Profound Dreams and Dreaming

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Jose Jones
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Are you given to profound dreams or have you ever had dreams that seriously made you question your life?


I was sitting at a table in a cafe with a man who was dressed in the costume of a fin de siecle British dandy. He was insisting to me that I was guilty of murder. I denied it- I had killed no one. Somewhat angrily I left the cafe and walked out of the village into the countryside as evening fell. It was a lovely, balmy evening and the air was thick with the smell of grass and spring.

I entered a cave... a cavern really. I could see because their were torches mounted on the walls. A beautiful girl came up so me- she had blonde hair and hazel eyes. She wore a light blue dress- but oddly, this dress reminded me of a Swiss costume or German from, again, the late 1800s.

"You did not have to run the way you did," she said to me... and she said something else, but I can't remember what it was! She took a very deliberate step towards me as she turned in to a mist and then stepped into me as if she were becoming part of me.

I am on the prairie. The sun is shining and the grasses are blowing in the wind. There are people with me- I don't know who they are- but they are not strangers. We find a bald patch of sand in the grass- the sand is boiling as if it were water- but it isn't wet.

Then a house out of nowhere- a shack so sun-bleached wood. The bearded "old-timer" in overalls with plaid shirt rises an yells pointing to me "Murder! Murder!"

I run. I run across the prairie until I am alone. I am alone. I run until I come across a prison and I walk right in. I see guys milling about- hanging out. Some are playing ping-pong. A couple of them are making a pizza from scratch. A few are watching TV.

I walk into a cell and this guy looks just like me- except that for some reason he is wearing a beard and is dressed in the costume of a seaman or sailer- yes- from about a hundred years ago- and he looks as though he's a bit more worn by life and the sun.

We know each other. "Hi," I say... "We have to break out of here! I didn't kill anybody!"

"Look around here," he says, "Do you see any bars? Do you see any guards?"

I didn't. In fact, looking around me at the place and the people, it really didn't look like a prison at all. In some ways, it reminded me of a some kind of recreation center- it was made of adobe and everyone seemed to be happy enough- but it was a prison- it was a prison....

"Let's just walk out of here," he says.


Any readings, brothers and sisters?
 
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For the most part I think Freud smoked a bit to much opium to be taken completely seriously, but there is one point we do agree on, and that is dream interpretation. To horribly simplify his theory (and I'm sure you guys will correct me out there if I'm wrong), all these elements within this dream have meaning to you, riff. Now whether this meaning is symbolic or realistic is entirely up to you. If these are thing you'd rather not think of, you have so cloaked them with changed facts or elements, that you are not forced to confront them. And yet you do confront then in this dream because your psyche wants to resolve these problems. If you want the big picture, read On Dreams or a discourse on it because it is a bit pretentious, but what Freud stuff isn't?

Now if you're looking for someone to tell you what you're dream means, we could all hazard a guess, but I doubt we'll find any great truths. It does seem to me that there are numerous elements combined in this dream....supposed guilt/professed innocence punishment/jail...group/belonging....woman/ambiguity(?)...1800/some connection with history. I guess my next question would be what do these things mean to you.

Um, now my brain hurts from overusage....must go flirt on other thread......or risk overheating....
 
*blushes madly*

Alright... I'm throwing in my interpretation.

Like Cheri said, There are way too many different explainations of every little bit and piece for me to post here. But.. I am one of those people who believe in reincarnation. Perhaps, in another life time, you did commit murder.. or were falsely accused of it.

Try checking in your family tree for anything like that. Most of the time, people are reincarnated into their own family lineage. Might be fun looking into.

Slainte and good luck!
 
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