Thread: Talking Eagle

I am sure that part of your dreams are not literal. Its a matter of tone and emphasis. To me its rather like enviornmentalism. You could say "we are destroying the planet". Thats not linking to some form of catastrophism... its merely saying that we are heading in the wrong direction. Taht we need to change. So your dream may not be precognitive. Its more abouit the general direction of how we are heading

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There are no hard and fast rules to symbolism in dreams. Some dreams use symbols which are absolutely textbook. A bird may symbolise a bad omen. A tree may symbolise a family tree. Many simple symbolic meanings maybe totally correct. Yet do not expect symbolic meanings to repeat. If a soldier symbolises the need for discipline in one dream it may have a totally different meaning in another. Added to this symbols may have very personal meanings. Here you can use the method of free associations and try to see what links to any symbol in the dream. Simply think back to everything in your current mindset and see what connections you can make. Even simple connections can mean lots. Say if a set of traffic lights appear in your dream it may link to some incident that happened at a traffic lights the previous day. Always remember that your dream mind does not feel it necessary to translate its message to you. The need to understand the language of a dream is not strictly necessary to you. Its like a telephone. You can benefit from it without needing to know the way in which the microprocessor and communications work. But nevertheless we feel the need to study and understand dreams.
These pages are especially helpful in showing you how to interpret dreams
http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessayhowtopost.php Interpreting dreams
http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessayhowto.php Triggers for dreams
http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessay.php Dream dictionary
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I believe most dreams people have are just that...dreams..However I do believe that there are those who are being connected to a spiritual plane. The Eagle has told me that humans always want to be able to explain things so they can rationalize them. He also said that the world would fall silent and that the words of men would fall to the ground like Iron..I believe in this case he meant that people would not listen, probably because of what they believe is truth...I am here to give information...what you do with it defines yourself...Intent is a big word in the Native American community..Mine is to repeat what has been told to me, and to believe.

I am not trying to be negative towards you. Its just wen dreamsstart to be interpreted as premonitions then they can easily go wrong. Many dreams are about how we feel rather than the facts.

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Dreams deal with extremes. If you truly understood the meaning of your dream it may be quite negative. We are our own worst judge. We try to detect signals coming from other people. Do people feel we are not cool or incompetent? The dream mind is often very harsh and honest. It tells us things that we do not like to admit to ourselves. It tells us things that we fear. Its worries about how others are seeing us. It’s a big harsh dose of reality.
Yet the dream mind also heads in the other direction. It captures our fantasies and positive feelings. Sometimes you wake up in a positive mood and feel that you are going to tackle a task in a particular way. You are invigorated and positive. Dreams then help motivate us. But often if we go too far in one direction our dreams tell us to cool down and not get carried away. This makes sense really. The dream mind then explores feelings connected with our judgment. We need to motivate ourselves but we also need to be realistic.
Try these pages as they help you understand the process of dreaming
http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessay.php
http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessayhowto.php
http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessayhowtopost.php
http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreambookpolice.php
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I know you are not being negative..I was just being positive I do agree that with most folks dreams are manifestations of the days subconcious attempt to work out certain things...I do believe you are on the right path to your destination...some however, have different destinations.

yes i think that this dream/visions are just supposed tog uide you... only you know what you can make of it. good juck with that eagle!

I envy you in some ways, ezmoto. All of this coming out of the blue, and in such a way that you can't dissmiss it to some other theory. I know for a fact that I have Cherokee blood in my veins and I wish and look for some type of experience such as yours, though not on such a grand level. I believe in spirit guides, totem animals and a form of animal communication which is what I would most like to delve into (I've always been an animal person). But, frankly, a journey like yours, on such an epic scale would scare the crap out of me...which is probably why I haven't recieved anything yet.

