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Subject: Shadows Wild Look

aneo

13:49 29/07/2002 

Sitting in warm nothingness, no heat, no cold, no wind, no light. A night without stars to sight my future, a destiny.

I wondered where I was, and why I could see no light or something that I might have recognized. The darkness was not black as such, more hued, mysterious, watching, waiting for? I do not know.

There seemed no body, no me as an image, as if I was a little dot with no light to shine me a way.

So I began to get a little frightened, and concentrated very hard on opening my eyes. Eventually I began to see a little light, coming through a slit or crack. From a distance I could see little vertical lines running down the line of horizontal light.

It looked like a fence, but began to disappear the wider I opened my eyes. The light got stronger, and my will got encouragement to burst through to this light.

(My eyes opened. I was laying on my bed, where I had gone to sleep. In the dream I felt trapped, yet when I woke I felt trapped. Had I exchanged one darkness for another in lightness? The darkness was lonely inside; that’s why l had to get out to where people lived.)

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

2004

Jane Teresa's View

Jane Teresa Anderson

Overview Interpretation & Dream Alchemy Practice suggestion

OVERVIEW INTERPRETATION

Hi Aneo,

What you feel in a dream is a key to understanding it. In your dream you felt trapped, lost and lonely. You were waiting to see some light, to see your destiny but nothing really eventuated.

Have you lost a sense of direction or are you waiting for a sign of some kind? Do you feel abandoned? Your description of being a dot with no light to shine a path suggests a feeling of insignificance or lack of identity. Is this how you are feeling in one or more areas of your life, Aneo?

As you physically opened your eyes at the end of the dream, my feeling is that the light coming through the slit or crack was the daylight coming through your partly opening eyes as you began to regain consciousness and register your surroundings. The fence image may have been created by your eyelashes filtering light, but you did interpret the pattern of light in your dream as a fence rather than perhaps a grid, stepping stones or anything else. The feeling of a fence may have come up because of the feeling of being trapped. Do you feel fenced in? Why are you fencing yourself in? Can you knock down the fence, break out of the trap, choose or rebuild your sense of identity? If not, what do you feel is stopping you?

When we wake from a strongly emotional dream, the emotion often stays for a while, a bit like a hangover from the dream. This can occur for two reasons:

Firstly a dream will often touch on an emotion or feeling from the past that you have pushed away or not acknowledged properly. Once touched the emotion or feeling returns for healing. Repressed emotions fester. When a dream releases an emotion into waking life, let it percolate for a day or so. Feel it and contemplate its origin. Try to understand why you pushed it away then release it. An emotion can be released once it is acknowledged consciously.

Secondly a dream will often reflect back to you your waking life feelings, slightly exaggerated to make up for slight dismissal while awake. The emotion presents itself: “Feel me, acknowledge me, do something about this”.

You will find it helpful to read ‘I can’t see clearly’ in Dream Alchemy, pages 263-9. You may also find parts of ‘Trapped and under attack’ in Dream Alchemy, pages 231-7 insightful.

DREAM ALCHEMY PRACTICE

Visualisation:

Visualise seeing a path of light appearing before you, emanating from a bright star. Feel your body basking in the light, nourishing itself into strong physical form like a plant growing in the sun. Summon up a sense of freedom (the opposite to feeling trapped) and of feeling supported (the opposite to loneliness).

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 will ensure that change occurs for you in the best possible way – a positive healing transformation. Your dream expressed your waking life situation using dream language – the language of your unconscious mind. By reliving the dream with changes, or by transforming one of the dream symbols (or by reliving and intensifying the dream in the case of a dream with a positive ending) you are using vision and feeling to reprogram your unconscious beliefs.

More details on Visualisation as a Dream Alchemy Practice in: “Dream Alchemy”, by Jane Teresa Anderson, pages 329 – 330.

Jane Teresa Anderson

You can consult with Jane Teresa or her Dream Team and receive your interpretation by email within five working days.

ORIGINAL THREAD

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

Lena

08:49 31/07/2002 

Hi Aneo,

Once again your posting evokes such strong feelings in me - you have an amazing gift for written expression!

Did you mean "test inner me" to sound like "destiny"? Is that why you chose the words?

I remember having a dream once where I felt that I needed to get out to where people lived, but I'm wondering now whether a feeling of loneliness and isolation is a signal to find companionship internally first, rather than externally. After all, you can feel very lonely in a large crowd of people, so maybe fixing it on the inside allows it to be reflected on the outside.

Just my thoughts.

Lena

Oobe.

09:14 31/07/2002 

Aneo,

You are most blessed. The non-dual without a second experiences are indeed without form, and of course you may view it as a test, or your higher self does? The inner you in truth, awareness, existence, and bliss..... until the mind wants to think again!