Starpath, Here it is. She had sent it to me but her email had gone to a spam folder. http://symboldictionary.net/?p=1914
Thanks Jeanne! Tiger-n-Owl I did find the webpage interesting and the whole website has a lot of valuable information about many types of symbols. The tree image on that page looks like it may be from medieval times--or perhaps was styled to look that way. It does look like an oak tree. I wondered around on the website and suddenly had another association come up that seems interesting to me. Trees as symbols have many associations and meanings. I wondered about the tree as symbolizing justice. Almost every town in older times had a hanging tree. This type of justice now seems cruel but it used to be commonplace. I then thought about the Tarot cards and their meanings. I am sure many of the people who read these forums are tarot card readers and already familiar with their meanings. The zero card is The Fool card and for some reason the Hanged Man card seemed to pop into my head. The Hanged Man card is number 12. That card has a man hanging by his ankle from a cross which appears almost like a tree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanged_Man_(Tarot_card)
Wikepedia says hanging people by the ankle was "a common punishment at the time for traitors in Italy" Trump and his weird assortment of Russian loving political campaign workers are well described as traitors in my opinion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_(Tarot_card)
The fool card shows someone about to step off of a cliff. Trump and Barr are possibly about to step off of their own cliff by trying to nullify the Mueller report.
These suggestions are sort of digressions by me but still interesting, hopefully.
I was reading the comments and suggestions above about dreams, in what form they come to us, their meanings and how to remember them and took a few days to think about how it works in my case. Maybe there will be a nugget of something in there that can help someone else. The process for each person is slightly different.
I noticed that my dreams can be grouped into three main categories: processing dreams, dreams to pay attention to and visitation dreams. The processing dreams are the ones where I immediately notice that it has something to do with what I have seen and experienced in waking life. I generally understand what those dreams mean. The dreams to pay attention to are the ones that I asked my subconscious to alert me to when I have them so that I can remember them when I am awake and try to understand them. Usually, I will wake up from such a dream and then I go over the details again mentally so that I can write them down when I get up the next day. I do not always understand these dreams but try to think about them and sometimes something will come up to make sense of them. The visitation dreams only happen a few times a year and those are family members who have passed - generally someone I had a connection with. Those dreams feel very intense and are easy to note. Sometimes they are checking in just to say hi and sometimes they have a message. Those dreams are not easy to forget.
I hope that helps someone and I am fascinated to read about everyone’s experiences in this subject.
Just adding to all the great answers people have listed here to Demeter's original question, What is the point of psychic dreams? Are they just a party trick?
I can't answer for each person and each dream but at the least, these dreams, like the Israeli space launch Demeter mentioned, indicates something that is important enough, Demeter, to your psyche that it sent you something and your conscious mind remembered it.
Your nervous system is always detecting the world around you. What you remember and pay attention to says something about what is both important to you AND what your conscious mind is willing to let you see.
The fact that you had a dream about something that happened a few days later shows that probably (1) your psyche picked up the thoughts of millions of people who had read news stories of the impending launch and (2) your conscious mind decided it would be an okay thing to let you know about.
Your dream was probably more telepathy (reading the group mind of the Collective) than prophecy (reading the future) since the launch was already in the works when you dreamed about it. If you'd dreamed that when they landed on the moon, they discovered something unexpected, then it would be prophecy. It would help to know more about your dream and how you even discovered later that there was a moon landing.
It would be interesting to understand why that launch was important to you.
I have also had dreams that later turns out it is something that is going to happen in the near future. When I have dreams about being pregnant and giving birth I know its some either close to me or someone that I know some how. Just recently I had a dream that I was pregnant and that no one really wanted that baby and that I did not want it but then I had the baby and I was happy. Found out later that my niece is pregnant and she was having second thoughts on having it. She always said she did not want to have kids for a long time. She has come to terms with it and seems happy.
I have also had dreams of planes and they are falling and of course I am in it and feel anxious and scared out of my mind. I have these dreams not alot but I never realized that I am dreaming about soemthing that is going to happen. Before the first 8 Max plane fell, I had a dream of being outside and I see a plane and I said oh look is that the President's Plane and then I said no its Russian it had a word that started with an S. I said to myself that plane is flying too low and its going to touch the trees and then the plane tilts to the left and i see a big ball of fire. I had another dream in February that i was on a plane and it hit a mountain and blew up and then in March the next 8 Max fell. I should keep a journal and write my dreams down.
I recently had a dream of my 5 year old son dying and I saw him in the coffin. I felt nothing toward this dream. I felt calm I was not sad or anything in the dream. Of course I was disturbed by it but I had no feelings that it was my son. My oldest son just told me that at his internship an 8 Year old boy died in a house fire the night before. I dont know if its coincidence.
