Death
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Death the walking dead or rigor-mortis
Death dancing with or meeting dark figure
There are two forms of death and any study of death needs to be aware of them.
- The easiest one for us to confront is the death if the body. This occurs when the body is badly injured, has suffered a bad illness or is dying from old age and so cannot support the intricacies of consciousness, then consciousness can longer function in the body.
- Another one that many people are not aware of is ‘ego death’. There are many descriptions of ego death, in fact the term Ego Death is misleading, because nothing dies in this process of enormous process of growth, instead it is a huge enlargement, a massive shift of our ideas and experience of who and what we are. The history of those who obviously have experienced this enlightened state, does not show that their experience of themselves has disappeared, it has been transformed. It occurs when we have stopped living in our thinking, beliefs and opinions – or what is sometimes thought of as our personality.A man, Anthony, describes the experience of it by saying, ‘I was sitting opposite someone during an enlightenment intensive workshop. We had been posing the question for days – “Who are you?” Suddenly I realised that it was a silly question, because I was the answer. All thought stopped and I existed as the answer. My being had always been this. In this state there was an awareness of being connected with everything around me, in the beginning of creation. This was the first day.While in the state of simple existence I was able to observe many things I am usually not aware of. For instance while I simply existed, my usual pattern of behaviour and thought went through contortions to be the centre of attention again. I could see them almost like habits, systems, that have life, like a body does, and they were dying and twitching in their death throes. Also I saw that I knew that all thought is like a mimic, so all our thinking is like photocopies, without any real life. Also as I saw this I had an image of a monkey that was actually my normal thinking self running alongside my every motion and trying to mimic it. It was almost as if as I as a person walked along, another mechanical person ran alongside trying to keep up and mimicking everything I did in an attempt to be alive and real. Yet thought can never be life. If you think of dog, the thought can never be a living creature, just a word.’
Another person says, ‘Unexpectedly everything changed and my fundamental self was something that existed throughout all time. It didn’t have a beginning or end. There was no goal to achieve. I am.
I am a wave on a shoreless sea.
From no beginning
I travel to no goal,
Making my movements stillness.
Constantly I am arriving
And departing,
Being born and dying.
I am always with you
And yet have never been.’Slightly different but still the same enlightenment. ‘Everything seemed to slip away and I felt as if I melted back into the primal being of the universe. It didn’t seem as if my ego was gone, just melted into everything else. It was blissful.’
Dreaming of death: Some aspect of your outer or inner life is fading, or being superseded by a changed approach or attitude, so may be shown as dying. Your drive to achieve something might die, and be shown as a death in your dreams. Changing from adolescence to puberty, maturity to old age, are also shown as oneself dying. Lost opportunities or unexpressed potentials in oneself are frequently shown as dead bodies.
But death of anything also involves a tremendous release of energy as the form breaks down. But the various levels of energy involved in the death of a person are never lost, for energy cannot ever be lost, it is transferred and used elsewhere. A transformation takes place. The consciousness and energy that gave the body life also goes through a process of transformation into universal life.
All of us unconsciously learn attitudes or survival skills from parents and others. If these are unrecognised they may be shown as dead. Sometimes we have killed the child or teenager in us because of difficulties or trauma at those ages, and these may be seen as a dead person in one’s dream. Some death dreams may show the awakening of new life in the dreamer. For instance, Sue worked on a dream in which she was told her baby had died. She woke shaking with grief and tears. The dream and emotions appeared to show her becoming alive enough to feel the grief of her past pain as it connected with the death of her hopes, love, and ideals. She had suppressed her pain for so long. In now coming alive enough to feel her emotions, she was feeling at last that something had died in her.
Because you cannot actually die in your dreams. It is like you become totally involved in a movie that you can only escape from by waking. But when you wake things are the same – you are not dead – but you have been enriched by a lot of new experiences. I feel so deeply that our society does not let us die. What a terrible thing! The process of death isn’t just your heart stopping, it is a long process of shifting values, of creating a self that is no longer so deeply identified with the things of the world. The way our society is structured forces the ageing individual to go on and on almost like a hunter or warrior tied to processes in the external world trying to pay their way. Why I wonder? It seem so strange that the Stone Age societies living in very difficult circumstances, without our massive technological back-up, could manage to support their ageing and allow them a period of sinking into death. We, with massive resources, cannot do this. I felt a tremendous desire here to let go of all my worldly activities. I wanted to hand all my savings over to my sons and say, look, you care for this. All I ask is for a small amount of money to pay for my food and basic needs. I dearly wanted to give up and live from within myself.
