SHARED DREAMS - REGULAR AND LUCID

THE REASON FOR THIS ENTRY IS TO SHARE DREAMS FOR INTERPRETATION AND UNDERSTANDING OUR TOTALITY AS SPIRITS ON THIS HUMAN JOURNEY.  Share your dream in the present tense.  This will be an on going series.

Ok Capt: Here's the dream. I don't know what ANY of this means. I'm looking forward to your interpretation though.

I was in the water but was wearing clothes and shoes and the shark was coming after me really fast. So I get up and start running and next thing I know I'm in a house and the shark is running after me, standing up on his two little end finny thingy's running. So I'm running in and out of these rooms in this huge house and finally jump up under a bed. Alicia Keys is in the house and a bunch of other people and she's trying to help me hide. THEN the shark comes in the room and is TALKING to Alicia Keys. He has one of those metal detector things and I guess it helps him detect ME cause when he puts it by the bed it starts beeping really fast. Alicia Keys is trying to convince the shark that I'm not under there and then he flops down on the bed and the bed falls down on me. It's funny because although I was running and trying to hide I don't remember being scared.

The dream then goes to me being in an airport and I'm sitting on these long white benches and Alicia Keys is sitting next to me. I don't know what she did to piss me off but I kept trying to make her go away but she wouldn't. I got up and went to the bathroom and came back to sit down. After awhile I noticed I left my purse (my favorite one that I scuffed up when I fell) in the bathroom and when I went back it was there but something valuable was missing from it. I don't know what it was, but I was mad it was gone. There was other valuable stuff in there so we were trying to figure out why they didn't take everything. It was weird.

Then it goes to me and the Hubby. I'm in his office trying to do the "grown folks thang" Lol . He keeps pushing me away telling me to stop and that he didn't want to. WHAT???? I KNOW I'M DREAMING. Lol. So I keep trying on different days and he still kept making excuses and then finally started being mean about it. I keep being persistent and he starts going OFF.

Goddess, remember I'm using the symbolism I'm familiar with. Your dream interpretations are more accurate with what symbols mean to you. Here goes:

Water often symbolizes emotions. With you having your clothes on, even your shoes, says you are covering up your emotions. The Shark represents an emotional force that you feel will tear your life apart if you let it catch you. This thing is unrelenting in its pursuit of you, even to the point of taking on supernatural qualities.

The house represents your life. The rooms signify different aspects of you and your life. The size of the house says your life is expansive. That it offers a lot of possibilities and opportunities. Hiding under the bed says you may be hiding from something personal you share with your hubby. Could be how you sleep, it could be your rest, or your dreams or your sex life.

Alicia Keys in your house may represent qualities you believe she has that you respect, that could hide or camouflage you from this emotion. The shark talking to Alicia says to me that you believe she understands your emotion. The detector of the shark intensifies at the bed you're under. So that's where the problem is. The shark representing your emotion, sitting on the bed with it breaking and falling on you is saying this is where things are broken.

The fact that you were calm says to me that the urgency has been there to deal with whatever the problem is, however you've been procrastinating.

Being in the airport sitting on a white bench with Alicia Keys is you waiting for something or someone while sitting on the truth. Alicia Keys annoys you because she is really another aspect of you that you admire telling you to either shit or get off the pot. The bathroom represents getting rid of waste. While getting rid of the waste, you also may have lost something of value. You're missing something personal of value in your life but you're not aware of what it is. You're confused why the other things you value in life weren't stolen. Still with only a hunch as to what you valued that's missing.

There is something very intimate between you and your hubby that you feel he isn't into dealing with. Not being able to be this way with him or discussing it has made matters increasingly worse. Out of the three dreams it's key to discover what that shark represents to you and what's happening in the bedroom. 2} Discover that thing you feel of value that's missing from your life that you feel you're wasting away. 3) What's the intimate issue with your hubby that's problematic.

Hope that at least leads you in the right direction.

sophia left...

