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Dream Interpretation / Bulldog

« on: March 04, 2016, 09:57:39 AM »

I know a little boy that gets ill and they can't find what's wrong. He has spells of fainting.  Last night I dreamt he was in a cot, like for a younger child with a bulldog. The bulldog would faint and come to and then he would faint and come to. Then I left him for one second and the bulldog lay on top of him and seemed to cause his death. I didn't even get as far as grief in the dream just shock and disbelief. The bulldog then seemed to be dead, tied with a leash on the bars of the cot.

The little boy has had many tests and nothing conclusive. He experienced trauma a few years ago when a friend of his was killed and this still worries and effects him. On a personal note I really hate Bulldogs as a breed and wish they weren't so popular. It's about the only animal I don't like. In the dream the bulldog was in no way aggressive however, it was even quite gentle, just heavy and not suitable for being in a cot with a young child.

Being the thing:
cot- I am childhood protection
Bulldog- I am invasion, clumsy, burden, dumb, insensitive.
Child- I am soft, beautiful, intelligent, sensitive.

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Dream Interpretation / Disruption

« on: February 25, 2016, 08:29:31 PM »

After giving a very successful presentation, much better than I'd hoped, with excellent feedback, I had this dream that night.

A group staged a fake illness during my presentation, one carried the other out in a melodramatic way. Totally disrupting me. Then a video came on, made by them, it began with a scene of one carrying the other out of a room being 'sick', this then led into their videod presentation  so it was clear then it was just a stunt and I was shocked they would be so low and so competitive. I turned off their video but could not get the audiences attention anymore as they were now chatting noisily.

I'm just curious as to why I would dream this, when everything went perfectly?
 I did notice another group, very similar to these dream characters, did not have particularly nice vibes, a lot of ego, unfriendly. It didn't bother me at the time, I was just conscious  I should to keep observant and neutral.  Could I have been picking up on that energy, even though it didn't directly effect me at the time?

Or, if I'm all the energies, was that self-sabotage..that was just finding release in the dream world, because for once I'd managed to control it in the outer world..

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Dream Interpretation / Mud

« on: February 15, 2016, 09:32:17 AM »

I get away from an abuser. He keeps pushing himself on me, pretending to read my newspaper. I run to a bathroom and lock the door.
Then I'm looking at a 'film location' it's a very big field on high ground. I go to climb a very long gate to enter it, but the gate swings open. The field is completely mud, the gate swings right into the centre of the field, making the gate incredibly long, and my feet skate along the mud as I hold on, then the gate swings back to the entrance and I let go. A woman passes, very unhappy looking, pushing a barrel of potatoes. I'm walking away on a lane, suddenly lots of cars and a beautiful sheepdog who loves me.

Then Im in a building and discover I'm naked I run to the bathroom to hide. The bathroom is red.
Then I'm with a famous singer, his wife is dead, he's looking out at sea, probably thinking of her. I think how lucky he is to have had love and a normal life, unlike me.

I have plenty of thoughts, but if it suits, I always find your input very illuminating. Thanks Tony.
I guess I am most curious about this huge muddy field on the crest of the hill.

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Dream Interpretation / Potted plants

« on: February 02, 2016, 03:05:34 PM »

I am walking on a path on the crest of a tall hill, but there is a slightly urban feel.. Then up the path come three giant plant pots, red plastic, with small plants in them.. One is really big, bigger than me, the others less so, they seem to have their own movement.. One nearly tips over as It rounds the bend I instinctively go to rescue it, but then stop, reminding myself I must not get involved with what does not belong to me.. Then rubbish bins start climbing the path just as the plants did, somehow with the power of movement, I let them pass..rather surreal, no strong emotions to this part of the dream..

later on its stress dreaming, trying to find toilet with privacy, finding a shower with a deep pool of blood in the base, finally finding kids toilets and barely able to fit in the cubicle... being late, missing planes..but finding a lost musical instrument and consoling myself that that is much more valuable than the money lost on he ticket. My young nephew, so loving, saying he doesn't mind missing our trip. But I'm worried about myself for being so disorganised.

