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Subject: Transparent Bird

Shalie21

10:57 22/03/2001 

I was in the bathroom. Another girl was there with me and she was showing me this little shell-like box.

She opened the box which had a metal fastener on the end, and out popped this transparent bird.

She told me it was a bird from outside. I had a brief thought that the bird should remain outside, but then it left. The bird seemed to flutter around. And then the girl was not in the bathroom anymore. The bird was my responsibility. So I kept an eye on the bird and tried to catch it to put it back into the box.

The bird turned into a drop of water, but it wasn't water because when I touched it, the substance stuck to me and stretched like glue or silly putty. Then when I put it in the box and tried to close it, the substance of the bird got too big for the box so that I squished some of it and I tried to shove it back into the box.

On the sink in the bathroom now there was a metal pan of peanut butter cookies. They looked good. Upon touching them however, I found out that they were not cooked yet. I took some of the peanut butter cookie dough and ate it.

I found a little shell-box nearby. The box was covered in cinnamon and sugar. I was going to make a box like the girl had and I saw that I had all the ingredients to make the box. Even the metal fastener: though the box opened and closed without the fastener.

The girl was in the room again and I asked her how to make the bird. She took me down the hall to another woman who was going to show me how to make the little transparent bird.

Unfortunately, I was woken up at that moment by the phone.

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Donni

10:43 27/03/2001 

Wow Shalie,

what an archetypal dream! What do you make of it? And are there any common themes with the dream following this one, the death of your mother?

Shalie 21 - does this mean you are twenty one years old? or an eternal 21 year old (like I wish I was! :-) or another reference to this number?

The reason I ask is that twenty one is the end of a seven year cycle. Issues of learning how to create your own life and balancing that against the needs and expectations of family members can be in the focus. Also, adjusting to new responsibilities.

(Add all the numbers in the date of your birthday this year to learn which yearly cycle you are in, it might be 21. Or because you are reading this, and you aren't Shalie, then this dream may hold some of the symbolic references in your own life/situations/environment.

This dream hit me with quite an impact, and Shalie conveyed that sense of things happening and true events real yet ~unreal~ aaaggghhh -- hard to explain. The retelling had a 'dreamlike atmosphere' to it. I really related to your dream in some way, Shalie. Like shells, peanuts, boxes, cookies, cinnamon and sugar, baking, creating, water, birds, teachers, sticky things even (!) have all appeared as real physical symbols in my life during the last few days!)

OK some ideas... pardon the lack of correct diction and p... um... my brain sometimes goes dyslexic and I am not the greatest writer without spell check! It is written sorta like stream of thought and although I might sound um authorative, I do not mean to come across that way. I may be waaaaay off beam because there are many levels dreams can be interpreted. I guess I am interpreting your dream in relation to my own personal perceptions and place 'in' it as an outsider looking in. ... does that make sense?

Bathroom - cleaning/cleansing, water, emotions, look in the mirror.

Shell-like box - there are three in your dream, one at the beginning, the other at the end, and you make a third, the first two different in appearance. The end two are edible cinnamon and sugar, look at what eating this would mean to you (is it something you ate as a kid, would you like it or not?)

metal (mental/strong) a fastener - you mention these twice. you don't need them anyway - you know your limitations and strengths. innovating on existing models, reduce or eliminate something for improvement. "don't really need it" - Metal also features as the container for the uncooked biscuits. look at qualities of metal apparent in your life issues.

Meanings of the boxes may include concept of treasure within; box - held within somehow, frustrations to expressing creativity in some way, being held back (but in the end, is powerless against it.) The boxes sound beautiful (I just love the imagery in this dream!)

Eating uncooked cookies - impatient for results - completion is usually an illusion until you look into it, things aren't what they seem to be. - Not ready yet. - Eating - nurturing, feeding, needing, what you 'take into' (ingest on all levels) from your environment. Peanut butter cookies - look at issue of eating (like at the end, cinnamon and sugar box)

Notice how everything is provided for you in this dream, the means to make what you want?

Transparent bird - what beautiful poignant imagery - it'd make a great scene in a movie <g>

The bird turning to a drop of water which isn't water but sticky stuff. There's something inside of you that really needs to be expressed, a talent you need to put to use. And because you are not expressing this, it is 'blocking' your life in other areas - by sticking to your hands, hindering free movement, imagine how that would feel - weighty responsibilities, - a sticky situation; even things that are sticky physically, highlighting aspects of your life (where do ya stick ya mind?) - and this is what you are doing to yourself some way in your life, accepting or allowing what you do not really want. - Emotional time (water, transparency, something out of place) - your means of expression sumthing to do with your hands

In the end, it turns out the bird and it's box is something you can make too. (a role model in your life) It might represent a wish to do, or learn, more about something you might be interested in. MAKING something. There are teachers around you. The 'energies' (for want of a better word!) of the transparent bird/water and cage/withholding are like opposites. It is like there is an issue you really need to resolve and come to terms with in your life, a 'push n pull situation. Indecisiveness.

