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    Retrieving toy from monster, and return from around the world

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    JoannaB
    , 10-26-2013 at 09:15 PM (695 Views)
    At a garden party a child's toy had rolled into the den of the pet monster or pet land dwelling octopus, and I did not know how to get it out so I went to fetch help. Someone handed me a mop. I then found a couple college student aged young women who I gathered would know what to do, and entreated them to come help me retrieve the toy. One of them stopped somewhere to find a mop (she did not notice I already had one, so she got another), then when she saw I already had a mop, she gave me this dirty look as if to say "you already have what you need for this job, why do you bother us?" I said "it's nice to get someone who knows what they are doing. I bet next you are going to tell me that the monster is completely harmless, but see I don't know that." The young women did not deign to answer just proceeded to retrieve the toy using one of the two mops (the one she got, mine remained a useless extra). It was very easy to do. Oh, I only in hindsight noticed that I not only gathered two mops, but also a couple young women for what appeared to be a one mop and one person task.

    Then I went around the world. I do not recall anymore why I went around the world, but it appeared to be on some sort of mission I thought was important, but no one else cared about. When I came back to this garden party type scene which incidentally was much like the setting of the part of the scene with the monster/octopus above, I remember recognizing the people especially a girl (upon waking up none of them seemed familiar but in the dream they were). I said "greetings! I have come from around the world. It is nice to once again be among people I recognize!" A woman asked a man "how long before she ...?" But her voice kind of trailed of, and I assumed she wanted to know, how long before she stops speaking in this funny accent (I think it was Scottish - not that I know how to talk with a Scottish accent nor would I actually recognize one), or maybe she was asking "how long before she stops acting weird?", or it is also possible she wanted to know "how long before she wakes up?" -- all she did ask was "how long before she ...?" And the man answered "wait a moment." Oh, and then I woke up from this nap, so if the question of the DC was how long before she wakes up, then the male DC was quite correct in his answer.

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    Updated 10-26-2013 at 09:47 PM by 61501

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    1. JoannaB's Avatar
      Hey, it just occurred to me. I thought that baby monster died in that baby monster flood dream of mine, and that monster was orange and was not at all like an octopus, but what if it is still along the same dream series, so here the monster at least temporarily gets a child's toy to play with, oh and I am not trying to kill it any more, but it is considered a pet, though I have the impression that it is someone else's pet.

      For those who unlike me have not been paying attention to my dreams, this is good news because that baby monster was interpreted as being a new part of my personality that my old personality did not approve of, so that it was a monster from the old established self's point of view. The thing is that I do want to change though, so in my dreams of old versus new, upon waking up I root for the new. And while part of me may still think it is a monster, but part of me acknowledges that one could also think of it as a pet. So that is progress, I think.

      Alas in this dream my poor ego appears to be quite thoroughly befuddled and not in control, though trying to take control, or trying to get help, and going on mission around the world, but others do not approve and do not appreciate my efforts. Oh well.
      Updated 10-27-2013 at 02:36 AM by JoannaB
    2. Superman1's Avatar
      I didn't think the monster was that, Joanna. Though maybe a very new thing became it, certainly which was like it wasn't real, as a toy is. But a different kind of monster than your old self rejecting the new.
      Here is what I possibly got:.

      YOUR INNER GARDEN
      In your inner garden where you enjoy growing - maybe with others (because it's a party) - you were toying with something, or maybe also was very new, and had got into potential tentacles in your reality, up from the depths of consciousness perhaps.
      But also it was a pet, that belonged to others - so you loved it. Or had. But wasn't yours.

      Only your more learned self could get you out of it (funny how a mop has sort of tentacles, but are opposite in function, so perfect for opposing them), and perhaps two to clean up the teamwork again. Unless two aspects of this part of you, but I can't see why.
      You thought you should already be able to clean this up, and not have to bother so much. But you knew it was harmless, or now. You retrieved the new thing you were playing with, got control of it - that may have seemed childlike, or undeveloped - and that cleaned the monstrous mess up.

      AROUND THE WORLD in Eighty Ways - or 8 Legs - 20,000 Leagues - or legs - Above the SeA
      First I thought then maybe you saw the world, or your world, and returned with a broader mind and experience.
      Now you were free to travel the world, perhaps, within.
      The mission of self-learning, that didn't matter to others? But it seems almost a returning to yourself after going all the way round in a huge circle almost, as well.

      But I think it is what you said. After cleaning this up, it all hit you that you felt like you had been round the world for nothing.
      Returning to your growth, maybe with others, now cleared, you recognized yourself again. Back to familiar territory.
      Yes, how long before you wake up fully, it seems. Maybe you still sounded strange to yourself, or carried the odd influence from that previous monster which would only make sense if going round the world meant that.
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    3. JoannaB's Avatar
      Thank you so much for these dream interpretations, Superman1, truly appreciate them. Ha, I had not noticed how the octopus was like the mop, funny that. And yes, I do appear to have retrieved the new thing I have been toying with, and it is time to toy some more with those ideas. Once the mess is cleaned out, it is time to grow something new in the garden, though I have never been good at gardening, better at aquariums - maybe that's where the octopus idea comes from. Though an octopus is very difficult to have as a pet, given that it is predatory and extremely intelligent, and good at escaping.
    4. Superman1's Avatar
      "Octopus's Garden" is a song by the Beatles written by Ringo Starr from their 1969 album Abbey Road.



      (Joanna at left, not quite woken up yet.)
      I have read another dream or two with octopiiiiiiii, and someone mentioned tentacles are like something grabbing onto you and they have those suckers.
      Yes, and that's not all that can happen if you keep one as a pet. This one was not only great at escaping:

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    5. JoannaB's Avatar
      Of course! I should have thought of the song, given how the Beattles are important to me, but I forgot. Or rather conscious me forgot, I bet subconsciously I didn't miss that beat. Thanks for the reminder!