The Dream Thread

[Parsons]

I have a couple of dreams I would like to share:

Last night I had a dream I was walking past the back door in my old house and I saw someone walking around in my back yard late at night and quickly walk out of view. I saw the moonlight reflect off what looked like a rifle. I yelled to my wife to be ready to call 911 that I thought I saw someone. I grabbed my own rifle and opened the back door to clear the yard. The following happened very quickly: A man immediately stepped into view towards me but did not have a weapon visible. I yelled to my wife to call 911 and grab her pistol. The man raised his right arm and 2 small yellow/gold objects fell from somewhere on his person which could have been bullet casings. I thought I might be in shock and did not hear gunshots so I took my trigger finger off the side of the rifle and squeezed the trigger slightly. I demanded he place his hands behind his head and get down on his knees or I would fire, which he complied with. I still didn't see a weapon anywhere and angrily yelled at him that I almost shot him. I asked him in a friendly tone "Okay buddy, tell me what you are doing in my backyard in the middle of the night? Maybe I won't press charges". He replied he was investigating <generic made up corporation> for negative actions and found out I was a former employee (which for the sake of the dream, I remembered I was). I then woke up.

Upon waking, the dream meaning was immediately apparent. Despite someone lurking in my backyard in the middle of the night with something that looked like a weapon, nothing is black and white, cut and dry. If I would have shot/killed him before I gave him a chance, I would have regretted it when/if I found out his story. While I would never go to such an extreme of trying to investigate the specifics of a corporation through an avenue such as investigating an employee of that corporation, I couldn't blame someone for still being caught up in the 'us vs them' mentality and pursuing such an endeavor. Moreover, I got an overall theme of being extremely careful of choosing which situation I would feel the need to protect myself with a firearm since everyone has their own story of why they would be trying to break in and/or harm me or my family;nobody is truly a 'bad guy'.

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The second one was several months ago and is very brief and simple:

The previous day, I had gotten into a fight with my wife and she was seriously angry with me. It was the worst rut since we had gotten back together and I was feeling extremely down. I went to bed feeling awful and proceeded to have nightmares all night. I woke up an hour early and used the restroom and went back to bed. I remember thinking how awful I felt because I had to wake up very early on a Sunday morning to start my work week on top of feeling terrible about the situation with my wife and not being able to discuss it until the end of the week due to having opposite schedules.

I then started having a nightmare again. All of a sudden, it was like the nightmare tore away and a beautiful, kind-looking woman with long dark hair in long, flowing white robes appeared directly in the center of my vision. She took me into her arms and hugged me. I felt an overwhelming, ineffable feeling of love, compassion, and sympathy from the entity; the likes of which I have never experienced before or since in this incarnation.

I got the unmistakable sense that it was not merely a dream. It was some entity comforting me in a very dark moment. I'm not sure if it was a guide, a feminine manifestation of my higher self, a past/future incarnation, or an 'angel', but I honestly don't care to classify it. I'm just so grateful she was there when I needed her.