Would you like a Jungian Dream Analysis?

[Pneumaphor]

I am offering my knowledge of Jungian Dream Analysis for three reasons:

1. To assist those who need or wish for assistance, as there are few local volunteering options;

2. To keep my Jungian interpretive skills sharp; and

3. To keep myself focused on something that is shaping up to allow being gentle, kind and sincere to become a way of life and a career.

Note: Any dream interpretation given is NOT official, an official interpretation being better left to a qualified analyst who is being appropriately compensated.

Rules:

1. You must be prepared for uncomfortable issues because these are usually the issues that the unconscious focuses upon in dreams because the waking mind does not wish to.

2. If you feel that rule 1 applies to the issue, please state explicitly that you would prefer the interpretation to either be sent to your private message box or email address BEFORE asking for interpretation. If you wish for an interpretation's removal from the public forum you must send me a private message on AD and it will be done within 24 hours. If this is not soon enough, I expressly permit any moderator or site administration to delete any post of mine without question or notice.

3. You must be a registered member of AD (so that you have a private message box that I can use for rule 2).

4. None of the interpretations or advice that I recommend are to be taken at face value or acted upon without appropriate verification by an outside expert. I am an undergraduate, only human and prone to occasional error. Before implementing any advice from myself or anyone else, consult with a certified expert in the field the advice concerns itself with, being in this case, professional psychology and psychiatry.

Please be prepared to wait patiently as I will not sacrifice quality for quantity or speed.

Welcome to my thread! :D

[CFTraveler]

I just have to say that he is good! Y'all should be taking turns to get your dreams analyzed.

*Gives standing ovation*
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[Sleeping Cookie]

Ok Here we go...

I dreamt it this morning

I received a letter from the army calling me to serve in the reserve force. I'm a bit puzzled cause women don't go to the reserve forces after the age of 25, and I'm 30 years old. So I look for my old army uniforms and find only the top shirt which I put on myself but it's too tight. I tell myself that I have to loose some weight. Since I can't find my old army pants, I wear some red tights. I wonder if the bus driver will allow me not to pay (soldiers don't pay in buses here) because I'm wearing half a uniform. I think of taking a taxi because it's Sunday and usually on Sundays the buses are packed with solders), but I think it will be too expensive. I arive to the main central bus station and there I see my brother working as a taxi driver. He asks me why didn't I ask him to drive me, I tell him that it's too expensive. He tells me that he wouldn't take money from me. I arrive to my old army base and I see a girl that used to serve with me. There are plenty of new people there that I don't know. I guess these are people that served in the same base before or after my time. A girl comes in the room (I don't know her) and she seems weird. I realize she looks dead (this is the strange part of the dream - why I'm asking for interpretation). She's very pale. I tell myself this cannot be since she's standing and talking (very quietly and not with me). I ask from somebody to give me new uniforms that would fit me. I get new uniforms and I see they changed the color from green khaki to blue green. I think it looks prettier.

Ok, so I can interpret the money issue from the dream since we're going through some financial concerns right now. But the dead soldier is what seems weird to me. Btw, before going to sleep I was watching the movie "Munich" where u have lots of army people so it probably influenced my dream

[Pneumaphor]

Sleeping Cookie,

Thanks for posting. I'm on the case! All I can tell you right off the bat is that I believe you are right about the movie serving as a conduit. This ups the difficulty of interpretation a little. This is fine, it'll just have to be cooked a little longer. Hang loose. 8)

-Ron

[Sleeping Cookie]

Btw, I had another "army related" dream and this time I was not influenced by any movie before going to sleep.

I'm in the resistance in a train I think, and I find out that another guy from the resistance is russian. Since I speak russian I approach him and tell him a sentence in Russian. He seems happy to be able to finally speak in russian.
I find myself as a guy in some corridor and I start shooting at the nazis, they shoot back at me. While shooting I wonder how come I'm not hurt yet. Suddenly I realize I loose control and my eyes get shut. I understand I'm dead.

