Why Dreams Are Important To My Family’s History
On The Landscape, a miniseries on dreams. In this introductory episode, I share my childhood stories that come from the person who helped me discover the importance of storytelling through dreams: my mother.
I was walking around a stadium with Darany, a boy I was looking after. Suddenly, Darany ran up to an open mic and started sharing with the crowd an unforgettable incident from his younger years.
At a park, a random child had bullied around and pushed Darany. When the mother of the child was confronted, she appeared nonchalant about the situation. Expressing that she didn’t need to care about the actions of her son because he lived with a mental illness. She believed her parenting was irrelevant given his condition.
After he shared his story, he ran away from the podium and I was chasing him down so that he’d stay by my side.
Eventually, a woman caught him and decided to put him in a box as a form of punishment for using the mic when it was inappropriate and unwarranted.
When I was finally able to catch up, I opened up the box and spoke to Darany, to provide some comforting words to him while trying to figure out what to do.
At the end of the dream I realized I had been talking to a pile of dirt.
What Darany saw in the situation at the park was that an authoritative figure wouldn’t take responsibility for his bullying experience. He saw that speaking up about what hurt him led to inaction. He saw that his safety was met with lack of care.
The woman who punished him represents our society. What agenda gets pushed and whose voices gets shared is often at the helm of popularity, privilege, power and politics.
The box he was confined within symbolizes our mental and emotional cages.
Darany becoming a pile of dirt at the end of the dream is emblematic of how minimized we feel after receiving an unenthused response for our traumatic experiences.
This dream about Darany is one of many dreams I’m usually having on a daily basis.
Understanding dream work and incorporating storytelling through dreams is a beautiful and insightful way to understand that you're always being guided.
Dreams are a form of communication from our bodies. It's also a way in which our spirit team and those on the other side can communicate to us.
Dreams are very important to my work as a healer.
Before we get into any additional dreams that I'm so excited to be sharing with you in future Landscape episodes, I actually want to start at the beginning: my mother.
My Mother’s Life Experiences
One of the most special things about my mother's story and her life experiences is that she believes that the dreams she had and didn’t have of each child before they were born exemplifies who the child becomes in real life.
My mother carried 6 pregnancies to full term and out of those 6 children, she had dreams about 4 of them. For the two children she didn’t have dreams about, she believes that it explains why she couldn’t gain custody over them after she left her first husband.
The Eagle’s Egg
In the dream that represented my brother, Chanta, my mother found a nest of eggs that belonged to an eagle. She took one of those eggs. A spirit came to her saying that she needed to return the egg, but my mother refused to do so.
What's interesting is that after my brother was born he was constantly sick. There was nothing that could cure my brother. My mother attributed his sickness to the fact that she chose not to return the eagle’s egg.
In real life what we ended up doing was consult a monk who suggested we change his name to the day that he was born which is Sunday. We didn’t necessarily change his birth certificate or anything, we just called him by this other name. Ever since his informal name change he’s been less sick.
To this day I still carry this belief that I should only be calling my brother by his nickname because I do not want to reverse anything.
But he does refer to himself as Chanta. He also got a “I love you mom” tattoo in recognition of this dream. It’s of a woman holding an eagle’s egg. How’s that for a tattoo story?
Androgyny Through Angels
The second dream is about my sister, Somally, who nowadays goes by the name Sam.
Two angels that appeared before my mother: a female and a male. Both offered many different colored diamonds and wanted my mother to choose a specific color. She chose white and one from each.
My mother’s belief is that if she had only taken the diamond from the female presenting angel, Sam would have turned out more feminine. But, since she also picked from the male presenting angel, Sam turned out to also be masculine. Thus resulting in the androgynous nature of Sam.
Episode 2 - Ego Death: What I Dreamt About During My Spiritual Awakening
Episode 2 of this miniseries is now available on all channels! Between December 2020 - September 2021, I had a set of dreams with one overarching theme: ego death.
Passing Down Dream Stories as Part of Family History
My mother passing down the stories of her dreams during my childhood helped deepen my own relationship to dreaming. It helped me understand the power of messages and communications through dreams.
I feel like nowadays, our society is very quick to dismiss the importance of processing our dreams and viewing it as a communications tool not just from our own body, but also from our spirit team whether it’s loved ones who’ve passed, animal, ancestral and spirit guides or even between ourselves and other people we’ve been in touch with at one point in our lives.
Working With Dreams Has Helped Me
Understand what I was going through during my spiritual awakening
It gave me incredible insight in my journey of becoming a healer and today it helps deepen my relationship of working with sacred healing energy
Dreams have also helped me understand very important relationships of mine
And there are so many more ways that dreams have assisted in my daily life
Questions For You
Are dreams and story telling an important part of your lineage?
Is it an important aspect of your family?
Do you ever talk to your parents or other family members about dreams?
What role has dreaming played in your life so far?