The previous night I dreamt of a man declaring his love for me. I was happy about it. I got up to make tea, a stray cat came in and I started petting it, it was very undernourished and dirty, but in the dream I reminded myself that I must stop always getting involved and helping anyone who asks me, so I stopped petting the cat and went to make tea for me and my new love. Then a huge dog appeared, like a brown Doberman, he looked very powerful, healthy and happy. I reminded myself, he could be dangerous and to treat him with a respectful distance.

In both dreams I am sort of counselling myself, knowing my tendencies and trying to change them.


Next day

 (I heard the next day my nephew is unwell & in hospital & therefore may miss a family trip he was really looking forward to.. )

Another dream - a kitten with a cold, sore eyes, is in my bed and is sneezing. The kitten wants a 'commitment' from me and I decide to give it. That I will be there for it... This seems to be me back-tracking on my decision in the previous night's dream..   Next night: I am standing outside a window looking in when a cat comes, the cat has been waiting especially for me, it approaches and is very loving.

Insight on any aspect of this most appreciated. Thank you Tony.

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Dream Interpretation / Wasp

« on: January 19, 2016, 11:11:43 AM »

I am wearing very high heels, a kind I wouldn't wear and find over the top. My sisters tell me to take them off that they are awful, I do and realise I only have an old pair of runners or slippers. I think well it would be disrespectful to be at a wedding in casual footwear and I put back on the heels despite the pressure and disapproval from my sisters. (Perhaps this is the dream self following advice you gave to allow itself be the centre of atttention - for this is probably what the sisters do not like, and the dreamself realises there are other condiderations beyond placating her sisters) One sister is wearing a dress that copies mine, but she is overweight and I feel her anger about my figure manifested in the copying, though her surface is all cheery. 

I find an oblong seed, it's tiny. It drops on the floor and becomes a tiny insect, a green shield (stink) bug, I decide it needs moisture (it's my nature to always help)  and I use my saliva and it starts to come to life. Then I get scared that the insect will be a negative force and able to control me through my 'life energies' in the spittle. So I get a glass of water (still bringing it to life) Suddenly it turns into a very very angry wasp which starts to attack me with absolute determination, I throw the glass of water at it, but it's so easy for it to avoid it, as if I and the water are just slow motion to the wasp. I spin round clutching my hood over my head, trying to keep my face protected.

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Dream Interpretation / Screaming

« on: January 18, 2016, 08:58:13 PM »

I am sitting on the carpet a man comes and catches my shoulder in an iron grip, I am screaming and screaming but I am ignored. I scream and then become more in control, enough to call out 'Help me someone help me'. It's the 'whole body' scream of a child.

I then manage to run to the kitchen in desperation I run to my parents at the table and stand between them demanding their attention (this is unusually assertive of me) I beg for help but they still manage to ignore me and avoid eye contact. My father laughs in a very mocking tone and tells me I'm making a big deal about nothing, though in reality that would be a response much more likely from my mother. I look into their eyes and see only a 'dumb' look and a determination not to acknowledge me.  Im disgusted as I thought the problem was that no-one knew I needed help, but here I am begging for it & it turns out not even that works. I am in danger and no one will help me.

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Dream Interpretation / Animus

« on: January 12, 2016, 10:13:38 AM »

Hi Tony, please tell me if I shouldn't post so many dreams, or if I should just wait for bigger more intense dreams, but here is one from last night.

I am being driven in an open topped sports car by a famous guy. In real life he's someone I have viewed as obnoxious and an outspoken idiot, but in the dream he is very grounded. He says its a pity it didn't work between us, as in our connection didn't quite have the ingredients to become romantic, but that I'm a very special person. He gives me very intelligent and grounded compliments, He clearly has a lot of money. He says I'm like several of his friends who he hopes will marry and reels off some more compliments.

Meanwhile I don't mention it, but I have about four miles more to go to get home and I don't know how I'll get there, I have no money or transport. I am too embarrassed to ask for further help. I feel mild despair.

I go to the toilets a man tried to come in and I point out that it's only for ladies. A girl from school is working behind the counter in the cafe but clearly doesn't want me to see her working there, so I pretend not to notice, I go outside, people are waiting for music to start, I try to get through the crowd expecting the music to be awful, but it's very sweet and beautiful when it begins.

Did my animus just break up with me? 

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Dream Interpretation / Repeating character

« on: January 07, 2016, 08:04:17 PM »

Hi Tony. I'm wondering what it means when a character repeats in the dream world, over a few months, but the dreams are different not recurring, it's a famous character.