Woken by a phone call for your mum -- look at issues with your mother, your relationship with her, your role as a mother, mothering and nurturing issues. Teeth (dentist) - what do teeth mean for you? Female issues (all people in ur dream were female)

Well that might or might not make sense, I hope it does inspire you to share the meanings YOU got from this dream, Shalie! (Am I waaaaay off, or not?)

Thanks for sharing that dream, Shalie21. I really liked the beautiful and varied archetypal symbols in it. :-)

Donni

Laurann

10:22 02/04/2001 

Hi Donni,

I would just like to quickly tack this on here...but what does being in a three year mean? I am having a long series of three synchs these days? Perhaps even a new posting, so as not to take away from the thread of Shalie's dream?

Thanks Laurann

shalie21

11:05 04/04/2001 

Well, I was thinking of the transparent bird being like spirit, and the shell box being like the body. But then I can say also that perhaps the transparent bird represents freedom and independence.

"Shalie 21 - does this mean you are twenty one years old? "

Actually I'm 24. When I first got on the internet I was 21. And I used the name Shalie21, which the 21 just sort of stuck on there. Now I just use 21 just because.

"Add all the numbers in the date of your birthday this year to learn which yearly cycle you are in"

I add it up and it equals 2, or else 2036. Which would make me a 2 year I guess, but I don't know what that means.

"Shell-like box - there are three in your dream, one at the beginning, the other at the end, and you make a third"

Actually there are only two shell boxes in the dream. One is the girl's box which she leaves in my care. The other is the box that I am making. It opens and closes even without the fastener which in the dream I will put on later.

Shalie21

11:27 04/04/2001 

I'll be going through a big change very soon. Graduation. And I have been very worried about it. Because I have a lot of pressure on me to graduate and I'm not sure that things are going well for it. But my whole family is coming out. It would be very terrible for me if I didn't graduate. So I will.

Anyway, I think there is another issue here. And perhaps that has to do with independence. A fear to be on my own perhaps? A fear of failure?

I had been having mood swings. One minute I was feeling ok and almost happy, and the next I was depressed. My heart felt heavy and I was irritable and wanted to cry. And sometimes I would feel this way and yet at the same time be above it, if that makes any sense.

I had several dreams with the theme of me holding on tightly to something that should be free and I hold on to this something because I'm afraid of losing it. Also I am afraid that if I let go of it, it would be in danger.

The first dream being the Transparent bird dream.

The second dream with this theme was the one about the death of my mother. (there was a dream before this one that doesn't seem to have the theme, but it talked about my mother having her future read by Yoda, who took the form of my great grandmother. And in that dream I gorged myself on chocolate chip cookies.)

The next dream was this:

It was my the time of my graduation. I was in some sort of public building. My dad and step-mother came to see me. But something happened where some guy had stolen a car. And all the cars here were futuristic looking. It was then thought to be very dangerous outside. My step-mother and I were talking about this thief.

I saw my cat (whose name is PoPo) running around. And I had a fear that if I let him run around, I would lose him or that something bad would happen to him. Now, on the ceiling were four metal hooks arranged together in a square. And in the room with me was a group of guys. We hung PoPo upside down on these hooks by his legs. Now we didn't pierce him with the hooks, just laid him over them. And so he hung there by his legs on the hooks. And the gravity pulled at him. And because of the gravity the hooks bit into his the tops of his legs (the joints where the leg is connected to the body) and he bled some. At this point I thought that perhaps we should take him down. But the guys found a solution by wrapping a large red ribbon with a large red bow in the front, around PoPo's legs. The ribbon would stop the hooks from cutting into his legs. I still felt that this was not a very good way to do things.

Later, they were still looking for the guy who had stolen the car. I suddenly knew that I had seen the man who had stolen the car and I had seen him do it. He did it so that he could steal the energies of the driver and become him.

Then I was riding in my mom's car with my mom who was driving. We were driving on this road with a lot of snow. It was not plowed at all and the snow came up to the bottoms of the windows. It was very difficult to drive through. My mother got sick and threw up out her window. (when I told this part of the dream to my mom in waking life her first reaction was to say that she threw up out of the window because of the pressure). Then we turn down another street with no snow on it and then we turned again down another street. This street has the snow on it. And the snow was just as high as the bottoms of the windows. But this street had been plowed a bit and there was a path through. My mom said, "Oh No! Not again!" And I said, "Yeah, but this time it has been plowed." then I woke up.

Anyway, as I said before, I was having these mood swings, and I began working with the PoPo dream a little bit. I finally decided to mentally imagine taking PoPo off the hook and petting him. When I took PoPo down off the hook, the mood swings seemed to go away.

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