Hi Muriel,
Adding to Gunter's thoughts and questions:
You were on a cliff by the ocean in the dream and your friend believed you were going to jump into the ocean. Had that been your intention in the dream or were you just admiring the view?
If you were intending to jump to kill yourself, the dream meaning would be quite different from a situation in which you were going to jump in for the fun of it, expecting to swim and enjoy the water. A third meaning would grow from a dream in which you were simply enjoying being on the cliff until the friend shocked you by sensing suicide.
So sometimes more details of a dream are necessary .... or it is important to answer questions to get closer to the meaning of the dream.
As an example, as Gunter suggests, if you were contemplating suicide in the dream then you may have been 'killing off' an aspect of yourself, your thinking or your attitudes. This can be a good thing!
If you were admiring the view but the friend sensed danger (as you implied), then the dream may be alerting you to something: on a cliff edge you have a view of the distant horizon, so you are in a perfect dream setting to 'see' what is coming up for you in the future (horizon). The friend, in this case, would represent the part of yourself that is more alert than the day-dreaming part of yourself, unawake, on the cliff edge.
Thirdly, a common dream is to jump into the ocean at times when a 'leap of faith' is being considered, or when waking life has become very organised and 'left brain' orientated, and your dreaming self cries out for you to plunge into the emotions, to plunge into the unconscious (the ocean) to bring more balance into your waking life. This kind of dream can come up when we are considering the pros and cons of taking new risks .. particularly emotional or creative risks.
As the friend is at her old place of employment, she may symbolise 'employment' in the dream: your employment and the difference between your 'old' employment and where you are contemplating going. Or she may symbolise the year she left the old employment (what was happening for you then?). Or she may symbolise moving on at work (she left her old employment). Did she take risks, plunge into a new job ... or did she opt for safety? Was she on a 'cliff edge' (emotionally or financially) at some point? If so, then she is in your dream to represent similar issues going on for you.
So, Muriel, dream details are vital, but I hope the above possibilities help to guide you towards understanding your dream.
Come back again soon,
Jane Anderson |
