In dreaming...
Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2011
by Tharuna Devchand
I have the strangest dreams. I do. Ever since I was a kid, my dreams would fascinate me. They were always epic; epic adventures, epic romances, epic horror stories and epic real life dramas. In fact, one of the first books that I made my uncle buy for me was a dream dictionary.
I remember glimpses of passed dreams daily during my waking hours, sometimes just a place or something that happened in the dream. Occassionally, because my dreams are so vivid, I confuse them with real life. Some dreams are merely conversations that I have with people in my life, ironing out issues or telling them how I feel and I wake up feeling as if I can tick it off my to-do list. Once I dreamt that I was listening to a cassette that my mother I bought. A few days later, I looked around the entire house for that cassette because I wanted to lend it to a friend... only to find out that my mum had never purchased it.
I had murdered three people. Nobody knew but when I found out what happened, everyone somehow found out. There were no witnesses, and throughout the dream I was battling to find out the truth. Apparently it was in a library and an act of self defence in which I had also saved a friend. He had been shot and had gone for surgery. I had been shot twice on my chest, above and below my heart, but I had healed naturally. That was my truth. Throughout the dream I constantly looked at my chest to see if I had scars to work out whether I had killed these men or whether it was a story that I had fabricated. Initially, I had to deal with the horror of killing someone and towards the end, when I finally accepted it, I had to deal with the fact that it never happened. And I remember wishing in the dream that I had killed those people because there were so many people supporting me.... It was weird. Like a film, it even had a romance subplot where the friend I saved suddenly fell in love with me and bought me a ring.
In another dream that I had a few months ago, I dreamt that I was a suspect to a murder and the question I kept asking myself was whether I had it in me to do that.
I am currently writing an article on dreams for work and there's this Jungian influenced belief that dreams help to make us whole and to heal us. It's a way for the ever-watching unconscious to communicate to us things like our shadow, our potential and where we are in life. It is the closest to our most truest selves that we can get. In fact, I may have just revealed my deepest and most dark secret to you guys and not even know.
According to all three of the dream analyists that I spoke to, dream dictionaries don't help as the associations and symbols in our dreams are personal and based on either our own experiences or our collective human experiences.
Dreamwork is no doubt interesting and many people with untreatable issueshave been helped psychologically using their dreams to guide their psychologists.
Mostly, I use my dreams to write... sometimes they spark a great idea but the concept of trying to understand them seems too arduous a task. Maybe I need to befriend a dream analyst and just let it all out.
I mean, the other night I dreamt that I was on a farm, swinging on a rope hanging from a tree that was next to a fence. The area started to fill up with water and a dolphin swam towards me. The dolphin nudged me and let me feel it and, in a way, spoke to me. Then, I noticed a whole lot of dolphins swimming towards me and I swam to where the fence was and went over it so that I could be away from them....
Riiiight!
Free Willy 27 perhaps?A global warming story?
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Top-level comments on this article: (5 total)Dreams are in many ways an unbreakable Enigma that, as you have said, are Unique to the Beholder. Personal Dreamscape Experiences of my own have taken me far beyond a plateau of stored imaginative material, where today I write with expressive elements through the raw and sometimes haunting details of a dream or nightmare.
Doctors have told me throughout my life that dreams reflect emotions and experiences that I have had - but very rarely what I am going to have - anything from the last couple of hours to a time as far back as infancy. Fascinating as Dreams are and the systematic journey in unravelling ones dreams is, the puzzle in my own opinion will never be solved by any human being.
A great read, Tharuna, and I wish you a very happy and nightmare-free Holiday Season and all the best for the New Year.Thanks:)
I hope you enjoy your festive break. Look forward to reading you again when you get back
As you have so colorfully written the nature and plots of dreams are almost beyond telling. I have also found that when I have sleep troubles, I have more lucid dreaming. It's a whole world of wonder, and you have done a wonderful job describing.Thanks Christofer :)
And I also find that when I have trouble sleeping I have more lucid dreams... hmmmm... Gonna google that noe lol
At night, your astral body travels to realms from angelic to demonic, a spirit world of myriad vibration levels and the pictures you see on the backs of your eyelids, while you R.E.M., are not dreams but visits, souvenirs of a greater reality.
Like a goldfish who never suspects a greater world beyond the ponds surface, the limited awareness of humankind floats beneath the surface of a greater reality, groping, mouth agape in total ignorance.
Dreams are not merely dreams and nightmares are broadcast into our minds by demonics to cement "attachments" to our psyches and energies.
See my article on this site about nightmares and demonics and how to remove "core images".
Paul
At night, your astral body travels to realms from angelic to demonic, a spirit world of myriad vibration levels and the pictures you see on the backs of your eyelids, while you R.E.M., are not dreams but visits, souvenirs of a greater reality.
Like a goldfish who never suspects a greater world beyond the ponds surface, the limited awareness of humankind floats beneath the surface of a greater reality, groping, mouth agape in total ignorance.
Dreams are not merely dreams and nightmares are broadcast into our minds by demonics to cement "attachments" to our psyches and energies.
See my article on this site about nightmares and demonics and how to remove "core images".
Paul
Amazing! I think dreams are about what's under the surface - I mean what we're not conscious of - working it's way up into our consciousness. I've had some that predicted things that happened later. An earthquake where I lived, my father-in-law dying, a family member having a miscarriage...
Mostly I agree, you can't translate them literally or according to anybody else's interpretation. I have these kind of dreams, too, except mine were always about men coming to kill me and me not being able to defend myself!
The water thing, though - I think sometimes it represents deep emotions that are beyond your consciousness but that are rising to the surface. Maybe some part of you (the dolphins) wants to let them rise, but another part of you is scared...I've had a couple prediction dreams but they were never anything huge... More I saw myself in situations and then I found myself in them. But average stuff. Ur prediction dreams seem hectic? How did it make u feel?
This lady told me that other people in ur dreams are reflections of urself... Sometimes men appear as ur male side or anima as they call it. Using that, maybe u are scared of ur own inner masculinity... Scared to stand up and demand what u want or... I don't know... How do u see men? Maybe u feel u would lose who u are if u conquer everyth that u want to? Assuming men are all christopher columbuses:)
And hmmm I like ur dolphin interp.
The prediction dreams are surreal, it's as if a door opens to a part of me I don't even know is there most of the time.
I've always thought of those dreams as being reflective of past experiences of being disempowered by men, or by a male-domineering type of energy. But now that I think some more :) yeah, I you're probably right. Fear of getting into my own power. I was hugely punished as a kid unless I played the nonentity role. It's been a huge mission to unravel that and learn not to be afraid of being in my power. I have a lust to be a Christopher Columbus, hey!
Maybe one of these days I'll dream about those men and I'll take them on. I like that idea.
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