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Lei_Kuei
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posted June 02, 2005 09:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lei_Kuei     Edit/Delete Message

I had this dream a few months ago about a close friend of mine where she appears as a Mermaid and Id appreciate your opinions on its meaning.

The dream started off with me in a Farmhouse in what I believe to be a Kitchen/Dinning Room. The ceilings were very high, the walls were white and there were shelves to hold plates and various other kitchen objects on the wall in front of me, which reached right to the top of the ceiling.

In the centre of the room was a rather large Farmhouse style table, it was of rectangular shape, wooden and the long side of it was facing me. Seated at the table where two women wearing Amish style clothing. They were seated with there backs to me on the long side of the table which was facing me.

Between them there was an empty chair and so I sat down between the two of them. The women on the left turned to me and said “would you like something to eat”. However at this point my attention had been drawn towards the top right hand corner of the room close to the ceiling where on the wall there was a large wooden plague with a massive “swordfish style “fish placed on it.

Now what caught my attention was the fact that this fish had an aura that was glowing with all the colours of the rainbow. It was really a beautiful sight which was forcing me to smile as I sat there in awe of this strange looking fish.

At this point an old man came into the room from behind my right shoulder, he was wearing a farmer style cap and work clothes which were splattered with mud. He stopped for a moment when he noticed me sitting there, glanced at the fish…. Smiled and walked over to the cupboard in front of me which lay at the other side of the table.

He now had his back to me and I once again looked toward the fish in the corner. A few moments later the man was now seated in front of me and he had placed a pitch black loaf of bread on the table that made me feel nervous. He looked at me and said “Here you should try some of this… its really good” I felt rather apprehensive about it but then the women to my right now turned to me and said “Its ok, its just seaweed bread, try it.”

I felt a bit calmer at this point and the farmer/man then took a knife and cut the loaf of bread in half and turned the two inside ends towards me. I could now see the inside clearly and the bread inside the black crust was glowing white and had a very calming effect on me.

He offered me a single slice and I started eating it. It tasted like ordinary white bread and again I started to look at the fish. The man now too turned to look at the fish and then looked back at me and now I was now looking directly at him.

He said “Nobody has ever caught a fish like that before, never in all my years have I seen another like it, How did you catch it!?”

I was shocked by this as I felt as if I hadn’t caught that fish… I paused for a moment and said “I don’t know!” The man gave a bit of a puzzling grunt and got up from the table and walked over to the wall on my left which lay beyond the left far end of the table.

The wall that was previously there when I came into the room had now morphed into a large bubble looking glass sphere which was shimmering like water. It was also transparent and it was doing crazy things with light. As from where I was seated I could see the sun and a clear blue sky, the suns rays where refracting off of this sphere type bubble window and drawing shapes all over the kitchen.

The man stood here with his arms folded and his back to me and he seemed to be lost in deep thought. The women on my left now tuned to me and said, “Out there lies my husbands garden… he has been growing it for years and its coming along nicely, go and take a look...”

I got up from the table and walked over to the sphere window and stood beside the man. From this position I could see that this kitchen was perched about 15 meters off of the ground and looking out over a beautiful tropical island which lay to my left side about 50m away. It had a thick green tree line and a gorgeous white sandy beach that stretched off into the distance to my left.

Directly below me was a beautiful ocean with its surface shimmering frantically in the sun as it lapped against the islands shoreline. The water at the shoreline was shallow and turquoise in colour, it was so clear that I could see the sea floor even at the distance that I appeared to be from it.

As the water went further out too sea and under my position in the perched kitchen it became darker and directly underneath me I could not see into the depths of the water. It was shimmering so franticly and showing me my reflection that I had no idea what its depth might be.

What I now noticed was something very strange indeed .It made me feel quite perplexed has to how it this was even possible because what I saw before me a scattered pattern across the surface of the ocean were “Trees”. Palm style looking trees that seemed to be growing out of the water itself with no land beneath them.


I looked toward the man to ask him about the trees but before I could say anything he handed me a fishing rod that was basically a bamboo stick with no reel, a seemingly endless piece of twine for fishing line. It was railed to the rod through simply circle holders placed at 3 intervals along the bamboo stick. At the end of the piece of twine was a simple hook that had seen better days and for bait… well I had none…

He looked at me and said in a calm yet commanding voice “Catch me a fish”. I gave him a puzzled look, raised my eyebrows to him, shrugged and thought to myself… “How the hell am I supposed to catch a fish with this crap… lol?”

I cast my line into the water below and as soon as the hook hit the water I was shown a “Camera View” from underneath the water looking at my hook at a distance of about 3 meters from the camera and about 2 meters deep in the water.

