Complex dreams and simple meanings

"Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter."
--D.H. Mondfleur

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
--Confucius

I couldn't wait to get my hands on the book. From what I'd heard, it was something which few had read and was an extremely rare find. It was almost the stuff of legends.

Contained within the pages were promises of untold knowledge and would serve to illuminate the reader on many of the mysteries of the world.

It had finally come in but with a caveat that I might not like what I discovered.

I started to read the book with great enthusiasm, poring over every page to glean understanding of the world around me. Yet, when I went out into the public, the world had become twisted and warped to me and I no longer saw the wonders of each day for they had been stripped bare.

A stranger approached me after noticing what I was reading. Again, he issued a warning to stop before it was too late. He implored me not to finish the book because it drove many to a madness from which they would never recover.

I wanted to scoff at him but felt that there was something to his candor. He begged me to follow him...to see what the book had done to others whose curiosity got the best of them.

When my eyes gazed upon the horrors, I recoiled in fear and disgust. Souls who had scratched at their eyes to gouge them out wandered blindly around the room, blood oozing from the sockets. Their wails and shrieks pierced my ears and made me want to scream.

It was at that point I realized that I had to rid myself of that tome that contained not just lies and deceit, but also the bitter truth.

Before the madness took firm root and destroyed me...

Yep...that's the kind of dream that I get when begging the universe for an answer...lol.

I asked any higher power who was listening to give me a sign on how I might be happier.

You see, I've been reading a lot lately. Books, yes, but I try to pick up as many magazines as possible to gain understanding of world events so I can speak intelligently on a subject. Plus, I like to be informed, generally.

But in the long run, what does it matter?

Usually I don't run into many people who even chat about world events so why should I bother wasting my time on gaining different perspectives on subjects? Most either turn a blind eye to everything, have their own unwavering opinions which makes it difficult to have even the simplest discourse with them and others simply don't care.

So why bother?

And in waking and remembering that dream, I almost immediately knew what it meant. In fact, the first thing that came to mind was a pivotal scene from the movie Tucker: A Man And His Dream.


Preston Tucker and his associate Abe are meeting with a senator who offers cryptic conversation regarding Tucker's entry into the automotive industry. Tucker had just blasted the big three and the senator offers a veiled threat to him...

Senator: "Quite an idea of yours...selling dealerships for cars that don't exist. You remember that song? Music goes round and round...oh, oh, oh...and comes out here. The 'big three' should be indicted for manslaughter, huh? Funny line."

Tucker (perplexed, to Abe): "What was that all about? What did he say? Did he say anything?"

Abe: "He said...'Stay out of the car business'."

Tucker's designs revolutionized the auto industry but he never made a name for himself. Acquitted of charges of fraud, his career was over. His idealism had been met with resistance and that was the end of his company. The dream was dead.

Maybe knowing too much about the world and idealism is my "car business".

The dream was the universe's way of telling me to get out....before it's too late.

Or maybe it was something I ate...lol.

So in any case, I'm moving toward simplifying things. From small things like eliminating things and people from the past (i.e. deleting phone numbers, e-mail addresses, blog sites) that are just distractions and time wasters and hold no importance for me to larger issues like focusing on final preparation for my LA pitches in three months, I'm trying to streamline life in general.

Time to rid my life of clutter and make things less complicated.

Let other people worry about the car business...I'm trying to build the business of "me"!