Dreams that keep repeating themselves are almost always worthy of our attention and have a message for the dreamer. The final dream brings everything to a positive closure.
The sequence of events in a dream is usually important. For example, if a dream is progressing and something positive happens in the dream, then the event immediately prior to this “something positive” is usually positive as well.
When interpreting a dream, I’ll usually use the theories of the late Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. Additionally, many of the dreams that I look at have mythological and religious symbols. These symbols are often those that were part of the pagan religion of the dreamer’s ancestors.
The house represents the dreamer in some way – probably his psyche. The darkness inside the house probably refers to the unknown, the unconscious or something similar. In the dream, the dreamer represents the ego, which is the center of consciousness for Jungians. His bedroom is his consciousness. The lights are off in his bedroom, thus implying that the dreamer is ready to delve into the unknowns of the psyche.
The dreamer is walking towards the living room where he sees his parents watching TV. His parents are probably symbols of what Jungian psychologists sometimes call the sacred union, the holy marriage. It is the joining of opposites. Its appearance is a positive sign in a dream. Although the dream does not mention what is being watched on the TV, it is probably related to the dreamer in some way – perhaps the contents or the development of his psychology.
The creature/person (or whatever it was), who grabbed the dreamer’s ankles and pulled him back into his bedroom, does not want him to enter the living room for some reason. I believe that it is because the dreamer is not yet ready for that step.
Once the dreamer is back in his bedroom, it pours something on his that resembles warm oatmeal. It sounds like the dreamer has been anointed. The anointing process has a long history in the religions of many different cultures. In Judeo-Christian beliefs, anointing seems to have three primary functions: (1) as a cure for disease, (2) as a ceremonial blessing and (3) as part of the last rites before death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anointing The anointing in this dream may be a combination of any or all of these. (BTW – dreams of death almost never refer to a real-life death).
If this anointing is with oatmeal, it probably has some special meaning. I usually associate oats with horses and oatmeal with Scotland. You may remember that Samuel Johnson’s dictionary had this amusing definition: “Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/173...rally-given-to The oats could be an indirect reference to Epona, Rhiannon or some other horse goddess.
In the last of these dreams, there is a change. There are seaweed pods in the dreamer’s hands. He squeezed the pods and they popped. The most likely meaning is that the dreamer has eliminated some impurities. (Another BTW – we all have some impurities but the dreamer has taken some action to eliminate them.)
The dreamer next walked into the living room as part of the process of joining the parents with further psychological development.
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