Night meetings

A few weeks ago I asked for a dream that would feel supportive. It was a pretty simple request.

I woke remembering a dream where I was hugging a friend. I don't know him in my real life but I felt as if I had known him forever in the dream. He was very black, felt solid to hug and was only fractionally taller than me. My heart sang to be with him but I was saying good-bye. I knew I had to let him go and although I felt it deeply, I was okay with it as well.

Then right after that I was with another male friend. I don't recall what he looked like except his eyes, which were dark brown and almond-shaped. I looked right into them and told him he had to be careful. I said that he might be tempted to let his guard down at night when he thought there wasn't any danger but that he mustn't do that; he had to be vigilant. It was important to me that he really listen to what I was saying and take care of himself. I have no idea what the danger was or what he was doing.

What's so powerful about this dream, or two fragments of dream, is not the content of the conversation. It's the feeling. The feeling was electric. Not in the crackling sense but in the deep connection sense.

It leaves me wondering what we're doing at night.

Janet wrote down one of her dreams on her blog one day and I had some fun playing around with the symbolism of it. Not that I had the key to her dreams but I was experimenting. I think that dreams can be a way to work through what is going on in our everyday lives - sort of like the captions on a picture. I also think that we can use our dreams to figure out things that we're finding challenging - answers that we're searching for.

But I think that we might also have experiences at night that go beyond time and space. I think this was one of those dreams. It has something to do with the feel of the energy. Maybe we move through to another realm and help out other souls with whom we have a deep connection, or maybe we have other responsibilities in other times and places. If that's so, I'm not sure why I would remember that sort of dream. I would think that what is done in that realm would stay in that realm, for what use would it be here?

I come back to the request I made before I went to sleep that night which was to feel the support around me. I certainly felt that. But why did I choose that particular scenario? I wonder ...