Meeting people in Dreams
I find it fascinating when you meet people in dreams, especially when they are people you've never met in person and you don't really know what they look like. But you see them in the dream and just *know* who it is. What's going on here? It's fascinating because somehow we build up enough of an impression of a person for them to appear visually in dreams, a strange kind of symbolism built up from pieces of waking life. Or maybe it is simply we can and do form bonds with others via the internet and this comes up in dreams??
So for example, in my dream last night lupabitch,teriel and primalfire all came over from America to visit me and the UK. (In reality this is something brankauti is going to be doing in a few weeks, and yes I've dreamt about that already as well) We were sitting at night in old style darkwood taverny-pub and trying to figure out where to go for dinner. Terial and Lupa (recently married in real life) were pretty much joined together throughout my dream, Lupa being somewhat intense in a wolfy way..and the two of them both generated a kind of dark energy/sense - not evil, but dark as in mystery, magic, caves. In contrast, primalfire was postively glowing(!), in a kind of child-like enlightened happy way. My mum a brief appearance to comment on "my he is a nice boy isn't he" which made me laugh :)
In the last part of the dream I went to the beach with primalfire, we were like two kids playing about the waves. The sea was quite rough and turbulant and then suddenly calm, then rough again. There were a lot of man-made constructions everywhere, concrete walls, wooden groynes and posts, that all had to be navigated and clambered over to try and get to more open water..but this just added to the fun. It was late afternoon with glorious golden summer sunshine. He went in first briefly and came out with a really cool little glowing starfish-like creature on his left arm which he showed me. I had a real sense of being in the waves, swimming around with them crashing over my head, the taste of salt water... I really MUST go to the sea again soon!
I woke up with all this still as fresh in my mind as my memories from yesterday evening.. feeling really refreshed and cleansed, despite my liver complaining from wine the night before. I can't quite shake the feeling either that I DID meet these people, somehow.
Perhaps I've just been reading livejournal too much. And the message to anyone reading this is "watch out: my subconscious is likely to use you as archtypal material..be careful what you say ;-) "
So for example, in my dream last night lupabitch,teriel and primalfire all came over from America to visit me and the UK. (In reality this is something brankauti is going to be doing in a few weeks, and yes I've dreamt about that already as well) We were sitting at night in old style darkwood taverny-pub and trying to figure out where to go for dinner. Terial and Lupa (recently married in real life) were pretty much joined together throughout my dream, Lupa being somewhat intense in a wolfy way..and the two of them both generated a kind of dark energy/sense - not evil, but dark as in mystery, magic, caves. In contrast, primalfire was postively glowing(!), in a kind of child-like enlightened happy way. My mum a brief appearance to comment on "my he is a nice boy isn't he" which made me laugh :)
In the last part of the dream I went to the beach with primalfire, we were like two kids playing about the waves. The sea was quite rough and turbulant and then suddenly calm, then rough again. There were a lot of man-made constructions everywhere, concrete walls, wooden groynes and posts, that all had to be navigated and clambered over to try and get to more open water..but this just added to the fun. It was late afternoon with glorious golden summer sunshine. He went in first briefly and came out with a really cool little glowing starfish-like creature on his left arm which he showed me. I had a real sense of being in the waves, swimming around with them crashing over my head, the taste of salt water... I really MUST go to the sea again soon!
I woke up with all this still as fresh in my mind as my memories from yesterday evening.. feeling really refreshed and cleansed, despite my liver complaining from wine the night before. I can't quite shake the feeling either that I DID meet these people, somehow.
Perhaps I've just been reading livejournal too much. And the message to anyone reading this is "watch out: my subconscious is likely to use you as archtypal material..be careful what you say ;-) "