The Dream

Ok - this follows the entry I made yesterday, and it is in regards to the dream I had.  I wanted to spend a little more time on it to see if it would make sense to me. After spending the entire day and night .. here is the dream ..

I am lying in the living room (of a place I know not where). And my son (well the body is that of my son) walks through the living room and goes outside. Looked like he was carrying a basket of laundry. And when he left the room (the living room) to get to the outside – the front door slammed shut behind him. And I thought that was odd as I didn’t see him slam the door, and there is no win blowing. It felt as if there was an invisible thread that was tied to the door, and someone had pulled hard on that string as soon as he had passed the door. Those were my thoughts in the dream. In the dream, I pondered:  What just happened? Did he slam the door? Is he mad about something? Is there something supernatural going on here? So I get up off the floor and opened the door.

Peering outside, I called out his name – except it is not his name I call but that of a friend of mine. And I was about to ask him if he had slammed the door.  Right outside the room (apparently this is some kind of apartment I guess) is a walkway about maybe 3 to 4 feet wide. And then there is a grass area – and there is where people hang their clothes.  I can see he hasn’t hung the clothes yet because the basket was on the ground (grass area) and he was just walking back into another “apartment” next door presumably to get something.  Also out there on the grass area near his basket is a huge crocodile with its mouth open.  So instead of asking him whether he slammed the door, I shouted to him and asked “did you see the crocodile outside?” I was worried that he would be attacked by the crocodile.

In a flash, the crocodile lunged towards me and came into my apartment – and I had jumped backwards up onto a couch. This animal was wildly swinging around the floor in my living room where I was just lying down a minute ago. And I was thinking to myself, OMG – this couch is not high enough to get away from the crocodile. He can easily get up this couch. As I was contemplating if I could jump over the crocodile and run out the door or if I should jump onto the windows (there were to my left and next to the front door) so that I can get away from the animal. - I hear my son (or friend) responding now – with something like he didn’t quite hear me. It sounded like he was about to come back over to find out what I had asked him.  I immediately shouted out to him “Don’t come in! Get out!! Run!!!”  He must have glanced at the crocodile and was now running off and the crocodile turned to chase. He seemed to be headed to another apartment or a stairwell further ahead. I don’t really know as there was a door there. I shouted to him, “It’s coming! Run!! Faster!! And close the door behind you!”

And then I am awake! What the heck! What does it mean??  How is this even connected with the things I am thinking of or dealing with? Is there a connection? Some say dreams do not mean anything. They are just random.  I, however, think there is a message – but unfortunately I do not know how to interpret the dreams as yet.

Last night was filled with dreams again. While I woke up less times than the night before, I am still aware of the fact that every time I woke up, I have had a couple of dreams that seemed to weave in and out of each other. Sadly tho, this time – I cannot remember the details of the dreams. Any of them.

I think I really should take Wayne’s advice and get up to write down these thoughts, ideas, or dreams.  Perhaps as I do that – they will become clearer and less mysterious. I don’t know. It’s getting into a habit that is hard, because – let’s be honest, we all love to sleep too much. And when I am awaken, even if there was no so called important meeting the next day, my immediate response would be – “oh I can remember this tomorrow” (knowing from experience 99% of the time I do not remember) or worse still I would look at the clock and say “it’s only 2 something in the morning” or “it’s already past 4 AM” – I will find the excuse not to get up to “listen to the breeze” since Wayne says the time is between 3 AM and 4 AM when we are most open to the voice of the Divine. Perhaps I shall start a dream journal to start recording my dreams.

But for now – I have no idea what that dream meant.  It just occurred to me while writing this dream down - the last sentence "make sure you close the door" - is that in reference to the start of the dream? As in "close the door, don't slam it?"  Throughout this time I was thinking the last line was in reference to closing the door behind him as he gets away from the crocodile.  Could the "closing of the door" be in reference to me in my life right now - that is to say be sure I close some of the doors behind me? Let go of somethings and don't look back ever again? Hmm .. you see, thoughts do become "clearer" as you write things down.  I didn't write that dream down previously (other than to jot a point or two).  But anyway - this is as far as I have come in regards to this dream today. So if you have any idea what this dream might be, please don’t hesitate to share.

Peace,

I Am Syl