Brrrr.... what are all of these recurrent dying themes about?

[Pneumaphor]

Sleeping Cookie,

I'll give you a sneak peek of the interpretation I'm working on for you. The 'death' theme is the Unconscious showing itself to you. Going to sleep (thus all dreams and astral events) is called "the little death" in Buddhism. So, there's no cause for alarm, because you are simply becoming acquainted with the real, vivid life that actually does exist on the other side of the veil. It appears to you as dead things living because the dead, in fact, are alive. Astral worlds are located in the realm of the so-called dead. The dreams are suggesting that you begin to realize that death is a transition and not an ending. If you can astral project, you can live in the land of the dead, who never were really dead.

The army represents your rational ego battling with itself, in accepting this new perspective and everything that would entail.

I'll send your interpretation to your pm inbox and you can decide whether to post it or not. There is nothing to be alarmed about in either dream. In my honest opinion, your dreams are not trying to tell you that your life is in any kind of peril whatsoever, quite the contrary! So, relaxxxxxxxxxx. 8) :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink:

I'm doing a sentence-by-sentence analysis of the first dream so it's getting quite lengthy, and I've been busy working a lot lately, but I'll finish it as soon as I can.

Peace, Love and Light,

Ron

P.S. If my analysis is correct, you're moving toward a good position for further development. Don't worry. :D

[boris]

oh yes please!

ok here we go:

i was flying upwards in my old secondary school (high school) fields/playground through the surrounding canopy of trees, it was a lovely sunny day, and I could see my old school friends sitting in the bows of the trees, all of them were at varying heights in their trees at somehow it felt as if everyone was "tagging" where they had got to, and I managed to fly right the way up through the treetops into the sky and set a new "high score"

another strange one which i cant make any sense of was,
i was protecting a new pet, but the pet was a tangerine and it was behaving very agressively and had to be restrained by a lead, i felt as if i had to be very protective of this strange pet and was very sad when my brother finally squashed it under foot.

[Sleeping Cookie]

Thank you Pneumaphor for the interpretation. You probably got it right since I've been thinking during this past period that if once death and old age scared me, today I'm not afraid of it anymore. I feel as in the aftermath of some NDE, where all the fears of death are disapearing. I also bought the regression meditation cd that was recommended by Aunt Claire (by Artemis called "Discover your past lives") where I actually saw a previous life, and it made me realize that it doesn't end here.

[Flash_hound]

I posted a dream here...

http://forums.astraldynamics.com/viewto ... highlight= (http://forums.astraldynamics.com/viewtopic.php?t=9053&highlight=)

If something iffy comes up then it would be nice if you just PMd it to me but otherwise I don't care...

[Triot]

I could join. But avoid answering stuff if I think the question will lead
to freuding about me being a sex predator and hidden serial killer.
Can't dream about anything being oversized theses days or stuff
that comes in pair. :lol:

[Triot]

Here's two.

My girlfriend and son in a building. Some dude want me to come with him.
So I go along. Intuition steps in and tells me to turn the other way and
back into the building. Trying to talk with him and telling him polite that
I need to go back and stay with them. This upsets him and he grabs my
arm and pulls me away from the house. In reflex I knock the grip and
run back towards the building. Climbing the wall he grabs my leg and
pulls me downwards towards the ground. So I start kicking him with the
other foot to get him off me. Dream ends.

A second dream is about the same thing. Some guy wants me into a car,
now there's two others with him. I really don't wanna go with them and
they are keeping a watch over me to make sure I get in this car. They're
really insisting. I try something sneaky first entering a nearby building
with the idea of escaping out the window on the other side. But this
female keeps following me making sure I'm in her view. In the car I can
just think about my family and getting back to them.

In the backseat I'm talking with a guy making excuses why I shouldn't
go with them and in thought planning another escape route once the car
stops. Like he his placed there making sure I stay.

