Hello, and good morning party people, Good morning God, love your energy.
Oh good. First and foremost, I gotta tell you, I'm a
dream freak. I study dreams. I'm constantly looking up reasons and purposes.
And so when I found out about your book, I went, yes,
finally there's an opportunity here for parents and kids to connect by way of sharing
their dreams. Oh my gosh, I love this. I love that you
study dreams. I find it so fascinating about why we dream and what we
dream and oh my god, I mean I've had some very very vivid dreams
where I'm like that that actually happened. It's like it's crazy. Well,
what's really interesting about dreams? Especially when because I meditate while late late at
night, and so it puts me into a different state of dreaming where it's
like, oh my god, this feels like it's real. And now it's
like, okay, how do I grow from this? There's obviously something here
I'm supposed to be learning, right, right, Oh my gosh, that's
really yeah. You know, I'm bad at meditate, and I it's something
that I want to do more in my life. But I could totally see
why that meditative state brings you into a different dream cycle. Because I noticed
that when I'm on vacation and I'm like completely relaxed and I have, you
know, time to sleep and allow myself extra time to sleep, I have
the best dreams ever. And a part of me is like, I wonder
if I always would have these dreams, if I could just live in this
state of relaxation. My meditation is that it's called Nidra. And when I
first started studying it, they were telling all the history of it and breaking
it down. I was going, why are they doing this? But when
you start understanding the steps of Nidra, all of a sudden, you're challenged
with meditation goes away because you're able to understand why it's happening. So,
after I lost my husband, I was doing Nidra meditations with a guide and
I was doing hour long sessions and they were incredible. Yes, yeah,
yeah, And I did it for almost about like six months on a weekly
basis, and it was it was really life changing. Yeah. So then
to bring it to the level of the children, I wish my mother would
have sat down and talk to me, because you know, as creative people,
you know, our minds have always been activated. Yeah, yeah,
you know. I I try to. I try to take Elvis on a
lot of adventures here on Earth. And so I think that when I started
doing this with him, I wanted him to obviously believe in dreaming because I
love dreaming so much. I love dreaming about what I can do, and
I love the idea of actually just dreaming. And then I just also love
like certain dreams I've had in my life, like I will never even forget.
And then the other layer too, It was that I wanted him to
start creating this place that he could have with his dad, because he didn't
really have any memories with his dad on Earth. So I was trying to
like think of ways that he could have memories with his dad in his dreams.
And I don't know, I just I find the whole like dreaming and
connecting and adventuring like while you sleep, just so almost romantic that I don't
know, I just love the idea so much. When I was a kid,
I would run home from Ponderosa Elementary School and go to bed because I
wanted to dream, because there's just something about letting yourself go. Okay,
I've experienced real the realism of the world. Now, I just want to
dream. Yeah, I know, I love that. I really I love
that too. I know we got a dream more. Yeah. Now,
the name of the book that we're talking about is tell Me Your Dreams.
And it's so important because I would like to know what the little ones are
dreaming these days because there's so much going on and I know they don't understand
it. I know. You know, it's funny. I ask Elvis a
lot in the morning, you know, did you have any dreams? And
he'll say he'll say yes or no. So it's really cute because when he
does say oh, usually just repeat like whatever I told him the night before
about what he might dream. But I love that too. And then the
other day he did tell me it's like I had a bad dream, and
I go, oh no, and it was about my brother uncle to.
It was about Uncle Ton. I was, oh no. But I think
that I do love doing that with him, like asking him, because I
think if we try to recount our dreams, and the more we like start
telling ourselves that we can, I think we have the ability to do it.
You know, it's just that we don't again take the time to tap
into what that is you know. Yeah, I'm fascinated with the cameo appearances
of the people that appear in dreams. And then to study that's it's all
the people that we've come in contact with wherever we are. We didn't have
to know their name or have a conversation, but but our mind is always
flushing those people out. Wow, that's really cool. That's really cool.
