Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Inception

Can't remember hardly any of this dream, but I woke up crying. I had a dream inside a dream, and in the deeper dream (really, a nightmare), I was in a sort of state of sleep paralysis. Someone was near me and I was sluggishly begging them to shake me awake so I could wake up fully, because I kept slipping back into the nightmare.

The primary dream I can't remember either, but I remember that some girl had been murdered and put in a dark basement, dropped from a chute in the ceiling.

I also dreamed of the phone call I've been dreading, from a woman about a job saying that I didn't get it. She laughed at my audacity (for something I'd done) and said I didn't get the job. "Thanks for wasting my time," she spit out.

Some interpretations:


To dream that you are dreaming, signifies your emotional state. You are excessively worried and fearful about a situation or circumstance that you are going through. Dreaming that you are dreaming also serves as a layer of protection from what you are feeling. The dream within a dream allows you to experience certain difficult feelings that may otherwise be too painful to confront if you were directly dreaming the scenario.

Symbolically, dreaming that you are paralyzed means you are feeling helpless or pinned down in some aspects or circumstances of your waking life. You may feel unable to deal with a situation or change anything.

To see the dead in your dream, forewarns that you are being influenced by negative people and are hanging around the wrong crowd.

To dream that you are in a basement, symbolizes your unconscious mind and intuition. The appearance of the basement is an indication of your unconscious state of mind and level of satisfaction. It represents primal urges, animalistic desires and basic needs. Basements are also where our negative feelings reside.

To see a girl in your dream, represents your playful, innocent, and childlike nature.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Underwater World and the Dual-purpose Forest

This is some kind of connected dream, or 2 dreams that somehow involve each other.

The dream(s) began at the edge of my grandfather's man-made pond. There at the edge, someone was telling me that there was a place deep below the surface and that if I made it there, there was a way to survive being underwater and breathing. It was very very deep below, they said, and many people did not survive the travel. I can't remember who it was that was telling me, but I feel like it may have been a mer-person. So I jumped in, and down, down, down I went.

I remember I could breathe in the water in but only in very short bursts. While there was water around my mouth, when I breathed in just a little, it was air that filled my lungs. I swam deeper. The travel from the surface to the land was blurred and I can barely remember getting there at all. But finally I arrived. And I was in some kind of building. My breathing remained erratic, but sustainable. I went through locker rooms, where some people were naked for whatever reason. There was a bakery in the building as well. There is something I'm not quite grasping here... but it's on the tip of my tongue.. I was looking for something... but I don't know what.

Flash to another dream where me and a friend, whoever that may be, went into someones back yard, where they had some woods. There was a huge hill that went pretty far down until it leveled off so if i looked up back at their house it was probably 2 acres away and rather high up. There, in the ravine/woods, I had previously found some type of cute animal and I wanted to show my friend, so we were sort of trespassing to see it. I found a baby bear; it was off-white though, like a polar bear, but I think it was supposed to be a brown bear, so perhaps it was leucistic (Leucism is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans. Unlike albinism, it is caused by a reduction in all types of skin pigment, not just melanin. Typically the eyes retain their color.)

It was shy, but still very cute. The mother wasn't in sight, but she must have been around somewhere because the baby bear was healthy. Then I saw a little pack of baby cheetahs. Four of them, I believe. The mother, once again, was probably off hunting, so I got the chance to pet one of them for a short time (they were also rather opposed to humans). Anyway, so I didn't want to disturb them any longer and left (unbeknownst to me, I left a single, black glove there.)

Another snap forward to another part of the dream, where I was organizing some party in the woods. We all showed up and were hanging out partying, and someone found a random glove and it dawned on me that it was mine, but we were in a completely different part of the woods, near the ocean (random and has nothing to do with anything, but still noted).

I remember saying, "hopefully we don't get caught, but I do so-love the part when a party gets busted and everyone just scatters". I was sitting in the group of guys, who I don't know in real life, and I know one of them had driven me there (though where we parked I didn't know or remember). I remember I was eating something obscure, like cupcakes. And I kept putting chocolate and caramel syrup on them and no one else would eat them (like I cared).


Then I saw these flashing lights or something and I thought, oh crap, we're about to get busted for partying in the woods (I think it might have been a protected area). But when I looked over, it was just this girl whom I've recently fallen out of touch with waving a flashlight back and forth just trying to freak people out. So, as this was my party, I ran towards her and put my arms out wide as if I was going to hug her, but when I got close, instead I reached down and grabbed one of her legs and took her to the ground and looked at her menacingly (Pfft, trying to ruin my party, idiot).

