Conference hydra::dejavu

Maybe...

in your life you feel you have some "tangles" and this dream is telling 
you it is not something you should be worrying about?  Also, it may be
suggesting that you 'let go' in a certain situation.

Just a coupel thoughts,
Terry

    Dreams are truely amazing.  I find that I usually have problem solving
    dreams.  Meaning, if I am struck with problems or unaswered questions
    in my awake hours, I try to solve them and some times make up solutions
    in my dreams.  My mother on the other hand will have bad horror
    dreams when she is faced with problems.  They usually do not contain
    content from her awake problem.
    
    I find it is easy for me to awake from a dream (maybe to hit the
    snooze bar another time) and quickly fall back into the dream I
    just left.  I close my eyes and think about the image I last remember.
    Soon I fall back a sleep and the dream continues.

    .0 ...your dream reminds me of one I used to have as a child:
    I'd be walking around my house and nobody would there. Finally 
    I'd find my mother seated in a dark room in the cellar playing 
    poker with a bunch of strange looking characters. She'd even 
    have one of those "poker visors". I'd look to her to explain 
    what the hell was going on and she'd just smile this knowing 
    smile like everything was alright similar to your partyers  
    oblivion to the disaster. 

    	Last night I was dreaming about my Soulmate's hands when the
    	poster above my bed fell on my head and woke me up from the
    	dream.  I rather like the symbolism!
    
    						   Carla
    

    I feel a certain ring of truth to Terry's reply (892.1).  To what
    he says, I would add that it seems indicative (ot me, of course)
    of the idea that peace of mind and positive feelings do not depend
    on "going" anywhere (that's what cars are for, right?), do not depend
    on possibly disastrous physical circumstances (wrecked cars) or
    previous intense emotional tormoil (intense storm).  Love and happiness
    are still possible despite seemingly bad physical reality.
    
    How do you feel (in the dream) when greeting the people in this dream?
    Do you feel puzzled that they seem so happy, even though their vehicles
    are wrecked?  Do you long to be happy like them?  Sometimes it is
    illuminating to recall the feelings you have while in the dream.
    
    If my thoughts on the dream's meaning are right, I wish this kind
    of dream for myself.  It would represent to me that I'd made great
    strides.  A more typical dream for me right now would be to dream
    that I came out and saw the wrecked cars, that the people came out
    all happy and then went into spasms of shock and anger at the state
    of their cars, and then ganged up on me, blaming me somehow for
    either not warning them of the storm, or something...
    
    Marcia

    Re: .0
    
    It's difficult to interpret a dream for somebody else, but I
    can tell you what I think it might mean to me if I had it.
    Since we're of the same species (human)...then maybe it would
    hold some value for you too. ;^)
    
    You came out of the building and noticed that something had
    gone on (a storm), but now it was quiet.  You also saw people
    acting unusually for the situation.  This might mean to me, 
    that I felt that things were happening without my awareness...
    and that I didn't understand the way people were acting.  I
    know that seems simple...but that's what it would mean to me.
    You said this dream occurs before your meetings with a 
    particular person?  Perhaps you have these feelings (or others)
    about this person, and they're being expressed in your dream.
    
    Jerri

    Just found this note through a keyword search because last night
    I had of the most bizarre and realistic dreams I've ever had.
    I just can't shake off the "feeling" of the dream, and I'm really
    stumped about an interpretation for it:
    
    I dreamed that I was waking up.  The room was much lighter than
    it usually is, and the light was "different".  Also, things in the
    room looked subtly "different" in a way I couldn't quite define.
    I got up and, looking out the slider doors, saw that it was sunny
    and warm outside, and the grass and trees were green.  I asked my
    husband "What day is it?"  He laughed and said "Wednesday".  The
    more I looked around the house, the more I noticed that things were
    just a little different than the night before.  I asked my husband
    what month it was, and he looked at me really strangely and said
    "Are you still half asleep, or what?  It's July."
    
