What did you dream last night? (weekly dream thread)
My dream last night and an invitation to share yours
Following up on last week’s thread, I would like to try another experiment: this time, sharing with you my notes last night’s dream and some commentary, and inviting you to comment or share your own dreams. This post is an experiment in practicing community dreamwork on this platform in the Enchantable community, inviting in, honoring, and weaving the magic and knowledge of the sleeping world with the waking one, and accessing beyond rational ways of knowing and being. Enjoy!
Dream journal
8/9/2023
I am at a place that is like the mountains and the beach at the same time. It feels like a small mountain town but it’s also the beach. At one point we are at the beach and it’s like a little cove. There is a chalkboard and VERO is written on it (a four letter world starting with V but I think it’s vero).
There’s one part where we are hanging out with Britney Spears near the beach and it’s just very matter of fact that we hung out with Britney. But it’s also hilarious that it’s matter of fact. I think someone asks D something and she says something very matter of fact about hanging out with Britney and we laugh.
I’m moving a car or trying to leave and I drive the car out and get stuck in some bushes, and as I’m trying to get out, I have no idea how I got in in the first place.
I’m walking up a ladder and this family with a baby who just started walking is trying to pass but that forces me to the edge and I just lie down on the ladder rungs (like lean into them). And the mom says something like “she just learned” (referring to the baby and walking) and I know that’s why I’m trying to let them pass. The baby is connected to a rope to the mom or something. A little rope tied to her wrist. The dad also passes by.
There’s this whole store and cafe and restaurant area. They have a cappuccino machine and I’m trying to use it but it’s very hard. They haven’t left the right equipment for us to use, and I’m trying to make a cappuccino with this little glass vial (like you’d use in chemistry class). Someone else is waiting for it and watching me do it. I’m making a mess but also determined to do it.
Something about X and two other women who are also moms who live near each other and they’re starting a morning walking group before the kids get up. And it sounds so nice and I wish I could be a part of it but I can’t (because I can’t leave daphne alone or we don’t live there).
Commentary:
I dream about mountains and beaches and hotels a lot. Vero Beach is where my aunt lives and I owe her a letter, which is the first thing on my mind when I remember VERO after I wake up. Vero is also the name of my daughter’s teacher.
Besides that, the part that stood out to me the most was the part in the bushes- not knowing how I ended up driving the car into them and not knowing how to get out. It was a feeling of stuckness. The ladder situation was also a rather stuck feeling, needing to just stop by to let something (this family) pass.
The last part of the mom’s walking group there was definitely a feeling of FOMO or a yearning. It speaks to my waking yearning to have more time for things I enjoy which is still hard to find and carve out (though in real life, I DO have a fellow mom I walk to work with twice a week! So I am actually doing this. It is interesting to note the yearning in the dream that is actually being fulfilled in waking life).
Questions:
A fun way to experiment with meaning making is to begin with, “If this were my dream…” If this were your dream, what would it mean to you? What stands out to you? Note that every dream has multiple, myriad meanings and interpretations.
What did you dream last night (or anytime recently)? What happened in the dream? What was the feeling tone or feelingscape? What images stood out?
Feel free to share even if you just remember a flash, a snippet, a feeling, a story, any little gift you received from your sleep. It doesn’t need to mean anything at the moment- we can make meaning and hold the dreams together :)
Sometimes when I see words like that in a dream and they don't have any immediate association, I ponder if they are anagrams. Like, VERO could be OVER or ROVE. But the fact it's D's teacher's name is probably also relevant. And I get a kick out of you trying so hard to make the cappuccino machine work. Need caffeine, will get this thing to work!
I get so frustrated when a dream presents me something that feels very important and revelatory but I can't remember it. For example, in a recent dream about getting stuck on a bridge, I got a phone call from Phil. He presented me with a koan, told me to write it down, and to ponder deeply over it. Do I remember what he told me? Of course not!