Crystal Symbolism

**CNGB** · 07-31-2013 12:28 AM

Hi guys! I'm making this thread because I'm curious about what DV users think about the crystals in my dreams. I don't remember what I felt during this dream but I'd like to make an emphasis on my friend's (Luna's) desire to be "happy" and "satisfied." When I initially woke up this morning I couldn't remember anything from my dreams and was more annoyed than I normally am when this happens. About an hour or so later I went back to bed and this was the dream that Subby came up with.

This isn't the first time that I've dreamed of crystals. Last Saturday I was able to recall a dream fragment that contained crystals. Here's the DF from my dream journal: "Nothing but crystals in a cavern. The crystals had a blue tint. . . ." That's it. The crystals in this dream were not blue, but perhaps gray--a "pretty" gray, though.

I'm not sure what background information would be beneficial to the interpretation of this dream, so I'm just going to whing it:

- Jasper is my best friend. He's my cocky, conceited best friend and he and I get into a lot of semi-real quarrels over his over-sized ego, but I still love him and blah blah blah. I'd say we have a pretty good relationship!

- Luna was my best friend when the two of us were in kindergarten. She and I had a lot of arguments about everything under the sun but we still spent a lot of time together. When we were in the second or third grade (I think) she moved to another town and then shortly after she went out-of-state to live with her father. Recently Luna and I have started communicating again via mobile, but that's about it.

- Jason is--well, I guess he's a friend, but he sometimes gets on my nerves. There are a lot of rumors around the school and in the neighborhood that he and I are dating or, at the very least, one of us has a crush on the other. This is untrue, however (or at least it is on my part; he does some things that I'd personally say aren't appropriate for "just friends"). If I'm honest then Jason annoys me quite often with his nature and antics (i.e., never shutting up, loving to "party"). I usually try to avoid him as best as I can during the summer and even during the school year, though that is much harder. Normally I feel guilty for treating him the way I do but if I'm more likely to snap at him and be more of a bitch than is necessary if I spend too much time with him

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- "the girl in my dream that goes to my school and who I never talk to": she's exactly that. We never really talk to each other. I know her name (not sure if she knows mine) and I know her sister, but aside from that we have no real contact, though we have had a few classes together in the past. I associate her with responsibility, social adaptability, and a slightly bossy attitude--not quite what she had in my dream! For Harry Potter fans, think about Hermione and you've sorta/kinda got her down (at least when it comes to school work).

Well, enough of my rambling. Here's the link to my dream: Crystal - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

**JoannaB** · 07-31-2013 01:59 PM

At one point in the dream you mentioned that two of the characters had no teeth because they we doing "crystal meth", and that makes me wonder whether at least part of the crystal symbolism is about drugs, and it may be not literally drugs, but could be metaphorically: drug use is something that appears to make one happy but that is just an illusion (a pretty crystal facade), but deep down it is bad/evil. I noticed how your friend who was playing with the crystals said "might as well be happy", and at the end the crystal guy Emmet turns out to be Adolf Hitler (the symbol of great evil). So all that supports the interpretation of something that appears to make one happy but is actually evil, which may or may not be drugs. Also note that in your dream this appears to be something almost everyone is doing, whatever it is - perhaps something others around you are doing but you are uneasy about.

I am sure though that there are other possible interpretations, and if this one does not sound right to you in some way, feel free to discard it.

**Wakinyan** · 07-31-2013 03:41 PM

Without reading JoannaB's comment first I was to post the same observation when I read your dream. In this dream "crystals" seems to be a bad thing, but stick with me for a minute.

Often dreams compensates a conscious attitude. If you admires your man and everybody else sees that he is no good (because in this example he isn't), then it is probable that you dream that he is an evil person and so on. That doesn't mean that the dream, in my view, says anything objective about the other person, only that it is compensating the conscious view. This is a very common type of dream, in my experience, or at least opinion.

So what I would guess, is that you have perhaps crystals in high regards (or that which the crystals symbolize), and you put a lot of faith in its perceived abilities and so on, to the point that your unconscious, the inner devil's advocate or ours, says that it is rubbish, it is no good. That does not mean that crystals in fact is this or that, but that your conscious attitude needs to get balanced a little bit.

But since I know nothing about you this is only my associations from the dream you provided, so naturally it may have nothing to do with you at all.

**CNGB** · 08-01-2013 09:07 PM

Thank y'all for responding! Both of your interpretations are very interesting. Since Jasper gets along with pretty much everyone and I haven't had anyone come up to me and tell me that he's a bad person, the crystals in these dreams probably have to do with drug use. As far as I know none of my friends or family use any of the "harder" drugs, such as meth, coke/crack, and so on. Alcohol and marijuana is a slightly different story, but, like in the dream, I don't do any of it.

Thanks again!