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Dream Interpretation / Two dimensions

« on: April 20, 2018, 07:22:06 AM »

Hello Tony,
You have mentioned that we live in two dimensions.The following dream makes me wonder about the interplay between these two dimensions... do they co-exist or is the outer simply a reflection of the inner ? Thank you for your valuable time.

Dream:
At the workplace of a television company.Initially N (my boss,a woman, from 15 years ago)is there but she leaves and doesn't come to the workplace anymore.The office looks like my school classroom.Many people including J ( a schoolmate who is an artist) stay at home the whole week as there is no work happening. I've been going but there is no work happening at the office.
I meet R and his wife ( neighbours who are yoga teachers) outdoors in a garden.They are tending to some plants.He tells me, "Of course you should leave the television company.You'll be happier."
He is tending/growing rose plants and binding the rose plants to the garden fences. His wife is also doing gardening work in the dream.She also says I should leave the company (which by the way I had already left 15 years ago in waking life and have not been to work at all since then).
I tell all this to my sister who says "Why leave just because they said so?" but I was pretty sure it made sense to leave.It was very dull,no work,few people came to office.Most were at home.I feel in the dream that maybe I too should have done that.I should have stayed at home.I should try that instead of leaving till it's necessary.Keep it going a little longer.
J (the artist) tells someone on the phone that I have a car so they can go with me.J tells them she would handle the arrangements of them travelling with me in my car and talk to me about it. 
I observe that even A (another ex-boss,a man,from 15 years ago) seems to have left.I wonder in the dream-Without the two bosses who is in charge?

A cow comes and sits next to me.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Initiation

« on: April 13, 2018, 08:46:35 AM »

Many many thanks Tony.Your insights ring so true.
This urge to share...where does it come from?In the letting go of the bundle of thoughts and emotions that was once a particular personality who is it now that feels the urge and who is it that will perform this task? Or will it gradually perform itself?
Would this dream be a kind of precognition dream ?

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Dream Interpretation / Initiation

« on: April 10, 2018, 09:17:04 AM »

There is a huge garden.I am laying down yoga mats on the grass along with some school friends.

I am a part of a selective group of people dressed in robes and hoods performing some kind of ritual/ceremony.Soon we are to be initiated by the elders of the group.We are all Japanese in the dream ( my only connection to Japan is a recent curiousity about Zen practices ).
I come down to the ground floor to meet one of the elders of the group.It's raining a lot outside.I get into a panic when I can't find my house-keys as I feel I would be stranded outside my house without my keys so late at night and its raining so much but luckily I find I have my house-keys after all. 
There are huge books/tomes that I carry out to study and I have to put them back carefully inside the exclusive room for this group.
I am the youngest in this group.I tell them they should consider taking in younger members to pass on the tradition to.I wonder who they would ask, maybe X (an aquaintance who is a smart,successful entrepreneur and all-rounder who I admire)

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Dream Interpretation / disappearing cats

« on: March 27, 2018, 01:54:35 PM »

Hi Tony,

I am very thankful for your website and insights into dreams.Thank you for your time.

A group of us notices that all the cats are disappearing during the day.Where do they go? The group heads out to look.One man realizes he has been carrying around with him a big black bag of garbage that he forgot to deposit.The others feel we have walked a lot and are sleepy. I want to sleep too and tell everyone it's time to head back.
We are all going to a nice rented cottage that we would all share as a holiday home. I figure that I could easily spend 85000 on a holiday home every now and then by myself also.The others are wondering about the cottage as the ageing yellow paint on the external walls is wearing off, but I tell them it's quite nice and tastefully done up. I seem to have seen it or lived in it before.I notice some some empty picture frames artistically hung up on a wall.
The next time I see the house it's been painted a brick red colour and looks neater with nicely arranged pots and plants on the terrace which are visible from outside the house.It looks different with changed construction,like a part of it is missing/removed or the buildings around it are missing/removed.

There is a secretary in an office who is very efficient but she gets thrown out by another girl who has recently joined there. I can't believe I did not know when all this happened just a few days ago and that already four years have passed since I joined this place. The boss has no idea how much he is going to miss the secretary as she managed a lot of his work.

I am trying on pants that are the colour of a police inspectors pants.I find one pair that kind of fits but after wearing them I feel it wouldn't have made a difference as it looks like an ordinary outfit.There is a gay man with me who is trying on clothes and trying out scarves around his neck to look fashionable/attractive.

