there are quite a few people on the org who seem to know a lot
about dreams and about interpreting them. what I wanted to ask
is wether a recurring dream and it's symbolism should be seen
in the same way a one-off dream is. or are there differences in
how one should interpret them?

also, since SciFi and I started talking about one of my dreams
on another thread and I kept giving bits and bobs of info I've
decided to post the full recurring dream I've had for some yrs
now and see if anyone can give an interpretation.

This is the dream:


I feel myself sitting, kneeled
on the ground and my hands feel
moist and cold. I move them and
feel that it's grass I'm kneeling
on. Then I open my eyes and see
that I'm in a garden. It’s a sort
of labyrinth Interspersed with
large squares of grass where all
kinds of things are taking place.

I walk from a square filled with
tall trees made out of sugar onto
another where two grey horses
rest on their thighs and play a
clarinette which they hold up
to their lips with their front
legs.

An Assyrian statuette stands in
the square and listens attentively
with closed eyes, humming to t
he tune the horses play.

Then I hear streaming water all
of a sudden and am drawn to
the sound of that since I can’t
see where it is coming from I
start to search the square until
I find an entrance hidden behind
lots of evergreen hedges

The entrance is very narrow and
Steep but once inside it opens up
More and more until after about
5 mins walking I enter a slightly
higher hallway with 2 large wooden
doors, guarded by two young men in
Assyrian dress with their hair and
beards and make up to match. They
don't talk to me but hold out their
hands at which I find that I have
nothing to place in them except for
my own right hand which I raise.

They take my hand and study it with
a lot of interest, putting their
fingers on the two small molds I
have and babbling to one another.

After that they simply leave me on
my own and leave the way I came.

At which I push open the left one
of the two doors and enter into a
huge underground chamber with a
ceiling about 300 feet high and a
diameter of at least 2000 feet.

The chamber is filled with all
kinds of stalachtites and stuff
with crystal and some metalic
depositories, such as rich green
coppers and white calcium on the
walls and ceiling everywhere.

At my entrance the sound of the
water has ceised completely and
the cage is dead silent.

Lit by a diffuse light that seems
to come from various unseen
sources about halfway up toward
the ceiling, the atmosphere feels
like twilight.

As my eyes get used to the shade
I realise that I’m standing on the
shore of a very large underground
lake.

The water in the lake is black as
deep dark night and doesn't move
at all it just lies still like a
mirror.

In the middle of the lake is one
small "island" if you could call
it that. it is more like a small
slope of rock probing through the
surface of the lake.

On the rock there's a naked girl
sitting with her legs pulled up
and her hands wrapped around m.
Her long black hair reaches into
the water.

Around her little island floats
a huge (dead) being. it looks a
bit more like a mammal than any
kind of fish. though it's not a
certainty since I obviously only
see it's belly as it's floating
with most of it's body beneath
the black surface.

The girl then begins to speak to
me but every word is caught in a
little glass orb and they roll
from her mouth into the pond and
sink to the bottom where they
kind of shine through the dark
with a weird luminescence.

I know I have to get into the lake
to get those orbs and break them
on the rocks to hear the words she
says escape from their prison.

It takes me a lot of strength and
willpower to enter the water to
search for the orbs and I manage
to get only one of them out for
as soon as I enter the water, the
surface starts ripples and there
seems to be an internal current
under the surface moving more
and more rapidly until it becomes
unbearably frightening.

That’s when I run out of the water
with only one Orb. The one that
rolled closest to the shore.

I smash it onto a small altar of
rock, graced on both sides by
torches and as the orb breaks a
cry of such deafening inhuman
Hurt escapes from it that my ears
start to bleed. I feel them with my
hands and when I look at them
they are covered in blood that’s
leaking from my ears.

Then the ground starts to tremble
slightly and a roar of larger and
more dangerous movement rises
from the deep, at which I flee
through the hallway and up the
stairs again.

I’m already halfway up the stairs
before I realise that as I run,
I can sense a movement beneath my
feet. Looking down I notice how
on every step, as my feet touch
it, a line of weird script appears,
hewn out in the steps making my
toes sink into some of the lines
at times and making my lose my
balance.

Finally I reach the top of the stairs
and run out into an open field with
Only very low vegetation and one
Enormous black horse grazing it. The
labyrinth garden seems to have gone
completely.

