“Dreams don’t mean anything.”
This is uttered by Thorstein, the son of Egil Skallagrimsson. An
ill-boding dream has just been related and there is debate as to whether or not
to undertake a planned for action.
Thorstein urges them on with the wisdom, “Dreams don’t mean anything.”
His counsel holds true in all dreamy respects.
Bad dreams mean nothing as they are but ephemeral sleep phantoms.
What matters is what is done in waking hours.
Conversely, good dreams mean nothing as they are of the same nature.
Consider particularly good dreams, those of a “moist” nature if you
will, they do not bode that you will encounter the same good fortune in waking
life.
Dreams, good or bad, tell us nothing about what we will do or what will
occur in our wakened lives.
It is the action and not the sleeping fantasy, good or ill, that dictates
the course of our character.
“Dreams don’t mean anything”
also holds for our daytime dreams.
Those declared affirmations for awesomeness that we profess to the
world and to ourselves, “I’m gonna do 1,000
push-ups every day!” “I’m going to embrace each day as if it were my last”
et cetera et cetera.
If these statements, no matter how real they seem to us when we utter
them, are not followed by action then they are no more real than the dreams we experience
at night.
In fact, they are of a worse quality as we have little control over
what passes through our skulls while we sleep, but we do have a good deal of control
of what we ponder, and we most definitely have control over what we say, post,
and declare.
Do not let night-time fictions dissuade you from living your life.
And…more importantly, do not let your word, your ambition, your nature,
your life be nothing more than expressing one dream after another.
No one enjoys hearing your nighttime dreams recounted in detail, how
much more unwelcome all the daytime dreams recounted/posted with enthusiasm
that we are expected to accept as accomplished fact.
Awaken dreamers, it is time to rise and work.
"Dreymir ekki neitt, aðgerðir gera."
“Dreams don’t mean anything, actions do.”
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