Comments on: Little dream, big meaning

By: Steve Parker

Steve Parker — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:24:05 +0000

I think your dream about being a Pilates Reformer has to do with your cruci-fiction as a blogger.

You are a Pilot of Consciousness,the Jungian opposite of that evil Pontious Pilate.

The dream shows how deeply and synchronistically you are connected to the arche-typing world.

By: Shanster

Shanster — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:03:26 +0000

Aha! It absolutely was about my Mom and it was something VERY VERY much in my subconcious and I was EXTREMELY terrified of it and had never, ever admitted it to myself let alone anyone else.

It came out and it still isn’t easy tho it IS much better than it was 2 yrs ago… and yes, I suppose I realize I am not alone with it any more.

I think it was also because I was a child and don’t things always seem so much larger than life when you are a kid? Whale sized? The other interesting similarity was how whales arrive, breaking the surface and disappear again to the depths.

My Mom arrived and she would disappear. Very whale like and larger than life.

I saw her every 3 or 4 mos. when I was around 3 yrs old to the time I moved to the state she lived in to go to college.

My pop was abusive in many ways and I lived with him because being in the system at age 3 and many people running that system in the conservative mid-west back in the 70′s didn’t seem to see or think… maybe they still don’t. I don’t know.

(more danger in the waters of my dreams?)

He died in November and I could swear that it was him that showed up to show me that there were beautiful things in the sea and by way of apology he escorted me through to show me… leaving me on the shore to explore my life in a new way. With the realized information no longer hidden?

When he died I was literally afraid he would come for me… like vengeful ghost or cause me some sort of torment from the other side. However odd that sounds.

After that dream, I was very much at peace about his death and I was no longer worried or afraid of him coming to get me like some poltergeist in the movies.

Anyway – those dreams were really very amazing and I could see they were telling me something and moving forward as I moved forward through my issues.

Thanks so much for your kind comments and analysis! Spot on!

My dreams these days are much easier and much less work. Thank goodness… that was enough work to last me for a while.

grin

By: editor

editor — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:23:21 +0000

the things you saw in my dream imagery…utterly dead-on.

By: La Belette Rouge

La Belette Rouge — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:04:14 +0000

Sorry that your dreams are a torment. Too bad there isn’t a DVR for dreams. That would be swell.

By: enc

enc — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:34:21 +0000

I think your interpretation of your own dream sounds right on.

I hate my dreams. They disrupt my already-fraught sleep. If I could turn them off, I would.

By: La Belette Rouge

La Belette Rouge — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:29:12 +0000

Things that come to mind:
Your bold letters “WHAT ON EARTH” and in the dream you are on the water. This dream isn’t on earth.it is on water. What that says to me is to read this dream as an emotional space and not a literal(not earthy space).
* Water is the unconscious. Water is emotion.
* This dream has the theme of being in temporary spaces( hotel and house boat). Vacations are a short time. A time away from ordinary time.
*I can’t help but think of the moment when you were water rafting with your family. In that dream, no….that was real, in that experience…you were the one who knew. You were the expert/the local. And yet you still ended up in the water. Any associations to this dream in how it related to your feelings in that experience?
* Waiting to ride out a hurricane.” What are you waiting for? Is there a storm that you are preparing for? Do others not take your *feelings* about something seriously?
* How are you not listening to your instincts?
* What do your dogs represent? What would it mean for them to be closeted?
* In the dream you are a Cassandra. Does that myth speak to you?
* I think it is important to remember that the dream is saying this is about feelings( water) and that this is not a permanent place in your psyche( vacation/hotel).
I have a feeling that more ideas will come about this dream. Expect a p.s.

By: La Belette Rouge

La Belette Rouge — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:16:10 +0000

Shanester: I am so sorry. Somehow I didn’t see your comment. Sorry about that!:-(
What a gorgeous dream and experience. I am so touched by your relationship with this symbol. Something that is so powerful and predatory and potentially killing has become calm and beautiful.
i tend to see water as the unconscious. There was something BIG and dangerous there. Something that felt like it could kill you. But instead of killing you—you faced it and the relationship changed.

I found this: ” A whale may symbolize your mother, or feminity in general. The mother metaphor would indicate a dominant mother or a mother attachment. Being swallowed by a whale would symbolize a descent into the unconscious, where you may find repressed emotions from previous experiences in life. But it is also where you will find your true self (not dominanted by the egocentric self), which may include the creative and/or spiritual. As a feminine aspect it may be addressing yout intuitice self, or perceptions in general. Do you usually trust your self, or do you give way to outside influences that ultmately bring about crisis in your life.?”

The whales that come to mind are Jonah( being swallowed by a big primitive mother), Moby Dick and “Whale Rider”( Have you seen it? If no, you should!!!)
You are no longer in a rough sea. You no longer feel alone on your own in the midst of emotions You have woken from your dark night of the soul. I am so happy for you.

What an amazing experience. Thank you so much for sharing it!
That whale is an amazing companion.

By: Laura Munson

Laura Munson — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:06:31 +0000

I had a dream the other night that I was sitting in a house boat with my family and a bunch of strangers all on vacation, (I can’t think of a worse vacation, but apparently my unconscious mind chose to go there) and we were waiting to ride out a hurricane. There was a hotel right there where the staff was choosing to ride it out, but they told us that the safest place to ride it out was in the house boat. My instincts were that they were wrong, but everybody, including my family, told me this was the safest place to be. Suddenly our dogs were there too, and there wasn’t room for them, so I took them into the hotel and put them in a closet and cried as I kissed them as if I was saying goodbye to them, and then re-boarded the boat. The winds kicked up and the waves sent the boat pitching and heaving and everybody was laughing and chatting and I asked, “Do we at least have life jackets?” and everybody looked at me like I was being an alarmist fool. I knew then that we were being sacrificed and that somehow everyone had drunk the “Kool-aid” except for me, and I could either try to force my family off the boat, ride it out with them knowing that I could lose my life, or save myself and flee. At least I’d have my dogs. I finally convinced myself that it was a dream and a scary one and that I needed to wake up. Which I did. WHAT ON EARTH does that mean? That I’m not following my instincts? That sacrifice or surrender is more important? The part I love is that my conscious mind can interrupt my unconscious mind. That part is the good news. I guess. Ideas, Belette?

By: La Belette Rouge

La Belette Rouge — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:24:16 +0000

I do think dreams are real. Real meaning:being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory.
I pity people who don’t dream in either their waking or dreaming life. Dreams of both kind make the mundane drudgery of life so much more tolerable.
Thanks, Tara. I appreciate your very kind non-projection!:-)

By: Tara Z.

Tara Z. — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:06:50 +0000

I love the story about the Chinese philosopher who had a vivid dream in which he was a butterfly. But when he awoke, he didn’t know if he was a man who was dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly who was dreaming he was a man.

I sometimes wonder if my dream life is actually the real life. It feels so real. Okay, weird-real, but so vivid.

I love it when people say to me (usually in a derisive tone) “Yeah, keep dreaming.” I certainly will!

You are freaking amazing at this dream stuff. (and that’s not a projection!)