Jonas Salk, the scientist who discovered and developed the polio vaccine, said:
“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.”
If you’re like me, it’s not so much nightmares as it is recurring dreams of working things out in the dream state that don’t appear to be worked out in the waking state.
How much attention do you pay to your dreams? Are there nightmares – or are there dreams that you want to be different?
Do you think that your dreams are sending you information of processing on a deeper level that you can find useful on the level of what we perceive to be “reality”?
What do you think Salk meant when he attributed his success at achieving his dreams to his having encountered his nightmares?
Have you been able to use nightmares to the same effect? Are nightmares “teachable moments”?