Eye See You: The Dream That Set Me On My Path To Become A Dream Teacher.

“Our true spiritual teachers come looking for us in dreams, and often they come in unexpected forms.” -- Robert Moss, Author and Originator of Active Dreaming.

Each time I read this quote it is as powerful and exquisite as when I read it for the first time.   These words beautifully express a profound and timeless truth -- a truth that reached out to me across time and space in a dream and transformed my life:  

In my dream, I am walking down a path in the middle of the night.   Suddenly, I see two, glowing yellow-green eyes, about three or so feet from the ground, intensely staring at ME!

I stop in my tracks, frozen with fear.  While still in the dream and quite lucid,  I sum up my predicament:  My husband is away on a business trip.   I am alone in the house.  It’s storming outside, and two disembodied yellow-green eyes, glowing in stark contrast against an eerie pitch black nightfall, are locked on me as if I were prey.   I am not in the mood for this.  Determined to shut this dream down and NOW, I hear myself saying, "No! No!" 

As if to signal “Hey, not so fast,” a Native American man suddenly begins to take form.   He appears to be a young man, in his late twenties or early thirties.  He is bare-chested, wearing an animal skin apron around his waist.  His long, silky, shiny jet-black hair freely cascades below his shoulders and rests on his chest.  

His presence is instantly calming.   I am no longer terrified, and I decide to allow the dream to continue.   Somehow, in the process, I claim enough courage to risk looking back at the two, glowing eyes that once terrified me.   To my surprise the eyes have become fully embodied by a sleek, muscular, powerful, panther, whose silky, shiny jet-black fur seems to share a familial oneness with the Native American Indian, who is now standing at panther’s side. 

“Who are you?” I ask the Native American young man, standing before me.   He shares his name with me, and as he does he extends a gift to me that he is holding in his right hand. It is a necklace that looks like an elongated cross with open wings at the top.   I intuitively understand that I am to wear this necklace from this day forward. 

I accept his gift and realize, as I do so, that the winged cross necklace symbolizes a larger gift that the Native American has brought with him to share with me.  This gift consists of several animals, in addition to the panther:  A white bear, an eagle, a wolf, a horse that acts like a dog, a lion, gorilla, and a domesticated cat and dog.  

I lingered in bed the morning I had awakened from this dream, contemplating its meaning.   I recognized that this was a BIG dream for me.   Why? I am a New York girl -- born and raised -- somewhat of a homebody, who does not enjoy traveling around the world to exotic places.   My only connection with wild, exotic animals is to observe them from a safe distance standing on a patch of cement, like at the Bronx Zoo.  Yes!  I tended a small garden in the backyard as a kid and encountered a wild squirrel here and there that inadvertently found its way into our basement.  And, Yes, I unquestionably love and adore my animal companions, sharing a deep spiritual connection     But a Panther??? A  little bit out of my league, don’t you think?  

Indeed!  This dream was significant and just to be sure that I did not doubt myself and its significance to my life, unbeknownst to me the Universe was busy conjuring up a bit of synchronicity.  

My husband returned from his business trip from Salt Lake City, Utah, the same evening of the morning after the dream.  (I had not shared my dream with my husband, nor with anyone else for that matter, at that time.)  When traveling, my husband always returns home with a small gift for me.   When I opened the gift that my husband had brought home from his trip to Utah, I was stunned to see that he had bought me the exact necklace that the Native American Indian had given to me in my dream  –  an elongated cross with wings at the top.  “It’s a Native American totem necklace with eagle wings,” he said.   “I LOVE IT," I exclaimed, more than he could ever guess.    

The first thing I did the next morning was to search out someone who would be able to guide me to understand my dream in a way that brought meaning and purpose to my life -- and the rest is history.  

Today, I am a Certified Teacher of Active Dreaming, dedicated to helping you actively engage the power and wisdom of your dreams for personal success and well-being. I have studied and trained with the premier Dream Teacher Robert Moss, author and originator of Active Dreaming.    

There is much more to this story about panther and me, as you might surmise from the picture I have chosen to use for my website’s blog.   Panther would return more fiercely than before, time and time again.  Ultimately, I would have to come face-to face with panther; there was no place for me to run and hide.  However, that is a story for another day.  Stay tuned!

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