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Dream Interpretation / Laboratory nightmare

« on: May 03, 2013, 10:09:00 AM »

I dreamt I was in a laboratory.  I didn't wok there but I was an investigator of some sort.  My work partner and I had some contact with a scientist who had a monkey like creature who was dangerous... deadly, but had been killed, presumably by some of our associates.  We went to an examination room with the scientist.  I don't remember the conversation, but had an odd feeling, and my partner and I left. 

Later that night, we saw the same scientist carrying the dead monkey-thing down a hallway.  I had another very uneasy feeling and out of the corner of my eye I saw the monkeys tail curl.  My partner and I began walking down an opposite hall, then he sort of vanished and I found a child who I encouraged to run with me out of the laboratory.  I felt that we were being chased.  There were several pieces of furniture in our path, but we safely got out of the building and locked ourselves in a minivan. 

My partner was in the driver's seat and there was another man in the backseat beside me.  I was cradling the child in my lap.  It was pitch black outside.  There was no moonlight or stars.  I locked all the doors.  Though we didn't speak, there seemed to be tacit agreement among the three adults that the monkey thing was coming after us and had destructive power of some sort that was global in scope.  We also seemed to know that the scientist had been murdered by this monkey.  The man next to me seemed trustworthy, but then I started to suspect that he was a monkey-creature also.  I comforted the child and got her to close her eyes and sleep.  I felt like the monkey was around us...  I was pretty sure that the man beside me was also a monkey creature, but I didn't get the sense that he was the evil one, though I had no real way of knowing his purpose.  I decided it was best to act like I didn't know anything about him. 

At this point I started to wake up, but I wanted to go back and face this fear.  In the dream I fell asleep and when I woke up it was dawn but before sunrise.  The sky was lightening. I looked around.  My partner was asleep in the front seat, the child was still safe in my lap and sleeping.  The man was gone.  I never saw him again, but I seemed to know that he had gone into the night and lifted the sky to make room for the sun to rise and this somehow put an end to the bad monkey.

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Dream Interpretation / My first flying dream

« on: February 12, 2013, 12:57:37 PM »

Last night I had my first flying dream.  I have often dreamt of falling, but never before of flying.  IN the beginning of the dream I was in my childhood home with my family.  I don't remember this part especially, but my mother was having company or a party and was rearranging furniture and redecorating.  The party would start and she would be dissatisfied so she would rearrange things and start the party again.  My siblings and I were pressed into service to do the rearranging.  During one of the parties I was standing in a glassed in breezeway that was nearly suspended over a forest. 

I don't know how it happened, but I suddenly found myself soaring away from home at a very fast speed.  I was clinging to about six bed pillows at the time and seemed to have no control over where I was going.  I climbed higher and higher into the air.  I could see for miles, but I was afraid. 

I didn't wake up then, but I felt like I was watching myself fly and watching myself afraid and clinging to these pillows.  I'm not sure how, but I switched from watching myself to joining myself or becoming myself flying.  I slowly released all but one pillow.  I gained control over how I was flying and the altitude.  I descended into treetops and maneuvered around as low as ten feet off the ground and then easily climbed into the clouds.  It was thrilling, but I felt safe and confident.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Giant oak on a cliff

« on: December 04, 2012, 04:51:19 PM »

Thank you both.  The 53rd hexagram is an interesting connection.  That connection also brought to mind the tree pose in yoga-- grounded yet flexible.  I have actually seen myself that way most of my life, but last year my child became very ill, I found myself fighting very hard against the grief and powerlessness I felt and the chain of losses that I couldn't make sense of intellectually or emotionally.   I guess I have learned that I made things worse by trying to run away from it rather than accepting myself and my feelings.  They literally became trapped in my body.

There were times I was terrified that I would suffocate in sorrow.  I really wasn't sure I could survive it, but my body knew better.  It healed my mind by allowing me (sometimes more like forcing me) to cry bits at a time in my car or when I would take a walk.  It regulated where and when and how much and allowed me to keep up with my work and care for my daughter.  I was certainly not at all graceful, but I was taken care of and that was the only way  I could take care of her.  My daughter will not be cured, but we are learning how to manage and find some stability and moments of joy. 

I think I have learned to trust my body's wisdom, to listen--  to be strong and flexible. 

Thank you again.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Giant oak on a cliff

« on: November 15, 2012, 02:54:58 PM »

Thanks SAILRMC-

I appreciate your interpretation.

I laughed when I read your note about presidential politics.  I am a died in the wool progressive and a little idealistic: social justice, occupy, world citizen, human race-- not at all "traditional"-- in that sense at least.   Perhaps I went the opposite way and am trying to understand the traditionalists.   I don't know who the politician was that was there.  He was wearing a navy suit and looked kind of silly rappelling out the helicopter in it. 

My real fascination in the dream was the tree and the incredible feat of nature's engineering that allowed it to hang out there and thrive for so long (it's trunk was immense).  I was very afraid of falling off of it, but I was also captivated.  It was also, aside from myself and the other people that had been there,  the only living thing in the landscape.

Thanks again for commenting.  I'll have to think about my old and new ways of thinking. 

