LillaDo You Have A Dream You Want Interpreted?
October 10th 2006 00:28
Do you have a weird dream lately that keeps repeating itself, year after year.
What about reoccuring nightmares that won't go away?
What about serial dreams, where you are constantly running for trains, buses or planes and missing them. I have one, in which I always have trouble packing my bags because I have too much to put in them and for years now I have missed the plane because of it. There is just always too much stuff to put into the bag in time.... What does it mean?
What about bridges and a fear in dreams of crossing them - or being on top of skyscrapers. The Bridge scenario dogged a friend of mine for years and eventually, last year, she finally crossed it and lo, she is a woman transformed. She is making changes in her life that are profound.
I will offer weekly posts on various 'common' symbols as we go, see if you can relate to them. Symbols play a very important part of our dream life and beside the obvious freudian values of sexual references that were originally attached to them, it was Karl Jung who pioneered his theory of the collective consciousness. This gave way for some truly enlightened progress to be made into the realms of dreamland.
When added to years of study on ancient cultures, beliefs and scientifically proven cell memory research, together we'll discover a true intelligence and order does present itself, from the middle of this seemingly, chaotic randomness.
Although I am not a qualified psychologist, I have chased dream physiology, psychology and symbology now for nearly 20 years and welcome the challenge of trying to decipher your hardest ones. Perhaps even help you to understand yourself better, along the way.
What about reoccuring nightmares that won't go away?
What about serial dreams, where you are constantly running for trains, buses or planes and missing them. I have one, in which I always have trouble packing my bags because I have too much to put in them and for years now I have missed the plane because of it. There is just always too much stuff to put into the bag in time.... What does it mean?
What about bridges and a fear in dreams of crossing them - or being on top of skyscrapers. The Bridge scenario dogged a friend of mine for years and eventually, last year, she finally crossed it and lo, she is a woman transformed. She is making changes in her life that are profound.
I will offer weekly posts on various 'common' symbols as we go, see if you can relate to them. Symbols play a very important part of our dream life and beside the obvious freudian values of sexual references that were originally attached to them, it was Karl Jung who pioneered his theory of the collective consciousness. This gave way for some truly enlightened progress to be made into the realms of dreamland.
When added to years of study on ancient cultures, beliefs and scientifically proven cell memory research, together we'll discover a true intelligence and order does present itself, from the middle of this seemingly, chaotic randomness.
Although I am not a qualified psychologist, I have chased dream physiology, psychology and symbology now for nearly 20 years and welcome the challenge of trying to decipher your hardest ones. Perhaps even help you to understand yourself better, along the way.
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Comment by Bryn
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I had a recent dream where the destruction of the city I was in (buildings collapsing, chaos) caused me to be separated from my family and loved ones, and I spent the remainder of the dream trying to locate them. It was very apocalyptic, 9/11ish.
And I have had numerous dreams where I am in a relationship, or am intensely attracted to someone whom I have never met in real life, ie physically they do not resemble anyone I know, yet in the dream I know them intimately, or at least they have a distinctive personality.
Comment by Lilla
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Thanks for coming. The deep ocean is easy, it is to do with fears of deep-seated emotions. It suggests that you may be afraid that your emotions are so strong that they may overwhelm you if you give them free reign. The best thing to do here is to remember that the more you resist something in life, the more it will persist. Start to allow a feeling to wash over you (by day) and allow it to run its course. Stay detatched and monitor it as it swells, grows and moves through your psyche and thoughts.
Keeping a dream journal and deciphering with w dream dictionary is a good idea for ' Deep Ocean-types' such as yourself. Once you find expression for these feelings you will go far on the backs of them. Ride them like waves. Do not try to progress too fast or you will hinder your real progress.
The city is a natural progression and in my experience I believe there is a group consciousness of either past devastation or that which is still to come. This is a tricky one and I've had the same dream as you describe. In mine all the buildings were bare and bare metal frames were all twisted. The colours were vivid Orange/red and purple. Very Significant. However, with what you describe of yours I would say that we'll go with the traditional interpretations, not the collective possibilities.
Buildings generally represent our overall feelings about ourselves. Check your diet, a poor one can often affect our view about ourselves. Seeing a delapidated building can indicate a need for a lifestyle change - before ruin sets in. Buildings also represent the structure we give ourselves everyday. Without a firm structure to our lives we cannot achieve - or feel that we are achieveing. Talk to successful people, they'll tell you. You must have little bits of dedicated time throughout the day to succeed. One hour for this. Then two for that. Another hour for lunch and Next Tuesday a day to visit Aunt May. That sort of thing. Structure. Without it you will feel the anxiety of letting your family down and being torn away from them. Otherwise, beyond the womb, the family structure is the first we are given and again relates to the struggle of individuality. Are the family allowing you the room to develop yours?
