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Dream Interpretation / Re: Fish Gill-like Flaps on Head
« on: May 06, 2015, 09:23:34 PM »Tony and I let go of that past and now we are very dear friends and co-workers.
Anna :-)
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Tony and I let go of that past and now we are very dear friends and co-workers.
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: Fish Gill-like Flaps on Head
« on: May 06, 2015, 07:33:16 PM »
The world you see merely reflects your own internal frame of reference—the dominant ideas, wishes and emotions in your mind.
"Projection makes perception".
Anna :-)
"Projection makes perception".
Anna :-)
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General Discussion / Re: The Start of Lucid Dreaming
« on: May 02, 2015, 09:07:34 AM »Kikiargos - I logged in into the Forum to answer your first dream in which you became aware that you were dreaming and then I wandered off again doing other things.
Meanwhile you entered this post and I can see you did another step to explore what is changing in your inner world.
What I felt like sharing is that this book will certainly be a wonderful read for you too. I only read it recently and it was an eyeopener for me:
http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/lucid-dreaming/
I think that you feel disappointed because you were able to look deeper into the way you "create" (make up?) your inner world and it enabled you to become aware that a whole lot of it disappears the moment you dare to face it.
Please also read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-archetype-of-the-shadow/
So what you perceived as "real" turned out to be a belief which vanished into "Nothingness".
See also http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/inner-world/
Do trust that you will meet your inner mystery in a different way - beyond what you can imagine - if you continue on the inner journey you are on
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: Fish Gill-like Flaps on Head
« on: April 27, 2015, 10:35:35 PM »
Clarity – The conscious attention a woman has to give to her animus problem takes much time and involves a lot of suffering. But if she realises who and what her animus is and what he does to her, and if she faces these realities instead of allowing herself to be possessed, her animus can turn into an invaluable inner companion who endows her with the masculine qualities of initiative, courage, objectivity, and spiritual wisdom. Quoted from The process of individuation by Marie von Franz in "Man and his Symbols" by Carl Jung.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-animus-jungs-view-of-the-male-in-the-female/
Your dream creator knows that you have to give your animus problem your conscious attention when you enter the bathroom to check on Gregory-Martin.
I wonder what you associate with this combination of brother and son. Perhaps you can use
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson and/or
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/#TalkingAs to get a better feeling of these aspect of yourself?
I see “them” as a combination of a part in you which is repressed/denied - "Martin is not an active part of my life" – and a part of you that you are still in touch with.
The bathing I see as a ritual which is – among other things - getting you ready for the adding and/or deepening of your “feeling function” instead of relying on the “thinking function” of your dream ego only.
And so what your dream also reflects is that it will be helpful to approach certain areas of your life with less thinking – “the hair on his head does seem thinner in these areas” – and more feeling; to “breath in emotions”; to breath in LIFE and allow it to rush through “your gills of perception”.
See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/
I wonder why your dream ego thinks: “I “think” this is because he has been picking at his scalp. It is like there are large gaping sores, which I “think” need stitches.”
Could it be that the symbol of your brother is related to criticising? Could it be related to persecution? Hurting you and/or your ways of thinking (your beliefs) and the need for healing/forgiving it?
Anna :-)
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-animus-jungs-view-of-the-male-in-the-female/
Your dream creator knows that you have to give your animus problem your conscious attention when you enter the bathroom to check on Gregory-Martin.
I wonder what you associate with this combination of brother and son. Perhaps you can use
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson and/or
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/#TalkingAs to get a better feeling of these aspect of yourself?
I see “them” as a combination of a part in you which is repressed/denied - "Martin is not an active part of my life" – and a part of you that you are still in touch with.
The bathing I see as a ritual which is – among other things - getting you ready for the adding and/or deepening of your “feeling function” instead of relying on the “thinking function” of your dream ego only.
And so what your dream also reflects is that it will be helpful to approach certain areas of your life with less thinking – “the hair on his head does seem thinner in these areas” – and more feeling; to “breath in emotions”; to breath in LIFE and allow it to rush through “your gills of perception”.
See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/
I wonder why your dream ego thinks: “I “think” this is because he has been picking at his scalp. It is like there are large gaping sores, which I “think” need stitches.”
Could it be that the symbol of your brother is related to criticising? Could it be related to persecution? Hurting you and/or your ways of thinking (your beliefs) and the need for healing/forgiving it?
