Pretty damned good Pat - thanks for taking the time. Although we've had a tough time since we met, Sue brought me a sense of wholeness I've not known before (except for a brief time that ended in tragedy). I hadn't been thinking of my parents consciously. This, in a way, is the beginning of a new space for us.
On 28 Oct, 12:34, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
