Deep Meditation

I am floating in a lake, my arms are above my head and I feel a kick board. I hold onto it and start zooming around the lake. My eyes are closed and I am imagining where I am going and it is exhilarating but when I open my eyes to check where I am I see that I have gone off in the wrong direction into a scummy area of the lake. Also I realize that the sun has gone down and is dark and it is dangerous to be floating out in the dark waters at night. I float back to the others in the water. I am the group leader and I have apparently been floating in the water in deep meditation for over an hour. I can’t remember anything that has happened during that time and feel a little bad that I’ve been so out of it but play it off like everything is fine. I tell the group that our meditation time is complete and it’s time to get out of the water. Everyone does and as we’re walking back down a dirt road I hear two of the women in the group saying how they had non-stop mental chatter the whole time and it felt like a really long time to be in meditation. I again feel bad that I went into such a deep meditation where I was essentially unconscious and unaware of the other members of the group, basically abandoning them to their own experience which did not at all sound relaxing.

(If this was your dream what would it be about? Comment below beginning with "If it was my dream..." or "In my imagined version of this dream...")

© Genevieve Camp, Well of Emotions, magazine collage, 5” x 8”