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

Recurring Theme

source: by {amymichelle}

Dream #6: Red roses in my hair. I reach to remove them. The leaves and stems are tangled and much of my hair comes out with them.

See: hair. Related: Teeth falling out. On a personal note I suffer thyroid imbalance and the dream may be induced by day residue. It's hard to feel attractive when you don't feel well.

A Dream is a Theatre

source: by myrte voogt

source: by B o r i s

"The whole dream-work is essentially subjective, and a dream is a theatre in which the dreamer is himself the scene, the player, the prompter, the producer, the author, the public, and the critic."
- Carl Jung

Wildflowers

source: by Alison Kate

Dream #5: Nightfall. My sister and I are sitting in a field of wildflowers. Our hearts are light. We are laughing and running our hands gently through the petals.

source: by finding sugartown

Ageless symbols here. Many possible meanings. My take is that we venture to love even from our shadow sides.

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." -Carl Jung

Song of a Dream

source: by janlewin

Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my delicate youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

-Sarojini Naidu