Thread: Burned up dreams

Originally Posted by Burned up

I would have talked about it but I didn't want to wake her up. Grrrrrr.

That's what Dream Views is for! You'll always find someone awake that is willing to listen.


I have no head for this interpretation stuff, so any comment I make would just sound shallow. So, I'll just encourage you to keep your head up and hang in there. You sound like a decent enough fellow.

Originally Posted by raklet

That's what Dream Views is for! You'll always find someone awake that is willing to listen.


I have no head for this interpretation stuff, so any comment I make would just sound shallow. So, I'll just encourage you to keep your head up and hang in there. You sound like a decent enough fellow.

Thanks Raklet. Yes, since posting here I've accellerated my learning a lot (mainly through daily use of this DJ) and have been met with more friendliness than in other forums I've visited. And that encourages me to be more open etc etc etc. Often just knowing that someone who cares has read my "stuff" makes it all tolerable.

Like your DJ by the way.

Trainspotting

I was standing on a station platform in daylight. I may have just completed a train journey, but maybe was just watching as it seemed that the loco was steam-powered and a bit of a tourist attraction. Beyond the platform there was a busy railway junction, with bits of machinery laying around and people working on sidings as well as tracks leading through for fast trains. When I looked at the track nearest to me, where the steam engine was stopped, I saw that there was a small mound separating the track into two sections, about as high as the platform. Trains arriving from either direction could go no further. I realised this was for health and safety purposes and that the track ultimately went in a loop, with trains arriving at the end of the platform opposite where they left, then going back round the other way.

I walked up the platform to where I could get a train to where I was going. I could hear a train coming and said "this is it" to the person next to me. I then watched as the train passed by on a different platform. Then another did much the same thing and I saw now the railway tracks were roads and buses were passing me.

As I've been writing this, a number of other railway dreams have come to mind many of which pre-date this DJ. One was about small train on an island passing through parkland, another was in an industrial complex of some sort or a mine, another was a new station opening in this city, another was based on the London Underground and another at a mainline terminal where I was trying to find the train to get me home. And another where I jumped from one carriage to another to get off at a distant platform and another where I was in a rural station and missed thr train.



Trains and railways feature a lot. They do seem to symbolise movements through life - or more accurately the part of me that experiences life's movements. The unusual part of this dream was the track in two sections. I was at a place where small journeys start and end but can't continue. I wasn't on the train (I think) so these journeys were ones I wasn't taking but I was aware of them happening. Part(s) of me is on small, circular, dead-end journeys but not the conscious part. As it seemed to be a tourist attraction, I assume that these pointless journeys are not essential and I'm probably wasting my time (like trainspotters ha ha). I think I've been seeing that part of my unconscious is caught up in these pointless journeys - a part that could be put to better use if it were more focused.

The hive of industry beyond the platform is a contrast to where I was. This is where real work is done and purposeful journeys are made. I do that too, seemingly but my conscious self seems more focused on the frivolous journeys.

The trains passing which became buses sound like I'm watching ideas go by each of which represent potential journeys but none of which I can take because the opportunity does not come. I don't recall being bothered by any of this in the dream although there was a feeling of "waiting for the right train" = right focus/start of journey. This is certainly how I feel with my career at the moment so plenty of current processing going on.

I also note that I love going to stations and airports etc. I get really excited about waiting for my train/plane and getting on it. Also I like seeing where other trains/planes go to as if I'm looking for other directions in life. I always feel anxious about trains/planes being late or cancelled as if my whole life is faced with uncertainty and delay. Interesting how we can learn about dreams from RL experiences!!!

Addressing gender imbalances

It was time to talk about Christmas parties and my course director (from last year) said that he'd invited another course to join us for a joint meal out. My course was mainly female and the other course was entirely male. I recall he stressed the word "men" when he said "and we'll be joined by MEN from the <some technical name now forgotten> course.

I wonder if this is about my own exploration of femininity and masculinity. I have spent a lot of time exploring my feminine side and have only started thinking about what it is to be a man. This isn't a sexual exploration but it taps into what I have internalised over many years through experiencing women and men. I had repressed a lot of stuff that I considered female and therefore not right for me, a male, to accept. (Mainly to do with emotions).

This dream is about gender balance. I think it's positive and perhaps reminds me that I'm now in a place where I can be as male as I want without having to stop myself experiencing life in a female way (as I would understand these constructs). The presence of my old course director, who I respected for his ability to get things done and his expertise, suggests power and my own capacity to channel my male and female parts of my self.

Dual lead guitars

I was at some kind of exhibition but I could have been looking at the web. It was about infliences in progressive rock. My eyes passed a poster or album cover of Genesis and moved on to focus on Wishbone Ash. I remembered that this band started the dual-lead guitar format which other band subsequently copied.

Not sure there's too much here. Wishbone Ash is a band I saw earlier this year (well, one original singer/guitarist plus other musicians he's picked up in recent years) and I have an interest in their music. I recall being pleased they got a mention in this exhibition. I like to see recognition where it's due and I suppose this taps into my value of reporting truth rather than spin. But the dream was so brief I won't get carried away with it.

Moonbeam - I noticed your question at the top of the page "What has happened to my anima?". As I've just had a dream about gender I can't help thinking that there are some linked themes here. Guess I'm going to really have to watch what's going on now...

good set of dreams there

I like the train one its something I can def relate to, I have them a lot and I think its intresting that they are represenitive of a journey

That gender reltated dream had a very good interpretation