The Dream Thread

[Plenum]

When it came to my feet, it turned into a crow, and started to attack the heel of my foot. It wasn't hurting me at all but I was trying to push it away, and it finally moved and I saw that I had a tiny snake coiled up on my heel that the crow had been trying to remove. The snake didn't seem to be hurting me either but it was kinda icky, I thought it was a leech at first. It may have been when I first looked at it, but when I "focused" it was clearly a snake.

that's an interesting one Jade. Bird imagery is usually positive or helpful (at least from my perspective ). It often symbolizes sort element of 'spirit'.

the emotional crux (or learning opportunity) of the dream seems to turn on the fact that you tried to push the bird away, even though you eventually saw that it was trying to remove the snake, which usually has some sort of negative association for most people (fangs, poison, etc - even though it wasn't hurting you in the actual dream).

I've been reading some Seth lately, and how they talk about Symbols is truly enlightening. I had read their views on it before, but it has recently even been more relevant to how I am viewing/interpreting my reality - the sort of reality that includes both the 'real world' and the 'dream world'.

Namely, that what they have to say is that in the mind (let's say the deep mind, or the unconscious) things exist as unified concepts, and with our waking conscious mind, these unified concepts are perceived of as symbols. But the symbols are not the same as the concepts; the symbols are just the placeholders or the representation of the concepts, as best our conscious mind can make a 'picture' of them. And so each person's 'symbol vocabulary' is going to be slightly different, and so during the translation process of universal 'concepts' into consciousness, it will be translated into the symbols that we have some sort of grasp of. These symbols can be inherited from our culture, or from movies, or from religious iconography etc.

These 'symbols' can be used like 'actors' in a dream to show interaction patterns and these interaction patterns are usually the offering of some sort of healing opportunity, by changing how our conscious mind approaches and processes some facet of reality. Of course, this is not given to us on a silver platter (ok ... it actually is!), but rather that the concepts and symbols and interaction patterns has to be organised (ie 'decoded) before the understanding can be utilised or implemented by the conscious mind (which talks in a literal language, rather than a unified conceptual one).