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: three wolves and three tornados
« on: April 26, 2015, 05:44:14 PM »
Georgina - Tony's last name is GreyWolf and when he is happy he loves to howl 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSqkO1WKgJE
Anna :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSqkO1WKgJE
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: three wolves and three tornados
« on: April 26, 2015, 02:27:50 PM »
Georgina - Welcome to the Forum
I feel too that you are right about this dream being significant, for as I see it, it expresses a part of your growth process "in a nutshell".
“In a nutshell” because a dream is something that comes from a deep part of you; it is something that is working upwards toward being conscious. As such it often, like a seed, takes time to break through to the surface, and then it has to grow. Because of this dreams are often not recognised for their full meaning until later; sometimes months or even longer. The dream images are attempts to communicate something that has probably never been thought about or even been consciously thought about, so has never been put into common conscious thinking before. It is a communication from the depths, from beyond thought, and so any interpretations that are given by thinking may completely miss the point. But the source of the dream, which is a process of Life, is intelligent in its own way, and will take part in any attempt to communicate. So exploring your dreams by entering into their imagery and attempting to understand them will be a two way process.
Also I like you to understand that the dream is ‘a tentative feeler toward the future’; ‘a dress-rehearsal for life,’ in which the dreamer reveals his hopes, fears, and plans for the future. This can be seen in any long journal of dreams, but only if the dreamer explores the dreams and reveals the core of what the dream is really about. You can become very aware of your present state of being and your possible future. It is only your possible future predicated from the time of the dream. It appears that what we do today casts shadows that are our future. But because we may change and act differently in our waking life and/or inner life, the shadows of the future may change.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/future/
As I see it your being on a campus in your dream reflects a learning situation with this co- worker in your waking life and in your inner world.
And so your outer relationship with him will serve as a growth catalyst.
Physically a woman is predominantly female, but also has a clitoris and produces some male hormones. Psychologically, we may only express part of our potential in everyday life. In a woman, the more physically dynamic, intellectual and socially challenging side of herself such as assertiveness and taking charge of situations may be given less expression. Apart from this some features, such as innovation and creative rational thought, may be held in latency. Even if this is not true for the modern woman, there are features of her full potential that are held as secondary or latent characteristics, and are depicted by the male in female dreams.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-animus-jungs-view-of-the-male-in-the-female/
Co-operating with “him” enables you to get deeper into your own nature. This may at times be felt as threatening or scary. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Important
I feel that the number three – three tornado’s, three wolves - is a symbol of the creativity which arises out of the two opposites – male and female – co-operating.
Your intuition that you are moving toward life changing and perhaps sudden events that will bring great change (and with that sometimes the feeling of threat) is symbolised by the three tornado’s.
When something gets nearer to us in a dream – like the wolves did - it means that it is moving nearer to consciousness.
So your wolves – or at least, what they represent - are becoming more conscious. This means you are facing your fear and thereby dealing with it. If you had run away then the meeting with this inner aspect would not have the same response as it had in your dream.
It is possible that you are already capable of understanding what these three wolves symbolise, but as I said before, it can take some linear time before you get to that point with your inner process and that is okay too.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
From the reaction of your (inner) male co-worker I would say that whatever these wolves represent, it is something he is very comfortable with and so I wonder if you see him as a person who is capable of directing his feelings (regarding the project? Or sexual feelings? Or other drives?) in a way which you perceive as helpful.
What arises as well is that you perceive the white wolf as feminine and as the leader. What the dream reflects though is that he is the leader, for the white wolf does obey his natural authority.
As far as a possible sexual charge is concerned:
Once you had worked your way through this meeting with your wolves, you were able to climb out of the situation again and your co-manager left, because this is “a women’s inner work now”. It is at this point where you receive help from both your mother and your grandmother and I wonder if they help you to release whatever you must have absorbed from them.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-conjuring-trick/ and
(Tony will you please add the link Talking with those who have passed on ?)
Your mother and grandmother help you to become aware of the purpose of this meeting with the three wolves.
It is important to explore – whenever you are ready for it – what you associate with the blouse, for it is an indication of what they advise you to release.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/association-of-ideas-with-dreams/#Working
I gave you a lot to read and reflect on, but as you said: “I had a dream that I felt was significant”.
Anna :-)
I feel too that you are right about this dream being significant, for as I see it, it expresses a part of your growth process "in a nutshell".