After that, while everyone stayed, I ended up leaving anyway. I walked pretty far until I reached the edge of the woods and the edge of the ocean. There was a steep drop off (cliff-type thing) to reach the ocean, but there was a ladder attached to the cliff wall, that someone had smoothed out (mad made). The ladder went down to a dock (which was ONLY attached to the cliff edge, and not to any other type of land), where there was a car parked on top of it (how did it get there? you may be wondering). When I hopped in the car, the keys were gone, and I remembered that this must be my friends car that drove me there (though I don't remember actually getting to the party). There was a dolphin swimming around making sounds around the dock. The car, I realized had begun to sink and was no longer on the dock at all! I remembered randomly that the car ALSO (for some insane reason) could also be started by a really high pitched sound, like a dolphin. So i started making all these crazy sounds and eventually the car roared to life. Just in time for me to realize that this car not only drove on land, but also underwater. I set the controls so that I would just drive on top of the water, and not underneath it like a very fast moving submarine. Obviously this guy was super-rich :P

So I took off, and eventually found land. I know I had a purpose, and that purpose was... get this... to find this person in an underwater land who had gotten stuck there. I was going to find MYSELF, from the previous dream.

But then my cute-ass cat woke me up.

Some interpretations:

To dream that you are in a locker room, suggests that you need time to cool off and calm down. You are involved in some tough competition or are trying to overcome.

To see the woods in your dream, represent life, fertility, rejuvenation, and spring. Alternatively, the woods symbolize the unknown and the unconscious. You need to open yourself up to discovering your potential and your instinctual nature.

To dream that you are walking through the woods, signify your return to an aspect of yourself that is innocent and spiritual. If you are walking out of the woods, then the dream may be a literal depiction of being "out of the woods" or being in the clear of some situation.

To see a cheetah in your dream, suggests that you need to get moving and be more active in pursuit of your goals. Perhaps you have been a little lazy and you need to get off from that seat.

To see a bear in your dream, symbolizes independence, the cycle of life, death and renewal, and resurrection. You are undergoing a period of introspection and thinking.

To dream that you are breathing underwater, represents a retreat back into the womb. You want to return to a state where you were dependent and free from responsibilities. Perhaps you are feeling helpless, unable to fulfill your own needs and to care for yourself. Alternatively, breathing underwater is analogous to being submerged in your own emotions.

To dream that you throw a glove on the floor, suggests that you need to challenge or address someone about an issue that is bothering you.

To dream that you are at a party, suggests that you need to get out more and enjoy yourself.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Violence

I keep having all these dreams where I just beat the shit out of people.

Hmmm...

Interpretation:

To dream that you are in a fight, indicates inner turmoil. Some aspect of yourself is in conflict with another aspect of yourself. Perhaps an unresolved or unacknowledged part is fighting for its right to be heard. It may also parallel a fight or struggle that you are going through in your waking life.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Dead Birds and Sausage

I was in some room, and everywhere I looked there were eggshells. Some were really big eggshells, like the size of an ostrich egg. Some were small like chicken eggs. Sadly, most of them had dead/decaying birds half hanging out of them, as if the birds weren't strong enough to escape the confines of their shells and died trying. I distinctly remember most of them were chickens, and a few ostriches and perhaps some others I don't remember. Some were still trying to escape, and some weren't quite yet ready to hatch.

So, amidst the stench, I went around trying to help some of them out. Alas, most of them had already died, but I did end up helping this one little, baby, yellow chick. He was so cute. I went to find him something to eat and I found some corn kernels. So, I went back to give a few to him and he took one in his beak but it was too big for him so he spit it out. Next thing I knew he was sending me these visual messages somehow to my head, basically asking me to drive to this really obscure location to get him ground up sausage. Seriously. Sausage. That's all he wanted. Then I woke up.

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Some Interpretations:

Birds often symbolize goals or ideals as they are something we usually have to look up to. This is true even if the bird in the dream is on the ground or dead.

An ostrich indicates there is something you are refusing to face. To see an ostrich in your dream, suggests that you are not facing reality. You are in denial about something and living in a world of your own. Perhaps, there is a situation that you are unwilling to accept. Alternatively, the ostrich can symbolize truth and justice. To see an ostrich egg in your dream, symbolizes rebirth.

A dead bird, other than a crow or other carrion bird is a request to put life into the pursuit of your goals. Don’t just sit and wait for them to come to you. You need to get the off the ground. Alternative: Dead ,or dying, birds foretell a period of coming disappointments and worries.

A chicken indicates your relationship, as chicken is often used as a term of endearment.

Birds eggs in a nest signifies money, but to see them broken then you will experience a loss of money. If you see birds hatching, then your success will be delayed. Alternative: If you see broken, cracked, or otherwise damaged eggs, then you will suffer a reversal of good fortune or a disappointment.

To see corn in your dream, signifies abundance, prosperity, growth and fertility. Kernels of grain or corn predict a valuable gift or unexpected reward.

Sausage is often as a phallic symbol for sexual needs. More generally, sausages refers to a materialistic outlook on your life, which you should be able to correct. Consumption of sausages announces a nice, but very superficial acquaintance.