What do you dream on your "Bucket List"?

Human beings dream for different reasons. You may daydream about being somewhere else because you don’t like where you are. You may nurture dreams that motivate you. You may not realize you dream or, figure it has no significance.  If your health isn’t ideal, dreaming may raise your spirits, transform your outlook, or even heal your soul.

A recent movie called The Bucket List reminds us that it’s never too late to identify your dreams and realize them. In this story, the protagonists learn they are dying of terminal cancer. They draft a list of what they want to do before the end, sort of like living goals.

One man focuses on thrill-seeking experiences, like skydiving and car-racing, to encourage facing fear. This man also favours reinforcing his senses of sight and touch. He chooses to visit particular places and eat particular food. For him, money is no obstacle to realizing this list, yet what he buys doesn’t satisfy his lingering void.

The other man’s ideas are less materialistic and more feeling-based. He desired to experience things like, “a majestic view,” to grasp “the true meaning of joy,” and to do unspecified, altruistic things, like “help a stranger.” His own revelations include discovering a stranger can also become a friend.  Both men re-evaluate what matters.

Every moment, you have opportunities to define or revise your dreams. You don’t have to experience crisis to trigger deeper reflection. You don’t have to lose everything as the result of an environmental disaster, heartache, terminal disease or, the behaviour of dishonest people. Anything that evokes discomfort may prompt you to dream differently. Your mindset and feelings are like a compass.  You can change dream directions anytime.

That said, you don’t have to be given a reason to dream. You do it naturally. To raise awareness of hwo and why you dream gives new meaning to your life. What would you like to do differently? What stops you, but yourself? How are you thinking right now? 

Comments

[Craig Harper]

Hey Liara.
You didn't tell us what was on your bucket list.

[Liara Covert]

Craig, what a sly way to avoid sharing your own view! Would love to hear it from your soul! If I think about it though, I have no "Bucket List." Sure, I imagine places I haven't been, and I sense I will visit the ones I should when the time is right. Yet, what I can say is I live every moment of every day to the fullest with no regret. Examples can be found in my posts like, The Biggest Risk Ever series, beginning with:
http://blog.dreambuilders.com.au/journal/2007/3/29/the-biggest-risk-ever.html

[Shilpan | successsoul.com]

Liara,

Great post. We only have one life. Either we dream the dreams or we turn them into their physical equivalence. We have to know how we are and what makes us happy before we embark on any dreams. My recent post on Pick The Brain reflects this natural law - http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/5-ways-to-bury-a-great-idea/

[Liara Covert]

Shilpan, some people sense they dream what they really are rather than experience it. Some people evolve to realize that to have a vision is a step to becoming or realizing that you already are and have always been what you thought you had dreamed. Imagine!

For example, if you dream you're a happy, successful person, then you're more likely to awaken to realize you are living your sense of that truth. You can choose to expand on it with initiatives, but if you don't believe what you dream, then you will not believe you experience it, and have it even now. Faith, trust and self-acceptance shape your life.

[Hilary]

Hi Liara .. my mother has castles in Melbourne, Buenos Aires, here in Eastbourne, and she decided she'd go from BA to Valpairiso .. I asked her to spell it .. she could!! So we travel around and chat about places to visit, remember our Africa trips, our Canadian trip, etc .. we were even going to NZ for Christmas .. and deciding which nurses to take with us and how many we needed & how Mum would travel .. in the Iron Maiden or not .. (a sling - nicknamed by my Ma) .. so she's visiting her imaginery places in her mind .. I expect to visit them in due course - without the Iron Maiden!!

Thanks for the Bucket List film .. I'll remember and watch sometime ..
Hilary

[Liara Covert]

Sounds like you have places to stay wherever you travel. We could exchange amusing travel stories. I spent a summer in Valparaiso. We may have been in some of the same palces at the same time?! I have heard people care for the homes of their owners in different countries. That is viewed as a unique job, especially if the home is a haunted castle or lighthouse. Imagine house-sitter/ghost hunter/spiritual house cleanser job descriptions? Astral travel also enables a person to visit anywhere with the mind. You can daydream or night dream and expand consciousness to soul travel without limits. This opens more than just physical planes. You create mental limits about what is possible and dissolve limits in due course.

[Hilary]

Hi Liara .. just dashing off to see my Ma .. and nearly didn't visit .. thank goodness I did .. I WISH WE HAD CASTLES everywhere .. they're in my Mum's mind .. that's fine . ... it's good to travel and see who she takes with us .. and who we meet .. often her mother who died in 1972 .. but she's around ..

Meeting up with you in Valparaiso one day! would definitely be fun! - amazing place to go to .. I've always liked the sound the the Atacama desert .. Geography was one thing I was good at - at school .. & sport ..

Thanks off to the hospital .. Hilary
PS - the op was successful ..

[Liara Covert]

Hilarly, glad to hear the next stage is flowing smoothly. Blessings.