I grab the horse by the reigns and
Jump on it’s back and gallop from
The scene as fast as I can. Though
the horse runs so fast that I can't
focus my eyes on anything anymore and
my vision gets all blurred

which is when I wake up






do any of you have recurring dreams? and what are they like?
how often do you have them and for how long now? please feel
free to share them cuz I love to read anything about dreams.
especially other people's dreams always fascinate me since I
like to see what kind of imagery a person's brain comes up
with in their sleeptime as compared to the person I think I
see in them during the daytime.

Too much text. Eyes... hurt.

I'm at work, IstenSweet, and am about to go shopping for groceries on my way home, and then I'm off to see Batman Begins with my friends. But I'll look at your dream tomorrow. When I'm back at work.

that's a pretty detailed dream.

lots of water, i note. do you still wee the bed?

I've had this dream for about 6 years now
and it's only the second recurring dream
I've ever had.

The first one, I've got figured out by
now and it seemed to be a lot about me
growing up and embracing fears. it has
stopped once I realised exactly what it
meant.

This one has taken over a while later
and seems far less of a subconscious
way of telling me something that the
other dream did.

This one seems to be much more random
to me. at least for now.

means you're gay, is all

TheFrog said:

I always dream of water. I think I spent 90%
of my sleeptime in terror of water.



Plus, yeah, I wet the bed sometimes, but it's
just for pleasure

AlfofMelmak said:

what on earth am I going to tell my girlfriend?

oh, and you should make a movie out of it, some nice visuals in there!

TheFrog said:

I've only had it for about 9 times now so I've had
enough time to have a look around in it and take
note of the details

water = emotions

# 9 = completion

there is so much info here for you in this dream

i can print it out ... look at it for a day and Org note what i see in it


let me know

Mach said:

that would be absolutely great!!!!

IstenSzek said:

my pleasure ...it will be a day or 2

Dreams are deceiving. One day you dream of holding someone, 3 days later they drop you like a bad habit.

JoeyMFinCoco said:

is this about your marriage?

abierman said:

More like any relationship I've had.

Edit: or thought I had.
[Edited 7/25/05 11:14am]

JoeyMFinCoco said:

aha.....know what you mean, been there myself!!

IstenSzek said:

....and you wee the bed from the top of the dresser.....



You're dream almost sounds like a past life dream, if you believe that stuff. It would be great to be able to turn it into an anime film.
M
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[Edited 7/25/05 13:18pm]

IstenSzek said:

What kind of things?

IstenSzek said:

There are two kinds of other characters in dreams, both of which are represetations of one self, but one in a higher degree than the other.

The assyrian men you dream about fondling you are representations of an emotion within yourself. The nekkid girl clearly plays a more important part in your dream, so it is fair to assume that she is representing your anima - your female self. (If it had been a butt-nekkid boy, it would have been your animus.)

Because anima is rarely represented without the opposing animus (and vice versa), I'm wondering if it is possibly your animus which is the "huge dead being" in the water, but I am not sure, because animus would usually be more clearly represented.

Anyways, your female self is apparently trying to tell you something important, but something (your male self?) is preventing the words from reaching you. When you find the orb (in which the message is suppressed) and smash it, the message bursts out so loud from having been repressed so long that you can't even hear it. Or something. This really is all very complicated...

Oh, I know. We need an expert.

Paging Janfriend!

IstenSzek said:

This means you are straight.

IstenSzek said:

I think the currents in the water you're running from represents hidden feelings within yourself that you are afraid of facing.

But a lot of the metaphors seem to have personal meaning to you that I don't get, like the assyrians for starters. But I think the dream is probably supplying clues to what it is you're afraid of.

Anyways, I paged Janfriend for you. I'm sure she'll be here any hour now.
[Edited 7/26/05 11:22am]

Novabreaker said:

that's what I thought too

scififilmnerd said:

thanks for that!

altho your interpretations already helped me a lot as well
it's very interesting to see what others see so clearly in
this which i've not seen all of this time at all

Still no Janfriend?

Anyways, I've given it a lot of thought and I think it means that you're a top, because you obviously penetrate things...

IstenSzek said:

and

IstenSzek said:

Also, it would appear that you are out of touch with your feminine side - she's isolated on an island with dangerous water cutting you off from reaching her. And even though you want to listen to your feminine side, you can't hear what she's saying.
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