IN the true Freudian sense, Byrn, intimate relationships with strangers is a very common dream, as are those with movie stars and often signals a need for you to be able to communicate more clearly with someone special. There is a need to overcome a fear of intimacy also hinted here.
Overall this dream is pointing to you spending a little time in re-organising your life to include time to get to know who you are and your own body rhythms; its likes and dislikes and real needs.
I hope that helps you to move on.
Lilla
PS Surveys have revealed that in our waking life women think of sex every six seconds and men every eighth second. Hmmm, interesting.
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Comment by The Voices in my Head
The Voices in my Head
Tornadoes...big, little, miles and miles wide, little tiny ones dancing about my feet, horrifying massive ones,
I have dreamt about them for years. I have been told they signal change but I cannot always credit the
dream to a particular change going on. What are your thoughts?
Thank you,
Voices~
Comment by The Voices in my Head
The Voices in my Head
I was brushing my hair, which is long and dark in the dream and short and light colored in reality, when my brush caught on something just at my forehead. I kept trying to brush my hair and each time the brush caught. I finally went to the mirror and looked to see what was going on and there was a large hole that had been covered up by my hair. The hole lay flat, like a line but when I lifted the top flap of skin up, there was a deep recess back into my head. Not only was the hole deep but it was healed up completely, an old wound obviously because there was no blood or anything. I got a flashlight out and looked into the hole. There were cobwebs and maggots in there.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? I am so sorry if that grosses anyone out. Its just what I dreamt and I need Lillas brilliance on this one.
Voices~
Comment by The Voices in my Head
The Voices in my Head
Analyze away...
Voices~
Comment by Lilla
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Just briefly about the four second time span thing, I wouldn't worry, in my opinion it is for the best, because when you do finally find your submarine or wet suit and cross the great ocean (and you will, believe me), you will probably find that you are capable of a very great love, and will most likely find one.
She's a lucky girl.
L.
Comment by Lilla
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Yours may take a little while to work out....
Stand by.....
L.
Comment by Homer Joyce
Dreams second. NIghtmares third.
It's my waking thoughts that disturb me the most. I keep thinking about you ... LOL ...
On a more serious note:
The most recurring dream I have is where I'm flying like a person who is hang-gliding (but without the hang-glider) ... and I can perform any manouevre whatsoever I like ... triple somersaults don't even come close (Bejing divers and gymanstic hopefuls, eat your hearts out). I don't know anything about time-frames in dreams but they seem to go on for a long time (it's very enjoyable. And it's never raining. So it's not a wet dream. I wake up dry around the pubic region but feeling better than if I'd had a wet dream or sex even - from what I remember of the experience). Years ago it recurred two nights in a row. I flew over the same area and there was a house there that I didn't recognise. The area itself seemed vaguely or somewhat familiar, but I couldn't pinpoint it as a place I'd seen before. Electricity wires or power lines have caused a few problems in these dreams. I've only narrowly avoided them at certain times. And once I coerced a girl (no-one in particular) into believing she could fly. She came with me but we ended up at this very strange house (where I'd never been before). That particular dream certainly had power lines in it. After meeting the people at this house, I'd had enough, and wanted to leave. I left by myself, and narrowly avoided the power lines again. And on the odd occasion these dreams have ended with me losing the ability to fly and wondering if it was such a great idea after all to be the first hang-glider without a hang-glider.
As to nightmares ... I'll get back to you on that one ... It seems like you didn't realise what you'd gotten yourself into by posting a blog like this ...
H
Comment by Lilla
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Another easy one and I'll start with this one because it will apply to many people. It is another common dream symbol, which often reaches scary proportions, because it signifies an overulling feeling of obligation you feel to supress your own desires to keep the status quo. Hurricanes and whirrly-winds are often activated by the fear of loosing the love object by realeasing the truth of who we are. Basically, you are looking at a force you are afraid you cannot control. Specifically, I am talking, passion.
What you need to figure out are your true feelings of responsibility to the people around you, especially your partner(s) - past, present, future. Do you feel that you come on too strong, too fast? Are you avoiding asking (or talking) deeper, about a need to act out some of your fantasies. Is it because you feel you will be judged as something (or someone) who is depraved in some way. Has your partner asked you to be involved in their fantasies which make you feel depraved in some way? You need to allow your passion free reign ... slowly. It is clear you have a very passionate nature and will need to explore it slowly, least it overwhelms you. Take your time, don't get caught in the morass of the mind in trying to figure it out. Step back into your body and allow your inner wisdom to discern what you need.
