Showing posts with label dreams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dreams. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

I'm sensing a pattern...


My recent dreams include finding Puff Daddy behind a building almost in tears...okay, he was crying. He told me that he felt like he was always playing a character and he didn't even know who HE really was anymore. I took him by the hand, told him that I have had those feelings before and that I could help him figure himself out. And, as with any dream, the rest is really fuzzy.

Later in the week I dreamed that Oprah was helping families in a town or village that had been flooded. It was incredibly eerie--there were bodies, cars, and peoples' personal effects floating in the water. While she is OPRAH, she was not immune to the damage that had been done, nor was she above helping save things and people from the water (I know, it's super weird...it was a dream). At some point she wanted to get out of where we were and get a ride out of the town--not too easy with the roads being under water and all. Somehow, we made it out. She confessed to me, as we were both looking in a mirror and talking to the reflection of each other, that she was really unhappy about her weight being always in flux and that the headlines about her hurt her feelings. I didn't know what she was talking about because I don't watch t.v. or read the rag mags. She explained the issue and I told her, as I had Puffy, that everything would be okay and we could work it out/off. I then asked her where her favorite place to live was and she said Santa Barbara (which I guessed at the same time that she answered me). I told her that I used to be her neighbor- well not right next door, but SB is so small that we're all neighbors. And I babysat for a little Lilly did live just around the corner from her mansion. She wasn't all that amused. However, she was receptive to my offer to help her though. She was on the phone quite a bit scheduling interviews and the like. At one point she was on the phone with Brittany Spears. She seemed kinda private, yet she was candid in the same way that Puffy had been the other night...

Maybe my dreams are telling me that I should be in the celebrity self-help line of work?! BTW, if you google images of Oprah, you'll see that she really is beautiful and has a glow to her that only a kind heart and lots of moo-la will give you.

Monday, January 5, 2009

How do you get to know someone?

On a recent hike I overheard some girls chatting about where they went to college and what each others' major was, where they were from, etc. This mild eavesdropping made me realize that I hate those questions. If you really want to get to know someone make them think. Ask them what their dreams are, what they've always wanted to do, what's stopping them, how they feel about what they have done in their lives (not just where it was they did it or for how long). The better the questions the better the answers.

You'll likely make a new friend in one deep conversation over of a bunch of shallow encounters. And the person that you ask these questions of will be forced to think about their life and what they really want to do with it. They will thank you!

People are interesting they just need to know someone is interested.