10-08-2010, 09:05 AM
Meerie, I get some base interpretations on a series of metaphysics classes I attended a while ago. They put a lot of emphasis on remembering, recording and interpreting dreams because they are a way for our higher self to communicate with us. They posited a theory that there is a universal dream language- certain symbols that tend to mean the same thing in all dreams (the food being wisdom was one of these).
I don't particuarly buy into this 100%. You never know if a certain object, person, places, etc, is going to have a special significance to someone that would influence what it means to them in their dreams, but when I've used these classic interpretations it makes sense about 80% of the time, so I think it's a good system to use as a baseline when interpreting dreams, especially if you have no other hunches on what it actually means. I DO think almost everyone feels the same way about food- you take it in, it nourishes the body. In your dreaming, which is more of a spiritual state, it would be easy to equivilate it to taking in wisdom, which nourishes the spirit. However, I would never insist that any symbol meant any certain thing because we're all different and have different triggers. I got into many an argument with my teachers in those classes because I believed my dreams to mean something different than what they interpreted and they insisted that I was wrong and they were right, even though it was my dream (the main reason I dropped out after a while).
I also do some intuitive work if any impressions strike me. Sometimes by reading people's words certain feelings or insights just come through, regardless of symbology. I think if you work on interpreting your dreams long enough, the meanings will just start coming to you and you won't have to bust out a dream dictionary and try to discern each symbol. Sounds like you're doing a great job of this already.
Ugh...I just had the most messed up nightmare. Warning: this is pretty disturbing.
I was a 3rd person observer in this dream...I could see what was happening but couldn't interact with the scene in any way. It all took place in what looked like a science lab/hospital type of thing. There was this really disheveled girl with stringy black hair sitting on a hospital bed wearing white- she looked like a patient. There was this scientist woman that knew this girl had some kind of power, but she couldn't get the girl to display the power at all, so she apparently summoned up a demon to try it.
This short creature with leathery red skin comes into the room, pulling a naked little girl on a leash. He pulls out a whip and starts beating the little girl with it, and she's just screaming and screaming...it was so pitifully heartwrenching. I felt a huge rage building up within me. It takes a lot to get me actually angry, but torturing children still does it. I wanted to stop what was happening but I had no body. All I could do was watch.
The girl on the bed was getting more and more distressed. I'm not sure if she started cutting herself of if cuts just started forming on her body, but as the little girl screamed louder her blood started turning black and...crystallizing? It looked like strands of black rutile coming out of her arms. It was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. These strands went down into the earth and then something happened, but I can't remember what. Some kind of energy thing, I think. I can't really remember what happened after that...the next thing I remember I was playing a 3D version of Mass Effect at what I guess was a theme park, and this girl was talking about how this one employee was a total slacker.
I felt like crap when I woke up. I can't discern the meaning of this at all. It just makes me too emotional. I haven't had such a bad nightmare in a while.
I don't particuarly buy into this 100%. You never know if a certain object, person, places, etc, is going to have a special significance to someone that would influence what it means to them in their dreams, but when I've used these classic interpretations it makes sense about 80% of the time, so I think it's a good system to use as a baseline when interpreting dreams, especially if you have no other hunches on what it actually means. I DO think almost everyone feels the same way about food- you take it in, it nourishes the body. In your dreaming, which is more of a spiritual state, it would be easy to equivilate it to taking in wisdom, which nourishes the spirit. However, I would never insist that any symbol meant any certain thing because we're all different and have different triggers. I got into many an argument with my teachers in those classes because I believed my dreams to mean something different than what they interpreted and they insisted that I was wrong and they were right, even though it was my dream (the main reason I dropped out after a while).
I also do some intuitive work if any impressions strike me. Sometimes by reading people's words certain feelings or insights just come through, regardless of symbology. I think if you work on interpreting your dreams long enough, the meanings will just start coming to you and you won't have to bust out a dream dictionary and try to discern each symbol. Sounds like you're doing a great job of this already.
Ugh...I just had the most messed up nightmare. Warning: this is pretty disturbing.
I was a 3rd person observer in this dream...I could see what was happening but couldn't interact with the scene in any way. It all took place in what looked like a science lab/hospital type of thing. There was this really disheveled girl with stringy black hair sitting on a hospital bed wearing white- she looked like a patient. There was this scientist woman that knew this girl had some kind of power, but she couldn't get the girl to display the power at all, so she apparently summoned up a demon to try it.
This short creature with leathery red skin comes into the room, pulling a naked little girl on a leash. He pulls out a whip and starts beating the little girl with it, and she's just screaming and screaming...it was so pitifully heartwrenching. I felt a huge rage building up within me. It takes a lot to get me actually angry, but torturing children still does it. I wanted to stop what was happening but I had no body. All I could do was watch.
The girl on the bed was getting more and more distressed. I'm not sure if she started cutting herself of if cuts just started forming on her body, but as the little girl screamed louder her blood started turning black and...crystallizing? It looked like strands of black rutile coming out of her arms. It was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. These strands went down into the earth and then something happened, but I can't remember what. Some kind of energy thing, I think. I can't really remember what happened after that...the next thing I remember I was playing a 3D version of Mass Effect at what I guess was a theme park, and this girl was talking about how this one employee was a total slacker.
I felt like crap when I woke up. I can't discern the meaning of this at all. It just makes me too emotional. I haven't had such a bad nightmare in a while.