Lions, kids and the hunt.

[luke wilson]

First Dream

I had this towards the end of last week.

A group of kids were exploring. They happened to come across a castle in ruin. They climbed to the top to check out the view. For some reason 1 kid fell down. On hitting the ground, he looked up to see a lion. Full grown lion with a mane and all that. For all intents and purposes, it looked like this kid had met his end. As the lion approached getting ever closer, he picked up a stick and whilst still not fully stood up as he was kind of in shock, not only from falling but looking up to see this fully grown beast in front of him, he like started prodding it as if to protect himself. He didn't actually prod the lion as it wasn't close enough to him but rather carried out the motion as if to tell it to go away. Anyways, the lion turned and ran off in the opposite direction as if the kid had successfully fended it off.

The kid stands up and runs in the opposite direction from the lion. Next time we see him he is walking down a leafy suburban street. The street in deserted. Anyways, he looks behind him and he see's this lion again, only this time it is coming full speed down the road. Kid starts to run. I as the spectator at this point is thinking the kid is surely dead, the speed the lion is going at is staggering compared to this like pre-pubescent child. Anyways, kid realizes this and as he is approaching what appears to be the 'main street' as it were, he turns into a bar. Again bar is deserted, same as the main street etc. I as the spectator can't see into the bar but can see what is happening around it. Lion reaches the Bar and goes in as well. Next thing I see, the kid is sneaking out through the backdoor. He then runs in a different direction. The lion comes out and it has completely lost him, doesn't know where he went.

The End.


Second Dream

I had this, this week.

Like the previous one, I am spectator to begin with though this one is slightly weird.

Anyways we start off in a huge field, call it the Savannah. We have a pride of 4 baby lions. Not really baby lions per se, but like in between cubs and fully grown lions. Anyways, the parents and/or adults are not in sight. The 4 lions want to go somewhere but are afraid. They set off on the journey anyways and arrive by a river where they have some kind of argument that leads to them splitting off into two groups of two. I am following one group. As they cross like an area with humans, they are spotted and hunters give chase. Man oh man, could these two run. On the chase one suggests to the other that they should split up and go in two different directions so as to make it harder for the hunters to get both of them. They do that and gain distance. Next time we see them, I am actually in like one of them, feeling the power in this animal as it runs up a valley whilst the other lion is converging in on him for them to essentially be together again. Back on the opposite end of valley at the very top of a ridge, the hunters congregate and one has a rifle. They have a mini-debate as to whether to use tranquilizers or live rounds. At this point my awareness is split into 2, I am with the lions but know what the hunters are up to but couldn't hear what they decided. Anyways, one of the hunters takes the rifle and takes aim, stood at the top of the ridge whilst these 2 lions are powering up the opposite end of the valley. Here I am back with the lions, in one of them, waiting for the inevitable, the bang, then either the one I was in or the other one to hit the ground.

Before they get out the valley and before the hunter shoots, they notice a pen with animals. The lion I am in decides to go next to the animals and essentially hit the ground, lay low, the other one goes straight in and pretends to be 'one' of the animals. At this point I see and notice what he is doing and shout, 'hit the ground' and he complies just as a shot is fired. Emotions, fear, worry the whole thing engulfs the lion I am in as it doesn't know if the bullet hit his friend who is now essentially lying on the ground. Next thing I hear is "I've hit the ground' and there is a swell of relief as one of the other animals, either a donkey or a horse hits the ground for real i.e. it got shot. We hightail it out of there and end up where we wanted to, someplace up in the highlands. This is weird as now I am saying 'we' as during this dream I am either a spectator or in this 'one' lion where I take its identity. Next thing I am back spectating on a road leading up to where we wanted to go to, where I see the other 2 lions who had split off from the original pride. They are walking up the road en-route.

The end.

Interesting the stuff our minds conjures up whilst we sleep.