I kept checking the clock in this dream and it was 23:55

They kinda remind me of these annoying agents in the matrix. Without
the sunglasses.

[Pneumaphor]

Thank you all for participating! This is what I was hoping for. :D

:!: :arrow: Note, Please Read: In future dreams please consider as many details as possible. Be as anal retentive as you can. :lol: After all, "God is in the details." Or the devil depending on your point of view. 8)

In order to get the grasp of the kind of detail I'm talking about, please read this section from "Our Dreaming Mind" by Robert L. Van de Castle, pp. 300-301 discussing what is arguably the best modern dream recording system so far devised: "Basically, our scoring system consists of sixteen "empirical" scales and three "theoretical" scales, the latter derived from psychoanalytic theory, with an elaborate but precise form of notation that researchers can use to describe dreams. To give some idea of the comprehensiveness of the system, a brief explanation will be given of each of the various scales.

The Settings scale is used to describe the type of location in which the events take place. The major distinctions involve classifying the locale as an indoor or outdoor setting and indicating the degree of familiarity that the setting has to the dreamer. Sixteen different scores are possible for settings.

The Objects scale is used to categorize any tangible objects that appear in dreams. Buildings are included under an architectural heading and are further broken down into subtypes: houses or other "residential" dwellings; "vocational" buildings such as factories or offices; and buildings or rooms used for "entertainment," such as restaurants or movie theaters. Other object classifications refer to things found in the household, used for travel, or ued for communication, such as a book or radio. Twenty-four different object categories are found on this scale.

The people, mythological figures, or animals appearing in dreams are scored on the Characters scale. With the exception of animals, each character is classified with regard to four components: whether a single character or a group of characters is represented; the sex of the character (male, female, or indefinite); the character's relationship to the dreamer family member, relative, known character, etc.): and age of the character (adult, teenager, child, or baby). Hundreds of different character combinations can be represented by this schema.

Three different groupings of social interactions are scored: Aggression, Friendliness, and Sex. The scoring is similar for all three types of interactions. The character who initiates the interaction is recorded first and the recipient character second. Various subclassifications within each social interaction groupings are also included. For example, eight classifications of aggression are scored. It is also possible to indicate whether the interaction was spontaneously initiated or occurred as a response to some previous action.

The Activities scale indicates which types of activities-physical, verbal, visual, auditory, and so forth-are involved and which character carries out these activities. Two scales, included under an Achievement Outcomes grouping, indicate whether characters succeed or fail in coping with pro blem situations encountered in the dream. Similarly, two scales included under the Environmental Press grouping indicate which characters experience misfortune or good fortune in the dream. A misfortune is any adversity that befalls characters as a result of external circumstances over which they have no control, as the result of fate or bad luck. A good fortune would be scored for a dream character who won a lottery or benefited from some other form of good luck.

Five different types of Emotions are scored and an indication is made as to which character experiences these emotions. The types of descriptive terms used by the dreamer in referring to things (big, small, old, ugly,fast, cold, etc.) are included in the Modifiers scale. The Temporal scale contains scores for occasions when the dreamer indicates concern with time factors, while the Negative scale includes instances in which the dreamer uses ords such as no, not, never, and so forth.

The theoretical scales were included in our book to illustrate how one could construct scales for measuring any psychodynamic construt that can be defined in an objective fashion. The Castration :shock: Complex grouping, for example, includes three scales, designed to measure castration anxiety, castration wish, and penis envy in dreams. The Orality grouping includes two scales: one devoted to instances of oral incorporation such as eating, while the other refers to oral emphasis and includes mention of oral body parts like the lips or tongue and related oral activities, such as kisssing. The other theoretical scale is a Regression scale for scoring instances when the dreamer mentions persons, locations, or activities that were associated with an earlier part of his or her life."

