Hi RogerR,
Thank you for your thoughts on Dream Alchemy and for gifting the book to friends.
On Paul & the little daughter:
Yes, they were on the carpet and part of the 'boring carpet' tapestry of the dream. I had been swimming up and down for some time before I noticed them (presumably because my head was under water).
When I first saw them they were to my right and slightly behind me.
It was when I saw them that I realised that I was swimming on carpet - that there was no water.
On realising that I took stock of my situation and the swimming became less easy. It wasn't hard - it didn't freeze-frame and there was little resistance, but it wasn't as athletic as before.
It was at that point that I woke up.
As they were on the same carpet as me I read their energy as being part of the automatic-achievement without attention to passion scenario.
At first I hadn't seen them - so I was blindly on automatic. After seeing them I was awake to the situation and - then did wake up.
I saw Paul and his daughter as the 'missing puzzle piece' that came into consciousness during that dream to alert me that while I thought I was breezing along doing a fine job (albeit largely embracing the slog side of business) I was, in fact, not breezing, not performing as well as I might, because I was 'only' achieving what needed to be done.
My passion for dreamwork (and expanding dreamwork and my own creativity through play) was not being nurtured because of the seemingly necessary focus on 'boring' business work.
Paul & his daughter were not watching me. They were simply there. Uninvolved, dispassionate.
Being to my right I saw them as associated with my outer world (Yang) - which, for me, is about how I work with dreams in the outer world (professionally) rather than in how I work with dreams for my inner world.
Being behind me in the dream gave the sense of being in my past (what is behind me) rather than in being supportive. Being only slightly behind me I saw as being newly observed - and therefore put in the past.
I liked the way, in the dream, I realised I was under-achieving through not playing directly with the subject of my passion, instead of (the illusion of) achieving brilliantly.
Hope this helps - please feel free to ask more.
Each and every dream (we all have) is so complex and resonates meaning at many levels simultaneously. At the same time each dream is one tapestry - a picture-of-the-moment of where the dreamer is at.
I dip into my dreams and borrow snippets and themes to write the Dream Sight articles.
Jane Teresa |
