Image Sixty-One: 1st December 2003. Photo by Michael Collins
Moon Day
Feeling The Picture
Your feeling reactions to a dream are keys to its interpretation. These are my feelings. If this were a scene in your dream or life, how would you feel about being there?
The seemingly limitless clear blue gives me an expansive, all-things-are-possible feeling in contrast to the solid, worn, structured walls.
The intensity and uniformity of the blue add a feeling of magic, reflecting fairytale skies and primary school paintings.
Perhaps I feel like a child, looking up at the heights of these walls, leaning back to try to see all the way to the top.
The moon gives me a feeling of play. It is beckoning me to come out and play. The cheeky moon makes me laugh. After all, it is playing when it should be sleeping!
The Symbols
Symbols in your dreams often relate to your personal memories and associations, so always consider those first. Then let your mind play with other, more general possibilities. They will not all apply! Just open your mind and notice where the symbol seems to fit and make sense of the rest of your dream.
Windows can represent views, your views and perceptions of a situation. Think of the room or environment you are in when you look through a window. That room or place may be a clue to a situation in your life where this view is pertinent.
In this dream image there are five windows. This may represent five views, four of them similar and one quite different as it includes the moon.
Numbers in dreams often refer to time. Five windows may symbolise ‘when you were five’, or ‘five years ago’, or ‘five months ago’ or ‘the fifth month – May’. These five windows could also symbolise ‘five viewpoints ago’, or ‘the view you had when you were in Grade 5’, or ‘when you lived at number 5’, or ‘in your last five relationships’.
Our dreaming minds work laterally with numbers and are usually quite accurate once you’ve solved the puzzle.
Walls can represent the structures you have built around you such as beliefs, traditions, career and relationships, for example. Look at your dream walls. What state are they in? What does this say about the structures you have built?
Most dream walls are about keeping things in or keeping things out – barriers. How do you feel about the barriers in your dream? Are they working for you or against you? Are they keeping you in a comfort zone, and, if so, is this a good thing?
The perspective in this image is telling. When you feel quite small in a dream, or when everything seems unusually large, you may be tuning into childhood feelings and experiences. Or your dream may be showing you that you are feeling child-like now.
The moon, more usually associated with night, often represents your intuition, your ‘female side’, your Yin or your right brain qualities. In other words, the light by which you see within yourself and within your dark unconscious mind. This is in contrast to the sun, of course.
The full moon probably relates to wholeness of your Yin qualities.
Paradox in a dream requires your attention. Yes, we do see the moon in daytime, of course, but because we usually think of the moon in a night sky, this dream image asks you to focus on the paradox.
The Questions
Here are some questions the dreamer of such a dream picture might ask to work towards a complete understanding of the dream.
Try these yourself: just give your 'gut reaction' answers to the questions - your answers will surprise you in the insights they deliver. The key thing to remember is, "Don't THINK about your answers - give quick gut reaction replies". Your unconscious will deliver.
If this process can work powerfully for this image, consider how infinitely more powerful the insights are when the image comes from one of your own dreams - direct from your unconscious!
- Look down at your feet. What is the texture of the ground?
- Look around you. What is behind you? What is to the side?
- Is there glass in the windows?
- Is the moon reflected in the glass or is it beyond the window?
- Are you inside or outside the building?
- How do you feel about being on this side of the wall?
- How would you feel on the other side of the wall?
- Is the moon on the same side of the wall as you?
- If the moon could talk, what would it say to you right now?
- How long ago was this wall built?
- What was the function (of the wall, not the building)?
- What time of day is it?
- Are you alone or with someone else?
- If you are with someone else, who is it?
- What is this other person saying to you?
- Who was this wall built for?
- Who or what does the wall protect?
- Who or what does the wall keep out?
- What would happen if the wall disappeared?
- What would happen if the wall were strengthened?
- What feeling is trapped in these bricks?
- Look at your answer to Q6. In which situation, in your life now, do you feel this?
- Look at your answer to Q7. In which situation, in your life now, do you feel this?
- Thinking of these situations, how do you feel about your answer to Q9?
- Look at your answer to Q10. What happened when you were this age, or that number of years or months ago?
- Look at your answer to Q21.
- Where is this feeling trapped in your life? Is it time to explore it?
- How do your answers to Q’s 19 and 20 help you to understand this?
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