I was carrying my pet oyster in my handbag. (No I don't have a pet oyster.) I knew it was time to put into water again, since however, I was no where near home, the closest place I could find with a suitable water container was an Oriental jewellery shop which had big beautiful oyster tanks, imitating their natural environment. The oysters were kept in the shop both to produce pearls and to promote pearls. I asked the shop owner whether I could put my oyster into their tank as my oyster disparately needed water. I put my oyster into their tank, and saw that my oyster was massive compared to the other oysters. The other oysters immediately started to swarm upon my oyster and I was afraid that they would eat it. At this point I must mention that none of the oysters had shells like oysters normally have but it my dream there was nothing unusual about that, it was how oysters are. I was just about to take my oyster out of the tank when a crayfish or a rather large prawn came and chased away the other oysters from my oyster, becoming its guardian.

Sophia, quite a dream.  With the oyster as a pet, it says this is an item in your life that you dote on.  Being in your handbag makes it very personal.   The fact that an oyster lives in water and you said it needed to be in water, tells me this item is tied to your emotions.  The Oriental jewelry store I see as, you entering an exotic, yet foreign place of value in your life where your emotional treasure can sustain itself.  This place believes in or enhances your emotional treasure, although it isn't the true environment for your emotional treasure - it gives birth to more treasure (pearl).  The oysters not being in the shell says to me, they have nothing to hide - truth!  The size of your oyster possibly refers to how important this emotion is to you.  The other oysters (representing possibly other aspects of the same emotion) swarm your oyster wanting your attention.  Being afraid your oyster would be overwhelmed you went to rescue it, however finding other emotions represented by the prawn and the crayfish were able to protect it. 

So, to me, it's important to find out what emotion the oyster symbolizes, as well as the prawn and the crayfish.  The pearl?  Could it be a pearl of wisdom?   THE CAPT.

sophia left...

re-oysters; Capt. Right on the mark! Indeed the oyster represents something I hold dear. Here is where my personal idiosyncrasies comes in. Although a handbag is very personal, for me a handbag is not as personal as it is to most people. I do not choose a handbag as a fashion statement but rather for its practical use. It is while I am away from home, my “temporary shell” with basics to operate in an alien environment. If I lost my handbag, while away from home, I will have difficulty returning home, and could not do so without asking some stranger for help. So I ask myself, now why am I carrying my pet with me, surely it would be better off at home? Either I had to take it with me for a purpose, or I had no more home and are in transition between homes. The later applies to me. I agree with you on why the oysters had no shells, almost as if to show the inner workings which would normally be invisible, thus private.

Now another curious thing, normally in nature when any sort of cannibalism happens, it is the biggest that eats the smaller ones, or else if it is dying. I did not feel it was dying, so why did I feel the others might eat it, especially if it was so much bigger? We would also try to eat something that we consider to be of a different specie to us. So what makes this oyster so different from the other oysters? My oyster is non-aggressive, it does not have any instincts for aggressive behavior, dog eats dog behaviour. The other oysters are all “working “ oysters; “they ain't there for the health”, but for what they can produce, in this case pearls. They were valued for what they can produce not for their intrinsic value, as in the case of my oyster, which is valued “as is” not for what it can produce. The other oysters immediately sensed its difference. In my dream I felt that it's bigger surface made it more vulnerable. Its size also indicates because it is so important to me, I am feeling even more protective

The oyster is for me something that I value “as is”, not for what it can produce, and yes I feel responsible for its life, and have an emotional attachment to it. In my last dream I posted, I mentioned the birth of a new project. This is what the oyster represents to me, I would do it for free, because I am so passionate about it, therefore I value it “as is”, and I would rather have it in its natural state, thus as just my passion where it would remain personal and unexposed to the outside dangers the new environment brings. I realize at the same time that if I don't put it in the water it would die, in other words if I don't put it into the competitive environment, even though it isn't its natural environment it would die. Thus I would have to give up my passion altogether, due to my circumstances. So I have to compromise to keep it alive. I have been feeling afraid that it will be “eaten up” by the competitive environment. The prawns are masculine compared to the oysters, also much more active. What this indicates for me is that I feel the need for a more outgoing aggressive partner to support me in my venture, so that my oyster can be left in peace to produce the pearls it is capable of.

sophia left...

