Mernel
I like to take a look at your dream.
Please note that:
If some or nothing of what I see, applies to your dream, then please accept that I am merely looking into a mirror you hold up to me, so I can re-evaluate some of my own learning.
The first dream expresses the process which Tony described in the entry "Destroy Destruction"
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/destroy-destruction/We hold in us the seeds of our own destruction. Our body constantly dies, losing millions of cells, but it also has the seeds of Life, and so continues. Our attitudes to this may be shown in dreams where we see destruction.
In your dream a part of you - the motivational speaker - makes you aware of this process, whereby the "positive little seeds that needs planting" are symbolized by the "almonds on the floor".
I believe the first part of this dream takes place in the fields of the first school you went to and other fields from a school you lived opposite during your teenage years, because at these stages of your life, you naturally accepted the winds of change, with everything that is part of this (inner) change.
I wonder if at this stage of your life, the fear or loss has entered?
And I wonder who or what is Mernel beyond his success with women, money and being popular?
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/nut/The association I have with almonds is the blossoming trees in Israel in January. You will have to find your own association.
I believe the second dream shows you that you have the potential to accept death as part of the inner process again, for you are talking about the birth of a new business and simultaneously a dead grandfather comes from the words in your mouth.
I wonder why, after you woke up, this was the first thought which arose:
I wondered if my own dead grandfather was in the room to which I asked should I go ahead with this business?
I trust that as with every new (business) deal you have your doubts and that is only natural.
It is my own experience that sometimes I skipped the process of going through my doubts, by deciding rather impulsively.
I wonder if that is what the "Buy it" voice inside you is about?
I do not know, and I trust that Tony can tell, if that voice is then merely the voice of an autonomous complex?
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/autonomous-complex/Anna :-)