The water was quite clear and I could not see any fish or any sign of aquatic life in the vicinity of my hook and line which lay motionless in the still water. At this point the camera turned to my left and there before me came swimming out from behind some coral the most beautiful mermaid you could hope to see.

Yet this mermaid was my very close female friend and as always she greeted me with a smile that can brighten the darkest of my days of which there are many lol. She hovered there about 2m from the camera view smiling and her hair was flowing from her head in all directions, it was massively long and it was the same colour as her hair in the real world which was brown.

Instantly all of the tension that had filled my body (that was still perched in the kitchen/sphere above) from being asked to catch a fish, that I felt I couldn’t do because of my crappy equipment, left me and was replaced with a feeling of total calmness.

The Mermaids attention was now drawn to my motionless hook and she looked at it and gave another big smile and swam toward it with her hair trailing in the distance. She grabbed onto the top of the hook (the piece without the barb) with her index finger and her thumb and started to swim frantically in a direction which would be to the right of my position in the kitchen/sphere.

The camera followed her from behind and now in the distance I could see an approaching fish, as it came close I could see that it was exactly the same as the one in the farmer’s kitchen!! As the fish spotted the Mermaid it darted to the left to avoid it but with my hook in her hand she chased it down and stuck the hook into the glowing fish.

She then swam in backward motion but facing the fish and now also the camera view. She smiled and once again her hair was flowing out in every direction from her head, the fish was going mental in water and at this point the “Dream Camera” leaped back in to my eyes from where I was standing perched above the ocean.


My rod and line was going berserk so I quickly started to reel in the fish by pulling the twine manually in an effort to reel in the fish as if you recall the rod had no reel. After a few minutes of fighting with the fish I reeled its ass all the way into my position in the Sphere. I was absolutely delighted with myself and I held my line up in the air with the fish dangling bellow to show the man what I had caught.

The man was totally amazed and shook his head in awe of what lay before him… He then once again said to me: “How did you catch that fish”. I smiled a mysterious smile and in my mind I thought of the Mermaid (My Friend), I know knew exactly how I caught the fish but I looked at the man and said: “I don’t know!!”

He sighed… and then I woke up.

I later told my “Mermaid” friend about this dream, although not in as much detail as I have written here and she smiled at me with the same look on her face as the Mermaid had on hers and said nothing… Again I mentioned the dream too her at a later date and she said: “You need to find out what Mermaids mean to you…”. I then smiled my mysterious smile at her and said nothing….

I have not spoken to her about this dream since and I can’t seem to find out the importance of Mermaids in my life as this was the first time I have ever had a dream about one… and before this I hadn’t really thought about them either.

I’ve had a few thoughts on what this dream might represent in my life and my relationship between myself and my Mermaid friend but Id really like to hear other people opinions on what this dream means.

Thank you for reading

*hug*

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Ra
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posted June 04, 2005 04:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ra     Edit/Delete Message
Hello Lei Kuei

I haven't read your dream yet, but I will as soon as I can, and I'll give you my thoughts.

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Lei_Kuei
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posted June 04, 2005 07:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lei_Kuei     Edit/Delete Message
Thanx you Ra, Ill be keeping a watchful eye until you reply

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Lei_Kuei
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posted June 08, 2005 07:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lei_Kuei     Edit/Delete Message
Ra... sry but It seems perhaps that you have let this one slip through your net

Id still appreciate your thoughts on this dream!

Thank you

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posted June 09, 2005 03:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ra     Edit/Delete Message
No. This magical fish will not be slipping through any nets. I will admit, though, that I didn't realize/remember it was from 6/02 ... I suppose the length of it is a bit daunting. But really, a general interpretation should be very easy as I have noticed that the same message keeps repeating over and over within the symbology.

Very generally, unconscious material becoming conscious. Now, I say that a lot when describing the energies of various dreams of others, but in your case there feels like there is much energy behind it ... like the description should be capitalized ... Unconscious Material Becoming Conscious. Almost like there is a large change occurring in connection with it, or a deep realization, an understanding of some fundamental, yet evasive (for most), thing.

Does any of that make sense to you?

I should have time to look at it more carefully later, so I'll be back as soon as possible.

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posted June 11, 2005 04:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ra     Edit/Delete Message
I'm still working on your dream, but I at least wanted to tell you about Mermaids, since that is what you asked about specifically. Mermaids, being part fish and part human, symbolize the merging of unconscious energies with conscious awareness, becoming aware of unconscious feminine material/energy, and/or the unification of self. So this dream is about awakening and transformation. The question is, what is transforming? And what does your friend have to do with it? Is she symbolic of something other than herself?

