posted September 30, 2014 11:37 AM            

I got a dream after a long long time. What could all this mean? Can anybody interpret please?

posted September 30, 2014 11:38 AM            

Sorry! I forgot to mention that i didn't do any mantra.
I googled this conch part and came upon a few explanations. One of which tells it is connected to vagina and also another said to some warning of sorts. And yes i did have some monthly cycle cascading effect . Result - Very tired. Boy was i warned!
I am still clueless to the shiva lingam earlier position and flake thing.

posted September 30, 2014 11:54 AM            

Abcd,

Please bear with me here, I don't tend to work through dreams in a logical fashion, so what follows will likely be all over the place, I will try to bring it all together if I can, but often I can't get beyond the deconstruction of the parts. Forgive me if I make this more confusing than others may, I am very much a student of dreams.

OK, you are in a boat, but you make no mention of water - where you aware of a body of water in the dream?
We can make the assumption that the water was present, but if you didn't actually see it in the dream, it's relevance will likely be small. Basically, water can represent emotion, or a connection to the mother. Depending on how it feels to your as an individual, it can also allude to rebirth, if we look at it in the context of baptismal ritual - so it may also have a spiritual flavour. Being on the boat and not actually in the water suggests a level of objectivity with regards to emotions, e.g., it is not the sole perception from which the situation is being viewed from.

The boat, like all vehicles can simply represent a journey. But as boats are for travelling on water (emotion/mother), this may allude to how you are handl;ing an emotional situation. If you were driving the boat with ease, that would suggest a good level of control over the emotions. You make no mention of this though, and due to your other activities on the boat, it seems that it was being driven by someone else. Thsi suggests that others have an important role to play in how you feel about this journey, their presence is influencing your direction - this is not positive or negative, until you percveive it as such yourself.

A ferry can hold a large number of people, as oppposed to say, a rowing boat. So this may point to your emotional connections with a group, or extended family, rather than a one-on-one.

The harbour represents a change of direction or an ending point. It is also dry land, and with no cars in sight, seems to offer you the opportunity to continue the journey on foot - which I would take as an autonomous journey. You don't take this option however, but I think it is letting you know it is there.

I'm having some trouble with the helicopters, although my gut feeling is telling me that their main purpose was to deliver the ladders, and that in themselves, they may not represent anything other than the concept of 'rising above'. For example, another boat could have taken you off of the ferry and to the land, or you could have embarked via the gangway, but you have very specifically chosen to be lifted off.

I think your chosen method of leaving the boat suggested a need for higher understanding of the emotional relationships represented by the boat. It's as if a practical understanding falls short (you skip moving onto the dry land in the logical way, e.g. pier, gangway, row boat). It's also as if you require to rise above the situation in order to see it clearer, like you need to have some distance from the emotions, to go into the realm of understanding in the mind where emotions are pictures, and you can't feel the tides, but you can see how they affect things by looking down to them from a safe height.

I find colours difficult to interpret, but I've experienced them to sometimes change the whole face of a dream - you can take the components of the dreams and create your story of it, but when you put the colours inh their place, just like in a pencil drawing when you add the paint, section by section, it changes the whole picture if you see it clearly enough. This is a part where the dreamer's own interpretation of colour trumps all others - colours make everyone feel different, and a preference for one colour or another will change with the moods of the individual, the preference is determined by what the dreamer requires or feels at the time, so I may not be much help with this part ...

OK, to leave the boat, you are initially offered a cream ladder, and then a black - both of which you receive when offered to you. It seems that in order to achieve the height, or objectivity, or view, that you want, you must take both in turn. One leads to the other.

I'm going to think about the ladder without the colour first. I see ladders as stepping stones toward a desired position or status. With the ladders being dropped from above you and taking you higher into the air, they could represent your moving upwards to a higher position beyond the practical. They are offered to you by helicopters, which we can assume are being flown by other people - this may suggest their role in aiding your toward your goal. Helicopters hold much less people than ferries do, so this could be a moving toward a more elite position, one of expertise, where the knowledge is higher and spread between the few. It could be connected to a promotion, but I'm not sure, because I see nothing related to work (although bear in mind I do not know your chosen career), but it could be about work in terms of how it affects your personality and how you feel about yourself and your well-being in relation to your position. You seem to be ascending alone, so this could signify a new sense of self, a leaving behind of old parts of you - but this is dependant on whether any people aboard the ferry with you represent yourself, or others in your life. If they are unknown to you in the conscious, it's likely that they are aspects of you that you must leave behind to move above to where you want to be.

The black colour is relatively easy to interpret, yet it's interpretation is rarely specific. Black, as a colour, is all colour prior to manifestation, as such, it's interpretation is pretty open, it is potential, and potential is neither positive or negative, and can lead to either so it is also a risk - one that you take in the dream.

