REMLink #11: Hurry Back March 16, 2008

3-15-08

 

Emotions: Confused, calm, happy, scared, worried

 

My wedding day was here and I didn’t know how anything would turn out. I went to the wedding having nothing planned but remained completely calm.

Then it was as if I were watching a gigantic show put on by my childhood and currently close friends. People were applauding at my friends walking up the isle, not down, and I applauded too.

At one point, I remember my childhood friend Jim came up the side of everyone and the scene was somewhat strange. No one clapped at his performance so I led the uproarious cheer.

I don’t remember any vows are anything officially wedding-like but I’m suddenly speaking to someone about our wedding.

“I was really stoned,” I whisper to them in a crowd. I explain how else could I make it through my wedding.

 

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We’d survived the attack but we had to prepare for the next. Only a few days earlier, a huge monster destroyed most of the city. My fiancé and I stayed in a neighbors house that I didn’t recognize. We were all in the basement.

Then it occurred to me that we hadn’t brought supplies for the duration of hiding. My fiancé and I told the group we needed to grab some beer and supplies and they told us we need to hurry.

I looked at the television and the news reported the monster was already nearby. As we walked up the stairs I remember I needed to tell the head-of-household something.

“What’s his name,” I asked my fiancé.

“It’s Brad,” she replies.

I walk back down the stairs quickly and tell him we’re getting beer too. He asks me again to hurry.

 

Dream Interpretation: My wedding day IS coming up but I’m certainly not stressed about it. It’s a lot of work but this dream seemed like I was in an auditorium watching a performance. Last night, I watched a zombie movie and that might explain the fear found in the second dream.

REMLink Reflection #1: The Unknown March 12, 2008

3-12-08

So this is a new part of this blog. I haven’t had any great dreams lately, probably because I’m so busy, but I thought this would be a great way to further explore these dreams of mine.

First, I’d like to comment that it seems like my more recent dreams lack a level of control. Control of the dream environment is supposed to symbolize and reflect the feeling one has control of their waking life. Maybe since these dreams, I’ve been working harder and have been lacking in dreams due not only to stress but a lack of real meaning.

Also, I had the strangest phenomena the other night: Just as I started to slip off to sleep, I suddenly became aware that my thoughts had drifted into the dream world and I suddenly awoke out of my partial-dream state. This happens all the time but more strangely… as I awoke, I had the sense that I was below the surface of water and coming into the air!

Now… this might be an important discovery considering the symbolism in some recent dreams. In the RL #1, my baby is underwater and seemingly o.k. with it. This might represent how he’s only one years old and hasn’t quite developed the consciousness to be above water.

Then, in a more recent dream, I watch as a man is killing himself by diving into a body of water. Again, he is leaving the conscious world and entering an underwater “unknown” world.

This might be one of the best discoveries of my own dream archetypes ever. In a dream about a year ago, I discovered that the turtle, a symbol in many of my dreams, represented myself. Some day I might post some older dreams, especially if I continue lacking in dreams to post.

Stay tuned for further dreams and explorations.