Also parts of ones feelings sometimes die. Our love for someone might die for instance, and so our dream illustrates this with a death, perhaps of that person. Some teenagers dream of their parents dying as they start to become independent. This is a form of killing of dependent feelings about their parents as a means of growth. This happens in some relationships too, where we want to break with the person. See Dimensions of Human Experience
“The dead differ from the living only in this respect: they are in a permanent dream state the subconscious state because the conscious mind of the physical body no longer exists. But the body is an expendable shell, and all else is intact. On the astral level of existence, the sub-conscious mind replaces the conscious mind of the soul, and the superconscious replaces the subconscious. Hence, in dreams, we find that communication with those who have passed on is more logical than the average person is able to comprehend.” Quote from Edgar Cayce.
Death of someone known: Frequently, as in the example, this might express desire to be free of them, or unexpressed aggression. Perhaps your love for or connection with that person has ‘died’. We often ‘kill’ our parents in dreams as we move toward independence. Or we may want someone ‘out of the way’ so we do not have to compete for attention and love. When someone we know dies lots of things happen to us. First of all we have always thought of the person as being outside of us. Then suddenly they are gone from the outside world, and we either think of them as gone forever never to be seen again; or we do what dreams often do and find them inside of us. In this way we can discover a new relationship with them, either because they now communicate with us as a dead person, or we receive from them what they left in us.
Example: ‘During my teens I was engaged to be married when I found a more attractive partner and was in considerable conflict. Consistently I dreamt I was at my fiancé’s funeral until it dawned on me the dream was telling me I wanted to be free of him. When I gave him up the dreams ceased.’ Mrs. D.
Death of yourself: You might be exploring your feelings about death, or retreating from the challenge of life. Sometimes it expresses a split between mind and body. The experience of leaving the body is frequently an expression of this schism between the ego and life processes. It could also be death of old patterns of living – your ‘old self’, or the loss of the traits that limit your awareness to an identity connected only to your body.
Example: ‘I dream I have a weak heart which will be fatal. It is the practice of doctors in such cases to administer a tablet causing one painlessly to go to sleep – die. I am completely calm and accepting of my fate. I suddenly realise I must leave notes for my parents and children. I must let them know how much I love them, must do this quickly before my time runs out.’ Mrs. M.
This is a frequent type of ‘death’ dream. It is a way of reminding yourself to do now what you want – especially regarding love.
Example: During a major operation I dreamt I saw my little daughter – dead for many years – standing in a corn field. When she was actually buried the cemetery was skirted by a corn field, and later in life, coming to terms with this early death of a child, I imagined my daughter walking into the corn field. In the dream I walked into the corn field. My daughter was waiting for me with her arms held up. I put my arms to her and we greeted each other smiling. At that point I felt it wasn’t time to die yet, turned and walked out of the corn field. Ken S. Example: I was upstairs watching T.V. with my dog laying on the bed. I heard a motorbike out in the yard. I went downstairs and the dog followed me and this person on the bike tried to run the dog over. My husband came out and told me to go back to bed. I picked the dog up and started up the stair, reached the top and there was a big gap from the top of the stairs to the bedroom door, so to get to the bedroom I had to jump across this gap. I tried to jump this gap but missed and I fell and hit the bottom. The next thing I remember was I was floating up, I looked down and saw myself lying face down with arms spread out and I suddenly realised I was dead. I was so frightened that I woke up. I had the feelings of fear of dying and that the dog had been killed. I felt no pain.
The dream is obviously about her fear of dying, and also shows that even if one hits the ground one does not actually die, but experiences feelings of dying.
Death of child: Dreaming that your child dies can have several meanings. In some dreams a parent, much to their horror dreams of killing their child; or as one dreamer said, “I saw him jump off a bridge to his death.” This occurred at a time when her young son was making his first moves toward independence, and it was a difficult thing for the mother to face – the loss of her son. So it can easily be shown as the death of ones child in a dream. Another women describes it differently as follows:
‘I am standing outside a supermarket with heavy bags wearing my Mac, though the sun is warm. My daughter and two friends are playing music and everyone stops to listen. I start to write a song for them, but they pack up and go on a bus whilst I am still writing. I am left alone at the bus stop with my heavy burden of shopping, feeling incredibly unwanted.’ Mrs F
Mrs F was dreaming about her young daughter leaving her, and she has to grieve it, almost like a death.
