New Years Intention

What do I need to see for the New Year?

I am on an island in the sea, then descend in an elevator to a lower level, which is a beautiful land with no water, extending forever. I realize that this land is ungoverned and that I can bring my experience from up above on the island to establish a government. On the island I played in a tennis tournament, and down below I can create supreme courts instead of tennis courts. My model for a government is DC, the District of Columbia..

Feeling: An infusion of energy after a deflating year, eager to start a new year.

Reality: I have been asked to run for a Board position in the Dream Association(IASD) and have already started working with their publicity committee. I would like to apply my experience running our family business to the Dream Association. The island in the sea, which becomes an extensive land down below reminds my of Thomas Mann's novel, The Magic Mountain, where the hero descends from the dreamy heights of a mountain sanatorium to participate in the realities down below.

Action: Make the transition from our declining business to an association of people doing what I love the most.

Banner: Government in the Cathedral!


Any New Year's dreams?

Christmas

I have a damaged credit card, and realize that it is not mine. My AMEX card is hidden in my wallet. I am in St. Albans Cathedral where a Christmas Mass is being held for children. A video of Henry V's speech at the St' Albans battle is playing on the Cathedral's facade. I leave with my wife and realize that I left my Winter coat. I have on the Cardigan sweater that I wear to work with my wife and lace shoes .

I run back to the Cathedral, over a muddy walk. The Mass is ending, and I walk through the children. A young woman tosses a red Christmas ornament into my hair, and I say, "It's easy getting it into my hair, it's getting it out that's difficult!"

I leave again with a plastic bucket and beach toys, and take off in a plane. I drop the bucket into the Cathedral grounds, but hold onto a toy. I am facing the rear of the plane, pressed against a woman. My party speaks negatively about the Japanese that we are meeting on business, while two Chinese men in front of us on the plane listen with interest.

Any Christmas dreams this season?

The Corn Goddess

I am back in our old house in Accord, the one from the Heart Man dream posted last week, but other people own it now, and I'm concerned. There is a heavy Spring runoff from the mountain, with water flowing under the house, causing more concern. But then I see a sculpture of a corn goddess, with a head-dress of corn leaves, and am reassured.

Anyone divine in your dreams lately?

Lucidity

I am sitting at the dining-room table in our old country house with my wife and an unknown man. He does "foreign-currency exchange", and I tell him that I did that for Chase & Citibank in the past.Its late night and I am left with a glass of liquor while they disappear. He returns later with his bags packed.

I see an older man in the kitchen and become lucid. I call him into the dining room and say, "give me your hand, no both hands," which he does. "What are you doing?" I ask.

"A convention." he says with a northern-European accent.

"Where?" I ask.

"Sorrel," he replies.

"In Europe?" I ask.

"No, but the cathedrals are there," he says.

Next year the annual conference of The International Association for the Study of Dreams will be in Holland. A favorite member of mine is Ernest Hartman(Earnest Heart Man)who has a Germanic accent.

Any lucid experiences dreaming or awake for you lately?

Compassion

Yesterday I read the first chapter of Irvin Yalom's book, "Momma and the Meaning of Life," where his deceased mother appears in a dream announcing that it is HER dream. Last night I dreamed that I was telling my deceased father that I could now feel compassion & empathy for my mother after having suffered treatments similar to hers. Also yesterday my wife developed a post-operative complication similar to one I suffered as well. I awoke with more feeling for my mother than I have ever felt. So, whose dream is this?

Life & Death

I dreamed that I am with my former therapist, whom I haven't seen in five years, admitting that there is no death if you never live. I try to conclude, and he waits for me before leaving. I finally say, "There's a cinder in the snow. What does it have to do with me? It's a part of my morphing(corrected to changing) cathedral." When I have finished, he leaves.

What have you dreamed lately? Anything about life & death?

IASDream

I'm back from a week at the Dream Association Annual Conference in Asheville, NC. While there I incubated a dream question, "What is next in my life?" and got a dream in response in which I am inside an old stone building and look out the front door onto village life, similar to a mediterranean town. I step into my doorway to see better, and notice tremors in the facade. I step outside, look up and see the facade crumbling, about to fall onto the people out front. I alert them and bring them inside my house, which is safe, before the facade falls.

The next morning I led a workshop on dream play and was reassured to see everyone playing with dreams as if they were children again. Later that day I expressed my dream in dance at another workshop. More dream play! How about you?