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Subject: Dead in the Street

Richard the first

19:21 02/04/2003 

My girl friend and I were running in the street, along side other people, and I think this was at twilight.

We were holding hands while running. Suddenly she slumped down on her knees and I bent down to hold her as I thought she was tired.

I then realised she was dead. There was a hole in her back where she had been shot. I screamed and woke up. I could hear my muffled scream.

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

oobe

22:02 04/04/2003 

Hi Richard,

Don't be too alarmed, as it is most probably just symbolic. What was the fear you were running from? You have to face them all in dreams you know. The feminine side of you is suffering here. we all have both M/F within us, which we express at appropriate times, regardless of whatever sex we are. You lose life force energy by not allowing your feminine, caring, intuitive side to express. Don't just be macho.

Being at twilight is a time where there is little clarity and awareness. The street is your journey through life.

Nightmares are for us to wake up and take notice.

I am presuming that you are not in a war zone with your girlfriend.

cheers,

Richard 1

20:08 05/04/2003 

Thankyou for your comments Oobe. However, I am not aware of running away from anything in particular. The only thing I tend to run away from in life is confrontation. My girlfriend can be quite confronting at times. If the people we dream of are really qualities we see in ourselves, then I see my girlfriend as strong minded and nurturing towards the upbringing of her children. I don't consider myself a macho person at all .. but where does that leave us? I am finding it really hard to understand what this dream is trying to tell me.

A few weeks ago I had a dream about a bursting dam which I posted on this site as well. Again, I'm at a loss to understand what this one was about either .. but both of these dreams were emotionally very distressing and woke me up. BUt what they were trying to tell me I don't know.

My hunch is that they are tied up with me taking a giant step recently in a financial opportunity but in terms of the actual dream I can't see how they are actually connected.

Help!

Jane Teresa Anderson

22:35 05/04/2003 

Hi Richard,

Sometimes your waking life partner, in your dreams, represents your Yin (female) or Yang (male). Think of the Yin as your right brain qualities (intuition, wholistic view, emotions, nurturing, being rather than doing, spirituality) or inner world. Think of your Yang as your left brain qualities (reasoning, mechanistic view, assertiveness, doing rather than being, competitiveness) or outer world.

From this point of view, why might your Yin side be tired or 'dying off'? Why might something from the past (back, behind her in the dream) be influencing your fast forward progress (running)?

Yes, other people do represent our own beliefs - conscious and unconscious, so your girlfriend may also represent qualities (as you have named them) of strength of mind and nurturing. You also see her as confronting in some way.

Take these qualities and name their opposites.

For example: nurturing vs not nurturing .... what word would you choose to describe 'not nurturing'? What word would you choose to describe the opposite quality to 'strength of mind'?

In dreams people often represent issues in which we are having difficulty finding a sense of balance. Your dream issues may be defined by the sets of opposites you have just named.

Are you running so hard (pushing yourself?) that you are exhausting your Yin (creative self?) or exhausting yourself through nurturing YOUR babies (your babies being your projects, work ... whatever) but not yourself?

Twilight - did you get a sense of whether it was twilight at the end of the day or at the beginning? In dreams it is often dark as we deal with more unconscious beliefs and light as we bring things into consciousness (enlightenment).

Death in a dream may suggest a premature ending of something in your life but usually it is more positive. To grow we need to see the death of old attitudes and beliefs to create space for birthing new ones. Inbetween death of the old and birth of the new we can sometimes feel a hole - a sense that something missing. I wonder if this is the symbolism of the hole in your girlfriend's back. Remember again, what is behind you in a dream can refer to the past, so what has been dying (keep thinking of yourself, not the relationship!) may have left you feeling an emptiness - a hole. Twilight may emphasise this - the feeling of being neither the end of the night nor the beginning of the day (or vv).

Some thoughts and questions to open up your dream, Richard.

Jane Teresa