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steelrose
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posted January 16, 2010 11:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for steelrose     Edit/Delete Message
Tonight the theme was related to the past… Everything around me , the decoration and surroundings appeared to be old, as if my dreams were taking place in my grandmother’s middle age years… that is 40 years ago approximately… but people were people that belong to my life today…

Dream 1 – There was a party in a flat… The place was like a grandmother’s house… the kind of furniture, the wall paper… very sixties… but everything appeared new… The light was indirect, it was night time, the atmosphere was cosy… My friends from work (the same ones that I saw in the wrong venue dream last week - http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum15/HTML/002298.html) were there, most of them in the kitchen getting some drinks… I was in the dining room, besides the kitchen… One of my male friends (I think it was the one that came with us to the wrong venue in the previous dream) was flirting with me… It wasn’t serious, only a game… but then another male friend, one that in true life likes me a lot (I have spoken about him here: http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000675.html) tells him that he can’t be that soft with women pretending he’s a hard man (he’s clearly not… he only tries to play that role trying to get my attention, to be more interesting and sex appealing to me …). He was clearly trying to hide that he’s jealous because the other man is getting my attention and he knows I get on with the other one… and went away proudly…

I followed him to the next room, a huge living room richly decorated… A female friend of mine and another girl are there… I peered into the room to see how he behaved with the girls, a bit insecure and jealous because I like him, also to get his attention. He then moved away and went to sit in the sofas on his own, in the other side of the room… as if he feels hurt and wants to be alone…I followed him, but walking with my hands, upside down, doing a handstand trying to get his attention and soften his insecurity and sadness, his jealousy…

He grabs my ankles to support me and help me to be more vertical. Then he let go of me and I crawled in the sofa, like a cat, and curled up in an armchair, sighing and pouring… asking for a cuddle… and then pretend to fall asleep… even my breathing changes… I watch him through my half-closed eyelids…trying to see his real feelings… He stares at me, with that sweet and hurting expression, doubting and insecure, desiring to approach… I want him to kiss me… But then, my female friend, the one who was in the room, approaches and he hides his expression… She covers me with a duvet caringly. “What are you doing?” he enquires, not understanding her interruption… “In case she stays in here all night… For her not to be cold”. I feel cared for, pampered. I know she is my friend and her intention was good… but at the same time I feel upset… she has spoilt my trick… he would not approach me now…

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steelrose
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posted January 16, 2010 11:01 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for steelrose     Edit/Delete Message
Dream 2 – I woke up feeling very hot… in my real bedroom… I go to the living room and it’s my living room but it’s full of big plants in pots… The place is very messy and I start organising the plants. I then go to the bedroom and bring a vase with dry red roses. The other plats were quite leafy and lush so I got entangled and the roses almost broke up. I felt relieved. Those roses were the memory of something beautiful.

I then went to the kitchen… but it wasn’t my real kitchen…it was a grandmother’s type of kitchen… the tiles, the furniture…(Can you see the similarities with dream 2 in http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum15/HTML/002294.html?) My mother had brought some food for me (she sometimes do in real life). The kitchen top was full of rubbish… Half-eaten food, empty bags and Tupperware, cans, a real mess. I threw away the empty containers and the spoilt food, I stored the rest in the fridge and cleared up the kitchen top. Feeling satisfied, I left.

I was going to the supermarket. But this time I decide to go using a different street, a parallel one to my usual route. The temperature was pleasant so I had to take my coat off as I was hot.

That wasn’t my neighbourhood. The new street is unknown, and it gets narrower but more and more beautiful… more trees and flowers, lower houses… the street ends but I still can carry on through a tiled path that goes up and then down…the last house was a beautiful cottage with a garden, a family was at the door… a loving couple and two kids with a dog…

I then joined the main street… I was going to cross it when I saw a woman crossing. She looked like my aunt. I look at her carefully… she is going to join another two women in the other side… and yes, it is her!!! I call her when she is in the middle of the road. I crossed after her. I join them three… My aunt, a friend of her I know and my grandmother… My grandma looked so much younger!!! At least 40 years younger!!! (she’s almost 92 now). She looked very much like her but is even much more beautiful.
I go with them… They were talking light-heartedly about a tragedy: The grandfather of the director of an important organisation had died. He was a family friend. I don’t know if the grandson or the grandfather. My grandma said that he was into drugs and other calamities… I constantly don’t know if they are talking about one man or the other so I keep asking…

We arrived to what looked a hospital or an old people’s home to visit someone. We get some ID cards out and my aunt say that her name is very long so the access will take time because there’s a lot to check . So they set around a table… I was carrying a lot of things (my coat and so on) so I almost stumble over a piece of furniture. And they I say “I’m carrying too many things” in English and they don’t understand me (because they only understand Spanish!! Why did I say that in English?? The rest of the dream was in Spanish…).

My grandma carried on talking. She mentioned the name of a place “Jecateca”, which I make an effort to remember, since I knew by then that I was dreaming… I woke up shortly after that…

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GypseeWind
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posted January 18, 2010 02:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
Hi SteelRose;
I remember you from the summer, you always had really interesting dreams.
Ok, at the moment I can do dream one, as it is late.

It seems to me as though you are trying to reconcile with your past in some way. I think the various people in the dream may respresent people you actually know or you have known in the past.
We there relationships or friendships in which you didn't really have closure with?

