The Dream Thread

[sriyantra]

Hello all! I had a very interesting dream today. There was unusual symbolism. My dog this morning found a newly dead bird and was carrying it around in her mouth looking for a spot to bury it.

I took a nap earlier, and dreamed of being in my backyard with my dogs. The bird was on the ground where my dog had left it in waking hours. But it started to revive. I thought it was glorious and miraculously to see it's battered carcass ressurect. He then flew up onto the tree and started to become whole again. I was also praying in the dream at the time that the Lord make this bird whole again as he was reviving.

The bird my dog found was a pidgeon. But in the dream it didn't look like a pidgin. It was a lot bigger and reminded me of an eagle.

Bird seem to be a common synchronicity and symbol for me. If anyone has any insight that would good to hear! I shall search myself to try and understand as well.

I can't say in particular what your dream means, but the bird symbolism reminded me of one of the most memorable quotes/symbolism of Hermann Hesse's book Demian.

The quote being: “The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.”

Interestingly enough, Abraxas is a god in the Gnostic system, which Carl Jung said in a short book of his on Gnosticism that Abraxas is the supreme power of being transcending both God and the Devil and unites all opposites into one Being. Oddly similar to the Law of One paradigm of opposites/polarities ultimately being united. And that God and the Devil are not two arbitrarily separated halves but actually part of the One.

The understanding of that Demian quote crystallizes in the mind much more when the context of the whole story is involved of course, but it is all still interesting overall for the symbolic implications.