I am standing in front of an open door of a refrigerator for the coolness.I keep closing it after a few minutes as I can't leave the fridge door open for so long but another girl puts a stool in front of the door to keep it open saying it's fine.

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Dream Interpretation / The Bare Christmas Tree

« on: March 10, 2018, 04:54:58 AM »

Hello Tony,
Thank you for your wonderful work.I really appreciate your understanding of dreams.
I am a bit angry at myself for my ignorence in the past and my inability to manage a difficult relationship or myself better.I have a lot of difficult emotions emerging like in the past and want to make better choices and manage myself better this time yet I don't know if the choices I am making now are the right ones either. I feel sad that lack of understanding led to a difficult,pain filled relationship and it continues being difficult even after a decade of effort and inner work..

The dream:
I am inside the house of a famous actor. There is a party going on.The house is well designed but pieces of stones from the edges of the ceiling are breaking and falling off and there is rubble and stones along the edges of the floor below it.Some workmen have been collecting the rubble and cleaning up all day and taking out bags full of the stones.
The workmen bring out a sad Christmas tree made of sticks/ dry twigs.Its just a skeleton shape of a tree without any leaves.There is a fairy light bulb put on the top lighting it up to make it look like a Christmas tree by the workmen.I feel it's sad but pretty and I think in the dream that the village children would be able to see the light from the bulb even from a distance from the house.The house is near a forest beyond which there seems to be a village.

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Dream Interpretation / murderer

« on: March 09, 2018, 04:48:08 AM »

Hi Tony,
I have been trying to manage my emotions that surface when dealing with my sister.My body was in a hyper state for few weeks where I wasn't getting sleep till late every night.I started settling down after meditation and relaxation practices.Then I got this dream.Your suggestions are an immense help.Thank you.
 
I meet A (who I met very briefly as team mates in a game of Bridge) and we talk.I mention something and he says let's study Christian Attitudes ( or a word similar to Attitudes which suggested the name of some Christian cult).I am surprised.I tell this to a friend who informs me that he murdered his wife and is available if I am interested.I begin to wonder if I see him that way and would I want to marry this man especially since he is a murderer? a wife murderer!
        I feel/observe in the dream that his offer to study Christian Attitudes would require spending a lot of time together on a spiritual path.

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Dream Interpretation / Witch

« on: February 19, 2018, 06:49:26 AM »

I dreamed that I give my male cousin the TV remote as I can't find anything interesting to watch on Tv.
Then I see an eerie,scary looking woman like a supernatural witch. I ensure the front door is shut but she suddenly appears inside my house.I open the front door for her to let her out but she has no intention of leaving so I catch her head and tear it off and throw her body from a great height down oto a garbage dump.
But she comes back with a long spear to kill me.I am wondering how on earth I am caught in this unreal situation with a supernatural creature.I fear I might die since she refuses to die.I lock the door.
I am shaking now as I had not expected her to return.I try to dial the numbers on the phone to call a family member for help but am not sure if I will get through in time.
I woke up from the dream.

I sensed after the dream that I should have just let her come at me with the spear.It was after all just a dream.

Thank you.

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Greetings / Re: Grateful

« on: November 17, 2017, 06:32:33 AM »

Tony,
I have sent you a message on facebook.
Many thanks,
Purvi

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Greetings / Grateful

« on: November 16, 2017, 05:43:30 AM »

Hi Tony,
I am new to this forum but I discovered your dictionary on your website three years ago.I have used it daily since then to decipher what my dreams are conveying and it has been a tremendous resource.I am so thankful for the knowledge and experience you have shared.

Thank you for your time and effort given to reading my dreams and replying to my  questions.Dreams are so precious and I am so grateful for the in-depth responses that have helped me see beyond my own mind.

If you have any dream courses available I would be very interested in joining them. 

With much appreciation,
Purvi

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Fighting The Other You - Imported from Comments

« on: November 12, 2017, 12:30:33 PM »

Thank you for sharing your experience Tony.The Big "I " and the  little "i" (or Brahman and the jiva) reminds me of this favourite quote from the Ramayana:
Lord Ram gave Hanuman a quizzical look and said, "What are you, a monkey or a man?" Hanuman bowed his head reverently, folded his hands and said, "When I do not know who I am, I serve You and when I do know who I am, You and I are One." -Tulsidas Ramayana.

