Alper – You asked help in understanding your dream – I can give indications, but you are the only one who can really experience what your dream tells you. Also I see that your dream says something quite different to the conclusion you reached afterwards.
The symbols of any dream, yours for instance, are all expressions of everyday experiences you can experience. It depends what you mean you wrote, “to go further spiritually.” Life itself is a spiritual experience, but maybe you wish for more awareness of the wonder you are.
So the shaman in dreams in understanding him is that usually we are not dreaming about that actual person but a living image of them formed by your memories, impressions, events lived with them and even your intuitions about them. Such memories are living parts of us and influence us inwardly, so we put them in our dreams. But many characters in dreams are not people you have ever met or known. So you can’t look back on them and ask yourself what you observed or felt about them. In such cases it is most helpful to imagine yourself as that character and describe who you are, exactly as you are and how you act in the dream – as the dream character. As an example of this, one character in a dream I had, an old man, was dying. He was nobody I knew. When I imagined myself as him and described what I felt, and what was happening to me, it was clear he represented the experience I was facing at the time. I was letting my old life, a phase of my life, my old self, die. This was difficult but it was happening, and the dream helped me clarify what I was facing. Try using -
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson So your shaman is not a magical spirit guide, but whatever you have taken in about a shaman, which you can gather by being him as he is in your dream – someone who wants your help. Also he/you, for every dream character reflects aspects of yourself, wants to go further – something you can do by actually developing the ability to dive deeper into yourself by using Being the Character or Thing. It might also help to read
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing The dark cave and swimming in the dark water shows you already have the ability to enter a wider awareness – but it is only just emerging shown by it darkness. The things experienced in dreams take place in the deep parts of your awareness, the place of your inner growth. For example, while you were a child you already had within you the possibilities of becoming a teenager and an adult, but the awareness of those things was deep within you. You are a creature of change and growth and the plan of your physical growth was already in you, but your growth as a person is also in you but has to be a personal decision to face. So you see the possibilities of this in your dream – in a dark place – so a dream is something that comes from a deep part of you; it is something that is working upwards toward being conscious. As such it often, like a seed, takes time to break through to the surface, and then it has to grow. So often dreams are not recognised for their full meaning until later – sometimes months or even longer.
Remember that the processes of Life grew you – a mysterious and wonderful thing Life – yet it is taken for granted. It is the mystery and ordinary of living.
Of course you/the shaman are stuck in the world. The feeling of being stuck comes from not recognising or being aware that you are Everything, but you have either closed or not opened the gates/doors to your many possibilities. Yet again you find how to do this by when you move the panels, so you are on the way beyond stuckness – perhaps you can be the gate and bring to awareness how to do it in waking life.
Perhaps it will help to read
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/ and
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/ Tony