You could wear some Flourite to help with self disipline issues, if you think it is stronger than you. Remember, practice makes perfect.
The key to understanding which areas specifically affecting you can be found in noting (next time) whether you are picking up water in the hurricane, are there peices of driftwood or things in there with you? Do you get caught up in them yourself? You have not mentioned what happens to the hurricane around your feet ... do you wake up, or does it dissipitate?
I hope that helps a little, Voices,
More to follow,
Stand-by...
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Someone once told me flyin in dreams had to do with sex ... and once you started having regular sex you wouldn't have these types of dreams anymore .... ?
Comment by Lilla
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Dream Herald
This is a very personal dream but not so hard to understand as it contains many symbols which are again common, yet it is their order here which makes this a very personal dream. I'll just light some insence and then begin.
Hair in dreams respresents strength and virility. To be combing it shows you attempting to untagle a particular attitutde you have towards certain people or circumstances. Discovering the hole underneath is a really interesting progression. (and this is where it gets personal), because to dream of the the head is precognitive of your view on power and wisdom. (you can see where we are going with this, can't you?). Not satisfied to have a shallow view, you want to look deeper into yourself to find purpose and meaning. Do you feel that you have a life purpose that you cannot quite grasp yet? Dreaming of the head in general, suggests that we should be very careful in how we look at wisdom and folly. Has someone accused you of being useless, making you question your values?
The discovery of the hole is a shock (yes?), but you want to explore further, why? Could it be because you feel that there is still more to understand in your journey before you can find the true meaning. A round hole represents the heavens and is seen as a portal to our subconscious - beneath our outer personality. The cobwebs and maggots are a great sign that all is well, although alarming because there is a reason that you cannot know the secret of what lies between worlds, before your time. That is what the maggots represent, your fears of death, which you grapple to come to terms with. The cobweb is interesting here because dreams of spiders represent our mothers (birth, a way into the world). Here she is gone, but something of her legacy remains.
The symbology strongly suggests these fears could possibly be the result of a missunderstanding or powerplay between you and your mother either through her strong beliefs overpowering yours, or lack of them. She either strongly supported you, or strongly didn't/doesn't. Either way, strong feelings you are learning to go beyond, because you have found the torch of courage to shine the light, revealing the truth.
One other thing, dreams about foreheads often come to those who have a very strong mission and will reach some form of public acclaim, once they have stregthened their own fibre. Learn to put past heartache into the "so WHat" basket and move on.
There is no blood because there is no danger of looking within. Be still, know you are God. Well a part of him anyway, the part called Voices, surely the true discovery of that is a wonderful journey?
L.
Stand by for last dream interp...
Comment by The Voices in my Head
The Voices in my Head
I have often narrowly missed being swept up into the smaller ones. I often had to rescue my children
from the tornadoes.
The massive ones have destroyed my house, and have often swept me up inside them. I will be inside
them looking at all of this other stuff that has gotten swept up. In the dreams with the massive tornadoes that are literally miles and miles wide, I have thought that I will die.
The tiny dancing tornadoes have often been about my feet like little shih tsus wanting attention, literally almost interacting with me. I once had this dream where they were at my feet as I was holding hands with my husband walking down a country dirt road. At the same time though, I do remember being facinated but weary of them. As though they might grow out of control. They did disappear in the dream and I remember being sad that they left.
Congrats on this blog...I really think it will be huge...massive...like a tornado! lol
Voices~
Comment by Lilla
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I really think you would benefit by getting a hold of a fairly good dream dictionary and by trying to remember what the objects are in the tornado with you, each time. This will give you a hint as to the area of life you are dealing with at that time.
I love that I can help in some way.
L.
Comment by Jessicca
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As for me, my dream that haunted me since childhood was almost the same as Bryn's. The only thing was I was always filty and running everywhere, usually looking for someone (sometimes family, sometimes someone I knew but couldn't remember who when I wake up).
There was a few times I dreamt in the same dream that I was someone that could fly (sometimes I have wings), flying around the damaging city with orange sunset.
Once I am on the ground I somehow have the trouble flying up again or sometimes, I ended up unable to fly and start running.
In between "searching for the person" I come across many people, who are as filty in dirt as I am, running at a direction that I knew was dangerous. I kept calling them and telling them not to run that way because it's the wrong direction.
This occur for sometime and usually when I was trying to direct people to the right shelter, there will be this great light blinding everyone, including me, like a nuclear bomb explotion.
Note that I had this dream before I watched Terminator. LOL...
The only odd thing is I haven't have this dream last year and this year. It was recurring like every few times a year.
Perhaps you can enlighten me on this dream?
