This is just a shot in the dark, I don't know anything about what you've been through or what is going on in your life and these things are important for finding meaning in dreams. But your nightscape is very similar to my own. So here goes.
Did you feel very strongly about your service? Were there people in your life that were critical of your enlistment? There is a part of you that is critical of your stance, while still yet there is another side of you that seeks to protect you. You perhaps feel like people close to you might be hurt simply by being friendly towards your cause. Innocent casualties of your war. You are perhaps struggling to accept or rationalize your decisions and finding it difficult.
The older woman in the bedroom. Your wise mind, anima, seeking to protect you and offering you the intimate comfort of the most restful room of the house. Hidden deep within, protected and armed against all comers. You are safe there, but you can't hide from this battle or there will be more casualty. Aspects of yourself that are worth protecting will be left vulnerable. The black man, repressed aspect of the self? You have his blood on your hands, which means perhaps you feel responsible. That perhaps these things have happened out of your control, but in the aftermath the responsibility is your own. To save this aspect of yourself, to protect it and not let it perish. A warning.
The second one.
You are shunned for sickness, a part of you that makes you unfit amongst the mass of humanity churning around you. I'm not sure about the shadow man. I have dreamed of the shadow man, much is written about the shadow men and all of it is negative. My experiences with the shadow men were terrifying, but I do not know if I can say they were evil. They only scare me, sometimes being scared is as simple as not understanding something and that doesn't make it evil it just makes it unknown. I think it represents the unknown darker energies of the universe we often choose to ignore. The Yin of universal balance. He comes and touches you, you have been touched by darkness. It will not release it's grip, indeed what is seen can never then after be unseen. No matter our desire. You know something of the world that seems to go unperceived by everyone else, something dark and terrible. Should you keep it to yourself, this sickness, or share it with others, get help?
Just my thoughts, by no means definitive, but I hope it helps.
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