What are dreams? What is reality? How do you know you're not sleeping right now? Whether it is reality or dreams, everything is an experience. These experiences are what make up our existence. Both reality and dreams are nothing more than experiences that your consciousness is having. The key difference between reality experiences and dream experiences is the amount of time you have been consciously having them. You call your normal waking life “reality” because you have consciously spent the most time there. Most of the time when you have dreams, you only have them during portions of the night. Sometimes you consciously remember having a dream and other times you don't. Compared to dreams, you remember more of your waking life. If we define Reality as the place in which you are most conscious, and define a Dream as an experience that happens outside of your reality. When you are dreaming you have no idea that the experience you are having during the dream is not “real”. Most of the time, during the dream you don't even think of it as not being “real”. It's not until you wake up, back to your reality, that you realize that you were just having a dream. Reality is the place or existence in which we are most conscious. A Dream is an experience that happens outside of your reality. How do you know your reality isn’t a dream? Reality is the place or existence in which you are most conscious, but how do you know the existence you call reality, really is the existence that you have been conscious of the longest? Until you wake up from a dream don't you kind of think that the dream is reality? Is there an absolute beginning reality or an infinite nesting of dreams? You may be thinking you call your waking life “reality” because your reality is real and your dreams are not, but what is real? For instance, how do you know you're not sleeping right now?

Shared experiences & inside jokes turn into memories & stories that you can later reminisce on. Catching up, even years later, is a joy. It’s easy to stay connected with social media, so when you meet up again, it’s like there has been no time lost. Pick up where you left off, talk about where you’ve been & where you’re going, and make plans to visit somewhere new together. You know life is like a rollercoaster. You experience ups and downs and good times and bad times and on your journeys through life you come across different people. People you haven’t necessarily known before. People that are on the same or similar journey as you. Would this journey be the same for you without these people? You will have travelled miles and miles without speaking to someone? To me the journey is not about the distance you have travelled, it is about the smiles you have experienced, the happiness you have felt, the downs you have mastered, the stories you have heard. Friends are the people that digest these experiences with you. Sometimes it might just be the person showing you the right way to the next coffee shop. And sometimes occasions like this can enrich your life. So to me the friends I make on my journey, whatever the journey might be for you: travelling, hobbies, business, sport, creativity, etc., are the closest and most important to me. FIND US ON FACEBOOK It Be Life | Facebook

Most of us are taught to approach life in a very linear way; life appears to move forward, right? And as life moves on, it’s logical that the more change and transition you go through, the more opportunity you have to perceive the patterns of your life, how you handle change, and whether or not you can successfully negotiate and navigate necessary transitions, both those you initiate and those that just come about on their own. Being able to assess, to understand, to know where you are at any given point is a very valuable tool. By the time you are a young adult you’ve experienced enough to know some essential things about yourself: what you like and what you don’t like, what you excel at and what you have no interest in, what your special talents and gifts are, what really works for you, and what falls short of your reasonable expectations. So, you have to know yourself well enough to know what you want, what you realistically can do, and you have to have some idea, and ideally some plans about how to accomplish that. Most certainly, you want to be able to identify what you want as opposed to what others want for you. So what happens when life gets in the way of your plans and you’re forced to change course? What are some typical thoughts and feelings that you might experience? Recognize that change is essential for living a fruitful life. Fear of change, fear of stepping into the unknown, creates a monolithic existence, often dull, narrow in scope, and uninspired. Change creates possibility. A situation where you have little control, at first, might seem overwhelming and daunting, so it’s a good idea to break it down into smaller pieces, giving yourself a better chance to wrap your head around what’s happening and what you’ll need to do. Once you’ve made a firm decision to shift gears and put your own plans aside for the time being, you’ll be less affected by the emotions of change. Now you can fully address the practical matters that have to be attended to that might include getting your current life in order so that you can shift direction. In other words, take care of your own business. The realization that things aren’t what you want them to be may be accompanied by any number of emotions and their degree of severity: fear, frustration, resentment, guilt, anxiety and/or depression, and even panic. The realization or insight may hit that the choices or decisions you’ve made aren’t working---maybe never did, maybe never will. Perhaps the direction your life has taken had more to do with influential people around you and you want and intend to do something different for yourself now. Decide to take ownership and responsibility for your life’s choices and their consequences. READ FULL ARTICLE How to Prepare for Life Changes | Psychology Today FACE THE CHANGES LIFE HAS TO OFFER IN STYLE