... I had a dream
decoding your nightly Netflix series:
It was one of the weirdest dreams.
It got even weirder when I woke up...
"The authorities" were on my tail
(when instigating a creative rebellion, one gotta face those daemons)
It was a couple of days ago.
I remember it in HD-vivid clarity.
As if it just happened.
My little rebellious spirit and the creative rebels movement was under threat by “the authorities.”
I was tucked away in a high-rise apartment on the 9th floor.
And I hear a racket.
The deafening sound of helicopter blades.
As it moves closer and closer.
And comes to a halt, hovering just above my balcony.
Within moments of this gut-wrenching suspense: "They got me"
The helicopter door latches open.
And out steps an elegant woman.
Fierce, and laser-focused on the mission.
With an air of docility and no resistance whatsoever, I complied.
And got escorted into the helicopter.
Maybe I've been conditioned by too many Hollywood 3-letter agency scenes...
I bet you don't find this in CIA's playbook
As I plopped my but into the seat and we took off...
Suddenly, the atmosphere shifted.
What appeared as a governmental crackdown on the creative rebellion turned into a full-scale game of seduction.
I was being wooed by a prominent LinkedIn audience growth influencer who you've surely come across if you spent more than 5 minutes on the platform.
This isn't the weirdest part:
Nope.
All of this made perfect sense to me.
Because my psychic contents are most involved with these metaphors and symbols on a typical Tuesday.
What made my hair stand up was that I had woken up with perfect recollection.
Cuz see, what I didn't tell you before is that only a few days earlier, the mother of my children had a different, yet eerily connected dream.
She saw me fly away with another woman.
In a helicopter.
Naturally, the hair on my neck stood up.
And my antenna went off.
I'm paying attention.
So while I'm here decoding my dreams and liaising with my unconscious...
You may be wondering what any of this has to do with you...
Or why you should care?
(Glad you asked)
Hear me out.
You probably heard me speak about IMAGINATION.
The active kind, as a portal to finding your inner voice and amplifying it to develop an unmistakable brand...
...so you can build a purpose-driven business.
Get this.
DREAMS are woven from the same cloth as imagination.
In the sense that you're getting a ton of messages in your inbox.
Straight from your unconscious.
Symbols, metaphors, and images trying to communicate with your conscious (ego, I) self.Sraight
That's my cue...
Last week I launched this thing called iOS, imaginal Operating System.
A 5-day experience that hands you the keys to the imaginal realm, the causal plane of creative badassery.
I've drawn up a 15-page active imagination workbook that helps you integrate this practice into your creative toolkit.
So what this dream got me thinking is to build DOS, dream Operating System. A free PDF workbook.
That'd help you tune out the increasingly noisy "external" world.
And hear the whispering voice of your unconscious.
So you needn't take cues from yet another internet "Guru".
Or that seductress from my dream.
Who teaches LinkedIn audience growth to an audience of people who want to grow their audience by teaching others how to grow an audience on LinkedIn?
"Take your helicopter and build your own damn pyramid, LinkedIn lady who shan't be named."
A word to the wise
Your inner world isn't all stardust and gentle whispers.
Sometimes it's a psychic dumpster fire.
Other times, just… Tuesday.
Sometimes, your ache is the triple-espresso wearing off, a looming deadline, or your iron levels tanking.
Get some sleep.
See a doc.
Spiritualizing your burnout helps no one. Least of all you when it's a concern of the material world.
But what about when you’ve done all that?
When the spreadsheets are balanced, the body is fed, the sleep is… adequate.
And still.
That hum.
That faint, stubborn signal beneath the noise of 'shoulds.'
Is it always just neural housekeeping or last night’s bad pizza manifesting as a dragon dream?
Sometimes, sure.
The brain is a weird, wild data sorter.
Not every twitch is a telegram from the deep.
Discernment is the unsung hero of this path.
The art of sifting the psychic static from the signal.
It’s not about blindly following every breadcrumb dropped by your subconscious into some Freudian forest.
And yes, Jung's map was his own.
Use any map with caution, including mine.
Especially mine, so it comes with a sorcerer’s apprentice warning label.
It’s about getting curious enough to distinguish indigestion from intuition
One gives you heartburn.
The other, maybe, a heartbeat of truth.
Because there are no universal instruction manuals for your specific inner landscape.
It’s less "archetypal theater," more like… psychic spelunking.
You need good gear: self-awareness, maybe a trusted guide
(not just an Instagram guru)
...and the willingness to turn back if the air gets bad.
Because yes, trauma can absolutely masquerade as a mystical insight.
Anxiety can feel like a prophecy.
The inner labyrinth can get you more lost if you charge in without a thread.
So, this isn't selling "transformation by aesthetic."
This is about the gritty, often unglamorous work of self-reclamation in a world that prefers you stay fragmented and productive.
It's about building the capacity to navigate your entire reality.
The warzone and the wonder.
The mundane and the (dare I say) magical.
Not for a certificate of enlightenment.
But to build what you’re here to build with more of YOU actually present.
With your values clear, not because an archetype told you so, but because you’ve done the excavation.
So, "just listen inward"?
Yeah, I can see how that lands a bit… vibe-y.
How about: Listen inward, with one eyebrow raised in loving skepticism
Question.
Feel.
Ground it.
Test it in the real world.
That’s less of an altar, more of a workshop.
And maybe, just maybe, a path.
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Aleksander Brankov