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeew, my fingers hurt! :lol:

Now, I do not expect anyone to be THAT exact, I just wish to highlight the fact that the details are very important. Also, Jungian interpretations rarely get 'Freudian,' especially when I am doing the analysis. the Unconscious does not waste a chance for a good pun! So, in order to get the most out of this experience, put all you can into it. You will only 'reap what you sow.' :D

Alright, so, I finished Sleeping Cookie's interpretation and am moving on to the next one in line. Thanks Cookie!

Love and Light,
Ron

[Pneumaphor]

Well people, a new class is starting tomorrow so it may be just a little while before I get back here but keep posting your dreams if you want. If anyone wishes to help interpret dreams posted here while I'm gone they should definitely do so!

[Serenity]

:!: :arrow: Note, Please Read: In future dreams please consider as many details as possible. Be as anal retentive as you can. :lol: After all, "God is in the details." Or the devil depending on your point of view. 8)

So, you would rather us give you entire dreams instead of coming to you with recurring dream elements?

[Triot]

Spider looking creature probably 1/2 meter in diameter and 1/2 tall
stalking me around in a city. Trying to outrun it around a house corner,
then around a building in hope of shaking it off.

It found me again. When I stopped, it stopped. Kept around 2 meters
distance. Maybe facinated by me. Was waiting for it to attack in any
way, and preparing a swiff kick if it did, it didn't. Like feeding a pet
and it keeps stalking you for more snacks.

Maybe it falls into some category of 'dreams of stalkers'. :roll:

Forgot: It looked like a hybrid between a spider and lobster.

[Pneumaphor]

:!: :arrow: Note, Please Read: In future dreams please consider as many details as possible. Be as anal retentive as you can. :lol: After all, "God is in the details." Or the devil depending on your point of view. 8)

So, you would rather us give you entire dreams instead of coming to you with recurring dream elements?

Serentiy,

Good questions. I obviously left out the most important part, I guess, so here it is: My time is limited. My schedule only seems to get fatter by the day lately. Please don't think that because I make one long post, that I want more or longer or frivolous dreams. It takes a long time to do long dream interpretations (sometimes one to two weeks at a time for me) and any serious analysis regimes are beyond the scope of this particular thread. Therefore, please only send things that you really need help with but can't afford, or don't want a real Jungian analyst to see just yet. If anyone does not recieve a reply from me, know that to indicate that I'm just too busy doing all the one's in the pm inbox. I'll try to get there eventually.

I didn't realize that so many people were interested in Jung. I do live in the woods though. :lol: I must congratulate you all on your wonderful intuitions and good taste! :D

[Serenity]

You come with good recommendations. :) I just thought it wise to clarify that point.

[Pneumaphor]

Thank you, Serenity

I realize, however, that I still didn't answer your question. In a case where the two options you mentioned are the only criteria, 'Recurring' dream elements would be the ones to work on first because they usually represent something that needs more focused attention sooner (hangups). Recurring dreams are also usually the most advantageous dreams to analyze because once the issue is understood, the dreamer usually has that immediate "Aha" feeling and gets that missing psychological piece of the puzzle that they need to have normal daily life.

For example, I had a recurring dream that my well-to-do real estate agent uncle was standing beside my mother, always glaring at me like I was an errant child (he does not approve of my non-materialistic 'mystical' view of life). In these dreams, my mother always appeared childlike and clueless and most importantly, unconscious to my uncle's presence always at her side. I finally realized, through discussion of this with my sister, that this was actually a visual representation of his attitude (step on whoever you have to to get rich), more precisely a copy of his ego, actually assimilated into my mom's ego. When we realized all this, all of my mother's negative actions became almost instantaneously transparent. My mother and uncle grew up together under very hard circumstances so they're still very close to this day. That gave me freedom, like my hands had been untied, because I knew then how to guage my mother's advice by looking for which of these two places in her mind it had come.

