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Daydream Believer
By karen | May 1, 2007
I’m a Daydream Believer. I absolutely believe in the power of daydreams. It took awhile to come to this beneficial realization. Back in the day when I was in elementary school, daydreaming was looked upon as an unacceptable waste of time.
Excerpted from the memory of 5th grade report card circa 1972
Yes, I am guilty of the crime charged in the historical document. What was I daydreaming about? I plead the fifth. I promise to do penance by discounting my own imagination and creativity, believing that the more mathematically inclined people are smarter than me and feeling inferior in general and “less than” for many years to come. Please forgive me my transgressions.
And that is really the way it was. Daydreaming was frowned upon. It was seen as a waste of time, a waste of energy and worst of all a crime of non-compliance. My fifth grade teacher, Mrs. W. was not a Daydream Believer. She didn’t believe that anything good that could come from a daydream. She let me know this often. She carried the stance of many well-meaning but misguided grown-ups at the time (and today too!) as she insinuated to all of her students “don’t do what feels good to you, don’t follow your own guidance, you should do what I want you to do, I am the only one who knows what is best, only do what I tell you to do”!
Unfortunately for me I believed her. It felt terrible but she was the authority figure. I was just a little girl, what did I know? My own guidance system had yet to achieve the respect and honor that it deserved. I had too many people telling me “how life is” and what I “needed to do” in order to comply with their wishes!
But now I’m a grown woman. My own guidance system has become my most powerful and highly regarded tool for creating my life. I now follow my own judgment!
I know that daydreams can be an incredibly powerful tool to create a life to be treasured, a life that we dream of, the life that measures up to the biggest dreams and aspirations. I look back on my own life and I can clearly see how the daydreams and visualizations that came naturally helped me to create the life that I wanted.
Where do we create anything if not in our own minds? Everything on this earth started out as a spark of energy within someone’s imagination. The expansion of all of Life begins with a daydream.
Make your mental blueprint and begin to build.”
Robert Collier
1885-1950
It’s the visionaries and the dreamers who change the world. It’s imagination that sparks the revolutions. Visualization is a powerful tool that most of us use to some extent without even trying! What would happen if we all started using this capability for our highest good and the highest good of others?
We have the gift of an amazing mind that can dream and imagine and create.
Be a Daydream Believer!
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This article is included in the Carnival of Creative Growth #4 located at Energies of Creation.
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May 1st, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Hi Karen,
Awesome post. I’m a daydream believer too! I think daydreaming is an excellent Deliberate Creation tool. I used to feel a little guilty about it–ok a lot guilty!–having absorbed the same kinds of messages, but I finally realized that not only does it help me create and manifest better, but it also helps me get into a more positive place, when I’m feeling a little low.
Viva la daydreaming!
Cardin
May 1st, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Thanks Cardin! I love that “Viva la daydreaming!”
yes, it is an excellent tool and I encourage it for everyone!
May 5th, 2007 at 9:21 am
I am happy to say your article has been included in the Carnival of Creative Growth #4. I am delighted with the high quality of the articles this week, much appreciation to all of you who shared your writing! Please link back to http://www.energiesofcreation.com/carnival-of-creative-growth/carnival-of-creative-growth-4/ to share these other writings with your readers.
May 5th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Thanks Lexi! I’m looking forward to enjoying all of the posts in the carnival! I took care of the link back to you!
Thanks for hosting the carnival!
May 5th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Hi Karen
It’s amazing that we’re oceans apart (I’m from Singapore) and yet we’ve shared the same experience. Like you, when I was a little girl, I like to daydream, and like you, it was much frowned upon, so much so that as I grow older, I stopped daydreaming until recently… I’m re-reconnecting with my dreamdreaming self to become a daydream believer like you, especially after reading a report of an interview with Bob Proctor that said the Wright Brothers is able to get the plane off the ground all because they fantasized… and your post also reaffirms this point. Thank You.
May 6th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Janice,
I am happy, happy for you! Isn’t it wonderful that we are now seeing the value in our minds and our imaginations?
Thank you for stopping by!
May 6th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Hi Karen
Yes, indeed.. so once again, thank you for your post on Daydream Believer… I love the term
May 6th, 2007 at 11:26 am
I love the term too but alas I cannot take credit for it! Of course, I was inspired by the 1967 song by the Monkees!
May 7th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Calling over from the `Carnival of Creative Growth’ to say how much I enjoyed your article.
May 7th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Wow! Thank you!
and thanks for stopping by and your thoughtful comment!
August 1st, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Daydreaming is one of my favorite pass times. Without it I would have missed many happy moments.