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Dreams => Dream Interpretation => Topic started by: murugan38 on October 15, 2014, 04:38:01 AM
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I had a lucid dream last night or the morning of 15 October 2014.
I was chatting with an old colleague, someone I disliked, someone who had wrong ideals. He suggests me to go for a movie. We both go there in my car. I leave the car in the parking lot at the first level. It is a very big complex. We go to some movie and then watch it. I get bored and start sleeping it is midnight anyway. There were power cuts during the movie and some disturbances but the movie ends anyway. The theatre officials say they are going to replay the movie and everyone scrambles for it. I want to go home, but I oblige to my old colleague's request and stay. Now they take us to a dark, enclosed place and only pretend to show the movie. I realize this is just WASTE OF TIME and decide to leave at once. My friend was lost, with the crowd and decide to leave him there.
When I get out of the screen I was not able to find my way out and it is 10 o' clock in the day. I figure out all staircases may eventually lead to an exit or parking lot. And manage to reach the parking lot.
Now the parking lot is like a maze with multiple levels and I cannot figure my where my car is. I try several times and get tired. I just want to get out of the complex and figure out that if I can find the entrance then I can figure out where my car is. But all the compounds are high and blocked except one side where I see very beautiful tall mountains.
I see a path close to the mountains and I take it. It was sloppy and I figure out I can move faster if I skate(ski) it with my legs. I start to scale the mountains by sking just with my legs. The path is winding and beautiful, I decide that I can enjoy the moment a bit but I was determined to find my way to my car. I see some animals(I don't remember) they are happily running along the path. I feel someone was chasing me but when I turn back there was no one. I tell myself even if someone follows me I'll confront him and continue on my path with more speed and joy. Enjoying the beautiful scenaries all the time. Then I see a family of elephants running along the path. I was both scared and happy to see them there. I decide to overtake them anyway, I tell myself I've come this far and if I'm going to get hurt let it be. But when I overtake the elephants I see that they are just happily running along the path and not at all bothered about me.
After crossing the elephants I reach a place where there was a huge crowd, I don't know how I reached this place. There was a huge table with plates filled with sweets. Someone announces Lord Shiva will give sweets to his devotees. Lord Shiva was dressed like a ordinary businessman in India. No suits but just neat fashionable clothes, with a lady on his right side equally elegantly dressed. His face was dark, eyes round and big, with clarity and brightness. He serenely distributes sweets to people one by one. As time goes on slowly a scramble starts to build up. By the time it was my turn there was a mad scramble around the sweets table. I don't know whether I should scramble like others or I should wait for my turn. I taste one or two sweets anyway because I was hungry and the smell of the sweets is overwheming. I feel a bit guilty and look at Shiva confused if I'm doing the right thing or not. He looks at me serenely with no smile or anger just infinite calmness. His eyes also show some concern and sympathy.
Now there is more scramble and people start fighting each other. And the dream ends and I wake up.
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I know the meaning of this dream is bit obvious. I gave it a good thought. But the fact that it is a lucid dream is what I'm wondering about. I would like to hear your opinion on such lucid dreams.
This dream in particular was a bit different because I was aware or doubting that I'm dreaming, but I was not actually controlling anything in the dream. The actual feeling I felt dreaming was mostly annoyance during the first half and then a kind of elation since I hit the mountains and embarrassment during the scramble. Beyond that I was not able to control anything but I was constantly thinking and wondering. I'm also not a big devotee and far from devotional, I believe in God but more than that I don't believe much. I'm more of a pragmatist and dreamer in real life than a believer.
Most of the time I can realize that if I'm dreaming, once I notice something unusual. Exceptions for this case are dream within dreams. Most of the times such dreams are very intense and nightmarish for me.
But let me tell you my experience after the dream. I felt unusually calm the entire day and felt I was in control of life. I felt I can figure out a solution for any problem and I was thinking more clearly. The day before the dream I was highly depressed and unhappy. I'm mostly a restless person with bouts of depression. But since that dream I was very calm, even today I feel safe and secure and more calm. This is unusual for me because most of the time I wake up depressed.
I had a history of childhood emotional abuse which I'm gradually recovering from. I also resigned from my corporate job to build my own destiny. Throughout my childhood, I lived in constant fear and had severe nightmares. Both day and night scared me. Nights in particular were more scarier because of the intense nightmares.
Over time I learned to either master or live with certain fears. Then after I started having lucid dreams. My favourites were flying or the one I fight and win over things. But this dream was a bit different because I didn't feel I was in control at all.
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Murugan - The fact you didn’t feel in control is important. It is when we let go of controlling our life for short periods that we experience real growth - for after all we do not grow ourselves - the process of life does it.
You say you believe in God, but it sounds like just a belief. But I guess you believe you are alive, and as such are an example of the miracle of Life. But we are almost completely unconscious of how life creates us apart from reading or seeing films about it, and I think that is what your dream was about - along with the wonders your dream was showing you. See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/
You start with the film and parking place. Your dream is all about you and you start your journey of your life with wrong ideals or attitudes. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions-2/#Summing
Those attitudes where a ‘waste of time’. They took you a long time in the mental maze that they led to. The car park and difficulty may have been that you had stopped getting anywhere in life until you made personal efforts to change - walking. Fortunately you gained a view of what is attainable in life - the mountains. Then you really start on the mountain path. http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/mountain-path/
The elephants are a great symbol of what exist within you as personal experience, the great power within you that joyfully rushes up the mountain path clearing obstacles.
Then the sweets and Lord Shiva and his Consort. They are holy gifts, holy because they are everywhere evident around us in everyday life - the gift if friends, love, giving of oneself in service to others, everyday things that are a part of life’s actions like eating, breathing, reaching out our hand others. Such things are wonders we often fail to recognise.
Shiva was offering you something few people ever glimpse, but so many people are hungry for - love that last forever because we are married to it - merged as one person.
Example: I am life - and although that is not true, at the same time it is true.
In my being I am Krishna and Radha, Shiva and Parvati often shown as a common householder. In me they both live in a wonderful union of bliss. I am both the incarnation of godhead and also the worshipper before that wonder. That this wonder can live in us is beyond my understanding. That it can take on flesh - and that it does, every time a baby is born - leaves me in a state of wonder.
I feel all this because I am that blissful union of Krishna and Radha. In myself I know the union and the love. I have been and am that sweet love forever joined.
That the very creator of the universe can take on flesh, as it does every time a baby is born, brings me to my knees. This is beyond belief. Yet that is what I am seeing and experiencing as the truth. That is what I am experiencing in myself. I know that in this very existence, lost as I am in the sensory experiences of the world, and my feelings of isolation and physicality, I am at the same time, at the same moment, the godhead itself. I am both a man and a woman, both a woman and a man joined as one within myself.
That godhead has taken on the form of this man, and lives his life. That godhead in living his life has fully known all his pains and joys, every moment of his birth and life, every instant of his failure and his achievements, every light and shade of his searching and lostness. It meets all the disasters and triumphs that are heaped upon a human being.
Life and death - yes! To know, as I know now, at every moment of my life, that every second of my humanness, is at the same time the experiences of the godhead itself, has opened parts of me that I had kept closed.
Tony
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Thanks. You've given me more perspectives which I failed to see myself.