And and then and then to write about it with Elvis. Will you sit
down one day and say, Elvis, write me about your dream It's just
we can you know, can activate the dreams of life of what do you
want to be as well as what is going through your through your mind while
you're sleeping. Yeah, I mean listen, I'm a big I'm a big
dreamer. And I will always encourage Elvis too to go for his dreams,
to dream about what he can do, and then also yeah, to talk
about his dreams and what dreams he's had. Um. I think it's super
important to do that with our children and make sure that they know that the
world isn't all isn't all like that, you know, we can that we
can be fantastic and that can go on. You know, you that you
can do these things because I think it's it's it's hard we get stuck,
you know, as adults, you start getting stuck in what you can do
and what you think you can do and what you can't do. And I
just don't want him to ever get challenged by that, you know what I
mean? So I agree, Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna write about our
dreams. We're gonna talk about our dreams. We're gonna do all the things.
One of the things I love the book cover because it involves flight.
We all have flying dreams, but we also go through those sensations of falling.
That to me is like whoa what you know? It really does affect
our emotions when we're in, you know, in that other place. Yeah.
Do have you ever researched what falling means in a dream? The only
thing that I've ever found out is is that it's all based on that something
in your life is failing you, and it serves as as a signal that,
look, you need to pay attention to what is going wrong and stop
ignoring it. Oh that's interesting, Okay, Yeah, I mean I could
totally see that. I like that. I don't I don't have falling dreams.
I have dreams where I'm like jumping and I'm like extended into air for
a very long time, which is like feels like I'm flying. So I
love that. But yeah, I he loves airplanes and trash trucks and China
trains, so I wanted to make sure I incorporated them in this book and
story somehow. Well that's so cool because I grew up plane with Tonka trucks,
and to this day when I see children playing with with things like that,
it's like, yes, yes, that's where it all started, because
that's where I was able to, you know, develop characters out there because
Jim was always the truck driver, and then you had Kevin over here that
did all the digging. Yep, yep, that's all of us. I
mean, he he loves I mean trash truck Thursday Stale is a big day
in our house. And you know he loves watching trains, playing with trains,
and you know, any any kind of automobile, plane, trainer,
automobile he's loving. How's his storytelling? I mean, does he does he
have the Because I mean, you're you're so magical when it comes to sharing
stories and to building stories. Are you starting to see that in him as
well. Yeah, I am. Actually he is really good about recounting a
story. Um. And another thing that we do at night is I always
ask him, like, what was your favorite part of your day? And
I love asking him that question because I really do. He takes a minute
and he like thinks about his whole day and then he recounts like that that
favorite part of his day. It's really sweet and and you can see him
kind of like processing it, you know. I mean he's only three,
so it's it's amazing it's a child today, you know, because it was
Mark Mayren the other day that was talking on his podcast about how you know
his furthest back memory is maybe three or four years old. It's like what
happens between zero and three to where we don't grab onto it. But but
what you're doing with Elvis seems like something that he's going to hold onto forever.
Oh I hope. So I know, it's it's crazy that we don't
have those memories, right, And I wonder if it isn't because you know,
people have told me that we as as children and babies babies, that
we have this ability to kind of like believe in anything and see things,
and all of a sudden, there's like something in our brain that switches like
this is very like actually, I know I'm not sounding scientific, but there
is actually like a scientific like something that switches off and then like reality sets
in at at that young age. And I wonder if that's why we don't
have any memories before that, but I hope so. I think that's what
I do love about this book is that I realize this book is like a
little bit of a time capsule where we can always read this book and he'll
know that that's what our bedtime routine was when he was, you know,
starting at two years old. And I love that because I think as parents
we are constantly creating things for our children, but because life happens, and
because we get busy, and because our children change so often, we forget
that we created things. And so I love that I have this now,
like ingrained in stone in a book that is like I'll never forget that this
was our bedtime routine and that we did together. You know, I love
it. You've got to come back to this show anytime in the future,
Amanda. You've got one heck of a story. And I know that this
is just the beginning of writing books for the for the little imaginations. There's
just just so much in you that's going to be coming out. Thank you
so much. That's really sweet of you. I appreciate it. Will you
be brilliant today? Okay, okay, you'd be brilliant today. Thank you
so much, thank you, thank you all right, bye bye