tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20280304.post6809344423085137565..comments2023-09-12T12:29:00.905-04:00Comments on The Art of Rebirth: I dreamed I was PharaohRaederlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388803926470907739noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20280304.post-11298126775049225272011-07-10T11:45:14.572-04:002011-07-10T11:45:14.572-04:00Hmm, well I said that flippantly, but now I'm ...Hmm, well I said that flippantly, but now I'm thinking about how much I really meant it, and talking myself round to various points of view.<br /><br />Clearly dreams reflect a person's thoughts and feelings in some ways. If someone told you all their dreams you would probably get some idea of what they are like, although with great potential to be misled.<br /><br />Whether dreams provide any special <i>insight</i> is another matter. Obviously Freud, Jung and other psychoanalysts viewed dreams as important, as a window onto the subconscious that drives us all. I don't know how many modern psychiatrist, psychologists or psychoanalysts would treat dreams as such valuable sources of information. This kind of interpretation and analysis has fallen out of favour for being unscientific and dubious effectiveness. (It's a controversial question whether psychoanalysis is actually beneficial or not.)<br /><br />My tenative view is that on the whole dreams aren't particularly useful for gaining insight. Interpret them too literally, they're banal, interpret them symbolically and you can come up with just about anything.<br /><br />Where they <i>may</i> be useful is when thinking about your life and the world in a more imaginative way. Dreams may provide hints about the sort of metaphors and symbols that make work for you, ways of conceiving yourself that fit with your mentality. But you'd have to be constantly alert to make sure they don't mislead you into false analogies, that they don't supplant other experience and interpretation of the world.<br /><br />"There's more of gravy than of grave about you."Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16909425215873991491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20280304.post-84929296662648286092011-07-08T23:59:10.533-04:002011-07-08T23:59:10.533-04:00Well, Tim is correct on one level. One interpretat...Well, Tim is correct on one level. One interpretation on the physical level is that the dream is just a random resolution of undigested daily events that need consolidation and perhaps influenced by a piece of undigested salad.Ishtarmuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04564390333216003763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20280304.post-13481094207065359642011-07-06T09:51:56.414-04:002011-07-06T09:51:56.414-04:00Tim, do you really believe that? At the very leas...Tim, do you really believe that? At the very least, it's understood that dreams are reflections of our hopes and fears.Raederlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17388803926470907739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20280304.post-49542466318613734492011-07-05T13:22:25.890-04:002011-07-05T13:22:25.890-04:00nah, dreams don't mean anything.nah, dreams don't mean anything.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16909425215873991491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20280304.post-35950447615090371522011-06-29T23:13:19.601-04:002011-06-29T23:13:19.601-04:00I was thinking that perhaps it was a memory of bei...I was thinking that perhaps it was a memory of being a Annunaki. It seems like I read somewhere someone "realizing" of a sudden that they were a god, and not a man... I think perhaps the race of foot-tall men might have been so small in the dream to be symbolic of them being as different and removed from me as if they were that small... To represent the larger presence that me and my laborers had in the plane... I felt so at peace and so powerful in the dream. Also, I woke due to the part of the dream I was in -- as though I was *meant* to remember it. All in all, it leaves me with the impression that I needed a reminder that I am god, and god is all of us. :DRaederlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17388803926470907739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20280304.post-83792482665035717602011-06-29T19:05:25.630-04:002011-06-29T19:05:25.630-04:00As you know there are always many levels to interp...As you know there are always many levels to interpret a dream. The three most common are literal, symbolic and metaphoric. All levels have their own value and validity. <br /><br />On the literal level this could just be a past life (i.e., a memory), some type of remote viewing or just a retelling a Joan Grant story.<br /><br />The metaphoric level may have to do with the way you view the world and many ideas of the interconnected the web of life, the physical universe and consciousness.<br /><br />On the symbolic level I usually defer to Jung and think of archetypes which abound here.<br /><br />You could also think of the levels as physical, mental and spiritual. <br /><br />Ultimately, a dream is what you use it for and that always boils down to problem solving on all the levels ...Ishtarmuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04564390333216003763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20280304.post-28375804052771207372011-06-29T19:00:04.221-04:002011-06-29T19:00:04.221-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ishtarmuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04564390333216003763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20280304.post-68782679849033751402011-06-29T12:47:07.503-04:002011-06-29T12:47:07.503-04:00Oh, about me pulling up in my car and seeing that ...Oh, about me pulling up in my car and seeing that you were busy. You know that people often interact on the dream plane when both are asleep? Probably I was trying to contact you, but found that you were busy with an important project.Baba Tarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15004913557567010501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20280304.post-18652893863067094112011-06-29T12:44:41.937-04:002011-06-29T12:44:41.937-04:00Wow. A very powerful dream.
It could be you were...Wow. A very powerful dream.<br /><br />It could be you were a Nephilim, that the foot-tall people were humans (or pre-humans). The spider could have represented something you were specifically attached to, or it could represent a species.<br /><br />I wonder whether you were, at some time, a pharaoh, or the kind of 'king' that came before pharaohs, and perhaps at another time actually a Nephilim, and the two types of power were melded in the dream.<br /><br />Treasure buried under the temple - "Peace on Earth"? (referencing the song). An interesting thing to speculate on.<br /><br />We know that the Nephilim did collect gold; they didn't want the humans to have it at all. I suspect that they had other treasures, mostly biological.<br /><br />I notice that this 'God' draws power from his workers, which he magnifies and reflects back on all things.<br /><br />You're right, I do indeed like this dream.Baba Tarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15004913557567010501noreply@blogger.com