The Story of a Dream

I've gone back and forth on the topic of writing my "dream memoir" a lot. On one hand, it seems completely ridiculous for an ordinary person who has not achieved anything unusual in life to write a memoir. 

On the other hand, I lost hope and a dream saved me, and I feel called to tell that story.

So that's my caveat, I guess. I'm writing a memoir that isn't really about me. I'm writing a memoir about a dream and what I believe is possible.

This is the intro:

In 2008, at the lowest point in my life, I had a dream I could not explain.

Unlike the murky, sepia colored dreams I was used to, this dream was sharp and bright and saturated with color. A spectrum of blue, unlike anything I’d ever seen. Vivid reds. Shining white light. A beautiful woman with deep-water blue eyes, radiating love.

Filled with sparkling gemstones and mysterious beings, the dream told the story of a journey to and from an amazing location, and it told that story coherently.

As the woman in blue guided me from one dream experience to another, separate themes played out, like story-lines in a movie. When the dream finally ended, each loose end came together in a memorable and emotional conclusion.

I woke up convinced that my mysterious dream guide was someone special. I knew that the things that she showed me meant something. And even though I had no idea who she was or what she was trying to tell me, I was determined to find out.

This was the beginning of a spiritual journey that carried me through the New Age, in and out of Spiritualism and Wicca, halfway across the world, on pilgrimage to Israel, back to Christianity, through parapsychology, and onto the doorstep of Carl Gustav Jung.

I learned a lot in the process and I’ve tried to share the best of it in the pages that follow. In the end, however, it was the dream that was the key and, for me, that’s the takeaway.

I haven’t written this book because I think I’m wise or interesting or special. I’ve written because of the dream and what it did for me. It didn’t fix everything, but it did save me and I want to tell anyone who needs to hear it just how that can happen.

In the rest of this chapter, I share the life events that set the stage for the dream. In chapter two, I share the dream itself.