I remember sitting on the front steps of my parent’s home as a little boy daydreaming. With the sun shining on my face, with my eyes closed, I could see the bright orange color inside my eyelids. Occasionally I still daydream, but not enough as a place to relax and watch what comes up on the screen of my inner eyelids. While daydreaming can be a distraction and an escape from things you need to do, it can also be a place of relaxation and rest. Too often we turn on the television, our smartphones, computers, or pads, to watch something produced by other directors. When we take time to look at the screen of our inner eyelids, our imagination can create ideas, scenarios, and plans, enabling us to be the directors and producers of events, chapters, and scenes in our own lives, in which we can play the main character or a supporting role. Our night dreams are produced by our unconscious mind, but our daydreams can be produced consciously or in cooperation with our unconscious mind.
Regardless of the culture, watching children at play reveals the great potential of the human imagination. When we awaken our childlike imagination, we can see a world where anything is possible. Our greatest literature, art, poetry, architecture, inventions, cures, and knowledge have been born in the imagination.
If our imagination can be disciplined for success, the obstacles, setbacks, and distractions will never deter us from the vision we see. Take the time to dream a conscious dream, and then consciously enter the dream. Get away from your routine for a moment and take a walk, swim, run, or a ride and let your imagination have time to breathe. You will be surprised by the wealth of your imagination.