Message #15968

[kingfisher111]

I started taking some valerian root capsules before going to bed a couple weeks ago, and have since been having quite vivid dreams the every other night or so.

Last night I had a dream where I was in some kind of strange school in England, which seemed quite strict and even a bit fascist.  I think I was managing pretty well in it, but I was worried about a friend of mine who was also there (who I had spoken to last night before going to sleep).  In real life he opened up to me about how much he had cut back on his drinking since starting a new job in the health food industry which I helped him get.  I was still concerned because the amount he said he's been drinking would be enough to really mess with my body and mind in a not good way (I rarely imbibe), but for him it was a minor victory, hopefully on a longer path towards better health!

In the dream, he was on the other side of a barb-wired fence where we were both eating lunch, in grass, but talking to our own people and not really acknowledging each other, but within earshot of each other.  I told someone of my concern for my friend in this "fascist school", that I thought he might be doing habits which will get him kicked out of it or in trouble, but then he heard me when I said this, across the metal fence, and he walked away, slightly offended by me talking about him, but also showing a confidence that I shouldn't worry about him.  He's on top of his own dharmic path.

This felt like a pretty clear message from my unconscious to my conscious mind, not to focus on the problems of others, my friends (often a challenge for me) and to focus on my path in this "fascist school", which I think is basically the art of finding ones dharmic path of good work in this out-of-balance, money and status focused modern society.