Posted by giveawayboy on November 05, 2002 at 22:30:13:
In Reply to: Dreams... posted by Bob - the Alien on November 05, 2002 at 08:46:26:
: I think that dreams are cool, but I normally don't have one that I feel the need to share.
: Except for last night -- this one was a little off.
: I dreamt that it was xmastime, and we were exchanging gifts. I gave my friend a big lunch box with some bottled water, a half-eaten box of crackers, and a dried out piece of sausage. Even in the dream, I was thinking, "Wow, that was an awful gift."
: So then he gives me his gift -- 35,000 dollars. So in the dream, I feel like the biggest jerk on the planet.
: That's it. It just felt a little freaky because it is so different than my normal self-image. :)
This dream was vivid and strong. I liked it. I am a student of dreams and I see many. I live with dreams. I learn from others' dreams and I really do believe they are telling us something. I won't try and 'interpret' the dream since I don't claim to do that for people, but it seems like a winning ticket and I'd not forget it. I'd keep it in my mind. Sometimes it's like you can filter things or process things w aid of a metaphor or system of metaphors from a dream. Sometimes you can send a dream spiralling like some RNA strand through your waking meditations and it can zip and unzip things and balance out your perspective. To me, the dream reality is the echo or complement to the waking reality. To me one is more active, one more passive, but both necessary and should not be divorced. I think your dream has heavy weight. It is lead and water. Hold it. Also, a dream is merely a dream, a tool, a construct, a plan, a note, something, not everything. a particular, not the all. Yeah! So, there you go. One more thing, I like that you got freaked out by something different than your normal self image. Stripping the layers of self to get empty is a good thing. i learned this through kenosis. it's not that we don't exist, it's that we need to be empty. i think that dream is good in that sense.
later, bill