Author

Subject: Hitting the sales

chris

23:11 13/01/2001 

I was at a shop playing with toy robots that were not working.

I was able to fix them by straightening the cadmium rod in their spine. It was like a rod of white electricity that ran through their body. I pulled each one out, straightened it with my hands and then reinserted it and the robot was fixed.

Later I went to a sale and found a great Diesel jacket only to put it on and discover that someone had left their dirty handkerchief in the pocket amongst other personal objects. I was then in a dilemma. Do I keep the jacket or do I explain to the shop assistant that this belonged to someone?

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

Lara

01:22 14/01/2001 

This is a really interesting dream. Are you feeling disappointed or distrustful at the moment? The symbols of the dream seem to indicate things that are 'not as they seem', that look desirable but turn out to be soiled or broken. It looks though like you have the knowledge to make things better - the robot was broken but you fixed it, the jacket turned out to be someone else's but you could keep it if you wanted to - or you had the opportunity to return it to its owner which is still a type of control of the situation. Is this about trying to see the bright side of a disappointing situation?

Jane Anderson

12:02 14/01/2001 

Hi Chris and Lara,

I'd like to add some more:

Is there a situation in your life, Chris, where you feel you have been like a robot, carrying out someone else's instructions or acting according to someone else's expectations? Has this left you feeling broken (down)?

In the dream you are a like a child as you are playing with toys. It was this child-like aspect of yourself which fixed the robots. Is your life situation one which could benefit from more playful input, more expression of a child-like creativity perhaps, rather than being restrained within different guidelines? Or were there hopes, wishes, talents or skills you had as a playful child which you could do with bringing into your life now to heal (mend) it?

The robots are a part of yourself, most likely. Which part of yourself/your life seems broken and incomplete? Spineless, perhaps ... unable to stand tall and strong? The white electricity seems like a flush of energy running up and down the spine - a reconnection of broken bits to form one WHOLE functioning system. Each area of the spine can be seen, according to some philosophies (eg yoga) as energy points, or chakras, each representing different qualities. To electrically mend these in the dream is to have full nerve functioning or full interplay between the energy points. It can also be seen as a rising of energy .. a rising of consciousness.

In some sense your dream surprises me as I would have expected the robots, once mended, to transform from the mechanical into something more human.

My feeling about the jacket is that it represents something you like (and would like to have, and may, indeed, feel you have just found in life) but which is really not for you. Sometimes we 'wear' other people's attitudes or expectations instead of wearing our own. I feel the jacket represents this.

You may find it beneficial to spend some time contemplating which aspects and attitudes in your life are truly expressions of your heart, and which are instead the result of other people's expectations.

Tie this in with Lara's reply and ... let us know!

Jane Anderson

Chris

00:22 16/01/2001 

Jane and Lara, Thanks for the insight...Its surprising how much other people notice.

At the moment I'm going through a lot of self evaluation and healing so I guess Everything yo have both suggested is true. I have been trying different coats on ...so to speak.......and I have been finding that they do not help. To be honest...I'm currently reading a book called "In the Meantime" and it is teaching me the importance of learning to love myself and surrendering to truth.I started reading the book...which was given to me by a freind, as I was feeling a little broken...especially in the area of my love life Its very interesting and is making me reassess some of my priorities. This I guess is like going back to childish behaviours where I wasn't afraid of the truth and I had no hang ups.

With regard to the healing aspect of this dream.......I have actually started practising Tai Chi again and I certainly do feel as if I am getting my life "staightened out" so to speak. Here I feel the dream was telling me that i have the abilty to heal myself like I did the robots....strangley I just met a girl who practices reiki and she beleives that the dream was showing me how to clear my energy channels..ie by visualisng myself straightening and clearing the line of energy running down my spine.

WIth regard to other peoples attitudes that I have taken on........I certainly have notivced lately that I have become more aware of these lately.......and I have relised how much other peoples expectetions have held me back ......................... Time for a change I guess.

Thanks for te help