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reading in dreams

2006-01-13T08:58:56Z

Has anyone had this experience?

I was in a library, and there was a book on the shelf that got my attention. On the binding looked like Hebrew or Arabic charectors in gold leaf. I couldn't read them; I knew I couldn't. But I knew that the letters said it was a holy book of some sort. I knew this as if they had said "Bible" or "Koran" or "Tao te Ching" in English, as if I was reading Hebrew or Arabic.

So I took it down the book, and opened it up randomly. The black marks on the page at first looked again like Hebrew, but they moved and scrambled around and re-arranged themselves in front of my eyes, and suddenly I was reading English. (anyone remember the cartoon about ants and musical notes?) But I wasn't really reading, because I couldn't focus on the words; they wouldn't hold still. But I "knew" what they were saying. I dont' remember what it was, but I do recall it was the message I was hoping to wake up with.

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Dream Journal

2006-01-13T08:56:20Z

Do any of you keep a dream journal?

When I remember dreams nowadays, they go into my normal journal, but I have several dedicated dream journals from years past when my dreams were vivid enough and often enough that they filled their own journals. I remember at the time not understanding what my dreams ment, but now when I read through them again it is painfully obvious to me what my dreams were telling me.

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A recent dream

2006-01-11T04:25:26Z

A day or two ago the phone woke me up just a bit before the alarm was going to go off- As such, I got to remember a piece of this dream which I probably would have forgotten otherwise: I was standing in front of my dresser, looking in the mirror I bought from Ikea a few weeks ago (Ikea, woot!). Everything totally normal, so much so that when the phone woke me up I was a bit confused about whether it had really happened. Anyway, I'm looking in the mirror and pulling long needles out of my lips- they're pinning my mouth closed. There's no pain or even fear, I'm just Ho-Humming and unpinning my mouth. I really, really love when I can remember my dreams! Anyone have interpretations for me? There's the obvious communication theme, although I think there must be something else here, as I don't feel like I have a lot of difficulty expressing myself and I don't have any horrible secrets to keep or anything like that. What do you think?

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Mapping out your dream landscape

2006-01-04T01:23:27Z

Over the years I've had many recurring dreams set in the same or similar places such as my high school (argh), places in SF and myriad surreal/fantasy settings. Occasionally a dream in one location will transition to another one, usually through my dream self finding some sort of passageway that leads to a completely different place. For example, the dream version of my high school is a byzantine nightmare of dim passageways and staircases. Every now and then I'll come across a ramp which starts underneath the auditorium and spirals downwards. The impression I have here is interesting by itself, I feel like I'm winding my way inside the spiral of a snail shell, or the inner ear- ANYWAY, the spiral ends up dropping me off in San Francisco, a twisty street version sort of reminicent of Lombard. I've found a bunch of places like this that transition one dream into a different one, and they always work the same way and go to the same places. This makes me think that maybe my whole dream universe has its own topography. Anyone else have a similar experience? Has anyone made a map?

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Help interpret dream

2005-12-24T22:48:55Z

I'm curious what you may think about a recurring dream I think I've solved....
Since a little girl, I've had recurring dreams, all similar in nature. They all take me 'down' to somewhere dark (holes in the ground, basements, staircases that keep going down, etc.) and there's always something extremely frightning down 'there' that terrorizes me to the point of waking me up with severe panic and/or screaming. I remember my first one. I was very young and the dream stood out from my 'normal' dreams I had as a kid. I'm walking down a dusty path and I see a cabin on a hill. I go inside and find a small hallway that bends and turns (this is also a common theme, hallways...like a maze of hidden rooms or passageways) and then there's a hole right in the floor. I went down and I can't remember what happened. I blocked a lot of these from my childhood since they were so disturbing. I used to wake the entire household screaming and I'd never know about it until the next day. I recently had another similar dream. I can't recall the details but this time I had a realization that these dreams are probably a symbol of myself....what I mean by that is when I'm going 'down' somewhere it's just going deeper inside 'of me' and my fear is 'myself'. I had a psychic tell me that once but it didn't make any sense. I guess it still doesn't but at least I think I have these recurring dreams figured out. I haven't shared them with anyone in the past but I thought I might get some creative thoughts here. Oh, one odd thing...every time I'd have one of these, they would usually wake me up about the same time at night regardless of when I went to bed.

