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Dreams & The Subconscious
When I first started Shadow Dance Mystiks, I wanted it to be a space where we could share our dreams.
In ancient and tribal times, when someone had a dream, they would bring it to the morning circle. The shaman or chief would interpret the dream either for the person individually or for the community.
Monday, I had a dream that woke me up at 5:30 A.M. and kept waking me up throughout the morning until I fully got up.
The dream had many aspects of my relationships. Friends from college. Meeting someone new who felt like a connection, but underneath it, there was an inconsistency. Then the dream shifted, and I was sitting at a dinner table with my curandera.
I’m sharing everything that’s been on my heart with her, and she tells me she has a gift for me. She leaves and comes back with a pink rose, limpia soap, and hands it to me.
Then the dream shifts again. I’m on a train. I’m getting off the train. I’m seeing people I know with children I’ve never met before.
It was a lot.
I woke up with a kink in my neck and feeling tired. My whole day felt emotionally heavy, and I realized my dream had actually taken a toll on my physical body.
Throughout the day, I kept reflecting on the pink rose limpia soap. The symbolism felt really clear. Purification of the residue around the heart. Purification from emotional heaviness and inconsistent connections.
And with certain things happening in my waking life right now, I realized I sometimes allow these connections to affect me more than they should. The dream was very clear about not allowing that again.
I’ve been setting intentions around my dreams because my dream world is very active. Very karmic and samsaric. Usually, if I remember my dreams intensely, it means I didn’t actually get the best sleep.
So lately, before bed, I’ve been praying: “My dreams are a space of clarity, devotion, and alignment.”
But after this dream, I realized I also needed to add gentle restoration. Because clarity without rest can still leave the body exhausted.
Keeping a dream journal can be really important if you want to remember your dreams and deepen your subconscious work. But for someone like me, I’ve realized I also have to be intentional about what I’m calling in before sleep so I can wake up feeling healthy, grounded, and strong.
If you’re in a season of deeper exploration with your subconscious mind, your dream world, your emotional body, and the hidden layers underneath your patterns, I invite you into our next Communion.
A 7-day Shadow Work Ritual focused on reflection, dream work, emotional processing, nervous system awareness, and deeper spiritual integration. A space to sit with what’s surfacing instead of bypassing it.
One of the participants from Communion II shared this afterwards, and it felt really aligned with everything I’ve been reflecting on:
“This communion was exactly what I needed. I've made a lot of progress on my own, but it wasn't until this 7-day challenge that I was able to process my emotions through the scattered pieces of my spirit. I felt stretched thin, and Deanna led our sacred circle to new healing dimensions extending deeply into hidden and repressed parts of my soul.” — J.
The next Communion will not open again until December.
See you then. 👁️
P.S. Next SDM community call is Wed., May 27. Save the date!
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