| Vending Machines |
January 15, 2002 |
The Dream:
I am at a city square, that looks like a library
or government center with lots of concrete and tall buildings. There is some kind of
Robocop thing running around and people are running around scared. I end up in one of the
buildings at the vending machines and I am pounding on the machine to give me change...and
it does, but then the face of it falls off and all the change comes rolling out. I am
like, gee, if I take all the change that would be just wrong so I pick up a couple of hand-fulls and pour them into my boots, because I can't carry it all in my hands, then I try to
put the face of the machine back on the vending machine and leave.
Insights and Interpretations:
Well, this dream sounds to me like I am earning money from a
source that I can actually stem how much I take in - and do. There is very little
here to give me many clues. What I take from it might be the frustrations of the
real estate industry and the way it comes and goes so easily. I could see other
people being distressed under these conditions however the dream implies that I take what
I need and move on. ----- Back
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| Lava Flow |
January 22, 2002
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The Dream:
I am looking out the window of my house and I see this really
large black mountain. I am think, wow that is really cool, when did we get a mountain
behind our house. When I notice, that the mountain is moving and it is actually a lava
flow but it is huge and many stories high. I am like holy shit, we better get out of the
house. For a brief moment, I think...maybe I can hunker down in the house and be ok, then
realize that this lava flow will obliterate my house. The front of the house where my car
is - is in direct line with the lava flow so if I take the car, I am afraid that it will
get trapped in traffic and I won't make it away. As I am leaving through the back, I am
thinking how this really sucks because I just refinanced my house and now it will be burnt
to a crisp.
I am with Darlene and we are at the hair dressers. For some reason, I am in a wheel
chair...although I don't seem to be injured. I am wheeling around testing out this chair.
And, showing Darlene. She is upset because she is kind of crippled and didn't want people
to see her like this but the hair dresser had another appointment so there is a woman
there that Darlene doesn't know. I let Dar try out my wheel chair and she gets it spinning
around really fast, then she gets out of it and it goes out of control and rams into
something...and now looks like a broken kids toy of some sort.
We have moved to Columbia and I am talking to this little girl. I am going down the
stairs, dressed in a short robe and I tell her...well, just because we are in Columbia I
hope her Poppy doesn't expect me to dress differently. I am afraid if I bend over, my
whole rear end will hang out. The phone rings and Hector picks up the phone as I try to
move around him on the stairs and into the kitchen. Jeanne is cooking breakfast in the
kitchen.
Insights and Interpretations:
The first piece seems like I am involved in something that
is literally going to roll over me. In a sense, I seem to connect it with my home
and the refinancing - which actually took place. The piece with Darlene in it leaves
me clueless - it is as if a mode of transportation gets out of control - since I tend to
connect these types (modes of transportation) to my jobs - that makes logical sense,
except as I work on this in march...it never happened - or I could say, hasn't happened
yet. I am definitely not moving to Columbia but the interesting thing is that I have
started working with more Hispanics with Real Estate and their mode of operation is a
little different than most American modes - which has a tendency to clue me in to watch my
behavior since they tend to be a little more conservative. Also, Hector is
translating for me which ties him directly from the dream to my real estate stuff.
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| Onions |
January 24, 2002
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The Dream:
I am walking through the yard of the property I grew up on
and in the garden section, well, really the whole yard...there were onions growing - only
they had grown out of control and were huge. Like a Jack in the bean stalk type of thing. I
was standing next to one of them, that was a tangled mass of green long, leafy type of
onion spurt that was so tangled and big that it towered over me. Towering over me.
Insights and Interpretations:
Once again, dare I say clueless? Some days I am just
not so good at dream work, eh? The onions would mean something that is probably not
so pleasant to me growing out of control. And, since the reference is made to my
youth in the property it has grown on...I am thinking I might have been carrying this
thing around for quite some time and it is getting quite unruly. Perhaps it was just
trying to emphasize the importance by increasing the size so I would recognize it as an
oddity, however whatever this thing is that is out of control - it really doesn't leave me
enough information to zero in on - perhaps just a clue to be on the look out if some old
stuff starts erupting around me. I do have a health issue that has been plaguing me
for some time and my first instinct is to caution myself to watch out for it.