“In a nutshell” because a dream is something that comes from a deep part of you; it is something that is working upwards toward being conscious. As such it often, like a seed, takes time to break through to the surface, and then it has to grow. Because of this dreams are often not recognised for their full meaning until later; sometimes months or even longer. The dream images are attempts to communicate something that has probably never been thought about or even been consciously thought about, so has never been put into common conscious thinking before. It is a communication from the depths, from beyond thought, and so any interpretations that are given by thinking may completely miss the point. But the source of the dream, which is a process of Life, is intelligent in its own way, and will take part in any attempt to communicate. So exploring your dreams by entering into their imagery and attempting to understand them will be a two way process.
Also I like you to understand that the dream is ‘a tentative feeler toward the future’; ‘a dress-rehearsal for life,’ in which the dreamer reveals his hopes, fears, and plans for the future. This can be seen in any long journal of dreams, but only if the dreamer explores the dreams and reveals the core of what the dream is really about. You can become very aware of your present state of being and your possible future. It is only your possible future predicated from the time of the dream. It appears that what we do today casts shadows that are our future. But because we may change and act differently in our waking life and/or inner life, the shadows of the future may change.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/future/
As I see it your being on a campus in your dream reflects a learning situation with this co- worker in your waking life and in your inner world.
And so your outer relationship with him will serve as a growth catalyst.
Physically a woman is predominantly female, but also has a clitoris and produces some male hormones. Psychologically, we may only express part of our potential in everyday life. In a woman, the more physically dynamic, intellectual and socially challenging side of herself such as assertiveness and taking charge of situations may be given less expression. Apart from this some features, such as innovation and creative rational thought, may be held in latency. Even if this is not true for the modern woman, there are features of her full potential that are held as secondary or latent characteristics, and are depicted by the male in female dreams.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-animus-jungs-view-of-the-male-in-the-female/
Co-operating with “him” enables you to get deeper into your own nature. This may at times be felt as threatening or scary. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Important
I feel that the number three – three tornado’s, three wolves - is a symbol of the creativity which arises out of the two opposites – male and female – co-operating.
Your intuition that you are moving toward life changing and perhaps sudden events that will bring great change (and with that sometimes the feeling of threat) is symbolised by the three tornado’s.
When something gets nearer to us in a dream – like the wolves did - it means that it is moving nearer to consciousness.
So your wolves – or at least, what they represent - are becoming more conscious. This means you are facing your fear and thereby dealing with it. If you had run away then the meeting with this inner aspect would not have the same response as it had in your dream.
It is possible that you are already capable of understanding what these three wolves symbolise, but as I said before, it can take some linear time before you get to that point with your inner process and that is okay too.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
From the reaction of your (inner) male co-worker I would say that whatever these wolves represent, it is something he is very comfortable with and so I wonder if you see him as a person who is capable of directing his feelings (regarding the project? Or sexual feelings? Or other drives?) in a way which you perceive as helpful.
What arises as well is that you perceive the white wolf as feminine and as the leader. What the dream reflects though is that he is the leader, for the white wolf does obey his natural authority.
As far as a possible sexual charge is concerned:
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“Love is about joy and pleasure and it is also about birthing. On the most physical level, sexual passion often results in the conception and birth of a child. But it is not just physical birthing that sex creates. Eros often attends the creative process. Two colleagues working together are aware of an erotic charge. They may confuse this with a romantic or sexual attraction when it actually has to do with birthing their project. Often when the project is completed, the feeling goes away. If they get confused and act out their erotic attraction, they may find that their relationship suddenly becomes confused, complicated and generally unsatisfactory and their project aborts”.See http://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Heroes-Within-Archetypes-Ourselves/dp/0062506781/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430052919&sr=8-1&keywords=awakening+the+hero+within
Once you had worked your way through this meeting with your wolves, you were able to climb out of the situation again and your co-manager left, because this is “a women’s inner work now”. It is at this point where you receive help from both your mother and your grandmother and I wonder if they help you to release whatever you must have absorbed from them.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-conjuring-trick/ and
(Tony will you please add the link Talking with those who have passed on ?)
Your mother and grandmother help you to become aware of the purpose of this meeting with the three wolves.
It is important to explore – whenever you are ready for it – what you associate with the blouse, for it is an indication of what they advise you to release.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/association-of-ideas-with-dreams/#Working
I gave you a lot to read and reflect on, but as you said: “I had a dream that I felt was significant”.
