Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.- Oscar Wilde.
Angel Jewellery. A Self -Confessed Dreamer.
Yes, I am a dreamer. And yes, I dream of Angels, and when I was a kid my parents and my teachers kept telling me to STOP DREAMING. They’d frown, shake their heads and sigh despairingly. Sometimes they’d even dish out a punishment to emphasize the severity of my condition. The problem was I didn’t know I was dreaming, so I had no idea how to stop it even if I wanted to.
I soon learned that here were problems being a dreamer. Quite a lot of people don’t like it, in fact it made them rather angry and uncomfortable and I wondered, why?
What the Bible say’s about Dreamers..check this out.
so..I did a little research and found to my amazement that there are warnings in the Holy Bible about Dreamers, that is, people like me. Wow, well that was a bit of a shock. But yes, the Holy Bible say’s that “dreamers” are rather dangerous people, who might lure you away from the path, and lead you into evil, to worship false gods and all that sort of thing. A couple of examples are: Jude 1:8. & Deuteronomy 13:1-5…its truly scary. You have to check it out.
Considering that my teachers were nuns and my Dad was a religious man, I could see where they were coming from, but honestly..
But wait! Further research revealed..
On the other hand, I discovered our earliest dreamers were poets and shamans, who knew the power of song and story, and who used their gifts to teach and to heal. Furthermore, throughout history many great thinkers, scientists, artists, visionaries, and leaders were ordinary people who helped to shaped our world on the back of their dreams. These men and women carried their dreams and visions across the divide, into the waking world, to enhance and inspire our human experience in amazing ways. I began to feel a bit better.
Here are a few, of the thousands of examples;
- Dr Martin Luther King Jr, I have a Dream. Must be one of the most powerful dreamers that I know.
- The movie, Avatar, was dreamed in vivid detail by director, James Cameron
- Paul McCartney, praised his dreams for his multi-platinum song, Yesterday.
- Stravinsky, Wagner, and Beethoven heard musical compositions in their dreams.
- Albert Einstein ascribed the theory of relativity to a dream.
- John Lennon “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”
- Steven Spielberg quote “I dream for a living”
Nourish your Dreams, Dreamers.
Well, (big breathe) now I feel better about this affliction which once darkened my little child soul. To be a Dreamer is not so bad after all. To be honest I am quite delighted with the outcome of my research. I am letting light and warmth and magical rain drops fall upon all my dreams today. I hope you do too.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
~Henry David Thoreau.