04 Jul My Dreams Went From Disturbing to Peaceful After I Got Ill, Were My Dreams Warning Me?
My dreams have changed.
For a long while now, my dreams have been disturbing and unsettling. Of late however, I’m finding I wake up aware that while my dreams were extremely vivid to the point I honestly am very surprised it was in fact ‘just a dream’ the contents and atmosphere are generally pleasant, upbeat and quite peaceful.
What has changed?
We’ll for me if I am honest quite a lot. I have struggled to write or create content as well as a number of other things I regard as high priorities on my list even though this year of 2026 is the year I finally launched The Idea of a Man which I must admit, I am hugely excited about because I’m finally putting out the material the universe has been cooking up within me for — a very long time — but suddenly I’m finding the energy I need is just not there.
Referring to energy, I don’t mean the passion, I mean the physical capacity to get up and do things.
A couple of months ago I began my diet and actually lost a lot of weight. I have not weighed myself, but put it this way, I was finally able to see my toes again. However, I had zero energy to exercise. Therefore, I concluded very reluctantly that something was wrong.
And so, one day I announced quite inconveniently, ‘I’m going to the GP’. And got myself up and into an uber and off to the doctors.
Doc didn’t say a lot. He just repeated the blood pressure test too many times. He stared at me with a look of combined concern and amazement before stating he’s giving me a letter to take to A&E.
Two days later I took that trip. This time I had a sneaky feeling before I went in that I was not going to come out that day and probably not quite the same.
I underwent procedures, surgeons were involved and armies of doctors and legions of nurses. I experienced fatigue and fear and loneliness like I had never experienced them before and emerged — discharged to approach life with a slightly slower pace and hopefully a bit more grace.
And one of the things which have characterised the large amount of time I am spending asleep I am pleased to say are pleasant dreams.
I have meant to do a dream journal for some time, and while I have in the past written down some of my dreams, to be honest I feel about as motivated to write down or remember my dreams as if I’d been forced to sit through a horrendous horror movie and then relive the trauma by writing what I saw.
These dreams however, are considerably more life affirming, I find I wake up feeling joyful, and like my mind is on my side as opposed to being hell bent determined to torment me.
Something I have been considering though is, ‘were the disturbing dreams warnings of a sort?’, which if I’d taken better notice of and perhaps journaled and looked for the symbolic meanings behind I may have been able to decipher messages from my subconscious which could have better prepared me for what was to come or even enable me to prevent the eventual fate.
Who knows, I think at least I need to try this dream journaling more consistently. See what comes up and develop the habit now while the dreams are good and track any changes or variations and research the symbology as the nights unfold.
To aid with this I have introduced a range of E-Journals for various purposes published by The Idea of a Man and available from my website which you can access for a minimal price and begin your journaling practice today if this is something you are feeling drawn to do as well.
Also let me use this opportunity to announce another addition to the products available on The Idea of a Man Shop — ‘Stress and Anxiety releasing guided meditations. These are available for just £1.00 and are a prelude to meditations which I will be recording shortly for the 12 chambers of sovereign mastery to help embed the ideas and lessons we all need to integrate from them.
You can check out the full range on my website here and leave a comment and tell me how they’re working for you.
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