I've created this thread for posting your dreams. They could be from the previous night, a few nights ago, but try to stick to recent dreams in general. If you would like other people to give a go at interpreting your dreams please say so. Please do not try to interpret someone's dream unless they request it. I will go first.
Last night I had a very peculiar dream and I don't really remember all of it. I think this thread will be good for me because I have a hard time remembering my dreams sometimes, but when I make an effort to record them I remember them. In my dream last night I went off into space. I don't remember what organization sent me but I don't think it was NASA. While I was out there I saw a rocket which I realized my sister was in. She was heading straight for a black hole not too far beyond earth. I didn't understand why she was doing it but I saw her enter and her ship tear into millions of brilliantly bright sparks of light, spreading themselves across galaxies. I almost shed a tear. Somehow I was able to hold onto a video transmission that she left behind. It was very peculiar. It didn't take place in her ship, but back on earth, at least most of it. She was in a few different places in a neighborhood somewhere just talking. She said something about Mrs. Reagan and I wondered if traveling through the black hole had caused some irregularity in space-time that caused her present to also be back in the 80's. At the end of the video I could see her bracing on the side of the ship and, given her heading, it seemed like her entry into the black hole might have been willful.
Her ship looked like one of those nasa rockets. Mine looked a little more like a lander but different, more clunky and sci-fi. There was some sort of satellite that I had to land on. There was a reason I'd been sent into space, a mission. When I landed I saw these odd high-tech-looking spiders crawling about the base. I zapped some of them to clear them away but I saw something that confirmed to me they were birthing themselves out of man-made toxin, it seemed possibly when it came into contact with different types of material. I had some type of light gun or ray gun that I used to clean them off, then I adjusted something on the satellite and returned to earth. I wanted to get that video of my sister to my parents but first I had to inform the organization I was working with about my discovery, and my sister's death.
I landed in a parking lot of a suburban 1-floor office building. There was a wooden fence around the parking lot. The front of the office was glass and there was a meeting room inside. I went in and told them what I saw, showed them my sister's video. They started to discuss it but didn't include me much in that process. So I went to visit my parents and told them about my sister. I remember thinking in my dream about how I would tell my parents. I acknowledged to myself that it might not be good to say it to them right away, that maybe there was a good way to tell them and a bad way, but I felt a need to inform them about her death. I'm not sure if I ever met with my parents. That's about as much of my dream as I remember.
I am puzzling over what this dream might mean. I'm going off into space, into the great unknown, and I see my sister out already and further out than me. She dies. willingly it seems, and that could suggest drastic change. She is graduating from college in a couple of weeks. But it could also suggest a part of myself, a little under the surface, throwing itself into change. Given that I often seem to associate spirituality with women (my mother when I was growing up was more spiritual, my father not) she may represent that given the fact that lately I've been very much wanting to return to the spiritual practices that I've been neglecting. At the same time, myself in the dream, which could represent my ego or that part that I am consciously aware of and would most readily identify as me, is clearing away some sort of toxic creature that is the product of the planet's waste. The planet could represent a totality or Self in which case these are some sort of inner demon, if you will, some stumbling block of my own creation that I am consciously working to clear away. One of the reasons meditation imparticular is something I'd like to return to is because my multitasking abilities and awareness have become so poor. Part of that I think is due to the noise in my apartment from my neighbor. I think that by focusing on holding more in my awareness at a time it will help me, meditating on all of the sensory input at once. My AS diagnosis actually seems to help me understand an experience I had on retreat doing a similar meditation where I had a sudden realization that all of the sensations coming in were in some way the same. I experienced them all as something happening within me, in response to some external stimuli but the experience of those stimuli contained within me. Maybe it was my mind's attempt to simplify the experience and make it less overwhelming.
When I return to earth I go to a meeting and I inform the people at the meeting about what's going on. If those people at the meeting are other parts of myself, they seem to busy themselves to discuss the issue without me as if I'm neglecting the value of my own conscious redirection in my life and relying too heavily on other sources for change.
I don't know what to make of the video. My reaction to my sister's death was to almost shed a tear. Change is not easy. The content of the video itself was so peculiar. I wish I could remember it more clearly. I just realized, if the anima is functioning as a psychopomp and my sister is an image of the anima, myself an image of the ego, then that message is a communication from my unconscious to consciousness. I can't remember what it is though and there seems to be enough "message" without remembering the actual video. If it is important it will, I'm sure, come up again in another dream in different wrappings. I do remember that it seemed like she was in different times at once, like linear time had no application. That may well be a reference to some deeply unconscious part of my Self. There was a really wonderful video I saw on youtube with Buckminster Fuller. One of the things he talked about is replacing "up" and "down" with "out" and "in" since up and down suggest a line whereas out and in suggest a relative change in location from a point of origin. If my consciousness it that point of origin then heading out (i.e. into space) is probably more to do with heading deeper into myself.
I wonder if the toxic spiders were those things more to the surface, more observable. I think if I focus on redirecting certain behavior that may have a more powerful effect overall. When I was reading Reb Kalonymous Kalmish Shapira I was doing that more as it's something he suggests quite frequently, even in indirect ways e.g. if you're about to take a piece of food from a platter, don't pick the one that first catches your eye. Pick a different one.
