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One Seeker's Journey: Remembering Dreams |
Category: Dreams 13 comments
14 Nov 2002 @ 20:34 by spiritseek : Dreams 14 Nov 2002 @ 21:56 by craiglang : Dreams: Symbolic and Real Hi Marie, Thanks for the note. That's really interesting - and I gather you don't think much of Siggy... 8^) I wonder, does the dream being about TJ in specific have particular meaning? (Note: no answer necessary, this could be a rhetorical question) I've found that most of my dreams have been very symbolic. Somehow associated with huge old houses, or the upper stories of - or sub-basements of - big buildings. In there I usually have some kind of symbolic interaction with someone, or something occurrs which has some particular meaning. I suspect that the building is a metaphor for the mind, and the upper or lower most levels are a metaphor for the subconscious. As I mentioned in a posting of Sharie's, a couple of days ago, many of my dreams have lately involved rivers. Given her dream description - of a river and the labyrinth - I consider that to be quite a synchronicity. I've also found that the dream symbology is usually quite meaningful to my life at the moment. Sometimes its a warning, sometimes an encouraging synchronicity, sometimes a prophecy, and sometimes just a dream... 8^) But for me, any way you slice it, dreams usually seem to be symbolic. Namaste, -Craig 14 Nov 2002 @ 21:58 by ashanti : Yep I have definitely been having a LOT more lucid dreams lately, and remembering them everyday, which is unusual. I usually used to remember the major dreams, but now I'm remembering most of them, every day. It is a definite change. 15 Nov 2002 @ 05:32 by spiritseek : Dream symbols... I used to read books on dream interpretation, but found that they are someone else's symbols not mine. If you remember how you felt during your dream it will help you understand the meaning of it. There is a rule that the basement or lower levels in the dream represents your ego. The higher levels is your subconscious or higher understanding. Many times others in your dream are You, by observing this person you can best determine what the problem is. You can decode Your symbols because You put them there. Write down your dream, as much as you can remember,preferably first thing when you awaken, write a list of the main symbols (car,water,house, etc.) this will aid you on interpreting your dreams.Remember, feelings are the best tool we have. 15 Nov 2002 @ 06:12 by shawa : Sigmund "Fraud"?... (Spiritseek´s comment above. Could that be a "fraudian" slip?...) Yes, the house can be a metaphor of the mind; from "basement"/subconscious to walls/boundaries, through "stories"/levels, etc. And yes, everything is accelerating, I feel that too. Time is going "faster"... 15 Nov 2002 @ 06:17 by martha : house dreams See I shouldn't even be here but just thought I would look a moment and after reading decided some comments...I'll be quick. Each person dreams in symbols that have meaning for them and it varies for each individual. With that in mind generally there seem to be some universal symbols in common. My understanding of house dreams is usually they concern your soul. Various areas of the house can stand for ego etc. or not. What is important about house dreams is they are sending a message from your soul. Figuring it out is the challenge.Some kind of transformation is in process or needs to happen. Usually my house dreams come in a series. Spiritseek is right. It is the feeling from the dream where the message lies. and many times for me I need a series of dreams to get the message. And I have one house dream that I know someday I'll actually walk into the physical house!!!! It's enough to make you crazy. martha@iwillfindmyhouse.com 15 Nov 2002 @ 06:23 by invictus : A lot of the time... These days, rather than remembering dreams in the usual sense, I spend half of my "sleep" time not really asleep. I kind of have a running semi-lucid dream for hours at a time. I'm much more aware than I usually am when asleep (though what is "usually" is changing). It has struck me as pretty strange. What does one make of that... is old McAndy finally losing it; going off his rocker; coo coo ka choo ;)? 15 Nov 2002 @ 06:24 by spiritseek : You got me... Yes, I believe he was a fraud in many of his pychosis theories. Carl Jung fortunately took another road and helped develop our therapy/therapist future with a spiritual angle. 