Odd dream...interpretations are welcome

[Guest guest]

I had a rather odd dream that involved "doomsday" in the form of giant tidal

waves, elevator-type rooms and mother Amma. Apparently there were giant waves

that were going to destroy everyone and everything and while everyone was

panicking, I accepted it, called up my dearest friends to keep in contact with

them through the end and focused myself on attaining enlightenment.

Then several people (I think all were strangers) and myself got into this

large glass elevator-type object and waited. Something told me to put my hands

together at my forehead and focus on a green orb of light between them and focus

on making it smaller and concentrated if I wanted to attain enlightenment.

While I did this, the first round of waves came around and our elevator was

untouched, then the big one came, easily 100 feet tall and we were spared again.

This entire series of events happened again later in the dream as well.

Then the dream cut to a different spot, where people were reuniting with

others. Apparently no one had died in the waves and very little (if anything)

had

been destroyed. I found my best friend (whom I called) and he was perfectly

accepting of everything in his life now (his life isn't the best thus far). Then

we donned white robes and joined Mother Ammachi as renunciates, though in

life my friend has little interest in spirituality.

There we sat at a mini-alter with gold-colored ghee lamps and everything and

she was instructing me on how to properly do puja, straightening my posture as

she did and tucking in my knees. Then the second wave sequence happened and

my friend and I (still in the white robes) got into another glass elevator-type

thing and everything happened the same way, though we were completely calm,

knowing that nothing bad was going to happen.

That was all I really remember but it was extremely vivid and very

interesting and I'm definitely keen on getting the opinions of other like-minded

people.

=) Jai ma!

-Katie

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

, omshaktipriya@a... wrote:

> I had a rather odd dream that involved

> "doomsday" in the form of giant tidal

> waves, elevator-type rooms and mother Amma. [....]

 

It seems to me that dream interpretation is a very individual thing.

Symbols certainly can mean different things in different cultures,

and even different things to different people.

 

However, you might find some interesting food for thought in some of

the many online dream dictionaries (these all seem very Western to

me.)

 

tidal wave:

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/

 

ocean:

http://www.bobbieann.net/DreamSymbols.html

 

wave:

http://www.soulfuture.com/dream_dictionary/

 

If this is useful to you, you can use google to find more dream

symbol dictionaries.

[Guest guest]

, "msbauju" <msbauju>

wrote:

> , omshaktipriya@a... wrote:

> > I had a rather odd dream that involved

> > "doomsday" in the form of giant tidal

> > waves, elevator-type rooms and mother Amma. [....]

>

> It seems to me that dream interpretation is a very individual

thing.

> Symbols certainly can mean different things in different cultures,

> and even different things to different people.

 

 

 

Ya! Ya! Msbaju. I agree with you. I dreamt having tug of war with

the snow man. Eventually the snow man won, and pull me along on a

slate. When Sankara Menon suggest that I should recite the Durga Sap

when I complain of cold and beg to be rescued [ hahhaaa ]. I did as

he suggest. Somehow the Snowman change and become Durga. Snowy white

Durga standing tall, looking down at me, asking me "Why are you in

this shelter while your family out there having fun?". SHE then

began to make snow ball and throw at me. Then all the other NavDurga

join in. Geez! what a dream.

[Guest guest]

Thank you for your responses everyone, and if you didn't get a chance to and

still want to put in your two cents, please feel free. =) It's been very

insightful to read others' interpretations of this dream...Jai ma!

-Katie

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

There are two dream dictionaries I particularly like, and at least

one of them includes Eastern imagery and symbolism. One is

called A Dictionary of Dream Symbols by Eric Ackroyd, out of

Canada (a westerner's view, inclusive of Eastern

spirituality/philosophies). The other is by Tony Crisp, called

Dream Dictionary, An A to Z guide to Understanding Your

Unconscious Mind (10th Anniversary Edition, copyright 2002). I

combed through lots of dream dictionaries in a local bookstore

recently because the Ackroyd one didn't contain some images

from recent dreams of mine. The Crisp book has so much in it,

it's amazing that it all fits in a small paperback.

 

While I agree that interpretations of dreams is a very individual

thing, there is much commonality in the images in our dreams,

enough to make compilations of symbols and various

interpretations worthwhile reading.

 

One example: last December, a beloved cat of mine died of

congestive heart failure. I had a dream that I was holding her,

and a black doberman pincher was barking and nipping at her

while I cradled her in a towel. In the Crisp book, which I just got a

few weeks ago, I noticed that two of the meanings attributed to a

black dog appearing in dreams are: "...fear of death," and

"messenger related to someone's death." She died a few days

after I had the dream. I cradled her in a towel in the vet's office,

but I did that with fore-knowledge - I brought the towel with me

because it was the one I saw in my dream.

 

I'm not going to interpret the original poster's dream, but I did

think of Amma's 1 Billion Rupee / $23 Million US pledge re

tsunami relief when I read the snippet others included in their

replies.

 

Mary Ann