So upon reflection what it is saying to me is that I must become more aggressive, and outgoing, even though it feels totally alien to me. 

'The Capt.' posted this on Fri 9 Nov 2007, 3:44 pm

I think it says that too. But I also think that it's also telling you, you have allies out there, that will support you.

THE CAPT.'S DREAM 2 - LUCID DREAMING

I'm in my neighborhood church, I attended as a child, facing the front of the church from about half way back in the pews.  It appears folks are accepting communion.  Two of my neighbors, male and female (both Catholics in a Presbyterian church) are coming back up the aisle from accepting communion.  Both are smiling at me, with me realizing that I'm in church nude.  This makes me feel uneasy and I head toward the rear of the church to leave.  Simultaneously I begin to become aware that I'm dreaming and use the opportunity to change the dream into a lucid one.  Just before doing so, I find myself on a road out on Long Island that I used to ride my bike on, from Port Jeff to the radio station on campus at StonyBrook to do my show.  At this stage the dream becomes lucid or conscious.  I do my usual 360 degree spin to indicate I have free movement. 

Coming out of my spin, I'm amazed at how this lucid dream has all the details of the area down pat.  The strange thing is that my movement is like I'm riding a bike instead of walking  - and I'm not riding a bike.  I look at the ground and I can see it forming before me as I move down the road.  The sounds are as crystal clear as my vision.  Nature is sounding beautiful and I can hear a faint cry of a child. 

As I reach a particular curve in the road I see a blood stained cloth on the right hand side of the pavement.  I feel something foreboding about it, just as I begin to hear a vehicle approach behind me.  For some reason I don't want to be seen and try to hide by the side of the road where the cloth was.  I'm looking and hiding from the approaching vehicle as I slide back into regular dreaming. 