 

[Archaea]

Hey Luke,

I too was banned man, but I learned if you want to post on this forum, you havef't to be strict with yourself, otherwise the people here won't be able to understand you, and will become worried for the others who can't understand you, and then a mod might put you in baked noodles, which is bad man, real bad...

Having said that, here's what I think...

A group of kids were exploring. They happened to come across a castle in ruin. They climbed to the top to check out the view. For some reason 1 kid fell down. On hitting the ground, he looked up to see a lion. Full grown lion with a mane and all that. For all intents and purposes, it looked like this kid had met his end. As the lion approached getting ever closer, he picked up a stick and whilst still not fully stood up as he was kind of in shock, not only from falling but looking up to see this fully grown beast in front of him, he like started prodding it as if to protect himself. He didn't actually prod the lion as it wasn't close enough to him but rather carried out the motion as if to tell it to go away. Anyways, the lion turned and ran off in the opposite direction as if the kid had successfully fended it off.

Exploring is good.

Death is always with us... until the end...

The kid is you , right???

THE MOVEMENT CENTRE!!!

The lion retreats.

So you are fine? There's nothing that requires the attention of the whole universe (or is there?), just a dream. But still, maybe you are a person who needs movement in their life... although maybe not... I'd suggest bushwalking, to get them "juices" flowing, or something else maybe...

Anyways we start off in a huge field, call it the Savannah. We have a pride of 4 baby lions. Not really baby lions per se, but like in between cubs and fully grown lions. Anyways, the parents and/or adults are not in sight. The 4 lions want to go somewhere but are afraid. They set off on the journey anyways and arrive by a river where they have some kind of argument that leads to them splitting off into two groups of two. I am following one group. As they cross like an area with humans, they are spotted and hunters give chase. Man oh man, could these two run. On the chase one suggests to the other that they should split up and go in two different directions so as to make it harder for the hunters to get both of them. They do that and gain distance. Next time we see them, I am actually in like one of them, feeling the power in this animal as it runs up a valley whilst the other lion is converging in on him for them to essentially be together again. Back on the opposite end of valley at the very top of a ridge, the hunters congregate and one has a rifle. They have a mini-debate as to whether to use tranquilizers or live rounds. At this point my awareness is split into 2, I am with the lions but know what the hunters are up to but couldn't hear what they decided. Anyways, one of the hunters takes the rifle and takes aim, stood at the top of the ridge whilst these 2 lions are powering up the opposite end of the valley. Here I am back with the lions, in one of them, waiting for the inevitable, the bang, then either the one I was in or the other one to hit the ground.

Your one of the parents... right???

You should be careful...

I think (from the Seth books) that your decision here spilt the reality, i.e. you were curious to see what happened either way.

Before they get out the valley and before the hunter shoots, they notice a pen with animals. The lion I am in decides to go next to the animals and essentially hit the ground, lay low, the other one goes straight in and pretends to be 'one' of the animals. At this point I see and notice what he is doing and shout, 'hit the ground' and he complies just as a shot is fired. Emotions, fear, worry the whole thing engulfs the lion I am in as it doesn't know if the bullet hit his friend who is now essentially lying on the ground. Next thing I hear is "I've hit the ground' and there is a swell of relief as one of the other animals, either a donkey or a horse hits the ground for real i.e. it got shot. We hightail it out of there and end up where we wanted to, someplace up in the highlands. This is weird as now I am saying 'we' as during this dream I am either a spectator or in this 'one' lion where I take its identity. Next thing I am back spectating on a road leading up to where we wanted to go to, where I see the other 2 lions who had split off from the original pride. They are walking up the road en-route.

Another spilt in reality? One may survive, the other may not.

In this bit, I think it's animal communications, like telepathic contact.

All up dude, I think this stuff is the path of progress. remember the emotions and the feelings, and remember the choices and decisions that you made in these experiences, for they are lessons.

ROAR!!!

 

[luke wilson]

Well I didn't have the best of days yesterday but topped it off with another Lion dream.

