Analyzing Dreams and Uncovering the Subconscious Mind : Analyzing Dreams and Uncovering the Subconsc

[WorkingThruIt]

Is there anyone else that can change or sometimes control their dreams after they realize they are dreaming?

It is a trick I learned as teen to help with the trauma-related dreams that were so frequent back then. It doesn't work 100% of the time.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

I can. It's called Lucid Dreaming. I have a hard time doing it but have managed to change the out come of quit a few trauma dreams. It's a good technique to learn for this purpose.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi Andre, Don’t worry about my time. If I can’t get to it or don’t feel up to it I will let it sit until I can. I know what you mean about dreams going so fast. It’s hard to remember them sometimes. If I don’t record them immediately after waking I will lose part of the details and sometimes forget the whole thing. Dreams are like life….A mystery. It’s OK if you can’t remember it all. I just suggested it to help me get the full meaning.

If this were my dream the jungle represents a lawless environment with animal instincts, where only the strong will survive. Bridges help us to get from point a to point b and this mode of getting there is unstable. However I meet an aspect of myself halfway. When ever I try to incorporate the feminine traits into my personality it collapses without injury. This is because I know that I don’t want to damage my feminine qualities even though I don’t really want them in me. I feel only the strong can survive and I see feminine to be weaker. I decide to become one with my feminine side when I normally don’t do this.

The cats approaching you and letting you pet them is another sign of achieving balance. The kitty will grow and get stronger as you continue to look at these things in your subconscious mind, and continue to work toward balance. It’s good they aren’t chasing you this time, it means less inner conflict.

In my opinion this dream is like the animal dream. It appears your trying to achieve balance between your feminine and masculine traits but are very hesitant to do so due to the fear of appearing to be weak (bridge). The jungle is lawless and instinctual place with reckless abandonment to sex, and kill or be killed. I’m not sure what your current living environment is but this may be the cause of these dreams as well. I think that you saved the girl and became one with her would mean that your making progress in achieving balance because you became aware of it from the last dream?

I don’t see incorporating feminine qualities as being weak at all. I know the great benefits in achieving balance in my life. I struggled so hard to incorporate masculine traits in me and I feel I’ve been progressing rapidly since I joined this forum????????? Hmmmm.

Hope this was helpful. If it doesn’t sound right just let me know and we can keep working with it. It won’t hurt my feelings if you tell me I’m wrong, because I’m wrong a lot. The only way to figure it out is to be honest with each other and ourselves.

I'm adding this late because it just occurred to me. The Idiom "Bridging the Gap" between the feminine and masculine.

Take care
Tammy

 

[Andre]

Thanks again. I understand now. The way you interpreted the old dreams seemed wrong when I read it before, but I have to rethink that given these newer dreams and what you are showing me about them. I do feel much more relaxed with sort of ultra masculine sorts of tasks and behaviors, and thinking that way too a lot of the time. Just don't seem to have much call for the feminine aspects. I am single and getting to know a few really nice girls right now, is that what you meant by living situation? This first of the newer dreams was the one I had had before we started on the analysis. The jungle, that fits with all of the hunting and killing parts of the older dreams pretty well too.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi Andre, What I was thinking about the living situation was this; If you live with other males who are very masculine in the way they think and act it would be difficult for you to show any of the feminine characteristics you may have around them because they wouldn't approve. But if you live alone then it is just a matter of you wanting to be totally masculine, which makes sense if your happy with the way things are.

Dating a woman isn't really how you would incorporate feminine characteristics into your personality. For instance, if you are quiet and don't talk much then start talking more. Or if your not very passive then you could try to start being more passive. These are traits of femininity. You could find more traits in google.

You don't have to do any of these things if you don't want to, or feel uncomfortable with it. I read that if a person has equal amounts of each characteristic in them they will feel better and have less conflict inside themselves. Which is what I think we all want is less conflict in ourselves.

Also, both of your dreams seem to point to incorporating this trait. So your subconscious is trying relay this to your conscious mind through dreams.

The Cats, Tiger, Panther, and Woman are all representations of femininity. Those symbols can represent other things but in the context of your dream it seems that femininity is the case because of the jungle and werewolf which are masculine symbols of instinct, and only the strong survive.

Dreams are really hard to understand sometimes, because they make no sense with our reasoning in waking life. It's like trying to understand geometry if you never took a geomotry class before. If you keep looking into your dreams and listen to what they are saying it will eventually come to you and start making sense.

