Hi Owen,
Interesting that in your "Swamp" dream you are in dark in moonlight with the enemy (conflict) approaching you, with you in a state of fear, while in this dream you are in the dark but there is a sense of healing (love not fear) coming from the person wearing the silvery (moonlight?) dress.
I read this dream ("Healer?") before reading "Swamp" and the dress immediately struck me as moonlight, especially combined with the feminine feeling of the dress. (The moon is the feminine, intuition, seeing in the dark, while the sun is the masculine, consciousness, seeing in the light). So when I then read "Swamp" I was not surprised to see the connection.
The man's eyes were black, the room was dark, yet he emanated a light and wore silver/ perhaps moonlight. He wore feminine clothes. This is the light: your own intuition: you tuning into seeing more clearly what once seemed dark. i.e. seeing and feeling love instead of fear - healing.
The warmth you felt entering your stomach is a sensation I have often felt in healing dreams. Think of it as a liberation of energy within you at a place where it has been blocked: a freeing up, a flowing.
Stomach: we feel fear in the "pit of the stomach", we "can't stomach that" ... and so on. Perhaps fear (of the type you met in the army and during other periods of your life) is now being freeded up through an increasing ability to let yourself tune into the feminine/ yin / right brain / inner world / spiritual self.
The small man is about 4 foot tall. He is likely to represent the time or event when this holding back of energy (fear) began. (Think of him as being stunted in growth.) He is the part of you (the part that once held less fear, the part that was more in tune with 'the moon') now releasing the light that has been held back.
Four (feet tall) may be a clue. Think four years ago, you in your forties, when you were four, when you were four feet tall ... anything to do with the number four (house number etc).
The circular room is another positive sign of healing and completion, a circle generally representing wholeness. Curves and circles (rather than straight lines) generally also symbolise the feminine/ right brain.
His face is lined and uncompromising. Could this be a clue as to the time of the 'stunting'? Which events and experiences in your life kick-started a line of being uncompromising?
I'm sure you'll get many replies on this series of dreams Owen. Mine is, of course, just a beginning.
Jane Teresa Anderson |
