Nan – Well, you are on the way to get all your life lined up for a big change. But such changes mean leaving your old ways of living and especially seeing behind. And that means a new view is forming and in process, so leaves you somewhat lost as far as clarity, focus, directions and motivation are concerned. Spiritual awakenings don’t come cheap and so demand things from you – namely letting go of past ambitions and plans. For you have opened to the force of growth in you and being a natural force it is trying to form a new part of you that has lain unexpressed, but like any real part of you is already formed. We might not see the great tree in its seed, or even in its youth, but for humans there is also a form that wishes to me expressed. Don’t worry; it is all you that you have held back.
The dream where I discover whole rooms and wings of the house I never knew existed. Exactly – you are starting to live and make real whole new parts of you – wonderful. But it would help if you open up these dreams, for dreams hold things no computer, however amazing, can yet do what your mind does in creating a dream. It produces a living being such as a dream character that can have a conversation with you, and in doing so draw spontaneously from huge areas of your experience or memories. Behind the image lies enormous data, emotional response and created patterns of behaviour. So the main thing to remember is that you are in a full surround databank of fantastic information. You can tap this information just as you would with any person, by asking questions and prodding for a response. But, even the trees and animals in your dreams are also enormous reservoirs of information, linking back perhaps infinitely with your potential and experience – so try using
https://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson 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. The dream images are attempts to communicate something that has probably never been thought about or even been consciously experienced before, so has never been put into common conscious thinking before. It is a communication from the depths, from beyond thought, and so any interpretations that are given by thinking may completely miss the point.
But the source of the dream, which is a process of Life, is intelligent in its own way, and will take part in any attempt to communicate. So exploring your dreams by entering into their imagery and attempting to understand them will be a two way process. So in dreams we tend to put pictures or images collected from everyday experiences to put an interpretation on our formless dreams. We do this because we tend to have an experience of the world based on our body senses, and our dreams and communications from the dead come from a very different environment, so we put it in images and ideas we understand. As an example I was recently asked by a man who had given no thought to dreams how on earth you could extract any meaning from them. He was wearing a fairly old T-shirt, so I said, “OK, let’s imagine you dreamt of your T-shirt, what would you make of that?”
After a while he said, “I don’t know that I would make anything of it.”
My response was to say, “Right, but now tell me where you bought the T-shirt, and what memories it has for you.” Whereupon he told me very full memories of being in the US, and that the shirt was part of those memories, but he wasn’t prepared to say what the memories were as they were so personal.
The important point is that everything we see and deal with, every person, every imagined scene, has such a background of feelings and perhaps memories. It is exactly this background of feelings and information that the dream weaves its story from. To understand it you need to become aware of the usually unconscious feeling responses you have in connection with every thing, place, person and animal you fill your dreams with.
Your dream depicts you as someone who is extraordinary and creative, with amazing ability to imagine and create the new. So it is important to realise that every image, beautiful or scary terrifying thing, is taken place inside you, in your mind, as you sleep. This means that every image or person is created out of your own experience and must not be seen as outside you as happens in waking awareness. So every thing your dream portrayed is YOU. Because you have the talent to be inspiring and fun. You think in the dream that, "no Hollywood set designer has created a world like this." No, but you did in your dream.
Tony