Issue 42, February 2002
Party Tricks
©Jane Teresa Anderson, February 2002
So it's way past the party season, but these tricks are fun enough to play on your own. Oh, and they're also incredibly brilliant for revealing the meaning of your weird dreams. Okay, this is what you do:
Think of a dream you've had featuring something odd. If you've been reading the Dream Sight Newsletters for long enough you'll know by now that there's no point looking up anything from your dreams in a dream dictionary. Not on. Your dream symbols are about you and your life experiences and one of the best ways to discover exactly what a symbol in your dream means is to ask it.
Yes, that's right. Ask it. These party tricks are called Dialogues. They take pen and paper, or keyboard and fingers and less than 20 minutes.
For your first trick, write down the name of the odd symbol from your dream and then write down your own name. Set a timer for 20 minutes. Don't think about what you're going to write before you start. Just start the clock and start writing a script, beginning with you asking the symbol the first question that pops into your head. Keep writing whatever pops into your head for 20 minutes. By not thinking (by keeping your writing flowing) you are bypassing your left brain. All the work is being done by your unconscious mind and your right brain in the same way that your dreams are created. The mind that created the dream knows what your symbols mean, so it spills the beans.
In this example, Hedda tries the party trick with the cotton reel.
HEDDA
What's with rolling into my dream like you're something special?
COTTON REEL
Rolling in, rolling pin. What's with you rolling up and asking me a direct question like that?
HEDDA
I haven't seen a cotton reel for years.
COTTON REEL
I haven't seen you reel for years either, except for when you got the flu last summer.
HEDDA
Reel? Oh, like dizzy you mean?
COTTON REEL
Rocking, rolling and reeling.
HEDDA
You're confusing me.
COTTON REEL
Head reeling with confusion, hey? Overload.
HEDDA
I've been doing heaps of studying. I can hardly think straight some nights.
COTTON REEL
Haven't you cottoned on yet?
HEDDA
Ha, ha. Very funny. What to?
COTTON REEL
Put it another way. I'm a cotton reel. See anything odd about my appearance?
HEDDA
Umm. No.
COTTON REEL
Where's my cotton?
HEDDA
You're an empty cotton reel. You're the bit in the middle. The reel the cotton was once wound onto.
COTTON REEL
So am I an unwound cotton reel?
HEDDA
No. You're all spun out. You're discarded. You're not a real cotton reel at all. You're just the core. You're a has-been cotton reel.
COTTON REEL
Spun out?
HEDDA
Oh. Spun out and dizzy. Are we going round in circles?
COTTON REEL
I used to go round in circles, round and round and round, spinning and dizzy as all my cotton thread was unwound to sew clothes for other people.
HEDDA
Sew? So? Why did you roll into my dream then?
COTTON REEL
Because I'm you if you don't slow down. You're spinning yourself too thin. You're working so hard you keep losing the threads of your thoughts. You're wearing yourself out. Going threadbare.
HEDDA
Threads of thought, threads of cotton. Ah.
COTTON REEL
Message delivered. I'm outta here.
So Hedda got the message and understood the meaning of the cotton reel in her dream.
Another variation of the Dialogue party trick is to get two symbols from your dream to have the 20 minute no-brain conversation. Check out this one featuring a pair of blue shoes and a lead pipe:
BLUE SHOES
Hi. We're blue shoes. What are you doing here in the middle of the street?
LEAD PIPE
Are you surprised to find me here?
BLUE SHOES
We're shoes. We walk on streets. Streets are for us. Pipes just lay around. You're in our way.
LEAD PIPE
I don't lay around. I have a very important function. I channel things.
BLUE SHOES
What kind of things?
LEAD PIPE
Water, electricity.
BLUE SHOES
We can't see anything.
LEAD PIPE
That's because it's all inside me, see? It looks like I'm just laying here, but there's plenty of movement going on inside me. I give shape to water and show it which way to flow. I deliver electric power to where it's needed.
BLUE SHOES
Why are you made of lead?
LEAD PIPE
Because I am a leader, not a follower.
BLUE SHOES
That's silly.
LEAD PIPE
No, that's dream language.
BLUE SHOES
How can you lead when you don't go anywhere?
LEAD PIPE
Ah, but I do, don't I?
BLUE SHOES
We go everywhere.
LEAD PIPE
Only when someone's wearing you. You follow the feet. You don't lead.
BLUE SHOES
We're the first step of every journey.
LEAD PIPE
I'm the journey. Let the journey lead you every step of the way.
BLUE SHOES
Do you know why we're blue?
LEAD PIPE
Don't question the journey - follow the calling to find your answer.
BLUE SHOES
The pipes, the pipes are calling.
So there you have it. The meaning of the dream featuring the blue shoes and the lead pipe.
Better than anything a dream dictionary could come up with and much more fun.
Dialogue is a serious dream interpretation technique that works wonders on your real dreams, but it can produce some amazingly accurate personal insights when performed with any two odd objects picked at random. Have a go with some of these. Share your results with a friend. Enjoy the fun and then you'll know exactly what to do next time you have an odd dream symbol to bust.
Have a go with these:
Coffee and Bee.
Dollar coin and Watering Can.
Yellow Post-It Note and Sound of a Flute.
Scissors and Clay.
Jane Teresa Anderson
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