Abstract

Wonder

Open attention to something that exceeds the ordinary — curiosity without the demand to immediately explain.

Wonder in a dream is the dream's image of open attention to something that exceeds the ordinary, without the demand that the thing be immediately explained. Wonder is not naive; wonder is a stance that lets a thing be more than what is currently understood about it. The dream brings wonder when something in your life — a piece of art, a child's behaviour, a natural event, another person's interior — is presenting more than the available categories will hold. Wonder held openly is the dream affirming the right stance. Wonder cut short by a rushed explanation that flattens the thing back into the existing vocabulary is the dream noting that the larger arrival has been translated down too fast.

Related symbols

A dream within a dream

Awareness doubling on itself — the dream pointing at its own structure.

Ambition

A held intention to reach a higher level — a forward orientation that directs the use of one's energy.

Anger

A hot energetic response to a boundary violated — a signal that something not okay has happened.

Anticipation

The forward lean toward a coming event — present time coloured by what is expected next.

Autumn

Harvest and letting go — the phase that is fruitful and falling at once.

Awe

The response to something larger than the self — humility produced by accurate perception of scale.

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