Author

Subject: Undersea runners

Stephen O

10:37 05/06/2001 

I am walking down a path (road) along a very high seaside cliff with the intention of going fishing. I can see down into the water below. It is quite deep and as clear as glass. It is a bit like the coastal drive from Mt Eliza down into Franskton.

There are a whole lot of teenagers along the cliff face fishing. It is very crowded. One girl is watching her bait float around near the bottom. I am surprised she can see it at that depth. I cast my line out a little farther than the others. It begins to sink naturally towards the bottom. I am fishing with the bait suspended above an open dark box.

Looking deep down in the water, I can see the miniature form of a woman jogging along a path. Then I notice there is more than one person. My wife tells me these people are able to stay submerged for their entire run.

Now we are heading off towards the town. We arrive at a high school. My wife stops at the edge of a building and urinates for a long time like a man. The building is a shed full of mattresses for sale. We are looking for (or at) a brown single mattress. To our right is another building, this one filled with racks on the wall. The racks contain doonas, all of them in amazing bright colours and patterns. I am saying that they didn’t have great bed linen like that when I was a teenager.

Next we walk past a common room full of teenagers having fun. I seem uncomfortable with this whole scene.

Note:

I am pretty sure that the fishing, a recurring theme in my dreams, is my delving into my unconscious. My dream fishing trips very rarely result in success.

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

Jane Teresa Anderson

14:20 05/06/2001 

Hi Stephen,

I agree that fishing in the ocean, especially given the storyline of this dream, symbolises your delving into your unconscious.

(The ocean tends to symbolise either the unconscious or our emotions ... see my reply today, several posts below this one, at 'tidal waves'..)

Fish can symbolise our spiritual nature for many reasons, but our dreams do love to use cliches, and as we often say in English, "fishing for something," when we mean "looking for hidden information, this makes sense.

In the first part of your dream you ARE successful as you learn to cast your line farther out and then you see something (the running woman) that you were unable to see previously (as you mentioned that you were surprised that the young girl could see at depth). Basically: you learn from her that it IS possible to see deeper depths so you extend your limits (cast our line out farther) and achieve the same result.

You are on an edge (a cliff) and then your wife is on an edge (of a building).

Regard all the people in a dream as representing your own beliefs and attitudes .. (as like or as opposite to the characters in your dream .. likes and opposites highlight issues we are working with).

YOU are on the edge of something in your waking life. You are fishing your unconscious depths. The female (girl) can see the bottom of the ocean and the female (your wife) released her 'old' emotions (urinating tends to symbolise letting go of the emotions [water] we have filtered and no longer need to hang onto ... the ones that can become toxic if we hold onto them.)

It is also a female runner you see in the water.

All these women tend to suggest you are looking at your 'female side': your Yin, your inner world, your right brain (qualities of intuition, creativity, spirituality, nurturing, being and so on).

The dream suggests you have perhaps lost touch with these qualities and you are now in the process of getting back into touch with them. They have stayed submerged for an 'entire run' ... what endurance you have.. keeping your female side down there for all that time! Now though, it seems, from the dream, that you are bringing her up and releasing associated emotions.

There are two 'highs' in your dream: you mention the 'very high' seaside cliff and the 'high' school.

You are looking down onto your life from a higher perspective (and learning about it: the school, perhaps.)

One of the issues you are looking at obviously relates back to your teenage years because of all the teenagers in the dream.

Teenagers line the cliff edge - all fishing. This suggests that there is, still within you, a 'teenage' part or belief that is fishing to find something from the unconscious. Indeed it is a teenager (the girl) who gets close to the bottom 'of it all' and this gives you the wisdom to throw your line out farther. Part of you grows wiser as a result of what the teenager part of you sees and discovers.

What does that stretch of road (Mount Eliza) hold for you in terms of memory and association?

The building is a SHED. Love it: a dream pun on 'shedding' just as your wife sheds the unwanted emotions (urinates).

The single mattress, at first glance, suggests 'single' as in 'unmarried' or 'on your own' ... but the brown colour somehow gives me the impression that it relates to your teenage years. Then you see the colours of today's teenage doonas. So: brown, colourless teenage years for you .. and colourful, 'fun' (common room fun) these days.

Were you teenage years brown in this respect? Did you miss out on fun and colour? Is there a part of you (the teenagers) fishing for the colour you missed as a teenager?

Is this lost/missed colour associated with the female qualities you have kept underwater for so long?

Would bringing these qualities (creativity, intuition etc) back into your waking life now bring colour back for you?

Some starting points as food for thought, Stephen.

How does this feel to you?

There is plenty more in your dream.

Perhaps others would like to add more in here. The more the merrier and the more likely Stephen is to benefit in the long (underwater?) run!

Jane Teresa Anderson

Shooting Star

04:59 06/06/2001 

Hi Stephen and Jane Teresa - you never cease to amaze me JT - the only thing I'd like to add to what you have said is about Stephen's reference to the "drive" from Mt Eliza to Franskton which I see as Frankston.

Driving force of the dream perhaps coming from the feminine (Eliza) and bringing what is found there into the reality of the masculine (Frank-ston -Frank stone, Frank's town) ????

Stephen O

21:38 08/08/2001 

That really resonates. Thanks