Paisley – You can understand you dream if, like a child, you do not think about it, but simply look at the pictures or the ‘cartoon’ of your dream.
But not having your enormous depths of associations with the dream images, I will be my own child self and guess at its meaning.
Middle aged people tired of tired with the long years of living, falling asleep at the job of living. It shows you are tired of paying attention to the cues life has given you, and you are ‘napping’ on the amazing job of life, and are being treated like a child in an infant school.
But you did awake to the threat of an enormous energy hitting you. But please realise that all the people, animals, places and events you experience in your dreams, are simply your own feelings, fears, hopes and wonder projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind as images. So, it makes sense to take the image of your dream person, thing or animal back into you and own it by being the different things and feeling them; for you dreams are created out if your own fears, wonder and genius. In that way, you are meeting and dealing with the things about yourself you are not owning or conscious of. That is why dreams are often difficult to understand, because we are hiding things from ourselves.
You are obviously scared of you meeting and dealing with the enormous inner energy you have, for whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear. So all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.
But the teacher felt there was no actual risk nut as you are the unconscious creator of your dream, your fear saw ‘red’ – a real sign of emotions connected with fear, screaming, horror or a sense of danger. Red also represents ones basic emotions, the instinct of fight, flight, hide play dead, placate or faint.
You paint interesting portraits of the different responses you have – the teacher you see as having no ‘backbone’ because he wasn’t as scared as you were, the students who simply followed authority figures, something a mass of humanity does, while you were looking for a safe place to be. That is fine in waking life, but it never pays in the dream world. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/masters-of-nightmares/ The soy sauce container is a wonderful way dreams come up with clues, for you wrote, “The stuff people got though was weird.”
Ask yourself the simple question, “What feelings or motivations move you to reach for the soy sauce dispenser? It is those inbuilt desires and motivations that are the source of the images you use in dreams.
For myself I reach or search for the soy sauce when I want to add flavour and improve the dish I am cooking, or the way I am cooking it. In looking up cooking I find - practical life skills to make your life experience palatable, such as the means of dealing with life. Or caring for yourself, in the sense of adjusting life situations.
Tsunamis are similar to tornados in dreams and 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.
Tony