Lion Dream Three

I was in a big country estate with others. For some reason I was getting bullied or something, all I know is I wasn't feeling ok and the reason was the other people. When we stepped out into the garden, the situation got unbearable and I couldn't think of a way to remove myself from it. So an idea came to my head. I was going to summon a lion. I put both of my hands on the earth and just reached out to the ether. Then I remember getting back up and feeling super weird. The others having seen this just thought it was weird. Next thing, we hear a series of roars coming from just outside the estate. Needless to say, nobody hanged about to see what it was. Everyone ran into the house, including me.

I went into a room to look through a closed window to see what was outside. There it was, on the lawn, just opposite the window, literally meters away, looking me straight in the eyes. I could swear it was smiling. We locked eyes for what seemed like minutes but was probably only seconds. I kind of got excited and called someone into the room to look at it. He came into the room and to the big window. After he looked outside, he turned to me with puzzlement. He said, "There is nothing there". I was like ehhh? I looked back outside and saw it again, it was literally meters away. I then decided to open the window. When the window was fully opened it totally disappeared as if to thin air and I couldn't see it anymore myself. I closed the window again and looked through the glass, thinking this was the reason, but again wasn't there.

End of dream

 

[Zee Ley]

Hello Luke. Catchy dreams you have in here...

Interesting the stuff our minds conjures up whilst we sleep

I am almost sure that the thinking process is not limited to the waking state. Yes, it some how differs while we are dreaming. And to notice.. to catch this difference is pretty exciting occupation.

For example, have you noticed how in first two dreams "victim" and "predator" are changing their roles? and in the clash no one (from main characters) gets injured?
As I currently understand that such a details can be numerous and symbolism is only a part of a picture.

 

[luke wilson]

Hi,

Thanks Zee Ley, I hadn't noticed roles got reversed in the first 2 dreams and that none of the main proponents got injured, apart from the donkey and/or horse in the 2nd dream.

 

[luke wilson]

I had 2 somewhat weird dreams.

Yesterday

There was this stranger who managed to find himself in a new village. In this village, they had a weird ritual that perplexed the stranger. Every now and again, the villagers would gather in the square, in a big circle. Then 2 people would step forward and walk towards each other. One of the 2 would have their eyes closed. When they got within touching distance of each other, they would stop. Then the one with their eyes closed would run their hands over the other's face, feeling out the features akin to how a blind person might use their hands to feel out the features of something he can't see.

The stranger was perplexed and need I say uncomfortable about this.

Today

I was on a sea shore. I thought it was somewhere in Russia. I don't know why. I was with part of a military unit. They were there in preparation for a mission. They had to swim across a big ocean, to a land on the other side of the planet and scale up a big mountain range to the peak. In this dream, I felt like I was all of them and not a single one of them. There were about 4 or so.

It starts off with one on the shore. Then I am in the sea. The one in the sea is wrestling an alligator with his bare hands. He struggles, he has it in his hands but the alligator is too powerful. All he knows is that he can't let it go as it'll turn and attack him, now that it is agitated. At this point I zoom out of the person in the water and onto the one on land. He picks up a gun and fires one shot into the water killing the alligator. The guy in the water comes out and says thanks.

I notice that he is totally naked. Then from behind him comes another one, holding a whole bunch of fish. I notice that he is naked aswell. Then from behind this one, comes another one, this one is naked as well. He has twigs and a huge backpack, on his back. I am somewhat perplexed but not worried.

Anyways, they start a fire to make some food. Some time passes and a bus load of people arrive at the beach and they hold a big party.

The dream ends whilst the party is still going on.

 

[Zadius Sky]

Hi Luke,

Interesting dreams you got here. In your earlier dreams, I naturally assumed the lion to be a predator's mind, then I realized that it could be a strong aspect of you wanting to show to others "who's boss" ("a series of roars" from your third dream could suggests this) and other aspects of you are afraid. It does sound like an internal struggle going on regarding "control," imo.

Your recent dreams are missing the lion, so they could be representing something else.