1: Our first meeting he just kept saying my name and how happy he was to meet me as if he knew who I was. I'm embarrassed but realise I feel a lot of warmth towards him and to my surprise I actually enjoy the attention (normally attention is very stressful for me).
2: he comes to my place of origin and proposes we be together romantically, he's really certain and determined and carrys my bags for me while we walk and I try to decide how I feel about it and about him..
3: He is leading me across rooftops and I'm amazed that I trust him and follow him despite my vertigo, I jump from a large height onto the ground with his encouragement, he disappears through a cat flap into a house and opens a bedroom window for me to enter and some super friendly kittens appear on the window sill which I pet while I decide whether to enter or not. Then I'm sitting at a large table with him and others (a really sad girl and a really happy girl) the house belongs to an older lady who looks after 'lost souls' she's kind. Then he passes me in just a towel smiling and I'm a bit annoyed that he keeps trying to get my attention in a romantic way.
4: Im sitting at a table having dinner with my dad, best friend from childhood and this guy again. Then Im washing dishes and I make sure they are completely clean. My friend approaches me at the sink, she is upset because she realises her mother lied to her about something really serious that happened in her childhood. I'm telling her I just remembered that incident the previous night and wrote about it in my journal and that I also think her mother was wrong and dishonest to do so. The guy is really silent and serious this time and listening with the gravity it deserves. His head is bowed listening carefully. I go back to the table and I'm told she has disappeared, run off, as she was so upset. A girl with makeup is there now, I guess I'm wary of her..

I have no personal connection with the real life character, this dream character plays.  Though it's not impossible I would meet him one day through mutual acquaintances. I do think he's attractive in real life, but I think that about lots of people. I don't understand why the same person keeps appearing.. I've often dreamt of famous people, but never in a series of dreams like this.,

I wonder what you make of it Tony?

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Dream Interpretation / Mirror

« on: December 30, 2015, 01:21:54 PM »

I'm steering a gondola outdoors,it's sunny, and then down corridors of an old rich pretty public building, it does look Italian. Then I'm with someone looking across water at a western island I know, it's pitch dark. A city suddenly appears on the previously empty island, it looks pretty though I am not a fan of cities, it's beautiful all lit up at night.

I am being driven around by a man, I do not know him. He drops me back to my mother, I pat him on the back in a loving kind way. (When I wake I don't have a nice feeling about him- but in the dream I don't sense this). My mother and young brother wait somewhat impatiently for me to go to the beach in their car, I go to the bathroom, I'm a young girl, my hair is split in the middle like I had it then, I'm running my fingers over a small scar/dent in my forehead (which I do not remember nor have I now) I'm looking at my image and I'm thinking I like my hair but the face is not nice at all, it's old and something weird about it, it's like a stranger, definitely not a girls face. I feel sad about this. I'm about 8 or 9 years old.

An older dark haired girl is coming on stage for a performance, Im viewing from somewhere overhead, a really abrasive and loud male figure shouts she's not wanted any more 'not even for the backing vocals?' The girl asks very meekly, 'no you are cut' he shouts. His anger is totally out of proportion and she is this gentle, mild character, quite young maybe late teens. He seems to be cutting her from the show not because of lack of ability but because her meekness annoys him, he likes assertive winner types. He's a nasty powerful figure and is in fact actually motivated by very self-pitying feelings, though he wouldn't generally be seen as as that, while she, despite her meekness and being bullied is not at all self pitying. But she is indeed hesitant and not assertive, accepting his treatment and attitude.

The mirror part of this dream intrigues me most, it just felt odd. I wonder what you make of it Tony?


Thankyou

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Questions about dreams / I want joyful dreams

« on: December 27, 2015, 12:36:55 PM »

Hi Tony, often my dreams are agitated and are full of difficult emotions, sadness, loss, vulnerability. I know I have a lot of emotion I was never allowed to express or feel and there is a lot of truth that was denied me.  I can see how it is good for all this to be released from my unconscious, but I'm getting sick of it and it takes me most of the day to recover from a strong dream.

I have had dreams in the past that were full of beauty or awe, but they are so rare. I really would like more nourishing dreams, dreams of joyful things and loving encounters. I'm so tired of waking up every morning and piecing together the scraps or mapping out another dream journey of being mistreated or abused.

