posted May 03, 2005 01:47 PM         

This is a place I remember from my dreams coz I have been there in my dreams atleast twice before.
I reach it through two ways:through a mountainous road
or a tree lined dry looking road alongside a canal.
The hilly road is green and piney…like the Himalayas
The canal road is dry and dusty…and after traveling for some time you reach a sort of an institute with many two or three floored buildings.you take a turn from there and enter this place which is a natural national park/zoo.

It’s in the shape of a rectangle usually,the canal surrounds it like a moat.
There are cages where animals are.It does not give me a happy feel.
The animals are not happy…they are violent sometimes.

Yesterday,I reached it through the mountain road.
I met a young elephant in a cage the door of which was open.I knew it was a young elephant but actually it looked exactly like a young boy…very beautiful with dark curly hair and dark sparkling eyes…around four years of age.
I loved him from the moment I saw him…to the extent that I did not go further to see any other animals.
he came out and I held him close looking down into his beautiful eyes overwhelmed with total love and total tenderness and also sadness.he looked up at me…my beautiful child…and we stood like that for a long time.I was sad that he had to stay in that zoo,in that cage and that I could do nothing for him…I knew we would be separated soon.
I felt like his mother…like he was a long lost child….and as I stood holding him,I found him wanting to suckle at my breasts and I cried.
Then it was time to go and I told him not to forget me and to look for me…and we both knew this saying in our minds ‘elephants never forget’.
The next scene was that of a chowk( a chowk is an Indian marketplace…lots of houses cluttered together,crowd of people…)I have a hazy recollection of being a man…looking out of a window and seeing this elephant,huge and grown up now,searching for me.I met its eye….and I knew that it remembered me.

posted May 03, 2005 03:03 PM         

I had a dream with a similar theme some days ago...
when a little newly born calf(white with huge dark brown eyes) has been left with me to comfort because its mother (an old white cow)is being taken away
I comfort the shivering calf hold it close to me and then it turns into a baby in my arms who is sleeping.
At this point I hear my mom call out to me in real life but I dont reply to her coz I think in my dream tht if i speak the baby will wake up.

posted May 05, 2005 04:23 AM         

Very interesting dreams. Feels spiritual, impressions of past-lives, reincarnation ... not sure about the final message, but the experience of these dreams seems pretty intense. I'll have to give it some thought.

What do you think, firelights? How do you feel about these dreams ... or how do they make you feel?

posted June 01, 2005 02:47 AM         

night of 27th may

I’m at NID(the institute where I’m going) and while my parents are busy with something,I sneak out to do some exploring.NID is next to the ocean(in the dream,in real life,its next to a river)and I discover a paragliding kit.Then I’m gliding all over NID,and the place is divided into separate partitions by narrow walls…each partition contains some animal.The ocean is abound with dolphins.As I glide,I land at one spot,only to realize I’m in the lion’s partition and so I take off again immediately.I do this for the whole day.When I finally land,I stack the kit and am walking towards my parents,when I see this little puppy,dark brown,staring at me.Im filled with love for it again.

posted June 01, 2005 02:47 AM         

Im at school…(I left school four yrs back),and while at school I discover that the building of NID(the national school of design,coz thts where I'm going now) adjoins my school building.So I grab hold of a friend and tell him that I’ve found NID and lets go check it out.
Once again it’s a round/rectangular area surrounded by a road….and this road is very narrow,fallen leaves cover it,so I tell my friend to be careful and make a thud thud sound with his feet while he walks so he does not step on a snake by chance.It is dark…late evening I think.
I’m scared of snakes and wild animals in the dream…so I hang on to this friend. as we walk,we cover almost three sides of this rectangular area,when all of a sudden,we are surrounded by wild bears/lions…a huge group.We are surrounded by them but they still haven’t noticed us so I think there is a chance to slip away unnoticed but then small cats(like jaguars) grab our feet and we scream.That is when the wild bears/lions also notice us…and I see some people coming from the other side…but I'm really scared…but I think…hey!we did it wrong….I am thinking and also telling this friend : if we had stopped at the beginning to observe and listen carefully,we would have seen or atleast heard these animals and we wouldn’t have come.So I go back in time…and I find myself at the entrance,listening for sounds of animals…

Me, my dad and my mom are in this national park.It is heavily forested and snakes lurk under the fallen leaves and grass.There is a small room where one can stay and there I find my cousin sleeping inside a trunk.Then me dad n mum go by bus to a place where we will see lions but we don’t and we are coming back in this bus disappointed.I am standing on the door of the bus and I see that a lion has come to drink water from a pond next to the road…and I turn around to ask the driver to stop only to find that the driver is missing and the bus is being driven by nobody.Many other scenes pass by a lioness hunting,a wild stag but the bus will not stop coz there is no driver to stop it.
The bus finally stops when we reach the same place with a tiny room.Here my dad tells us that he is going off alone into the forest to find lions but me and my mom stop him from going.I go back into the room to find my cousin still sleeping in the trunk.She simply refuses to come out.

posted June 01, 2005 03:00 AM         

Ra,you asked me how the dream makes me feel and whether I think it might be reincarnation related.
I cant put a finger on how it makes me feel except that im glad for these dreams.I treasure them as symbols or reassurances of a spiritual,inner life.I have three twelfth house planets including neptune and I feel they give an intensity to my dream life so it becomes a parallel reality.
I dont know about incarnation.I cant say.

posted June 04, 2005 04:01 AM         

Maybe your dreams do relate to your brother, that is a very interesting possibility.

And I love what you said ... "I cant put a finger on how it makes me feel except that im glad for these dreams.I treasure them as symbols or reassurances of a spiritual,inner life.I have three twelfth house planets including neptune and I feel they give an intensity to my dream life so it becomes a parallel reality."

With all of this in mind, I will look at these dreams again, along with the others you posted. I'll do that as soon as I can.

Thank you for sharing your dreams firelights.