🚲 The Bicycle of My Dreams

When I was about 12 years old, I lived an experience that, many years later, would help me understand something profound about imagination, feeling, and reality.

At that time, there was one bicycle that completely captured my imagination: the Brandani.

It had been released as a bicycle designed for different types of terrain. It was not just a bicycle for riding on the street. To me, it represented adventure.

In my mind, I could already see myself riding it through trails, dirt roads, ramps, obstacles, and even large puddles of water.

It was exactly the bicycle I dreamed of owning.

🚲 The Bicycle I Didn't Choose

One day, my father told me he was going to buy me a new bicycle.

I was extremely excited.

In my imagination, I was already arriving at the bike shop and choosing my Brandani.

I imagined looking at all the bicycles and finally taking home the one I had always wanted.

But when we arrived at the store, I discovered that my father had already made the choice.

The bicycle was already reserved.

It was a racing bicycle.

I still remember how disappointed I felt at that moment.

I asked my father if I could choose another bicycle, but both he and the bike shop owner told me that the racing bicycle was a new model, a recent release, and that I would surely enjoy it.

Since I was still a child and did not have many arguments to convince them, I accepted it.

I took the bicycle home.

🌱 When Imagination Created a New Experience

At first, it was not the bicycle I had imagined.

But something interesting began to happen.

Over time, I started playing with it in a different way.

Whenever I rode through the dirt roads near my home, I imagined that my bicycle was a Brandani.

In my mind, I was not simply riding a racing bicycle.

I was living the adventure I had always wanted.

I rode faster along the dirt paths.

I jumped over small obstacles.

I imagined trails, ramps, and challenges.

The bicycle in front of me was one thing, but the experience I was living inside myself was something completely different.

Without realizing it, I had created a bridge between an idea and an experience.

✨ The Surprise That Found Its Way to Me

One day, while I was playing outside, I saw the pickup truck of the plumber who used to do work at our house parked in front of my home.

I walked over to see what was happening.

He smiled and said:

"I brought you a surprise from your father."

Then he walked to the back of the truck and took out a bicycle.

When I saw it, I was speechless.

It was a Brandani.

The exact bicycle I had imagined every day.

The bicycle that had existed first inside my mind.

At that moment, I simply felt joy.

I had no way to explain it.

I just lived the moment.

"Before an experience exists in the outer world, it often begins as an image in the inner world."

— Edmar Sasaki

🌱 What This Experience Taught Me

Many years later, when I began studying consciousness, imagination, and the power of feeling, I realized something that this child had already experienced naturally.

I did not know any techniques.

I was not trying to manifest anything.

I simply had a clear idea of what I wanted to experience.

That idea created an image in my mind.

The image awakened a feeling.

And that feeling allowed me to experience, internally, something that did not yet exist externally.

First came the idea.

Then came imagination.

Imagination created the feeling.

And the feeling created a connection with the experience.

🌉 Feeling is the Bridge

This story was one of the first experiences in my life that revealed a principle I would only understand many years later:

Everything begins with an idea.

An idea creates an image in the mind.

The image awakens a feeling.

And feeling is the bridge between what we imagine and what we experience.

The child who dreamed of a bicycle was not simply waiting for an object.

He was already experiencing, in his consciousness, the reality he wished to live.

Today, I understand that many things we call coincidence, luck, or chance may be moments when reality finds a way to reflect an image that has already been created within us.

The idea begins the journey.
Imagination creates the possibility.
Feeling is the bridge that connects the inner world to the outer experience.

This is the principle I now call Feeling is the Bridge.

Feeling is the Bridge