Although in order to provide a more accurate interpretation it would usually be best to have some general background information about you (and a description of events just before the dream), it’s safe to say that this is what’s called an “archetypal” dream which comes from the deepest layers of your psyche.
That’s because it contains images that are very far from “everyday life” and such dreams appear at important times of transition for the dreamer.
They try to show the basic situation of the dreamer and this is meant to help them navigate the way ahead.
Unfortunately, dreams use a complex symbolic language based on metaphors and analogies to get across their meaning.
The good thing is that because archetypal dreams come from deep within the unconscious mind, they share the same source which has created all of mankind’s stories, mythologies, music and beliefs etc. etc.
Because of this, comparing a given image in a dream (e.g. the moon in your dream) to what various peoples have thought about it over the ages can help to clarify its meaning to the contemporary dreamer.
Just to mention though that it’s probably most important to keep the emotional reaction to your beautiful dream up front and not to let it become overly diluted by dwelling too long on various “interpretations”.
So to start off, the night and the bright full moon are probably trying to emphasize the importance of your basic feminine nature.
For example, the moon is usually connected with goddess Artemis and such “feminine” aspects of life as the body, the “earthy”, the always changing, the intuitive, the indirect, all of these along with various instinctive natural reactions and our emotional and relationship life in general.
A beach is symbolically where the ego, that is, “solid ground” and consciousness, comes in contact with “the sea” as representing the deep unconscious with its many and varied contents, both positive and negative.
An impressive tree as in your dream usually symbolizes the overall potential development of the dreamer’s innate and unique mix of aptitudes etc. over a lifetime.
A tree also suggests that an inseparable “mind/body” reality is also involved in which physical aspects of the person are linked to psychological factors and vice versa.
A tree also symbolizes this needed link between “heaven” (the psyche) and the “earth” (the body and the ego).
After creating the scene, the dream then appears to present the basic “problem” it’s trying to highlight.
Namely, you’ve probably summed it up in your statement: “I donīt know who I am or if I am involved in what is happening”.
Then follow some very striking images of the person/thing that rises up into the sky in a shower of indescribably beautiful particles of light.
The dry description of this scene is that it pictures the powerful, raw and undifferentiated nature of the “multicolored” energies that exist in your mind/body combination.
This energy then apparently takes on the next higher level of consciousness by becoming the two whales which jump out of the water in a spectacular way.
The presence of a whale in dreams is always very important and, as mentioned, in order to understand what it means in a dream, it’s good to look at what people have thought about whales over the last couple of thousand years.
For instance, while fascinating to us, they are also potentially frightening, huge and instinctive, mirroring our own fears of powerful, unruly instincts in us and in the outer world which of course make it hard to work at our own self-development as much as we could.
So a whale in a dream basically symbolizes the mass of instincts, feelings, thoughts, abilities, talents, genetic inheritance etc. etc. that make up a person and which, although containing many opposite and conflicting elements, must be united somehow into a cohesive “one” in order to provide a strong sense of identity and therefore of good enough contentment in the long run.
For example, people have noticed for centuries that unlike themselves, whales’ eyes are basically on opposite sides of their heads.
On analogy, they can see “two things at once”; that is, they can see “opposites” and unite them, unlike humans who can only see “one thing at a time”, and this concept is part of what whales symbolize in dreams, especially in yours where two different types of whale jump from the water.
Unfortunately, we can see these opposites inside and outside ourselves all the time and this can be hard to handle.
For example, it’s not easy to accept the presence of both love and hate, kindness and cruelty, acceptance and rejection, generosity and selfishness and so on.
So the dream seems to be saying in part that you have to somehow work at accepting in a practical way this mix of the good and bad inside and outside yourself although this won’t be easy to do.
For example, the “whales” can be fleeting hints, ideas, thoughts and feelings etc. etc. that suddenly appear in your mind (e.g. the whales jump out of the water) and you should probably do something practical to keep these intuitions etc. conscious and up front.
For instance, a person could write them down, draw pictures of them or whatever feels best in their own circumstances to make them stay in their minds longer so that they can work at what they’re saying.
Doing so could help to make various projects, skills and abilities etc. etc. real in a practical way outside in the three-dimensional world after working at them in a practical down-to-earth manner.
A bird in dreams usually symbolizes a “messenger” from the unconscious. In this case, he is “black” and on the point of tears, perhaps suggesting the idea that it would be unbelievably “sad” if you didn’t try to develop in yourself the overall potentials that the whales symbolize even though this might not be easy.
The failure to do so could possibly result in you never really finding out “who you are” and this would be devastating.
Anyway as mentioned, without knowing anything about you, this way of looking at your striking dream might not fit your personal circumstances very well, but I hope these ideas can be helpful in some way.
Please feel free to ask any questions or to make any comments about this particular way of looking at your very significant dream.
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