about dreaming

Think of your body. Your circulatory system, it has a heart that pumps, always working. Your arteries are main highways, like the trunk and branches of a tree, pumping nutrients to where it's needed. It's natural. Your brain controls your heart, think of your brain. Its main connection is to your neural path.  It tells your body what to do.  It works hard always.  Just like branches stemming to twigs and leaves, your blood system connects to unseen micro uses, to your fingertips and toes.  Your nerves do the same, to microscopic uses, to microscopic work.  Always working.  When we sleep, when our body shuts down, we can see the hardest parts of us at work, we dream.  This is natural.  Like society, think of leaves as people, from growth, from a small sprout, to a mighty tree.  People working together can create a mighty tree, rooted deep and beautiful and wondrous, aged to perfection.  What's natural about that tree?  How many leaves died and fell withered through the seasons.  Many were robbed of sunlight, as higher and wider branches fought among each other for sunlight.  Always growing, a moment in the Sun, in bliss, a sense of work being done, while underneath that which didn't grow fast enough died.  But still, all for one cause, the tree.  Like society.  Now, back to the body, we are blessed because we can sleep, much like a tree in winter.  When we sleep we see the hardest parts of ourselves working, the tree in winter doesn't grow, but saves itself, survives.  Trees don't dream while sleeping, but we do.  We see images of ourselves growing, and that's important.  We know what parts of our lives to leave behind, what parts need growth, so when we wake we have an idea what needs be done.  The tree knows what parts to grow to best collect the Sun in spring.  It's natural.  But, we are blessed with choice.  We can grow not together, favor a branch, suffer and die altogether.  We can corrupt our body and not grow in spring, the Sun could scorch our barren branches.  Roots might not find water.  Rest is important, dreams are important, work is important, growth and sacrifice is important.  Our perfect example is like the tree, children with uncorrupted hearts, and a good persons aged wisdom.