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Dreams And Your Inner Child

Written by Evan Bailyn on 06/20 at 02:02 PM

Although your inner child may seem like a very distant concept, it is really just you with all of your layers of adult consciousness stripped away. Every night when you go to sleep, your mind gives you another opportunity to visit that inner child as it sinks deep down into your most natural state of being, exposing all of your fears, worries, and most basic needs. When you wake up, it is like emerging from an underwater solitude and climbing up onto a higher, dryer ground. The height that you scale before finally coasting on with your day depends upon how removed you are from your inner child. Some people, the most proper and adult among us, quietly ascend mountains before proceeding with their controlled existences, no longer able to detect the roaring waters of childhood they have subconsciously swum through just moments ago in their sleep.

Your dreams and immediate waking thoughts are the channels through which you communicate with your inner child. Trust them; and though the safety of the “real world” with its simpler, clearer set of rules might beckon you, resist it for a few moments every day and think about what you have learned from your sleep. Do not retreat right away into the security you have made for yourself over the years in relationships, positions of status, and other notions of identity. Allow the lull of your barest impressions to wash over you in its uncomfortable, convoluted collage of honesty. There is much to love about life and the day ahead, but facing your true self every morning will help you to unburden yourself of the mental weight you carry every day, and make you feel like a freer person.

It is amazing that the human mind refreshes, or “reboots” itself in this way every night, bringing us down from the mountain of illusions we create for our everyday lives. Although we cannot help but shake off the waters of our subconscious and go on like regular members of society, we should take advantage of the opportunity we get once a day to revisit our inner child, as it were - and, if possible, leave a trickle between our toes, just to keep a part of us dreaming.

12 Comments

Posted by Sara Hodge on 06/27 at 05:14 PM

I always knew that there was something more to dreams then nightmares and good dreams and bad dreams. I just didn’t know what it was.

Posted by fairydust on 07/10 at 01:07 AM

The article “Dreams and Your Inner Child” gave me a lot of insight.  The article explains that dreams can be a channel through which you can communicate with your inner child.

I understand now that my love of children’s movies must stem from a desire to connect with my inner child.

Thank you for bringing this thought from a subconscious to conscious level.  I know understand that I need to focus more on connecting with my own inner child.

Posted by amy on 08/07 at 07:01 PM

smirk i’d love to b an actress stupid really no experience or x factor post a reply please.

Posted by amy on 08/07 at 07:03 PM

dreams are your deepest desisires love is in your every interest life is your devotion and death is a must!

Posted by Dusty-309 on 08/14 at 09:35 PM

I dream to be rich because I work at a church which helps the elderly, disabled, and the homeless and I want to help them just like alot of these rich people doing these foundations I wish to have a foundation of my own.

Posted by Cynthia on 08/20 at 11:57 AM

I dream of being happy,married and a mother.
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Posted by Cynthia on 08/20 at 12:00 PM

And all that from an 11 y/o.LOL

Posted by Cynthia on 08/20 at 12:02 PM

Oh yippy.My inner child is telling me I’m running out of time.

Posted by LilGemsy06 on 11/18 at 05:23 PM

My favourite time of the day has always been nightime so I can go to sleep and dream.
Now I’ve read your article I’ve had alot of thoughts on dreaming and my inner child.
I think my inner child wants my to fantasise as much as possible and try to make my childhood something that i’ll never forgot

Posted by Tsiah on 05/15 at 08:35 PM

my dreams, are often vivid and scary, murders a lot of the time, and me figuring out who created them. The other half are people, guys i have liked, and then fantasized about. i dont honestly think that its my inner child telling me that the bloody corps on the sidewalk has something more to do with me, then me eating before i went to bed and having odd dreams about death and madness. I only ever see these things in dreams, i can even watch movies like that. I wonder what that means?

Posted by d on 05/24 at 10:06 PM

in my most vivid dreams i dream of free flying or of being in a swing and swinging high above any treetops as if i were flying..i never fall tho the fear is always there...it takes my breath away and i love to have my flying dreams…

Posted by Eleanor Tyris (ailias) on 07/11 at 01:56 PM

i ahev a stupid fear of drowning. i can swim so it is stupid, i always thought that drowning would be a very horrid death so when i dream its an adventure where weird things happen, i can live underwater and fly e.t.c. its wonderful, only in my dreams can i feel so free!
i think that being free is very important, there are lots of different types of freedom and nowadays 90% of people feel they are in someways trapped or cant speak . . .
i dont think you can ever be truely free on this earth, even children have some worries and fears even if it is only the bogeyman and the ghost under your bed!

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