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Dream Interpretation / Pterodactyls

« on: May 05, 2016, 08:52:49 AM »

Hi Tony. Hope you are well. Here's a dream exerpt.

I am walking on a mountain top with a man, he seems to be a sort of acquaintance rather than close. I walk on ahead so I can focus on what I'm seeing. Signs suspended in the sky.. a circle, a crucifix, possibly made from reeds or bound branches.. I also see a rainbow 'patch' near the horizon which makes me happy and then I see pterodactyls (They are realistic but with rainbow coloured sheen on their skin) entering and leaving our dimension over head. I'm suspicious, I think it looks like bad special effects on tv, but I also accept that material reality might split in that particular way.  My feelings are just that of wanting to pay attention and understand what is going on here.

Next as I start to decend I notice wooden houses on my right, I'm going to just pass on but decide to explore. I think it's a gardening place but as I enter I see it's a beautifully decorated dwelling/summerhouse with a bed on the top level and a bed on the lower. As I pass the Lower bed I notice someone in it. A friendly guy with a phone in his hand. It seems like staff quarters now, which takes away some of the beauty of what seemed like a lovely hide-away. A group enter noisily and I leave.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Quilt

« on: April 25, 2016, 09:55:07 AM »

Thanks Tony


 

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Quilt

« on: April 24, 2016, 01:21:05 PM »

Thank you Tony.

 I guess my automatic associations with quilt is 'my one safe space' BED! 
when I go to my bed, no one can get access to me, no draining, competitive energies - in the past if I tried to reject  such energies I would be told I need to be more tolerant because 'life is just like that'..

Well these days I subscribe to 'You get what you are willing to put up with' so the dream seems to echo that. Now I see there was nothing to learn in those situations - I walked away but only after long hard roads trying to improve the situations, but they didn't improve, as those other people were benefitting from the dynamic.

..walking with the quilt, reminds me of a young child upon waking looking for her parents while dragging her comfort blanket. But I'm definitely an adult so it also has associations of a train of a dress.. a 'technicolor dream coat' ? tho I don't even know what that musical is about..

 the natural and most immediate association with the quilt is Sleep! Therefore dreaming. Sun setting - crossing over into sleep. The sunset colours - the energies of the day/night to come.. So I feel there's an element of my dreaming world (the colourful quilt) creating the physical (the same colour sunset) in this dream here..

What's good about this is there is a sense of energy, creative power, agency.. related to my existence... A big contrast to many experiences of powerlessness and to the battles I did not win as depicted in the first part of the dream. But in real life yes, lonely & lost as to my direction..

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Dream Interpretation / Quilt

« on: April 23, 2016, 10:40:44 PM »

I'm in a location from the past, a job that had a ridiculous workload and drained me dry. A woman is saying to me that I worked too hard, I think 'well why didn't you help me at the time?!' But I say 'well it's too late now' and I leave. I've spotted an owner next door, I'm going to warn them, but decide For Once not to give help to those who abandon me in my times of need..

Then I'm showering at a pool and hear voices - it's people from another old job that was a real boys club, I feel my desire to make it work and also to belong, but I realise it's pointless, I pass by the guys bonding and chatting in the swimming pool locker room and I say nothing and I leave.

 Then I'm walking on the road in front of my childhood home, there's a very bright intense sunset of golden hues, I'm moved by it, I think of Turner, then I look down and notice I'm walking pulling my duvet/quilt behind me and that it has the same colours and shapes and I realise that my quilt is actually creating the sunset.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Candles

« on: April 14, 2016, 09:44:57 AM »

Thankyou both.

Not sure if it's related but could be, a few days later I had a large amount of money stolen.
Not by someone desperate but professional thieves.
Maybe that was my unconscious 'offering' to the spirit world.

It's strange the dream was so lovely and the theft so upsetting and such a loss.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Doctor

« on: April 13, 2016, 09:23:50 PM »

Thankyou!
I love this reminder of how the same energy takes on different costumes.
The 'legendary figures of the child's world'..fantastic..  Yet though intense, the emotions the child feels are appropriate to its vulnerable position. The description of the patients exploration is great.

On reflection I realise what frustrates me about the use of the term 'projection' is that it's used a lot in new age circles in a way I think is disempowering. People are told they are projecting and creating their experience but not given tools by these same people to learn how to change this. It's all very vague. They are told they are 'allowing' something to happen to them - but you can only 'allow' if you have in fact also the power to 'not allow'.  Until then that's just an inaccurate statement - you are in no way an active element in any of it. Now to tell people they can learn to withdraw projections and how to do that, that's fine.

I have made notes from your own excellent explanations in Dream Yoga, specifically about reclaiming power. So this frustration is directed at what I have found elsewhere.

Thanks for engaging, I'm finding my own clarity and who knows it may be of use to others.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Doctor

« on: April 09, 2016, 10:18:52 AM »

Hi Tony, thankyou for your reply.

Yes I agree that's a good description in broad terms but I guess I just wanted to trash out this whole 'projection' term in more specific ways, as it tends to be used.

If you recommend any reading I'd appreciate it - because people use this term so very very frequently and I've yet to find a fully-developed explanation that I feel has rigour.

But otherwise I'll leave that enquiry for another space.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Doctor

« on: April 08, 2016, 05:50:36 PM »

Ok. No worries Anna.