I do meditate and that definitely gives more clarity to the dreams - but any other suggestions you might have would be appreciated.

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Dream Interpretation / Immolation. Protection money.

« on: December 27, 2015, 10:41:05 AM »

Hi Tony, after a period of intense dreaming my dreams seemed to drop off for a while. Here is a new one id love your insight on whenever you can.  Hope you are having a lovely holiday

Backdrop In general I'm a bit lost in this dream, not sure where I'm staying, my phone battery running out, asked to cover a waitressing shift when I haven't done that type of work in ten years and really don't want to, but feel I'm being guilted into it for other people's convenience.

I'm driving quite a good car through country lanes. I pass a caravan, a young girl comes out, about 10-12 years old she covers herself in petrol stamps her foot to create friction to light it, it hasn't lit yet when then a woman comes out, the mother perhaps, the girl throws petrol on the mother & throws something at her, a piece of wood and she goes up in flames her body disappears, the clothes remain, seeing this, the girl dives into a sort of pool of water she's stsnding in and under a guitar case and saves herself. (Actually a thought just came to me of the Wizard of Oz where the wicked witch melts, but her clothes remain behind).

Sitting at a bar, a bit lost, my phone has died I don't know where I will sleep this night if I can't get in contact with anyone, jazz music, a man comes in, he knows my name flirty invasive style over familiar stands too close, then he's kissing a woman right beside me.

Then I'm talking to my father, he' tells me he's paid this man money. I can't believe it, it scares me. He admits the police can't protect us, so he has to pay the money, protection money. I feel really lost and fearful, this man seems very arrogant and nasty, and I doubt the protection money will do anything other than assure him of the power he has over us.

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Dream Interpretation / Anxiety versus premonition

« on: December 03, 2015, 12:07:02 AM »

Hi Tony,
I have read that premonition dreams have a different quality or feel, but I have not found that to be the case with my own dreams that contain future information. So I find it very hard to know how to process categorise dream information.

Im pulling together a few strands here, just to clarify why I might have a bit if concern right now..

Nov 6th I had a dream that I am running with some people over desert rocks at night, we decend onto the desert and three very tall women in burqas try to trap us, they are very powerful and scary. I am like a child, I scoot round them, others are confused and don't react quickly, I grab a guy by the sleeve, he's an 'office worker' and pull him and say come with me hurry. I'm now pulling him running across an expanse of white smooth flooring in darkness away from the desert and danger. Dream ends with me facing a man with a gun, a terrorist type, I have an empty shopping trolley, I imagine what a bullet will feel like hitting me, then somehow I get away.

Nov 13th I dreamt of a dark skinned woman in a black shawl, she looks like a refugee, she is wailing crying,she has a very very sick child , a boy of around 8, lying on the street. The depth of his illness shocks me and really effects me.  I wanted to help and gave her money, only to find the money was counterfeit, just photocopied money,  and I was upset I was not being of help to her.
Next day I heard of the paris attacks.

Previous to these dreams, I had a dream that on Christmas Eve, three gunmen in balaclavas, came to the place I was moving to and were powerful and threatening. I've since ended up with the same car as was in that dream, which I knew nothing about at the time. So my active concern, is that I will have more than Santa calling that night! 

Edit: of course I was not physically present at the paris attacks. It's the placing of that car in the dream of Christmas Eve that seems to place me there. However in the dream I was more concerned with locking my car than running and hiding. I was quite calm. There was another man present too an artist, also unafraid. Though my sense was 'this is actually a dangerous situation'

Eargh.. I often have premonition dreams and they are a total pain, no information is better than bits of uncertain information!

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Dream Interpretation / Healing dogs

« on: December 01, 2015, 05:50:54 PM »

Hi Tony,

I remembered a dream I had earlier in the year, before I discovered your amazing site. I would love your insight into it.

In this dream I'm in what looks like a huge foyer of a period mansion, it has a tiled floor, and floor to ceiling windows, maybe some potted plants..bright, beautiful, though it may not be summer so perhaps cool.

