I Dream of Dakini

I went to bed last night with a now-familiar ache emanating from my right temple and woke up not more than 2 hours later with a raging migraine. I went to the kitchen and grabbed an ice pack, downed some acetaminophen and diphenhydramine, and fell back asleep with the right side of my face resting on ice. None of which helped as I woke up within the hour in even more pain, and an upset stomach. I helped myself to a bowl of ice cream, which helped abate the inflammation that was causing me so much pain, grabbed a fresh ice pack and went back to bed.

Much of my day today was spent waking every hour on the hour, getting fresh ice packs, ice cream, and small snacks to calm my tummy.

Days like these are always horrible and painful, I can barely think coherently, I bump into walls and furniture with eyes half-closed. Terrible migraines, the pain is almost unbearable.

But today, between all the pain, something beautiful and amazing happened!

I had my first wholly lucid dream.

I dreamed of a place I have dreamed of many times before. Of mountains and rivers and ocean coast, mystical beings, castles and temples, everything luminescent. A place that can only be described as something akin to Shambhala.

What is most amazing about these dreams is that the people within them appear to be acting of their own free will. Meaning, it is not a figment of my imagination but rather real worlds from different dimensions inhabited by sentient beings. These dream worlds.. are in fact other worlds existing in parallel to the waking world.

Those who are not yet spiritually awake, especially those in the western world who have been indoctrinated since birth into believing that magic and mysticism do not exist, that alternate dimensions are impossible, that love and hope and faith are fallacies, will find it difficult to believe in dream worlds and spiritual beings. But I believe, and am grateful to be one of those enlightened and allowed into these alternate worlds of wonder. May the worlds of mystics bleed into the "real" world so that all are enlightened and freed from the tyranny of hopelessness and despair that has plagued humanity for thousands of years.

May there be a river of love, hope, and peace moving out of you and me to set our people free.

May we all believe.