Sleeping on a dream

Michaelangelo, the great artist, would sleep four about 4 hours a day, so they say. If that's true, the mathematically, he would have 20 hours left the enjoy out of the day! Not a bad idea when you consider that we work 8 hours, sleep 8 hours, (so, so far that totals to 16 hours dedicated to something other than let's say a hobby) and if there is no overlapping or under doing of these 2 then that leaves us with a meager 7 hours to enjoy. Although Michaelangelo's sleep pattern may be true, do also remember that we as humans have evolved. We do not sleep the same because well we don't eat the same, we don't work the same, and we are not as conscious as we should be!
Yesterday, one of my supervisors came up to me and said "Everything changes when you get in. I feel more confident about things especially work. I don't know you just make everything change, Antonio." I kindly responded saying "Yeah Ok Loco" well what I actually said was "Thank you I didn't know that". I have also been told by a spiritual master and a body language reader that I have a special gift, my skills are very powerful. When I was told I have a special gift, it came to this reader so quickly she suddenly just said it to me as she was talking, it just came through her in a way. She said I must use this skill. Well I'm writing to maybe share something very powerful. I doubt it's a skill or a gift about me, maybe it is, but maybe it's just the plain and simple truth.
You know how you have dreams in which something seems so surreal, it seems as though the answer you were looking for shows up, sometimes there are revelations in it too? Last night I had a very powerful, a very telling dream. Now to understand what I am going to explain I ask that you please have an open mind, no judgments, no doubtfulness or pessimism, none of that stuff just read as you go, maybe you'll feel something.
I have received many messages from people, messages from their body, from their heart, or even from their soul. When I meet someone, right away I am enthralled onto them, and all of a sudden I will receive messages from them. I do not care for the messages because I am listening to them and their words and their body language itself will also tell me a lot about them. However, there is also silent knowledge, when something tells you about someone, about what they are going through, about what someone is putting them through, you kind of just know. However, it is truly difficult to really see or read from someone who is strong, confident, alive, present in the moment, happy, and who loves themselves. It really is. I try and hear them but there is not much because they don't have much to explain, they are alive in that moment. So it has come as a truth that when you are experiencing and living what I explained above, there honestly is not much to expect from them, form their heart or their soul. They are giving off love, they are giving off all good spirits to you as my mom would say, their heart and soul are in the right place. If there was something their heart, body, or soul was trying to get to you, you would've received it by now. In this story, someone who is very strong, confident, and happy shows me a side he tries to hold back, or so it seems.
My dream begins in my uncle's living room. Green walls, bamboo-style sofa, office in the back of the living room, the piano, the guitar, and the stairs, just to give you an idea of this space. It suddenly begins with my uncle asking me how everything has been going. I tell him, from what I remember "I have changed many lives, I didn't even have to physically do anything. I brought a lot of love everywhere I went. I shared myself with great wonderful souls out there. The changes I made in my life were followed by others" Now usually my uncle has great questions, I can imitate a lot of people's characters and I can imitate what he would do and say: "WOW!" but in my dream he seemed so keen on knowing more about what I had done so far, he was leaning in to hear about my experiences! He never shows so much emotion or anticipation. Basically, he doesn't always show what I feel he really is feeling, it's almost as if his heart is telling him to show it all but he, or rather his ego, has made him hold back so much. Nevertheless, I see what he has been feeling about me this whole time. He is so happy, so pleased, so fulfilled and satisfied.
For sometime I had this feeling of "Oh man I just wanna make someone happy." And as revolutionary and radical as my life decisions were not only were a lot of people scared and shocked by them but so was my uncle. This uncle in particular I share a lot of myself with because he has done the same. In this case however, in my dream, I saw what I felt for a while now and what I knew was true. He, like many others will not accept my changes. It is so easy to have someone stay in one place, it is so convenient to contact someone through a social network or at the touch of a phone, it's the best thing when someone doesn't change! But alas, I am human. We evolved from cavemen to civilized peoples (most of us at least). I will not change that course of development. Things will change, your life will keep going forward, however, it is you that is in control of that. We dream of the life we want to experience in the future but what we don't realize is that our moment of glory is in front of us. Without actually realizing that this moment right now is what our past has brought us to we will never get to the bigger picture. The dreams and views of our futures are big but in reality how big are they when we are not living in them, maybe the biggest picture of all is what is in front of us right now, what we are living in this present moment. It's the biggest picture cause we are using our eyes, our bodies, our hands and feet, everything about us becomes existent in what we are doing BUT many of us still have to wake up to knowing this!
And so in conclusion, it is what we see when we sleep that we should be living in our real world. Most of the time, when we are in our dreams we don't care about risks, we just do it, but we feel it physically still. One time I had a dream of jumping from high altitude rocks and I still remember this maybe 8-10 years later that that dream hit me emotionally. It was a fear I had of heights but in my dream, after I jumped from one rock to another I felt it in my body that I was scared of that and after I had made that jump I went for another one, just like I have been in life. Yet, when we are dreaming, we usually see through our eyes, we usually are ourselves, but what always sticks out the most is that our dreams may be short, they may be truthful, they may be scary, but we are always present within that moment, even if it is a dream, we are not thinking of the past, FUCK THE PAST IS WHAT YOUR DREAMS ARE ALWAYS TELLING YOU! But yet you are also not thinking of the future, you are just living within that dream. There will be a time and a place always to let go of your past maybe it's therapy where you can finally let go of the past (because sometimes you tell your friends the same thing over and over again) and there is definitely a time and place where you can write your future down but it is not when you are not talking to a therapist and it is not when you are writing or planning your future. Make time for your past and future but do not ever let it interfere with the present. It is this that I feel our dreams are always telling us, and that itself is a dream but too often in life we are sleeping in real life cause we are putting our minds through torture with past and future instead of just being empty.