimes. And the thing is, I believe they (like sleep itself) are just another level of awareness, and awareness moves in layers. Awake, daydreaming, hypnagogia, hypnopompia, SP, lucid dreaming, etc , theyâre all sliding scales of the same thing: awareness.
And awareness is everything (in my current opinion). You experience all of reality through awareness. Even if you believe in the multiverse theory, what guarantees that you experience those other realities in the first place is awareness. Take away your awareness of something, and thereâs nothing to experience, meaning you can no longer experience that thing.
Sooo itâs the constant ; the screen of space in front of us right now, the lens through which all existence is filtered. Itâs not just what you see in the physical world, but also imagination, memory, perception. Everything you can experience, dream, or imagine is mediated by awareness through awareness,,,, because itâs all IN awareness.
Thatâs why dreams hold such information. Theyâre a glimpse into the deeper layers of consciousness, the layers where all possibilities already exist. If every reality already exists, then the information we seek is already within us. We contain it all (hence âyouâre the source! the creator!â says every loa blog to exist, me included)
And now Iâm starting to think dreams are like future memoriesâ or more like ,, fragments n remnants bleeding backwards from something you already are, something you already did, because awareness isnât in time. You are awareness, and everything (your imagination, your DRs, your past, your future, the answers you seek) already exists inside you. Youâve been cosplaying someone clueless because your conditioned reality trained you to stay blind.
If awareness is the medium through which knowledge is experienced,, then all insight, all understanding, all perception must originate within it. There is no external source delivering truth to us; it arises because awareness itself contains, or at least can access, all possibilities. Every idea, every memory, every âa-haâ moment is just awareness reflecting on itself. In that sense, awareness is the container, the engine, and the origin of all that can be known. Without awareness, knowledge has no stage to exist on, no reality to be recognized in. It is inseparable from the one who experiences it.
Which is why I now believe people when they say dreams have meaning. If all is awareness, dreams are another screen showing you whatâs possible, whatâs coming, whatâs already yours.
I remember the weirdest dream Iâve ever had a few weeks before I learned how to control my shifting. My name wasnât Clover in my DR back then; it was my real name in this reality. (Letâs call me Evie for example bc, well... close enough).
I dreamt (dreamed? what is english) I was standing in a massive field of clovers. Oceans and oceans of green leaves. My DR father was there too. Heâs dead in that other reality, but in the dream, he was alive. For context, heâs a genius, knows all there is to know about shifting, states, reality creation, physics, everything.
He looks at me and says: âThe moment you find a clover, youâll shift, and everything will change.â
So I start hunting in the dream, obsessing, tearing through the grass for a four-leaf clover. I canât find one, of course. Could I do anything right those days? I get frustrated and yank a three-leaf clover from the ground, ripping the leaves off, mutilating it.
He watches me, puts a hand on my shoulder, and says: âClover, what are you doing?â
I look at him, confused: âWhoâs Clover?â because my name is Evie.
He then says: âNo. Youâre Clover. Why are you plucking pieces out of yourself?â
And it hits me in that moment: that he never told me to find a four-leaf clover. He said find a clover. And I already had it. I was holding it the whole time. Deep regret washes over me for mutilating the poor clover and yanking its leaves off. So I decide to fix it and make it perfect again.
I close my eyes and repeat over and over in the dream: âdesign, construct, produce, createâ (still donât know what that means btw). I open my eyes, expecting the clover to transform into a four-leaf, but itâs the same three-leaf one from before. I look up, and my father is gone. I was alone.
When I woke up, I decided to change my DR name to Clover. At the time, that was the only takeaway from the dream, âjust change your name.â
Two weeks later, I shifted for the first time on purpose, and I failed to miss the irony. Looking back now, I see the whole lesson. I was searching for something I already had. The shift wasnât out there; but it was here. When I realized, logically, that night: âWait, none of this makes sense. If I already have the basic ability to shift, thereâs no reason I canât shift tonight,â I did. Everything fell into place.
The dream told me how to shift and that I was looking for the answer outside of myself what I already possessed it inside. So if dreams donât have meaning beyond what we give them,, what the fuuuuuck was that.
Thatâs why I believe dreams are more than nonsense you give meaning to at will. When you dream of your DR, itâs not just âyou gave it meaning so now it matters.â Itâs awareness showing you whatâs possible. Itâs a prelude to creation, a glimpse into what you can manifest.
So from my perspective now, dreams have answers.
Logically, we already know everything because everything arises from awareness. We are the source of all things. The answers are already inside us. Dreams tap into the deeper layers where knowledge already exists in our consciousness, leading us, showing us whatâs possible, confirming that our imagined desires can become real, and......sometimes, they tell us exactly what to do.
Thereâs no harm in analyzing them, and it just might be that thereâs profound value in paying attention to what they tell you.