Yesterday

There was this stranger who managed to find himself in a new village. In this village, they had a weird ritual that perplexed the stranger. Every now and again, the villagers would gather in the square, in a big circle. Then 2 people would step forward and walk towards each other. One of the 2 would have their eyes closed. When they got within touching distance of each other, they would stop. Then the one with their eyes closed would run their hands over the other's face, feeling out the features akin to how a blind person might use their hands to feel out the features of something he can't see.

The stranger was perplexed and need I say uncomfortable about this.

I think this dream is really interesting because it's being made strictly for you, a message of sorts. Were you seeing as the stranger or as an "observer" (seeing the scenes, etc.)? I think the village itself could be a sense of community or rules, and when the stranger comes in, it's all "new" to him in a sense of new experiences, new situations, or "new" anything that you may be uncomfortable with.

Needless to say, I would have to say that I like this dream because, as I am a hard of hearing, I read people's lips which can make other people uncomfortable. They may think that I would want to kiss them or not looking into their eyes while talking. It's doing something that works for me to communicate and at the same time, makes ignorant people uncomfortable. In case with blind people, they use the touch to identify other people's faces (in some cases, pointing out features that weren't being aware of before) for the purpose of "knowing them," so in your dream, it seems that your other aspects are "learning how to be blind, to be in blind people's shoes," so to speak. And, the stranger's being perplexed about this because it could be that it's not within his realm of rules, comfort, or perception/background, in order to "know" the other person. I think this could be stepping out of your comfort zone and into other's zone (external consideration, perhaps?). That's my take on that, fwiw.

Today

I was on a sea shore. I thought it was somewhere in Russia. I don't know why. I was with part of a military unit. They were there in preparation for a mission. They had to swim across a big ocean, to a land on the other side of the planet and scale up a big mountain range to the peak. In this dream, I felt like I was all of them and not a single one of them. There were about 4 or so.

It starts off with one on the shore. Then I am in the sea. The one in the sea is wrestling an alligator with his bare hands. He struggles, he has it in his hands but the alligator is too powerful. All he knows is that he can't let it go as it'll turn and attack him, now that it is agitated. At this point I zoom out of the person in the water and onto the one on land. He picks up a gun and fires one shot into the water killing the alligator. The guy in the water comes out and says thanks.

I notice that he is totally naked. Then from behind him comes another one, holding a whole bunch of fish. I notice that he is naked aswell. Then from behind this one, comes another one, this one is naked as well. He has twigs and a huge backpack, on his back. I am somewhat perplexed but not worried.

Anyways, they start a fire to make some food. Some time passes and a bus load of people arrive at the beach and they hold a big party.

The dream ends whilst the party is still going on.

That's interesting. The alligator here could be a danger or hindrance, and here you are overcoming a fear or dangerous situation to which the final outcome is exposure of all involved (feeling, maybe, like nothing holding you back anymore or being "free" of the burden).

My .002 cent.

:)

 

[mada85]

I think this dream is really interesting because it's being made strictly for you, a message of sorts. Were you seeing as the stranger or as an "observer" (seeing the scenes, etc.)? I think the village itself could be a sense of community or rules, and when the stranger comes in, it's all "new" to him in a sense of new experiences, new situations, or "new" anything that you may be uncomfortable with.

Luke, could what Zadius Sky writes be related to this post of yours, which was your response to the mirror you received in your thread Objective Knowledge as a Political Tool?

 

[luke wilson]

Thank you Zadius Sky! I added these 2 dreams onto this thread despite not being about the original heading as I didn't want to start a new one!

I'll have to think about what you said. I find it hard to connect dreams to real life as dreams tend to be so symbolic whilst real life tends to be the opposite in terms of how you experience it.

I think this dream is really interesting because it's being made strictly for you, a message of sorts. Were you seeing as the stranger or as an "observer" (seeing the scenes, etc.)? I think the village itself could be a sense of community or rules, and when the stranger comes in, it's all "new" to him in a sense of new experiences, new situations, or "new" anything that you may be uncomfortable with.

