Dream Therapy
What's in a dream? This morning I awoke to visions of prehistoric animals, Eddie Fisher and an Indian named Sacajawea. Don't say I didn't warn you...
A blanket of new fallen snow coats Central Park. The full moon illuminates the tracks of a VW bus I'm tracking. My dinosaur Rexxie is lost in Strawberry Fields wearing nothing but bones. I'm tiptoeing uncomfortably with bright yellow Prada's and Little Miss Sunshine's red one piece bathing suit. It's getting colder. The night air coats my lungs and I can't whistle kitchy musicals or familiar broadway tunes to keep me awake. The snow keeps falling, faster now. A baby cries in the distance. I'm alone holding an empty leash wishing that short actors like Eddie Fisher could save me from this misery. Suddenly, Eddie appears from behind an ornamental cherry tree in full bloom. Dressed like a penguin he swoops me into his arms and marches down to the Reservoir where Rexxie is found bathing with Sacajawea. I'm so happy that I ask Eddie to marry me. Suddenly, Director Matthew Broderick yells "CUT" and barks for my replacement - another unknown blond wearing a skimpy 2-piece suit instead.
I really have to start laying off movies in the evenings...
posted by Sonja Stark of PilotGirl™ @ 6:27 AM
1 Comments:
Wow, Sony - that wasn't a dream. It was a full-blown movie!
I find dreams absolutely fascinating as a link between our conscious and our subconscious. I also use them to help me find answers based on a technique I learned from Dick Sutphen about dreaming solutions - the idea being that you ask yourself (as a type of self-hypnosis) to find answers to your questions in vivid dreams and remember those answers when you awake.
I also learned that I can influence my dreams while having them; I got really tired of a dream I was having once and just said (in my dream), ok, this is not what I want to happen and changed the action. I can also nearly always tie what happens in a dream to present concerns and to what happened the day before and what I've let into my head watching tv or a DVD, so yeah, it's important to be careful about your media intake.
A friend once told me of a fascinating technique for analyzing dreams : you become *everything* in your dream, not just the other people. You created every part of the the dream so you think it through based on what you put into it. It's worked for me.
I'm not going to try any actual analysis since I don't know enough about you, but a few examples might be that you *become* the moon in your dream - far away from everything, reflecting the sun but not generating any light yourself, nevertheless using what you reflect to illuminate the world in its time of darkness and, here, to illuminate a wonderful park very important to the lives of millions of people. Or you become the VW bus, solid, of excellent quality, made in Germany, capable of carrying many things yet, here, only leaving tracks, eluding being found.
You could also become the baby or the cherry tree in full bloom or the snow or Sacajawea or Rexxie or the director, even the Broadway musicals. I've also found that dreams often pick up on words' double meanings. "Snow" is one which occurs to me here.
You can go a lot of places with all those images, colors, elements and it sounds like an important dream to do that with. Enjoy.
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