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Hi again,
Emma, it’s the same with me! I’ve changed my one-sentence many times during the process of analyzing the dreams, for the same reason…
Beth, it makes a lot of sense. I like the way you beautifully described it. I’m curious to give it a try to see how it goes. (I’ll start today, I’ve had a couple of dreams last night!)
Thank you!
Hi Beth,
I understand when you say you don’t want to force the dream to make sense, it doesn’t feel good. As you said, there are the themes we can spot and some glimmers of gold here and there, which are valuable. I believe there may be a limit when exploring our dreams by ourselves, especially when we are not professionals.
I’m not sure about the right thing to do about the visualization you mentioned, but it seems like you have thoroughly explored the emotions it brings. So I would probably create another dream alchemy, even if I needed to change the whole thing to notice how it feels. I think the point is to experience positive emotions during the exercise 🙂
Hi, I forgot to introduce myself. I’m Cíntia from Brazil, I’m living in Praia Grande (São Paulo) this year. I live with my husband and our two kids. I also felt excited when I came across Jane Teresa’s work, and I’m happy now I have you to talk about dream stuff! Most people around me would find it too crazy… I first started “working with dreams” when I was 19, but not in a disciplined way. I just paid attention to them during some phases in my life or whenever I had a powerful dream. Today I’m putting more time and effort into it, as I want to see how dream alchemy works for me.
How curious, like a new dream alchemy type! I dream I’m at a school or university a lot, sometimes about weird things that suddenly happen in my front yard. Beauty salons once in a while. Many times I’m lost on the street, or I don’t know where I can get the bus, or which bus to take, or where I need to go… Occasionally I see beautiful wild landscapes and I love these ones, there’s a beautiful mystical touch to them. Crystal shops are kind of frequent too…
How many impressive ideas! The toffee, the thoughts about animals, everything…
I’ve just thought about something that might be important when I read this comment once more, after considering the whole discussion:
“Looking at this latest dream with me as every part of the dream, me as the mouse, what am I hungry for? I am deep down lonely. I guess, in the words of the song, I need somebody to love. But I can’t identify with the cockerel, it’s significant that it’s a cockerel, IRL it was a hen that had it’s toe possibly amputated by rats.”
When did that hen have its toes amputated by rats? Maybe the dream is reflecting a conflict you had at that time. Something similar might be going on now, as the dream image is similar to that.
These comments seem important too… We are getting closer:
“In the dream, mouse is mean, scheming and selfish, cockerel is placid, enigmatic, amused. IRL mice are a cute nuisance, that need to be caught and taken and released a long way away, cockerels are, well they each have their own personalities, but collectively they need to be put into a shed with sound insulation every night so that one sh***y neighbour can’t make them into an excuse to get me into trouble with the council (for crowing in the early morning). Two are adorable, one I feel sorry for, he’s ill, but carries on like nothing’s wrong, I doubt that he will survive the winter, but that’s what I thought last year too! The last one is a mean PITA that beats up any of the others that it gets the opportunity to, but is very handsome”.
The political thing must surely be one of this dream’s layer, as it is something you are deeply involved with, at least at an emotional level. But I guess it might be referring to something more personal as well (and that would probably be the most important feature).
(During the last election here in Brazil, I would constantly dream about political parties and politicians, and I wanted to believe that it was just about the country’s current scenario. The “weather” was too heavy, like there was a dark shadow around people’s heads. But it turns out it was also about other areas in my personal life. I was living my “battles” too. Some months ago, I dreamed about the president and his sons as a metaphor for my boss! We had had an argument after a meeting the day before. It also represented the way I was forcing me to accept things I didn’t agree with in order to keep my job. The day before, there were also some weird news on the media concerning the president and his sons, and many people were commenting about it).
I think it could be the same with the other dream about the evil twin getting away from murder. The political thing might be one first and significant dream’s layer, but it might also reveal something more.
I’m intrigued about the mouse cooking the cockerel’s feet! The way you felt terrified by the mouse’s cruelty too. How cruel it is to cook the oblivious cockerel, who doesn’t see, doesn’t feel what is going on… The key to your dream lies here, indeed. We’ll figure it out!
I thought about it to start:
The mouse, that hungry aspect of yourself. Something might have happened the day before, and it made you aware of that need. You don’t see any food to give it. Even the last crumbles of toffee cannot be eaten, they cannot be used. You want to express the qualities the mouse represents to you, but you don’t know how. You are looking for ways to do it, but you’ve had no success so far. It makes you feel like a basic need is not being met.
The toffee is gone, the crumbles left in the plastic are useless… I like this toffee symbol, even not knowing what it refers too!
Then come the cockerel’s feet. You are sacrificing what the cockerel represents to you as an attempt to keep the mouse alive. You see the feet, not the whole thing. There’s a separation, a disconnection. You don’t see the big picture, just some parts. The feet support our body. When you cook its feet, you want to change the way you support yourself, maybe. The feet might refer to basic needs once more.
But you are terrified when you see it in the dream! Maybe something has made you realize you were not aware of it. Not aware of how you’ve been harming something (the cockerel) to save something else (the mouse), instead of making an agreement, striking a balance.
Oh, some insights would be great! =D
Great question indeed! I would just ask the same now, then I’ve found this thread. I have so many dreams to work with during each week… I’m taking the dream alchemy course, so I’m planning to do one affirmation a month and also test the other types of alchemy at the same time to see how it goes… I’ll be updating my results the following months.
“I can get so overwhelmed with so many dreams and wanting to do it ‘right’ that I don’t do anything.”
So true! There are so many dreams in need of alchemy for me too… When we start recalling our dreams more often we can see so many things that need to be healed or taken care of.
“I find my worry of getting the dream alchemy “wrong” inhibits me from doing it unless I am sure. I wonder can I harm myself if I get it wrong? or will I merely shift my problem into a new and maybe more twisted one?”
I’ve been asking myself the same question these days…