Feel free to give your own interpretation of my dream if you would like. I think I may use this as a semi-script for my next youtube video.
-- Dauer
Last night I had a very peculiar dream and I don't really remember all of it. I think this thread will be good for me because I have a hard time remembering my dreams sometimes, but when I make an effort to record them I remember them. In my dream last night I went off into space. I don't remember what organization sent me but I don't think it was NASA. While I was out there I saw a rocket which I realized my sister was in. She was heading straight for a black hole not too far beyond earth. I didn't understand why she was doing it but I saw her enter and her ship tear into millions of brilliantly bright sparks of light, spreading themselves across galaxies. I almost shed a tear. Somehow I was able to hold onto a video transmission that she left behind. It was very peculiar. It didn't take place in her ship, but back on earth, at least most of it. She was in a few different places in a neighborhood somewhere just talking. She said something about Mrs. Reagan and I wondered if traveling through the black hole had caused some irregularity in space-time that caused her present to also be back in the 80's. At the end of the video I could see her bracing on the side of the ship and, given her heading, it seemed like her entry into the black hole might have been willful.
Her ship looked like one of those nasa rockets. Mine looked a little more like a lander but different, more clunky and sci-fi. There was some sort of satellite that I had to land on. There was a reason I'd been sent into space, a mission. When I landed I saw these odd high-tech-looking spiders crawling about the base. I zapped some of them to clear them away but I saw something that confirmed to me they were birthing themselves out of man-made toxin, it seemed possibly when it came into contact with different types of material. I had some type of light gun or ray gun that I used to clean them off, then I adjusted something on the satellite and returned to earth. I wanted to get that video of my sister to my parents but first I had to inform the organization I was working with about my discovery, and my sister's death.
I landed in a parking lot of a suburban 1-floor office building. There was a wooden fence around the parking lot. The front of the office was glass and there was a meeting room inside. I went in and told them what I saw, showed them my sister's video. They started to discuss it but didn't include me much in that process. So I went to visit my parents and told them about my sister. I remember thinking in my dream about how I would tell my parents. I acknowledged to myself that it might not be good to say it to them right away, that maybe there was a good way to tell them and a bad way, but I felt a need to inform them about her death. I'm not sure if I ever met with my parents. That's about as much of my dream as I remember.
I am puzzling over what this dream might mean. I'm going off into space, into the great unknown, and I see my sister out already and further out than me. She dies. willingly it seems, and that could suggest drastic change. She is graduating from college in a couple of weeks. But it could also suggest a part of myself, a little under the surface, throwing itself into change. Given that I often seem to associate spirituality with women (my mother when I was growing up was more spiritual, my father not) she may represent that given the fact that lately I've been very much wanting to return to the spiritual practices that I've been neglecting. At the same time, myself in the dream, which could represent my ego or that part that I am consciously aware of and would most readily identify as me, is clearing away some sort of toxic creature that is the product of the planet's waste. The planet could represent a totality or Self in which case these are some sort of inner demon, if you will, some stumbling block of my own creation that I am consciously working to clear away. One of the reasons meditation imparticular is something I'd like to return to is because my multitasking abilities and awareness have become so poor. Part of that I think is due to the noise in my apartment from my neighbor. I think that by focusing on holding more in my awareness at a time it will help me, meditating on all of the sensory input at once. My AS diagnosis actually seems to help me understand an experience I had on retreat doing a similar meditation where I had a sudden realization that all of the sensations coming in were in some way the same. I experienced them all as something happening within me, in response to some external stimuli but the experience of those stimuli contained within me. Maybe it was my mind's attempt to simplify the experience and make it less overwhelming.
When I return to earth I go to a meeting and I inform the people at the meeting about what's going on. If those people at the meeting are other parts of myself, they seem to busy themselves to discuss the issue without me as if I'm neglecting the value of my own conscious redirection in my life and relying too heavily on other sources for change.
I don't know what to make of the video. My reaction to my sister's death was to almost shed a tear. Change is not easy. The content of the video itself was so peculiar. I wish I could remember it more clearly. I just realized, if the anima is functioning as a psychopomp and my sister is an image of the anima, myself an image of the ego, then that message is a communication from my unconscious to consciousness. I can't remember what it is though and there seems to be enough "message" without remembering the actual video. If it is important it will, I'm sure, come up again in another dream in different wrappings. I do remember that it seemed like she was in different times at once, like linear time had no application. That may well be a reference to some deeply unconscious part of my Self. There was a really wonderful video I saw on youtube with Buckminster Fuller. One of the things he talked about is replacing "up" and "down" with "out" and "in" since up and down suggest a line whereas out and in suggest a relative change in location from a point of origin. If my consciousness it that point of origin then heading out (i.e. into space) is probably more to do with heading deeper into myself.
I wonder if the toxic spiders were those things more to the surface, more observable. I think if I focus on redirecting certain behavior that may have a more powerful effect overall. When I was reading Reb Kalonymous Kalmish Shapira I was doing that more as it's something he suggests quite frequently, even in indirect ways e.g. if you're about to take a piece of food from a platter, don't pick the one that first catches your eye. Pick a different one.
Feel free to give your own interpretation of my dream if you would like. I think I may use this as a semi-script for my next youtube video.
-- Dauer
