Dream I had last night.

[Eol007]

Atalanta,

Thank you for sharing your dream experience. It was very touching!

Stephen []

[ImmuredSoul]

Yes, very touching. I felt a tear come to eye.

[Rastus]

Interesting, very.

<Insert usual disclaimer about interpruting other dreams here>

I see it as a turning point in your spiritual life.  You have hit some point, and now you must decide to proceed further or not in your studies.  You mentioned Witch and Initiate, is that your training style?  I personally use power in my dreams, and it doesn't cause me to go lucid (just spiffy [] ).  I think its a sign that you are comfortable with who you are, and your not afraid to be open about it.

Going back and hugging the older gentleman, I think that has deeper meaning.  Have you ever had problems with Depression?  The encounter can symbolize your acknowledging the past, and thus releasing some blocks that are holding you back.

Overall I'd say the dream is telling you the way is open to take your studies to the next level.

[Jarthur]

I second the usual disclaimer. But some dreams have more elements of a universal nature than others. Here's a basic attempt at a rewording of your dream for the sake of whatever you like.

The friend is the part of you that is more than you know.  The inner you.  The outer you finds herself visiting in her house,  the dream. Your friend is getting ready for a holy day and she wants you around because without you there is no holy day. You feel uncomfortable because you aren't yet ready to admit this to yourself. The most convenient feeling is that you are intruding.

From what I understand, the same type of energy you used in this dream to do whatever it was you did sometimes causes you pain after you wake up, the migraines. I think the pain is a result of conflict.  

Maybe you're putting off something that will not be denied. You would need to expend a lot of energy to save yourself and your friend by becoming one with her...

Anyway it seems your friend is impressed with the attempt. After suggesting you should consider being initiated, she places the piece of jewellery on the blank book.  

You will have to write in the story of your new life in this book but in order to do that you first have to remove the guardian of the book, the serpent. There's just too much that could be said about this piece of jewellery. The gems, their colors etc. Let's move on.

An actor in our society is endowed with a considerable amount of prestige. Given the nature of his work, I think it's reasonable to suggest he represents your personality. But although he is in another room from the first or inner one, he is still in the house.

I think it would be worthwhile to examine what types of roles this actor plays.

In any case, according to Jung (I like to refer to him for dream interpretation because he did a great deal of work in the area), the Old Man, when endowed with special powers or prestige, represents the spirituality of the personality which emerges when consciousness is overburdened with clarified, apprehended and assimilated matter welling up from the unconscious.... taking on the grief of the world is an understatement.

You understand more of this dream than I do but maybe this different perspective will be helpful.

[atalanta]

Wondering what people think about this dream.

I saw myself at the house of a friend.  She appeared to be getting ready for a holiday and I was visiting.  I can't remember all the details but I had a sense that I may be getting in her way of preparing for her holiday, although she protested that she wanted me around.  I had a sense that she was a spiritual person, like maybe she was a witch or in some esoteric type group.  I didn't know, just had a sense that she was more than I knew.

Then something happened, which I don't remember but I have a sense that I had to use spiritual/psychic powers to bring about something, maybe to protect her/us or do something.  I do have dreams like that sometimes where I am using psychic energy and wake up with migraines because there is so much energy around my head.  Back to the dream.  When whatever I did in the dream was over, she said she was impressed with me and thought I ought to consider being initiated.  There was a blank book on a stand and she placed a piece of jewellery on it.  It was a pin in the shape of a snake.  Its body had diamonds and emeralds while its head had a ruby in it.  It was very beautiful.  I told her I would have to think about it and would tell her when she got back.

Then we started to walk out the door and as I passed a room, there was a short, thin, old man in it.  He is an actor but I can't think of his name.  We just kept looking at each other.  My friend meanwhile kept urging me to move along.  I started to move reluctantly, not wanting to take my eyes of this person.  Then as I was moving towards the door, I stopped, turned around and went back and just hugged him.  We just started to sob.  I don't know who this person was or why they were important to me or why I was sobbing but it was really intense.  The closest I can make to the feeling is, it was as if I recognised in him and myself at that moment all the grief of the world, my own included.  All the missed opportunities, lost loved ones, hurt, etc, and at the same time, in him I saw a beloved friend returned to me, eventhough I didn't recognise him.  Yes, it was like letting go of all the pain in the safe presence of a loving friend that I hadn't seen in years.

Very strange dream.  Having woken up, and not seeing him around is a bit saddening.