Dreamer

Resources to help you relate to Dreamers.

We all have a Dreamer part in us, although how strongly developed it is may vary from person to person. When learning to relate more effectively with Dreamers, consider it an exercise in getting to know and appreciate that part within you as well!

Want to get inside a Dreamer’s head?  Here is a link to a great “Ted Talk” by author Susan Cain, “The Power of Introverts.”

One Dreamer’s attempt to describe what it’s like…

“Each religion had its own version of hell: fire, ice, an eternity without the love of God, pointy-tailed vermin with pitchforks and unsavory appetites. Anna’s was a place where she had to talk to and be talked at by people day after day. A place where there was no solitude, no silence, no sacred meadows, nowhere one didn’t feel the scrape of others’ eyes upon one’s skin. A place where words fell in a constant assault upon the senses.” - Nevada Barr – Deep South (thanks to Joe and Judy Pauley for this quote)

Budda of the Emptiness – A Dreamer’s take on life

I spent the morning in a classroom
Fresh bottled as a bee
then away to tennis;
or rather, away
to play AT tennis
thinking in my head
more perfectly than I play in arm
that certain relation of ball and racket
Like the ball I am slammed
between these two worlds:
in one perfection dictates form.
which falls into reality with a clatter and pop.
In this other I endure the riot
of balls never landing where they ought
and the swing of arms invariably
where they should not.
As though it were a breath
I play tennis with a gasp:
deeply, irrevocably, with the verve
of a bee come suddenly upon
the one lone flower,
the buddha of the wide green
emptiness.
But I hear you object:
there is more to tennis
than enthusiasm.
I reply
there is more to the flower
than the bee understands
but he fattens happily there
full fertile in ignorance.

- Reverend Englebrecht, Jesuit Priest

Dreamers often perceive connections and relationships that others do not see. Their experience of the mundane can be extraordinary.

Tell us what works for you – a link, quote, story, or other resource to help others understand and relate to Dreamers.