I had a dream a few days ago, and the thought of finding its meaning is stressing me out…I cannot concentrate on doing much without thinking about the dream. I tried to find a suitable answer with the information I found on internet regarding dreams and eagles, but to tell you the truth, I am now more confused compared with the beginning. Maybe someone can decipher its riddle:
I do not know the beginning of the dream, but I find myself in the middle of the action. My grandmother asks me to choose my birthday present from two piles of jewelry: gold and silver. She told me, as the first granddaughter I must choose first.
I adore silver and so I searched in the pile on the right ... I liked a pair of earrings, but I had in mind others objects too...but before I could decide, my cousins barged into the room and, like savages, tried to " become rich ".( I have more than 9 cousins...big family)... Some of them started fighting over a bracelet, ending up in tearing it apart…others over something else...and so on …we all know how this scene goes, we have seen it in countless of movies. I said as savages because, in that split second, I felt a profound sadness and in my mind was only one thing: the idea of " what a shame to destroy something so beautiful "....I do not know why I put back the earrings that I still had in my hand....maybe the thirsty eyes of the cousin that was sitting next to me made me reconsider, maybe the idea of destroying the earnings in the fight over them, or maybe that I was stripped of my right to choose first. Anyways I didn’t wanted to end up like them. As I put back the jewel I said to my grandma: It’s not worth it...and left the room.
I have to mention two things:
1) in the last 5 years all the dreams I can remember they felt so real, as I am there, present in the action, as body and soul, and they are so powerful, colorful ( including this one)…some of them, even terrifying
2) that throughout the dream I participated to the scene as two different persons. I saw throughout two different eyes, two different points of view: as me, the person in the middle of the action, and as an observer.
As I left the room I become the observer and when I reached the end of the chamber, suddenly I realise the environment changed. I wasn’t anymore in an ancient room I was on a street in China, at a terrace. My grandma was sitting at a table, and near her, there was some men sitting kind of strange. As I reached the end of the room, one of them, the only one wearing a white suite followed me….
After that, I do not remember much…only the wind through my hair and a brown box in my hand. I recognized the box because in reality is the exact same box I keep my broken silver jewellery.
Then somebody asked me: “What do you intend to do with them? Throw them away?”
“Of course not! I intend to repair them or reshape them into something new.”- was my answer.
After I answered, I could see the full picture …and it was beautiful. A tremendous eagle was carrying me in his claw, flying as he owns the sky. I wasn’t afraid. It was a feeling of relaxation, joy and freedom. I felt safe. I could see mountains and beautiful green forests underneath us. Even the sky was more clear and blue than I ever saw.
He told me “Silver respects you ….( as you respect him)”. The part within the brackets was not spoken out loud but in my mind
At some point, he even showed signs of concern about myself. He asked if I was fine. I only realize my stomach was hurting only after he asked the question. I showed him where the pain was, and he puts his “human hand” over my stomach. (I said “human hand” because instead of a claw, he had a human hand. Or at least that was on my chest when I looked down)…

And pretty much that is all I remember from my dream. If you are kind enough to share your thoughts, please do so.

I do not have thoughts on all elements of your dream but I do have some. It is great that you Bierce dreams from three points of view, some of my most powerful dreams had myself in three forms in them I realized upon interpretation: the daughter, the mother, and the wise woman; or emotional and rational parts of me and intuition/wisdom/creative force within me. The observer is the one who usually holds wisdom, sees the fuller picture, and can decide which part of me is wise and which is foolish, or to weave a compromise between all parts.

The jewelry made me think of talents. In biblical parables talents are symbolized as pieces of silver or money, but we the symbolic meaning and interpretation is about our talents / skills / potentials. We are not to waste or destroy them. Repairing them and building something new, re-learning and fixing and creating, those are good thoughts. And they lead to fore freedom. Flight symbolizes a feeling of freedom and of empowerment.

I wonder whether part of the dream is about choosing to focus on other talents, perhaps not material ones, perhaps not ones that others find valuable and fight over, but one's which you see value in and wish to pursue, feeling free to do so.

"Silver respects you, as you respect him." Sounds like a powerful message. I think figuring out what it means is important. I am not sure though. There is certainly a message there about mutual respect, that you will have respect when you give respect. Or if silver is about talents, maybe if you give yourself over to talents, then those talents will thrive? Silver could also be about silver hair, old age, respecting elders, like your grandmother, following tradition maybe? Is your family heritage from China? Anyway China is an ancient civilization with much tradition and wisdom, and respecting that maybe part of the message here. Not wanting to destroy such traditions much like not wanting to destroy jewelery - perhaps the cousins destroy the family jewels by not respecting the old ways but barging in with new ones, and maybe your idea is to take old ideas and learn from them and incorporate them into something new - much like taking old broken jewelery to create something new instead of discarding the old and building new from scratch, or instead of just aquiring new without being involved in the creation?