{"id":84040,"date":"2012-03-11T12:16:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/84040\/shadows-realities\/"},"modified":"2012-03-11T12:16:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T16:16:45","slug":"shadows-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/84040\/shadows-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadows of Realities Yet To Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A few days back, my supervisor handed me an envelope with \u201cThank You\u201d written on it.\u00a0 Inside, was a five-dollar bill.\u00a0 This was my prize for selling off the GE Albatross.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the last six months or so, an ugly, slightly-used, bisque-colored GE top-mount refrigerator had vexed our clearance area.\u00a0 It would get sold, and then something would happen.\u00a0 The person decided afterwards that they didn\u2019t really need it. It was too tall for their space.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t notice that little dent on the left hand side.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t work right.\u00a0 This happened several times.\u00a0 The darned thing just wouldn\u2019t stay sold!
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\n\"\"The boss joked that whoever sold the Albatross for good would get lunch on him at Dick\u2019s Hamburgers (a famous Seattle burger joint which just opened a new restaurant near our store).\u00a0 One of the best things about Dick\u2019s is that five dollars is really all you need for quite a satisfying lunch.<\/p>\n

That GE fridge wasn\u2019t the only Albatross to haunt the department recently.\u00a0 There were the Whirlpool Cabrios – Darth Vader Edition.\u00a0 Okay, that\u2019s not what they\u2019re really called, but you can see from the picture, that\u2019s what they look like.\u00a0 At one point, I printed out a picture of Vader off the internet, taped it to the underside of the lid with a hand written caption: \u201cLuke, I AM your washing machine!\u201c <\/strong><\/p>\n

For three months, these beasts sat on the clearance area as a pair of floor models.\u00a0 Now, they are truly amazing machines, but with a starting list price of $1999 EACH, it took a while for the successive markdowns to reach the point where they became a \u201cdeal\u201d.\u00a0 When they finally got sold, it was a tremendous relief that these ominous looking beasts were gone.<\/p>\n

Two nights ago, I had a very odd \u201cwork dream.\u201d\u00a0 I was handing the five dollar bill back to my supervisor, not because the fridge had been returned, but because I had allowed the Darth Washer to come back.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, on a busy Saturday, it was just me and another guy working the appliance floor, while a familiar looking customer lurked near the desk, waiting his turn to be helped.\u00a0 It so happened my colleague got to him first.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah,\u201d I overheard him say, \u201cI bought that black washer and dryer set off the floor a while back.\u00a0 They BOTH <\/strong>have problems!\u00a0 I want to return them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"My knees turned to jell-o and my heart skipped a beat when I heard this.\u00a0 Not because of what had happened, but because I had dreamed of it happening that very night before!!<\/p>\n

Now, it having been a little more than two months since the guy had bought them, they were outside our normal return policy, so my colleague had to get a manager involved.\u00a0 After two months being out, what are the odds of them being returned on THAT VERY DAY?!?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I have known people in my life who honestly believed that their dreams could and did predict the future.\u00a0 I have always tended to believe them, despite how completely un-scientific and magical that may sound.\u00a0 I am, on the whole, a fairly rational guy who has more than a touch of skepticism for the supernatural.\u00a0 How, and more importantly, why would I have a dream that predicted such a specific, random and completely unpredictable and unlikely event?<\/p>\n

How is simple.\u00a0 See, as Einstein first postulated, we can think of time as the 4th Dimension.\u00a0 We perceive it differently than the other three dimensions due to our perspective, but time has similar characteristics to up, down, left and right.<\/p>\n

\"\"Imagine you were walking along a straight line, looking at the ground, when suddenly, the ground gets a bit darker.\u00a0 If your universe consists of what you can see on the ground, you\u2019d have no explanation for the source of the sudden darkness.\u00a0 Looking up, you see a big tree along your path, and behind that, the Sun which has been illuminating your path.\u00a0 You have stepped into the shadow of the tree, perceiving it\u2019s effects well before reaching it\u2019s position in a limited perception, linear universe.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how we can dream of things yet to come.\u00a0 They are \u201cshadows\u201d cast in the 4th Dimension.\u00a0 Now, I\u2019ve always thought that the bigger the \u201ctree\u201d, the more likely it is to cast a shadow on the path of dreams we are walking.\u00a0 Why would such a minor event, a virtual shrubbery, in which I had no role, cast shadows on this dream walker?<\/p>\n

I write this blog this morning because of the dreams I\u2019m waking up from today.\u00a0 Last night, I dreamed that my life had totally changed for the better.\u00a0 In the dream, I had lost a bunch of weight, I\u2019d quit smoking, I was living in a much nicer place.\u00a0 I was playing guitar with collaborators and writing songs with a mastery I have yet to achieve.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s not like I\u2019ve been really depressed in real life lately, but in this dream, I was really<\/em>, really <\/em>happy.<\/p>\n

If there were a system by which one could lose weight by dreaming it away, it\u2019s inventor would be a very rich man indeed!\u00a0 No, the changes I had accomplished in my dream only come through work.\u00a0 It will require a change in how I live my life and what I choose to do with my time.\u00a0 It will require changes in my priorities, discipline and motivations.\u00a0 It will require I resist the comfort of instant gratification in exchange for a better, more fulfilling, healthy life.<\/p>\n

The reason I dreamed of that washer and dryer being returned was to prepare me for the dream I had last night.\u00a0 It\u2019s God telling me that dreams can be more than just wishful thinking; they are shadows of realities yet to come.<\/strong> I am convinced, right now, that not only do I want <\/em>to make these changes, but that I will <\/strong>make these changes.<\/p>\n

Starting tomorrow with returning that $5 bill to my supervisor.\u00a0 No, I didn\u2019t cause the return of the albatross, but giving it back will be a symbolic way of making that first dream come true, as I will make last night\u2019s dream come true.<\/p>\n

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