This can mean a lot of other things than your actual child dying. For instance a man told me a dream that worried him enormously about walking with his wife and his young son fell down a hole and was apparently dead. But in fact he had had a terrible row with his wife that day, and it was showing the child as what they had created between them. In fact the dream child recovered as did their marriage. Your child dying can also be a warning that your inner child is dying. We each carry some awful memories from childhood that are shown in our dreams as our child. So it is worth taking hold of your apparently dead child – nothing can actually die in our dreams – and hold it and tell it you love it. Watch any feelings that emerge as you do this and any tears you shed. See what you understand from what you feel. Of course this could be a ‘mother’s’ dream in which your terror of losing your child is dreamt. A woman ones told me a dream in which her daughter was murdered. As we helped the woman explore her dream – not interpret it – she burst out into enormous sobs, crying that her daughter was leaving home and she was terrified of losing her. The girl was never murdered. See Baby or child hurt or killed So ask yourself what your fears are about.
But our dream child can represent many things, and it is useful to realise that any person, object or scene in a dream is not a symbol – it is not dead thing that has to be interpreted – it is a living part of you and can only be understood by relating to it. So in this way I have found that a child can represent whatever our strongest feelings about them are. It can represent your marriage or partnership because it is what you have created between you. In that case the death of the child can depict something like an awful argument that feels as if it the marriage has died.
A child and its death can also show you how you have killed out the growing or adventurous side of you; or if you see your child as vulnerable and needing protection it could show you the death of that part of your feelings.
So you need to ask yourself what your dream child depicts as a living part of you.
When our child actually dies it is one of the most heartbreaking experiences we can meet. Sometimes it takes years to adjust to what has happened. Not only is the adjustment emotional and psychological, but also your way of life is often built around the person you have lost. Therefore the changes we meet can be enormous. However, we each have enormous resources of healing and ability to meet the new if we can access them. Very often there are experiences we have, or dreams, that continue our relationship with the child. Unfortunately we live in a culture that often denies the possibility of this. See Life’s Little Secrets
For instance, Dr. Morse, in his book Closer to the Light, tells of a mother who came to him because she hadn’t slept properly for 1041 nights after the death of her son. She showed him a picture of her son, but Dr Morse was suddenly called away to a ward emergency. Having dealt with the sick baby, he was writing up the notes and a nurse who had been helping said to him, ‘Who was that person who came in with you? Is he a student?’ Morse did not understand what the nurse was talking about as nobody had come into the hospital with him. As he was trying to find a pen for the notes he was writing he pulled out the photograph of the woman’s son. Immediately the nurse said, ‘That’s him. He kept trying to get your attention’. When he returned to his office Morse asked the mother if she had ever been contacted by her son after his death. She said, ‘Oh yes. After he died, for several nights he would stand at the foot of my bed and tell me he was alright, and that I should stop crying. But that was only a crazy dream.’ However, such things are not crazy dreams, but insights into a greater reality. After her converstation with Dr. Morse the woman slept properly for the fist time in nearly three years.
Death the walking dead or rigor mortis: Aspects of you that are denied, perhaps through fear.
Death dancing with or meeting dark figure: Facing up to death and developing a different attitude to it – unless of course you are running away. If you turn around and face these figures you will break through to a different way of life. Death of someone close to us: As explained above, this often refers to ones own feelings or talents that have been hurt, denied, or ‘killed out’ by events and your response to them. The following example illustrates this.
‘My son comes in and I see he is unwashed and seems preoccupied and as if he has not cared for himself for some days. I ask him what is wrong. He tells me his mother is dead. I then seem to know she has been dead for days, and my two sons have not told anyone. In fact my other son has not even accepted the fact.’ Anthony.
Anthony is a divorcee. Processing the dream he realised the two sons are ways he is relating to the death of his marriage – the children’s mother. Although the unconscious has a very real sense of its eternal nature and continuance after physical death, our conscious personality seldom shares this.
Also we all we all carry within us ideas, behaviours, talents and ways of life from those now dead. The farmer today unconsciously uses the collective experience of humanity in farming. What innovation he does today his children or others will learn and carry into the future. This aspect of a life beyond the physical is shown in many dreams.
For instance a man I knew dreamt of walking with a friend of his. As they walked they came to a river. The friend crossed, but the dreamer was unable to. Even in the dream he felt crossing the river meant his friend had died. Some time later he discovered that his friend had died at about the time he experienced the dream.
