You never put the bag down

✦ TODAY IN DREAM SIGNS

What is in your hands

On Monday you were running. Today, the thing you never thought to put down while you ran.

THIS IS WHAT I CARRY

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THURSDAY, 27 AUGUST

Dear friend,

I worked something out in the night that I should have worked out years ago, which is that in every chase dream I have ever had, I am carrying something.

A bag, usually, held in one hand and never once set down, even while running from a thing with no face for what feels like most of my life.

Marta’s mother was holding a coat on Sunday, which I passed over on Tuesday as scenery, and I have not been able to leave it alone since.

So after a week of looking at what is behind us, the forward question is what we have in our hands while we run from it.

The thing you are holding

Nearly everybody is carrying something in these dreams, and it is nearly always a thing you would call light if somebody asked you about it awake, which is exactly how it keeps its place.

🎒 A bag I never put down	🧥 Something of somebody else’s
📱 My phone	💭 My hands were full somehow
Tap the one that fits

Mine is a work bag, and I do not need to explain that to you, though I will admit I tested yesterday whether I could leave it in the hall for an afternoon and found that I could.

Whatever is in your hands is nearly always something you agreed to at some point, since nobody hands you a bag in your sleep without you reaching out for it first.

That agreement is the part you can look at today, because you cannot outrun a thing you are also holding.

“	You cannot outrun a thing you are also holding.

What it asks you to put down

Setting a thing down and throwing it away are two different acts, and people get stuck here, since most of what we carry belongs to somebody we love and dropping it feels like dropping them.

You can put something on the floor for one day and pick it up again on Friday, and nothing much happens, which is worth finding out before you decide the carrying is for good.

Start with the lightest thing you are holding, because the heavy ones come with arguments attached, while the light ones are only habit.

✦ BEFORE YOU GET OUT OF BED

Tap one to answer it

1

What am I carrying today?

2

Who handed it to me?

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Did I ever say yes to it?

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What would fall if I let go?

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Who would notice by tonight?

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What could I set down for one day?

You do not have to get through all of them, since the one you skip is usually the one doing the carrying.

✦ CARRY THESE WITH YOU TODAY

I can put this down for today

Some of it was never mine

I can pick it up again later

I said yes and I can say no

My hands are allowed to be empty

Tap the one you need

✦ WRITE BACK

Of the things in your hands, one could go down today and one certainly could not, and I would like to know which.

TELL ME WHICH ONE

The bag stays in the hall tonight, unopened, which is either a very small experiment or a much larger one, and I will know by the weekend.

Sleep well,

Dream Signs

P.S. My daughter watched me pick the thing up on the way out this morning and said, without looking up, that I take it to places which do not have any work in them. Tell me what is in your hands. Then she went back to her cereal.

✦ TONIGHT’S PRACTICE

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Leave one thing by the door

Pick the lightest thing you have been carrying and put it somewhere you will see it, then go tomorrow without it and notice what actually happens.

TELL ME WHAT YOU LEFT

✦ MANIFESTATION TIP

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Say what you are not taking

When you name the thing you want today, name what you are leaving behind in the same breath, because the room has to be made before anything can move into it.

WHAT CAME BACK

Something happened after a dream? Tell me

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Dream it. Sign it. Live it.

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