Tony, I would love your input on what I have written above about projection. Though it's come away from my original dream now and perhaps should be in 'Questions about Dreams'

..for my own purposes I do want to clarify the whole projection issue. I have yet to find a good clarification of it in any detail, hence my attempt at such clarification above. It's very pertinent to dreamwork. It's a sort of follow on to my previous post.

..after 'letting go' I'd say 'projection' is the second most common term I hear used. Therefore it's something I want to pick up on and clarify. Thanks.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Doctor

« on: April 08, 2016, 04:56:44 PM »

I take the point about people reflecting what I am doing internally, up to a point.

However they are also independent individuals making choices and this dynamic is happening on a huge level culturally, not just in my world.

The 'bully' is painted as an 'insecure' individual who deserves compassion. They are not self aware, they make other people carry their pain and more. Very rarely are they made to face themselves.

Meanwhile all the victims, reflect, study, try to heal, take responsibility, withdraw their 'projections'
There are a lot if people making Alot of money, by telling people to take responsibility for their 'projections'


I feel people who have been victimised in their lives are further victimised, by being told they are responsible because it is their projection that's the big problem. That's the point it stops being empowering and becomes disempowering - because other people are not being made accountable and are let off the hook entirely.

Even if the waking world is seen entirely as a projection, that doesn't mean I should accept any of it. I should fight, argue, refuse etc.. However everytime projection has been used by any healer/writer I have come across - it's used to dismiss and invalidate. Oh that 'just' a projection etc so I lose any righteous anger I may have had and slink back into self-analysis.

I feel this type of focus on withdrawing projections goes too far. There is a central point of balance and more clarity is sorely needed on this area. For instance someone who is already giving too much, can pick up a book about unconditional love and further damage themselves by pushing themselves further out of balance. So there much be such a thing a too much projection withdrawal or knowing when you are not projecting, because you have done the work, now you are witnessing.

Back to my dream at the start, obviously Im still working with energies internally. But I have had my intuition shot to pieces, by books telling me I'm projecting, when I simply was picking up on energies. Reminds me of the Catholic 'Don't Judge lest Ye be Judged' you end up too afraid to even think!

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Questions about dreams / Re: From lots of dream recall to practically none

« on: April 07, 2016, 11:02:07 PM »

Thankyou Tony

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Doctor

« on: April 07, 2016, 09:19:02 PM »

Great thankyou for your reply Anna.

I will just pick up on one point that may be useful to other readers.
Since I began my healing journey all I have heard is that I need to 'let go' - let go, let go, let go
however letting go is the end of the process and not the beginning.
Letting go happens of its own accord as the result of proper processing.

What I have discovered is, like you mention, I actually couldn't face the pain. So on many levels I was delighted to 'let go' because that meant not seeking the truth, no conflict, no accountability.. no need for anger, no need to stand up for myself, no need for scary emotions.

What was really missing for me was a whole range of other emotions -
I'd been 'letting it go' my whole life - but I needed to do the opposite, to take my pain seriously.

So that's where I am right now - finally saying my pain is important it matters and I'll do no more letting go or letting people away with behaviour and not holding them accountable. Some of us are not trapped in the past - because we're the opposite we have completely blotted it out. So what I'm letting go of is my Amnesia. Some people need to let go of the past - others need to go and find it.

I like the idea of dreams as preparing us for emotions, directing us slowly..

Thanks for your post. It's helpful to me.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Doctor

« on: April 07, 2016, 04:28:30 PM »

Thankyou Anna. How did this dream help you? What were the emotions? Do you mean it was 'living close' because you were able to self-heal within the dream?

I had a dream some time back about Cacti, huge like you see in cartoons..cut down and floating like logs on a small stream. I was at an art event among artists and the public. One of the cacti brushed my hand and a few tiny spines became embedded in my finger. I looked at them closely wondering how Id get them out as they were hooked in. The dream zoomed in like a camera lense then, focusing on these things stuck in my finger and probably hurting.
It was not a strongly emotional dream but really drew my curiosity because of the imagery.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Doctor

« on: April 07, 2016, 04:23:37 PM »

Thank-you Tony.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Doctor

« on: April 06, 2016, 09:22:33 PM »

Thankyou Tony.
As ever in these situations, there is usually a context which makes it difficult/impossible to protect myself. I am usually in a situation where I am outnumbered/ over-powered by far superior physical strength/ isolated/ paralysed or mute so I can't call on help. But in the link 'Power Dreaming'.. "Dreams are simply feelings put into images" - therefore these contexts, must be my feelings of powerlessness, manifested in the dream world.

I realise with this type of dream in particular, I am always feel very reluctant to do the extra layer of work, remembering it is bad enough. But I guess I need to push myself towards that confrontation.

Well as I can't get lucid in my dreams, the power dreaming method is my only option and waking life as well of course.

So if I want to create more beauty and bliss in life, is this the first step, confronting fears and healing wounds?
Is life stream the other part? Is there more?

Thankyou! 

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Questions about dreams / Re: Life as a dream

« on: April 06, 2016, 12:26:51 PM »

Thanks so much Anna.. That really helps me in particular..

I was feeling I needed  to wait until I had a cabin on top of a mountain one hundred miles away from humanity..!
I will give it a go soon.

Thanks for this