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: Meeting fear of Death and Pain and becoming Alive
« on: April 16, 2015, 06:36:21 AM »Well dear Tony - Your unconscious mind did take "I am on the nightshift again" quite literally
More than once I have experienced that when I write things down, they develop in that direction too.
It always makes me wonder if my unconscious mind is just a few steps ahead of - what I call - "me" and
so if that is meant with "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path".
I do believe that there is no human being - myself included - who does not use "the Void" first for the reason you believe you have used it too in your life; to escape from LIFE rather than learning to live IT more fully.
I suppose that if you refine your nightshift experience, that you will also come to the understanding that it is merely a matter of "courage to live LIFE MORE fully"; at least that is how I perceive your inner journey.
And I do see that I have thousands of ways to take revenge on LIFE, for I have often felt that IT treated me unfairly and rather than getting to the bottom of my issues with LIFE, I project it on a LIFE FORM so that I can battle with IT, for there is a part in me which loves that battle. Perhaps I am slowly changing my mind about that?
I will follow your footsteps in daring to meet fear of Death and Pain and becoming Alive more fully
Thank you for sharing.
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: Recurring dream that my mother never really died
« on: March 30, 2015, 09:11:22 PM »Helen
I am sure that your dreams and the light and awareness that is "wrapped up in their symbols" will gradually transform in a wonderful form of support too.
I often turn to my dreams (or to my unconscious) for help (as in that I ask for a dream before I go to sleep) and Tony has been and still is a great support in helping me and all the other members of the Forum to explore and understand "the language" the unconscious uses to communicate.
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: Recurring dream that my mother never really died
« on: March 30, 2015, 01:38:11 PM »Helen
Welcome to the Forum.Dreams are a magical mirror in which your innermost hopes, longings, fears/terrors and genius are made real. They are made real as external environments, people, animals and relationships. So the person you dreamt about is not them, but is a dream image made out of your feelings and memories.
It is a process to move from having lost your mother in your outer world towards integrating your mother in your inner world, which integration will "bring her back to life", to your inner life:
Inner Mother: Many people do not realise that they have an inner mother equally as powerful as an external mother. You have taken in millions of bit of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with your mother, and they are what makes you the person you are. This is true even if your mother was never there for you – you still have all the memories of her not being there for you filed under ‘Mother’. 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.
Please also read http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Integrate
I wonder if there is any change in this recurring dream or if it is always the same?
In general dreams recur because there are ways the dreamer habitually responds to their internal or external world. Because their attitude or response is unchanging, the dream that reflects it remains the same. It is noticeable in those who explore their dreams using such techniques as described under processing dreams, that recurring themes disappear or change because the attitudes or habitual anxieties that gave rise to them have been met or transformed.
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/processing-dreams/
What you perceive as a mistake in your dream, I merely perceive as a form of ignorance; of not being aware yet that your inner mother is a living part of your inner world.
And your being concerned about having to inform "people" I see as some fear for what the awareness and integration of your inner mother will mean to the different other aspects of yourself.
Anna :-)
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Greetings / Re: Getting a lobotomy
« on: March 25, 2015, 02:03:00 PM »Mej1945
Welcome to the Forum and I do understand your feeling grateful for finding this site, for I am still grateful too.
It is helpful to know that in the world of dreams our most intimate fears and longings are given an exterior life of their own in the form of the people, objects and places of our dream. Therefore our sexual drive may be shown as a person and how we relate to them; or given shape and colour as an object; or given mood as a scene. Our feeling of ambition might thus be portrayed as a business person in our dream – our changing emotions as the sea or a river; while the present relationship we have with our ambition or emotions is expressed in the events or plot of the dream.
Every image and person in your dreams is an expression of your own life process. As such it is alive and intelligent and is something sent to help you. A dream is like a projection from a movie projector, except that you are the projector.
Everything you see as outside you is coming from you, your emotions, your fears, your beliefs, your joys and explorations and are all you, clothed in the dream images and drama. So when you dream of someone you should not feel you are dreaming about that actual person. As with most dreams, the person in the dream is not the person themselves, but is a collection of memories, associations and feeling about him or her.
I see your dream as you becoming aware that there is a more gentle and more loving way of dealing with your inner world than the first approach you agreed with.
A lobotomy consists of cutting or scraping away most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain.
If I understood it correctly, then the prefrontal cortex is part of your mammalian brain and so in your dream too it was about the initial agreement of cutting off the connection you have with this part of yourself.
