This guy, I think it was Robin Williams, was in a large pond. It was very dark and fog covered the far half of it.
A man had a cage wrapped in a circle around him and was pulling Robin around the water. I had a feeling that this lake was powerful and had the power to cleanse people like a baptism.
The man pulled him violently around the water. For some reason I had the feeling that something else was in the water that would keep from cleansing and that’s why the cage was around him so it could not touch him.
I was then in the lake on the outside up to my waist resting my back on a stone wall that enclosed it. A girl appeared in front of me and I knew she had been cleansed and it was only special people that could be cleansed. She held me and rested her head on me.
The water was full of tiny granules like exfoliators for your skin.
Then to the right a large animal dressed like a king emerged from the water. He was a dinosaur-looking creature. The animal then told the girl that she is no princess anymore. She looked at me and began to cry. I held her and stroked the back of her head and petted her hair. She kissed my neck and then passionately kissed me on the mouth. It was my ex-girlfriend.
Note:
I woke up and was angry at this dream. Later in the day I was watching some program where there was a cage wrapped in a circle inside of a pond. Inside the cage was a trashcan and a sump pump pumping water out of the pond. The cage was to keep leaves from clogging the pump. I couldn’t help but think that my ex-girlfriend would call today. Around 1.00pm I went grocery shopping and just as I was leaving my road she and her brother drove past and stared at me. This is not the first time I have had a dream where things seem to pop up during the day that were in the dream. Many times when I dream about someone they just happen to show up that day.
Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005
somnio
13:43 01/01/2003
if anyone had any feedback on this dream by all means please tell me
Jane Teresa Anderson
08:54 04/01/2003
Hi Somnio,
You have beautifully described a precognitive dream. The way small and quite surreal symbols from your dream repeat in waking life within 48 hours is quite a hallmark. The way you can predict in a general way based on the emergence of those symbols is also a sign of a precognitive dream.
The thing to remember is that a dream reflects your conscious and unconscious thoughts and beliefs at the time of the dream. In a way, you could say a dream is a blueprint (in a symbolic way) of your personal future as your future reflects your beliefs about it.
The magic of dream interpretation is that if you can interpret, see and understand a blueprint then you then have the power to accelerate the waking life outcome (if you ike the blueprint) or defuse and change it (if you don't like the outcome).
Either way, interpreting the dream adds insight, so you gain personal and spiritual wisdom along the way.
Your dream symbols include:
Protection (cage, circling)
Cleansing
Emergence (from the lake - you, the girl, the animal)
Transformation (the girl is no longer a princess)
You might like to question the cage - when is protection a helpful thing and when is it preventing you from meeting the pain you perhaps need to face in order to cleanse yourself of the past/ heal/ emerge?
The animal was dressed like a king, and he referred to the girl as not a princess. Your dream is obviously playing back to you the great symbols of mythology - kings and princesses.
Here's a starting question:
Which three words would you use to describe Robin William's personality or approach to life?
Your answer to the above will help to get into the deep and meaningfuls of your dream, so get back to us with your answer, Somnio, and we'll take it from there.
Hope this helps,
Jane Teresa
somnio
14:26 04/01/2003
thank you for responding jane, to answer your question i would say robin williams is very outgoing, he tries to make everything fun and tries to make everone around him smile.
Jane Teresa Anderson
11:50 05/01/2003
Hi Somnio,
Thank you for getting back.
People in a dream often represent your own beliefs or attitudes - not only your conscious ones but also your unconscious ones.
You have described Robin Williams as outgoing, making things fun for people, making them smile .... basically working to make others feel good.
It is helpful to look through a dream for signs of opposites - or a theme. Using your description of Robin Williams as a clue:
Your dream has outgoing components - emergence, cleansing, transformation ...
... and less outgoing - in fact, protective components - the cage, protection from cleansing, the darkness, the fog, the being pulled around ...
I wonder if you work at keeping other people happy (trying to fulfill their expectations of you) or if you work at focussing away from foggy (unclear or negative) feelings in your life by focussing outwards.
Your dream suggests you may be protecting hurt feelings (perhaps as old as the dinosaur in your dream) by NOT looking at them too closely and by focussing outwards. You may be trying to solve emotional hurts by trying to fulfill other people's expectations (which never really works!) instead of releasing the protective cage you have placed around the hurt and allowing yourself to face the cleansing. It's facing the darkness (the unknown) that brings light - facing pain that brings healing.
Releasing the cage, as your dream suggests, has the power to transform a dinosaur into a king, though this may involve giving up the fairy-tale innocence of a princess-type figure?
If you can give some feedback on this, Somnio, we can take it a step further - give you some dream alchemy (exercises) to do to accelerate the blossoming of all good things for you ...
