During February, we spent a few weeks out on a rural property. Business is pretty transportable, what with laptops, skype, podcasting equipment that fits in a handbag – well, almost – and the ease of doing live radio over a home phone. Or so we thought.
It wasn’t that easy. Old, crackly phone lines, fickle internet connection, no cell phone connectivity. Thank goodness dreams don’t need special equipment. On tap, every night, come what may.
I left the property to go home to Brisbane a few days before Michael. One night, he awoke from a dream in a freezing sweat. Something heavy and cold was slowly climbing up his arm. No really, it wasn’t a dream. He turned over the possibilities: snake (most likely), deadly snake (very possibly, there are plenty in the area); spider (maybe), deadly spider (they do exist); cockroach (would have to be a big one). Whatever it was, he knew that moving too quickly increased the chances of getting bitten. And how, he thought, would he summon help? No cell phone, crackly phone line, 50 acres to crawl across, if bitten by something venomous, to get to a rarely travelled country road in the middle of a dark night.
We had been told the property was haunted, and, well, Michael thought, maybe it was. Finally, he opened his eyes. It was a little green frog. Harmless, quite beautiful, but not really what you want to find in bed with you in the middle of the night.
We’d had enough rural experience for a while, yet what did I see when I opened the back door on my first day back in Brisbane? The biggest green frog I’ve ever seen, so still and translucent that at first, I thought it was a child’s toy.
How things change! This time last year, Australia was in serious drought. Now we have such an abundance of rain that we have huge green frogs in the city. I thought about kissing the frog, but I already have my handsome prince. Not only handsome, but prepared to open his eyes and face his fears and, in so doing, discover the beauty of a welcome change.
Which brings me back to dreams: are you doing your dream alchemy practices? Are you transforming venomous snakes into bountiful green frogs, frogs into handsome princes, droughts into fields of green?
Work with the stuff of your dreams to create waking life magic.
PS Anyone recognise the purple road image? It was on the front page of www.dream.net.au when it was first launched back in 1998. How things have changed and evolved since then! Ah, the power of dream alchemy indeed.
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