07-04-2012, 11:09 AM
Last night I dreamt I was sitting in a great white oak tree with a friend. The tree was huge and had large, spreading horizontal limbs, so there were plenty of comfortable places to sit. The tree was at the northeastern end of the dam of a small lake; the lake was state property (Dept of Fish and Wildlife), but the tree was just inside the property line of a private landowner, and apparently I had permission to be on the land. My companion kept alternating between two of my close friends; he was one person for a moment, then the other, etc.
Apparently the lake was part of some fish hatchery. The lake had been formed by damming up the floodplain of a small creek. There were two natural drainage outlets below the dam, with some water running through them; there was also a larger sluiceway that had been cut, running away at an angle from the floodplain. It curved under the oak tree. Down the sluiceway, enormous fish were swimming by, one every few seconds. They were escaping from the lake and going downstream. The fish weren't native freshwater fish; they were saltwater species such as striped bass, yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna, bull sharks, nurse sharks, etc. All of the fish were enormous; 100-pound striped bass, 200-pound tuna,400-pound sharks, and so on.
The sluiceway throughout its length (about a mile) was entirely inside the state property. My friend and I were talking, trying to figure out a way in which we could attempt to catch some of the fish without being arrested by a game warden. Suddenly a fat old male grizzly bear waddled up. He came from behind me, along the pond dam, so I didn't see him; my friend, who was facing me, saw the bear coming and managed to scramble farther up into the tree, out of harm's way. By the time I noticed the bear, he was already reared up on his hind legs, biting and clawing at me, attempting to pull me down out of the tree. He got ahold of the toe of my right shoe, and I couldn't climb further up into the tree; I pulled free of him several times, only to be recaught before I could climb away. We were at a stalemate for a while and I began to worry; then the dream ended.
Some dream interpretation books claim that water represents emotion, but it's broader and deeper than that; water (at least to me) represents connection to Source, the stream of spiritual consciousness and spiritual energy that animates us. Fish represent a prize or achievement, a spiritual treasure. I have dreams of seeing tantalizing fish in water two or three times a year (and sometimes I even manage to catch some of these fish), but I have never seen such large and rich fish in a dream. I interpret this part of this dream to mean that I have passed some milestone on my ascendent journey; something significant has happened to me recently, although I'm not sure exactly what...:-/
I have no idea what the grizzly bear signifies.
Apparently the lake was part of some fish hatchery. The lake had been formed by damming up the floodplain of a small creek. There were two natural drainage outlets below the dam, with some water running through them; there was also a larger sluiceway that had been cut, running away at an angle from the floodplain. It curved under the oak tree. Down the sluiceway, enormous fish were swimming by, one every few seconds. They were escaping from the lake and going downstream. The fish weren't native freshwater fish; they were saltwater species such as striped bass, yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna, bull sharks, nurse sharks, etc. All of the fish were enormous; 100-pound striped bass, 200-pound tuna,400-pound sharks, and so on.
The sluiceway throughout its length (about a mile) was entirely inside the state property. My friend and I were talking, trying to figure out a way in which we could attempt to catch some of the fish without being arrested by a game warden. Suddenly a fat old male grizzly bear waddled up. He came from behind me, along the pond dam, so I didn't see him; my friend, who was facing me, saw the bear coming and managed to scramble farther up into the tree, out of harm's way. By the time I noticed the bear, he was already reared up on his hind legs, biting and clawing at me, attempting to pull me down out of the tree. He got ahold of the toe of my right shoe, and I couldn't climb further up into the tree; I pulled free of him several times, only to be recaught before I could climb away. We were at a stalemate for a while and I began to worry; then the dream ended.
Some dream interpretation books claim that water represents emotion, but it's broader and deeper than that; water (at least to me) represents connection to Source, the stream of spiritual consciousness and spiritual energy that animates us. Fish represent a prize or achievement, a spiritual treasure. I have dreams of seeing tantalizing fish in water two or three times a year (and sometimes I even manage to catch some of these fish), but I have never seen such large and rich fish in a dream. I interpret this part of this dream to mean that I have passed some milestone on my ascendent journey; something significant has happened to me recently, although I'm not sure exactly what...:-/
I have no idea what the grizzly bear signifies.
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