@liln22 There are a number of viewpoints that could be taken with that dream:
1) It is symbolic and may or may not be transpersonal. Do you have concerns with your mother being distracted by "pretty" or trivial things (wanting to see the stained glass then falling asleep) and not keeping to the necessary tasks at hand (keeping safe)? Or perhaps the figure of your mother represents a collective of people not paying attention to what is immediately important? And the people in the same unit fighting among themselves represent destructive divisions between subgroups of people who generally want the same end goal?
2) Or... is it a more literal past life recollection (interspersed with anachronisms,like the cell phone)?
3) Or... and I've had a few of these... could you be seeing a real scene through someone else's eyes?
If any of these ideas resonates with you, it is most likely the right direction to take with interpretation.
@ana Thanks for your help! I've thought about what you said and it did give some different ways to think about it. I think the overwhelming feeling was we have to stay together and not get distracted-like it was important to keep focus. I can see it as resonating both personally with somethings going on in my family but also how my feelings are for the country. I did find your other suggestions interesting though because even in this dream it had so many details of the building, the stained glass, the layout , and the strangers faces that seemed so realistic and specific. My dreams are usually very colorful, detailed and vivid and I often dismiss them as just dreams. After reading some of the stories here, it has made me wonder about some of them more now.
@liln22 I'm glad I could be helpful. I've come to believe that many dreams are experiences we are having in our astral (or whatever you call it) bodies. I have a lot of dreams where I am helping people, or leading people in some way. I would like to think that maybe I really am being of service on another plane. Maybe you are, too.
And a couple of times I have seen things through another person's viewpoint, then turned on the morning news to see what I just witnessed in a dream .
And then, a lot of my own dreams are probably just my mind taking out the mental trash for the day.
I have been having very vivid dreams... this is where my prophecies come.
In this dream I found myself in a church. There was a coffin. It was a funeral. I had an idea of who was in the coffin but will not reveal it here. Princess Beatrice was speaking. Eugenie was nearby. Fergie was on the outside looking in. They wouldn’t let her in. Then they did and it was scandalous. Everyone was standing up and murmuring.
I left the church and started walking. Clearly I was in England. I started to pass a vestibule for the “Julian line” of the underground. It looked Edwardian or Victorian. Suddenly a large Barred owl blocked my path. I was frightened but it then let me pass. A group behind me was then held up by the bird.
I feel this dream signifies some kind of new beginning for Britain... thoughts?
Hi Everyone, I wonder if you have any tried-and-true methods for remembering dreams. I’ve dreamt always “in technicolor” and they’re similar to watching a movie. Very complex settings and lots people, etc, often people I don’t know. This year, however, I haven’t been able to remember my dreams except rarely. I’ve tried putting crystals nearby and under my pillow, but it doesn’t help. Thanks for any suggestions!
@coyote I agree w others, your book idea resonates w me as well. I loved teaching incoming ninth graders about the Heroic Journey and how all of us embark on these journeys regularly. Yours involves your health every day. Keep going! Because your shared experience is helpful to others as it is to your hero self.
P.s. after a recent meditation circle, someone asked about earthangel and I couldn’t remember then that after it popped up in my head (when I signed on to the forum) and I looked it up, the meaning is light worker. I’ve never thought of myself as a strong statuesque lighthouse for others, but I do like to think my optimistic self is a light worker who encourages resiliency during our many storms in life. And as you battle daunting physical ailments, you are a light worker also bc your words and experiences soothe, inspire, and encourage others. Thank you, Coyote ?
While many on this forum have been having trouble sleeping the past few nights, I've actually slept well and had some very vivid dreams. Last night I had a very strange dream that involved tRump, but only at the end. I'm not sure it's a premonitory dream like many have had about the guy, otherwise I might have posted this in another thread. I usually don't dream about politics. In the past, I have had the occasional premonitory dream, but it is usually about something small and seemingly inconsequential. I'll dream about someone I haven't seen or heard from in a while and out of the blue I'll see or hear from them the next day, or I'll see something related to a dream in my real life the next day.