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/#mammalbrain
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The Mammalian Brain
The functions of the second, Mammalian brain that exist within the Human ‘brain’, MacLean likened to the skills shown in mammals such as wild dogs and apes. Whereas the lizards do not demonstrate mutual activity in hunting or caring for young, mammals show enormous awareness of bonding, caring for young, group activity, hierarchy and recognition of family and pack. They also have a much bigger pool of behavioural responses and can learn even more. This part of our human ‘brain’ integrates and refines the functions of the reptilian brain. It provides emotional range and intensity, and gives a greater complexity to what motivates or deters us. It is this greater awareness of how we relate to others, and the social structure in which we exist, along with a sense of what place in it we occupy, that enables us to modify and coordinate the impulses arising from the reptilian brain.
Unlike the human brain which often experience depression and feeling lost or aggression towards others, the mammalian brain recognises proper relationships within the herd or pack. Here too lie the beginnings of being able to reflect and learn from experience in that way.
The stranger in your dream may be referring to an unrecognised part of yourself, your behaviour or character, or something you fail to see or recognise as you, which was how you perceived the woman at first.
Then you became aware that "the stranger" was probably a projection of cultural and family influences, physically and psychologically, that your body and personality arose from.
You did become aware that the moment you refused to walk the path of cutting off the connection with your mammalian brain, you felt better.
So it will be helpful to explore what you associate with your deceased grandmother - questions like was she in touch with (the whole range of) her emotional feelings might be helpful - so you can become aware what it is that you do not want.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/association-of-ideas-with-dreams/#Working
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: Journey
« on: March 18, 2015, 08:00:44 PM »Irina
You make me smile again.
The english texts you copy in here are so complicated, that I lose track reading them and I trust you
have no problems with understanding these texts at all, for otherwise you would not copy them in here.
Also your writing in a more profound way about the "Housekeeper experience" in your second post has, as I perceive it, merely to do with your willingness to share in a more profound way, and nothing with your english. I do think your english is very good and I have no problems with it.
So no more comparisons please.
(comparing is the most silly game anyway)I will accept that you do not always understand me, without it having anything to do with your very good understanding of the english language.
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: Journey
« on: March 18, 2015, 04:50:16 PM »Irina
Thank your for explaining in a more profound way this time. Now it makes sense to me
and now I too can get to the core of what you felt like sharing.
I still perceive it as that we are talking different levels and I feel that is okay too.
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But when a person is dependent on someone and eat on the floor despite the fact that there are a table, that's another story
She can be dependent on you to tell her that she can eat at the table instead of on the floor, she is however NOT dependent on you as far as how she feels is concerned.
You could ( I know you will not do that ) refuse her to eat at the table, you could treat her like a slave, and she still has the choice to NOT FEEL like a slave, for you do not have that much power over her inner world.
That is what I was talking about.
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: Journey
« on: March 18, 2015, 03:37:57 AM »Irina
As I perceive it, your story is not less colorful, is it merely a different level; for it is about changing the outer reality.
My perception is that when I am connected with the Light and the Love - my inner Reality -, there is no circumstance which and no person who can make me feel like a slave; I will feel the same whether I eat my lunch while sitting on the floor or while sitting at the table.
See also http://dreamhawk.com/news/avoiding-being-my-own-victim/
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Our ideas, thoughts and beliefs are the main builders, and it is a world we then live in. We build an inner world that few people realise they have, and that inner world constantly controls how they relate to and deal with the outer world, the people, animals and events we meet. Unfortunately we often build a terrible world inside us, and this leads to sickness, despair and depression. So whenever we think we are bad, awful looking, a failure, not loved, are a hateful person or worse thoughts – remember that you are building them into realities in you. You are building a hell for yourself by your thoughts and beliefs. You need ot recognise the power of these thoughts and in recognising them, say to your self, “I have taken this path of thoughts so many times and it always leads to the same place – emotional pain and turmoil – so why do I keep pushing this crazy button over and over”?
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: Journey
« on: March 14, 2015, 09:39:02 AM »Quote
(told by my guides no offence if not in your belief system)
Dawn
No need to apologize
and thanks for your response.I wonder why you still tend to emphasize on our possible differences in belief systems when it comes down to what your guides tell you?
http://dreamhawk.com/forums/index.php?topic=3284.msg6299#msg6299
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Please do not take offense if you read this and do not have the same faith, just ignore me
I ask because you could use that sentence - no offence if not in your belief system - with everything you write, for everything you believe carries the possibility of not being part of my belief system either, and that you do not.
