偉大的夢

昨晚我躺在床上，讀著 Dan Brown 的新作，有關探討人類意識的奧秘。忽然，老公醒來，說他剛做了一個夢，想立刻告訴我。他大概只睡了十來分鐘，夢境也很短。

夢中，他站在懸崖邊，腳下是深不見底的水。他感到害怕，但也知道自己必須鼓起勇氣跳下去。當他一躍而下，水面上的陽光漸漸遠去，水越深越黑。他的第一反應是恐懼，但在那一刻，他明白自己需要「臣服」與「接受」眼前的處境。突然，他看見一隻巨大的眼睛，一條比藍鯨還大的鯨魚向他游來。鯨魚小心翼翼地將他托上背部，然後從深淵中升起。他們一起在水面上快速滑行，享受那份自由與速度。最後，鯨魚再度一躍，將他送回懸崖之上。

這個夢從「夢境階梯」的底層——惡夢開始。造夢者直視自己的恐懼，當他願意面對並探索恐懼的根源，夢境顯現的圖像為他的情緒與潛意識。陽光為顯意識逐漸遠去，雖然心中仍有恐懼，但他選擇了臣服與面對。他所遇見的，是自己強大的生命力量——如同聖經中的利維坦，那隻居住在深海的巨獸，象徵破壞與混亂，但也是神創造來與祂一同嬉戲的存在。在我們情緒的最深處，也潛藏著這股生命力。它可能帶來毀滅，但若我們能與它共舞，就能穿越恐懼與混亂，駕馭生命之流，盡情玩樂。

這個夢也讓我想起約拿的故事。約拿試圖逃避神的召喚，不願成為先知。他登上船，企圖遠離神的旨意，卻引來狂風巨浪，最終被水手推入海中，被鯨魚吞噬。在魚腹中度過三日三夜後，他答應履行神的使命，鯨魚便將他吐回岸上。

每個人都有自己該走的路、該完成的使命。所謂「逆天而行」，就是逃避成為真正的自己。每一段英雄旅程，都是從不和諧開始的——不是因為怪獸橫行，而是因為內心渴望突破生命的無意義，尋找真正的寶藏。夢境會引導你穿越黑暗深淵，需要勇氣與臣服的力量。在恐懼中，你會遇見自己強大的生命力，並知道你是安全的，因為你已擁抱了真正的自己。夢境的力量，就是能在短短幾分鐘內，將你從黑暗的夢魘帶入光明的「偉大的夢」。

Last night, while I was still in bed reading Dan Brown’s latest work on human consciousness, my husband suddenly woke up and said he had to tell me about a dream he just had. He had only been asleep for about ten minutes, and the dream was brief.

In the dream, he stood on the edge of a cliff, gazing down at a bottomless body of water. He felt fear—but also knew he needed to summon the courage to jump. As he leapt, the sunlight on the water’s surface faded, and the deeper he went, the darker it became. His instinct was terror, yet in that moment, he understood he had to surrender and accept his situation. Suddenly, he saw a massive eye—a whale larger than a blue whale swam toward him. Gently, the whale placed him on its back and rose from the abyss. Together, they glided swiftly across the water’s surface, until the whale leapt once more and returned him to the cliff’s edge.

This dream began as a nightmare at the base of the “dream ladder,” where the dreamer confronts their deepest fears. When the dreamer chooses to face and explore those fears, the dream shifts—highlighting emotions and the subconscious. The sunlight, representing conscious awareness, fades. Though frightened, the dreamer chooses surrender. What he encounters is his own powerful life force—like Leviathan from the Bible, a sea monster dwelling in the deep, associated with destruction and chaos. Yet Leviathan was created by God to frolic and play. At the depths of our emotions lies this same life force. It can be destructive, but if we learn to tame it, we can break through fear and emotional turmoil, riding the current of life with joy and vitality.

This dream also reminded me of the story of Jonah. Jonah tried to escape God’s calling to become a prophet. He boarded a ship to flee, but his defiance brought storms and chaos. Eventually, the sailors threw him into the sea, where he was swallowed by a whale. After three days and nights in its belly, Jonah accepted his divine mission, and the whale released him.

Each of us has a path to walk and a purpose to fulfill. To go against that path is to resist becoming our true selves. Every hero’s journey begins in disharmony—not because monsters roam freely, or because life feels meaningless, but because something within us longs for transformation. Dreams often guide us through the dark abyss, requiring courage and surrender. In fear, we meet our inner strength and discover we are safe—because we’ve embraced our life force. The power of dreams lies in their ability to carry us, in mere minutes, from the depths of nightmare into the light of a “Great Dream.”