I am premenopausal and I have been noticing all sorts of shifts. One of which is the intense depth of emotion I am experiencing in my dreams of late. I have had multiple dreams in which mine or other people’s children die in various ways. I fall to my knees and weep. I feel the most intense emotional pain I may have ever felt. In the dream, I guide myself - don’t run from the pain. It feels like a deep hallowing - a scooping out of my heart and soul.
And then I wake up. Grateful that it was only a dream. But also aware that this is a pain that many hundreds of thousands of people are currently experiencing around the world at this moment. This is not just a human condition. This is a life experience. An animal experience. We share this pain with all creatures who walk the Earth.
You have read this far. Thank you. No one seems to want to listen to someone else’s dreams. No one seems to want to listen to someone else’s psychedelic story. They tend to end with, “I guess you had to be there,” either spoken or unspoken.
One of the powerful aspects of working with a psychedelic guide is that there is someone with you at least in body during your journey, who is tuned into what you are experiencing. They are invested in your journey. Once the journey is over - they want to hear all the ins and outs of what you experienced. This isn’t just due to the job description. It is how it works. If I hold space for you, I am genuinely interested in where you have gone when you return to yourself.
The psychedelic mind is similar to the dreaming mind, from what I am reading from the latest research. The processing afterward is similar too. Why did my mind generate that experience for me? What is my deeper self trying to tell me? Where am I now? What am I going through?
Let’s look at that.