I am so surprised that one of the men in the dream is deliberately trying to annoy and disturb the monster.It doesn't sound like something I would do.Not even to another human being let alone to something that is so huge and enormous.
I wonder what the noisy object represents? My approach has always been one of reverence and devotion for the higher awareness.However I was exploring dream incubation and I was persistently working on integrating the shadow aspects and integrating the dark/hidden side of my animus and working with archetypes.

I am curious what the two men represent in the dream and why one of them is killed by the monster ,why does the monster want the other man to watch this man dying and why does the monster melt the man's eyes ?

The followup response in my psyche at this point is this dark dream:

A young girl goes for a therapy session with total trust.Her face has an expression of complete openness and trust. She enters the therapists office but once the door closes I  get the feeling that she is physically violated in there.She is then left on the road.
Her landlord and landlady( an old man and old woman ) find her sitting completely naked on her bed in her room.Her face is expressionless in the aftermath.Her boyfriend is standing close by and the kind landlord is patting her leg and the compassionate landlady is also there for her to comfort her.They seem to have guessed what has happened to her.

Thank you.

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Healing Dreams / Re: Inner healing

« on: November 10, 2017, 03:18:58 AM »

In the last week I've had dreams that are followups on this same theme.
Dreams:
1.My father looks at a paper which has all my finances written on it. He says you have plenty to take care of and to handle.
A girl I knew in college (A),picks up the paper lying on the table and goes through the detailed figures written on it.She tells me I have a lot.

2.Three men have left money in my name.One of them is my first boyfriend (when I was a teenager).I go to his house at night,between 10 pm-12 am.I see him lying on his bed with his wife sitting on the edge of the bed.I realize it's wrong to invade their privacy and run back down the steep stairs.But I feel he is following me and I call out his name.He is there.I tell him I came for a reason but I've forgotten what it is.He says it's Ok because he was going to contact me anyway to tell me he is giving me 300,000 as well.Earlier two other male friends have also given me 300,000.
I tell my sister I am getting 900,000 from these 3 guys.Maybe I'm meant to take care of it and put it to good use.I take the money quite happily.

3.I see a school friend's mother.(Her parents were always struggling financially and short of cash in the past).Her mother is surprisingly dressed up in very elegant,expensive clothes and jewellery and looks very wealthy.Then her daughter enters the room.Her hair is done up very elegantly and she is also dressed up in tasteful,expensive clothes.I feel she is dressed and done her hairstyle for the first time in a way that actually looks good and suits her.
They are both ready to leave for High Tea with their friends.
I ask my school friend-'Oh you are also joining your mom?' She says Yes.

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Dream Interpretation / Re: Fighting The Other You - Imported from Comments

« on: November 09, 2017, 01:43:46 PM »

Thanks Tony.I have been working at integrating whatever hidden aspects of myself are revealed in dreams and emotional reactions.
I recall a dream I had seven months ago that is directly related to the subject of duality. Here again my Animus is represented as two men (Duality of A and B ) but there is also a third entity in the dream:

The Dream:
A huge monster in a cave.Two guys are figuring out how to escape.It's so big it's body is deep below, inside the earth as big as the mountain.Only the face is seen in the cave emerging from below.It's enormous with big eyes.Just as they manage to find a way to escape one man goes back in.I ask why?
He wants to put a noisy object on the monster so that it gets frightened/disturbed by  the sound.It will be on it's own body but it won't realize where it is and that will always annoy the monster.
 It's too dangerous I feel.The guy gets caught and the monster says,"See now he is almost dead".He tells the other guy to watch him die,his eyes are melting,the upper part of his face and eyes is melting away.
The monster has big glittering eyes.I wonder what his eyes see of the little guys as his eyes are so big.I wonder how the two really small guys must appear to the monster in his big,enormous eyes and what the monster sees through his giant eyes?
How clearly it must be seeing the two men even though they are so tiny compared to the monster, because they are so close to it's eyes.In the cave they are at the monster's eye level.

I am guessing this maybe a visit from a deeper part of the mind. Perhaps the old perception is melting away and I am now seeing more clearly with bigger eyes ( bigger perception ?).The two guys represent duality but one is dying so the polarity is transforming ?
What could "the two men are so tiny compared to the monster" represent?
Something more powerful than the Animus and duality is emerging and 'seeing'?