Meleny made this comment,    

I'm going to share a dream that has been a key element in my grasp of lucid dreaming. It was one of the first dreams that I've felt full control over and it was the embodiment of a spiritual aspect of my own true identity. I don't think this will ever be a dream that I'll forget. The dream begins with me outside. Outside in somewhere that looks naturalistic. Throughout the dream, there is only consistent peacefulness. I walk towards a garden, not too high, not too low, but at the correct length to my desire. The small garden is almost like a modern day front yard. In this case, the house, would be then be a temple. There are flowers in the garden, white and lively looking flowers. The flowers are swaying softly in the silent summer-ish breeze. The air is not cold and not hot, just right. It must be late spring or early summer because there is a scent of fresh life all around. As the plants dance on their own happily as if they were my own beautiful happy children, there is a mysterious light that glows on the plants. On one hand, there is a blue glow like moon light around the whole land, and on another, there is a sense of early morning sunshine. That part of this dream has never been clear to me but I've always felt it was representing two of my loves, Morning sunshine and the quiet peace of night. Because they intertwine, creates that perfect image. I don't notice what I have on until later. I can feel things in this dream which was a key element that made me realize I was lucidly dreaming. I was barefoot throughout and as I stood in front of the garden I could feel the soil on the bottom of my feet. It wasnt hard dirt, it wasnt sandy, it was soft and fresh. Walking through the garden, my garden, I could feel the bottom stems and the leaves touching my feet. Their stems are soft and the leaves are softer. Im walking delicately enough, not to hurt them, but just right in order to feel them. It's a bountiful garden. Reaching the steps of the temple, the temple seems quite massive compared to my anatomical size. There is a sense of safety in the temple, as one would feel entering a home. Climbing up the 5 or more gallant, finely cut, well polished and large steps, My bare feet can feel the smooth texture of the steps. My first foot places itself on the corner of the steps slope, allowing my to feel the round curved architecture, another on the middle of the single step, allowing me to feel the smoothness. Immediately I can tell that I'm wearing a robe or a dress or something of that nature because as I lift my feet up following each step, the fresh white cloth slings around my legs. Arising to the top of the temple, The pillars and the overall front structure of the temple becomes more clear. Now I turn around before entering and stare at what would be...my kingdom. I can feel a safe smile on my face. It's as if I'm coming home after a day of happiness, to even more happiness. As I enter into the temple, life feels like it slows down here. Not in a bad way, but in a peaceful way, as most humans need silence to replenish themselves. Silence is an important thing, and the silence that was felt here, reflected that. The temple is grand, somewhat dark, somewhat lit by the morning sunshine shining through the similar gallant windows. Once again, the mystery of weather it's night or day is still present. There isn't much detail in the temple, it's very bare from my initial perspective. The further you move into the temple, the more you realize there is more things in the temple than meets the eye. The temple is almost like an illusion, a mysterious, mystical creation of my mind. The overall scenery is almost like coming home in the morning to a house with ample sunlight, but with no lights on. Way in the back of the temple, there is also a throne. The throne looks bare from appearance, but by intuition I know thats its crafted beautifully, well done and suited for my personality. There is also a throne somewhat next to it that is similar in nature but more masculine. They are positioned equally apart. As I advance in the temple, I look down again at my feet, which now revealed more. My feet are the same as it is today, white nails and same structure, and I finally notice what I'm wearing, as if I was viewing through another persons eye. I'm in a white dress, or robe, similar to what an Egyptian queen would be caught wearing. I didn't have any crowns on besides a little head thing to indicate royalty. My hands had bracelets and trinkets to indicate that I was...the pharaoh. My ankle also had a bracelet, which confirmed my identity. The ankle bracelet that I have, was a present from my grandfather as a child that I refuse to take out, and I intend to die with it or pass it along the generations. There are other heirlooms about but I feel like it was just a casual day, a day for me just to explore and relax, to be a normal person for once and to enjoy life. No need for special attire, just a comfortable look. Advancing, I place my hands on the left side of the walls and I walk very slowly with soft steps. There is no sounds from my steps because the floor is solid, polished and well implemented, like the steps. In the first section of the front of the temple, the floor is slightly sandy, which is a fine grainy feel that was so vivid in my memory of this dream. As I place my hands on the wall, I could see my hands as if I was actually there, every little detail. They are not shaky hands either. The walls are not cold, they are warm and comfortable, like the floors. As I advance and slide my hands horizontally along the wall, on the bottom of my palm, I could feel the smooth walls becoming scratched. The scratches turn into indentures and etched marks on the wall. Some marks were straight, some were curved, some were letters, my finger tip felt some, the base of my palm felt some. Immediately I realize these are hieroglyphics. The hieroglyphics seem to go on and on, as if a story was being told, a great novel being read. The dream ends with me leaving the walls alone and walking towards my throne, which is next to great statues and some more pillars. Mel, I see the first part of your dream in the garden with the flowers and the blue hued light as one of good health.  As the dream becomes lucid, you purposely choose to make your life better by your ascending and entering the temple.  Being barefoot is like getting back to your nature.  Where your sensitivity to what's natural is felt as you move.  The size of the temple exemplifies how great your life potential is.  That your new life will be expansive.  You feel happy and in control.  When you consciously live each day, time does slow down due to your living in the moment.  The mixing of the time of day is indicative that time doesn't matter when you live in the moment, consciously.  Time, just is!  You're beginning to feel how you can create any reality you wish.  You show greater sensitivity and awareness to what you are creating in life.  Paying close attention to details.  The hieroglyphics that you couldn't translate was saying that there is much more for you to discover that you couldn't imagine.  THE CAPT. Lucidly dreaming allows you to feel and be more aware of things. I felt happy and safe, secure and all those good things. I felt all that because that is how my spirit work. In real life....this is an accurate description of my physical world. Coming home, looking on my kingdom, which would be my family, and feeling safe and secure. I can enjoy nature, I can enjoy different parts of life, and I can rest easy knowing that all is well. Ive come to the point of my life where my spirit and physical self have become great friends. The kingdom is safe, my family is safe, my heart and mind are safe, so what more can I do besides enjoy my home and my life? Since I was little, my ultimate goal was to create a happy home and family and well rounded self, so to actually realize it is very important. Can I say I have accomplished my ultimate goal? Perhaps.