Better yet, since discussing these findings with my mother she has realized that my dreams see right through her and has completely stopped pressuring me or even thinking of pressuring me into any career. Discussing these truths with her completely nonplussed her negativity. As an interesting and hopeful side, my sister has gleaned the same insight I have and has experienced the same "Aha" feeling and freed her hands as well. She was thrilled with the discovery! Our mother has always been somewhat overbearing in both our lives until lately.

So, recurring elements are the best places to start for immediate results. Thank you for your interest and good questions, Serenity.

By the way, I'm sure you figured out that I was making a blanket statement for everyone with my last post, not you in particular, Serenity. Some have sent me fake dreams and that annoys me because I can see right through them, right off the bat.

So, everyone, if your dreams are real, please let me help you because you are me. There's no line dividing the body of air I'm breathing from the one you're breathing. They're the same and so are we. If I can improve this world now by helping you, then when my child has to share this world with your children, I will know that I did the best thing I knew how to improve this world for both, aid people in listening to their true, omniscient Selves, through their own dreams.

Love and Light,
Ron

[Silence]

Thanks for offering this service! Understand you are very busy,
and if you get time cool, if not, no sweat.

Please send as private message.

Picking "which" dream is the hardest. Rarely have reoccuring
dreams but do have many dreams where I'm stuck and it
keeps repeating like a broken record, or just gets stuck for
the longest time and wake up so frustrated!

Also, have been having dreams where I feel guilty or people
are mean, or disappointed in me. Horrible! I've never had dreams
like that in my life. Even if some monster is chasing me or it's
a bloody gorey one, I've never had so much pointed at myself.

The dream where I ran over my baby, was pretty clear to me
what was going on emotionally with me at that time, so will give
one I had recently, that was very strange.

This was a waking dream when I usually get visions, so it was
odd that is was more dreamlike than real like. Well, how do I put
this... it was still real like. All my dreams are in color, very
detailed, sometimes more details standing out than others.
Usually my dreams will be a multitude of tangents, but waking
visions will be like a movie.
Within the last year, my dreams have been more like, but not
exactly like my waking visions, but more movie like.

Anyway... the dream.

Started out I could see the father of my baby just standing in
the bkg. As usual in my dreams, he is just standing there doing
nothing. I've really been wanting to get out and about and
find someone so my baby doesn't grow up without a good male
role model, so this has been on my mind and prob
why had this dream but it turned strange.

I was in my house. Only this wasn't my house... It felt like
my "home", but this was an underground place. It was like an Ewok
house but underground or something. Like dried grass walls,
but remembered thinking how great my decorating was and
how compfortable I was. Had all my important things there with
me. It was like room after room with dividers like at an art show,
but all underground in cave, but the cave ceiling didn't seem high.

There was a handsome man that popped in front of me. Dark
hair, beautiful face, chiseled features, tall, lean, striped shirt,
dark blue and white, with dark pants. He seemed really glad
to meet me, and wanted to see my place. So I showed him how
to get down there, by rough wooden ladder. Then he started
kind of being rude. Saying things like "why didn't I do this?"
and "why didn't I do that?" walking around the areas, then it
was like we were supposed to move somewhere and he wasn't
helping, remember feeling in the dream like I really didn't want
to be around him and wanted him to leave, then we went down
another ladder and he started showing me gross stuff.
There were cages with animals in them, that were devouring each
other. He was testing them. He would put a certain animal in with
another to see who would kill and eat the other. Then showed
me a whole shed like place with "huge" rats size of medium sized
dogs, feeding on an already maggot infested body. The maggots
were even size of normal big sized rats.
I felt like he wanted eyeballs. Like he collected them. He showed
me a brown and blue eyeball. He would bury the one with the best eyeball, then when he found one to take it's place as the best, he would dig up the body of his favorite eyesball and feed it to these huge rats.

Details in my home: framed photos laying on a nice coffee table..
you know those made out of tree trunks, with glass inset? couldn't
see images in photos. Browns, lots of various brown colors, lighter
and darker tones.

