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27 Jan 2003 @ 10:40, by Craig Lang

An interesting dream on Saturday night/early Sunday AM.
I was in a house (yes, the house stuff again...), and in one room at the base level was a large window to the outside. I noticed at the window that there was a hummingbird flying around - looking for a way to get through the glass. I knew that in the past there were birds that had not escaped, and this one was very much trying to avoid that fate. Also, on the outside of the glass was another hummingbird, it's mate, who was trying to rescue it.

I looked around for something with which to gently capture the bird, to take it outside and release it. I looked all around the house, but all I could find were a large number of Tupperware bowls, none of which had lids (my wife sells Tupperware). I was getting concerned as there was a whole closet of these bowls, and yet no way to cover them once I had enclosed the bird.

The dream bordered on lucid, although I did not feel as though I had full control. It was more as if I were a participant in a script - not fully voluntary, yet not simply a passive piece of a dream as well. I was very much concerned with how to solve this problem of capturing then releasing the bird, without harming it.

Finally I managed to find a lid of some type, and was able to carry the bird to safety. So the story had a happy ending. It seemed to be quite meaningful, and looks like one for the dream-analysis books...

(Note: I also posted this in the PSI room)

Thanx,
-Craig

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27 Jan 2003 @ 12:23 by swan : Hummingbirds are very important
to me. You can find out why by reading "Touched by a Hummingbird" in my news log ( 5-6-2002) Myself and two friends brought a hummingbird back to life. Since then I have had numerous visitations by hummingbirds in the dreamtime. To me they represent two things, pure joy and being able to accomplish the impossible. I say the later because they migrate thousands of miles, cross oceans, without stopping, and they can fly backwards. I always feel blessed when I have a hummingbird dream and feel like it is an omen. Maybe something I said here when help you understand your dream more.

Swan  

27 Jan 2003 @ 23:14 by strydg : the dream says more
about what you try to do, even here at ncn, that any interpretation ever could... but... something about liberating one aspect of spirit to be with another aspect and feeling some anxiety about the tools with which one has to accomplish this... at bottom is some kind of sincerity... of course the dream is based on your perceptions and what things (like hummingbirds and windows and tupperware-without-lids, etc) mean to you... which ultimately tells a story about your "self"-process... maybe uniting male and female spiritual aspects of self with plastic, ie false, phoney equipment...

just smash out the window. no more trapped birdies. all the tupperware: many excuses given by wife or given by you in anticipation of wife's excuses why you should not smash the window. you found an acceptable lid: a reasonable way to resolve the dilemma like a good person. avoid being reasonable or good: smash the window. enclose the bird to release it? sounds like one is trying to satisfy "being good" with the "wild inspiration of free flight." smash the window.
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CL Note: What would the metaphorical implications be of smashing the window? Interesting to think about. Who was it that said "Metaphors are most interesting at the point where they begin to break down?"

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the window may be the place of viewing the outside from the inside, the inside of a house. the house is a kind of place of confinement, a prison of the spirit. the house with windows is a construct within which one confines one's spirit. if there were a door you might just open the door. but there is this window without consideration given to its being opened. you might send away for a glass cutter or shoot a bunch of holes in it with a b-b gun... but right now, with the window creating an inside and an outside for you - a polarity, if you will - - i say just smash it.  

29 Jan 2003 @ 04:22 by swan : Free the hummingbird.
Break the window.
Make the impossible, possible.
Live the joy.  

12 Jul 2007 @ 12:44 by misbah @220.245.180.132 : the dream of a hummingbird
I don't know where all of you are writing from exactly. I am in the Winter time of Australia and I never usually feel compelled to comment...however..
I had the most amazing dream two nights ago that still lingers...
I dreamt of a hummingbird. I was in a tent in a field with my friend and this hummingbird came right up to me and was hovering just in front like a perfumed breeze. It came so close as to kiss me and it did. It kissed me with its wings
and I felt such pure bliss and ecstacy, that I woke up singing its name.
This hummingbird felt so close to me and the feeling of love was so transcendental that I felt its blaze soar through me all day. The feeling hasn't left me despite my meloncholia.  

3 Aug 2007 @ 19:43 by Kez @89.243.15.55 : Hummingbird dreams
I had a dream about a hummingbird flying in the darkness and I was so scared for it. My heart was pounding and I didnt know what to do. I felt a real connection to this little bird and was so afraid it may be harmed. It was extremely vunerable flying in the darkness. I felt torn between allowing it to fly free and rescuing it. I wanted it to be safe and decided to catch it. I held it in my hand and then placed it in a cage where it would be safe. My heart was aching though! It was safe......but trapped and I definitely felt this. Two people approached me and suggested I knew what to do. I did.........I wanted the hummingbird to have its freedom! I was sad and scared but I released the little bird. When I woke I felt so sad and physically ached! It was so real and I knew it was important to me in some way. At the time we were crossing the border from alberta into BC and for days after I saw hummingbird symbols everywhere! What could this mean do you think? I am from Britain and dont really know a lot about hummingbirds, all I know is that the little bird seemed to touch my soul that night and I felt I had real gone through that experience!  

3 Aug 2007 @ 21:29 by craiglang : Interesting about the synchronicities
They were probably telling you something important. Have there been a lot of questions in your life about freedom vs safety? How about motion and/or vulnerability?

One suggestion I have heard - Take a large piece of paper, rule it into 3 columns. On the left side write the narrative of the dream. In the middle, write the symbols as they appear in the nearrative. On the right hand side, record what your intuition dictates about the meaning of the symbols or the scenario. The results can be quite interesting.

Hope this gives you some ideas.
Thanx,
-Craig  

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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
19 Nov 2002 @ 11:23: Troubleshooting
14 Nov 2002 @ 20:00: Remembering Dreams

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