I'm still looking for more specific indicators within your dream to answer these questions. It would help to know what your relationship is with this friend, I mean I don't even know if you are male or female. And I would love to know what some of your thoughts are about this dream ... that would probably help clarify some of the energies at work here.

Whatcha think?

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Lei_Kuei
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posted June 13, 2005 06:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lei_Kuei     Edit/Delete Message
Unconscious Material Becoming Conscious

Yep!! That nails a big part of it, right about that time when I had the dream I began to see the world in a different way and it was mostly because of her (my female friend), I have been "awake" for many years but she opened the door to a whole new way of thinking for me and I got up and walked straight through it

Mermaids: being part fish and part human, symbolize the merging of unconscious energies with conscious awareness, becoming aware of unconscious feminine material/energy, and/or the unification of self

Again this is true based on my own feelings atleast. Now as regards the "unification of self", that means two things to me, 1: My highers-ELF showing up to help me on my way... (which has happened) Or/& 2: The unification of me with my Twin Self!! Now the girl in question once told me in a riddle that she saw me as her twin self but at the time I didn't understand (It was after the Mermaid Dream, but I was still unilluminated as to the riddles significants) but later I figured it out and now I can see what she meant


What's your relationship is with this friend

Hmmm well its getting difficult now, As far as Im concerned we are friedns and noting more at this point although we are "very close" and I would consider her one of my GURU's. If she is indeed whom I think she is and if she really believes what she said in that riddle, then we both have some serious talking to do very soon...
I hope that gives you something to go on Ra, and thank you for helping me with this thus far

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posted June 14, 2005 04:01 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ra     Edit/Delete Message
That helps a great deal. Looks like we're reading the right message so far.

I'm going to try and put the chaos of notes I have into some kind of understandable order. I just need to find the time to do it, so bear with me.

Be back soon!

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Lei_Kuei
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posted June 14, 2005 04:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lei_Kuei     Edit/Delete Message
Ok Ra thats cool, Ill await your analysis with much anticipation

Lol, when your finished with this one I may have a few more for yea, I have fascinating dreams coming in at a steady pace now

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posted June 29, 2005 04:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ra     Edit/Delete Message
Hello Lei

I truly apologize for having you wait so long, I've just not been able to be around much lately. Better late than never, I suppose. And it could be worse ... I'm still carrying around dreams of Amber's from way back, one from last November.

If I can only make one response tonight in this forum, this will be it.

There is no way I can outline all of the various interconnections that I see as possibilities, so I'm going to try and briefly hit upon some of the symbols I see and go from there.

The dream begins with a setting suggesting simple, fundamental spiritual/religious ideals (farmhouse/Amish). Then you become aware of more complex spiritual energies ("rainbow"fish). These are unconscious energies/material of a transformative, almost magical nature, emerging into conscious awareness (fish had a rainbow aura). There is a wholeness or completeness about this energy (rainbow colours) perhaps spiritual or psychic in nature (aura/glowing).

Again we have unconscious or unknown material (pitch black loaf) ... it makes you "nervous"and "apprehensive" because it is something unfamiliar to you. Something new, perhaps spiritual (glowing white) awaits you once the wall of the unknown is penetrated, once you move through it (cutting open the loaf/black crust). Alchemically, white symbolizes new knowing, and that is what we find after you taste of the white bread, you are indeed introduced to a new knowing -- the fish is yours, you caught it. You have become aware of something about yourself that was previously unrealized.

Then we have a symbolic description of spiritual/divine energies with the "large bubble looking glass sphere ... shimmering ... transparent ... crazy things with light ... Sun and clear blue sky ... rays refacting ... " It seems these energes have been growing within you for some time ("he has been growing [the garden] for years"), and that you now have a higher perspective (perched above) with which you can observe more of the beautiful totality of Self (tropical island).

Then we have the combing of higher (Sun) and lower (ocean) forces, or activation of unconscious energies (ocean) by spiritual energies (Sun), and this leads you to "reflect" upon your inner nature (reflection/depths of the water).

And again, we have the growth/emergence of unconscious material (trees growing out of the water).

And again, we have symbolized the process of becoming aware of unconscious material (fishing).

... enter, the mermaid, a living symbol of the union of unconscious and conscious energies, as we already discussed a bit.

Can you see how some of this stuff fits together?

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Lei_Kuei
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posted June 30, 2005 04:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lei_Kuei     Edit/Delete Message
Ra, thanx you

I was pretty sure you had forgotten about this thread but you obviously didn't and for that I am very grateful

Yep you seemed to have nailed this one on the head it makes relative sense to me and its meaning is indeed directly related to events taking place for me in the "real world"

Thanxs again Ra

**big hug**

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