Potential – You have taken a great step upon the path which, I feel from your words, you have been on for some time.
Dreams are real insight into your inner beliefs, culture and your inheritance. The start of the dream is a scene setter for what follows. Yours starts with, “… with my fiancé and I standing at a bus stop in a large city. She gets on a bus and goes to work. I look to my house, it is not a house I've seen before, but rather an older-looking Victorian house, much like that of my grandparents.”
I wonder if you planned to get on the bus too – in any case, an important part of you, your fiancé gets on a bus and goes to work. I say it is an important part of YOU because - When you think about a friend or a person you meet, you are only taking in your thoughts, impressions and feelings about them. So many people do not realise that they have an inner person equally as powerful as the external person you know. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by meeting or living with them, and they are what makes you the person you are. The memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. Such an inner person can appear in dreams because you still carry the memories or impressions of them, and so they influenced what you hold within you.
Which brings us to the last part of the start of your dream – “I look to my house, it is not a house I've seen before, but rather an older-looking Victorian house, much like that of my grandparents.” A house nearly always refers to you, depicting your body and aspects of your personality.
This suggests that you have a strong influence from not just your grandparents but the cultural beliefs you grew up in. These influences have coloured the things you have dreamed about. For instances you feel or believed you needed protection when you entered your newly acquired potential. Also you also stayed with the image of yourself as a body, which is ideas or beliefs you have probably taken in unconsciously.
There is something that almost everybody brings into their dreams – their image of their body. In dreams, our sense of self – our ego, our personality or identity – is depicted by our own body, or sometimes simply by the sense of our own existence as an observer. We know that if a person loses their legs, becomes paralysed, loses childbearing ability, becomes blind or is made redundant, they face an identity crisis. Yet despite all of that they still exist as a person, and if we realise that early we can avoid all the pain and distress caused by a complete identification with our body.
But the bodiless experience of self shows the human possibility of sensing self as having separate existence from the biological processes, from ones body, ones state of health, and social standing. In its most naked form, the ‘I’ may be simply a sense of its own existence, without body awareness.
This is very noticeable in dreams where the dreamer does not identify with his human body but an animal or something else.
Example: I’m always having dreams of me running free in a field on all fours but in my dream I was an all black wolf. Also in one of my dreams I was running on all fours chasing something and I was chasing some thing and killing it with my pack, but other times I just be running on all fours in the woods or a field when its dark and misty.
For instance, what is the real person in these dreams? Is it the body that everyone is so fixated on?
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http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dream-yoga/ and
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/ Tony