A Life that Resounds with Significance

On Dreams, Change, and Decision Making

I have begun the process of going through our belongings and sorting them into three piles: keep, sell, and donate because my family is preparing to move into a school bus. I think that going through our belongings particularly the ones in our storage room has opened up a portal of memory in my brain into places and times forgotten. I had such strange dreams last night. I remember only glimpses. This morning I explained them briefly to my husband:

“I dreamed that you and I went into Dominos pizza with your dad and the shop looked like an Apple Store. While in the shop we remembered that we were vegans. So I explained to you that we would order a normal medium sized pizza for your dad, and then, I spoke with the man taking our order that we had a dilemma: we were vegans. The man seemed undeterred and began laying out pizza options for us.”

What I didn’t explain to my husband about this particular dream was that I had remembered we were vegan as we drove up to Dominos, and I had wondered if that night would be the night we chose to stop eating vegan.

I continued with explaining my dreams:

“Oh, I just remembered. I dreamed that I was asked to speak at a large church about the time I spent in a leadership program.” I didn’t explain that in the dream I was given a piece of paper with a timeline of what I was supposed to talk about and how long I should talk: 43 mins. Then, in the dream I explained to the church about my time at YWAM, which isn’t factual. I’ve never attended YWAM (Youth With a Mission).

“I dreamed about Lord Voldemort, and I think I dreamed about Stranger Things.” Specifically, the boy from Stranger Things. I think that somehow I was placing myself in the show and imagining how the second season will unfold. Of course, this is all a dream.

I’ve been thinking about the multiverse (being alternate universes) how our lives and thus the stories we tell contribute to our versions of reality. As I began writing this, I realized that perhaps an alternate version of my reality is that I did attend YWAM. Stranger Things is a show about an alternate reality that exists alongside ours. Though it may not look exactly as the creators of Stranger…

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