Elephants
So last night i had a really vivid dream. Yeah, another one of those. First of all, I was driving, trying to get to work, but my car was acting up. The front wheels were about to come off, basically. I didn't bother to look this up in the dream book, but i probably should. i found the next part of the dream more perplexing. (In the driving part, I ended up passing by a friend's house, and her mom was outside--she lives with her parents--and I rolled down the window and we were chatting, and i went inside. i just didn't go to work.) The next part was we (me and my friends, i think--could have been family) were sitting in lawn chairs outside, at night. it was pretty and colorful, and the air was just nice. btw, this was in a random front yard in a random place that i don't know. i'm not sure whose house it was supposed to be. that doesn't matter. I noticed something going on in the neighbors' front yard, on the other side of the hedge row. i got up to check it out, and there were elephants. I was really fascinated by the neighbors' elephants running around in their yard. They were like cartoon elephants. Then two of them, a baby and an adult, were in the yard with me. The baby charged at me and ran into me, almost knocking me down. Now here's the weirdest part. I haven't seen or even thought about King Kong in a while, but I did when I woke up from this dream. The adult elephant reached for me with its trunk. I remember the way it felt on my back--i almost mistook it for a human arm in my dreaming mind. Then it picked me up and climbed to the top of a tree quicker than any squirrel i've ever seen and held me suspended. i felt afraid, afraid of the height and of falling, but at this point i knew i was dreaming, so for a brief moment i was in a waking-dream state and i guess my mind wouldn't let me fall, because i hate falling dreams. So there i was, held captive by an elephant in the top of a tree. THE HELL?! So this morning, I looked up "elephant" in my dream book and this is what it says:
"...tends to represent the power and influence of the potent emotional forces active in your body and mind that, if you relate to well, bring about health and success, and, if you relate to badly, bring about illness and ruin. If we run from the elephant: Being afraid of strength or inner power. The question is, can we meet this enormous energy in ourselves enough to direct it?"
"...tends to represent the power and influence of the potent emotional forces active in your body and mind that, if you relate to well, bring about health and success, and, if you relate to badly, bring about illness and ruin. If we run from the elephant: Being afraid of strength or inner power. The question is, can we meet this enormous energy in ourselves enough to direct it?"