Some dreams are meant to wake us up.
Like the dream when the man approaches your car
and you roll down your window to ask him what he needs
and he speaks in words you don’t understand.
What? You say to him. What are you trying to tell me?
And he pulls out a chainsaw and thrusts it through the open window
and instead of recoiling, you try harder to hear
what he’s trying to say. What are you saying?
you ask him, still wanting to make sense of the man,
believing he has something important to teach you.
He is here to teach you some people are not safe.
And why is it your survival instinct is so slow to kick in?
At last you thrust the car into reverse
and swerve down the narrow road before launching
into the air and soaring, soaring away from the man,
somehow unsurprised when the car lands in a canopy
of trees. And you are unhurt in the arms of oaks.
When you wake, as you do, each time you try to return to sleep,
there’s the man again, his chainsaw reaching for you,
the evil snarl on his lips. Wake up, says the dream.
Not everyone can be trusted. Why is it so hard
to wake you up? How can the world support you
if you choose to stay with what hurts you,
if you don’t let yourself be launched?
The was an great read. On point !
Londa, thank you … it was quite a dream and luckily i had a friend who could help me talk through it so it went from horror to an invitation …
So true. So painful. So important.
It is a lesson so hard in the learning for so many. And such dreams indeed do teach (or at the least inform), about the ways we learned to trust the unworthy-of-it, because they were the only ones there and we needed to trust them to survive more than we needed to trust our instincts … And yet … instincts only go dormant … and come visit, if not in wakeful times, then in our sleep.
May all who need, be launched.
Na’ama
Hi friend, I don’t know why it doesn’t just automatically put your messages on the webpage, but I need to approve them each time. ??? Anyway, thank you for this thoughtful response. Yours in the launching, r
Well, as long as you get to see them and so have the option to approve them, that’s good, too. I was worried they were traveling the ether, lost and confused and without a destination … 😉
Yay to launching,
Na’ama
🙂
Perhaps my previous comment did not go through. Perhaps it’s still marching the ether, looking for a landing spot.
If it does not arrive, perhaps it was not meant to. And if it does, then that is as it’s meant to be.
Well done, regardless!