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does anyone have a dream that they would like analyzed? i have someone who needs one.............
post it here! in detail.
thanks
jade
Butterfly
11-03-2002, 22:50
Hi Jade, I really wouldn't post this- it's a superficial dream, but just a few hours I put a request out to the universe that I'd love to know the meaning of this dream. I'm sure it has more meaning...
Anyway, my parents won this amazing fabulous penthouse at the top of a building. It was completely opulent and luxurious- like nothing I had ever seen. I was just so happy for them and for all of us. I knew it meant the end of all of our worries and cares, that life would just be a bed of roses. There was enough room for my parents, my family and my sisters family all to live- in such staggering luxury! I kept thinking, great this is a major area of our life we can forget about, now I can just concentrate on what is really important. The penthouse was quite full of people when Mum showed me around- butler, doorman, cooks, people just touring through the house.
Now, I'm sure the dream can't be that superficial- surely it's about something, some important message I'm meant to get. Especially with your request coming just a couple of hours after I asked for help!
purplelady
12-03-2002, 16:07
Jade, your post has me confused. Is there someone who needs a dream analyzed but hasn't posted it here? Is it Butterfly's dream? Or do you want someone to post a dream so you or someone else can analyze it?
Butterfly , your dream sounds wonderful!
isthmus nekoi
12-03-2002, 16:40
Hi Butterfly,
That does sound like a lovely dream!
There's the whole wish fufillment angle which is pretty obvious, but like you said, there's probably more to that.
A penthouse is significant. Buildings are a conscious human construction, architecture as the psyche's structure concretized. (This may sound very hokey, but just recently, my friend was telling me that there were ideas for putting Toronto's subsidized housing *underground* - how awful! Talk about repression!) Obviously penthouse appts are not archtypal images but the idea of a tall building is - 2 things come to mind; a sort of 'high' consciousness and pent-house - which reminds me of pentacles/wealth. Maybe this is something you are actively trying to construct in your life. A penthouse doesn't necessarily mean financial security. ie Rider Waite's 10 of Pentacles and its connection to the Tree of Life...
Obviously there is more to dreams than we can ever understand - so meanings are never the end of the story when it comes to dreams... Dreams come and go and images evolve. To get a 'meaning' out of things, it's helpful to look for over-arching themes etc.
Hope this helps.
Originally posted by purplelady
Jade, your post has me confused. Is there someone who needs a dream analyzed but hasn't posted it here? Is it Butterfly's dream? Or do you want someone to post a dream so you or someone else can analyze it?
Butterfly , your dream sounds wonderful!
yes, i'm attempting to get a dream from someone because it is needed for a dream analyzer....on a magazine...........i sent a copy of butterfly's dream to see if they want it and if they do, then i'll ask her if she wants to donate it (so to say) to have it analyzed.
i was in a real hurry when i posted this,........sorry.
so anyone with any dreams that they need analyzed....cause we also have the talented isthmus nekoi to interpret. (i'm a big fan!)
in light,
jade
Butterfly
12-03-2002, 23:30
Do what you like with my dream, Jade.
I should also mention that this dream obviously has a deeper meaning, because I still have an overwhelming feeling of peace and faith since I had it.
I had another very vivid dream, where I was in a large pool in the middle of a shopping centre. There were lot's of dolphins swimming around and people were yelling at me to get out because it was dangerous. A dolphin swam up to me and was letting me touch it. It said to me that they could never hurt me because I am one of them.
It's funny how my most vivid dreams always seem a little cliched or cringeworthy..........
thanks butterfly!
did you get my email? :)
in light,
jade
isthmus nekoi
13-03-2002, 17:27
Thanks, jade! I'm very flattered, although I should mention that I am really a beginner when it comes to Jungian theory, history of archetypes, psychoanalysis etc. ^_^
If you need dreams that ppl have made public, try this page:
http://tcup.currentform.com although maybe you could ask the webmaster about using the dreams... Not sure if there are any policies about the site...
It's by a Flash designer. You can read a whole bunch of dreams and you click through in a non-linear fashion via keywords. Hm. That doesn't make much sense. Thankfully, the explanation is all there. You can also log in and add your dream to the collective.
okay, here's a weird snippet for you> I have half a dozen owls in my icebox/freezer. They live there and I have to find water for them - they're like plants with their talons in the dirt. :P I have my own ideas about this, but open to other interpretations!
