posted January 06, 2003 03:01 PM         

1st Dream: A female friend (whose identity is undetermined) and I are outside of my home and a squirrel just jumps on my friend. Being deathly afraid of squirrels, I turn my back on my friend and try to run away but then the squirrel jumps on my back. It is then I wake up terrified out of my sleep.

2nd Dream: My female supervisor from work has kidnapped a little girl and is holding her hostage in my parents bedroom. At some point the little girl is tied up in that room before the supervisor leaves. The little girl struggles and finally gets free of the ropes. She gets out of the house and is walking up a street (not my street) elated to be free and my supervisor's car pulls up beside her with a gun and tells the girl to get in the car. The girl starts crying and gets into the car.

3rd dream: I wake up alone in my room in complete darkness. I walk toward the front of my house in my parents bedroom and look out their window and it is raining and there is no light on the whole street. I pick up the phone(cordless) and try to use it. It comes on (even though there is no electricity) and I forget how to use it. I then lay on my parents bed hoping to wait out the power outage there. I start going back to sleep and wake up and I see the hallway light is on, I look again, and the lights are off again. I drift off again and this time I see the living room light on and there is a man sitting on our old couch facing my parents bedroom with a black jean suit and a red shirt smiling in my direction, playing with a little girl (unidentified-her back is turned to me)with a white shirt and dark pants and then on second glance, they are no longer there. I then get up determined to get whatever it is out of the house and start running in the darkness with my fingers making a cross. I distinctly remember putting the hand cross on the doorway leading from the hall to the dining room. I get to the dining room and I try to turn that light on by hitting the dimmer. The light comes on and I hear something fall. I stop, look down and around and I see nothing so I continue on with the chase. The lights in the living room are on, the man and little girl are no longer there and I see a cousin of a friend of mine. I put the hand cross on her and then she says " That's enough ,Chris, you know I have to go to school." We are about maybe 2 feet from circling back into my parents bedroom.

When I woke up from this dream, I was in complete darkness alone in my room. I walked through the house and the dining room light was on.I wondered why- and I went to push the dimmer light and saw it (the dimmer button)was gone- it had fallen on the floor.
I should probably mention the house that I am at in all 3 dreams is the one that I grew up in as a child and still live in as an adult.

posted January 08, 2003 01:55 PM         

I was hoping some of the other dreamers here could offer some thoughts, and perhaps give CB some other explanations to choose from. It always helps to have more than one perspective!

CB, when I get a chance, I will write out my thoughts so that maybe they will be a bit more clear.

Can anyone offer any thoughts?

posted January 08, 2003 05:34 PM         

When the squirrel shows up look at a few things. Are you too active? Not active enough? Are you focusing too much time gathering and not living?
Why are you afraid of squirrels? Are you afraid of not having enough? Or giving too much?
Seems that by attacking your friend that a situation with giving(or something along the lines of above) will sneak up but you will see it. If you run from it, it will hit you from behind.....You mentioned the house that you lived in. What fears does this house hold for you? Perhaps its time to face your fear/memory.
The 2nd dream seems(to me) say that your creativeness(female) is being held hostage. Do you think that you could do more with your life?

The last one, I only have a few comments. The hall is a place of transition and the dining room would be where you are nourished. The lights going off and on seem to say that help is trying to get through but is being cut off again and again. I think the cross symbol is you trying to rid these 'demons'(who really want to help) by your faith. Sorry to say but I wonder how strong that faith is. No offense, if this is the case, I of all people feel comfortable saying that to you. Do not fear Chris, only good is coming for you. Know this, don't think it, hope it or believe it. KNOW it. Only then can you empty the trash and begin to furnish your house. I wonder about you because I feel very strong towards you. I almost want to comfort you and will all I can. But I feel a strength in you that is wonderful and perhaps then you will comfort me. Listen to Ra(like you don't...how could you not? He's a quiet stream.) All will be well, I feel it.

posted January 09, 2003 03:03 PM         

Dream two: In addition to creativity, could the little girl reflect your childish, joyful, girlie side? That is forced to sleep, put to bed. You tell you live in the house you grew up...have you ever wanted to go somewhere else, but been forced back? (The little girl freeing herself and taking another road). Is there something else you'd like to do in your life, somewhere else you'd like to go? Is this just a childish dream (in the yes of everyone responsible, like your supervisor)?

