Or At Least It Seems So...

I couldnt sleep for some reason this morning. Lying in the bed wide awake at 3:30 am is usually never a good thing.  I woke from a dream where was walking down a staircase through the heart of a city familiar to me... at least in my dream.

There was of course the dreadful forebodance of being on a quest or drawn into some spontaneous circumstance that set me to running forward. Dreams can be crazy... or at least it seems so!

But dreams do reflect life in many ways.

We go from one rather normal and calm lull headlong into an outbreak of calamity,  disaster or... or at least it seems so!

I think that the awake life, if were are not more observant and vigilant, is a lot like that sleep just before 3:30 in the morning. We find we have drifted into an acquiescent acceptability that tends to numb us to the reality that life is an ebb and flow of events.

Good times will come; so will the bad ones. Victory can easily follow defeat, or also be chased by it. Grief and joy are accustomed neighbors. We just have to diligently be prepared for whichever is to receive us next.

In dreams, we are just as often vanquished as we are victor. The determining factor to which is often how early or late into the dream we awake. In life, in a more figurative sense, it is much the same... or at least it seems so.

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