Luke, could what Zadius Sky writes be related to this post of yours, which was your response to the mirror you received in your thread Objective Knowledge as a Political Tool?

Do you mean getting the psychology books? Maybe.

I have got some actually, last week but the reason I am reluctant to post in that thread is that I haven't got the ones I should have.

I have,

Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health

I am currently reading it and being the slow reader, I won't be done for a couple of weeks. Anyways, it seems like some kind of advert for the authors prescribed form of therapy, "Primal Therapy". What I find interesting about it is the idea of trauma early on and how this travels later on in life to affect us on an ongoing basis. Also I like how he explains how the brain functions. He has split it into 3 sections. The Brain Stem (the most primitive) which is all about sensations, instincts etc, the limbic brain (emotions) and the neo-cortex (thinking brain). The neo-cortex according to him is the last of the 3 to come online. By the time it usually does, trauma has already set in on the limbic and brain stem. He argues against therapy that is based on appealing to the neo-cortex as he says it stands no chance whatsoever, firstly because it wasn't online when the other systems came online (the brain stem being the 1st then the limbic follows) and secondly because everything flows from down upwards. He says that trauma early on is imprinted onto us, changes our physiology, and is locked away for safe keeping. It is locked away (unconscious) as we can't handle the pain of feeling it all in its blunt force. However, it is always knocking on the door, trying to crash through and the only way to integrate it is to experience it e.g. feeling the feeling of being unloved by your mother, feeling that pain, as it was way back then. In this way, it becomes integrated. So far he hasn't said how all this is achieved, he is just talking about the mechanisms in play.

We have a choice: alleviate symptoms or cure people. Either reregulate each physical change (add a bit of thyroid here, a dose of Prozac there, a nicotine patch to help a smoker break the habit), or address the orchestrator and change all of the physical alterations together. When someone is a chronic smoker or a depressive, or is sedentary and avoids people, his whole system informs his behavior, and his system is a function of history. Our therapeutic task must always be historical. History is one essential difference between cognitive and feeling therapies. If we treat a person as ahistorical, we can only change his current presenting symptom, not his personality. Modern cognitive psychotherapy stops with the mental. It is confined to the left frontal brain. However, as we will see, the right/feeling brain is dominant in infancy, and it is early right-brain imprints that continually activate the brain. That is where we find "defeat." We must go to combat with that important feeling that governs so much of later life. The only way to go there is with the right brain and the right limbic system, ending eventually at the apex of that system—the right orbital frontal cortex.

The cognitivists have confounded brain hemispheres and attempt to get there with an appeal to the left side. We cannot get there from here. The left frontal area only comes on line after the key imprints are set down on the right side. If anything should prove that ideas follow feelings, rather than vice versa, it is that the feeling/sensation areas of the brain are in force long before ideas; moreover, the feelings militate upward and forward to create resonating ideas, thoughts that “rationalize” the feelings. Cognitive therapy deals mainly with the results of feelings on the left brain, when feelings on the right are importuning at all times.

When someone’s entire being is permeated with the sense that “no one wants me,” to the degree that he needs drugs to kill the pain, this is not just an idea we have to change; it is an organic part of that person. Ideas are not something we produce willy-nilly. We don’t just have differences in opinion; we have differences in total personality, which gives rise to opinions. Likewise, when a person’s “default” mode is to give up in the face of obstacles, he is responding to the sensation deep in his brain of “What’s the use of trying?” Because it lies so deep, it has a profound impact. The words to describe his state are a late evolutionary development. They are not to be confused with the biologic state; the physiology of defeat.

In the hierarchy of valence or strength, words are the weakest when compared to the force of these first-line nonverbal imprints. We must not believe that if we treat the patient with words, changing the labels, we can make a profound difference...

So, I am currently reading something to do with psychology and trauma!!!

I also have Social Intelligence - Daniel Goldman which is in the recommended reading list!

