INTERPRETATION
“Let me tell you a story about my life.” When you settle comfortably to hear a story about someone’s life, naturally you expect to hear about that person’s past. The story wouldn’t be about the person’s future, would it? How bizarre would that be? Or is it?
In your dream, you hear a story supposedly written by you when you were in sixth grade. But it is not a story about your experiences prior to sixth grade. It’s a story about the next five years, about your education from sixth to eleventh grade. It’s a story you wrote, back then, about your future. It’s the story of your future, as seen through sixth grade eyes.
As a sixth grade child, I wonder what you thought the next five years of your life would be like. You must have imagined getting older, going through higher grades. You must have day-dreamed, visualised and talked about those future years. You must have had some expectations about how they would unfold. Your parents and other people around you probably talked about your future, and maybe talked about their expectations of how those years would be.
Think back to sixth grade. Can you remember how you felt about the next five years? What did you worry about? What did you fear? How did you feel about the changes ahead of you?
When we look ahead at any age, we ‘tell a story’ to ourselves about how our life might be. We picture how things might be (a visualisation) and we put words (affirmations) and feelings (positive and negative) onto this visualisation, to create our future story. If we have fears and worries, we risk powerfully manifesting those fears and worries each time we retell our story of our future will be.
I wonder how much of your sixth grade beliefs about your future (the story you told yourself, the story you wrote for yourself) came true? What do you think, when you look back now?
Your dream is about the beliefs you had, when you were in sixth grade, about how your education would unfold up to eleventh grade. This hindsight insight is important for you to understand right now. It’s something you need to acknowledge because it throws light on what’s happening in your life now. How much do you think you are still living that old story – or have been, until this dream?
In the dream, you saw an “amusing” picture of yourself accompanying the essay. Amusing, funny – it’s significant when something is funny in a dream. We are creatures of habit and we behave in strange and funny ways, but we all think we’re ‘normal’, don’t we? It’s only when we make a change and look back that we suddenly see our old habits and behaviours as strange. “How could I possibly have felt/ thought/ acted that way?” we often ask, looking back. At such times we often smile, chuckle – have a little laugh to ourselves – how funny we were, back then. When something is funny in a dream, it usually marks a breakthrough where we have made a change and –oh, the old way suddenly looks so funny! In your dream, looking back, you see the funny/amusing side of how your sixth grade self thought the next five years would pan out.
This strongly suggests you experienced a change at the time of this dream, a change for the better, one that left you chuckling.
Your dream opened in a large, extremely well-lit place, and you mentioned that this is unusual for your dreams. This dream marked a change from the ‘usual’ dream, again reflecting a change you experienced at the time of this dream.
Buildings tend to represent your mind, so a huge, well-lit building suggests a new feeling of spaciousness (mind potential) and enlightenment. Well lit means you can see clearly, no dark, unknown, unclear areas. It was also a school, suggesting new learning. And the whole atmosphere was pleasant, so you were open to, and feeling good about, this new learning about yourself.
The platinum blond hair is also a symbol of light -can’t get much lighter than platinum blond. His hair was “spiky” – like electric spikes of lightning perhaps?
What is behind you in a dream is often what is in your past, and what is “behind you” as in driving you forward. The platinum blond guy enlightens you about what is in your past, and what has been driving you forward – it was the future story you told yourself in sixth grade. He is a part of your thinking that has just become enlightened (maybe shocked, with that spiky hair) about the secret of the sixth grade story. He is about your age in the dream because this enlightenment has only just happened to you, at the age you are now. Enlightened, you change.
Hair grows from the head, just like ideas. You found this guy’s hair “most interesting”. What new ideas are you suddenly finding “most interesting” as well as enlightening?
The hurricane is perhaps the big wind of change that follows enlightenment. I feel it’s deeper than this though. In your dream, the hurricane, normally a thing to be feared, passed by and everything was pleasant and calm. No-one was hurt, even though they stayed outside. The anticipated, fearful thing, wasn’t a threat at all – all was calm, as calm and pleasant as the opening and closing of your dream. What you feared in sixth grade, as you looked ahead through five years of schooling, seemed as threatening as a hurricane. Did schooling, or what was expected of you during those years, feel as threatening as an expected hurricane?
Enlightened, those hurricane years are now past. Now that you understand how much telling a future story affects your life, you can tell a new story. You have already begun this in your dream. In your new future story, the winds of change are no threat, nothing to fear – in fact, the change you anticipate now is pleasant and calm, resulting in plenty of peaceful space (the large room) where you can usher in change just as you and Mr Platinum Blond were “ushered” into the friendly space at the end of your dream.
Welcome light instead of fearing dark. Look for the silver lining in any cloud. Look for what is “most interesting” and enlightening. Now that you have released yourself from the story linking threat and stormy feelings with education, you may be ready to being a new course of study, knowing your path will be “pleasant and calm”.
DREAM ALCHEMY PRACTICE
Visualisation:
Visualise standing in that large room, at the end of your dream, with Mr Platinum Blond, soaking up the feeling of friendly familiarity, enjoying the calm, spacious surroundings and the wonderful knowledge that hurricanes are a thing of the past. Repeat this visualisation until it is such second nature to you that you can summon it up whenever you need to reassure and calm yourself.
How often to do this:
Do this visualisation 20 times a day for a week, ten times a day for the second week and twice a day for the next month.
How does this work?
This practice strengthens the breakthroughs you experienced at the time of your dream. Your dream expressed your waking life situation using dream language – the language of your unconscious mind. This visualisation strengthens your new unconscious beliefs by reinforcing them using the same language.
Jane Teresa Anderson
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