Dreams, Dream Analysis

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Comment by Keren on November 5, 2009 at 8:28am

Becky - I love cats too and have all sorts of dreams about them...

NIght before last was a doozy. I posted it on my Dragon Journal though...I thought it fit better there.

Comment by Keren on October 31, 2009 at 6:58pm

Serendipity...It wakes me up - out of my sleep. She used to call my name, her voice clear as a bell, whose ring invited me to run outside and play. Now she sounds a little less playful, and has brought some of her friends along. There is a place in my ear that hears it. I lay there and wait to hear more...

Comment by Becky on September 7, 2009 at 3:54pm

I am a cat lover, and cared for many of them, enjoying their lives and grieving their deaths. So I assumed it was just natural that I would often dream about cats.

It would usually happen that I arrived at some place in town where I was to stay temporarily with a group I was traveling with (various unknown but companionable folks). Outside I would discover one or more cats (usually from those I had had which had since gone back to spirit) wandering around. They were always friendly enough, but they seemed inclined to wander off, and I would try urgently to contain them to protect them from all kinds of dangers that I knew were "out there." Sometimes the cats would be kittens, and sometimes the kittens were SO tiny, like the size of mice or smaller, tiny miniature kitties that you could step on like a bug if you weren't careful. I would be in a panic to contain and protect them. Then I would wake up, without having accomplished my goal.

I later realized that the cats were symbols of those things which I hold dear: my right-brain creativity and childlike playfulness, which I feel in danger of losing while I am struggling in the left-brain world to make a living and deal with the culture around me. I am afraid that my carefree inspiration, the nurturance of my spirit, is going to dry up and blow away while I toil to maintain my physical existence.

I feel grief as I write this; I still wrestle with this today. I just thought I would include it here as an example of how symbols in dreams often mean things that are not immediately obvious.

Comment by adagio on August 20, 2009 at 6:02am

So glad you started this group, Keren. We should have a psychotherapist and Christian psychic on board to guide us though. :) Hearing the voice of God in dreams? Or just my inner self? ... Great that Steven posted this dream dictionary.

Comment by Steven Fouse on August 9, 2009 at 6:48pm

I have a great dream dictionary that I use almost weekly:

http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Dreams-Understand-dreams-messages/dp/1865155683/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249861691&sr=1-1

Enjoy!

Comment by Paula on July 31, 2009 at 9:08am

I'll have to be honest. I rarely remember my dreams and if I do they don't seem to have any meaning, but I'm very interested in the topic.

I did have one the other night that I woke up from that was immediately significant. I had spent way too much money on phones that day when getting a new cellular plan - twice as much as I had originally planned and it broke me, plus put $ on a credit card that I'm trying to pay off. I dreamed I was in a cave that was only big enough for me to fit in (don't know how I got in and I'm a little on the claustrophobic side - you will never find me in a cave). There was a small opening above me and one below me that there was no way to get through. And then wouldn't you know, snakes appeared first above me and then below me. I got that meaning right away!

Comment by Greg Kirk on July 30, 2009 at 11:46pm

Keren:
What a great idea. God continues to speak through dreams. Symbols in dreams are often encoded with great messages for us. I look forward to being a part of this new group.
Love, Greg