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Movies that are like dreams?

2005-12-17T04:50:44Z

- Brazil
- City of Lost Children

(Actually, they both had a nightmare quality to them). I watched each of them the first time late at night and fell asleep immediately after they ended and couldn't figure out the next day whether I had dreamt about them during the night or I had really truly been watching a movie. Anyone else have votes for movies that are like dreams (or nightmares)?

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Dreaming about past addictions

2005-12-06T16:44:47Z

Hi All! Lately, I have been dreaming about past addictions. Mostly old eating disorder stuff, like I am starving and on a treadmill and can't get off no matter how hard I try and feel that I am going to pass out any moment, or alcohol related, like I grab a glass of wine and start drinking it, get totally wasted, and then think, "Oh my god, what have I just done?" Has anyone else experienced this and do you have any idea what it could mean?

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I love yous

2005-02-05T09:58:11Z

I stayed up way too late last night for how early I woke up, so I took a nap late in the afternoon. I haven't been able to remember my dreams lately even though I know I've been an active dreamer.

So it was really exciting to remember my dream from this afternoon in which my lover had put together a collage, or maybe created a bunch of different cards for me that said "I love you" in as many different languages as possible.

Only thing is that in the dream, he had printed up imagery he had found on the internet, so even though he thought what he was printing up and making love notes for me that said "I love you", it often said something else instead. I just can't remember what it said instead. I was trying to sound out one in particular - it was written in either Greek or Russian - and figure out what it said when my alarm went off and woke me up.

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How to approach dream therapy

2005-02-03T04:40:11Z

I guess I could pose this question differently: What is the difference between dream therapy and psychoanalyses?

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intro

2004-10-05T03:03:55Z

Hi. Just joined. I'm a big fan of dreams and work with them a lot, in a post-Jungian sort of way. Looking forward to being here.

I'll just share a dream fragment for now-there was a hole in the ground and a brown and orange snake poked its head out at me.

and I'll share one of my favorite books-Inner Work by Robert Johnson. in it is a great and easy method for interpreting your own dreams.

You basically go through all the images and find
personal associations
archetypal amplifications
then you tie them together and you'd be amazed at how relevant it all is.

glad to be here!

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Welcome all members

2004-09-04T16:59:52Z

I see we have some new squirrels in the tree! Let's always be open and welcome each other.

DARE TO SHARE
FOR THOSE WHO
CARE ARE THERE
FOR YOU AND
HERE IS WHERE
THERE IS!

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Lucid Dreaming

2004-08-07T20:14:25Z

What is it to you and have you ever experienced it?

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Fun with numbers

2004-08-05T23:00:51Z

I keep having a highly amusing dream (last night and when I took a nap this afternoon) in which I am seemingly self aware of my sleeping position and keep relating it to numbers, giving the way I curl or not in my sleep psychological insight into my personality and current feelings.

I am very fond of numerology, so the dreams feel very significant to me given that I continued the same dream once I went back to sleep as well as the fact that at least one of the same numbers reappeared the second time I slept.

The first number I remember is 6, in which my mind pointed out to me that I had my legs curled in towards myself, held by my arms, forming a little ball attached to the stem of my upper body as it arched towards my legs. The second number was 1, in which my dream self noted that by sleeping self stretched out rigidly on it's belly with arms at the side, the body asking in dream meaning to stand alone, undisturbed while sleeping.

After that, the number 2 revealed itself and the accomodating form the body takes which is particularly suited to spooning with another.

I thought I dreamt of more numbers in my sleep when I woke up this morning, but I couldn't remember their actual form. When I fell back asleep for my nap, I re-entered the dream at 6, but this time remember 4 and 7, but no particular associations come to mind at the moment about this part of the dream, just the self awareness that I was sleeping in the shape of each number.

