Magical Dream example...

A. Nonymous submitted some dream notes and wished for my reflections on them... I share this, with permission, as one example of how I comment and reflect on dreams. My comments of course are my projections and reflections much as if they were my dreams... The dreamer is the one who decides if it makes sense and is the final authority on his or her dream...

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From A. Nonymous' notes at the time:

 

"I am aware that I am riding a dolphin through the ocean, diving and surfacing. I feel the water and the rough sleekness of the dolphin while holding his fin. We dive to the ocean floor and he is picking up something from the ocean floor. As to takes me back to shore, into the shallow waters, he tosses the object to me - I catch it and see that it is a red purse."

 

JH: I am involved and also observing... I am being taken into the vast expanse of consciousness by the dolphin, a natural guide to this somewhat unconscious area. I am taken along for the ride and yet it is for a purpose and some object that contains valuable energies or other things is retrieved and presented to me...

 

"From the shore I am walking towards a beautiful stand of trees. As I approach closer, I see a path leading through the forest and I am walking along the path which is also following a bubbling river. I see a stone bench next to the bend in the river and sit on the bench, dangling my feet, feeling the breeze and sunshine on my face. Suddenly an eagle circles and lands on the bench next to me and drops a stick-like object on the stone bench and flies off again."

 

JH: I am in a natural setting and notice the beauty and a path ahead... along with life's flowing stream of bubbly energies... I am here is this solid place to relax and take it all in and am being visited by the messenger of Great Spirit ... and am presented with a second gift... could this be a magic wand of some sort?

 

"I am again on the path when I see a Sphinx sitting in the path. As I approach I realize it is actually a lion. He crouches and I mount onto his back and we are traveling through the woods. I am standing on the path again, watching the lion disappear and I look down and I am holding a crystal orb."

 

JH: I am again moving forward and there is a Sphinx just ahead. Then I realize it is alive and is a lion. He makes himself available for me to ride and so I do... and together we are traveling through the natural setting... Now I stand alone on the path again my lion friend disappears and yet it seems I have a 3rd gift of a crystal globe... perhaps symbolizing a completeness or wholeness... and that the answers are contained within as if allowing the crystal ball to be a focus for opening to our expanded 'mind'...

 

These could be classic fairy tales that convey a deep spiritual message... several points I might suggest: What associations or meaning come to you regarding the following:

• Ocean
• Dolphin
• Underwater
• Red Purse
• Forest
• Path
• Eagle
• Stick-like object
• Sphinx
• Lion
• Crystal Orb

Of course some of my projects and associations come through in my reflections above...but it is your dream... also it is good to see what you were feeling in each scene... I get the sense from the descriptions that the whole dream was rather positive... and all seem to be rather powerful and majestic animal totems and energies... might want to research some of the tradition meanings of the animals in native American and other teachings... Also what significance is the Sphinx for you...

 

May want to do some imagery meditation around the red purse, what of value might be inside... what does red signify... to me it brings up root chakra and something about assertion and power... There is definitely much spiritual power in all the images, if it were my dream... what is it that is opening in you... and the crystal ball may be a new ability being shown to you... are you open to using the powers and gifts that Spirit brings into your life?....just a few thoughts.... I could go on, but this gives you something to work with I hope...

 

"I remember thinking at the time that the dream reminded me of a meditation I had participated in previously and thought perhaps I was just recalling that memory in my dream."

 

JH: Meditations and guided visualizations can be much like dream states and the energies elicited can of course carry over since all consciousness is energy and interconnected...

 

"For several months I was unable to recall dreams at all. Recently I have started waking myself up and trying to make sense of my dream, but most are far more disjointed and bizarre than this one was. I had made a note in my journal to try and find out what it all meant."

 

JH: I have found that many dreams are rather disjointed and anything can occur. I assume that our higher Self is trying to get some unknown information through to our conscious mind and past our ego defenses... that is why the dreams are often in symbols... so we need to look at what those symbols mean to us and also pay attention to the energies, dynamics and feelings that are present in the dream... then see if there are similar dynamics in our waking life....

 

Here we have some very special scenes being shared with us. They are probably just as real or more so than the thoughts we attach to them. The magic is in the fact that the wider world of "Mind," most of it unconscious to us, has purpose and direction and moves us toward synthesis and wholeness as a natural part of the process. SO, when we say, "Trust the process," we are referring to this magical mystery tour de force.

 

Comments by John Hutchinson - john@sunhutch.com - Sundance Dream Hutch Blog -Dec. 3, 2012