Dream started out normal, feeling good, then turned where I felt
disappointed, upset, didn't know what to do, ... just bad, almost
sick to stomach. Actually, thinking about it now makes my sick.

Hope that's enough details to work off.

Wonderful day to you!
Silence

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[Pneumaphor]

Silence,

Thank you, you have sent a perfect dream to begin with. Right off the bat, I can tell you that your personal unconscious feels that this is prime time to show you deeper things! I'm confident that you have never had that dream before and that it was more lucid than most dreams you've ever had. It is rich in archetypal symbolism! Dreams like this only happen at pivotal points in individual development. It is much like a particularly meaningful breakthrough dream that Jung himself had, which is recounted in his autobiography.

The subject matter in the dream is actually sacred, and when I first read it, my overall thoughts boiled down to "Breakthrough!" so I'll spare no effort in your interpretation.

For anyone else who wants an interpretation, you may send it to my p.m. inbox before posting it on the thread if you wish. I recommend doing this. You can post whatever you will after receiving your interpretation. Helping is my goal. Filling my thread with activity is nice but practically inconsequential to me personally. It would be far better if this thread could be locked but in the absence of that option, the p.m. inbox works just fine.

I'll get right on it, Silence. Thank you for choosing me, it is my pleasure and honor to serve you in these matters! At the moment, this is the best way I can say a deep heartfelt "thank you" to Dr. Jung, wherever he is now, for what he did for myself and countless others. You can expect a reply in less than two weeks.

Love and Light,
Ron

[ButterflyWoman]

Okay. I'm ready to play. I had a really weird and somewhat frightening dream that has me quite puzzled.

I went out to a party of some sort (this is totally atypical for me in waking life; I'm NOT a party girl at ALL). While there, I encountered a well-known rap artist, and he took a liking to me for some bizarre reason, but I was kind of flattered by the attention. He persuaded me to go with him somewhere, and I did. He had a female assistant with him, as well, and we got into this HUGE SUV he had, the kind with three rows of seats (like a mini-van inside).

On the way to the vehicle, another woman was there, sort of grabbing at me and crying, accusing me of "stealing" him from her. I had no idea what she was talking about. She sais something like, "So, do you expect me to have to get a new boyfriend now?!" and I just looked at her and went on. I got the impression that there were a whole string of women that this guy had picked up, dated, whatever, and then basically abandoned. I wasn't concerned at that point, because I didn't see me as having anything like a romantic relationship with this guy. I was just sort of flattered in his interest, or something along those lines.

I got into the SUV and saw that my two young daughters were there with me, in the SUV, and I asked "Are they in seatbelts?" but they weren't, so I insisted they be buckled in. By this time the SUV was moving, and I was starting to get really apprehensive. We continued driving and I came to understand that he wanted to take me away for some weekend or something, and I said, "Oh, no, I can't do that!"

Then I saw that the sun was coming up and I got really panicked. I explained that I have a husband and a family and they'd be really worried if I just didn't come home, but nothing I said would persuade him to stop or take me back or let me out. The image of the sky starting to turn light with dawn is very vivid...

I woke up then with a start and had to deliberately breathe a few times and make sure it had only been a dream.

Now, I have NO idea what to make of that. I do happen to regard SUVs as stupid and pointless and excessive. I don't like rap, nor do I listen to it. I never go to parties, nor do I want to. I don't know why my kids would suddenly turn up in the dream (they weren't at the party; I was on my own).

I'm listening. :)

[Silence]

Thanks Pneumaphor,

Looking forward to the intrepretation! Will have to read up more on Dr Jung. Esp of your reference. :D

Enjoy the day,
Silence

[Pneumaphor]

Happy Thanksgiving, Astral Dynamics!!!

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May the harvest of the earth nourish you all and make you sleepy!

Olderwiser,

If I had not had a similar dream recently, I would probably be at a loss to help in this case but I think I can shed some light on it. Would you prefer that the interpretation be sent to your inbox or posted in public?

