My dream:
I am sitting high atop a mountain, though the mountain itself is only 5-10 storeys high. It's made exclusively of rock and is very ragged with sharp protrusions. It appears to be in a semi-circular shape (like some of the volcanic craters in the Hawaiian islands), as I can see others perched all around me at various elevations and across from where I sit. There were a number of people perched on the rocky formations - perhaps 40 or more.
Suddenly I became aware that a woman wearing a large navy blue, wide-brimmed straw hat (across from my field of vision) is standing. Her hat was so large I could not see her face. And then she was falling. Down, down, down. I didn't allow my eyes to follow the trip down, nor did I peer over to see where or how she had landed. I didn't want to see. I then noticed that the man who had been sitting next to her had stood up, and in the blink of an eye, he dove off - presumably to join her. Down, down, down he went. Again, I averted my gaze.
I sat in shock, afraid to move, feeling the sharpness of the rock against my back and under my legs and bottom. I realized that people all around me were beginning to fall. They were as lemmings, jumping off a cliff, one by one.
At this point I became aware that my children were seated near me, and I covered their eyes and held them tightly against me, lest they see and also follow suit.
I must have awakened after this point, for I don't remember anything further.
Weird.....
I supposed I can take from this that at least I don't feel that I'm a follower. That, in my opinion, is a good thing.
Where are you, Dr. Freud, when I need your dream analysis skills?
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Hi, I just read your comment on my last post at Reader Writing. I have not been a good blogger! I hate that because I love reading a good blog. Yours is so interesting and heart-felt but I feel guilty because it's so personal. I admire that you can write that way. I think that's why I haven't written more - my fear of getting the not-so-pretty stuff in black and white. I have started a hand-written journal, though, and I'm overcoming some of that fear with it. So maybe I'll get back online soon. Anyway, I wanted to share with you some questions I just recently learned that can help understand a dream. A very wise and spiritual friend of mine, with a background in therapy, gave them to me:
1. If I had a title for the dream, what would it be?
2. What feelings are a part of this dream? Sometimes a dream has more to do with the feelings that arise than with the actual details of the dream.
3. What surprises you about it? Is there a "twist" moment?
4. What is the angel figure or messenger?
5. How does this dream relate to what I'm going through in my life now?
Sorry for the XXL comment - just wanted to share that and say thanks for leaving me a comment, too! (BTW just ran for the 1st time in a month! ugh!)
Are you afraid you WILL be a lemming?
THAT is the question.
Signed,
Dream Analyst extraordinaire
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