black and white dreams By mughes | October 10th, 2006
No, actually I do dream in color and in temperature and in sound.
Last week I had a dream that I was in this big church-like performance place. I was wearing a sexy, short white dress, with white strappy high-heeled sandals and white fish-net stockings. I was down near this place where there were a lot of people singing (a choir?) and I wanted to go up to a different location. I was trying to climb an almost horizontal ladder, on a gradual incline. But I was worried that people could see up my dress. Someone pointed out that there were stairs. So I easily climbed down and proceeded to walk up the stairs. I came to a room where people were discussing a comic book bible. In the paperback book, with a red bordered cover, Jesus was featured as a black man with a big fro. The format was tabloid style, square pages actually, 18″ x 18″ pages. I recall thinking how clever it was to create a format that would be easier for younger people to understand. I learned a song and woke up singing it, there were three lines and the third was “Thank G-d for Israel.” Maybe I’m listening to too much Fresh Air!
I have no idea what this dream means. Perhaps it isn’t necessarily personal and is collective unconscious. If it is collective, I still have no idea what it means. Since the colors seem to be so prominent, it might have something to do with balance black/white, action/inaction, thinking/intuition. I’ve never even seen white fishnet stockings!
The other black and white dream I had was about dogs. I had a little black scottie dog and a little white sheltie. But the dogs were tiny, like one could fit into one hand. But the white one was not as healthy or as big as the black one. And the white one had a big black wound. But when I touched the wound, I was able to rub it away. If I use the same type of interpretation as the first dream, I might think that there is an imbalance and that action/thinking are out of balance.
According to DreamMoods.com:
To see a dog in your dream, indicates a skill that you have ignored or forgotten, but needs to be activated. Alternatively, dogs may symbolize intuition, loyalty, generosity, protection, and fidelity. Your own values and intentions will enable you to go forward in the world and succeed.
Why the obvious religious symbols: Christ, church, bible?
OT: I’m really into this new NBC series called Heroes. “It is our destiny.”
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I’m fascinated by dreams. If you believe the concept that we create our own reality, then dreams help us figure out why we are molding our lives in a certain direction.
I had a dream ten years ago that I lived in a house with a running brook through it. I had to step over a little bridge to get from the foyer to the living room. After a series of crazy events, I’m now living in a house with a landscaped dry creek bed in the front. The dry creek effect continues right into the house through the use of stonework, and meanders through the foyer and beyond the living room. I predicted, or “created,” my own house!
That dream was not as profound as yours, but it shows the power dreams have. I think your dream might have something to do with a quest for bringing cultures and religions together. No one but the dreamer really knows.
(Ok, I definitely need a blogging 101)
I have this thing about Quantum Physics and trying to imaging some of the concepts, such as: there being an infinite number of possibilities for all matter and happenings at any given time (wave theory stuff) and the only thing that determines what actually *is* (along the ribbon of possibilities) is your perception at any point in time. If this is true (and scientists believe it is [and it’s way more complicated than that]), then it is possible that dreams are just the minds attempt to grasp, at random, at possible realities while you sleep because it cannot grab and control a particular outcome in an unconscious state. There is also this thing about, if these theories are accurate, then why can’t we see the past and the future–which somehow could relate to Tricia’s dejavu dream thing.
Thoughts?
According to the Tibetans, dream time is preparation for “control”, both in this life and the next. Ever heard of Lucid Dreaming? And I think that relates to quantum physics in the way you suggest. Our ability to be conscious any time. Then Carl Jung suggests that dreams may in fact be a collective manifestation.
Depak Chopra has a great and simple description of wave theory in Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire. This is interesting:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618&q=quantum