Dreams are also nightmares

When you pursue a dream, you’d think the universe will conspire to aid you. But that doesn’t happen initially. It only happens after something gets unblocked.

You’d run into a wall initially because you run into old habits, identities, narratives that were holding you back all along. Just deciding to pursue the dream doesn’t make those shackles disappear overnight. In fact, it brings them all out. Dreams have a shadow self - nightmares. They work together. They are the same coin. To get to the rosy future of your dreams, you face the valley of your nightmares. Things you ignored, pushed away, stopped listening to. It all comes back now, seeking toll. Without which, you shall not pass.

To be brave, you don’t get courage out of nowhere. You steel your heart through doing things that scare you. Through tests, you get courage.

To get to dreams, you face nightmares.

The universe is asking, how much do you want this?
How much of your old self do you want to to cling to still?

How far you get towards your dreams depends on how much truth you can face before you run away. Again.

Truly, your dreams brings nightmares.
Through your nightmares, are your dreams.