As the dream points out, the friend died, but continued another type of life ‘across the river’. A woman told a similar dream to me. Her teenage son came down to breakfast looking very unhappy. When she asked him why he said he had a dream that deeply disturbed him. In it he was walking with a friend and the friend walked through a door. When her son tried to follow he could not pass through the door. They could not find a rational explanation for the dream, but on arriving at school, her son heard that his friend had been killed in a motorbike accident on his way to school.
The river and the door are often used in this way, suggesting a change to another dimension of life usually unreachable by the living. Idioms: Dead and buried; dead from the neck up/or neck down; dead to the world; play dead; dead to the world; dead tired; drop dead; stone dead; at death’s door; brush with death; death wish; kiss of death; sick to death. See: Dreams of Death; Illness;
Useful questions and hints:
What feelings about death does this dream highlight?
If I imagined the dream being carried forward, how would I change it?
Am I changing and my past self dying?
If this is someone I know what are my feelings about them – and where are those feelings arising in me at the moment? What part of myself have I killed?
See Being the Person or Thing – Near Death Experiences – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Journeying Beyond Dreams and Death
Comments
I had a dream that me and my dad was driving and we came to a stop sign. we had no idea how we were going to turn the corner and make it safetly. just then my uncle who passed away 8 years ago. appeared on a bike. i waved at him then he waved for us to come. but then he rode his bike into the river and he was gone just like that. He looked so healthy and i was a kid again. I knew in the dream that he had already been dead and i told my dad he was there to make it safely but my dad felt like he wanted him to come with him now.
Jesse – This has all the marks of being a dream that is readying you for your father’s death. It may not happen right away, but he is being called and has someone to meet and help him cross the river.
So tell him now all the things you need to say to him, but do not tell him about the dream.
My prayers are with you.
Tony
I had a gruesome dream that I found very disturbing and would appreciate your feedback.
I dreamt that I was pregnant and someone told me there was something wrong with the baby. I didn’t want to believe it. My belly was pretty large but not full term. Suddenly, without realizing it the baby was out of me and was dead on the floor. It seemed perfectly formed but small. I could only see it from the back and I don’t know if it was a boy or a girl. I was standing talking with someone a bit later and suddenly the placenta fell out into my clothes and blood ran down my legs. I went into the bathroom and let it go into the toilet., I then sifted it out with my hands to see if I could find any clues as to what happened., There was a label stuck on part of it and I thought that could have been part of the problem. Then I was trying to figure out what to do with the body and if it would be possible to flush it down the toilet, but the parts would be too big and I didn’t have the heart to cut it up.
my dad passed a few weeks ago, i had a dream last night that he was alive and i was pregnant but i had to chose my dad to live or my baby, what does this mean?
I dreamed that my husband who died 7 years ago told me i was gonna die in 13 days
Johanne – Pray for your life to carry on. Prayers have so much power.
Tony
MY MOTHER DIED ALMOST 17 YRS AGO AND LAST NIGHT I HAD A DREAM THAT SHE WAS STILL ALIVE IN PRESENT TIME AND HER AND I AND A FRIEND OF MINE WERE LIVING IN THE HOUSE SHE DIED IN. SHE WAS TELLING US TO PICK OUR ROOMS AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT LIVING THERE WITH HER. I DONT REMEMBER A LOT OF DETAIL SOME OF THE ROOMS WERE A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THEY WERE BEFORE. AND THERE HAD BEEN A FEW CHANGES IN THE HOUSE MY MOM DID NOT LIKE. SHE WAS HAPPY. WE WERE ALL HAPPY. DOES THIS DREAM HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANT MEANING?
Leah – It sounds as if your mother is preparing place for you. It is the saying, “In my Father/Mother’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Tony
Hi
i had a dream last night about meeting death…i was in the shower and an innocent looking old lady appeared and i knew it was death diaguised as the old lady…she wanted me to wash her feet and put powder on her eyes which i refused to do and walked away..she got mad and i returned moments later and someone else was putting poqder on her face…i said ‘ see someone else is doing it for you’…she then turned up with a book she’d made and wanted me to sign it but i wouldnt…she kept turning up trying to get me to sign my life over to her…someone was in my dream, i think it was my husband, but not sure and i was crying and screaming and telling him i was scared and didnt know what to do…then i was sitting at a table with another girl and we had a bit of receipt paper saying we needed to sign it to get a free $20 giftcard…i wouldnt sign it but the other girl said we are going to die anyway whether ita today tomorrow or the day after…so whats the difference? She signed her paper and the old lady (death) was happy and basically said i could go because she had taken the other girl. then i woke up.