Comment by Lilla
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An Extra Ordinary Life
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I'm going to start off by saying that I feel that it is embarrassing because your are the wife half of the marraige you speak of and that makes the girl/girl thing, abhorent to you?
So on this premise let's have a look at what you are trying to tell yourself.
Firstly, when we dream of some kind of image that we, the dreamer considers perverted in some way, we are avoiding issues to do with closeness and bonding. The second clue is the person themselves, a movie star (same sex denoting that projection of the type of person we would like to be, opposite sex trying to find that part of ourselves we think we have lost). Does Jennifer have qualities that you admire (apart from the fact that she's close to Brad Pitt)? Do you believe she is more carefree or accomplished than you are?
Feeling strong desire for either sex in a dream is symbolic of us looking for a part of ourselves. That this occurred amongst a crowded room, suggests you sometimes feel a certain isolation within your social circle. This dream really does piggy-back off the last one with a natural sort of progression. It seems to progress the premise of you not being, or feeling, as free in your life as you want to be. Again, check your values and lifestyle. Is there something you wanted to do and have forgotten about it? Did you have a passion as a teenager that you now need to revisit?
Whilst kissing in dreams is a symbol of acceptance, sucking as you describe it, suggests your need to have that which you feel you have not yet attained, through this reflection of someone who's traits you admire.
The fingers in dreams have very special significance.
1st finger - growth and expansion
2nd finger - feelings of restrictions and confinement
3rd finger - the self and self-esteem
4th finger - communication
Do you remember exactly which fingers you were sucking?
The message here is that your were trying to suck out these qualities, strength and courage against restriction and confinement. You must face your inner critic (judge) and make a deal with her. Be careful of her and don't let her rule the roost over you. Don't let her beat you up! Be careful, she's happy to take away all your opporunities. When you see her coming, put a bigblack cross through her pathway. Apply for the job, talk to your husband, venture forth and let others tell you, you are not good enough, not her - the inner critic - and certainly not before you have tried! I always tell mine that I will have a drink with her later if I fail.
Voices, It's time for action!
A blue stone - like Lapis Lazuli - worn around your neck will help you express yourself verbally, if you have trouble speaking your truth, due to a supressed upbringing.
Thank you so much for sharing,
I wish you good progress on your journey.
Let me know how it's going from time to time.
L.
Comment by Lilla
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I hardly know you and yet it feels like I've known you forever...
Welcome. I am so glad we are going to fly next because it is common and it is where we leave the world of Freud, the physical body and all its fluids, and head off into the stratosphere of Karl Jung and the collective consciousness. A warning to the faint hearted, this is where it can get wierd, religious, spaced-out (twilight zone-ish) or just plain, nice.
On a physical level Bryn, is correct, flying dreams usually herald a leap in sexual maturity towards eros truly finding physical pleasure. As above, so below.
However, flying comes from the angelic realms and it is where groups of incarnate souls go to find each other and reunite. Enlightened souls fly and remember their flights, those with work to do. What work? Light work - inspiring others, helping them to find their own light. These "others" often appear as non-descript characters in dreams where there is only a vague sense of gender, without sexuality.
Why can angels fly?
Because they take themselves lightly... and this is where money, flow and poverty comes into it, because as you all know, all light work is service and all money is generated from an exchange of energy. Money is like water, you cannot own it, you can only use it.
In your case Homer, I am not sure that it wasn't me taking that flight with you? I'm very nondescript and it sounds exactly like a flight I took a few months back myself, with this equally, lovely non-descript fellow. According to Jung this kind of flight, presages an upcoming meeting of a new friend, someone who seems so familiar, even like a true mirror to help you remember who you truly are - because that is what it is all about, remembering.
As you correctly say, time frames vary between multiverses and cannot be defined, accurately, because in spirit there is no time. It can be of no surprise that like minds connect in dreams and then come together back on this reality ... in blog groups, at the supermarket each week, at the laundry, in the boardroom, at the local gym.
Therefore dreams of flight, particularly when you can master your "wings" with skill and ease, are precognitive dreams that portend a period of time when you will be helping others by inspiring them through being who you are. And that is the responsibility, to be who you are, totally. Sometimes this is not an easy task, especially when it all perculates down to the physical level of sexual relationships, family and peer pressure, you know, manifesting money, paying bills and mundane reality.
When you find that you are loosing your ability to fly yourself in a dream - especially after you have been helping many people - then you are warned to make contact with nature and be careful not to burn out. SO easy to do, because the work is so light, it beomces addictive ... enter all you obsessive compulsives. The saving grace is usually the non-descript person(s) you flew with, they will enter at exactly the time needed for you to take a breath.