'sophia' posted this on Sat 20 Oct 2007, 7:52 am I had two dreams that had only one thing linking them, an object that transforms according to your inner being. In the first dream, I found myself in a shop. It was the kind of shop that sold everything from spices, fabrics, to Bric-à-brac. My eyes were drawn to a row of what appeared to be golden Buddha statues, the mass produced kind. Never the less, I was drawn to it and I picked it up. As I touched it it transformed into the most delightful little rainbow coloured dragon, that very affectionately curled around my neck. The shop owner came to me and said, " These are the latest craze on the market, they transform at your touch according to your inner being. All, the children now have them."

The next dream I found myself in a rather bare room. With me is dog. I decide to leave the room but as I turned to the door I saw that it was burnt black, still too hot to touch. I wondered how I will get out of the room. Then I remembered that I was dreaming and thought no problem, I will just dream that I can open the door. I then found myself in an underground parking area, rather dark an ominous in feel. The dog then started to transform much to my surprise, and I said to it, "Since you can Transform, transform into a neck piece, then I can carry you with me." As I put it on my neck, a car speeded towards me, but somehow the transformed dog gave me an ability to fly, and I just flew over the car. Delighted with this ability I just flew around in the pure joy of it. Twisting and turning, somersaulting in the air. I then saw a in my "mind's eye" a beautiful garden and flew into it.

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'sophia' posted this on Sat 20 Oct 2007, 7:38 am I saw a man and woman who had a wolf as a close companion. The woman gave birth assisted only by the father. The birthing happened in the nature and she was lying on the bare ground with her head on his lap. The afterbirth was given to the wolf to eat and in my dream, I thought there was an ancient ritualistic symbolism in this. Many people came to give congratulations to the birth of the baby, and there was much joy.

Sophia, I see the relationship of man/woman/wolf symbolically as the energy of man, woman and nature, with the wolf as the symbol for that.  The birth is a new creation (not necessarily a baby) the two (man/woman) have physically manifested.  Whatever they have created is not only good for the community but provides sustenance for nature.  What I would like to know, Sophia, what it is that was created by the man/woman along with nature or the Spirit? 