    I had the most overwhelming feeling of panic and said "But last
    night it was December!  It was Tuesday, December 20th!" (I even
    got the date right in the dream).  My husband was laughing, thinking
    I was joking, but I could see he was getting nervous.  I was crying
    by this point, because I knew it really _was_ July, and saying "I'm
    not joking, the last thing I remember is going to bed in December!
    I don't remember Christmas, New Year's, our birthdays, anything!"
    I asked my husband what I had been doing all this time - had I been
    asleep?  Or had I been getting up and going to work and everything
    I usually do?  He said I'd seemed perfectly normal, he hadn't noticed
    anything different about me at all.  
    
    I was getting really hysterical, trying to remember _anything at all_ 
    about the past six months and just couldn't.  I remember thinking
    I couldn't go to work, because I'm a DECtemp, and I wouldn't know  
    where my assignment was, or what I was doing, or who I was working
    with.
    
    My husband brought me out in the backyard where there was a vegetable 
    garden full of vegetables, and said "Don't you remember this?  You
    helped me plant it."  But I didn't remember it and that's where the
    dream ended.
    
    This whole dream was _so real_!  Every detail of my house was right, 
    every reaction of my husband's was just what I'd expect it to be.
    I just can't stop thinking about this dream, and it makes me very 
    uneasy to think about it.  Interpretations welcome!!! 
    
                             ...Lisa V...
     

    <.7
      Write everything you can remember about your dream and put it
    in a safe place.  Then wait and see what the month of July brings
    you.  Thing of the way the house and the garden looked in your dream
    and record as much as you can remember down to the smallest detail.
    

Is there any event, maybe work related, where you feel you are 'losing
time' or getting behind?  The theme, to me, suggests that you are in
a situation where you feel like you've perhaps missed out on some
things and feel lost because of it.  Is something going on in your
life where you may be 'asleep', not aware of what is going on?  
The uneasy feeling may be a way to alert you to 'wake up' to whatever
the dream is suggesting.  Anyway, these are the things that come mind.  
With any dream, the dreamer is the best interptreter so take this as 
opinion.

Terry

Hi Lisa,

	don't let your dream worry you too much. There are
	many reports of such 'close to reality' dreams in the
	literature. It would appear to me that you are very
	close to what's called lucid dreaming - where your
	dream seems very real and you *realise* you are 
	dreaming. I suggest you go to sleep intending to dream
	a similar kind of dream and this time, using the 
	subtle differences about house and garden, realise
	you are dreaming and yet remain asleep. Do this for
	no better reason than that lucid dreaming is reportedly
	very rewarding. 

	For something to read try the Patricia Garfield book referred
	to elsewhere in this conference as a starting point.

John D.

         Re: .0
    
         Is it possible that the "particular person" who precipitates
    this dream is involved in drugs? 
    
         The word "snow" is slang for "cocaine," and to "park your
    carcass" simply means to "sit down."  The party seems to have
    been a real blast ("hurricane") in which numerous entanglements,
    which were forgiven later, occurred.  And the dream appears to
    take place the morning after the night before.
    

    I HAVE HAD A DREAM IN WHICH I AM SHOT AND KILLED.  I AM WONDERING
    IF OTHERS HAVE HAD THIS TYPE OF DREAM.  MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT
    IF YOU HAVE DIED IN A DREAM YOU DIE FOR REAL.  I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE
    THAT THIS IS NOT TRUE.  I HAVE ALSO DREAMED I WAS IN A PLANE THAT
    CRASHED.  AS THE PLANE IS HURLED TO EARTH I AM RECITING THE "OUR
    FATHER" PRAY OVER AND OVER.  WHEN THE PLANE HITS THE GROUND IN A
    THUNDEROUS CRASH, I AM OVERCOME WITH A SENSE OF PEACE AND UNITY.
    