This is not so for dreams where you fly alone and or are only teaching. Then you will need to be more vigilant to ensure 'time-out,' not burn-out (like me with this blog...jj). But keep them coming, we have time enough to spare.
Seen in said flying dream, the symbolism for a building is slightly changed too. From your words, I picture it out in the country somewhere not in suburbia. Green rolling hills around and those dread power lines? I've had a few of those take me out over the years. The other night they fried my hot air baloon!
It's all really simple. The people in the house are the like minded souls of a group you will, or have encountered where you 'hang out' for a while. People who in pre-life agreements you have a bond with (on some level) who will help and be helped by you, to achieve global shifts in consciousness (dare I say it) back to the ONE. Sometimes we stay with them for a week, sometimes a lifetime, it depends. Electricity lines in dreams like this, symbolise power. Like the light, most of us can't handle too much of it and they appear to warn us to be aware of our capabilities. Time for some gratitude back on earth for a while - cosmic humble pie - that sort of thing. Ooh and lots of prayer, did I mention prayer?
I hope this helps Homer
I'm bushed and going to bed, perchance to dream some more,
I might see you there, bring your shades
L.
Comment by Lilla
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An Extra Ordinary Life
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That took longer than expected, I will add personal interpretations for you tomorrow, particularly regarding the orange sun, as colours are very interesting too.
Good Night,
L.
Comment by Homer Joyce
Thanks for devoting so much time and effort to the response.
It (your response) does help.
Im still digesting it (devoting my time and effort towards it out of desire, and common courtesy) and will respond at length
H Darling.
Comment by Lilla
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As promised, your interpretation.
I will not add to the flying part as I think I covered it in Homer's interpretation (above), except to perhaps add that any dream involving the sky, generally relates to the mind in a very non-descript way, and so it is no surprise to have found so many flyers amongst a writers blog community.
You mention '..a damaging city?' I am not sure what this means, but an orange sun is very interesting because it offers a clue as to the direction your happiness will be found. For you it is in consciouss awareness. Do you feel that life should be lived fully - in the now, a full-on immerision experience? Orange is essentially a cheerful, uplifting colour and your penchant will be to bring others out of fear and into the light of 'doing,' 'living,' 'being.' Orange also signals satisfaction and autonomy, and I imagine that both are very important to you?
Searching for people, either to 'just find them' or for a specific reason is another interesting, and common dream symbol. Basically it relates to our searching to find a solution to a problem in our waking world. Searching for another person suggests a feeling of inner loneliness. And to find them covered in mud, well that is very figurative, because in a flying (spiritual) dream mud represents our premordial beginnings and points the way for a strong need to go 'back to basics.'
To find yourself covered in mud yourself, means you have somehow become bogged down by not properly seperating the emotional (water) from the practical (earth). Have you got caught up in something? Together with the Sun section of this dream, I think the message is that you re-evaluate your values and intentions. One part seems to be out of alignment with the other, doesn't it?
You have qualities to help you inspire and lead others and the Sun in your flight assures you, that you are meant to, but again you must be true to yourself. If you are living a life that is not in conscious keeping with your true inner values, then you cannot help the others from rushing headlong into the same fate. You obviously have a responsible future, because it falls on you to lead the way, but you must first find the way of making yourself authentic to your inner values.
A clue may lie in the 'Running' part, because in dreams it always denotes a need to establish a time and a place for things. And I believe this dream re-occurs to warn you that you must do the same, time to re-align every now and then.
I hope this illuminates things a little, Jessica.
L.
Comment by Homer Joyce
I haven't got anything to say ... I was just reading your post to Jessica, and thought ... why not add to the vote count by posting a comment?
The answer I receieved: No reason. Just do it. (That response was sponsored or re-sponsored by Nike).
H
Comment by Jessicca
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Thank you so much for your interpretation. I believe that there's partly true in my dreams that many of my friends used to seek me for some advice or just talk to me to get their minds cleared.
Sometimes when my housemate had a problem and she'd call out to me when she sees me, and after talking to me (even I didn't give any advice - just interact with her conversation) she'd say, "Thanks! That cleared my mind a bit, I know what I'm going to do. Thanks you are really a life saver"
Perhaps it has something to do with my dream.
Another thing it is quite true that I believe life should live to the fullest, but not under a self-endulgence or money hungry, because these "worldly things" cannot be taken with you at your end of days.
Anyway, after reading your interpretations, I tried to remember more detail of this past dream that kept haunting me since very young age.
About "damaging city" it's like a city full of dust, it's dirty and looked like a little war-torn. People around (who are filty) looked like as if they were beggars, or refugees. Some just run around aimelessly trying to run away from something.
