I was in the hospital lobby, there was a circular staircase leading down to the street. I was trying go down the staircase to get to the street. As I was trying to find my way down, the building evolved into the Biology building where I was doing research as a student. There were many doors in the hallway, some lead to the hospital emergency room, some lead to the graduate lounge. The more I walked, the longer the hallway extended. I tried to get out of the building to find a more direct path as well but somehow I couldn't find where I needed to go and woke up.
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I had wished to help the Cancer patients in the hospital by a form of study group/ group therapy. I had also wished to go back to school to study. I felt that the dream reflected both of my wishes, and also reflected that I was somewhat lost on my path and getting no where.
One of the value I saw upon myself was to bring some inner lights into this world, into people's heart, to illuminate where darkness exist.
However, along the way, I had even lost my own light in the darkness. I gave in many times when there were conflicts of interest, at the end I found that I withdrew because I had not valued myself as much as I valued others.
As I am writing this, I also see that what I regarded as darkness were really my own fear, the fear to insist and express what I feel was correct when attacked so that the distortion can be straighten. When I was afraid, the fear became an emotional inertia that triggered my usual reactive pattern and negative emotions, and I felt trapped.
Inner vision / day dream
Somewhere in a forest I saw a girl sitting quietly by herself on a big rock. I sensed that she was me in another dimension, we shared the same feeling tone. The surrounding was lush, green, and quiet. The air was cool and calm, there mright be some other people around but I couldn't see them. It felt ancient....
My grandma passed away few weeks ago. On the same day an eagle came by to my office window on the 7th floor, it was so close that I could even see the eagle's face. I knew in my heart that it was grandma saying goodbye and letting me know that she was fine in the other world, I said goodbye to her and wish her a great journey ahead. The eagle then turn around and flew away towards the mountains.
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In the inner vision, I saw the girl sitting by the mountain side, a big eagle about four feet tall came to her, sit with her, embraced her, and kept her company. In the last three months when my grandma was dying, I felt that there was a feeling unfolding in my heart. After she died, I finally knew that the precious gift was the unconditional love from her. It was also in the way I was giving out that I was able to receive the same from her, the cord that was growing mutually was beautiful.
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Few days later, a friend invited us to go for a hike, the mountain we went was so similar to where the girl was sitting.

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The inner vision kept reminding me that no matter what was happening in my life, I was always protected, valued, loved and whole.
It also reminded me the space and light that was always there and never diminished no matter what was happening outside.
I have chosen to come to learn a certain lesson, and the challenge I run into was precisely the classroom I needed to be in ,in order to learn my way to go beyond my own fear and limitation. This is the special way things played out on earth, when I couldn't understand it, I saw it as darkness, and it triggered my fear, my limiting beliefs, and reactions. It was not until I realized that the darkness was precisely there to bring out my fear and emotions so that I could work on them, transform them, and bring about a different outcome that the lock released.
Freedom to be myself is what I really wanted in life, it is always there, but somehow I planted many obstacles on the path so that I could grow into myself in the process of attaining it.