In Dreams
Published March 06, 2006
These days, I want to know what these strange and curious dreams mean: I want to know about helicopters (well that one was obvious, a savior, to save, someone who offers salvation, but what does it mean then to get on the helicopter and start reading that person's palm? To flip their soft hand over and trace the fine lines?
What does it mean to dream of being in an orchard, even if you have been in such an orchard, even if you snuck away to said place even recently or not so recently, what does it mean to dream about it again and again? What do bees hanging above you mean - not harming you, not a threat at all, all perhaps memories but nonetheless, why do such thing insert themselves now and why associated with particular people?
Yes, I have done many of these things in my life and some are clearly memories or the present that is the past brought into the present through discussion through love, through so many factors, but what it all means is another factor entirely.
The book tells us only to ask a direct question - in other words, don't beat around the bush. Be direct and be concise. I've never been one to believe in hocus pocus, but this time I believe.
Offer me forbidden fruit, offer me orchards full of it and I shall collect it in my skirt, offer me dangerous bees who will not sting but instead become my friends and I wonder, do I really need a book to know what it all means, or is it, like a fairy tale, so intuitive that it's cloaked in mystery?
- In Dreams
- Published: March 06, 2006
- Type: Opinion
- Section: Culture
- Filed Under: Culture: Society, Culture: Family and Relationships
- Writer: Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti
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hey Steve =- as usual, i tend to agree with everything you've said. The Book of White Magic only interests me in so far as it is so so so old and more of a fascination or an "object" than anything else... and besides, it's fun.
Seriously, unless you really believe, i figue this is pretty safe stuff - i mean it is called white magic... and more, it's fun to look up dreams and so far, oddly , they've all made perfect sense and not in the sense that i've been overlaying a template on the dream to make it make sense, but just because it does.... which even i, a great cynic, have to admit, is pretty damn weird...
apples? fruit? orchards? - helicpters? go figure.... and the united nations building all in one... it is rather odd, but strangely, all comes togeher, but in all honesty, i probably didn't need a book to tell me that...
cheers -
s. :)
Sadi, bist du Jüdisch? The Yiddish saying you mention is a bit like a mirror of another one, "If you want your dreams to come true, wake up."
Perchance to dream. Aye there's the rub...etc.
Was it Freud who suppoosedly said, re symbols and dreams, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"
Hey Mike - 1/2... hope that answers...
Never hear of second quote but like it more than the first one i posted! thanks for sharing... yes, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but i still can't get away from the repativite nature of these dreams.
Likely, i still have fever from pneumonia and that explains everything - that' my current theory...
whaddya think - make sense (oh, pardon typos, grammatical errors - having trouble seeing today... illness...)
tx.
s.
Yes, that makes sense to me. Fevers are known for triggering convulsions and hallucinations and vivid dreaming. I had pneumonia too a few years back, so I feel for you, not all nice, extremely high temperatures and an odd extra effect that
migraine sufferers (myself included) have also noted, that during an attack a song or a snatch of music is constantly being recalled to mind at the same time one is suffering with the fever or the migraine. It might not be a song one has ever been particularly fond of but still one can't get that snatch out of one's mind... it's an odd effect. Have you had that effect?
Get well soon.
Sadi, sorry to hear you are suffering from those ailments right now, I do pray you recover soon. Looking forward to your next article,
S.
hey Steve and thanks --- i'm sure i'll be okay; just feelikng really lousy in the thick of it... more to come hopefully very soon . . . : )
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Interesting article.
I don't think most dreams necessarily have any real meanings frankly, though I've read some Christian books that suggest maybe as much as 10% do, and certainly, there are examples of dreams having some significance in the Bible, for example.
However, though I have bought a book or two on the subject, I can't say I've found them to be all that helpful in interpreting my own dreams.
I would be careful about anything calling itself white magic, you never know what you might be getting yourself into. I find that kind of occult stuff seems to have the goal of making you dependent on it, which I don't think is healthy.
I just pray and ask God to reveal things I need to know, and help me ignore the things I don't, until/if I need them. Sometimes, ignorance really is bliss, ...and sometimes not so much lol.