INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DREAMING

My dream journal is filled with bits and pieces of dreams from the past week. In one:

I'm scrolling an i pad screen and my finger sticks to it, lifting the words off like a strip of cellophane. As the many pages of words are peeled from the screen I become concerned that I've created a problem. The i pad transforms into an address book.

"Old methods of keeping track of things by writing them down are being offered," I'm thinking. I'll be doing that soon... lifting the addresses from my computer and writing them down as orders are placed in my online store. My mind reflects on the paperwork procedures I've been setting up for myself this week. 

In another dream: I walk into a room with a TV that is vertically scrolling indecipherable snow filled pictures.  I know I need a break from the technical aspects of my current process so I head to a lake where I know I'll find the swan.

It's a beautiful warm day as I sit in the profoundly trusting energy of the solitary swan who lives here. When she returned from her winter migration last year, her life partner did not return with her. A man who I meet today tells me that she was very shy last year, but has become more comfortable this spring. I feel her strength in going forward alone as she accepts what she meets in every moment and trusts where she has chosen to continue living. This waking dream is one that I feel deeply and relate to. Communing with her brings a softness to my frazzled mind. I immediately surrender into the lessons of this sacred natural interaction.

What is real? What is illusion? I can only meet these questions with an open heart and the willingness to stay present with the feelings and related thoughts that come to me in each moment as I stay present with the beautiful white form that swims and dips into the shallow waters before us. She revives me and brings a peaceful shift to my energy field. I'm grateful. Now, I feel prepared to re-enter my scheduled activities, thanks to the gentle sharing of a dream with a graceful swan.