Third dream: The first thing that struck me here was what you said about the dimmer having fallen to the floor..it reminds me of another thread here at astral realms, about walking/talking in our sleep...
A little girl shows up in this dream, too. Is she your dreamish, childish, creative side? She's in the living room = living = life...The man in the jeans suit and red shirt - could he be you? I don't know the dresscode at your job, but his clothes suggest someone rather free/creative. The dream starts in darkness, the telephone that doesn't work suggests that you can't talk about this, you've forgotten how to talk about this. You're in the bed of your parents - are you living like them? Is this a "sleeping" life? The electricity=energy is gone. The light comes on in the hallway = you see the way out. But then it gets dark again. The light gets on in the living room and you get a glimps of life: The man and girl playing. The dining room is where you're feeding yourself - putting the cross on the doorway here might indicate that you don't believe you can feed yourself (on whatever the playful scenery in life between the jeans man and the girl symbolize), so you'd better chase them out of your house...Your cousin is reminding you of your obligations. Or is she telling you to go back to school?

I feel all three dreams are related. I believe you live a life that maybe was not chosen by you, where you feel tied down and lacking in energy, and that you've got a glimps of what you want, but maybe obligations and fear for not being able to make a living holds you back...

posted January 09, 2003 10:07 PM         

Stella Polaris: Oh my goodness! You are amazing! Most of the things you said were right on point, especially those of having to face things in my childhood, feelings of having to hide my creative side, and of being forced back home (that actually happened.
I mentioned to someone that I felt like the last dream really did happen because it was so real. I work in a free environment-there aren't many stipulations in our dress code, but I don't think the man was me. As a matter of fact, I didn't mention this because I figured no one would know him, but it was a man named Ricky Dillard, a choir director who used to live in Chicago, but moved to Georgia. I saw him in the park and at some church functions. What could he be the dream for? I don't even really know him.Thank you for making my dreams seem so simple, it makes me just that much more interested in knowing what all this means. Ra mentioned that all three of these dreams are related.
Sometimes I really don't believe all of the things that I have been raised to believe but in a way I have been forced to change myself to fit in to what seems like a box-in which I can never be me.The question is then, how do I get out of the box? What is the first step I need to make?

Ra: Thanks, my friend for introducing me to this website and showing me some very different viewpoints on life. I really appreciate it.

posted January 09, 2003 11:50 PM         

Unhappily I cannot help you to interpret your dreams. In spite of dreaming a lot, I am terrible to make dreams interpretations.
I just like to comment on on your question :"Sometimes I really don't believe all of the things that I have been raised to believe but in the way I have been forced to change myself to fit in to what seems like the box-in which I can never be me.The question is then, how do I get out of the box? What is the first step I need to make?"

The first step you already made that it is to realize that you had to adapt yourself to certain ideas that didn't fill you out.

The second is easier and difficult at the same time, because in it you will have to have courage to show your true ideas, to show who you are, your true essence.
You will have to have courage to objected, preferably being nice, the people that raised you, probably your parents...
If you do that, maybe you create some confrontation , initially, but with certainty, in the course of time ( Saturn, the great teacher ) you will be respected for having exhibited your point of view.

Every change is painful, yet, it is better to try and not to get, than to get old and realize that you never got because you never tried...

I was created to be a character. I lived this character for sooo many years, but one day the mask fell, or better saying, I removed the mask and threw it away...
It has been very difficult, but, believe me, I have PEACE !

Take care
Jakie

posted January 15, 2003 01:03 PM         

Jaqueline, thank you as well!