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Tsunami
A tsunami can indicate a tremendous and fundamental change in you. Most people now know that tsunamis are caused by massive earth changes under the sea. These changes are part of the natural order, and often show themselves to people in their dreams. So they can be understood as an expression of our personal adaptation to enormous changes. They can wash away most of the beliefs, social structures we have built or held onto as important. Yet if we are not afraid of change and the forces that we are actually involved in, then we can find enormous power and force within us.
Remember that tsunamis are dangerous in waking life, but are the expression of your inner life in dreams. They are not dangerous and need not be avoided or run from while asleep. Meeting a tsunami is saying that some tremendous change has happened deep in you and in the world. Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes on the sea bed. So many people are dreaming about them at the moment because of the enormous change going on around us and within us. So learn to face them without fear and be ready to meet change in your life and in your family.
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I am personally going through some extremely life-changing moments. They are stressing me out to my wits end and at times I feel hopeless. Learning to face the tsunami’s in my dreams would be very difficult for me as I am fearful of the ocean in my conscious life. Something about large bodies of water freaks me out. I’m more of a “bird”, if you will. I love to fly. Love heights. But deep water, I don’t do. Fear of the unknown in the ocean, I don’t do. Any suggestions as to how I could face the tsunami head-on? I wonder what that’s like in a dream, to have a tsunami crash down on you?
Jess – If you watch yourself you will notice that whatever you think about you have a feeling reaction to. Obviously it is noticeable in regard to big stretches of water. And dreams are only your feeling reactions put into images and drama. Maybe I am simplifying a little, but it is generally true. And nearly all reactions are habits, and the trick of shifting them is to start a new habit.
Also you need to realise that there is a huge difference between your ‘conscious life’ and your dream life. And to save me writing it all out again, will you please read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dream-yoga/ and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/
So to break a habit we need to practice entering a dream in imagination. Here is something to do that can help you to learn. To understand what is being explained, one must sit without dis¬traction and with closed eyes and imaginatively enter into driving a car. As you imagine this, see yourself driving down a very steep hill, with a steep drop on the left. As the car goes down and down, the bends in the road swing this way and that, and suddenly a bend comes up and the car is going too fast to make it. There is a terrible slope, and the car goes right over the edge.
Now what did you feel or do when the car goes over the edge? Note carefully what happened, then read on.
Now I want you to do the whole thing again. But this time, as the car goes off the edge of the road to smash down the hill, you must try to make it simply fly up into the air gracefully and land safely lower down the road. Try this before reading on.
You may not have been able to control the car once it went over the edge of the road. It either crashed, or you could only slow it down. If you could control it then it shows a high degree of direction of your images and you are changing a habitual reaction. Our fear of crashing is involved, it takes hold of the image and crashes it! In other words, because we cannot master our fear of crashing, it controls the image we have produced. Having realised this, we can then learn to face fear and move the image where we wish, until another fear or desire is involved. And all we have done is to play with images – dreams!
The tremendous meaning and possibilities of that are amazing. Through the manipula¬tion or observance of our own images, we can discover, trace, change our own innermost processes.
That is one of the great wonders behind out dreaming, it displays our fear and wonder, and if we use it we can change our whole reaction to fear. So try it with a tsunami crashing down on you till you can feel all that wonderful energy.
Tony