Runaway Thoughts

The real world has a way of putting out the fire in our belly but it’s not too late to retreat to the dream world to replenish our flame. By Kathael.

I began to realize that I had been daydreaming less and less lately; is it because I’m more content with my life or that I know what I want? Or is it somehow when I grew older, I got tired of the constant disillusion of it? Instead of letting random thoughts reign rampant during idle time, I find my thoughts always going to work or how to budget my money to buy myself a new toy.

Comparing that to my kindergarten days, watching my first anime (or at that time, all of them were called cartoons), I daydreamed so often that I was a Princess trying to save my home planet, that I could swear seeing the spaceship over the horizon of trees that surround my school. I see the playground as my kingdom, where I could fly to a million other places (or rather swing as high as I want). I even had friends (imaginary and real) share this untainted reality with me. As stupid or childish as that may sound, I relish those memories of imagined adventure.

I think it was in Oprah where I heard one of the guest specialists say that daydreaming is a way to keep your brain from shrinking. Regardless of the accuracy, there may be a modicum of truth in this statement. We have often undervalued daydreaming, judging it as a sophomoric pastime, or just a waste of time.

Daydreaming benefits us two ways: while it inspires the mind, it unwinds the body. Here, we have ourselves our own oasis, free of anxieties and expectations, where we can run away for a little more silence.

To artists, this dreamlike state is where the muses dwell. It is also where our brain takes the time to process the information we have accumulated, transforming knowledge to wisdom. Songs, music, art and stories that touch the inner turmoil of human existence…such as these could only be the derivatives of one’s inner thoughts. Some are so far from reality, but somehow, it’s the deeper they cut to the bone. This is the where excess of emotions, thoughts so pure that we dare not express due to social limits.

The greatest scientists of our time from Einstein to Newton are probably the greatest daydreamers of all. The technology of today: that had to start as a vision in unlimited mind of a genius. Without the daydreamers to conceive such ideas the Internet and almost instantaneous communication beyond the borders of space, you wouldn’t be reading this article right now.

As we grow wiser, daydreaming takes on a new dimension, towards a more directed visualization. It is a key to the realm of the mystics that is the place between awake and dreaming. This is where we meet angels and demons alike, the diviner’s seat of wisdom, where we can draw upon the correspondences of the apparent and the concealed world. The weaving of the web of the universe is apparent here, in this space, we seek advice from something greater than us on how we can change ourselves instead of seeking to manipulate the world around us.

The real world has a way of putting out the fire in our belly but it’s not too late to retreat to the dream world to replenish our flame.


About the Author: KATHAEL is a solitary seeker of ancient cultures and myths. At the age of 18, she discovered that Wicca had been the path she had unknowingly followed all her life. She is a graduate of Computer Engineering (UP Diliman), which for a time sidetracked her from things she is most passionate about and currently resides in the UK. She firmly believes that practitioners should be more focused on the presence of spirituality in magick.

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