Characters empower us to reflect, to know ourselves from within and without.*
Robert McKee

Soul teachers … talk openly and honestly about what is actually going on … .**
Martha Beck

The stories we read or watch have to be
way more interesting than our own stories,
The characters need to be more compelling
than real life so that we stay engaged, and
finish the book or movie or box-set:
The more specific, dimensional,
unpredictable, and difficult to understand,
the more fascinating and more real a character seems.
The more generalised, more consistent,
more predictable, and easy to understand, the less real,
the less interesting, and more
cartoonish she seems.*

What these characters highlight for us is that it is possible
to leave the real, or ordinary, world for a while each day,
So we might spend a little time in a special world in which we
contemplate how to develop ourselves
as characters that are
more specific, dimensional, unpredictable,
More complex,
Before returning to the real world,
But it’s a new real world –
Different.^

*Robert McKee’s Character;
**Martha Beck’s The Way of Integrity;
^This is what dreamwhispering proffers.