I will get Trapped in the Mirror - Elan Golomb and Drama of the Gifted Child - Alice Miller.

 

[luke wilson]

Been a while since I have had a nightmare that got me up mid-sleep.

Spider Dream

Last night, I dreamt I was in this room, don't know if I was sleeping or sat at a desk. I looked across to see this huge spider climbing up a wall. It was scary big. Big legs and black.

So as I usually do, I strategized how I was going to get rid of it. In the end, I went for the caveman approach. Slippers in hand, squash spider. It's quick. I go to squish it, but it escapes. Then I realize a web is caught on my jacket. The spider is now crawling towards me. I am terrified. I move around, trying to shake it off. I can't, the thing is crawling towards me effortlessly. My breath becomes short and quick. I think this is happening in the dream but in real life, in my bed, my breath is becoming short and quick. I am gasping for air. The thing is moving towards me and I can't seem to break this web that it's using as a bridge. Funny thing is that it never actually got to me, it never bit me.

I got up however, due to the terror of the situation. I was worried for a second that there might be a spider in my room so I had a look. But there was none.

 

[luke wilson]

Interesting series of dreams culminating in a lucid dream

Encounter with an angel

I remember fragments of this one. A lady runs into what can only be described as a normal nondescript guy (not me). They get talking and eventually he says he is a guardian angel for so and so. I don't remember who. The lady laughs in complete disbelief. Jokingly, the guy says he will demonstrate. So he does the 1st thing, I don't remember what it was, she stll doesn't believe, the 2nd I know what it was, he removed a brick from a high rise building with one of his hands. The lady is still in disbelief. Then he asks the lady what will convince her. She says, go against gravity. So he looks at her and says, if that is what it'll take then ok. He opens up his arms and she walks into them. He then floats upwards. Needless to say, lady got convinced pretty sharpish.

Don't remember after that.

The Temple

I've never had a lucid dream. This didn't start that way.

I was journeying, down this long path, on both sides stood humongous trees. It was more like a forest except it wasn't thick. There was a path, leading down. I noticed I started becoming lucid due to the sheer beauty of the trees. They were so tall I couldn't see the top of them, I never bothered looking up. The stems had my attention, that and the path.

So I start become lucid as I approach the end of the path. I become totally lucid when I am at the end. I notice I am lucid. Not with words but a realization. I then worry, like "Damn, nooooooooo, the forum says this means nothing". I notice I am so close to getting up. I can feel my eyes closed in bed. I am literally in my head. I am on the edge of sleep and awake but totaly immersed in sleep. I decide I want to stay in the dream. As I am approaching the end of the path, I notice a stature of sorts in the middle of a court yard. I make the choice to ignore it. I know if I look at it it'll take my attention away from what is behind it. What is behind it is somewhat clouded, not yet in vision. I go past the stature.

Then I see this temple. I think to myself, "What, hell no! this is so cool, a temple at the end of a path, what is this? ridiculous". I go closer and closer to it, I manage to see 2 writings on it, soul and wisdom. Then the temple shrinks and floats into my hands - like a satchel. I want to read more. I am thinking, I am lucid,I can read!! But then it turns into fabric and what I thought are words turn out to be an intricate pattern by what appear to be beads.

Next thing I know, I am on a hill. A small hill. No trees anywhere, I can just see green, green grass all round. The sun is shining and I am standing by 2 people. 1 boy, 1 girl. I am still determined to read something. I look at my shirt and notice there are writings on it. I try to read it but I notice they are upside down!! Then I look at the boys shirt and notice there are writings on it... I start to focus but everything goes vague and I lose my awareness, akin to anesthesia taking effect. Next thing awhile later, not immediately, my alarm is going off and I am waking up. It was lucid but for a small portion and not that lucid that I had conscious control, just awareness that I was in a dream.

Don't worry I know lucid dreams mean zero and so do pretty much all dreams - just brain organizing itself etc, but nonetheless the thought that came into my mind after was, "Yup, that was cool".