Did you google Yin & Yang. That really helps to understand achieving balance in all aspects of our lives.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

http://www.jeremytaylor.com/ This link gives more insight into dream analysis.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

http://www.168fengshui.com/blog/2005/08/05/yin-and-yang-theory/

 

[mightsurvive]

Hiya Tammy

Hope you are ok. Thank you for your last response to those two dreams. And sorry for not replying earlier - havent been good at all.. What you said really seems to fit and make such clear sense. Thank you.

I bought a book on dreams called The A to Z of Dream Interpretaion but havent read it yet. Its quite thick. I will let you know how it goes.

Again thank you ever so much and take care

MS

 

[Awakening]

If houses represent yourself or psyche, what does it mean when I dream about past houses I actually have lived in?

This is quite frequent for me. Specifically last night I dreamt of a house I lived in in my teens with my family and a house I lived in about 5 years ago with my then defacto, now husband. (I'm now 31). Both houses featured in the same dream. It was distressing, emotion filled waking up with anxiety one but I can't remember details. I remember the houses, feeling 'bad' emotions and the only other thing I can remember is being in the house I lived in when I was a teen and when I woke up there was a huntsman spider on my bedside table.

It was one of those dreams where it seemed like it took a while yet I remember little of it, and yet woke up highly anxious & upset.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi Awakening,
Those past houses represent you as well. If it was a past house you lived in, then it most likely means that house represents a memory of how you were feeling then, and you must be feeling that emotion or that memory now, or have felt it in the past 24-48 hours.

You can have a beautiful house dream one night and then a demolished house dream the next night (actually both in the same night) You have to figure out how you were feeling the day of (and take in consideration the past 24-48 hours) of the house dreams.

In order to read the dream I need specific details of what was going on in the house. (I know you don't remember so I suggest just let it go. Since it's recurring then it needs to be worked out. So next time you have these dreams, and if you have time try to remember details when waking and write down everything that you remembered)

Each symbol represents something your thinking or feeling, and then I take all the symbols and tie them together to make a theme of what may be going on with you.

I would guess, and this is a guess because I don't have any information that went on in the dream, is that you dreamed of those houses because what ever bad memory you had at that time you lived there, your currently feeling that way now. This is based on what you said about waking up feeling bad and with anxiety.

Even if you had mostly good experiences in those houses there may be ONE (or many) incidents that upset you, and your subconscious has not forgotten them and is bringing it up now, to help you figure out what is bothering you in order to solve a problem.

So when you actually woke up from those dreams there was a spider next to your bed? That is a little creepy but I wouldn't relate that to the dream unless you seen the spider before you fell asleep. Spiders that appear in dreams are not always bad. But most people fear them so they tend to be bad themes in dreams.

Spider's Wisdom Includes:

*Master weaver
*Weaver of the web of fate
*Wisdom
*Creativity
*Divine inspiration
*Shape shifting
*Understanding the patterns of illusion
*Female energy for the creative force of life

 

[Awakening]

Thanks Tammy I find this very interesting.
I will have to give some more thought to the houses and specifically what I felt when I lived there, as my immediate response was that it was mostly good.
The spider was actually in my dream, not in real life. It appeared in the dream in the house I lived in in my teens.
However, about a week before this dream, maybe 5 days before, there was in real life this disgusting big huntsman spider. I ran out of fly spray and ended up having to get it out on the end of an umbrella. It was quite an episode, and once the spider was out I had a panic attack. I hadn't had one like this in ages - hyperventiliating, shaking violently all over.
Ooh I think I know what it is. My first panic attack appeared after the SA at 18 - shaking violently, couldn't breath when I escaped.
So, sorry thinking this as I type. If the SA happened at 18 and I had a panic attack then. And I dream of the house I'm living in at the time of the SA, and in that dream is a spider. And days prior I really did fend off a spider that gave me a panic attack similiar to the first one - does that mean my subconscious is showing me how scared I was at 18?
Sorry not feeling particularly well or articulate this morning.

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Hi Awakening,

That sounds reasonable and it's good how you tied those issues together. That is how dreams work. You have to think about what has been going on with you and tie the symbols together.

That spider that you had to "fend off" must have brought up those SA issues (because you most likely fought to fend off the SA). Maybe at the time you got rid of the spider 5 days ago you were so freaked out about it, therefore the SA barely touched your conscious thinking, so inevitably it went straight into your subconscious mind to be dealt with later through release of dreaming.

I think just writing about your dreams can even give you clues, as you remembered some things as you typed.

Good luck, your on the right track in figuring this out and you can start helping me analyze dreams LOL - J/K But if it interests you I will help.

Take care
Tammy