    I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED IN DREAMS.  THE
    DREAM IN WHICH I WAS SHOT AND KILLED WAS INTERESTING BEACAUSE I
    KNEW THESE THREE MEN WERE COMING TO SHOOT ME, I FELT THIS WAS DESTINY,
    WHEN THEY CAME AND KILLED ME I REALIZED THEIR PAIN WAS ACTUALLY
    GREATER THAN MINE.  I FELT PITY AND COMPASSION FOR THEM.  AS THE
    DREAM CONTINUED I TRAVELED DOWN A CORRIDOR OF MULTI-COLORED "LEAVES"
    A MOSAIC HALLWAY---I BELIEVE I EXPERIENCED WHAT OTHERS TERM A NEAR
    DEATH EXPERIENCE IN MY DREAM!!!!!
    
    ANY COMMENTS????
    
    ATM
    

    I have had a dream in which I died, that has stayed with me for years.
    
    I was to have an operation, and as I lay on the table, I was aware of 
    everything going on around me, but had no way of communicating to the 
    people working on me. I could feel the pressure, not the pain of the 
    knife as they cut through my stomach, and even feel the warmth of the 
    blood as some dripped on my arm. The dream was in color, and very vivid.
    
    At one point, there was a great deal of movement, and people were 
    concerned with my response. I was dieing on the table and they were 
    working to keep me alive. While that was going on, I was fighting with 
    every ounce of will I had to stay alive. At one point I had started to 
    lift from my body, and used everything I could find to cling on. I was 
    willing myself to stay with my body, and not to let go. This intense 
    situation lasted for a few minutes, when people in the operating room 
    started to relax, and my body functions started to come back under 
    control. I was still using every drop of strength I had to keep myself 
    alive, when this little voice very close to me said, "it's OK, you can
    relax now" 
    
    Well, I relaxed, and the second I did, I was up and out of my body, with a 
    sensation that I was moving away faster and faster. I could see the people
    and hear them, and see myself on the table, getting further and further 
    away, and things getting more and more quiet. Gradually, things got black, 
    and there was no feeling, and less and less movement, until there was
    nothing. No sense of up, down, movement, physical feeling of any kind. I
    remember feeling OK about this, but wondering if this was what it was 
    like to be dead. Actually I remember thinking a lot of things. I was fully
    aware of myself, but myself had no physical essence. It was quite
    interesting.
    
    I don't know how long I stayed like this, because there was no sense of 
    time, but little by little, I started to get a sense of being, more than 
    just my thought, and I started to feel movement. This grew, and then very 
    slowly a sense of light and presence was felt. As I felt myself moving 
    toward this source of light, I grew aware of other beings just starting 
    to take shape, and their surroundings. At this point, I remember a 
    thought that flashed at me, "I'm going to see the other side". As I said 
    it, I awoke. I was very, very disappointed. Sad actually. The dream had a 
    very real feeling to it, and has stayed with me, in the sense that I can 
    close my eyes and see any aspect of it any time I want, for over 15 years.
                                           
    Jerry 

    

    First... ATM...STOP USING ALL CAPS PLEASE!!!
    
    Second, I have had many dreams where I was being killed, and already
    dead.  I don't know what they mean or why they keep happening.
    
    S

    I had an interesting dream when I was 11 (I am now 36). Even to
    this day it is as vivid as ever. I was on a motercycle in a surburban
    neighborhood when I was suddenly shot in the back. I could feel
    the burning and the pain, I felt the bike sliding out from under
    me and my leg as it began to scrape the pavement. Everything I
    felt was from the viewpoint of the being the person on the bike.
    Then everything changed instead of being the person on the bike
    I was looking down on the scene from above, I could see the person
    who shot me running away and I could see people running toward my
    body on the ground. I saw a woman bend down and start to scream
    that I was dead. I desperately tried to communicate with them that
    I was'nt dead but right above them. I wanted to tell them that 
    everything was o.k., but they could not hear me. I knew that it
    really was me on the bike and that I had been killed but I also
    knew that death was not something to fear. I woke up very confused
    and then I got so scared that I began to cry. I ran into my parent's
    bedroom and woke them up and told them about the dream. They both
    told me that you can't dream something that you have never experienced.
    I insisted that I just had!!
    