Cream is confusing. It's essentially a combination of white and yellow. I see white as potential also, it's said to hold with it all colour, some even say it is the absence of colour, a blank canvass before the drawing. Yellow is the colour of the sun, and therefore, the self, but I feel it's placement here of the emotional self. If we combine the white and the yellow, we have new potential, ever so slightly coloured by the emotional self. To look at yellow being the colour of the sun again, the sun is often seen to be the bringer of life, of birth, and growth.

I'm torn between whether this points to a career change (but in the sense of rising above your current position), or a shift in your emotional self to a point of higher understanding of yourself. These could of course be connected, the shift in self could lead to the promotion or change, and the promotion or change could lead to the shift in self.

In taking first the illuminated path (cream ladder) you can see where you are going, and you seem to have the goal in sight, but to get to it, you must also take part of the journey 'in the dark' so to speak (the black ladder), a risk.

I don't feel I have shed much light here, but hopefully there may be something of use.

posted September 30, 2014 11:56 AM            

I've read this one a few times, and I get this feel that there is maybe a division between your logical mind and your emotions.
Are you having a time in your life where you feel a tug between the two?
Anyway, it's like you are being offered a hand up, but
the changing colors of white and black seem to me as though perhaps you aren't entirely sure (trust wise) the intentions of the person(s) who are doing the offering?

posted September 30, 2014 12:03 PM            

You will find my thoughts very similar to the thoughts posted by GypseeWind and Voix de la Mer.
It is suggested that, a year ago, you were in a situation or involved in an issue from which you looked to leave or escape or change (anticipating how to jump out), an issue/situation that caused you to not be entirely in control of your emotions or other aspects of your life (ferry). The dream suggests that you were "suddenly thrown" an opportunity for escape/change or an opportunity to progress (ladder), although there could have been anxiety related to this progress (jump/catch/climb to plane/helicopter), or perhaps a feeling of not being "grounded" emotionally, mentally, spiritually.

It is indicated that, as you were progressing and hoping to get to some other position or understanding (hoping to get in plane), there was another level to the progress which was an unknown, something not seen beforehand (black) that you would have to progress through as well (ladder). In order to reach higher, there would be uncertainties. Alchemically, black is the first stage in transformation, so we could speculate that the effort you put forth in making the necessary progress, even when you were faced with unknowns, was the beginning of something new, some sort of growth in your life.

You asked Gypsee, "Why doesn't it tell more than that like the choice that i ought to make?" The dream was not telling you what choice to make but rather reflected the issues of the time and hinted at what to expect according to the choices you were making and the path you already chose, or were considering to choose.

Make any sense?

So, what was going on in your life last year at this time which fits this scenario? How has it worked out?

Thank you for sharing your dream.

Walk in Peace

posted September 30, 2014 12:28 PM            

Water is emotion and depending on the body of water, the current (turbulent, calm, etc.) would help to indicate the state of mind you are in. However, that you were on a "Ferry" which carries many people to and fro speaks of your state of conscious. That you are on water and not on land speaks to the state of your thoughts and perspective and if you are grounded or not.
It appears you wish to be "rescued" and two opportunities arise. One is light, and one, the higher up position, is dark.

Ladders and stairs always tell of ascension, and climbing up. That this ladder was tossed out from someone (a helicopter) flying above you and not such a sturdy, grounded method to climb up from, and tossed out to you from a different mode of perspective (above water and in the "air"), tells a bit about who or what group will toss you a life-line when you are seeking it. Then along comes another person or group (the helicopter higher up) and that one throws out a "dark" ladder attempting to override the initial line that was tossed to you. Both were floppy, hanging from a vehicle in the air (unstable line and it's security is in the hands of the pilot of that helicopter - you are not in control here) and while the position may be a higher position, the climb up is dark. Think carefully before you accept anything that is not on the up-and-up or anything that is even the slightest bit dirty or against protocol or the rules.

Most interesting to me was your method of travel - on the water in a Ferry being carried to and fro by another along with a group of people who also were of the same perspective as you. When you drive an automobile, if you are behind the wheel, you are the master of wherever you are going in life and the way you are driving the automobile tells of your frame of mind and the resulting decisions you make that follow this frame of mind (whether you crash or not). When you are in a larger vessel, and not behind the wheel, you are not in control of your our life and you are allowing outside influences to steer your thoughts. In this case, you are not grounded and are on water, being carried by another along with a group of people together and then at some point you are looking to be rescued or if you weren't looking to be rescued, someone will come along who thinks you need to be rescued, or maybe the being rescued is an indication of how you will feel at some future point. Either way, you are thrown two lines, both you have to climb the ladder to get to the vehicle. One is light, one is dark but a higher spot. BOTH will not put you in control of your life (decisions you make) but rather put your life (decisions you make) into the hands of others. You've let someone or you will let someone drive you to a place where you will need a life-line to get out of it and at that point two are offered. Whether you accept this and accept to continue to be carried by the line of thinking of others (what got you in this spot in the first place) or whether you choose to be independent and free and go your own way, will be determined by the decisions you make in the future.

