Conference hydra::dejavu

	Has she been having any issues around nourishment?  Using food
	as a stress reliever?  Over-eating?  Too much alcohol?

	Seems to me that she is nourishing herself with garbage.

	Dan

    
    What I thought of when I read your note is this - 
    
    	Is there something she's holding back, something she wants to
    say to someone but for some reason isn't?
    
    	Or alternatively, is there something she has said or told someone
    that she wishes she hasn't?

.2 
    
    Thats what I asked her.  Is there something you said to someone
    that you wished you wouldn't have?   She couldn't remember.  I did
    tell what .1 said - she said that she ate alot of garbage (unhealthy
    food).  She's always dreamt wierd.  This one goes right along with
    the rest just a little more unusual.
    
    Thanks for the replies
    
    Sandie
    

    
    The "glass in the mouth" brought the term "cutting remarks" to mind.
    Perhaps your sister was tempted to say something cutting to/about
    someone, but held back.  The hitting herself on the back to spit
    out the glass could have been her subconscious purging those nasty
    tasting thoughts.
    
    C.
            
    

My gut reaction to the image your friend dreamed is that
there may be something she wants to say which could be
damaging to someone, but which she hasn't resolved one
way or the other (either say it or not say it).  Or, a 
stronger image, that it may be something she's holding 
back which is very unpleasant to her.  

On the idea of dreaming what's going on with your body, I 
hope it's not inappropriate to share an elaborate recurring 
dream I used to have as a direct result of a physical condition.  

Here goes.  About 12 years ago I went through a long period of 
time of drinking virtually no water, (not too smart, now I
drink lots of water) and drinking 3 or 4 beers each night.  
After months of living like this, my body became so dehydrated 
it craved water, begging me for it with all its resources. 

I began dreaming of softly lit, white caverns with stalagmites
and stalatites.  And water...everywhere.  Tall, slender waterfalls
splashing into pools sparkling, clear and cool.  

A tall, clear crystal goblet of water would appear in my hand,
Sometimes it was shaped like a cornucopia, or a lilly with a 
long stem, or sometimes a wine glass.  When I lifted it to 
my mouth to drink, the water would spill out onto the ground.  
Some times I spent my dream trying to find a glass.  What's amazing 
to me was the elaborate, and beautiful detail of the dreams.  
And all this because I was thirsty.  

FWIW

Karen

    re: .5
    
    Pat yourself on the back - even your dream description made me thirsty.
    :-)
    
      
    What comes to my mind when I consider the dream of .0 is that there
    is something that she can't "stomach".  There is some aspect of
    her life that is "hard to swallow" and she is actively (by slapping
    herself on the back) trying to avoid or get rid of a situation,
    
    
    herself on the back) trying to avoid a situation.
    
    Guy
    
    
    

    I think .5 makes a good point in that our dreams are not always
    as DEEP as we'd like to think they are. Often we have elaborate
    dreams to simply tell ourselves "we're thirsty"..."we're hungry"
    or some other basic need. There's always that tendancy to overanalyze
    because dreams are typically very strange and we assume they must
    have some great significance in our lives. Perhaps we sometimes
    lose sight of the obvious in our quest to be analytical. 
    On this premise, I'd be more inclined to guess the dreamer had a
    cankor sore or perhaps ate something crunchy before retiring. 
    
                                        mark 

RE: .7 (Mark)

    > There's always that tendancy to overanalyze because dreams are 
    > typically very strange and we assume they must have some great 
    > significance in our lives. 

    I disagree.  I think most of our dreams have a specific meaning,
    a message that, if figured out, can be effectively applied in our
    lives.  I say this from personal experience.  I've recorded all
    of my (recalled) dreams for over two years now and very rarely
    do I have one that isn't trying to tell me something.  Over this 
    period I have averaged somewhere between one and three dreams a night 
    so this accounts for probably well over 1000 dreams.  Definite patterns
    develop over periods of time as well that aren't seen when working
    on a dream by dream basis.  We have lots to learn about them and
    from them.

    Terry

    re .8 (terry) 
    
    Don't get me wrong, I too believe that many dreams have meanings
    or as you say "trying to tell us something" but I think it's important
    to consider the simple or obvious interpretation before jumping
    to elaborate conclusions. 
    
                                   -Mark 

    Mark, a very good point.  I now have a recurring nightmare about
    swallowing poison.  I used to get a "ticklish" throat in the
    evening which would have developed into a raging sore throat by
    morning, since I would irritate my throat by repeated swallowing.
    With my nightmare, I don't do much swallowing while I sleep any
    more...
    
