posted March 17, 2007 07:46 AM         

I dreamed I was 2 people, alternating between them. One, I was this Christian nun that was something like I imagine Mother Theresa to be, and part of a convent of other nuns. There was nothing to signify that this was Catholic or Eastern Orthodox, it was more generic. And as the other person, I was this wicked, nasty witch (as with magic powers like from some horror movie) that loved to torment people and had an allegiance to the Devil, and there were other witches like me there, too. In both cases, I was the youngest and a bit of a tolerated but closely watched maverick.

There was this guy I know from years ago that ended up killing this guy in self-defense in his Aunt's home. It turned out that the guy he killed was a serial killer. But the arresting officers didn't want him to be dead, they wanted to crack the case, so they took the evidence they took off the serial killer and knowingly charged my friend falsely for all the serial killer's crimes. (Also, his aunt went somewhere--to the store I think--and never came back, and he was charged with doing something to her, too. That part doesn't make any coherent sense at all.)

Anyway, he wasn't willing to go quietly. It was like there was this great psychic evil that was driving everyone to nasty behavior. When he saw what was going to happen, he attacked the cops and barely escaped, wounded. And thus I first encountered him as the nun (he didn't recognize me at all, nor was I the same person I am when I'm awake in this dream) who brought him in and nursed his wounds and hid him from the police conducting a manhunt. The other nuns helped to hide and heal him.

And then I was the evil witch inside a large stone mansion (maybe even a castle) and that serial killer was an agent of the devil and the devil wanted all the souls the serial killer possessed: apparently, the serial killer had gotten the souls of those he killed. But having been killed himself, all the souls he collected had gone to the guy who killed him, and now Satan wanted the guy even more badly than the cops did. The guy had to die so that the souls would be released to Satan. I wanted the glory of capturing him and torturing him to death. I had to be a bit sneaky because the other witches and Satan himself were more practical, wanting him to die ASAP so that the souls could be released. But I knew I'd be indulged as long as he didn't escape because the guy's soul himself would NOT be released, so by torturing him I was avenging the inconvenience he caused Satan and Satan was timeless enough that a few days or weeks that I had my fun wouldn't be THAT long to him.

Interesting enough, my magic powers didn't work on the nun I was. I frequently switched back and forth between ultimate good and ultimate evil as we worked to capture or protect my friend. But the guy, freaked out by witchy me and worried about the police coming back and charging the nuns as well as him fled and it was a race as Nun-me and Witch-me were trying to reach him first. This wasn't resolved.

What could this possibly mean?

BACKGROUND FACTORS: I'm NOT a Christian, and doubt I could ever be. Primarily, Christianity strikes me as extremely unlikely mythology (in a literal sense).

My experience in witchcraft has been completely different from the witch in this dream, too. (Also, the guy running from the cops and his aunt both tutured me in it, though I don't actively practice witchcraft now.) I stress that the witch I was in the dream was more from a horror movie and had nothing at all to do with their methods of witchcraft.

I also like fics and movies about witches, both good & bad ones. Dorrie the Witch was one of my favorite characters from childhood (though she was sweet and most of the witches & wizards in that series were decent--and the series was intended for children, so none of them got THAT bad). I've also been accused by some of the weirder (and more psychotic, IMO) Christians of being a witch that went to black sabbaths and literally had sex with the devil. And back when I was 14 a boy on the bus asked me if I really worshipped the devil and I sarcastically said, "Yeah, and I cast spells, too, so shut up." (He did.)

In May of 2004, I dreamed that I was ambushed by an evil fairy-tale witch (and also back in school where I'd first been accused of being the devil's *****, if that means anything ) and overcame her, taking her broom away and beating her off with it, and then I became an evil witch that replaced her. That dream was kinda cool because I could fly in it and during the day me and my evil sisters would hide as mist in trees until night came. In this dream, I DID try to negate some of my evil by choosing those who I thought deserved it, like finding guys who tried to rape me and turning them into rodents. Then this force came and turned me into a "good witch" (by myself) and I used my powers to bring peace and justice to the world and even the United Nations held worship rites to me, but after I woke up I realized I had been the biggest self-righteous tyrant the world ever had (and I thought of Galadriel's words in LOTR:"In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!")

INTERESTING COINCIDENCE: A Scary Godmother book, a comic about a nice green-faced witch that's actually good and protects children from evil came in the mail today. I'd ordered that book in November and was surprised to see it waiting for me when I woke up.

posted March 21, 2007 02:29 PM         

Hello Dervish

Very interesting dream. I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

posted March 23, 2007 02:10 PM         

It's not so much the details of this dream which are important, it is the theme. This is the classic struggle between opposite sides of self, an archetypal theme which suggests that you are very close to, or in the midst of, personal growth and/or healing, and this on a level much deeper than the surface. This is about individuation (as Jung termed it), the development of self, the reconciliation of opposing aspects of the ego. This dream signals a good sized step in growth.

There are suggestions of waking life situations/issues which go hand-in-hand with the dream, particularly where the line between good/bad or right/wrong seems to be obscured, but the important thing here is your inner work, your inner considerations, as relates to the outer life issues.

Oftentimes synchronicity follows closely on the heels of this type of dream, letting you know that your inner and outer worlds are in line with each other, "in sync". Is this the case with you?