Yogini

source: by Anniekster

Dream #10: An old friend laughed and said to me, "You've always wanted to be like a yogini, standing on her head!"

Silly!

A Chair for My Child?

source: by xgray

Dream #9: I'm outside of the old public library. People have gathered to listen to a speech. The library has finally raised enough money to remodel and has decided to give away the old furnishings. Each visitor is allowed to take a chair for themselves and/or a chair for their child. They encourage us to use the chairs for reading at home.

People are quickly grabbing the best chairs. I'm worried I will get stuck with a metal folding chair. Luckily, I am able to find a nicer one.

For a moment I consider whether or not to take a second chair.

I hope to have a child one day. It would be a dream come true to sit and read with him or her. :)

Spirit Kites

source: by Duncan Allan

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know
what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend,
a new love, a new country." -Anaïs Nin

Risk v. Security

Every so often I dream that I'm locking a door. In these scenarios I am invariably locking myself inside. There is no one on the outside. Just recently I had a vivid dream (#8) in which I locked and chained the door of my apartment.

source: by margot.trudell

According to Klaus Vollmar, "This is the image of inner, psychic tension between openness and retreat (isolation), between risk and security."

I think that the very act of blogging about my dreams evoked this one. Is it safe to bare my psyche?

Illustrations

source: by Jon Carling

"Dreams are... illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you." -Marsha Norman

Totem

source: by Duncan Rawlinson

Dream #7: I looked out my apartment window and saw a bald eagle. How extraordinary to see something so wild in this urban neighborhood. It must be far from home. Perhaps it has been displaced. A mix of slight fear and reassurance overcomes me as I gaze upon its sharp beak and talons.

Themes: freedom, strength, survival

"...In Wildness is the preservation of the world." -Henry David Thoreau