I dont know why I have to dream of horrible things. This is very disturbing to me. I have other dreams about other people, one of my husband when he went away to visit his family. He went with our oldest son so I was find. What can he get into. Well i had a dream of him and his family hanging out and the guys wanted to introduce him to a young lady. I woke up and did not say anything about it. My mom later in the morning said to me " They tried to get him to talk to someone but he said no" Do you know he is afraid of you and actually I do know. He asked me if I was a witch or something. I have caught him years earlier on something. I never told my mom.
I dont know why I have these dreams. The ones I remember are the ones that really scare me. I recently was a way and we were staying at a house my brother in law bought, I have never been there before. It was a nice house but it had a horrible aura. I was annoyed when I was first there. That night I had a dream with a man who was dead and he had like clown make up. It was weird make up. I dont know how to explain. But he told me he was there for my son soul. He wanted him. I told him he could not take him. He is mine. (There was no TV in the room, so i cant say i probably dreamt it because of a show). How can I stop them. I dont like the dark scary ones. I am tired of being on a plane and scared and panic attacks
I had this dream recently. There are three scenes in the dream. In the first scene I am in a room looking at two framed pictures of someone’s happy family. They have on very garish clothes, makeup and outlandish sunglasses on. They have a very strong individualistic style.
In the next scene I am in a dark hallway following a man who is very uncomfortable for me to be around. He has an aggressive manner and is very large and intimidating because of his size. I fear that if he blocked me I would not be able to get around him. I don’t remember his particular facial features for some reason. I am nervous following him in the dark hallway.
The last part of the dream before I wake up is much longer than the other two scenes, and I wasn’t sure at first that they were all related. After mulling it over for some time I do think there is a relationship.
I am in a small to medium sized town and it feels very rural. There is dead and brown grass everywhere and it looks like there hasn’t been rain for a long time. A man is showing me around the town. The man has a stocky body and thick wavy shoulder length dark hair--no facial hair. He is wearing a tan button-down shirt and possibly dark brown pants with a belt. He feels very practical and like he is in charge of the town. He is very proud as he shows me around. He says, “We have industry everywhere!” I see that but I notice the buildings are older and smallish and everything has a worn-out feeling. There isn’t a homey feel to this town, at least not here. As we pass all of the warehouses and buildings we come to some water which feels like a large river. We keep going and arrive at a rocky place where people are taking part in a strange custom in a sort of depression in the stone so we are looking down on them. Six or seven men and women are standing in a line while another person has a very large needle which is threaded with a thick white thread. A close up of the needle shows it is very sharp and long. The person holding the needle starts poking it through the back of one person’s neck a couple of inches to the side of the spine and out of their open mouth. The other people in line were already treated this way, so that the thread comes out of one person’s mouth and into the neck of the person in front of them and so on, stringing them like they are beads. They are quiet and stand together calmly while they wait for everyone to get “threaded”. As I am seeing this I look at the man questioningly. He looks back at me and says, “It is to prove who is brave. They want to do it.” They seem to shut their mouth around the thread like they want to keep it firmly in place. There is no fear or pain, they seem like they are calm and determined to go through the custom with no show of discomfort. I feel uncomfortable but I try to act calm. I wake up. I have some ideas about this dream but wonder what impressions anyone else might want to suggest.
I was thinking this morning to add another detail to the dream that I forgot last night. I was trying hard to shorten what I had dreamed so the post wasn't too long. The people in the industrial town were shown with some detail in the threading part. They looked very neat and clean-cut in general. The woman doing the threading had what I think of as 80's jeans--sort of high-waisted and tapered. I always thought that the style of dress where I grew up in the 80's was kind of repressed after the 70's period, very clean and neat, a lot of polo shirts and preppy styles. So you could describe their style as conservative and neat. The men had short conservative haircuts and one woman had a long braid and was quite young looking. This does contrast strongly with the first scene with the pictures of the family with the wild clothes and garish sunglasses, which led me to decide that it was intended to be noticed.
I was thinking about Starpaths dream and here are my thoughts. I really like dream analysis - I find it very interesting.
First part with family- felt like free thinking people or creative individuals like us. Maybe they are just watching the next 2 scenes.
Second part with dark hallways and following someone seems like our government in the US (Trump party members). Scary to follow but alas people do follow.
Third part seems like it is ‘middle America’. Worn out factories and buildings. People there remembering the good old times in the 70s and 80s when these areas were doing better. The needle piercing (which would hurt) but they act as though it’s okay and they have to do there part. Kind of like voters in these areas are doing themselves harm but feel they must to get back to the good old days. Especially the preppy clothing style of 80s reminded me of people back then that made money.