You have a very wealthy dreamscape, Butterfly! First a penthouse now a mall :P As for lingering feelings - dreams have a way of reestablishing unity in the psyche. It's a sort of psychic homeostasis.
no, i was looking for someone more personal to me rather than a stranger.....that's why i came here!!!
love
jade
Butterfly
13-03-2002, 18:28
Originally posted by isthmus nekoi
As for lingering feelings - dreams have a way of reestablishing unity in the psyche. It's a sort of psychic homeostasis.
what a fantastic way of putting it, Isthmus! That is exactly right- it's restored my sense of peace and abundance.
It's funny- in all of my years of studying psychology at uni- we never once learnt about dreams- only in the neurological sense- brainwaves and such. How much more effective as counselors would we be if we had learnt about using them in therapy!
isthmus nekoi
14-03-2002, 15:29
Butterfly> I studied psychology in my first year, and had a similar experience - almost *nothing* on dreams. I think Jung was mentioned once or twice although there was a whole chapter on Freud! rrrrrr Don't get me wrong, I loved psy but it has its blindspots! Like having to take a boring stats course. I'd probably be a psy major if it weren't for the horror of having to sit through a year of stats :P
Butterfly
14-03-2002, 18:40
Well, I did ten years of stats for my degrees. Urk! We did do Jung, but they did it in such a dry boring manner, most people wouldn't know just how amazing he was. And definitely not how influential he is!
Jeanette
17-03-2002, 07:44
Here's another dream for you, Jade, and you may do whatever you please with it. I dreamt that I was outside, on my back patio. I have a square planter there (it's fairly large). When I looked into it, there were three little kittens, nestled in cabbage leaves, with the cutest little faces! Two of them were orange tabby colored, but I can't remember about the other one. In the dream, I think the mother was over in the woods and not too happy that I discovered her babies, but nothing bad happened. I made a fuss over the kittens, and may have picked one up, but I'm pretty sure I put it back. Then I woke up! I do have two cats, and one is the offspring of the first. We've just made an appointment to have it neutered, because I don't want any more kittens coming around! Maybe subconsciously I was thinking what was going to happen if I wait much longer? More kittens?
hey, i'll send it on. butterfly's dream will be in the magazine :)
so i'll post when it's published and online.
in light,
jade :)
Ahhhhh, Dreamscapes,
Fantasies for the mind,
food for the soul.
Has anyone ever met someone who has never had a dream?
Has anyone ever met someone who's dreams are wrapped in cycles?
Always questions........
jeanette, you are the june issue dream!
mystic,
my husband says that he never dreams although i think he just doesn't remember them. but then again, he can sit and just 'not think' for hours.
weird.
jade
ps hi mystic..........i see you've shined your armour, i hope it was for me! :D
Not dreaming is not possible I believe, but 'not thinking' is !
It's very hard to do, try it, empty your head and not think. Can't remember which sort bhuddism it was that did this in meditation.
Kaz
Butterfly
18-03-2002, 16:37
Everyone has dreams, they have found that if you stop a person from dreaming they will become extremely ill- physically, but especially mentally. That is just after a night or two withoout dreams.
Butterfly: Great dreams, for all the reasons Isthmus mentioned!
Isthmus Nekoi: Very masterful interpretation & understanding; I am very impressed!
Jeanette: Agree with your take on your dream. It is a very poetic treatment of the theme of being inundated with kittens :)
For some reason, it reminds me of the original Star Trek series' episode "The Trouble with Tribbles".
isthmus nekoi
20-03-2002, 14:14
mystic> I've met a number of ppl who say they don't dream but I don't believe them :P I think they just forget them!! Actually, I had a friend who told me he didn't dream. But then I got him into tarot/kept talking about dreams and he started to remember some - empirical evidence that ppl just forget! :P Actually, I have another anecdotal observation: I part time at an animation art school and I find in general, artists remember their dreams easier. Perhaps b/c dreaming is such a visual phenomenon?
MeeWah> Thanks!! ^_^
Malachite
20-03-2002, 14:35
Ah, but isthmus nekoi....does it matter if you actually have dreams, if you can;t remember them?...
its like....a tree falling in the forest...
:)
isthmus nekoi
25-03-2002, 14:06
Malachite> of course you know I would reply yes :D
Actually... now that you mention it, dreams must have some important function, or else why would we have evolved to have dreams? Nature does some kooky and often redundant things with design, but it's usually there for a reason. I read something about platypuses - b/c of they are monotremes exhibiting mammalian and reptilian traits, they shed light on the development of dreaming... So it's like... the evolution of the ability to dream is maybe related to consciousness or something...
The article I was talking about is here - it's pretty interesting:
http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1999/08/16/52.asp