Hope this helps,
Jane Teresa
somnio
12:35 05/01/2003
where to start.... well i've always been shy but lately ( in the last 3 years) i've been slowly coming out of my shell. it is true everyone has always said that i was so nice and everything so when they started to talk to me i would be nice and i would do just about anything for my friends and family, but once they did or said something i didnt like i shut them out... days sometimes months at a time i would ignore them. its always been hard to express my true feelings mostly about relationships with people... i was seriously depressed for about 4 years and would have frequent panic attacks during this time.. im much happier now and now i only have a bad day just once in awhile which is normal.. but i have not been able to talk to any of my friends or family about it.. they have no clue.. they just know that i was a certain person before and now im just much happier..
Jane Teresa Anderson
08:32 07/01/2003
Hi Somnio,
Thank you for getting back. From what you say it seems as if you have already done most of the hard work and only have a few small steps to go.
Often, when we go through a healing process and then verge on lapsing back to old ways of coping, a dream can come up as a warning that you could slide back. It's possible that your dream was showing this, but I do think it was encouraging you to take a few more steps forward.
As you say, you have recognised a past pattern but still note a difficulty in expressing your feelings, especially within relationships. The danger of not expressing feelings is that they have no outlet and, continually held back, tend to fester and grow into much more powerful emotions such as anger (which you noted in your dream), rage and so on.
In your dream the cleansed (but no longer a pristine-perfect princess) girl cried. She cried your grief - she was releasing grief that you have held back from expressing. What she/ you were going through was the relief of understanding that cleansing (healing) is not a matter of being pure but of 'owning up' to difficult feelings, to negativity, to anger, to any feelings which you might have previously judged as imperfect and unloveable.
In this way, your dream was a release dream, but the fact that you woke up feeling angry suggests there are a few more steps to go to fully release.
The trick is to find a way to express feelings appropriately - in a way that lets the other person know how you are feeling without attaching any blame for your feeling-state on the other person. There are many ways/ books/ people/ providing techniqes for this, including dream work.
Finding a way to talk to your family along these lines could be a wonderfully healing step too.
I'll start by offering you an affirmation. This is not the usual kind of affirmation. It's a dream alchemy practice using symbols from your dream. If you want to understand more about this process, look up this link:
http://www.dream.net.au/services/affirmations.cfm
Here's the affirmation:
"I touch, feel, know and release every particle of water in the lake. I am blessed. I emerge from the water, crowned as a king, cleansed and at peace."
Somnio - I think you will understand the parts of the affirmation. I included 'blessed' as you saw the cleansing as a baptism in your dream. I added 'peace' to free the anger.
What to do with the affirmation:
Say it out loud 50 times a day for a week, then 2 times a day for a couple of months. As you say the affirmation, FEEL the sensation of peace and joy.
(For more info, see the same link as above).
What will happen:
Saying the affirmation will start the process of changing your unconscious beliefs that have made you build a safe (but not really safe) cage around you .... as the unconscious beliefs change, so will your waking life and your being.
Jane Teresa
Somnio
11:43 07/01/2003
wow... hmm when i read what you wrote i started to cry.. but it was good, i havent cried for 2 years and i had cried alot then, but it was only because i felt sorry for myself. i think i understand what its all telling me and thank you so much for your help i think i forgot to mention that the reason i was angry was because the girl kissed me. and u didnt mention anything about the kiss i was just wondering if it means anything? really i have been kind of down lately and it feels like a huge weight has been lifted off of my shoulders.
Jane Teresa Anderson
16:33 07/01/2003
Hi Somnio,
It's perfect that you cried on reading this because it means your unconscious mind has allowed itself to continue to release the grief that began in your dream. Conscious recognition (when working with a dream to understand it and to find relationship to it) often is the healing key - the one that enables the final release.
The kiss was the integration. At some level you integrated this knowledge and the previously unexpressed grief through the kiss. Remember, although the girl LOOKED like your ex in the dream, she was (as all dream characters are) a symbol of some part of your own belief system or life experiences.
A kiss or any kind of coming together in a dream shows an integration of the symbol ... the girl, in the dream, was no longer the pure princess .. in the dream you allowed yourself to be less than 'pure' (in the way that you might previously have tried to project).
You may find yourself a bit teary for a week or so. Just go with the flow - let it happen. It's all good release stuff and the feeling of the huge weight off your shoulders you have described will continue.
Thank you, Somnio, for sharing your dream and your dream-working here, as there are many people who will have benefitted from your sharing.
Jane Teresa
Somnio
14:15 08/01/2003
i cant thank you enough, i have been really into my dreams for about 3 years now... and most were good dreams.. i would wake up rested and feeling good but this one was bugging me and im glad you helped me