    From that day to this I have never been afraid of death. Years later
    when I read about near-death experiences I was convinced that death
    was not something to fear and that my dream minus the "Bright Light"
    and tunnel was similar to many of those I had read about. It has
    made me very curious about the next phase of my life/existance.
    
    Michael

    It is my feeling that death in a dream or the Death Card when drawn
    in a Tarot reading symbolize a transformation or signal that some
    process has been completed and a new one started.  It could also
    be a message from your subconscious to you that there is something
    you need to let go of - get thru and progress.  Depending on the
    dream content or the cards surrounding the Death card in Tarot would
    give you clues as to the whole message.
    
    tj
    
    

    I have a few re-curring dreams.
    
    1:  I'll be just hanging around talking with people and my teeth will
    feel loose.  Then they feel crumbly and I'll end up spitting a few out,
    in pieces! (Gross!!) Weird!  There is never any blood or  anything...
    The next thing I know, I am in another place and my teeth are fine!
    (My teeth are okay, but my two front ones are capped because of a car
    accident I was in, in High School.  And I do FEAR the dentist VERY
    MUCH!)
    
    2:  I'm in High School, very popular, I own this really cool red
    sportscar.  I never go to my history and english classes.  (I did hate
    these subjects when I was in school.  I wasn't real popular, but did
    have a lot of friends.  Didn't even have my drivers license in high
    school)  I'm at my locker and can never remember the combination, so I
    use this as an excuse to skip history and english and go out with
    friends cruising..... (Also, I hardly ever skipped classes..) And I
    always wake up feeling really great, like I had such a good time.
    
    3:  I dream I am flying, or rather coating thru the air.  I am not in a
    plane and I am not a bird.  Just two nites ago I had this type of
    dream.  I was in my back yard playing with kittens.  The next thing I
    knew, I was running, and there was a ledge, not too high or anything,
    maybe as high as the second floor of a house, I just kept going.  I
    kind of spread my arms out then back and I coasted.  I remember going
    by a third story window, where I caught my reflection.  Next thing I
    knew, I was standing on the ground.....  (One of my goals in life is to
    get my pilots license...Also, I love cats and kittens.  I have three
    cats (they are all males) and when I was growing up I had two cats, and
    they always had a litter of kittens each, every summer)
    
    Interpretations welcome!!
    
    			-=Doreen=-
    
    

    Doreen -1
    
    Regarding your recurring dream of losing teeth -- I use to have that
    exact same one!  But haven't had it in a long time.  A few years ago I
    discovered that my sister also has the same dream of teeth becoming
    loosened and then falling out!  Hmmm.  Are there such things as 
    "dream archetypes"?
    
    I don't feel my talents lie in dream interpretation, but I can tell you
    this.  My recurring loosened teeth dream would seem to always happen
    around situations in waking life that I found myself feeling *powerless* 
    in....as I felt powerless in my dream to be able to do anything to keep 
    my teeth from eventually falling out.  (It was a horrible feeling.)
    
    Fwiw....
    
    karen.*

    Hi, Karen,
    
      Back (way back) in a high school psychology course we spent time with
    dreams interpretation from the Freudian slant. This is actually a
    fairly common dream (losing teeth). Ol' Sigmund thought it meant
    anxiety about losing one's sexual power (for lack of a better term -
    this *is* a family-type conference isn't it? ;-)). Now, please, take
    this with a (large) grain of salt since Freud seemed to relate
    *everything* to sexuality.  Also, I'm working on 10+ years of long term
    memory here.
    
    Gil

    Hi Gil!
    
    Thanks for that pointer to Freud's work.  Sure, I can definately see
    where this dream interpretation of an anxiety of losing one's sexual
    power could apply to me.... in fact that says a lot about the
    situation/relationship I was involved in back then!  Thanks!  That fits
    too, since I know over the past several years I have re-claimed my
    sexual power and no longer have that "nasty-gross" dream.
    
    (.....and btw, isn't it *you* who owes me mail now, dude?!  :-)))  
    Ya see bro, this is how *karma* sorta works! :-)))
    
    Hee hee,
    
    karen.*