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Last week I had two craaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzyyyyyyyyyy dreams — amongst others.

I was at a job interview or a client meeting.  I was led into a room where two other people were waiting to meet with me.  The room was an enclosed loft, with windows overlooking a courtyard.  We heard a vile screaming of profanities, like Linda Blair in the Exorcist (I was going to put a link here, but the site scared me so much I don’t want to propagate that energy).  My associates looked out the window and we could tell that the screaming beast was circling the room and coming up the stairs.  I was so frightened, I tried to hide, but the door was a half door and I could not hide behind it.  And that’s when I decided that I did not need to be afraid, because love would protect me.  I sat back and decided to radiate love to this man child.  He was the size of a child, but looked aged.  He had long curly, light-brown hair.  As soon as I decided to love him, he became calm and the terror subsided.

Possible interpretations:  The man/child is my masculine side and represents an anger that lives inside me.  Of course, there’s the whole love thing, and I really feel like that was an example of lucid dreaming.  Consciousness and actual thinking happened while I was dreaming.

The bridge dream is more of a snapshot.  I am on a vast metal bridge.  It is very strong.  A man appears with his two tiny dogs.  Both dogs are emaciated and bloody.  I am so sad for the dogs and ask about how the dogs got that way.  And then one of the dogs falls off the bridge.

Interpretation:  I have lots of water dreams: sailing, surfing, all kinds of fantastic aquatic feats.  But I can only recall one other bridge dream.  But after a little research, I can see that a bridge is a very powerful dream symbol.  My dream book, says that bridge is “a frequent symbol in dreams and mythology, the bridge spans an abyss.  It is often a place of danger and of falling; you are crossing a boundary.  Uniting, re-establishing relationships; contradictions are bridged.  If the dreamer has self-confidence, the fear of the abyss may be going away, but although the bridge becomes wider and is safe, it is still a place of danger.  The condition of the bridge is important.  How are you feeling on the bridge?  When you have crossed the bridge, you have done a lot of inner work.  Changes have taken place (you have reached the other shore).  In the Koran, the bridge over hell is as thin as a thread and can only be crossed by the righteous.  In Celtic lore, there exists a bridge of horror that is also as narrow as a thread.  The bridge always spans an abyss in which spirits, the devil, or God resides.  Often in the dream one must bring a sacrifice in order to cross the bridge.  For that reason we often see chapels on the bridge where the sacrifice has to be offered.  Jung related the symbol of the bridge to the unconscious.  He saw the unconscious as different islands in the sea.  For him, the bridge connected these islands and is therefore a symbol of working toward a strong consciousness.”

I was not crossing the bridge, and in fact, I was stationery; not concerned with reaching one side or the other.  It was as if the bridge was simply a backdrop.  But I was very aware that it was a bridge.  Of course, the dogs are a whole other set of symbols:  dogs, wound, blood  . . .

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