On 28 Oct, 11:33, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had an odd day-dream a week ago. I had a big pond, though it was
> rubber-bottomed. It was in a large garden. I was looking at it,
> thinking of cleaning it up. I saw a baby elephant running about in
> the bottom of it, under the water. I called Sue to have a look. Two
> yobs climbed the garden wall and a saw them off with a brush. Next
> thing I was in trouble with alligators, not exactly scared as they
> were not that big and likely to be as scared of me as I them. My Dad
> came and sorted them. No one was at all impressed with the pond, now
> teeming with fish and Sue coaxed the elephant out. We went into a
> large, messy kitchen. My Mum was around in the background as a smell
> of bread and the whistling kettle on the Aga.
>
Symbolically, elephants are 'known' for their memory. A baby
elephant, though, would seem to have 'less memory' due to age(?) than
an older/bigger elephant. Classically, alligators and crocodiles
represent 'deep wisdom' of which you were not afraid, nonetheless it
was your father (and I'm assuming that your subconscious mind
associates him with the wisdom of old age) that 'sorted them out' for
you. The pond, itself, I think is life. Your wife coaxed out your
memory (the elephant) and you admit, later, that you wish that the two
had met. That almost speaks for itself. And, you're not afraid of
the 'little wisdoms' (the alligators) of life (the pond). The smell
of bread, I think, is a 'satisfaction from life' that you HAD when
your parents were around that, in the meantime, has, perhaps, waned.
To be honest, how many of your recent posts were all about how
satisfied you are with life?
In a nutshell, I think the dream was symbolically saying no more
than:
1) that you wished you had the wisdom you feel your father had (or
the wisdom with which you credit HIM but not yourself) and that you
wished that Sue had known them.
and
2) that if you DID have that wisdom, you'd be able to act in such a
way that you (and others) would be impressed by the pond (of life).
and
3) that you lack a satisfaction in life (the smell of baking bread)
that you feel you've somehow lost since your parents have passed.
Did Sue mention something the previous day that reminded you of
how much you wanted them to have met? As THAT would explain her
coaxing the elephant (the memory of your your father) out of the pond
(doubling, in this respect, as your own subconscience as well as
representing life in general). Sound reasonable??
> Mum and Dad died long ago. I've often wished they had met Sue. Life
> is a bit uncertain at the moment, though a great pain has been lifted
> from our lives, if not quite gone. It's new start time, though we are
> both just escaping exhaustion after illness and stress. I'm happier
> than for a long time, though not quite kicking on.
>
> Whatever the interpretation of this dream (feel free), there is
> another kind of dreaming, let alone what a bit of opium might do.
> This is much more directly concerned with thinking, trying to get a
> new handle on problems and what life could be. This form of dreaming
> is often despised as 'idealism' or 'Utopian'. You can see a form of
> it in the 'real dream' above - at least in the desire for family,
> somewhere decent to live (though the Aga in the kitchen and smell of
> bread is distinctly not 'green'). We are short of a universal dream
> of the way we would have the world. I have tired of one tracking down
> crooks and violent solutions (television and films). Even destroying
> the Australians at cricket (though I just have in a video game)
> palls. What, in this sense is in our Mind's Eye? How would we have
> the world?
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