Do you think dreams can teach you something about your life, what you need to learn? Can they offer clues to your psyche: hidden beliefs or fears, or help you with important decisions? Or are they just scattered bits you absorbed during the day, input, stimuli and thoughts you might not even have noticed as they happened.

The confusing part, I think, is that they are both. Sometimes they are just random; sometimes they contain deep meaning and clues to our desires, anxieties, clues from a higher part of you that has your attention once you submit to sleep, the ego disengaged. Other times, in my opinion, dreams offer proof that we can sometimes see the future. Examples for me often revolve around the natural world.

One night I had a dream I was at a rock concert. Odd that it wasn’t a Prince concert or a Robben Ford concert, as that’s where I would more likely be, but I was at the show of a loud, heavy, aggressive band. At some point in the show, just before I woke up, the band somehow ordered out this huge, frightening, thirty-foot tall animatronic creature onto the stage. It walked on two legs, and its legs were so long I could barely see its torso or head.

I woke up.