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Dream Interpretation / Giant oak on a cliff

« on: November 13, 2012, 01:13:05 PM »

In my dream I was standing at the top of a mountain with a steep sides and a deep ravine below.  There was a place where a sliver of rock jutted out over the ravine and in the middle of it was an enormous oak tree.  Because of the depth of the rock, it seemed nearly impossible for it to contain the roots of the oak, but it did.   Off the side of the protrusion where the tree grew there was a deck suspended off the side into midair. 

Many people were gathered at the cliff edge and I stood behind watching.  A helicopter appeared and hovered, lowering a politician onto the deck.  He reached across the ravine and shook hands with the people waiting there and then was lifted away by the helicopter.  The people left and I was left alone. 

I was amazed by the tree and curious about how the deck was suspended.  There was no way to walk around the tree as the circumference of its trunk was as broad as the ground it grew on.  I had a desire to get out to the deck and after some planning found a way to climb around the back of the tree and reach the deck, but once I got there I could not figure out how to get off.  There was no one to help me.  I thought if I climbed over the railing and clung to the side of the tree, I could push off the tree and leap across the ravine.  For some reason, it was impossible for me to go back the same way I came. 

I climbed up on the railing and was pretty frightened by the height.  I scaled the side of the tree and my body clung to its trunk.  My feet were slipping.  I realized that I didn't have enough leverage to leap from the tree across the ravine back to the mountain.  I could not move my hands to climb back to the deck without falling off the side of the tree.  I was stuck and terrified of falling.   I had a sense that I was in a dream and woke up.   

Thanks for your consideration.

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Dream Interpretation / Embarrassed in a dream

« on: May 03, 2012, 01:17:36 PM »

I had a dream last night that I was driving through West Virginia with my husband on a long road trip and we passed a road that turned to the right had a little bridge that crossed over a creek in a small valley between two very old mountains.  There was a little town there and an antique shop.  As we sped past, I asked my husband if we could go to the shop...  that when we had passed through this way once before, I wanted to stop, but we didn't;t get the chance to do so.  I pulled up some satellite pictures of the area where we were driving and assured him that this was indeed the place I remembered from several years ago.

We turned around and drove to the road, crossed the sparkling creek and went to the antique store.  Now here is where things got a little strange.  We walked in the old building and the owner immediately told us he had several old pianos he had to get rid of.  He brought us to a backroom and showed us an old piano with three keyboards.  Since we were driving to New York, in a jeep, we didn't have any room for it, but he insisted that we both try to play it.  My husband played a tune and even I, not knowing how to play the piano, was able to make something almost like music.

We looked at a few more items, a big cupboard full of cut glass bowls and glasses.   I walked down a hallway and went into a bathroom.  The owner tried to come in, so I said excuse me and reached over and slid the lock on the door.  Suddenly and out of nowhere, a bunch of the owners nephews, his uncle and grandmother and some of his sisters in law were all in the bathroom while I was going to the toilet.  They were not paying any attention to me, but I was mortified.  The old uncle was complaining about the owner selling everything off and closing the shop (it had bee his father's business) and saying he thought he should take over.  I couldn't stop my
self from using the toilet, so I did.  I felt completely humiliated. I got up and left the room-- again without acknowledgment and walked through some of the other rooms browsing through the antiques.  Suddenly I realized I had no pants on.  I remembered that I had taken them off a long time ago because I had on two pairs of tights and jeans and it was really hot outside.  When I realized what I had done, I couldn't believe that I would drive and walk around naked from the waist down and not until that point notice it. 

I asked my husband to go out to the jeep and get my pants.  I was pulling my shirt down to try to cover myself and people were walking all around me but didn't say a thing.  Finally, I got my pants on and I walked outside to the creek that ran behind the building.  It was crystal clear, cool and beautiful.  Then we left the town.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Mountain Lion Dream

« on: March 18, 2012, 08:50:01 PM »

Thank you so much for your interpretation.  What a kind and generous gift you offer!  I did have a sense that perhaps I was both the dog and the mountain lion.  I will try to meet that mountain lion again.  Blessings to you. 

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Dream Interpretation / Mountain Lion Dream

« on: March 12, 2012, 03:01:03 AM »

Namaste,

I had a dream that I was renting a cottage in a town I had never been to.  I had not yet gotten the keys, but my husband and I were dancing on the porch of a large old home, then started chasing each other arounfd the lawn, laughing and playing tag. 

All of a sudden this little mountain lion cub ran up to me and started pawing at my legs and skirt.  I played with the cub for a minute, but he got more and more aggressive.  His paws and teeth cutting through my legs.  Our dog ran up between my husband and I and the cub started playing with the dog.  The next thing I knew, the mother mountain lion appeared almost out of nowhere and quietly put her jaws around our dog's neck.  The dog looked at me and I watched the life disappear from his eyes.  I was terrified and had nowhere to go.

My husband told me to walk to our cottage.  We stood in front of the door, which was still locked and the mountain lion just stared at me.  Slowly, I became a little less terrified of her, but we both just stood there looking at each other and the thought that she could kill me in a instant never left me.

I'm curious what this dream might mean.