September 16, 2003

• What Your Heart Knows

  
  

       Interpreting dreams has been a both hobby and serious pastime for people as far back as we've been keeping written records of the things we do.  I don't know a lot about dream interpretation except that it's an intriguing thought that my subconscious is attempting to communicate truth to me through complex symbollism that I may or may not be bright enough to ever figure out.  In recent weeks I've had one recurring dream.  It's the same thing every time, I'm flying through the air.  Most of the time the context of my flight is a circus act (shades of Cirque du Soleil here) in which I'm a trapeze artist.  I soar, spin, and dive to catch the bar or have my hands caught by a partner then up into the air I go again. 

  
  

       My emotional state in this dream is always high exultation.  I'm free, strong and graceful unfettered by gravity or convention.  I've mentioned this dream to two different people and received two different interpretations.  Over on DawnsEarlyLight's site, she's been using a book to figure out interpretations of dreams.  Here's what she found about mine:

  
  

  My only recurring dream lately has been that I'm some kind of circus performer - trapeze I suppose, spinning and flying and turning through the air, free and graceful and strong, catching that bar on the way down and swinging up for another turn. If the book says this means I'm crazy - you don't have to tell me that. lol

  
  

  Okay, you're not crazy! Hee hee. Here's what it says about the acrobat: The acrobat represents the combination of strength and grace, and thus the union of male and female. Trapeze artists may signify spiritual courage, demonstrating to the dreamer that only by risking one's own safety can true inner progress be accomplished.

  
  

  All the dream world's a stage, a theatre in which magical transformations take place, images leap from the depths of the imagination, and the drama of life unfurls. Some dreams take this metaphor to its natural conclusion, using actual theatres, cinemas or circuses as their setting. A dream theatre is an illusion within an illusion, and may appear to offer the dreamer an understanding of the mystery that lies behind the world of appearances. However, the dreamer may also find the theatre or circus ring empty, or the cinema screen blank, and experience a haunting loneliness, as if he or she is excluded from the revelation that is about to appear to others. If we actually find ourselves on the stage, or in the circus ring, participating in the drama, it may be that we identify with the character or aspect of behavior on display. Actors may represent other people of importance in the dreamer's waking life, or they may invoke the archetype of the Persona, the mask that we assume to confront the outside world.

  
  

  This is some deep stuff, Quiltinmomi. In the words of Dread Pirate (almost), dream on, dream on.

  
  

  That's pretty cool.  I kind of like the idea that my subconscious is all about union, grace and archetypes.  The second interpretation works pretty well for me too, "Dreams about flying are really dreams about sex."  Yep - my subconscious has quite a bit of explaining to do. 

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