 

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Healing Dreams / Re: Inner healing

« on: November 09, 2017, 01:10:04 PM »

Thank you Tony.
The underground goddess/serpent in your dream made me think of the power of kundalini and the melding with Christ as the divine union of Shiva Shakti.
This sparked off an insight for me that the "A" aspect has always been the Spiritual(including creative,artistic) and the "B" side has been the Materialistic aspect of life.The spiritual and seeking enlightenment was given top priority in my life while the material (daily living,worldly life,making money, herd mentality ) was rejected.
In this dream the "B" is depicted as a client servicing manager and the "A" side as a cinematographer.The war of the material world verses the spiritual/artistic world.

It annoyed me ( when I reflected on the dream much later ) that "the client-servicing manager sees me".I am not clear what his seeing me really symbolizes or why I was annoyed.

I remove the towel from my hair.My hair is still wet and it feels very sexy.The client-servicing manager sees me and I am hoping that "A" is seeing me.
Somehow "A" and me are not together at the shoot.
My feeling in the dream is that I don't want a repeat of the past where I just feel the attraction but stay away.I want us to be together and I want to have things clear not ambiguous.

I have worked intensively on integrating the animus and other hidden parts of myself (that are revealed in dreams , meditation etc ) and I feel this dream is a kind of reassurance to inform me where I am on the journey and how far I have come from where I was twenty years ago.

However this particular aspect still needs to be "seen"...

The client-servicing manager sees me and I am hoping that "A" is seeing me.
"A" has already seen me deeply earlier in the dream.I should be glad that "B" also sees me.
Maybe the dream is suggesting that A and B are melding and I just need to see that clearly? (instead of getting annoyed which is probably an old unconscious pattern).

Thank you.

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Healing Dreams / Re: Inner healing

« on: November 06, 2017, 03:32:53 AM »

Many thanks Tony.
I appreciate how you have presented the duality between A and B.I wasn't getting the duality aspect of it. I hated that there was a 'B' around because all I was yearning for is to be 'A'.
But now the new possibility arises that the two can co-exist and I don't have to resent 'B' so much. (wow I can't believe I used the words hated and resent.I had no idea I felt so strongly).
My whole life I have been seeking 'A' to get away from ' B' . Am I seeking the impossible?
Will ' B' always exist in waking life while 'A' remains Unconscious ?

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Healing Dreams / Inner healing

« on: November 03, 2017, 06:37:35 AM »

Hi Tony,
I have been trying to understand this dream for months.I can sense that it's revealing an important message for working with my inner healing and quest for connection with the deeper aspects of my being.

My dream:
At a shoot we are expecting"A" a cinematographer (my infatuation from 20 years ago). He arrives.He is wearing spectacles with a black frame.I have just washed my long hair and wrapped my wet hair in a towel.
We look at each other.His gaze is tender.He pulls me towards him and holds me with his arms around me with my back against him (both of us are facing forward).
It's a very affectionate and intimate embrace in front of everyone.We are standing together like old friends,old lovers.
I am wearing very colorful clothes and my face is glowing.
When I look up at him I am surprised that his gaze is so tender and the embrace has a feeling of ownership,belonging,oneness.It's not a 'meeting-after-a-decade' embrace.He just holds me like I am His.
The shoot is not a great shoot.They are just shooting some add-on material for a foreign film apparently.That's what another man "B" tells me.B is seeing me after a long time and is glad to see me.He looks like a client or client-servicing manager.
I am glad all is good between "A" and me.It's like after all these decades he knows I've changed and grown up.He looks cleaned up and mature too in his spectacles.
He looks young,with black hair like he did 20 years ago when we first met ,not like he would actually look today.
I am not at the shoot at all.I am occupied with other work in another room upstairs but I say I need a loo break so I can go down.I want to see the shoot and "A" and let him know that I am not staying away this time.
I use the toilet downstairs.It's a rustic toilet with unwashed floors but I use it as it's downstairs and it's big and better than the other toilets.Another toilet I went to has all the windows open and it's even more rustic out in a stable-like area and the windows can't be closed so I don't use that one.
I want to be at the shoot because "A" is there.
I am wearing my bright pink track pants and a colorful top and I wonder why I picked these clothes since "A" is seeing me after so long.But he doesn't seem to notice the clothes.He looks at my face.
Later I remove the towel from my hair.My hair is still wet and it feels very sexy.The client-servicing manager sees me and I am hoping that "A" is seeing me.
Somehow "A" and me are not together at the shoot.
My feeling in the dream is that I don't want a repeat of the past where I just feel the attraction but stay away.I want us to be together and I want to have things clear not ambiguous.