Here is the dream:
I’m an observer, and a group of people are preparing for something very ominous. In fact, the whole feeling of the dream is ominous, foreboding, and dangerous. It’s very dark energy. They’re putting on their battle gear, preparing to go into some kind of tense situation, and they’re very determined. I’m observing all of this, I’m not a part of it; I’m just seeing it and I can feel the energy and I’m really feeling it too, thinking Wow, these people, they mean business. And I‘m not feeling anything myself in particular, no judgment or fear. Normally I think I would be very scared of these people and want to get away as fast as I could, but in this situation I wasn’t, I was just watching them and actually admiring them, realizing that they had a role to play.
Then the dream shifts and I’m again still observing, and I’m pulled into this other group of people, and you could tell that they’re friends and they know each other really well. They’re very concerned about another person, and they’re talking about her, about how they have to go and warn her and they have to go help her, otherwise “they’re gonna get her.” Something’s wrong.
So they go into where this other person is, and it’s like a grand hotel, and there’s all sorts of activity going on in different ways and I’m drawn in. I’m following them, still observing. They meet up with their friend and right away I’m conscious, I’m realizing that this group of men that I saw earlier, they’re working for the government or something. The other group of people who were worried come to this person they were worrying about, and I see her, and she’s this magnificent woman, you could see that she has all this personal power: she’s beautiful, she’s intelligent, she has a lot going on. And they’re telling her, “you’ve got to go, we’ve got to leave” and she’s seemingly not even able to hear them: she’s just in her own world. I see this and I realize that she’s in danger. I could feel the group of men are coming down the hall, and they’re going to bust in the room at any moment and I think, “Gosh, what a waste, she’s gotta snap out of it so she can be at her potential and get away. Otherwise she’s going to be overtaken,” I see that, and then the dream ends.
So as I woke up I reflected on that dream, and I had the realization that we all have this dark shadow side inside of us, who are ominous and have all sorts of negative or possibly hurtful consequences about their actions, and I recognized that as my shadow side coming after me. I saw the woman who is self absorbed and not paying attention to the warnings that are being given to her by her friends and her community as a part of me that can get like that, that can get too into myself and not able to hear what my circle is telling me, and that if I don’t pay attention and am not at my best and at my potential, then I will be overtaken by my shadow side.
I realize that that’s the role that my shadow side has for me, to help me to stay on my best, to be at my best, because if I don’t, I will be overtaken and then I will suffer needlessly. So that’s the role it plays, and that’s the gift of the shadow side, is to keep us on our toes, to keep us sharp and that way I don’t have to judge the shadow side; I can honor it for who he is and what he is in me and accept it.
So, I was very grateful for that dream. I got up and I had an absolutely great day. I paid extra careful attention to do everything with the utmost consciousness and with my utmost potential; I didn’t take any shortcuts that day and I had one of the most fantastic days. That all happened at the end of the first quarter moon of my experience, and I think that was the end of my first threshold experience. I feel like I had a great breakthrough that day, and so I wanted to share that with everyone, and show how our dreamselves are right there with us.