I'm the voice off Celestasia

My answer is - We can. We go on a retreat every night! It cost us nothing! Our workshops are the time we spend dreaming!

Dreams make perfect sense when you’re having them. Yet, they leave you befuddled the next morning, wondering “where did that come from?” Our answer lies in that very question. "Where did that came from"?

What inspired me the most during the years when I was keeping a dream dairy was “The Alchemist” written by Paulo Coelho. It's a story of a shepherd boy who turns his dreams into reality in spite of the many obstacles he faces. Throughout his journey he follows his dreams until he succeeds. What was it that inspired me about this particular story? The Alchemist reminded me of the story of Jesus. In the book the sheherd boy was a true magician that could perform miracles nobody could explain. Instead they ( the people he meets on his journey to the land of magicians, ) all they wanted to know was why and what he did to make his trick work! This book inspired me to investigate how we, during our dream time,can find solutions that others have already discovered.

The deeper meaning of Paulo Coelho story was that we are all true magicians, but it's our disbelief that stops us from producing miracles! That was also what Jesus said. "What I can do, you can do also and more!"

Now, getting back to our dream time. During our sleep we move into different levels of consciousnes. No matter what the words are we use for these levels, let's rather perceive it from this angle. Every level that we find ourselves in during our dream time, represents the thought- forms our mind has stored away during our waking moments as human beings. Think about this for a moment.

This was just a normal day. Not overly good, but it could have been worse. Let's say that you are in the habit of reviewing your day before you go to sleep and recalling the feel-good moments.

Our every day experiences are fleeting or random moments so in the end we rely on our memories of them - together with our understanding of the past and our sense of identity. Yet, our memory in itself seemed so biased and unstable, it is easy to let our imagination take over,(especially when we are hurt or angry). This further distorts events, so that in order to remember them in your own way, and... knowing that the brain is based on physical reality, and likewise our dreams occupy the same space as the mind (that is, no space at all), we have set up a dream reality for that night before we know it. Has it become a nightmare? A confusing dream with no real answers, or are we inspired with the ideas that we have woken up with?

Much of the fodder for our dreams comes from recent experiences, but not always, let's investigate this. There are different ways we store away memories.

The images that appear in our dreams appear as 'forms' and 'emotion' type memories and they are not restricted by our physical reality rules of time, space and growth. They involve the materialization of spontaneous constructions which would normally not occur in our physical world.

During lucid dreams, people are "awake" within their dreams, and can sometimes direct what happens next in the dream. With enough practice you can fly, visit exotic places, experience vivid colours, or eat all the ice cream you want, all without taking your head off the pillow. When you read Richard's journals you learn all about how he does it. His journals shows some light on how lucid dreamers get started and offers a variety of tools for the reader set on taking charge of their subconscious life.

How much time do you give to your dreams every day? For many of you it is NONE! Then how can you ever expect to make them come true? Only when your vision is clear can you plan how to actually get there. Always start with the end result in mind! That is what most of us do wrong. We start walking before we know exactly where we are going. In consequence we stray off and get discouraged.

Most of us dream, sometimes they are nightmares, but sometimes they are also dreams about a possiblility that only happens in dreams, but we might show no courage to pursue them. When that happens it's our own fears of failure that hold us back from pursuing these dreams.

It was Thomas A. Edison who once said, “I’ve not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that do not work”. Was that a comment from an optimist, or a pessimist? You know the answer I'm sure.

Often I think that during dream time we can find solutions that others have already discovered. like Thomas Alva Edison who said “Most of my ideas belonged to other people who didn’t bother to develop them”, So in order to turn dreams into reality; we must develop strategies to execute our dreams. We must learn to put them into action, and to perform an action one must learn to Trust in oneself. Our Dreams not only make us discover our mission (goals) but also help us feel its demand and develop an enthusiasm and burning desire to get to work on it. Once we become self-reliant, we need not wait for others to help/guide us.

You meet your best friend in every Dream, which not only guides you as to how to reach your destiny, but the real you also walks hand-in-hand until you have succeeded in fulfilling your dreams. “What the mind can conceive and believe – it can achieve” How can we turn our dreams into a reality?

Remember that the first (mild) example of daily experiences bring with them negative thought-forms that you have stored in your subconsious. The second (mild) example are the positive thought-forms that have the power to delete the negative vibes that are stored in your data base.

Can we use our dream time to our advantage? YES

The more negative thought-forms we become aware of, and we have found a way to delete them by overlapping these feelings with positive feelings and thought-forms, we can proceed in creating the dreams we want to materialise! It's really that simple! Or that difficult. That depends from which perspective you obverve your possibilities as a true magician.

Be outrageous! Think big! You can do it - if you really want to. Maybe the poem written by Marianne Williamson demonstrates what I mean. The words are very powerful and were used by Nelson Mandela in his Inauguration speech in 1994...

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be!
Our playing small does not save the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking,
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
You are born to make manifest to the glory of God that is within us;
it is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give others permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears,
our presence automatically liberates others."

Let these words inspire you to go all out to reach whatever it is you dream of. Because it seems that during the course of our life we forget the big dreams we had when we were young and believed we could do anything. Most of us have not been taught that we can be powerful beyond measure, but I now know that we can manifest anything we want to. Since early childhood we are conditioned to follow the people before us, or to stay within the boundaries of our parent's ideas about life in general and there will always be people who will remind us of it - but in spite of all this, we have a choice at any one moment of our life.

Always remember: your dreams belong to you. This is your life, so dare to explore further, dare to create new experiences, implant greater ideas. Act in spite of your fears and doubts - step by small step. Move on even if you feel uncomfortable. It is in those difficult moments that you grow.
I wish you to be all you can be and that is anything you want to be! If it is to ascend during this life time. so be it!
Namaste