Climbing walls, dreaming of past lives
Strange dream last night. If you are studying dream interpretation and have an explanation let me know. In this dream I am young girl searching for something hidden in the wall between two carved sculptures on the town hall, placed several stories high overlooking a town square. I need to get the treasure at all cost, quickly though, without anyone discovering that I am up there. The path up to the unseen treasure is a difficult one, literally up the side of the building wall. Somehow I am able to scale the wall, and wedge myself in between the stone carvings enough to search for the ancient treasure. The treasure is a set of decorated plates or tiles, with rows of solid gold engravings, all in a circular pattern, maybe as a Buddhist mandala. When I am able to get my hands around it I am awed by the weight of it and condition of it after all these years. The next challenge I face is that I know of another similar tile that lies on the other side of the rock carving that I must also find, but it is just out of reach. After some thought I put the first time back and climb over to reach the second one. When I remember that waiting below is my friend to whom I can throw the first tile, double back and then get the second one. The only problem is that the way I am clinging onto the rock wall, I would have to make a blind throw to her. I am just about the throw the first tile to her when the stone ledge bends (but doesn’t break) and I am sent plummeting to the ground below.
Almost immediately I am flying up to a stone ledge, flapping my wings as I soar up towards the side of the building wall, this time as a bird, either a goose or a crane. It all happens so fast that I don’t realize that I am no longer a human, or that the building face has changed over time, and that there are vines and trees growing out the side of it. I am also no longer in search of the decorated tiles. I am now seeking a seedling impeded into the wall that I am trying to dig out with my beak. Standing on a protruding stone ledge, I use my long neck to reach into the decaying stone wall and pullout in pieces by mostly intact, a seed partially sprouting out the side. I fly down to what is left of the town square where there is a small crowd of people gathered, apparent spectators to my task. I hand the seedling to the old shaman who is standing there and fly back up to retrieve the rest of the seed, piece by piece. I overhear the shaman address the crowd with emotion, talking about how this seedling is in fact his long lost daughter who has finally have come home, thanks to this benevolent creature of the wilderness.
After a few trips back and forth, In doing so, I notice that there is another separate seed growing in the rock, but hidden from view. I chip away at the wall as I did with the first, and eventually bring that seedling down to the shaman in the square. When I return the second seed to the shaman, he is overcome with joy that I have found the second daughter, which he did not realize was hidden in the wall along with her sister. I stand silently behind him, listening to his words, unknowingly to the shaman and the crowd around him, I can understand everything they are saying. Maybe a reminder from my former life.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Have you tried Googling it? I’ve found a site where you can type in symbols from your dreams and it’ll give you an interpretation. Whether or not it’s accurate I don’t know, but it’s fun. One site that tops Google’s list is http://www.dreammoods.com/.
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:45 am
Thanks for the link. I studied a little on dream interpretation as an undergrad. Mostly Jungian interpretation, I can see how some of that discipline is factored into the search function.