Life is a Dream

Life is a Dream
The belief that Life is a dream is central to the Huna philosophy. Well, groovy; but how does one make sense out of that idea and more to the point--how does one incorporate that idea into daily life?

You begin by understanding the similarities between dreaming and conciousness. A dream is communication from your Ku, but since the Ku communicates in symbols, dreams are often the subject of a lot of interpretations.
In the waking world, the Ku sees *EVERYTHING*. but in order for the waking mind to function, the Ku filters out all but what is important at the time, in that way it oversees what we experience--much as it does when we are dreaming.
So...if we interpret events in our waking world as we interpret our dreams, we can get information that is useful to us. Simple.

When something particularly memorable happens to you, take a step back into another realm of awareness and pretend that it was a dream. If what happened to you had been a dream, in what ways could it be interpreted? As a dream, what messages might it be trying to convey? You can gain a lot of insight into the stuff you aren't normally aware of.
This is one reason that the ability for lucid dreaming is so important. By the same "force of will" you use to affect the happenings in your dreams, you can effect happenings in your waking world--although it takes a LOT longer.

I recently got a call from someone from my past--we shared an intense physical relationship but it didnt last long. The particulars of why aren't that important here, it's what the relationship represented to me, and its timing in resurfacing in my life.
I wondered what it was that made him decide to call me after so long, so I used the "Dream Interpretation" and applied it to the events.
What came to mind was that I was having difficulty in releasing desires from the past. This was certainly true in a few areas of my life, especially my work;
but I hadn't really been flogged with it until now. For those of you who are wondering, that was the catalyst for the stuff I've been spewing about concerning personal change and the like lately.
I found that by really taking some time to think about what it was I wanted NOW, I was able to get rid of some of the crap that had been gumming up the works for so long....you know the kind..."well, I could do X"...or "I could do Y"..."I just cant pick between them..." all based on preferences and experiences I had in my past. I *know* I can do pharmacy...I've done it before, and so if life stuck it in front of me, I'd probably do it and not really think about it. But that's not the same as *wanting* to do it.
Settling for what is in front of you is not the same as wanting it. Trying to convince yourself that it's here for a reason is not the same as *wanting it*.
Trying to picture yourself in every possible job that comes your way is not the same as *wanting* to do it...even if you think you'd be "OK", or you "could do worse"..etc.
I had the same problem with relationships. (See the difference, Stephie?)
It was there, so was I, and so it was meant to be.
If for some reason things didnt work out, then to my mind it was the Universe taking something that belonged to me.
It kinda sucks when you live your life with the idea (in the back of your mind) that somehow you will lose EVERYTHING you ever had/wanted by virtue of a Universe that was either 1) teasing you to be mean 2) showing you werent a good person 3) trying to tell you that you've done something wrong; or any other number of nasty messages that you internalize.

So here's the challenge; take a recent and not-so-enjoyable event in your life and pretend it was a dream.
Then think about it...interpret it...think about what the elements could mean if they were really just symbols of something else...
I'm confident that you will find it surprisingly relevant to current events and challenges in your life. With your attention brought to that point, do you have any new ideas about how to deal with those current events?

All this sparked by a "waking dream".
Boy, those Huna dudes were right on the mark.