I'm getting this because your dream is showing you symbols of the past i.e. Your Grandma's time, and when you said the man grabbed ahold of your ankle to give you better support, it seems as though these people from the past are reaching out to you, to perhaps help you to move on. To get on solid footing, so to speak.

Does that help at all?

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steelrose
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posted January 18, 2010 08:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for steelrose     Edit/Delete Message
Hi Gypsee!!!

Yes, I suppose you’re right and I’m trying to reconcile with my past… (Did you read my most recent dreams??) And these guys in my first dream are my “ticket” to a new life…I do know them in waking life, they are my friends… yes!! my support… they are my present, I didn’t have a closure, because they are current friends… and I may be using this guy in the dream, the one holding my ankles, to keep the equilibrium and step forward… to overcome certain aspects of my past…

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GypseeWind
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posted January 18, 2010 12:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
How sweet, Steelrose, to have such friends who not only support you in real life, but show up in your dreams to let you know that they really are there for you, wonderful!!!

Ok, I will take a look at dream 2, these things take me a little time. I usually take some notes and think on it, so I'll try and get back to you a little bit later.

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steelrose
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posted January 18, 2010 05:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for steelrose     Edit/Delete Message
That's fine, Gypsee!!! Take your time!!! And thank you for having a look

Yes, I'm lucky to have such people in my life now...

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GypseeWind
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posted January 20, 2010 12:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
Hi SteelRose;

Here are some notes I wrote down from thinking about your dream.

It seems to me this dream is alot about your past, and your effort and desire to move forward.

For example, with the plants, they were busy, and tangled, but they were leafy, which suggests new growth in you. Once you let that rose die, break, you said you felt relief. Roses make me think of love, but it may be different for you, have you released a love lately, or are you working on that? If so, it seems that it is propelling you forward in your growth.

With the kitchen, the kitchen is where we are fed, nurtured, where our most basic needs are met. You had alot of cleaning up to do in there. Do you feel as though you are working toward cleaning up some emotions with the women in your life? If so, your dream showed you feeling relieved, so keep doing what your doing.

I see you being hot as a metaphor for desire. Possibly for change. Taking off your clothes could be shedding the past in preparation for a better future, or it could be shedding your protective "outer layers" to get a clearer picture on what it is you truly desire. Do you desire to have kids, a dog, a home, those types of things?
If so, your dream shows that you have a path to them, if that is what you want.

With your Grandma being young, she could represent a contemporary of yours. Do you know someone who reminds you of Grandma in some way? Same thing with your aunt, because you said, "SHE looks a lot like my aunt." I realize she did become your aunt, but she still may represent another woman. So it seems like you were in confusion when they were speaking, do you feel as though you have any issues communicating with two specific women in real life? I'm not saying it ISN'T really your relatives, I'm just suggesting that they may just be standing in for two other women.

A hospital is where we go to be healed. You were carrying a heavy load. I feel as though this signifies a stumbling block from your past. Do you feel as though, regarding your family, that you have tried to communicate something to them, and they do not seem to be understanding where you are coming from, or your point of view? I see this from them switching the language and saying they don't understand. Possibly there is an issue that nobody cares to discuss and would rather pretend it isn't there, but you would like to discuss it and unburden yourself of your feelings about it?

As far as the last word, "Jecateca", I'm stumped, because you are bi-lingual, and I am not. So does that word mean anything in Spanish, or is it close to another word? Could it be a place or a persons name? Have you tried flipping the letters around in an anagram to see if you can make a sensible word out of it??

Your dream sounds really positive and hopeful to me. I think it means overall that you are moving forward. I think there are lovley new things in store for you.

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steelrose
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posted January 20, 2010 01:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for steelrose     Edit/Delete Message
WOW!!!

It’s great… How do you guys do this?? Is it just intuition? Does it naturally come to you?? Because it’s amazing!!! That you get all that without knowing me at all!!

Yes, I’m working very hard to move forward…Yes, plants were really messy but strong and beautiful, very alive… I got entangled with them when trying to find a place for the dry roses… No, no… The roses did not break, almost broke… I felt relieved because It could keep them… a beautiful memory?? I was clearly dead… I suppose I’m holding onto a “dead” love story, a beautiful memory… still uncapable of getting rid of it… but it’s dead and will not grow again… they were cut flowers, very dry too… It did start the rebirth… when that died, I started revisiting my past and trying to outgrow it at all levels…

Yes, the kitchen… I haven’t been nurtured in a long long time… rotten food, empty packages… and I want to start over… clearing the kitchen…

I’m not sure of the meaning of the women… No idea of my grandma… Wisdom?? She is the one who brought me up… the only nurturing I remember being a child…

Yes, I do have issues communicating with my family. They have never understood my nature, who I am, what I need… Could it also be communicating with my feminine side, my woman needs not being understood?? Or something to do with my own psyche?

Yes!! A hospital or old people residence… a place to be healed or taken care of… I am carrying a heavy load, yes, in fact!!
No, no, I changed the language… All dream was in Spanish but I suddenly said something in English and they didn’t understand and then ignored me… They may not understand my load and so they ignore it?? I need to give a thought to this… Do I want to tell them openly what I feel about them, how uncared I have felt during my whole life?? Maybe… Not sure…

Jecateca… It was the name of a town in the dream… It reminds me of “Biblioteca”, library in Spanish… Teca comes from thekes = box in greek, a place to store things… No idea about “Jeca”… Jeca anagrams to… ceja?? (eyebrow) The word for box in Spanish is “Caja”, whose letter are within Jecateca…
Incredible…


Thanks for the encouragement...

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