When I first started Shadow Dance Mystiks, I wanted it to be a space where we could share our dreams. In ancient and tribal times, when someone had a dream, they would bring it to the morning circle. The shaman or chief would interpret the dream either for the person individually or for the community. Monday, I had a dream that woke me up at 5:30 A.M. and kept waking me up throughout the morning until I fully got up. The dream had many aspects of my relationships. Friends from college. Meeting someone new who felt like a connection, but underneath it, there was an inconsistency. Then the dream shifted, and I was sitting at a dinner table with my curandera. I’m sharing everything that’s been on my heart with her, and she tells me she has a gift for me. She leaves and comes back with a pink rose, limpia soap, and hands it to me. Then the dream shifts again. I’m on a train. I’m getting off the train. I’m seeing people I know with children I’ve never met before. It was a lot. I woke up with a kink in my neck and feeling tired. My whole day felt emotionally heavy, and I realized my dream had actually taken a toll on my physical body. Throughout the day, I kept reflecting on the pink rose limpia soap. The symbolism felt really clear. Purification of the residue around the heart. Purification from emotional heaviness and inconsistent connections. And with certain things happening in my waking life right now, I realized I sometimes allow these connections to affect me more than they should. The dream was very clear about not allowing that again. I’ve been setting intentions around my dreams because my dream world is very active. Very karmic and samsaric. Usually, if I remember my dreams intensely, it means I didn’t actually get the best sleep. So lately, before bed, I’ve been praying: “My dreams are a space of clarity, devotion, and alignment.” But after this dream, I realized I also needed to add gentle restoration. Because clarity without rest can still leave the body exhausted.

I keep thinking about this dream I had the other night because it had a lot of symbolism I have yet to digest. I was across the street from a bus stop with my friend Z, watching these huge dark figures hanging from the utility/telephone wires like bats. They looked like human body bags at first, and once I looked closer the bags had fur but no faces, and only the heads were shaped like an outline of a bat with the triangular ears. The most surreal detail about this dream was that the time was midday, and the sun was overhead, with blue skies. The bats transformed into women so fast I didn’t really catch the details, or I don’t remember but one of them looked over and exchanged greetings with my friend as if they were acquaintances. Z and I continued to walk to a cafe as if that was the next best thing to do, our reactions were so casual, and then we were waiting for a barista to make a coffee but they had to leave and they never came back. In the dream I had to get back to work because I was running late but then I woke up in my bed and that was also a dream of me being relieved I didn’t have to go to work lol. I have a history of painting and drawing bats in a surreal manner, so I’m wondering if this is a prompt for me to do a new piece, <it’s been a long time since I have created something significant ~_~> It also reminded me of another bat dream I had almost a decade ago, where bats were flying slowly in and out of my old apt bathroom mirror as if from another dimension 👁️🌀

I had a dream that my crush and I were driving somewhere in a van, and in my dream, I was feeling uneasy about something. Then, all of a sudden, my crush said, "Hey, Ingrid, everything is going to be alright." My crush, then, invited me to lay on his arm while he was driving. I looked up at him and we smiled at each other. I woke up with an extremely pleasant feeling. I still think about it to this day. This is extremely uncommon for me, because I normally have nightmares or really Lynchian/uneasy type dreams. It sucks, though, because this particular crush has another significant other, and yet my heart does not seem to stop yearning (another uncommon action for mine!). Fast forward to today--after several synchronicities, running into each other in random traffic lights, angel numbers, and numerous wonderful conversations with them--I decided to get a reading with an oracle reader, and they were like, "LET GO!!!" hahaha Thank you for reading. I had to let that out of my chest!