A dream from my travels
Apr. 9th, 2005 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fabrisseIf any of you are into dream interpretation, have at it. This is only a snippet.
I suppressed most of my dreaming quite a while ago; it has to be very strong to get through my defenses. This is one of the few that I've awakened smiling from.
It's bright daylight and I'm in a colored loose dress or skirt. There's a companion with me whose company I enjoy but about whom I can remember no details -- not even sex. We're walking through a park over a wooden bridge. I'm slightly ahead when suddenly a pilot whale pops up to my right (just as I'm reaching the other shore).
It speaks to me. I don't remember the words, but the mood is congenial, maybe even happy. My steps are light and my smile wide as I finish crossing and follow the whale's wake with my eyes. I think I feel my companion coming up behind me.
I don't remember anything after that, not even coming off the bridge. I know I don't turn back and that there are alot of people in the park -- mostly in groups or pairs.
The bridge not only arches over the water, but it has a slight curve to the right.
I suppressed most of my dreaming quite a while ago; it has to be very strong to get through my defenses. This is one of the few that I've awakened smiling from.
It's bright daylight and I'm in a colored loose dress or skirt. There's a companion with me whose company I enjoy but about whom I can remember no details -- not even sex. We're walking through a park over a wooden bridge. I'm slightly ahead when suddenly a pilot whale pops up to my right (just as I'm reaching the other shore).
It speaks to me. I don't remember the words, but the mood is congenial, maybe even happy. My steps are light and my smile wide as I finish crossing and follow the whale's wake with my eyes. I think I feel my companion coming up behind me.
I don't remember anything after that, not even coming off the bridge. I know I don't turn back and that there are alot of people in the park -- mostly in groups or pairs.
The bridge not only arches over the water, but it has a slight curve to the right.
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Date: 2005-04-10 05:03 am (UTC)Another archetype that can apply to all sexual orientations, although usually it is of the same gender as the individual, is the Double, which in Plato's Symposium is a symbol for male and female same-sex wholeness, as well as for opposite-sex wholeness.
This reinforces the theme of wholeness and unification in the dream: the bridge which unites the two side of the river, the whale that unites water & air, conscious & unconscious, and the couples & groups of people in the park. As siderea says, this wholeness is not forced or constrained, but free and unfettered: the whale swims yet breathes air because it is its *nature*, the bridge unites because that is the very definition of a bridge.