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Subject: 11 Hour Record Set in Carpark

Clara

20:30 30/08/2000 

I spent all day shopping. I got there early.

I don't remember buying anything or seeing anything but I am finished shopping. I have only my wallet in hand. I have been calm all day.

Where did I leave the car? I am not in the habit of remembering where my car is parked anymore. (I live overseas now and don't drive). I get very anxious. Did I park it in the street, in the car park? I go to the vehicle entrance to the car park and there it is, second one along. Of course! I had arrived early!

A little blackboard on a little trestle has been placed in front of my car. A large number 11 is written in white chalk on the blackboard for all to see. ‘Car park record for length of stay in car park!’ is the clear message the whole world and I get.

It must be a big deal as my car is also being dismantled by an efficient team of 2-3 people in white coats.

As the embarrassment and anger (I am more embarrassed than angry) sink in I begin to cry inconsolably.

I cry and cry and cry till I can hardly cry any more.

A quiet older woman in a flowery dress (she's always around in my dreams) who has some authority and is sympathetic in a grown-up way but also a little distant, consoles me. I appreciate her understanding.

I feel that it is very unfair that I have been singled out.

Who cares how long I left my car there? Is there no allowance made for the fact that I live overseas now and am not up with the latest or the unstated: That parking a car for 11 hours is an exaggeration and that I would be singled out for it?

As soon as I arrive the team mechanically begins to put the car back together again. The complete motor, which had been put into a small storeroom, is retrieved and the sides of the car (I think in 4 parts) are being held up so that the motor can be put back. I don't remember there being seats. There is no talk of fines.

Finally, I go to a Milk Bar and ask for a milkshake.

They give me one with fake milk. I'm really angry because overseas we drink powdered milk. I feel cheated in my own country where I expected to get real milk.

Note:

I think it's to do with my son who is being teased at school, as I was, at his age: 11. He was in a minor playground scuffle last week and was suspended for the afternoon as a result. The boy he was responding to didn't get the blame. He was trying to defend a friend and ended up with all the blame. He has been teased at school about getting into trouble. Last week I told a friend that it makes me feel very sad that my son has the same problem I had. I used to cry and cry when I was eleven I said to her!

I know the older woman is my grown-up self.

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Angela

12:30 31/08/2000 

Hi Clara.

I think you are bang-on about the 11 hour connection with your son. A 'record' was set -- a recording or a playback...

Have you ever had any encounters with the number 11? It seems to be the magic number when there is a synthesis between the conscious and unconscious mind, or so I've seen with some of my own symbolism. And others will comply.

I've actually had a little synchronicity with you regarding the carpark and the chalkboard. So, your dream has intrigued me on more than one level. But, further to your own dream life: 11 is chalked on the 'black'board. Your car is being dismantled by a few people in 'white' coats. It seems 'black' and 'white' at this point.

You are also overseas. Seas and water, being representative of our emotions. You are over your seas of 11 year old angst. And there is also the pun on 'overseeing' your son's life.

Your car was missing for a while there. Where had you parked your 'drive'? Has motivation been an issue lately?

Your car is in 4 parts. I think four is a good dream number. A completion, because it is a symmetrical number. And noting that you used the word 'complete' in that section, I'll take that to be a truth for you. Your drive and vehicle to move forward and onwards is complete. Perhaps sometimes we become dismantled from time to time as we see pains and memories repeated and reflected back in our lives.

Your car doesn't have seats. You don't seem to need even to stop and sit down and you are not punished by fines. You can forward.

When all is said and done, the taste in your mouth is not particularly favourable. The memory is sad and disappointing, like the fake milk...

But your psyche, too, says that you can drive on from here.

Happy travels Clara.

Angela

Clara

21:01 31/08/2000 

Thank you for taking the time to read my dream and comment on it. I thought your response made a lot of sense. As I am pretty new to this, I have a lot to learn about puns and so on and felt that your analysis of these words: "recording or a playback", "overseas","parking my drive", "dismantled", plus "taste in my mouth" the "black an white" was pretty well spot on.

I have never thought about synchronicity. What do you mean you had a little synchronicity with me regarding the carpark and chalkboard?. You had a similar dream? I am a beginner! :-)

Still thinking about the motivation bit.

Thanks Angela,

Clara

Clara

21:46 31/08/2000 

Dear Angela, I am just getting to know my way around the web and realized there's a whole section on synchronicity and that many of you are chatting there.

diego

08:03 01/09/2000 

Dear Clara, Synchronicity, according to ancient chinese Feng Shui tradition, is a phenomenon to which we all must tune our sense to. It is what brings us helpful people, new freinds and new opportunity. Being atune to synchronicity allows us to be receptive and willing to welcome the new things it brings. PS. I am interested in the lady in the flowery dress... interesting stuff

Angela

16:23 01/09/2000 

Hi Clara and diego.

In addition to diego's great words on synchronicity, I'll add the feeling ones. It's a tremendous sense of awe. It's delightful when it happens. And it is life enhancing when you pay attention.

As you've said Clara, you've had a chance to slip over to the Synch. forum and have a peak. So, you've probably got a pretty good idea by now. But with specific reference to my own synching with your dream are two small incidents. No matter how small, I've learned not to disregard a thing!

A friend brought a dream to me a couple days ago in which a car was lost in a car park. And the other thing was in relaying something the following day, to this same friend, I had made reference to a chalkboard.

See? Simple. What can sometimes happen from here is that things just take off... You go or I do, or someone else does entirely. Each bit connects to something else and then sometimes straight back again as we open up and refrain from editing ourselves. Since I see you are a member, I'll suggest that you read Belinda's post 'Dreaming Forum Members and the Canadians'. I believe it is on page 2 on the Member's Forum. Some wonderful stuff happened on that one. And, incidentally, is still happening...

Come join in! It's terrific fun!

Angela.

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