Dream about shedding illusions?

[Paragon]

Hay all :)

So I've recently started the lowcarb/high fat diet and it's only been two days, but already I feel much better, improved emotional functioning and less negative thought loops. The fatigue and generally feeling weak Is normal from what I've read on the LWB thread, until we reach ketosis, and that can take weeks, even months.

But anyway, I had a dream last night about eating all those foods that I had grown emotionally attached to all my life, to make me feel better about my self. Curries, chinese takeaways, KFC's, Mcdonalds you name it. And I had this visceral realisation that I had failed already. I had failed my aim and that destruction was imminent.

I then woke up and when I realised it was just a dream I was so relieved! I thought I'd have to start back at the beginning and even though it was only two days, I didn't want the predator to win!

What I'm leaning towards in my own interpretation of this dream, is that I'm shedding my illusions and when I woke up, it was meant to let me know that I can achieve Something positive in my life, which I have been lacking in thus far.

Thanks for taking the time to read! :)

 

[bngenoh]

Since the topic is about shedding illusions, i wanna share a dream i had at the very beginning of this year. "I" was climbing up a vertical mountain, bare handed, i was in observer mode watching myself, but i could also experience myself as the climber. As the climber, i was paralyzed with fear, and stuck at that particular spot on the mountain, i was quite a ways up from the perspective of the observer comparing the position of the climber to the bottom of the mountain. Paralyzed with fear as the climber, i was focused only on the mountain's face, not making any progress at all, but then, i as the climber and observer realized something, there is no reason at all to fear.

When this realization was made a huge expansion of awareness ensued, and i was able to become both the observer and the climber simultaneously, and look around in awareness, while previously, i had only consciously been the observer. It was absolutely freeing, though i could only see where i had been and was with much greater clarity than i had previously, i was confident that i could now finish climbing the mountain.

Perhaps 2012, is the year of shedding illusions. :/

Btw Paragon i have had similar dreams to yours, and i interpreted them similarly, though i could exert my will to stop, when i became conscious.

 

[Paragon]

Perhaps 2012, is the year of shedding illusions

Yeah, I hope so! I'd like to be able to progress in the work this year.

That was an interesting dream bngenoh, to me it sounded like you have maybe faced something big, like a mountain, in life that you have conquered, or at least became aware of and no longer fear it as much? You have gained a new perspective on something big in your life perhaps?

Fwiw, I could be way off :P

 

[Ca.]

I had one as well this morning. i seemed to be dealing with eather temperament, and or a feeling of begrudgement.

When i woke up it seemed as if too promote a feeling as if i was working through a number of different issues all at once. Like having rock's in ones shoes, more like annoyance .

It's was very eye opening to confront these feeling's on the dream scape, and wake up feeling like i had of shedding, and working through something's in my life.

Though it was a confrontational situation, it did feel a scene of moving towards passing something's.

This has been on going for while, but it seem's to be having some benefits.

 

[bngenoh]

That was an interesting dream bngenoh, to me it sounded like you have maybe faced something big, like a mountain, in life that you have conquered, or at least became aware of and no longer fear it as much? You have gained a new perspective on something big in your life perhaps?

Fwiw, I could be way off :P

Quite spot on Paragon, i don't think i conquered anything. For me it is not about conquering at least anymore, it's about growing, and when one grows, traits that one picks up at certain points in one's development are simply out grown. Awareness is the "key."

"I" definitely gained a new perspective, and in a sense isn't that why we are here, to grow enough that we may be able to see ourselves and thus reality more objectively osit.

p.s. i remember a passage from one of Laura's writings "A change in worldview, changes the world viewed."