'sophia' posted this on Mon 22 Oct 2007, 2:25 am   visit their home page Indeed Capt, that was my interpretation too. The birth was the birth of what I am focusing my energies and talents on, after I struggled for a long time to refine what it is. As you know I believe that dreamwork is the most underused potential innate in humanity, something we share with most animals and which links us to nature and spirit, in fact our whole genetic inheritance. Although this dream appears to be a very simple one, it lead me to some interesting discoveries. I was intrigued by the feeding of the after-birth (placenta) to the wolf, for to think in the dream that it had a ritualistic significance meant that there was something more than meets the eye. I like using the methods of explaining elements of a dream that one would like more insight to, as if you are explaining it to an alien. What is a ritual suppose to do? You can say that in enacting a ritual, a virtual space and time is opened up by ritual that leads to the creation of meaning through the change in the participants. Seen like this, ritual is a dynamic virtual process that can “transform the existential circumstances of persons in nonritual realities” After doing some research, I found an interesting aspect related to birth customs and the after-birth. In Java, (interestingly for me, my mitochondrial DNA sequence shows that from a matriarchal lineage I am from South-Asian descent, quite possibly, Javanese.) it is believed that the placenta has twin spirits: one older and the other younger. Shortly after the birth, the placenta (uri) is buried near the home the baby will live in: if it is a boy the afterbirth is called adik (younger sibling), if a girl kakak or (elder sister). The ‘twin’ shares a spiritual connection to the newborn baby, important in childhood, and later life The cord and the afterbirth, coming as it does after the birth of the child, is considered to be the baby's spirit younger brother, while the amniotic fluid which proceeds him (it is thrown up into the air) is considered to be his spirit older brother. For the first thirty-five days they remain near the child and protect him against illness, the first underground, the other in the sky. Afterwards they may wander, but they remain the guardian spirits. It takes, however, extended mental concentration, fasting and wakefulness—what the Javanese call tapa—to get into contact with them. So in looking at feeding the after-birth to the wolf, in context of the above, it would make the wolf the "blood-brother" and spiritual guardian of the newborn child. Which for me in this case is the new project that I have recently given birth to, which for me incorporates both the masculine and feminine aspects equally. What is more this opened up a whole new area for me that I was unaware of before, that of Silat practices, especially 'Self-Expression & Spiritual Dance' of the Bunga and Subud, which complements the area in dreamwork I have been exploring. I think you will find the following especially interesting. The Masters of ‘Silek Tradisi’ have known for centuries that ‘personal, mental & spiritual development’ improves the performance of the individual (and therefore also enhancing the overall ‘character & development’ of the community. A note of distinction is that in ‘spiritual dance’ the intention, action and ‘dance’ has an inward connotation. ‘Spiritual Dancers’ are concerned with an inner reflection, sacred/divine connection, and expression/exploration of Self/Being. It could be simply noted (with exceptions of course) that ‘modern club dancing’ is distinctly external/material with explicit intimate & sexual connotations. If we are to be honest with ourselves, then we need admit that the ‘intention, purpose and action’ of the one going to a club to ‘dance’ is DEFIANTLY different than those going to a studio for ecstatic or expressive ‘spiritual dance’ (as is prevalent in America/Europe). The music, dance and martial arts of Indonesian & Malaysia are essential components of the “Seni Silat Haqq” training methodology. The music and dance help facilitate the attributes of rhythm, balance, and ‘feeling’. The music from the Gamelan orchestras’ of Bali, Java and Sumatra stimulate the atmosphere, enhancing the ‘energy’ of the space/room/environment. The natural melody, groove, and beat contribute to remind us of our connection with Nature, furthering revealing the Compassion & Harmony in/of Creation… Thus, students are trained to move "with feeling, in balance, and for a purpose... http://internationalsilatfederation.com/SilatSacredPostures_InternationalSilatFederationofAmerica.htm As a Spiritual Teacher once said: "I'm not going to teach you anything, because what I teach you will forget. Instead, what I will give you are experiences......Light.....Energy.... All this from that simple dream! In dealing with the Spirit, Sophia, `to know the truth' calls for experiences.  That's why you and I both have exercises anyone can do to become consciously acquainted with their Spirit Identity.

I'm in my bedroom I shared with my brother as a child in the projects. The room was 9'X10' with beds on either side of the room.  My back is to the one window in the room and it is night time.  There is a bluish hue that's cast on the room.  My brother, as an adult is in the room along with a female friend of mine with their backs to me facing the door of the room.  Both are not wearing anything except underwear and panties, respectively.  My brother is wearing royal blue colored underwear and walks out the room without turning around to face me.  The female friend remains in the room in her pink panties, but doesn't turn around to face me. 

Suddenly I hear a loud crash through the livingroom window, telepathically realizing my brother was committing suicide, ending with a loud thud as his body hit the ground.  The starkness of the event wakens me.

'Meleny' posted this on Fri 19 Oct 2007, 3:32 pm

Women....have always been the down....FALL....of men ;).

I think You have come to a point in your life where your dreams wont offer you much specific insight, because of your already obtained knowledge capacity. It will give you day to day insight and maybe large chunks, but I think youve already gained enough from your life time that would contribute to the "basics" of human life. However, it will start acting as a reflective mechanism...for you.

As we say in the hood....No p*ssy is that good to kill each other over :).

Fatal attraction can be deadly.

Mel, what's interesting is how we each interpret things according to what symbols mean to us.  This dream was a precognitive dream - where it was telling me what was about to happen.  One of the most intimate places in my life was the bedroom I shared with my brother in the projects.  That's where all my ideas about life developed.  Folks without clothes on, for me, usually means they have nothing to hide or are telling the truth.

The female friend was an old girl friend that became a good friend after our love relationship was over.  The dream predicted that each person would turn their back on me.  My brother walking out of the bedroom and jumping out of the livingroom window was saying he was going to end our close brotherly relationship forever.  It's been about 11years.  The female friend didn't leave the room.  In real life, she's remained my friend, however we are no where near as close as we used to be. 

WHAT'S YOUR DREAM?  WHAT'S YOUR INTERPRETATION?  CARE TO SHARE?

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