So I'll describe my personal dreams before I get to the tRump part. On Thursday night, I dreamed that my Dad (who passed away in 2009) was at my childhood home digging deep ditches near the driveway and dirt road coming into our house. There was water trickling through from the direction of the house. I turned and looked in that direction and a whole flood of water was coming toward the ditch. Then I was talking with my Dad and he had built an artisan well on the other side of the yard. There was a barrel with three pipes coming out the top with water flowing out. In real life, after my Mom remarried, she did something that went against my Dad's wishes to please her new husband. It greatly upset me and my Sister. My sister handled it better, but it has had a very profound and negative affect on me. I've frequently asked my Dad's assistance (from the other side) to help right things, as my Mom has failed to even so much as apologize for the hurt her decision caused. I took the dream as a very positive indication that my Dad is helping to fix things, and I took the flowing water as a good sign that things may finally be moving to right this wrong.
So last night, started out as kind of a continuation of that dream. Somehow I was in an alternate reality (or perhaps the spirit world), and while I don't remember the details about this part of the dream, I received confirmation from my Dad that he is helping. Then I run into my Sister, but she's an alternative reality version of my sister. We both acknowledge this in the dream, but still realize our connection. We start running down some stairs. I don't know if we're running away from something or toward something, though I think I knew in the dream. We run through some corridors and hallways. I have to stop or turn around for a moment (perhaps I forgot something or needed to tie my shoe) and my sister keeps going is way ahead of my and out of sight. Then I'm in some kind of room with scientists and computer monitors. There's a garage door that opens onto a field. An alien spacecraft descends on the field. You don't see the spaceship, just light coming down in the fog. There is a crowd of people hailing the arrival of the ship with excitement. And who should walk out of the ship to greet the crowd? It's our current IMPOTUS in Chief. I can see it, but I don't know if the crowd sees him or an alien, but they cheer him on. Then he plans to leave again in the ship, but promises to e-mail the scientists from space. I see the light from the spaceship going up again through the fog. It comes back down again briefly and lands behind a tree in the distance. The crowd dispersing along the road starts to converge on the ship again, but it leaves before they get there.
I feel the first part of the dream was again confirmation that my Dad is helping my personal family situation from the other side. The tRump / alien part was truly bizarre.
@earthangel Try a mugwort pillow. Put some mugwort (at least an ounce or so) in a cloth bag and slip it inside your pillowcase. Prepare yourself for some vivid and wild dreams! When my kids were young (elementary school age) we made mugwort pillows. We had lots of interesting dreams and shared them with each other each day. Their dad did not believe us, so the kids put a mugwort pillow into his pillowcase one night and didn’t tell him about it. The next morning at breakfast he spent several minutes describing a wild and crazy dream that he had. The kids just cracked up laughing and told him what they had done. They made a believer out of him.
Wow! Lots and lots of wild and fun dreams! I spent decades analyzing dreams--my own and others as many of mine did involve Astral travel or were prophetic.
I learned over the years that almost all dreams that involve family members, friends, your pets (here now or over the rainbow bridge already) are our subconscious working on our shadow selves (the dark side of all of us projecting outwardly into our created realities, (people we can't stand etc.) Shadows sides includeof of the very worse of all things and emotions (bigotry, racism, narcissistic and other personalities) .
Basically, everyone and everything that we truly believe we are not and never could be. Hard to imagine much less people for almost all of us I know but this is what also makes up part of our alternate realities and past lives.
This is a lot to consider much less understand but part of all of us that seeks to truly heal (ourselves orcas energy or shamanic etc healers seeking to help others' journey.
What has been your journey to getvto where you see your as now?
What intrigues you? What do you identify with? What movies do you most like to watch or books to read?
These can lead you to your sacred archetypes . We often carry 12 . Carolyn Myss and other presentient/healers/mystics write about the shadow selves, archetypal subconscious etc.
If our dreams are silly or frivolous or quirky or the opposite things like worrisome or fearful thats often you working on yourself in the subconscious fields of dream time.
I love all of this stuff, light, dark, filled with depth or quirky fun. We have so much to truly explore and learn about ourselves in this perception of a lifetime and so much growth and evolution to experience right up to our very end of whatever our end might truly be!
Really think about the Wizard of Oz and its allegorical journey. We are all on one.
Some of us have just been blessed/curses with deeper often thought of as greater and more challenging ones.
And of course our dear @Coyote is one of this sacred tribes.
Blessings to you Coyote on your newest journey! And interesting dreams to all of you!
Keep sharing. We all have much to teach. We all have much to learn but most of all, we all have a purpose here with much to share!
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