What does that mean??
My dad passed away 3 weeks ago. I dream of him nearly every night. Last night I dreamt that I was walking away from his casket.
As I walked away, I felt a tug at my arm. It was my dad, pulling me back to him. He told me he knows all about it. I didn’t really understand what he was talking about or what was going on. So he said “shhh” and repeated what he said…then i saw an image of 1 of my sisters who has always bullied me. Was he telling me he finally understands what I’ve been trying to explain to him? That he finally knows what I’ve been through?
I had a dream last night that I no longer possessed a body, but tried to continue living normally. I could still communicate through writing and talking, but it was difficult and worked best when I was with loved ones. I still went to school and took tests, and I even had a boyfriend. As my mother was asking me what I wanted for Christmas, everything slowed down and got blurry. I tried to get her attention, but it wasn’t working, so I ran downstairs to hug my family. My dad was lat, but he couldn’t feel my embrace like the others could. I could barely see him because everything was so blurry. As I was waking up I was trying to figure out what had happened throughout my time as a spirit, and how I lost my body.
Natalie – What a dreamer you are!!
Most people, even when they die or have a near death experience, still carry the image of their body with them. It is, I believe that most people think the body is THEM.
I wonder how you have managed to work it out that you are a spirit and not the form of a body?
Anway, I feel that even though your dream got hazy at time, you were experiencing in some degree the after death state. I think that you mixed up the duties of everday life, but that gradually went. Try using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/#TalkingAs and be the spirit and see what it says. Do not try thinking up what to say, but say anything that arises spontaneously. Also see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions/#TalkingDead
Tony
I had a dream last night that I had aided my step-son to kill my son in the woods. My step-son is 20 and my son is 4.
I had a dream last night that I had aided my step-son to kill my son in the woods. My step-son is 20 and my son is 4.
Allen – Because we use people animals and places in our dreams to represent parts of our own nature it is not your son you killed, but probably your own vulnerable self – either that or perhaps your feelings for your relationship. That is explainable if you read – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/characters-or-people-in-dreams/
Tony
I talk with my mom every night, tonight we were talking and between conversations she said, ” I had a dream about Mother we were in a car talking and when I went to hug her she would not let me hug her”
My Grandmother passed away almost 12 years ago, can you explain her dream?
In the dream i had searched everywhere for her in lakes, old buildings, fields, homes my husband searched with me as well as my ex boyfriend( whom i was with the first time i had a dream like this) who was being very friendly and concerned in the search for her. The young boy that killed her had just experienced the death of his father? A football star who was an organ donor. As i was searching i found a newspaper that had her picture on the front page and a picture of a little boy i have never seen before it read that he had killed her because she was so beautiful he wanted to save her and he chopped her fingers off so she could hold his hand while he coped with his fathers death??? I woke up crying the dream felt so real and this is the second time i have dreamed someone has killed my youngest daughter I am so fearful it is really going to happen the dreams have been spread out over a four year span. I have been searching online for a couple of hours trying to find anything that this dream could represent.
I Had the worst dream this is the second time i have dreamed about my youngest child being murdered. The first she was cut apart and mutilated the second she had her fingers cut off and shoved in a laundry shoot by a young boy. These dreams are scaring me i have been know to have premonitions when i dream and am terrified something is going to happen to her. I read your articles before i made this post are you sure that it is just my inner child dying?
Angela – Of course I am not sure whether it is about your daughter dying. All I can say is that the many dreams of a mother dreaming about the death of their child I have usually found that a dream about a person is not about that person, but about the mothers feelings or anxieties about their child. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/characters-or-people-in-dreams/
To set your mind at rest, you need to explore the dream for yourself. Do this by using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/#TalkingAs and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/processing-dreams/
Meanwhile I sincerely pray for you and your child.
Tony
Dream of my late son..who passed this summer Pneumonia. (drug induced)
We are in a globe type room ..sort like an observatory. It is bright and colorful though.The ceiling has stars and sky like patterns.
My son is standing in the center of the room with me by his side. I am instructing him on something.
I have a mentor (a male figure) looking on silently. I just know the mentor is for me. I mentor my son even though the my mentor does not speak or anything.
Ralph – The globe type room is something I have come across several times. It is a way of showing you a more global view of life – See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us/
The stars and sky patterns are also to help you realise the beauty and that your awareness has gone beyond what you can usually know through your senses; a wonderful dream.