Silence,

Same question: Would you prefer that I sent your interpretation to your pm inbox or post it here?

Please forgive the undue care I seem to be taking, it is just a good habit that I consider an asset: 'Measure twice, cut once' is how we say it here in 'the hills.'

:wink:

[ButterflyWoman]

If I had not had a similar dream recently, I would probably be at a loss to help in this case but I think I can shed some light on it. Would you prefer that the interpretation be sent to your inbox or posted in public?

Kewl! Uhm... better PM it. ;)

[blacktiger057]

This is my dream that I had about a week ago. It has people from my favorite show, Charmed...it was really bizarre.

So I was in San Fransisco standing by a really tall building. Then Piper(person from show) came up to me and said that some mad man was going to blow up California and that we had to save it.

So a bunch of other girls gathered around me and we started chanting. We placed crystals around us. It was very weird, because this was not like the regular magick that I practice. We created a shield that spread over the city. But then it suddenly cracked, and in the dream I knew what had happened. I just had the feeling I knew, but in the present I have no idea what it was. The shield, which was blue and sparking, gathered around us. The explosion went off. After a minute, we put the shield down. Everything was gone and smoking, except for us. AT this part of the dream I was saddened and a felt the strangest emptinest.

Throughtout most of the dream I had a definate sense of purpose. I knew exactly what I was doing, even though I really have no idea in the physical world. I hope this makes sense!

[Silence]

Same question: Would you prefer that I sent your interpretation to your pm inbox or post it here?



Yes, thanks Pneumaphor, would prefer that.

So appreciate your time doing this!

Blessings,
Silence

[Pneumaphor]

Silence,

Sorry, I just reread your first post here and you already explicitly answered my question. A thousand apologies for actually asking you twice, it was unintentional! I apologize to my self for that one. Okay, I'll hush and get to work now. :D

Love, Light and Blessings!

[sono]

PLEASE won't you be so kind as to interpret these 2 rather awful dreams I had on my birthday, which makes me feel they may be signifcant: I am being guided by a red-haired woman to a station; we are talking about esoteric matters, Gnosis in particular & she says there are no Gnostic schools in the UK (where the dream takes place) I am hampered by wearing the wrong shoes - am carrying my walking shoes in my right hand, which I finally put on, but can't climb up a high step to get to the platform in time - I can see her red hair as she rides off on the departing train. It is all dark; she had told me there were "no lights at stations" I sit down outside on a bench; the waiting room is full of people, but also dark. A very short train passes; & then a longer train approaches with the name "Vetch" in front as its destination. I don't know where that is, so decide against getting on. I feel quite calm, acccepting my fate.

Dream 2: I am swimming in a huge square pool "as big as the sea". The water is a nasty brown-red. There are several other people there too (all strangers). At one point I climb onto a floating suitcase but slip off again when "the whales come" & bump me. I am trying to avoid the whales; a woman says this is the "pool of our dead" & asks me if "her Leidel" (Lyadel?/ Lye-del? - sounds German or maybe Yiddish) could be there - I say of-course. Now at the shallow end, (it's deepest in the middle of the pool) I find I can touch the bottom, but can't bear to put my feet down; I keep swimming back & forth in horror, getting entangled in something which turns out to be an old pair of womens' stockings. Am then awoken by my alarm clock.

[Pneumaphor]

Dear Dreamers,

Due to extenuating circumstances, I will no longer be offering Jungian dream interpretations on Astral Dynamics. Doing anything Jungian on a website is like trying to fit a full grown elephant through a drinking straw. I was not fully aware of this limitation when I started this thread, but the last dream I had made it all finally crystal clear to me.

To those who have helped me so far by posting their dreams on my thread, I thank you and I tip my hat to you. You have helped me more than you may ever know, and for that, I will remain eternally grateful. Seekers are finders, never forget that. Keep seeking!

This officially ends the thread.