Winter as Dream Season
Winter as Dream Season
I’ll be honest: winter has never been my favorite. I miss color. I miss warmth. I miss the feeling of life stretching outward instead of curling inward. And yet, this year, I’ve been asking myself what it might look like to meet winter with acceptance, rather than rushing it away.
I’ve begun to think of winter as Dream Season.
Not the kind of dreaming that demands action or clarity, but the softer kind: daydreaming, vision holding. The kind that happens when the world is quiet enough for us to hear our own longings more clearly.
While the landscape rests beneath frost and snow, I’ve been doing the same in my own way. Letting ideas wander. Imagining how I want my business to feel and grow this year. Envisioning the artwork I long to bring to life. Planting seeds quietly, intentionally, knowing they won’t sprout just yet.
What winter does offer is a rare permission. To be cozy. To be introverted. To hibernate without explanation. Outside of the brief social rush of the holidays, this is the one season that allows us to pull inward without apology. And yet, culturally, we so often resist that invitation. January arrives with its loud insistence on resolutions, reinvention, and immediate forward motion as if transformation can be scheduled for the first of the year.
But living doesn’t work that way.
Life needs rest. Dreams need space. They need stillness. They need time to wander and reshape themselves before they’re ready to become real. Winter does not ask us to do more. It asks us to listen more, internally. Perhaps this is the season not for answers, but for questions; not for momentum, but for imagination. A time to hold a vision gently, the way you might cup a flame between your hands, protecting it from the wind.
If you find yourself feeling slow right now, unmotivated, or quietly reflective, I hope you’ll consider this: maybe nothing is wrong. Maybe you’re simply dreaming.
Invitation:
Set aside a few quiet moments this week, perhaps with tea in hand or during an evening walk. Ask yourself: What wants to take shape in my life this year? Don’t rush the answer. Let it arrive in fragments, images and feelings. Then let this winter season give you the space to let that dream grow in the depths of your mind before it’s time to fully bloom.