I think you already have a lot of experience in this other world knowledge, for you are clearly helping your son from the Highest in you.
Tony
Lately, I’ve been having the same type of dream, but none were as vivid as the one I had last night. It was during the zombie apocalypse. Me, my boyfriend, a girl from my communications class (my major), and other people I didn’t recognize were walking in the forest, trying to find shelter. We ended up in a clearing and realized there were zombies coming out of no where. Everyone else was fighting them but I realized I didn’t have a weapon and became extremely frightened. I tried to figure a way out, so I notice two zombies that had weapons. As I tried to figure out how to get them, I noticed two zombies behind me that were focused on other people fighting, they didn’t notice me. So I stayed very still so they would just walk past me, but one brushed up against me, grabbed me, and tried to bite me but I pushed him off fast enough, that I couldn’t tell if he had scratched me or not. I turned toward a zombie with a big sword, and somehow took it from him, and started killing zombies. When I was done, I looked around and noticed that everyone had died: all their arms and legs and jaws were cut off. It was gruesome. I started looking for my boyfriend and saw him in the distance, on the ground, his back covered in scratches. I came around, half expecting him dead. He was alive, looked up at me, and smiled. “You’re okay!” he said. I said, “I think I got scratched too” and started crying. He said, “It’s okay, it’s okay.” (scratched from zombies kill in my dream) and I woke up. I feel like there are so many symbols in this dream, like it’s really trying to tell me something but I have no idea what. Help?
Kate – Understanding the symbols will do nothing to help you deal with dreams like this one. A dream image is simply a mask your brain uses to describe a feeling or a fear. What you need to understand is that we all live in a very personal inner world, an inner world that conditions the way you see and interact with the outer world. Dreams are like a mirror of that inner world – and in your dream you can see you have created a world that can scare you silly.
But our inner world is only created by what we think and believe, by what we have been taught and told, and also the crazy images we are fed by other people and the media.
I want to attempt to get this over to you as clearly as I am able. Can you understand it if I say that all that you are is consciousness? Without awareness you have no body, the whole world has gone, there is nothing!! We have consciousness of having a body, of the world around us, people, love anger – but they are all things you are conscious of – they are not consciousness.
Life and consciousness seem to me to be one and the same. Life can take any form – see the million upon million of different forms life has taken. With a complex body consciousness can attain self consciousness. And it can fill its inner world with anything – love, anger, hate, creativity, fear, awful images. But they are simply things we fill it with and have in reality no permanent existence. So why fill you self consciousness with silly frightening images. Obviously there are things in the outer world that need to be avoided – but in your inner world why fill it with fear.
Please read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-paradigm/ and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/#Virtual – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/#Bring – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions/#FaceFear
Tony
I just woke from an odd. dream. A man I used to be married to thirty years ago and I were together…married but in an existence that never happened. We were with his family showing off our 3 month old baby which was extremely robust and smart. It would point out relatives and call them by name. Then I took the baby to hold and he became tired. I bundled him and he became very small, like a little dragonfly. I went to pick a piece of lint off him and somehow pulled his body from some supporting organisms. We rushed to the hospital, many people including my grown daughter. They pronounced the baby dead and my husband was prostrate with grief. My daughter was unwilling to accept there was nothing that could have been done and began a legal review of the doctor immediately During the review the doctor pulled in a lot of psychiatric persons and I was worked over pretty badly. At the end, I was given a movie to watch which would supposedly prove I planned to kill the baby. It went on for hours. Growing bored, I began to clean the gothic area where i was placed. A fireplace leading directly to Hell did not frighten me, but presented an effective place to burn all the trash I was picking up! Eventually in cleaning the stones around the fireplace I discovered a loose one. I pulled it out and found a fortune!!! Nothing in the dream impressed me as much, or evoked any emotion such as this. Am I a bad shallow person?
Ann – How can anyone be shallow? You are alive, meaning that you are a creature of Life, and underneath your personality is the whole mystery of creation. So you are a miracle. Think about it.
I wonder why you have created such a bad script for yourself. Have you ever been ‘worked over’ by anyone or people in authoritative positions? Anyway you face it all and burnt away all the trash handed to you. That was why you found the treasure – because you faced it all and didn’t become a heap of self criticisms.
The treasure is worth exploring. A dream symbol is like an icon on a computer screen, it is lifeless until you click on it. So click on it by using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/#TalkingAs
Tony