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Subject: itchy bite-ies

Chris

01:05 12/12/2002 

I was in a gym class. I set up the tumbling mat to practice on when I noticed something crawling on me. I pulled it off. It was purple and had little pincers to bite with. It was moving. I put it in a bowl where there were several other creatures like it, but they were dead, or at least, weren’t moving. The others also had what looked like long legs sprouting from them. The live one did not.

My friend looked at them and looked worried. He then grabbed me to ask me something and took me to another room. Suddenly we saw a maggot-like creature on a bench top. It had little legs like a centipede and reared its body up and flew away. My friend screamed out "itchy bite-ies!"

He then grabbed my arm and saw bite marks all over. At every bite there were three spots. I knew the creatures had laid eggs in my arm and those eggs were hatching into these maggot-like creatures that grew under my skin then ate their way out and flew off to infect someone else.

I was the start of a plague, or a breakout. I guess something’s making my skin crawl, or someone’s got under it.

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

2004

Jane Teresa's View

Jane Teresa Anderson

Overview Interpretation & Dream Alchemy Practice suggestion

OVERVIEW INTERPRETATION

Hi Chris,

Do you practise tumbling at a gym? I’m wondering if this is a personal symbol associated with your lifestyle or whether it is a total dream symbol. I get the feeling from the way you say “the” tumbling mat that you do practise tumbling at the gym. If so, how do you feel when you are practising the art of tumbling? Is this something you do for fun and relaxation or is it related to your profession? Do you go to the gym to tumble to find your own space?

The beginning of a dream often describes the situation (symbolically) that your dream goes on to address.

Perhaps you go to the gym to ‘work out’ and so your dream is introducing the theme of ‘working out’ something that is bothering you.

The main theme of your dream is the feeling of being infested and invaded, of being nourishment for parasites, of being eaten up from the inside as well. You noticed the dream playing the cliché “under my skin”, reflecting the feeling of someone or something irritating you, getting under your skin emotionally.

The dead ones had long legs sprouting from them. This suggests that what appears to be dead is actually alive and thriving.

Maggots thrive on decaying (dead) matter transforming the dead into the living.

So there is a theme here of life evolving from death.

What appears to be dead in your life? What do you feel you have put an end to? Could it be that it is still thriving and evolving?

Is there a relationship or work issue that has been getting under your skin, which you think you’ve dealt with (killed off) but which is, in fact, alive and thriving? If there is an irritation in your life, what or who is it?

What are you trying to put a stop to – without effect?

At the end of the dream you saw yourself as the start of a plague with the ability to infect others. What is plaguing you in your life? In what ways might you be plaguing others?

When you feel irritated by someone, how do you respond? Do you respond in a way that causes you and the other person further irritation? Does one little annoyance easily grow into plague proportions? When you get worried, do you have a tendency to escalate into Drama Queen?

It’s all about correct boundaries. Things can’t get under a healthy skin. You may be vulnerable and open to attack in some circumstances and overly defensive in others. When you feel stung you may sting back hard. You need to set clear personal boundaries, but soft, loving ones, not stinging brick walls.

DREAM ALCHEMY PRACTICE

Affirmation:

Here’s an affirmation using your dream symbols:

“My skin gently protects my being. I am safe within my skin. My skin radiates calm peace.”

How to use your affirmation/ and how often:

Say your affirmation out loud and with feeling 30 times a day for the first week. From the second week say your affirmation out loud and with feeling once in the morning and once before you go to sleep for three more weeks.

How does this work?

This works by communicating directly with your unconscious mind using its own language, to transform the belief your dream is revealing.

More details on Affirmation as a Dream Alchemy Practice in: “Dream Alchemy”, by Jane Teresa Anderson, pages 331-333.

Jane Teresa Anderson

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ORIGINAL THREAD

Below is the original forum discussion on this dream, contributed before Jane Teresa's 2004 interpretation.

Julia

05:59 14/12/2002 

Hey there Christopher

Didn't you do tumbling classes at one time (or were going to)? I'm wondering if there's a reference in that?

Anyway, I'm wondering if tumbling is a reference to something coming tumbling down OR the way a person rolls themselves up neatly and tumbles in a gymnastic role/ roll?

Do you have any thoughts on why the creature was purple? For me purple represents clairvoyance, spiritual matters, passion (not in a sexual sense) - what about you?

What is your sense of this creature? spider, centipede?

The reference to the legs are interesting, the dead ones had long legs, the alive ones short legs. Are they representive of life span?, "legs to stand on" (pun)?, or symbol of their growth/ change?

Does "itchy bite-ies" have any childhood reference? It felt like the maggot like creatures could be going off to infect someone else, could be a reference to the effect you're having on other people at the moment; ie you infecting them with whatever knowledge/ changes you're going through and they inturn could be affected and infecting people around them!?

What is it you need to breakout of? of perhaps this dream is speaking about your past, past 3 years? Or about the fear of you "breaking out" out of what ever mould you were in. Perhaps you feel like you've started something that you can't stop, ie a plague

Who or what happened to you 3 years ago? Did someone get under your skin then? or did you end a relationship then? perhaps you developed pincers because of that?

Once bitten twice shy?

Chris

06:04 15/12/2002 

oh so on the ball...... I never thought of the infectous nature of the insects as a positive thing... this throws a whole new light on things.

Truely, the new insights Im having in life really are contagous and i am infecteng and affecting all those around me..... all my freinds are now making drastic changes ll of their own choices, but all of which seem to be making them so so happy.

Yes this is simi9lar to the plague in that it can't be stopped........ it is rolling, and all my old beleifs and superstitoions are coming tumbling down.........

I think the getting under the skin thing could be similar to the man with the TV in my past dream..... sometimes I do let people get under my sjkin and irritate me..... I need to learn that these people are here to teach me....and to show me my own faults.

like my life... I think this dream is has shown me that even a really bad situation or thing can be seen as something positive.

I recently had my bag stolen which contained my passport and hous keys....and a whole lot more... I used to lagh that I carried around my life in a bag..... and Ive been saying to everyone that I need a new life... and that one is coming..... I can now see that the universe has made room for that new life to manifest...... so this possably devastating incident, could very well be the best thing that has ever happened to me.

Ill keep you all posted.

Chris

09:11 08/01/2003 

Well three weeks later and sometings gotten under my skin.... A guy I met after a gymnastics class......his name is Marc... (a pun on the "mark" the creature lefdt!) I fell in love....I think and feel like a disease is eating me up....I am infected.... but he has left me like the maggot that is flying away.... to infect someone else!.......

I need to re-analyse this and get back!