The best advise anyone can give you and what I believe your angels and guides are trying to tell you, is to not allow yourself to get into that position in the first place. Command your own ship, drive your own car, meaning choose for yourself, especially the way you think and the things you chose to believe. Don't engage in gossip, innuendo, and hearsay as that will inevitably steer your thoughts. We all learn what we live, if we choose to live with untruthful words and idle gossip, then that is what we live - what we believe in because that is what we know.

Look for truth in everything so you will know truth when you see it and hear it, and by choosing to do so, you will know when what you hear is not the truth or you are being mislead. In order to see truth in others and the things around you, you must first look for truth within yourself. Through that, you will see the truth that lies in others or recognize when it's not right. Those we choose to surround ourselves with ALWAYS mirror what we feel inside and the manner in which we perceive things - the manner in which we "choose" to think. Think clearly, carefully, and most importantly, think independently and then chose wisely.

I wish you clarity,
whereabouts

posted September 30, 2014 01:26 PM            

In this dream a lady who didn't look like my elder sister but was her (funny how dreams are. I knew it was her in the dream, but she didn't look like herself at all) showed me and then kept in front of me a crown. I was wondering whether it was silver coated with gold or made of gold itself. Then i realized it was gold. This she intended to crown the GOD with. It was shaped in a different fasion. Not round like it would fit a human head or that of a statue. Then i realized that it could be for one of those, what we call in India, svayambhu idols. They are of any shape. My sister is not exactly the type who is into all such things so i thought OK, thats great. This she had kept on a concrete table height rectangular construction and there were some persons in que who were entering a very small 4 ft x 4 ft temple just next to it. There was a shiva lingam just outside it. I was wondering what idol could be inside. Just then i saw a young girl entering from the door, who i knew was my niece but didn't look like her at all but looked like that of my years ago college friend. By then i was standing on top of that concrete structure and wished that my hands were washed so that i could lift the crown and show her. Apparently i had peed,pooped or dirtied my hand in some other way ( i don't remember the exact reason now). There was nothing on my hand though. No dirt. Still i wished to wash them. Can anyone make out anything? Btw it was evening or night.
Edit: Svayambhu (self originated) idols are those that are not man made. They are of any shape and generally like that of a stone and attached with a story/history like say a person has a dream about it and then goes about digging there and finds it. Or while doing some work like ploughing hits it. Or some literal untouched stone which someone is inspired to worship as GOD and gets results like if we pray there or ask for something its granted. Later if someone wishes he/she has an idol made and placed besides it or on top of it.
www.vaishno-devi.com

The picture shows the stones on the right with crowns. This is the one - the svayambhu deity. The left one is just a picture of her form as worshipped. It is not the idol in that temple.

posted September 30, 2014 02:08 PM            

I am wondering whether they could be linked.

posted November 06, 2014 01:33 AM            

Dear abcd efg,
This dream is about death/salvation.

CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:

Varanasi is the city of death/salvation.

Train travel is quite literally the journey of life.

The man at the railway station with a desk is manning the reception desk of the city of death/salvation.

He does not appear to be manning a proper reception desk because only you are supposed to figure that out.
Only you are supposed to know that this is the reception to the city of death/salvation. That's why the reception symbol is slightly masked. That's why there is an emphasis that only you know the importance of the man with the desk. Only you can figure out what he stands for: the lord of death.

The dream tells you the value you place on salvation. You are acutely aware that in your social circle you alone are interested in salvation: "How many ppl around knew the value of this place?"

The prasad that arrived for you from varanasi in real life can be a divine comment on your feelings. the prasad is a blessing that travelled to you instead of you travelling to it.

Nature may want to tell you that for whatever you want you need not make a long journey (something which requires sustained efforts in one direction) to a place "nobody from our side goes there".

This place is the the city of death, a symbol of your spiritual goal.

Which means you may not have to die.

Don't work too hard on killing your present self with sustained efforts.

Your present self is good enough for your spiritual practices.

You will get your rewards the way you are.

No hard efforts (train journey) are required.

NOW THE READING:

You are caught between saturn and ketu energies.

you are working too hard on giving up certain habits which you find incompatible with your spiritual aims.

Nature has told you not to work too hard on giving up/dying/killing yourself.

Whatever you are aiming to achieve will reach you by itself, just like the prasad you received from varanasi in real life.

Basically, take it easy.

varanasi is the city of lord shiva. So your venus and moon energies are awakening.

Lord Shiva is Bhole Nath, the innocent lord.

The key is simplicity, innocence.

So welcome Venus and Moon.

Don't try to happen to things; things will happen to you.

Also a good time to learn astrology.

Venus will get you messages, moon will sharpen your reception.

Adopt a tree.

Go and talk to it everyday.

This will be good for your health.

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sai