Answers in Dreams

I have always believed that there is more to our dreams than we may really understand. I have spent many hours over the years of my life trying to discover the hidden meaning in many many dreams. When I was younger I was plagued by horrible nightmares each and every night, it was torture to think about falling asleep. As time went on, I learned how to be aware that I was in fact dreaming - lucid dreaming. I developed ways of exiting or changing my nightmares and eventually stopped having the nightmares on a regular basis.

In my dreams I learned to fly. This took years, awkward at first and eventually something that was truly an enjoyable experience. I even sprouted wings out of my back, much like a dragons. This might sound crazy to most people but it has been almost a nightly experience for me. Years and years of learning how to remember dreams, experience each to it's fullest and try to understand it.

Last night, I had a very clear and important dream. Or at least, I think it is. The series of images, the journey through out and the clarity makes me believe that it has a purpose. I have yet to really try and define this dream, I have spent most of the day recollecting each and every aspect of it. I am trying to burn it in my brain so to speak, I am going to spend some time tomorrow trying to unlock it's definition.

I am not really going to describe the entire dream in this entry as I feel it's more personal to me however, I am going to list some of the things I feel are key elements to this dream.
  • a ring of sleeping women head to toe, dark hair flowing
  • a trial or test with possible consequences
  • stacking books, letters into a tower (part of the test)
  • being led to water by a "friend"
  • a dark animal in the water masquerading as good
  • escaping the monster revealed
  • leaving someone changed behind
  • standing alone in a sky so thick and black like real velvet looking back at the person left behind standing in a door way in the sky

OK, so you are probably going to read that and think I am nuts, maybe I am. The images through out the dream will be in my brain forever, I just hope I am describing them to myself correctly in remembering.