    As methods go for preventing sore throats, this is pretty drastic.
    But my subconscious has always been the crude sort, so I don't
    expect anything better from her.
    
    						Ann B.

    I've never heard of repeated swallowing as causing a sore throat. 
    Swallowing coats and moistens your throat, which should relieve a sore 
    throat UNLESS you have an infection (for example, a sinus infection) 
    which is coating your throat with with the infecting agent and spreading 
    the infection into your throat.  In that case, drinking something to
    move the mucous away (juice or seltzer water, since the citric aci can
    burn an already irritated throat) and steam is your best recourse. 
    This will keep your throat moist and help move the infecting mucous out
    of the area.
    
    A tickling sensation in your throat is normally caused by too much 
    mucous (which is produced in the vicinity of your vocal cords, in order 
    to keep them moist).  If you clear your throat (ahem) in order to
    relieve the tickling, it will make the problem worse because when you
    clear your throat you are actually "clapping" your vocal cords.  The
    clapping irritates the cords, which causes you produce more mucous to
    relieve the irritation, which causes you to clear your throat more, and
    so on.  
    
    Mary 

    Mary, 
    
      Thank you for this info. Just yesterday I went to the doctors
    because I was constantly clearing my throat, In fact I was doing
    it so much that it was causing pains in my head!! Why couldn't my
    doctor tell me what you said????
    
    thanks, 
    
    Sue
    

                                                  
    Re.12 (Nelson)
    
    >Why couldn't my doctor tell me what you said????
    
    'Tis frustrating isn't it.
    
    A wonderful friend of mine recently explained to me where my migraines
    REALLY begin.  They don't begin in the head area.  They begin in the
    stomach area (for me).  When I start to get one now, I focus on
    relaxing the solar plexus/stomach area, and bingo, the migraine stops
    (most of the time).  Relaxing my head area never did a thing, and now I
    know why.  I used to get stomach pains right around the time a migraine
    started, and thought that they were _caused_ by the head pain, so the 
    insight my friend provided me with helped me to approach the problem 
    from an entirely different perspective.
    
    Now, after many years of seeing a 'specialist' and taking preventative
    medicine, it looks like I might be able to eventually control them on 
    my own from within.  There are miracles.......
    
    Cindy

    re: .12
    
    Don't be to hard on your doctor.  I learned this primarily from 2 voice
    teaches and one internationally known autolaryngologist.  So it took
    one medical specialist and two singers!
    
    Mary
    

    regarding the basenote.  I have had dreams of eating glass and also
    of my teeth falling out.  I have no idea what they mean but your
    sister isn't the only one with bizzare dreams!

    Re: .15, I have had dreams about my teeth falling out for probably
    the past 15 years.  I have these particular dreams about a dozen
    times each year.
    The teeth seem to fall out of my mouth one at a time.  
    They get loose, wiggle alittle then they fall out.  I make a
    big deal of it, but no one else in the dream sees anything unusual
    about it.                                           
    
    What could it mean????
    
    Nance

    Re "teeth falling out":
    
    Conventional psychiatric (Freudian) symbolism on loss of teeth seems
    to have some bearing on one's ability to perform, or, by extension,
    to have power or effectiveness, I've read.  If so, I'd imagine that
    tooth-loss dreams imply finding oneself in a situation where one
    is unable to bring his or her full power to bear on a problem.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    

    I've heard of the Freudian explanation before, but it's interesting for
    me to note that I never had dreams of losing my teeth until after age
    5 or so, when I started losing my baby teeth.  I wonder if losing dream 
    teeth, for me, symbolizes the traumatic aspect of transformation and
    maturing?  I certainly freaked when my first baby tooth got loose and
    fell out.  I was afraid I had damaged myself somehow, that it was my
    fault, that I end up both mutliated and punished.  So I didn't tell a
    soul (and certainly not my parents) about the tooth, and actually got
    through a day or so after it fell out without them noticing.  When they
    were excited and pleased by what they considered a perfectly normal
    event, even gave me _money_ for it (remember the tooth fairy?) I was
    confused, but relieved and delighted that I was growing up, that
    nothing was wrong and that I hadn't _done_ anything wrong -- and
    inwardly weak from what seemed like countless days of held-in terror.
    
    Whenever I have teeth-falling-out dreams, the echo of my original fear
    permeates the dream.
    
    Marcia