15 Nov 2002 @ 06:29 by invictus : Freud... His theories covered how screwed up he was, but I think only said a little about the rest of us. I think a large portion of his work is a masterpiece of sublimation... he turned all his sexual and gender problems into a societally acceptable bunch of babble. And I definitely disagree with his view of what a therapist should be... blank slate and all that. I, for one, would never benefit much from psychoanalysis and its detached kind of theraputic relationship. I'm much more for Jung and especially Rogers and the other humanists. Self-actualization!!! And don't even get me started on how crazy Skinner was. 15 Nov 2002 @ 07:54 by spiritseek : Jung's Theory Jung's theory divides the psyche into three parts. The first is the ego,which Jung identifies with the conscious mind. Closely related is the personal unconscious, which includes anything which is not presently conscious, but can be. The personal unconscious is like most people's understanding of the unconscious in that it includes both memories that are easily brought to mind and those that have been suppressed for some reason. But it does not include the instincts that Freud would have it include. But then Jung adds the part of the psyche that makes his theory stand out from all others: the collective unconscious. You could call it your "psychic inheritance." It is the reservoir of our experiences as a species, a kind of knowledge we are all born with. And yet we can never be directly conscious of it. It influences all of our experiences and behaviors, most especially the emotional ones, but we only know about it indirectly, by looking at those influences. There are some experiences that show the effects of the collective unconscious more clearly than others: The experiences of love at first sight, of deja vu (the feeling that you've been here before), and the immediate recognition of certain symbols and the meanings of certain myths, could all be understood as the sudden conjunction of our outer reality and the inner reality of the collective unconscious. Grander examples are the creative experiences shared by artists and musicians all over the world and in all times, or the spiritual experiences of mystics of all religions, or the parallels in dreams, fantasies, mythologies, fairy tales, and literature. A nice example that has been greatly discussed recently is the near-death experience. It seems that many people, of many different cultural backgrounds, find that they have very similar recollections when they are brought back from a close encounter with death. They speak of leaving their bodies, seeing their bodies and the events surrounding them clearly, of being pulled through a long tunnel towards a bright light, of seeing deceased relatives or religious figures waiting for them, and of their disappointment at having to leave this happy scene to return to their bodies. Perhaps we are all "built" to experience death in this fashion. 15 Nov 2002 @ 10:54 by craiglang : The Emerging Collective Unconscious Hi Marie, Thank you for your comments. The two theories that I find most attractive are Jungs ideas of the collective unconsciousness, and Barbara Marx Hubbards ideas on conscious evolution. My sense is that the two of these are combined, such that there is a critical mass being reached at this time. Much from the collective unconscious seems to be emerging - initially among sensitives and intuitives, but eventually among all of us. - I hope... 15 Nov 2002 @ 14:40 by sharie : Dreams revealing insights I posted a newslog entry a few weeks ago about a dream I had that caused me to look back 25 years ago, and see the chain reaction of things in my life in a whole new way. The dream lingered about me for weeks until I finally looked close at what it was telling me. It changed my entire perception of me. Yes, I'm having vivid dreams. 20 Nov 2002 @ 15:52 by sharie : virtual reality/ virtual dreams Several days later, I'm still having very vivid dreams, so vivid that upon awaking, I just lay there in bed... for hours... as if I'm still in the dream. The dreams are so pleasant I'd rather be in them than get on with my life. And I have a very happy life so that's an indication of how vivid the dreams are. A couple people have mentioned lately that vivid dreams are a common occurence from the end of August and lasting a few months. They say it's because of the lifting of the *veil* related to all Hallow's Eve. I don't know anything about this phenomenon. I called up the search, but I'm not interested enough to go through the links but if somebody else is, here goes: [link] ...something to do with the veil between realms thinning... like clair voyance... or something. Surely somebody knows something about this... ? Other entries in Dreams 9 Oct 2007 @ 15:32: The Dream of the Trail 9 Jul 2004 @ 12:27: A Dream - Escorting the Prisoner 18 Jan 2004 @ 14:09: A Winter Outing in the Forest - A Dream of Spirit and Change 28 Dec 2003 @ 10:32: A Big Coherent Event 27 Jan 2003 @ 10:40: The Dream of the Hummingbirds 19 Nov 2002 @ 11:23: Troubleshooting
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