 

[Zadius Sky]

Hi Luke,

You mentioned that you find it hard to connect dreams to real life. It may be useful to ask yourself questions like when you think back on your dreams, do they remind you of anything in life on a basic level (your attitude to life or others' interactions with you)? Any settings, scenery, people have meanings to you (in terms of archetypes, interactions, etc.), so you would look at them and question what purpose/message that they could contain for you, etc. etc. (See here for more info).

The spider dream that you had had could be related to the books you recently mentioned that you're reading, that it could represent an aspect that is trying to get you being put "back in your place" by being fearful of any changes in your psyche. That's just my interpretation, by the way, and it could mean something else.

While I don't know about your angel dream, I think that your lucid dream could be telling you to pay attention (awareness) and that may be related to your struggle to trying to read (a sensation of feeling the anesthesia effect while reading). The "Temple" symbolism may be related to The Work.

For what it's worth.

 

[luke wilson]

Hi Luke,

You mentioned that you find it hard to connect dreams to real life. It may be useful to ask yourself questions like when you think back on your dreams, do they remind you of anything in life on a basic level (your attitude to life or others' interactions with you)? Any settings, scenery, people have meanings to you (in terms of archetypes, interactions, etc.), so you would look at them and question what purpose/message that they could contain for you, etc. etc. (See here for more info).

The spider dream that you had had could be related to the books you recently mentioned that you're reading, that it could represent an aspect that is trying to get you being put "back in your place" by being fearful of any changes in your psyche. That's just my interpretation, by the way, and it could mean something else.

While I don't know about your angel dream, I think that your lucid dream could be telling you to pay attention (awareness) and that may be related to your struggle to trying to read (a sensation of feeling the anesthesia effect while reading). The "Temple" symbolism may be related to The Work.

For what it's worth.

Thanks. I read your thread which was quite a good summary.

If I was to attempt to follow the questioning/meaning mode, for example, regarding the spider,

For me a spider represents something I am scared off. Not phobia level but I guess close to that. A room might represent a certain area of my life. So maybe in a certain area of my life, I have noticed something I am scared off, I have moved to get rid of it but in the process I have got entangled with it.

In terms of real life connection, there are a couple of things which have happened recently, one being about the psychology book I am reading which has caused an entanglement with my fears i.e. in that situation, others disapproval. So I noticed others are disapproving about my lack of reading psychology books, I move in to get rid of that by getting a book but then I get entangled as I haven't got the right book. So maybe the dream was a bit of a warning sign or rather an experience of what was to be experienced - emotionally. But I mean, that interpretation and the dream scenario are kind of far apart, they are connected by very thin threads for my normal everyday mind to comprehend and utilize in a conscious way. For that reason, I think if it was to have personal meaning, the meaning is not in interpretation, rather in experience. Experience has meaning even when you can't interpret it as it is ones emotional side that gets it, not the intellectual side.

I had my first dream that involved Laura yesterday.

Laura Dream

There was huge stage, like in a theater and there was a speaker on it. He was trying to explain something but couldn't do it to a satisfactory level. Then he went backstage and got Laura to come on stage. She started explaining. The thing was on a piece of paper. I wanted to get a closer look so I was invited up to the stage. When I went up, I saw a bunch of boxes drawn on the paper. But the trick was to get the boxes so that you can see all sides. She invited me to play with the boxes, to try and get them so you can see the different sides. A bunch of people who were sat down were also interested so eventually she held up the piece of paper for them to see.

For me, the thing that had meaning in the dream was the struggle to play around with the boxes, to get them so I can see all the sides, including those hidden. That was the strain.

Tell you what these dreams are coming in thick and fast.

 

[luke wilson]

What does it mean if animals keep on featuring in ones dreams?

Over the last week, there have been alligators/crocodiles, dinosaurs and wolves in my dreams. Previous to that there was all these other animals (as stated in this thread) in my dreams. Coming across like a theme.