Direct Dream Guidance

I had a dream the other night which seemed to give me a direct instruction.  It is tempting to take such messages very literally and act on them but caution should be used. If we have been working with our dreams for a while it is likely we have developed some degree of self-knowledge.  This means that we have a more conscious relationship with our inner world and it is then easier to evaluate anything that seems like a direct instruction.  But beware, the dream creator in the unconscious can sometimes be a bit of a trickster!

The dream I had was of leaving a kind of camouflage-covered shelter in which was the body of a dead girl.  I was leaving with several other people and we were off to a bigger, brighter place.  As I woke, I heard the words “leave your small life behind and get out into the world, make your life bigger, you’ve been hiding your light”.  Can’t get much clearer than that eh!   It made sense in quite a few different ways for me as there are transitions taking place in my outer world and some desires and plans being made for the future.  My first reaction to the dream was driven by a fair chunk of ego-inflation …  hey, destined for greatness in those bigger things!!!  That connected with some of the desires for sure!

As I pondered the dream however, I started to think about the dead girl I’d left behind.  I haven’t come to a firm sense of it yet, but I felt I could interpret it in two ways (a) that I had killed off part of myself in order to be able to leave (an old set of ideas, values or attitudes that have been restricting me)  which could be a good thing, or,  (b) that I could be killing off a part of me prematurely that hasn’t been fully developed and that my “matter of fact” arrogance as I left the camouflaged shelter was a warning that in my haste to move forward I might sacrifice something important.  Of course it could be both (a) and (b), drawing my attention to an inner conflict about leaving the safety of the small and camouflaged for the large and visible  and the fact that like any human being I can fall prey to a bit of an inflated view of my own importance . . . all of which I will continue to ponder until a grounded “aha” rises up to inform me!

So even though the dream looked straightforward for a definitive interpretation on first inspection, I know it is wise to sit with the dream for a while and look at it from lots of angles.   I can stay with a bit of mystery and not have to come up with a nice neat answer and the dream has still given great benefit.  I won’t be rushing into any major decisions about my future, instead I will consider the (a) and the (b) of the situation first!

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