Don’t Meet Your Heroes

Do dreams have meaning?

I never thought about it as a kid but as I aged, I learned about the subconscious and how our thoughts are projections of our feelings. Carl Jung believed our dreams are a window into our deepest thoughts.

Last night, I had a dream I was waiting in line to meet one of my heroes. Where I was or why there was even a line was beyond me but when you’re neck-deep in dreamland nothing is out of the ordinary.

As I got closer to the end of the line I realized I had nothing for them to sign.

I quickly grabbed a book in hopes they would sign that.

As I was walking up to the desk I played the scenario in my mind a million times.

“What would I say?”

“Should I tell them how impactful they were on my life?”

“How they influenced me to want to share stories of my own?”

As I gave them the book to sign I realized the book was falling apart. In a panic, I grabbed the book and replaced it with another in better shape.

My hero was annoyed and grunted under his breath something about “God forbid we make a funny moment.”

They were angry and resentful. In my dream, I felt crushed. This person had such an impact on my life I couldn’t cope knowing my one experience face to face was an annoyance.

In my panic of trying to make the moment perfect, I not only missed most of it, what little I captured was soured.

When I awoke I felt the need to write down “By the time you make the moment perfect, you’ve lost the moment altogether.”

This was the message of that dream.

The time I spent trying to perfect the moment scorched the earth or the memory to forever leave a scar in my mind.

I have family members who believe dreams have a deeper meaning. Messages from other worlds to warn us of dangers that lie ahead. While I’ll never know if that’s true, there’s no denying when we dream, there’s a message to be learned. Like a phone that rings incessantly, it waits hoping to deliver us a message. 

So when the phone rings, will you pick it up?

Neurotically Yours,

• Lorne

Thanks for reading! If you’ve made it this far I’d love to hear your input.

Everyone has at least one dream they remember. What’s a dream that you’ve never forgotten? Let me know in the comments.