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| What Do You Do When You Wake Up Dead? |
January 26, 2002
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The Dream:
My mother has written a book called "What do you do if
you wake up dead". The premise is that she woke up in the hospital from a coma and
when she woke up, she didn't know who she was. She left the hospital and lived her life
for a year, when one day a year later, she saw my step father in a store and her memory
returned. She realized that her entire family had buried her a year ago because she
thought she had died and she had been dead for over a year. She didn't want to go in and
mess up everybody's life after they had already grieved for her so she wrote this book and
continued to live her life as a dead person. I am meeting her now, several years after she
has been "dead" and realize that we cremated the wrong body and put the wrong
ashes into Lake Apache. I remember her death and everything surrounding it and realize
that I am dreaming and that this can't be possible. But the idea that it could be...well,
that is what the book is all about. In my mother's reality, this is exactly what has
happened and from her perspective, it is incredibly liberating because being dead she can
now do all the things she always wanted to do without thought given to the people in her
life she would have had to consider before. She has created her life anew without
restriction. It is a very powerful concept.
Insights and Interpretations:
The best part about this dream is that I could see my mother
doing just this type of thing. We had so many discussions before she died about the
things she would have done differently and this dream basically gives her carte blanche to
recreate her life with no strings attached. What I wish people would understand is
that they can walk away from anything anytime and recreate their lives, they don't have to
wait until they "die" essentially to start all over and try something new.
Since it was my dream, it means the message was for me...and I have to take the
same meaning that I give as advice, not to wait forever to make changes in my life.
It is like taking a lateral step on a spider web. You are still in the web of
life, just on a slightly different path. ----- Back
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| Searching for Mark Burton |
January 26, 2002
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The Dream:
I have gone to Bloomington to find someone I met a few years
ago. The only place I know to go is around the college campus to the house where his
parents used to live. His name is Mark Burton. His parents no longer live in this house,
and a dream bleed over of another dream, comes in and I see the old dream when he was a
college student living in a place that used to be a party house for college friends. It is
now deserted as well. I go to a local restaurant and am looking for a phone book with a
phone listing of this old friend. I find the little phone book from a town where I knew
that he had once bought property and I look up his name, but all I find is his parents
names...John and Anita. They are separate listings as if they no longer live together but
I know that they still do. I have two phone numbers and two addresses to track Mark down
but don't know what to use. Instead of trying the phone numbers, I decide to drop my
business card in the mail to both of the addresses hoping that the card will get passed on
to Mark. I met both of his parents once and am hoping that they remember me and will pass
my card on. I realize in the dream that I am sending my real estate business card, and
Mark and I had a discussion once that Mark once wanted to do real estate because he
thought this would be his road to riches. I am wondering if by sending my card, he will
remember and contact me.
Insights and Interpretations:
Interesting. I have not seen this person in over 4
years and am unlikely to run into him anytime in the near future. More so, John and
Anita are the people who own one of the companies I work for and that happens to be Mark's
parents name in the dream - certainly not a coincidence. Another interesting piece
that is an add-on, is that I really ended up in Southern Indiana and as I was driving
through the country I ran across the house of an old friend - this is in real life not
dream world. So, I stopped by her parents house and dropped off my business card and
they sent me to the school where she works and I got to chat with her for awhile. I
had not seen her in years - high school. Once I typed this dream up and realize that
the meeting with the old friend happened within days of the dream...I am pretty sure this
is what the dream was trying to show me...to keep my eyes open for a person from my past
that I have missed and have always felt closely connected to - oh yes, and I had to leave
my real estate business card because it was the only card I had at the time that had an
address where I could be reached. ----- Back
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