Let me know if any of this resonates with you Starpath.
Hope everyone is having a nice spring day.
Tiger-n-Owl your thoughts resonate with me in many areas. I want to say thanks for contributing.
I agree the first image of the smiling but highly individualistic people are those Americans who like you say are creative and free thinking.
I had a different idea of the second scene I will explain later.
I also initially thought the third scene was about middle America because I grew up there and the grassy part of the dream where there are industrial buildings reminded me of home. I think being shown a shoreline and also a rocky place leads me to think that it could be about many parts of America-- including areas around the largest rivers and also those near the Rocky Mountains or the Appalachian areas.
So you bring up people wanting to bring back better times and also that voters may feel they have to do whatever they have to do to get back to those times, even if it is painful. This is true. I agree there was determination to get through difficult times and back to better ones.
I thought more and more about the needle and thread and wondered if that part was more literal like people are getting "strung along" by someone. I also thought about the fact that the people were so similar looking in the town. When I started to write down my thoughts I seemed to get new impressions and this changed some of my ideas. I now think there are many messages in this dream. So I will give you my overall idea of the meaning but there is probably more than that idea.
So I feel like this dream is about the outlook of people who voted for Trump and are conservative Republican voters. The ones in his group of voters who miss when everyone looked and acted the same. You could say those who voted for Trump because they are non-inclusive. Looking at things from their viewpoint, the highly individualistic people may make them uncomfortable and be a threat to their whole way of life.
The large intimidating man actually may represent the large waves of immigrants Trump keeps mentioning. "We have to stop the next large wave" says Trump and his people feel fear. So in the dream I was shown this directly by being put in the dark hallway with a large intimidating stranger.
So when I look at this group of Trump voters, I see they have been strung along by Trump and others to vote for them for this promised return to the past when things were better. In reality they will not get this. But in order to prove they are tough and brave they feel they have to do whatever Trump or Republicans want--but as Tiger-n-Owl says, this will hurt them in the long run. Their determination to have it by excluding others has the effect of making things more depressing, more painful and the only truly happy person there was that man showing me around--he represents the republican politicians. They are benefiting the most. The non-inclusive viewpoint leads to a reality that isn't very pleasant. I think that is the main message but there are lots of potential messages also. So I was asking for ideas and other perspectives because I am sure I missed many other things...
I apologize that I have not read other people's responses yet. I decided to go ahead and give mine and check the others later when I have time.
It's a transpersonal dream of the dystopia that the GOP is leading this country into. It's already here in our society, but I feel we are on the verge of a descent that may have sparked Starpath’s nightmare.
I particularly reacted to the needle scene. Drugs, especially opiates, forced vaccines, conformance, societal pressure coming from the Right wing mind controllers, and your dream shows how horrifying the Donald Trump GOP-driven world really is. It’s not just Donald Trump, but he and the GOP right wing machine epitomize the horror they perpetrate upon people today.
The dream takes place in a god-forsaken place where nature has been destroyed and the feeling is poverty. Appalachia comes to mind.
It's notable that they have succeeded in swaying the poorest of society to follow them. But that's not new. In the past fascist parties have successfully targeted the poor and working class into rallying behind their bate-and-switch promises.
The Handmaiden’s Tale, which I have not watched, came to mind when I started reading it earlier.
Huxley’s Brave New World also also comes to mind.
The dream epitomizes the racist inhumane GOP vision of society. Start with the poor, where your dream seems to take place, and dehumanize them by telling them that the plans set for them prove they are brave. The oil and gas industry, bolstered by FOX, have pitched electric cars as wuss, effeminate cars, not macho enough. Being racist is also pitched as macho. But in fact, what the GOP machine wants is to turn people into automatons. They want to control them.
I feel the society driven by the GOP and corporate American is now descending into the dark. The Mueller Report cover up followed by the monstrous GOP reaction against Trump's critics is their attempt at a coup on democracy. I'm not surprised that you and probably many others are having nightmares like this one. I'm feeling the darkness myself. Although I know there will be an ascent into the light that we will make.
The needle comes from behind and then out of people’s mouths, as if it hits them from behind, unaware, or seems to be a health care remedy, but then controls how people speak and what they have to say. It’s all about control and when the day comes that we have come out of this dark time, people in the future will look back in horror at the world the GOP has created and promoted.
The Kali Yuga period of a patriarchal dark ages. Oh, it’s not just the GOP. It's been building for a century. But they are driving it, driving it, and promoting it. And the drug companies are in collusion with their opiates and medical school bribes, and forced vaccines.