To form a 4, I slept on my side with by hands drawn up to my chest, the elbows of my parrellel arms out to form the a triangle for the 4. At the same time I had one leg striaght and the other bent, forming an additional upside down 4 that met with the 4 of my upper body at my waist. To form a 7 I lay straight on my belly with one arm sticking out perpendicular to my body while my head faced the opposite way.

Who knows if I actually slept in any of those poses outside of my dream self-awareness. I do wonder at the absence of the 3, as I figured after waking that the double 4 could also be an 8, the 2 could be a 5, and the 6 could also be a 9. I left out all the details of the imagery surrounding each number, which are more of a fog of emotions and flashes of imagery that are personal to me rather than the universal associations typically given to each number in numerology - though some of that existed in the dream as well.

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night terrors?

2004-07-20T19:52:04Z

can someone please point me towards some sites, books, whatever regarding "night terrors?" i have heard they are very uncommon in adults, that they are something you "grow out of." any info or experience with the subject is greatly appreciated. thanks ahead of time,
Jess

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Dreaming?

2004-07-04T15:10:06Z

I've had several very active dreaming nights in a row where I might actually be awake but still dreaming or maybe I'm awake enough while still dreaming to ponder my dreams while I'm having them and ask questions and change the direction of the dream to go where my thoughts go. It's sort of a sleep/dream/wake up/notice the dream/think about it/fall back asleep/wake up again pattern. It's a bit like when I don't want to wake up in the morning and can't tell if I'm still dreaming or I've actually gotten my ass out of bed for real and everything seems disorienting and foreign. Only instead of it happening in the morning, it's been happening in the middle of the night.

Just thought I'd share. I don't really have a question, but perhaps someone will have a comment.

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cheese, but true!

2004-07-02T16:30:55Z

Many years ago, during a terrible desert war in the Middle East, a spy was captured and sentenced to death by a wise old Persian warlord. Despite the harsh sentence, the warlord was actually a man of mercy and compassion.

Over the years he had adopted a strange custom. In death penalty cases, he would allow the condemned a choice of a quick death by firing squad or take his chances by passing through a mysterious black door.
As the moment of execution drew near, the warlord ordered the frightened spy brought before him. "What have you chosen? Will it be the firing squad or the black door?" It was a terrible decision for the prisoner to make. Each time he moved close to the massive black door, his trembling hand stopped short of the key.

Finally he informed the warlord that he much preferred the firing squad to the unknown horrors that might lurk in the shadows behind that mysterious black door.

A few minutes later, a volley of rifle shots signaled that the sentence had been carried out. The old warlord, gazing off to the distant horizon, turned to his aide and said, "You see how it is with people; they will always prefer the known to the unknown. That man went quietly to his death even though I gave him a choice.."
The aide asked, "What lies behind the black door?"

"Freedom", replied the warlord, "and I've known very few men brave enough to take it."

~Author Unknown~

Taken from a post from The Universal library. One of many great sites for sight.

JJ

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If you could chose a theme

2004-06-17T22:58:52Z

If you could choose a theme
for this night's dream
whatever would it be?

Would you fly across the sky
Or sail on purple seas.

Perhaps you'd be a king or queen
or painted colors red and green
caress a phantom lover like a pet?

Whatever stage or time or place
remember once to see your face
within a mirror in your dream
like fire and water causing steam
propells you nearer from afar
unto the place of who you are.

JJ

6-12-2006

((999))

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now is a huge time for dreams

2004-06-17T00:51:18Z

We've some new members, but noone's up for sharing, eh? Tonight with the full moon, we dream with the scorpion, let us find a transmutation if that's what we seek, or let us hide, and continue on always within the folds of false security being what we always have been. The scorpion in deep folds of emotion makes us face ourselves and our greatest power source; the well of all magic and all that can manifest within and thusly without.