I am in the foyer with my hands outstretched and I'm healing a few different dogs one after the other. (I'm not involved in healing in normal life) then I get to a dog that is really really ill, it's so ill, I sit with its head in my lap comforting it as there's nothing else I can do, but it doesn't have a dogs head, it has the head of a seahorse and it's really really black. It's kind of mysterious black. The message is that I could heal the other dogs but not this one, I don't have the power, the illness is so deep and old. I feel sad powerless and so sorry for the creature which seems close to death. This left a very powerful impression on me, staying with me when I woke.

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Dream Interpretation / Toothbrushes

« on: November 22, 2015, 10:35:17 AM »

Hi Tony, I can't quite get a message from the toothbrush symbols in this dream

(Thought I'd just add the start of the dream: The dream began with me walking through underground pathways by huge boulders. I felt happy but groups of people were rushing by racing, I said something like it's not a competition, a leader of a group turns and says, 'oh you are so wrong, life is definitely a competition' I carry on at my own pace, I don't think I have the physical energy to speed up, even if I wanted to which I dont,  I enter a gift shop that I come across and I'm given a gift of a white bead bracelet, it has the remnants of soil as if it had been buried, I put it in my left wrist, it's a white stone, possibly with a slight green tint, there may be a carving of a leaf and bird in one part. )


I'm in the bathroom of my childhood home, I notice the ceiling is covered in old toothbrushes and at least two toilet brushes, it's like they are magnetised there. There must be 20-30 items.
Later I ask a guy to take his toothbrush if it's there, as I am going to clean the ceiling. I am making soup in the kitchen and he wants to share, I don't like his presence, I feel claustrophobic with him around and tell him in as diplomatic a way as possible that he'll have to sort himself out for food. He asks me where I'm going later and I'm very vague so he can't then pretend that's where he was planning to go.

In the next scene I am sitting on a pavement with a dark purple duvet over my knees, I am completely exhausted. I seem to have just had to stop there. I guess the scene of me sitting there looks a bit like a homeless person. A young woman comes and sits with me, she is so kind and sympathetic, she tells me the body just needs to be allow to rest when it's been over-burdened, I find it hard to believe that resting is allowed or that resting will solve anything. Even though I am doing it at that moment out of the inability to overcome fatigue.

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Dream Interpretation / Healing

« on: November 17, 2015, 09:38:04 AM »

Hi Tony, was going to put this in the healing section.. Not sure where to post this. So hope it's ok here.
I've asked my dreams for help with my health, but I've never been able to get much from what came.
I've had three years of ill health. Physically I used to always have good health! But for three years sciatica and fatigue have dogged me. I've tried juicing, parasite cleanses, removal of dental amalgam, yoga, mediation, some image work.. Sciatica currently at bay, fatigue an ongoing issue.

Last night I asked 'Dear Unconscious, How can I have vibrant health?'

I am driving on a very new motor way it has two lanes (each direction), one for 'coeliacs'.. I am on the left in the general lane, the coeliac lane is on the right (where a fast lane would be) it's a light green colour. It seems to be a sort of emergency lane to get to hospital quickly.
Then I'm in a hospital room, I look in the toilet bowl and there's a huge bug submerged in the urine there, possibly dead. Then either it flies out or another one similar appears, like a giant colourful daddy long legs but more scary and aggressive (it's overall diameter including legs bigger than my head) flying into my face and mouth (I feel it touch my lips) I don't  want to hurt it but as I bat it away from my face its legs fall off until it has hardly any.. I feel disgust at the bug, dismay at the unintend d destruction but what can I do if it won't leave me alone.. I feel invaded vulnerable unprotected

I am hitching on the side of the road, just where I stand a car with an old couple pulls in behind me, they get out, she is naked upper half with some clothes  pressed to her chest. She's all dramatic and annoyed about people passing by while she's trying to get dressed, though she is the one who is in the wrong place for getting changed. I'm annoyed as they could have stopped anywhere and where they stopped they are blocking the traffic view and making it harder for me to get a lift.

 (Today I saw an old lady parked askew in the middle of the road blocking the path of traffic, staring straight ahead, something wrong with her, she looked like the woman in the dream)

I've never really thought about or know about coeliacs, I tried an Alkaline diet for a period, which was good, but I've never regained the type of energy I used to have.
I wonder is the dream just directly telling me this is what is wrong with me.
Any thoughts appreciated. Thank you.