posted July 29, 2006 07:14 AM         

I dreamt I was very heavily pregnant and that just before I was about to give birth, we found out it was twins. In fact, in the dream I remember thinking that I wasn't at full term and so it was odd that the babies should be so big if they were premature.

I gave birth (and felt the pain during the dream) to 2 twin girls. My partner was ecstatic and was full of love for me and our daughters. And then something odd happened. The girls grew into children over night! The twin who'd been born first grew into a 9 yr old girl and the younger twin grew into a 6 yr old. There was also something slightly sinister about the eldest girl. I felt she was hiding something from me and had an unhealthy control over her younger sister.

It was very much like that film about the women who were impregnated by aliens and then the children grew up incredibly quickly.

I took the girls to see my mother and she sensed something odd as well. Strangely enough, no one but me saw anything unusual in the fact that they'd grown overnight but my mum sensed that there was something slightly 'worrying' in the eldest girl.

posted July 29, 2006 09:22 AM         

He told me that he used to have this dream where he'd be walking alone down the left hand side of a street at night and the left hand side of the street was derelict with run down houses (or houses that were being refurbished)whilst the right hand side would be blank/dark.

As he walked he caught sight of a baby crawling just by the side of him. The baby kept looking up at him and he had the feeling he had to protect it, and so would try to pick it up, but it would always be just out of reach.

He said that sometimes the baby would be slightly evil looking and the feeling in the dream would be sinister.

I think the interesting thing about that dream in particular is the left vs right aspect. One side of him is fine and yet the other side was derelict or being 'done up'. Put that with the baby, and I think it possibly means that there was a side of him at that time in his life that had yet to be born or perhaps re-born. It was in need of nurture and protection. Sometimes, it's raw nature and wildness frightened him but he always knew he had to look after it and take care of it and refurbish it.

posted July 29, 2006 02:24 PM         

I think you are right about your partner's dream, and I believe your dream is similar. There is the classic theme here of the 'evil twin', which indicates confliction, perhaps internal, and since the one is older, we have an imbalance.

What else does 9 represent? Conception, birth, power ... whatever it means to you, it seems to have an unconscious, secret, or otherwise "dark" influence over another aspect of yourself ... 6.

What does 6 mean? Love, the senses, harmony ... what does it mean to you?

And since these are girls, could we be dealing with emotional, or intuitional aspects of self?

If this is not an internal confliction, does it relate to your outer life? Or is this about confliction at all? Whatever it is, it grows disproportionate "overnight".

What do you think?

posted July 29, 2006 03:42 PM         

My mum's actually come up with an interesting theory. She picked up on the fact that the number 9 is Aries/Mars energy (my opposite sign) and the number 6 is Libran love/harmonious energy - put the two together in symbol form and you have the sign of Cancer (my asc). So she thinks it's maybe the birth of my ability to combine the two energies in order to embrace the essence of my Asc which is something I've always had trouble with.

I've always got cross with the tears and sensitivity of my Cancerian Asc as my Cappy Moon wants to solve emotional problems practically and methodically without fuss or attention. My Libran Sun hasn't wanted to see anything but the beauty or the charm of a situation and so poor old Cancer's been rather left to see to herself.

I think I'm now beginning to pay attention to my Asc and embrace the qualities it gives me rather than trying to surpress it. Cancer being the maternal sign, perhaps that's also why the birth imagery?

I think the fact that everyone else was so happy and failed to see the oddness of the situation is that perhaps if I can manage to integrate all sides of me, I'll be an easier person to be around at difficult times?

posted August 08, 2006 05:13 AM         

You certainly would know better how to fill in the blanks than I.

posted August 08, 2006 04:31 PM         

And the way you and your guy interpreted it is just brilliant! RA

I just wanted to add something that you know but probably never noticed: In tarot cards, # 6 corresponds to The Lovers card (=love, commitment and the right choice) and # 9 to The Hermit (=caution, isolation and prudence)!

posted August 08, 2006 05:36 PM         

Wow I hadn't thought of that! And in the dream I remember I liked the 6yr old better and felt awful for it because I kept reminding myself I shouldn't have favourites or feel suspicious of my own daughter (the 9 yr old). Thanks Peri - puts an interesting slant on things.