1001 Days of Dreams coming true: A podcast
The earth and all her inhabitants are dreaming themselves awake. More and more. Each day. Awakening more and more into beauty, love, grief, possibility, artistry, service, delight, playfulness, defiance, joyful responsibility, and inspired contribution.
1001 Days of Dreams Coming True is a podcast project that breathes on these already warm coals and helps to kick up the licking flames of our dreams, that if not sought out, might go unheard, leaving the world longing a little bit longer for that which wants to move through us.
Inside each of us is a rich seedbank of dreams. We all have imaginings of how this world could be. Longings. Yearnings. Of how our nations could function. Of how our watersheds could teem with life. Of how our communities could tend and nourish themselves. Of how our families could be held and loved. Of ourselves. We hold dreams for ourselves. Our contribution. Our significance. Our artistry. Awakened. Alive. And pouring forth.
1001 Days of Dreams Coming True is a chance to engage, weekly, with your seedbank of dreams and to pick one out. Plant it with prayer. And water it with love.
AND.
To weave it into an ever-growing tapestry of dreams being dreamed across the world by other daring dreamers!
the structure:
1001 Days of Dreams Coming True will run for 11 seasons. Each season contains 13, weekly episodes. Thus our 1001 Days.
Episodes are recorded and released weekly.
Each week has a prompt that guides the Dreamers into their writing.
Each prompt is inspired by the season in which it is coming from (i.e. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter).
Each episode contains the writings and recordings that you, dear Dreamer, have offered that has been inspired by that week’s prompt.
Dreamers respond to the prompt, record themselves reading their words, and upload their writing and recording in the form below.
A note on cost, on Exchange, on Value:
The currency we are asking of you in this project is of great value. And like most precious and valuable things, it will require mining. But it is not money we are after. Not gold. Not silver. But. Your dreams. The single most powerful thing living inside you. And most of us don’t yet know how to mine the mountains of our hearts and souls to bring these gems to light. To shape them. Set them. Wear them. And let the light having traveled 93 million miles get caught and bounce and illumine the crystalline dream hanging from your neck.
This project is not a paid project. This project is aiming to be a fair trade. We create and curate a space to support you in connecting deeper to what’s inside of you. And you. You share with us the findings of your explorations.
If this project is found to be moving and a desire to support it monetarily arises, folks can donate here. Donation is not necessary, at all, for participation.
The Cadence
Episodes are released on Fridays.
The prompt for the coming week will be released in that episode as well as on this site and in the 1001 Days of Dreams Coming True Substack.
Submissions to that week’s prompt are due by Tuesday midnight.
Wednesday and Thursday the submissions are collected, curated, and edited into the next week’s episode.
That episode is released that Friday.
And on it goes. For 1001 days.
Some Sample Prompts:
Spring:
Imagine into a world where the artistic urgings inside of us where listened to. Fully. For one Grand Day. For one Grand Day across the globe and beyond, each of us listened to and trusted the little voice that wants us to move, to express, to sing, to create, to bring forth beauty. And we listened! And more importantly, we let ourselves be swept up into the current of these desires. For one Grand Day.
Tell the story, as if its already happened, as if its a memory, of what that day, that Grand Day, did to you and your community.
Summer:
The sun is up and hot and the day is long. Magically, your responsibilities are all tended and will remain so until tomorrow’s sunrise. This kind of magic does not comes often enough and you steal away and take yourself to a river. You’ve packed your pack perfectly.
Tell the story, as if its already happened, as if a dazzling memory, of that day, that river, that perfectly packed pack, who you met, human and otherwise, and what unfolded all around you.
Fall:
The air just turned. The sweaters felt it in their storage bins before even you. Autumn’s arrival. You feel into this coming change. You feel into this seasonal shift. You feel into this time of letting go. Of releasing. Of giving what wants to be given. You feel the Great Tree of you tilting towards a shedding.
Tell the story, as if its already happened, as if a warm memory, of what you let slowly slide off your branches. Something that you’d been holding onto. Some aspect of self. Something you once needed. But whose time had come. Tell the story of it falling to the ground and what that did for you and your world.
Winter:
There is a cold and distant mountain. Granite. Gray. Grand. And it’s been singing a song. A song for the stars. And its been doing it ever since it was just a little boy-mountain.
Tell the story, as if its already happened, as if a memory you keep polished and gleaming, of the time in which you first heard the mountain’s song and were able to make out the words as they traveled star-ward.
Dreamers, Listeners, Dream Laureates.
1001 Days of Dreams Coming True has 3 ways to get engage: Dreamers, Listeners, Dream Laureates.
The Dreamers commit. They commit to the practice of being moved by the week’s prompt and to see what emerges through them. They write it out. Maybe give it a once over. Then pick up their device and record themselves reading it. The Dreamers then upload their writings and recordings to this page using the form below.
The Listeners partake. They allow their own dream seeds to be warmed and nourished by what they hear from folks across the globe as they engage with their dreams. The Listeners job is to be sensitive enough to be moved. Simple. And satisfying.
The Dream Laureates enchant us. The Dream Laureates will each take a 13-week season and be responsible for shaping the prompts to reflect the natural cycles this earth is undergoing and to inspire the Dreamers and Listeners into accessing the rich cavern of crystalline dreams gleaming off the cave walls of their hearts and souls.
Get Involved
To be a Dreamer, to commit to a full, 13-week season of dreaming, writing, recording, uploading, then make the commitment to self, to the dreams entrusted to you, and follow along and participate fully with the podcast (link coming) and with the substack (link coming). And use the form below to upload your dreams.
To be a Listener is to be a lover. Engage as fully as you feel safe to. Use the links above to follow along.
To be a Dream Laureate, to commit to creating 13 seasonally-inspired prompts to help awaken the dreams of the planet is quite simple. Possess audacity and humility. Invoke the same in others. Know and trust, in your bones, that the world is longing itself awake and alive and into vibrant harmony. It’s that simple. And lastly, email Peter McLean at pete@ofearthandsoul.org and express your interest.