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Subject: falling

Shalie21

09:03 10/11/1999 

For the past few days I've been having dreams in which I am falling. One dream I had to fall down a drop off, another I had to free fall in an elevator. Now, yesterday I found myself (in real life) tripping and falling down the stairs. and then today my mother calls me up and tells me that She had tripped and fallen spraining her ankle. I'm wondering what this could be trying to tell me.

Judy S

18:07 10/11/1999 

Watch where you're putting your feet!

No, I don't mean to be sarcastic. But that's the first thing that sprang to mind. Then when I thought about it, I thought 'hey, that might actually be what it's about.'

Take care where you tread. Watch where your 'feet' (symbolically speaking) are being placed.

Does this resonate with anything that's going on in your life at the moment?

Regards, Judy

Shalie21

12:16 11/11/1999 

It's not like I'm clumsy or anything. I don't fall down the stairs often, thank god. But I think it might mean that I'm in too much of a hurry. The reason I had fallen down the stairs was because I was going too fast down them and my shoe which was a sandle fell off causing me to lose my balance. The guy who helped me up told me to use the elevator next time lol. So anyway I think it might mean something about I shouldn't be in such a hurry all the time, and also I should watch what I'm doing and where I'm going. thanks Shalie21

Geotangent

19:55 11/11/1999 

...or you could think of 'pride goes before a fall.'

falling = at right angles to the horizontal dimension, so is something multidimensional waking up about to manifest itself? Maybe falling from a rigid position in some aspect of your life. Gravity is something we all take so much for granted, perhaps more than anything else. If the world suddenly stops this screen and me slams into the wall at about Mach 6 (or something like that). You can fall horizontally as well as vertically. You can fall in time as much as in space.

I speak from experience - I have three screws and two hooks in my ankle repaired from a fall (with associated synchronicities). I've collected about 20 songs called 'Fall' or 'Falling' (Single Gun Theory and Julee Cruise the best). I love Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'. I was captived by a fabulous sequence in 'The Planets' on ABC recently showing the fall in 1961 of an American Joe Kittinger from a high-altitude balloon at about 103000ft. free-falling 80000ft. before parachuting safely (still a world record I believe) [the fall footage shown in the documentary to demonstrate that the Earth's atmosphere is not very thick at all]. I'm diverging but falling is diverging.

And maybe, falling in order to rise...

Bye for now, G.

Jane Anderson

11:29 15/11/1999 

Falling in order to rise ...

Shalie in addition to the perfect replies here, I have gone back to your falling dream in the Dream Forum: have a look at the overlaps and let us know what all this triggers for you.

Jane Anderson

shalie21

02:18 19/11/1999 

I think that I need to "fall back" on myself and find my own foundation in order to succeed in life and I need to find my inner and outer balance. Though now the synchronicities seem to have gone into people hurting themselves rather than falling. I fall down the stairs and get a huge bruise, my mom trips and either sprains or breaks her ankle we're not sure which yet, my boyfriend slams and cuts his finger in my car, and then, when I went to the gas station, right as I came in, the attendent tripped over something and hurt his leg and started limping to the counter. interesting

WHAT IS
SYNCHRONICITY?

Jane Teresa's Explanation

Jane Teresa Anderson

WHAT IS SYNCHRONICITY?

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Synchronicity occurs when you experience a coincidence, or several coincidences, that seem so bizarre that you feel they must be meaningful in some way.

Some people believe that synchronicities are signs to follow, to lead you to where you are 'meant' to be. My understanding, however, is that not all synchronicities are to be followed, because ...

Synchronicities are SYMBOLS of where you're at, not signs to follow.

Synchronicities speak the same symbolic language as dreams.

When you experience a synchronicity, you are witnessing a change within yourself, an insight, a birth of something that has been unconscious bubbling up into consciousness.

At such times of change we see, all around us, symbols that reflect our shift in perception and self-understanding. This is synchronicity.

To understand this fully, and to see why it is not always appropriate to follow synchronicity, you can read my book, THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. This way you can also discover how to read the synchronicities in your life and how to act on them in positive, life-enhancing ways.

Reality may never feel the same again!

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P.S.

In Jungian terms all synchronicities begin with a dream.

The dream comes first, then the symbol from the dream appears in waking life in ways that seem incredibly meaningful - though, classically, it is hard to understand, consciously, what that meaning is.

This is because the dream is painted by your unconscious mind in advance of your conscious mind 'catching up'. When the insight (unconscious shift) is big, synchronicities follow.

What happens is that your incredibly powerful unconscious mind (far more powerful than your conscious mind) manifests its insight physically into your waking life. (You have changed - the world, as you experience it, changes in accordance.)

It usually takes up to a couple of weeks before your conscious mind understands the symbolic dream manifesting in your waking life as synchronicity.

Being human, as we all are, we often forget the original dream but still experience the synchronicities.

There are many excellent reference sources on Jungian synchronicity.

My approach is largely Jungian, but slightly shifted.

Again, if you are seriously in-depth interested, I suggest you read my book "THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME" to understand where I am coming from.

Quite simply, synchronicity is a waking dream and interpreting it as such is immensely enriching.

Jane Teresa Anderson