Usually I don't remember how I am when I was flying. Sometimes in filty war-torn clothes, sometimes wearing something simple (light coloured dress or something similar). Then when I "landed" and stopping people going to the supposingly wrong directly, I started realising my hands looked filty. The more I run, especially when I couldn't take flight again (to look for that someone - or family member - flying is easier to find them) I can see I am like sweating, and filty, as if I have been running around lurking at all places.
The searching is rather intense. And I was sometimes panting for breaths, looking into alleys, and keep searching.
No doubt about it the sky is always orange. Sometimes darker orange, sometimes like those striking gold sunsets after rain (I saw it in Toowoomba once after the storm).
But what about the last part everytime before I wake up? The blazing light from the wrong direction, and it is like having a neukler bomb detonation.
I'd be glad if you would enlighten me on these parts.. ^_^
Comment by Lilla
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I think I covered all the searching, dirt covered and raggy aspects earlier, as well as the orange sky/sun. Please read the interpretation again and give it time to sink in. See what resonates and what doesn't within your own psyche.
Dreams are safe places for us to release (and work out) our problems in order for us to cleanse our anger and fears. An explosion is a symbol of an intense form of this. It enables us to make room for a more positive expression with more confidence in who we are and what we are thinking and feeling.
Good Luck in sorting through it.
Lilla.
Comment by Jessicca
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Thanks Lilla. I will look into it. I had another dream that only dreamt one time, but it left quite a strong memory behind. I wrote down once (it occured last year) I will trouble you with this next time after I digest your interpretations properly.
Thank you very much Lilla!
If you have some time do visit my blogs. The most recent one was my very first written short story. Hope it entertains you. ^_^
http://www.orble.com/thefunfair/
Comment by Lilla
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I'll be away from my post for a couple of days, but if you have a dream you need interpreted, please leave a comment andI'll get back to it early next week.
Happy Dreaming till then
L.
Comment by Homer Joyce
I'm already having nightmares about you being away for a couple of days ...
Can you recommend someone to talk to about this ...
There's no way I can wait until next week ...
H
Comment by Lilla
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I am aghast that I have neglected to repond to you for so long, although I did in other places.
I do not know who you can talk to about this condition, but I feel that given time you will come to realise that it could never be, my darling, you and me. *dramatically places one hand on sighing chest and her other to her temple* looks away ... ooh okay, just talk to me then ... I will never be far away, as I am held captive by our daily blog correspondences also.
Your friend-in-net
Lilla.
Comment by JoshZ
A Simple Christian
I was at a cave somewhere near the beach. I could hear the waves and smell it, even though it was a long way away. I can remember seeing a baby hippo eating the pineapples I saw growing in someone else's garden so I shooed it away. I then sensed someone behind me and I turned to see St Michael (don't ask me how I know it was him, I just do) who lead me to a book and told me to study it.
I woke up at that point and to this day I haven't known anyone that can give any kind of satisfying answer to what the hell it might mean.
Again, I really did dream this and no, I was not on drugs and hadn't eaten anything weird.
JoshZ
Comment by Johanna
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Comment by Lilla
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This is a lovely light dream and I have enjoyed researching it for you and I'm almost done, but I have to clarify whether you are refering to the Archangel Michael when you mention St Michael. Can you add more description of your image?
Thanks
Lilla
Comment by Lilla
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Thank you for coming. I am a little short on time this evening but will get you an interpretation by tomorrow evening. Sorry for the delay.
Lilla.
Comment by Lilla
Enviro Warrior
An Extra Ordinary Life
Dream Herald
You haven't given me many details other than three main symbols, so I will deal only with them and if you can remember any more details later, come back and tell me. When I say details I mean is it night, day, stormy, cloudy. Are you in the bedroom, in the loungeroom, or on the sofa when you look at the window?
Either way, looking at a window is a very positive symbol. A window in a dream stands for bright hopes, vast possibilities and insight. So why the scary image of clawing fingers ....?
Well, as I've outlined before, each finger has a significance when seen in our sleep. They are as follows,
1st finger - growth and expansion
2nd finger - feelings of restrictions and confinement
3rd finger - the self and self-esteem
4th finger - communication
Do you remember exactly which fingers you can see?
To see the whole hand implies that your power and creativity may be trying to reach you?
If the window is shut your problem is one of abandonment and rejection. If the window is open and the fingers are coming in , there really should be no angst because an open window signifies, reflection from your consciousness.
Are you are aware of your point of view, awareness, and intuition in your current situation? You may be reflecting on a decision and seeking guidance. You may need to go out into the larger world and experience life. IS there a childhood trauma here? I suspect that thereis something to do with darkness or a memory of being overly criticised?