Blessings,

JJ

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5 Elements & Dreams

2004-05-17T06:09:12Z

Hi! New to this tribe and wondering if anyone here is familiar with the 5 chinese elements and their correlation to dreams. I've been reading a book on traditional Chinese acupuncture and it mentions that what you dream about gives clues about your overall health.

Dreams of seeing mushrooms, laying under a tree, trees in mountain forest, engaging in fights or battles, or that one cuts open their own body correlates to imbalance in the wood elelment.

Looking for fire in a dream, dreaming of blazes, easily laughing or being afraid, or hills & mountains in ones dream point to an imbalance in the fire element.

A deficiency in the Earth element would perhaps lead to dreams about lack of food, of putting up buildings and walls, of chanting, playing music, of a heavy body and difficulty in rising, the appearance of ruined buildings, storms, or hills and marshes.

Fright, crying, soaring through the air, seeing strange objects made of metal, fields, rural landscapes, and the cruel killing of people all relate to metal.

Water is of course associated with dreams about ships, drowning, laying in the water & being frightened. The sensation of the back and waist being split apart, or approaching a ravine also correlate to water.

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simplest truth, hardest reality

2004-05-09T19:07:06Z

"Your emotions are your indicators of your summoning and allowing. Strong emotion on either end means you are summing a lot of energy. Mild emotion in the middle means you are summoning less energy. The elation/contentment side means you are allowing the flow. The frustration/anger side means you are not allowing it to flow. Strong summoning of emotion on the frustration/anger side means you are creating a lot of what you don't want. Strong emotion on the elation side means you are actively creating what you do want."

"Those who want everything to be simple enough that they can put a label on it, will be uncomfortable in your unrealistic joy because they think your joy is only realistic or justified when you have the evidence to support it."

Abraham-Hicks - Chicago, IL. July 11-12, 1998

Thought I'd throw in some favorite quotes to stir the pot a bit!

bLESSINGs!

JJ

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FRAMEWORX

2004-05-08T23:21:36Z

Often fears down deep inside
are where the goblins tend to hide.
They guard the gateway for their master;
The one who pines for your disaster.

JJ

5-08-04

Soooooooo.

I'm back from vacay, sorry to say, and I see it's high time to kick off this tribe. The theme of this start is antagonism versus protaganism. Which position do you find yourself in? Think in the terms of a story. While physical items, colors, smells, scenes and the like are all important in and of themselves, they are truly key as they relate to the characters in play.

how
when
where
what
who
and finally, why?

Here's my first relation:

I often find myself being chased thru a building that seems like a stadium/dorm building/library. Stairwells play a large theme. I'm always hiding behind them, sweating and climbing relentlessly or recklessly decsending, jumping from floor to rail and swinging around corners and poles. Concrete, metal and industrial carpets make up the scene. I must be at a school or large public structure, for I sense other people have been there and will be there again. During this dream it is vacant, or the others around seem dis-interested. There's a dark, bearded form chasing me, so I'm the protaganist to an extreme, for I'm defending and escaping. Then there's the flip side of the coin. Did I summon this ghoul, or does it represent some character of mankind in general resting outside my control, perhaps striving to contend my successes in learning something? I've come to realize that I was very irresponsible in my early college career. I feel this is a fear I've summoned thru my past actions, so I'm also the antagonist. At this same place I often learn lessons in dreamworks--and I often find my ex lovers-therein. Perhaps this is a sort of prison ;)!

This talking about dreams stuff is not always easy.

Blessings,

JJ

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Dream Therapy's topics - tribe.net

reading in dreams

Dream Journal

A recent dream

Mapping out your dream landscape

Help interpret dream

Movies that are like dreams?

Dreaming about past addictions

I love yous

How to approach dream *therapy*

intro

Welcome all members

Lucid Dreaming

Fun with numbers

night terrors?

Dreaming?

cheese, but true!

If you could chose a theme

now is a huge time for dreams

5 Elements & Dreams

simplest truth, hardest reality

FRAMEWORX

How to approach dream therapy