Dream a Little Dream of Peace

[jackshoegazer]

The Dream: Last night (yes, I slept at night) I dreamt that I was in the woods and met these strange pygmy-type creatures, definitely non-human. They had an old, beat-up car that they couldn't get to run. I messed around with it and got it started and began driving it around all over the woods at very high speeds, sometimes even driving it while I was laying on the hood, steering through the missing windshield.

After I stopped the car, I was informed psychically, as I didn't speak the Jawa-like language they spoke, that getting the car going had relinked them with a sort of intergalactic network of other races. It was a sort of secret society and by realigning them with the network, I had initiated myself into this Intergalactic United Nations. Communication between worlds was all psychic and instantaneous.

Later, I was making grand, sweeping changes in government and society based on this knowledge, but I kept getting bogged down in useless paperwork, the endless monotony of documentation and bureaucracy. I woke up, went to the bathroom and went back to sleep. I was still doing paperwork when I returned to the dream. I woke up again, fed my cats, then went back to sleep. I was still doing paperwork. So I woke up and stayed up.

Interpretation: The car represents psychic energy, libido in the Jungian sense, however this is a natural (in the woods) energy that is hidden from most people. When activated, this energy can put one into contact with the archetypal (the mythic, aliens, strange creatures, 4th dimensional entities) and various levels of the unconscious. Contact with the other levels of reality often coincides with expansions of consciousness and revelations. One having these revelations often begins to make changes in their personal lives based on the new depth of their vision of the world.

However, we often find that these changes are difficult to make in the outer world. In the outer world, we are bogged down by bureaucracy, people who are trapped by their rote, robotic systems and reactions. This is, after all, the Age of bureaucracy, where all of civilization is buried under a mountain of paperwork. So the lesson? Fix yourself. Clean up your corner of the universe, the one thing you have control over: Your Perceptions.

In a way, this reminds me of a scene from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life:

HARRY: That's right. Yeah, I've had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and, uh, what we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: people are not wearing enough hats. Two: matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio, as orthodox Christianity teaches. It has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.

BERT: What was that about hats, again?

HARRY: Oh, uh, people aren't wearing enough.

See what I mean?

Comments

[matt120.livejournal.com]

Jawa language? You were in Minnesota.

[niamh04.livejournal.com]

There's that old saying (Newton took it, some wondered if he was insulting his advesary by refering to him as a pygmy cause of his height) but "we are like pygmies standing upon the shoulders of giants."

There is another side to the mirror with this: the work life is reflective of the spiritual 'mission' you are to do. Whatever your doing for a living, via communicating as a bridge between those who are difficult to understand, and translate for them (who are the 'outcasts' of society, or not intelligible to others), or those who some may not know how to communicate with, in the work life, is reflective of what you're supposed to do, on the spiritual path. IOW: what your doing with work, some form of translation/communication, to make the difficult, be understood, perhaps in writing, is to be expressed, to fix the block, sts (like fixing the car). Least I suspect this is what it means.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

That's quite interesting for two reasons, 1) my main goal is to be a successful writer, explaining difficult esoteric subjects in fun, playful ways, hidden in a mass of surrealism and absurdity, and 2) I do telerelay for the deaf, so I am constatly 'translating' for 'outcasts' of society to help them be understood.

Very interesting!

[niamh04.livejournal.com]

Well there you go! So then, being a translator like you do at work, when writing you should then try to take principles or spiritual concepts, people may be having a difficult time understanding, and make this understandable. To bridge the gap. IOW: there is a reason for what you're doing at work, and you're supposed to use those lessons you're learning by being that bridge, in your writing, I'd suspect, in helping with any writers block you may come across (like the being bogged down with paperwork, so forth).

[anima.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that your dreams seem to have you helping the world on a global scale. Maybe you are destined to do something huge. The dreams are definitely strange though. :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Dreams often are a way for the mind to express what is not expressed int he outer world. Perhaps if I tried to save the world more, I'd dream about it less :)

[anima.livejournal.com]

Global was the wrong word, it is more like universal. :)
Lately my dreams seem to all be about cheating on my husband. Not the actual act of it, but the aftermath. I wouldn't want those expressed in real life. Geez, I wish my subconscious would change subjects already.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Often in dreams, sex isn't really sex. Most of the time it's a theme on creative expression. Is there something that you've been yearning to do, a new hobby t uptake, school to go to, job to get, that you think your hubby might disagree or find to be "wrong"?

[anima.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. At least not things he would consider wrong, though there are some things I would like to do that I know he won't want to do with me. Like go to poetry readings and book signings. Basically I just would like to go to more literary events. But I haven't really been thinking about that very much lately.