To hear yourself screaming is significant, although again I'm not sure whether you wake yourself up or not by doing so? However, it signifies pent up anger and fear. YOu are screaming at yourself to release and allow your creativity free by releasing the emotions which have become blocked up inside.
This dream suggests a classic type of fear of success type scenario. YOu must develop courage in your life situation, something is blocking your progress and when it reaches boiling point in your everyday life, it seems this dream reoccurs to try to remind you that you must push through.
Try to notice what the weather is doing outside the window, next time. Perhaps notice more details in the fingers themselves, or where you are in the room in a spatial way and come back and let me know what the symbols are. I may be able to shed light on the way you can move forward.
I hope this helps Johanna.
Love, light and laughter
Lilla.
Comment by JoshZ
A Simple Christian
Comment by Lilla
Enviro Warrior
An Extra Ordinary Life
Dream Herald
So sorry for the delay. I only know one Michael in the angelic realm and that is Archangel Michael and have created the interpretation out on this very same angel. (Someone please correct me if there is another St Michael - thanks).
Okay then, JoshZ ...
This is a lovely dream and I have enjoyed researching it for you. You are special and again I am reminded of how like minds are drawn together to achieve higher goods. Orble is proving a good gathering ground in this sphere
Let's start with the cave. In dreams it represents our drop in the unconscious and signifies a change of state from one form of living to another, higher one. It is precognitive that you are entering a time of being able to recognise and control your negative impulses. Candles represents that we are trying to clarify something. Psychologically, they represent knowledge or wisdome that has not yet fully chrystallised. The beach is close by and represents the edge of your emotional body. It shows of the boundary between emotion and reality, your ability to be in touch with your spatial location in the waking world. It points towards relaxation and creativity in the waking world and is relevant as it leads us to the cave, where dropping into the unconscious you discover a Hippopotamus - the symbol of inner strength he says, you have more influence and power than you realise overyour current circumstances, but you don't want to listen and you shoo him away. Be careful this is not borne of laziness.
A garden appears in the dream asking you to look to that which you are trying to cultivate within yourself. What is it you are trying to achieve? You have not mentioned whether the garden is closed off or not, however you say it is your neighbours garden and suggests that you may harbour envy of a friend, or the need to approach someone. Either must be worked out and overcome through re-evaluating your emotional intentions.
Quite simply, you have been given a gift and have a divine life purpose which you have rejected looking at with the Hippo., the Archangel Michael comes to tell you that he has come to give you strength to make life changes that will help you achieve your divine purpose. He offers you safety and protection and is seen throughout Christianity as the highest of high when it comes to rescuing the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy - in this case your resistance to change - esp. when you need to make one at home or at work. He says, you are a lightworker and this is why you often feel 'different' from others, isolated at times. Archangel Michael will help you achieve your divine puurpose. Ask, and then Act.
I hope this helps you to understand,
Lilla.
Comment by Johanna
PCOS Mum
Thank you so much for your interpretation. It was very insightful and made me really think.
In answer to your questions, it is always dark and sometimes the window is closed and the person/being is trying to get in. I hear the scratching on the window or door. Sometimes I even think the person is inside the room (always the bedroom) so they have successfully made it in.
I'm not sure excatly which fingers, but i think it was the middle three. I usually have this dream when I am under extreme stress.
Thanks again.
Comment by Lilla
Enviro Warrior
An Extra Ordinary Life
Dream Herald
Classically when a bedroom appears in a dream it represents a place of safety. A place that we feel we can be as open and sensual as we want ot be. How that translates to the daytime in classic Freudian interpretation is clear that you need time alone. I would say that whoever is causing your stressing situation may be the cause of the person at the door or window in the dream. Someone is encroaching your privacy and you need to let them know it.
Push back a little Johanna and take the time for yourself, especially when there is lots to do. Thereis never an excuse not to look after yourself too.
Drinking lots of water is helpful to anyone in a stressing situation, anytime.
Again, blessings.
Lilla
Comment by JoshZ
A Simple Christian
A few of my friends at church said some similar stuff, but never so eloquently.
Wondering if I should tell you about the one with the vikings with throwing axes.....
Comment by Lilla
Enviro Warrior
An Extra Ordinary Life
Dream Herald
Thanks for the lovely compliment, I guess it shows that I enjoy my work.
Lilla
Comment by Adrian
Philosophy Blog
Comment by Lilla
Enviro Warrior
An Extra Ordinary Life
Dream Herald
Thank you for your concern, but if I didn't want the work, I wouldn't have created the blog.
Please feel free to use the service any time you want, I welcome the challenge of learning new things.
I am thrilled you enjoy the read...Thank you for leaving your comment.
Lilla.
