posted November 24, 2004 12:28 PM         

I called my mom to see if she knew what it was. I told her all about it, and all she did was start crying hysterically. I started freaking out, and apparently I guess touching this thing, it was deadly? I began to furiously wash my hands and told everyone who had touched it not to come near me...

then I woke up so I couldn't figure out what was going on...

posted November 25, 2004 03:20 AM         

I could be wrong, but this one seems to go pretty deep. Rather than current events, this one feels like it is tied into your basic psychology, your psyche. I would like to devote some time thinking about this dream before I jump to any conclusions, and I'll do so as soon as I can. (it may be several days or so)

My first general impression is that this has to do with unconscious material, perhaps supressed, and perhaps not very pleasant. It may also have to do with family or your mother directly, and perhaps with feelings of guilt and/or panic.

I would like to be wrong about this so far ... any thoughts or feelings about it yet VirgoTT?

posted November 25, 2004 07:58 PM         

It also makes a lot of sense when you mention basic psychology/the psyche. It's something that's consistently been on my mind lately, as I've been looking at other people and how they act/react and just generally live life.

posted December 01, 2004 01:23 PM         

I did some searching on what robots themselves mean in dreams, and I came across this: "Living on auto-pilot, absence of awareness, being mindless or thoughtless. Absence of heart and soul, emotional deadness"

I'd think the auto-pilot one applies most, since I don't think anything else listed applies since I have been doing a lot of soul-searching and just trying to understand life. Also, auto-pilot would make sense, as the robot was moving sooooo slow in my dream! And I do have an intense fear of inertia/ getting stuck in a rut/ just moving through life without a 2nd thought...which could be why I reacted so strongly to the robot as if it was poisonous.

posted December 01, 2004 03:14 PM         

I apologize for the delay, I have not forgotten about you. I have my thoughts all written out, I just have to find a few moments to post them. Hopefully I'll be able to do so in the morning.

posted December 02, 2004 04:17 AM         

Whenever this material approaches some glimmering of awareness, it becomes "very still" within your consciousness so not to be detected, as if it does not exist, because the truth of the experience that lies behind it is too much to handle. It is "creepy" stuff.

It could be that this unconscious material represents an experience/event/happening that occurred in your early childhood, something you experienced innocently that had negative implications and that affected you subconsciously in a negative manner. Some part of you changed because of your exposure to this experience (deadly) and your mind/psyche has been trying to cleanse itself ever since (wash hands furiously).

It could also be that your mother has knowledge about this experience but has supressed it herself, and from this perhaps she has projected her own guilt upon you, causing you to feel guilty at times for no reason.

Does this make sense to you at all? Does anything feel right?

posted December 04, 2004 03:15 AM         

Anywho...yup, definitely have chosen to learn about myself! And right now I'm digging into my un/subconcious, trying to find that dark, primitive material! I found out it's threatening and scary, just like the animal-thing was in my dream.

I loved the part about how the animal-thing functioned connects to how the material sort of hides from me when I look for it. So true!

Makes me definitely wonder what this experience is, especially if my mother may have guilt about it. I can remember a lot of bad things that happened when I was really young, but none of them are making my mind happy...it's like I haven't found that material yet....

So yeah its definitely right, and in my studies about my astrological transits, its eerily right on in that too.

On a side note, this morning I had a dream that had quite a bit of similarities to the robot/animal dream, and I think it's because I'm now conciously trying to get that material. This one was neat, and I don't understand why during all of my waking hours today, I found deep pleasure in part of it...basically, I was locked up in an asylum, which turns out was actually that same college from the last dream. I think my mother had put me there, and I kept trying to get her to tell me why I was there and she wouldn't, she was rather unkind and ignored me. I somehow had my laptop, radio and cell phone hidden in my room in the asylum, and no one who worked there knew I had them and I could use them. Also I found it funny that Jake Gyllenhaal, the actor from Donnie Darko, was a volunteer worker there and he was extremely kind to me and wanted to help me escape...