Anna :-)
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Dream Interpretation / Re: My dream getting interrupted?
« on: March 14, 2015, 09:17:52 AM »
Welcome to the Forum Akaine
I do not perceive it as that your dream completely stopped and that something else happened instead, for your feeling of unfamiliarity and the symbol of black carry the same meaning in a dream.
The house in your dream is a representation of yourself and so are all the things you examine in your house.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-house-in-your-dream/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Project
In the dream you are becoming aware of still unknown aspects of yourself and it makes you feel uncertain.
That is a response we all have to deal with when we meet these unknown aspects of ourself.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Reaction
I see the dream fading to black as another way of helping you "see" that you were looking at parts of your inner world which are still unconscious to you:
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/black/
And dreams often express themselves in a dramatic way, to make sure that you pay attention to them, which you did
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/drama-2/
You did not know the face that you faced and I see it as an old memory - very old even - which still asks to be looked at so you can digest it and integrate it.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/man/ and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/digest/
and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/integration-meeting-oneself/
This memory and so this part of yourself does try to connect with you and I trust that you can learn to perceive that as helpful - rather than freaking out - when you understand and accept that the dream is trying to help you.
Anna :-)
I do not perceive it as that your dream completely stopped and that something else happened instead, for your feeling of unfamiliarity and the symbol of black carry the same meaning in a dream.
The house in your dream is a representation of yourself and so are all the things you examine in your house.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-house-in-your-dream/
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When you dream of a house, you are meeting a hugely important and many sided representation of yourself. It is both many faceted and multidimensional.
Each dream image holds enormous data, emotional response, and created patterns of behaviour. So in considering the house in your dream you need to remember you are in touch with a full surround databank of fantastic information about you, your past and your possibilities. You can interact with this information by exploring it in the right way. http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Project
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Every image and person in your dreams is an expression of your own life process. As such it is alive and intelligent and is something sent to help you. A dream is like a projection from a movie projector, except that you are the projector.
Everything you see as outside you is coming from you, your emotions, your fears, your beliefs, your joys and explorations and are all you, clothed in the dream images and drama. So when you dream of someone you should not feel you are dreaming about that actual person. As with most dreams, the person in the dream is not the person themselves, but is a collection of memories, associations and feeling about him or her.
In the dream you are becoming aware of still unknown aspects of yourself and it makes you feel uncertain.
That is a response we all have to deal with when we meet these unknown aspects of ourself.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Reaction
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We are all subject to the forces of growth – it is one of the main functions of life. But because growth is a push toward change, change that we do not want to face, we often resist it, often without realising we are doing so. Psychiatrist say we have resistances to meeting the uncomfortable aspects of our self.
I see the dream fading to black as another way of helping you "see" that you were looking at parts of your inner world which are still unconscious to you:
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/black/
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This is the colour of the night, and so because it links with absence of light, opens us to what we can’t see or deal with in the dark – in what is ‘in the dark’, unconscious – within or around us. It is the experience, like sleep, in which the ego diminishes or melts back into unconsciousness. This relates to all those things you repress or avoid feeling or being aware of in yourself and life. So the dream will probably include threats of some sort, or what is unknown, hidden or avoided. So this relates to your hidden fears or past hurts that have been buried and remain unconscious. In African traditions black is the colour of night, death, excrement, and illness.
And dreams often express themselves in a dramatic way, to make sure that you pay attention to them, which you did
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I quickly woke up after that, covered in sweat. I was breathing heavily. Whatever had happened, it really freaked me out. What exactly did happen, though? What did that mean?
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/drama-2/
You did not know the face that you faced and I see it as an old memory - very old even - which still asks to be looked at so you can digest it and integrate it.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/man/ and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/digest/
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Digestion is a very important function not just for our body but also for our mind and spirit. I have seen people become very ill in mind because they have not digested their experience or what they have learnt at school or the lessons and experience of a relationship long gone. And digestion is a Life function. Life in us is often greatly overlooked and our dreams are one way of showing us how we have not surrendered our life experience to that function.
and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/integration-meeting-oneself/
This memory and so this part of yourself does try to connect with you and I trust that you can learn to perceive that as helpful - rather than freaking out - when you understand and accept that the dream is trying to help you.
Anna :-)