Comment by Lily
Bohemians United
Ars Poetica
I'm so glad to have had some time today away from the clashing hour upon hour at work. I find dreams absolutely fascinating; and your replies most revealing, as you write them in your caring way. I learnt a lot.
Mine is a doozy, i had it last week, i've never had it before, and it keeps haunting me, hence my need to understand it; I also had 2 more dreams the 2 nights after.. much shorter than this one. Excuse any fragmented writing, we're talking dreams.... I know it's long and take as long as you need... thanks so much Lilla...
Get ready for the ride....
I am at a tavern i go to sometimes (which looked nothing like how it really does) and I saw Butterfly serving drinks behind the bar. I thought she was in America?', i wondered.
At the back of the bar was an untidy area with three desk booths like at a school library, and various rooms with people and piles of junk stacked on shelves. i set up my notebook at this desk and started browsing, i saw an email message from butterfly, she had only written a couple of sentences, it was about one of my poems. i don't know what she said, but i know it was nice and made me feel good.
I looked around because i sensed someone looking at me, i saw there were also some single mothers; they all looked sick and suspicious and i learned that they were there because this place was a mothers refuge for girls getting off drugs. They all hated being there and wore scowls like teenagers do when you say no to them. They started to hang around me, and i let them because i wanted to help them. The first girl was especially nice to me.
Then i realise i was on some girl's computer, i apologised and got off and started to look for my notebook. i also looked for Butterfly; there were four new girls on the bar, but none of them were her.
In looking for my notebook, i kept finding one and saying "oh there it is", but it wasn't, they were all old and had obscure sticky labels on them in masking tape with black felt pen writing, each of them claiming them to be someone elses, some had childrens writing and others with writing i couldn't understand because it was scrawly. I found a pile of computer paraphenalia and searched through it frantically, also old cameras and walkman radios.
One of the girls was in a fetal position in a booth, one of the other girls berated her about being sad again, calling her foul names; then fetal girl dissappeared. I started to realise that my notebook was definitely missing as i had searched everywhere, but at this point i didn't suspect her, giving the benefit of doubt. i felt sorry for her and thought i had just misplaced it somewhere, so i was just to look and i would find it again. i started to suspect the other girls.
Back on this girls computer, or another one? i got an email from a friend with a request to help with editing a post and something about one of the people there having a few bad words and a postman.
I thought i'd get to know these girls out the back, i thought twice about asking them if they'd seen my notebook, as they were acting 'too' nice to me, and i thought i would befriend them to investigate.
I found myself looking after the baby of the girl who had the fetal position, her baby wasn't crying but i knew he was upset, and i knew it was a boy. Between the bar and the rooms out back, were beds made up for little children, i don't know how i ended up looking after this little baby, but i did, i soothed him and placed him on the bed. The baby had a string of fake dark lilac pearls for legs and i was touching them, fascinated, especially the end pearl and thought it must be his foot. It looked like it had fine hairs on it, like a new cactus leaf gets 'hairy' before a new leaf begins to grow. i accidently broke off this end pearl by handling it too much. The baby didn't cry and i noticed that now it matched the other one that was gone too. Here i had much pain and grief.
I returned again to a small room at the back, to change his nappy; another girl was changing her babies nappy and i asked her where this babies mother was. she said "she's probably gone back to her room to bed." i looked up a winding staircase that had broken turned posts and old notices on the wall; paint peeling.
Two men came in, dressed much like a german or a russian solder, with their khaki thick wool uniforms with shoulder epaulettes with gold inscriptions, and proper stiff hats. They looked like they were after me. I don't recall what happened but, i spoke with them and soothed them.
The fetal position girl appeared, smiling, but was now transformed wearing a blue halterneck dress, with freshly washed, curly blonde hair and bright skin.
Somehow we are pushed ahead of time and are now in my car, i am in the passenger seat, and she in the drivers seat of my own car, she smiled at me and then her face turned dark and threatening, she starts up the car and smiles, the air is suddenly tense. i reached over and turned it off and pulled the keys out roughly and glared at her, then i noticed she had severe nasal hair (lol) and she got out and ran because she saw how angry i was. Here i realise it was her who had taken my notebook.
Then i am reversing my car fast down a road and in looking in the rear view mirror, i could see the tops of tiled roofs of houses getting closer to my left side, i knew i was going to go over the edge and as i did, i fell through the roof of a house. I felt the anticipation of going to die, as one does in a plane crash. As I am falling through....
....my alarm goes off.
Upon waking, i feel every emotion of the dream in one instance and i am utterly confused and disorientated, with a pounding headache and high anxiety. As I wrote this dream, both began to ease and my thoughts and feelings start clearing --
note: I didn't have one drink in that bar; damn.. and why i was there? I have no idea
~Lily
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