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Subject: Mudslide

Angela

09:52 16/11/1999 

In my right hand I held a large package of bricks tied with a bright pink ribbon. I began sliding down a three or so mile long mudslide while sitting on a blue satin sash that I had to hold with my other hand, between my legs so as not to fall off.

The slide was extremely fast. There were people in front and behind me. It was almost fun, yet exceedingly disgusting.

At the end was a pool of sewer that gave people the flu.

I lost my parcel of bricks along the way, but realized as I neared the pool that I could see a crossword-type puzzle with the letters for the word 'BORDERLINERS'. (This word had somehow come to represent my missing parcel and I was to relieved knowing that I would be able to retrieve it.)

Note:

The mudslide resembled a childhood beach.

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

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Jane Anderson

15:04 17/11/1999 

Here's a starting point Angela:

You associated the beach setting with a place from your childhood. Fast journeys back to a childhood setting or symbol often reflect a parallel waking-life realisation which 'undoes' old conditioning.

The childhood place most likely represents a time in your life and the fast travel is like a speedy unzip of a conditioning which had been controlling your life from that time. This enables you to move forward now without this conditioning.

Borderlines come up at times of change and transition, so whatever it is that you have 'unzipped' will now entitle you to the ticket to cross the borderline into new territory.

The lost parcel is reclaimed during this transition, it would seem. What does the colour pink (the ribbon) mean to you - and how might this tie in (sorry - puns creep in!) with what has been lost and what is now in the process of being 'retrieved'?

There's heaps more in the dream: perhaps others would like to ask some pertinent questions or share what they see in this dream.

Jane Anderson

Angela

18:39 17/11/1999 

Jane,

Thank you as always, for your ever helpful, ever insightful words! I think you are bang on with the borderline and the fast track back to start again.

That childhood beach is also the place I went to when I had decided to pursue my writing for a month at 20 yrs old. It had not worked out at the time. Now, 10 years later, I am at that point again. I am writing and making a very serious go of it. (It seems to be the case for many of us on this forum!) I am thinking about the 'cross-word' that illuminated the borderline. You had mentioned 'cross the borderline'. What about 'words' allowing me to cross the borderline?

As far as the pink ribbon goes, I am thinking of myself at around age 10 in a pink dress that my mother made. Hey, 20 years + 10 years = 30! What do you think?

In addition, my author mentor has the flu and we have had very minimal contact lately.

The bricks and the blue sash still have me stumped though. Although, a guy I am dating was bricking up my chimney (chimney flu?) a couple weeks ago and I am feeling quite guilty that he's done this for me as we are not serious in my mind.

Here's a possible wrench. The following evening, from when I had that dream, I got ill upon exiting the bathtub. It was extremely odd. I became dizzy, sat, then vomitted. Within 3 minutes it was all done and overwith. I had told a friend later that I had got the 3 minute flu. Then I remembered the dream and the pool of flu. And then I noted that it had lasted 3 minutes. My mudslide ride had lasted 3 miles... Could this, in some way, be a precognitive dream? And if it is can it still hold deeper meaning than the fact that I was just to have a quick flu?

Wow. Lots just came out. Thanks again Jane. Really.

Angela.

Jane Anderson

18:30 19/11/1999 

Hi Angela,

Aren't questions powerful?

You used the word 'serious' twice in your reply: firstly about being serious with your writing this time round, and secondly about feeling guilty about the guy bricking your chimney when you're not serious about the relationship. So, bricks (the lost item in the dream) and seriousness suddenly associate.

Yet bricks BLOCK a chimney - the flow (flew, flu?) is prevented....??? There are good reasons for blocking your chimney, but chimneys are built for flow.

Is an association between guilt, blocking, flowing and seriousness emerging?

Of course the dream is a release in which the bricks (?blocks?) are reclaimed/rediscovered through a crossword. Yes, words as in writing: how about also 'cross (angry) words'? How might it be that angry words, back in childhood-beach times or at age 20 (last time you were at that beach), help you to rediscover a block (bricks)?

What does your chimney represent to you in waking life? Given that, what is the symbolism of bricking it in? Where does guilt and seriousness come into this?

The pink dress: how was this occasion (your mum making the dress for you) 'tied in' with the bricks/blocks/seriousness/guilt? (The bricks were 'tied' with the ribbon.)

The blue sash: pink for a girl, blue for a boy?

?Feeling guilty about people doing things for you: brick guy, Mum (?making dress?), mentor(?). Is this an issue about accepting help?

I know you love discovering these puzzles and crosswords yourself, Angela, so I've replied in cryptic format. (How about writing a mystery novel?)

Regarding the precognition question: if the dream was precognitive (picking up on the infection and symbolising it as the sewer - which is common in dreams), that does not, according to my research and experience, negate the deeper meaning of the dream - as you have experienced by investigating some of the symbols. (My book, "The Shape of Things to Come" goes into this in great depth.)

Well - that's my Friday evening gin and tonic thoughts for you Angela. Over to you!

Jane Anderson

Jane Anderson

10:38 21/11/1999 

Great work, Angela!

Does Santa come down the chimney in Canada? No wonder Christmas with the brick-man was called off after he bricked up the chimney ;)

A final thought after all your work: you described the brick-work as a 'gift of work'. Isn't your writing talent also a 'gift of work'? In two senses: firstly that you have a writing gift which you can make your work and secondly that you are making a gift of your work in offering your novel for others to enjoy.

Given this and the depth of meaning within your dream, be sure to release any connection between guilt and your writing gift/ between concern for how people will 'react' to your gift-book/ or any tie between 'blocking' your writing by taking 'reaction' into consideration.

Be sure to allow yourself free flow for your writing, unhampered by borderline confusions or a false need to smooth the edges to suit your readers - this is YOUR gift, your freedom to express yourself.

Hope this makes sense.

Thank you, Angela, for your gift to the forum readers of sharing your dream and sharing the enlightening process of working with questions to solve the cryptic dreaming crossword puzzle.

Jane Anderson

babel

04:45 29/11/1999 

Reading your "ping pong" conversation it struck me as possible, I would appreciate Jane's correction and of course your reactions if I am off base that; each dream (perhaps sychonronicities - not sure) can be looked at from several different "planes", even methodically i.e. precognitive potential (long and short ranging) first, reflections about current matters, how they attach to the present on a pure basis and then, how they attach to the past. Next could be a look at the "language" puns, hidden letters, numbers, etc.. to uncode. Could the dreams be a unifying of complete sources, in and outside the brain and therefore be recognized for what they are offering on several different levels,including thoseof the universal unconscious, answers changing a bit even as time goes on and alters them (not changes - but as one turns an object and views the same from a different standpoint, its intrusion changees in our vision)? Just some thoughts and questions.

be well, babel

Angela

04:24 30/11/1999 

Hi again Babel.

Ironically, if I am reading you correctly, I am wondering that we may have just said the same thing to each other... I just responded again on the synchronicity forum.

Thanks for the input. A dream seems up for continual analysis doesn't it?

Angela.

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