A Third Word From Yorkshire Rapper, XtG

Dreamers 💭 

Every time we’re caught in the act, we’re judged –  perceived as some malfunctioned creature who’s yet to grasp the concept of living. The long “Helloooo” is the usual giveaway. Not to mention all the gobbledygook that follows, which just so happens to be dressed in the same elongated tone. 

“Earth to (your name heeerrreeee) – anybody theeeeerree? … yooo hooo”. 

Follow up this ‘speech therapy’ with a mixture of frowns & incessant poking, & you’ll have a rough idea of what us dreamers have to put up with. Oh, hang on, here comes the eye roll 🙄 

You see, just like every noun in the English language, the word ‘dreamer’ has various interpretations. So naturally it doesn’t take much for it to be misunderstood. & by misunderstood I mean generalised, usually with the label of a ‘daydreamer’. Because that’s what it’s automatically assumed that dreamers do.

Daydream. 

Yes – in the eyes of the majority we’re a bunch of lost souls, living half on earth & half in our mind. A mind that for some bizarre reason is thought to be rammed with images of pixies, unicorns & other wild fantasies – I assure you though, mine’s not. Well, maybe wild fantasies… but we’ll leave that for another blog. 

Granted – on the surface we do emulate your typical daydreamer. We can be frequently found zoned out from the present moment & lost in the midst of thoughts & wonder. But that’s where the similarities end. Drill down to our actual thoughts, & we couldn’t be more different 🤨 

Peek inside the head of a daydreamer & you’ll likely venture into a cosmic dreamland. Their own version of Narnia or Middle Earth. The type of place you’d assume a daydreamer would inhabit. A jungle of thoughts & ideas, with very little structure. Put it this way, if their thoughts were a film, they’d be no constant location, storyline, theme – nothing. So to call it a bunch of random mumbo jumbo, isn’t actually far wrong.

Whereas, should you jump inside the head of a dreamer, you’ll in for a whole different experience. 

For starters, practically all of our dreams take place in some sense of reality. There’s none of this Orcs fighting winged pigs nonsense. In fact, the dreamer themselves are usually the star of the show. Although, the more you look at it, they’re not so much dreaming at all 🙃 

In essence, they’re anticipating the future. 

While the daydreamer dreams fantasies, hardcore dreamers think up possibilities. So I suppose you could say we dream with purpose. & that’s what I want to touch on in this blog.

You see, the other day, I realised something… 

If you want anything on this planet, you have to see it 1st. Imagine yourself with it. Feel those feelings that’ll course through your veins when you achieve it. & most importantly, act like you already have it 😝 

NOTE: Not be cocky, just have a form of underlying confidence. 

Something that psychologists have branded as ‘visualisation’ & is also related to a part of the brain called the RAS (Reticular Activating System). Which in simple terms is a bunch of nerves, which filter your incoming thoughts & dictate which ones you focus on 🧐

Have you ever been listening to a song, & suddenly come across a clever snippet of wordplay? I have. & it’s funny, soon after I always tend to come across another… & another… & another… & another.

Reason?

My RAS has kicked in. So, because now it knows that wordplay is important to me, it’s subconsciously going out of its way to hunt it down. Come to think of it, this biological quirk is kinda like a sniffer dog. Once it knows what it’s after, it’ll rifle through heaps of garbage to get at it 💩 

But that’s exactly my point…

Once the RAS knew what it was searching for, it (in essence) showed me the answer. So, call me crazy, but what’s to stop us from applying this same logic to our own lives?? Surely (if this ‘logic’ was anything to go by), feeding our RAS our dreams & ambitions, would be all we need to do to attract them into our lives – right? 👀

Lost? Think of it like this. 

Your RAS is a guy sitting in a control box, who monitors the stream of thoughts entering you mind. & initially, he’s completely clueless. With no idea what he’s looking for, he’s just allowing any thoughts to enter your mind willy-nilly – hazarding an educated guess at most 🤷‍♂️

THE RESULT: messy & unorganised thoughts that lead nowhere.

However, should Mr RAS be given a target to work towards (i.e. a vision/ dream), he can then begin to filter any incoming thoughts & highlight those which he thinks will get him closer to his 🎯 

Give him a bit of time, & he can stash these thoughts + arrange them in your mind, to form the foundations of the path you need to take. So in essence, your life becomes one giant puzzle, with the RAS as the foreman, piecing together the route in your mind.

& before you label me borderline insane & press that ❌ in the top right corner, consider this…

The Bible even backs it up!