Re: question on how to get direct dream advice for job change
Recent days' events in this area have been quite impressing. It is a lot to write, also considering all the necesssary background, but I first I even had to sort, process and "digest" it all for myself. My sorting of the recent developments so far led me now to give it a structure of a drama in 5 acts - The Concert, The Shift, The Ticket, The Outcast, The Girl (plus a Pre-/ Inter- and Postlude :wink: ). The "stage" is the Astral (projected and dreaming) as well as physical life. The mentioned dreams and projections took place within just one night (except one, given for some background).
As said before, it's an entire drama. I don't know if anyone (except poeme? :wink: ) really wants to read it. But hey, like many who do dream/obe-diaries here, I am also writing this down again a bit for myself now, part of the post-digesting process. So, no prob for me if I'm my only reader. :wink:
Ready to start? So here we go, the curtain rises ...
PROLOGUE:
When going to bed that night (Sunday 13th), I decided to go for the general affirmation "I want to see + meet + talk to my Guide." I also said jokingly, that he/she can come in disguise and asked why not wearing one of those sleep masks (of my previous ava) so that I will recognize him? Well, to anticipate a bit, he did come in disguise indeed, but not with a sleep mask on. Also, the dream was about my current hot topic numero uno: my job situation. (That's why it's in this thread, logically).
I did not ask anything specific about my job situation, but I had asked for dream insights about this job-change-topic more often again lately. However, I had asked it more of my Higher Self. This makes more sense in my view. If I want to ask what "I" really WANT, a guide cannot tell you what you WANT, you have to know it yourSELF, he/she can only "guide" you or give hints as to how to reach it. (Thanks to Alienor again who rightly pointed this out to me on the first page of this thread).
Secondly, and as another necessary background info, there comes another new job target into play now (not the language teacher, but it's again no office job either). It is a goal that I already had 2 years ago but dumped it again. Recently I have received a lot of metaphysical "hints" that I should pursue it.
However, to describe this new job goal here (and the background to it) would also take up too much place and this post is already long enough. So let's call it the "Other New Job (ONJ)" for simplicity's sake in this post. During all acts, I give interpretations and physical life correlations already with the dream events, but of course some of it only occurred to me later, so this is the post-edited all-in-one (events and interpretations) version now.
ACT 1: THE CONCERT
In this first dream, I'm sitting/lying on a lawn together with my "friend" whom I will call 'John' here (not his real name in physical life) in the grass of a huge and wide festival arena of an open air concert. One of my currently favourite bands is playing on stage. (That makes it up-to-date with physical life, since this band has indeed a new album out I'm currently listening to and they are also starting a tour) I remember even two of their songs played (btw. in hindsight, their song titles could also have meaning for me ).
I put friend in quotation marks because John and I used to be friends for many years during high school time, we're also from the same hometown and still have a certain share of common friends. I often dream of him. We seem to have some 'unsolved karma' since we fell apart over a (completely meaningless) quarrel years ago and never reconciled again. Stupid youngsters we were. Today I actually feel sorry for this - you live and grow :D . Anyway, since that argument, we ignored each other. Sometimes I see him when we are together with common friends and aquaintances (birthdays, school reunions, etc.). Since he is much more stubborn (and not at all personally or spiritually developed as I might add without any pretension) there is no reconciliation ever in sight. I had tried some small steps in the past, but to no avail.
Anyway, in the dream, on the lawn, we don't ignore each other at all (as in many other dreams I have of him, too). We are friends (again..). We talk. At one point I seem to wonder about this, since some slight degree of lucidity seems to indicate to me that in physical life it is somehow different now between us.
Then a girl joins us while we are sitting, lying, talking, listening to the concert and relaxing on the grass together on this wonderful sunny day at the open air concert.
I "know" that although she went with John to this outdoors festival, she is NOT John's girlfriend, they are "just friends". Moreover, I know her myself and I seem to be a bit surprised for a short moment, wondering how they became friends, but then accept it as it is. The girl is Alice (not her real name either), she is the chief secretary at my company. A nice and pleasant person, one of the persons I like most at my company. Only one day later (Monday) I saw her at work: she wore the same clothes as in the dream. (Recently, my precogs in dreams are on the rise!)
Interpretation for me is pretty straight. I did not even have to think a lot when I noted it down later. Let's take the events again and make a 'syntax' of it:
John is there. We are friends again. We reconciled. Alice symbolises (the agreeable part of) the employer I work for.
Syntax:
make friends again / reconcile (John) + company/job (Alice). --> "make friends with your job again" :shock: :P
The message is clear and unmistakeable for me; no other interpretations are valid. Still I would not (want to) understand or accept it, since my job sucks. However, not necessarily the company! - so it might be the company rather than the job.
Thus the improved syntax: --> "make friends with your company again"
But how to do that, John? How to be able to reconcile with my company situation again - stuck with this ♥♥♥♥ty job?! More to come from John in Act 2.
(Yes, you might have guessed right by now. I am convinced: John is my Guide in disguise - as it was requested. He seems to be a funny bloke. Choosing a former buddy, also to convey a message with it, shows some humour and creativity. I think we get along well, because I like getting my lessons taught with some degree of humour. :twisted: :) )
ACT 2: THE SHIFT
John then tells me that we will have to "shift" to another location/stage for another concert (or the 2nd part of the same gig), which is later (in the evening). Still, it's the same city, day and festival event.
So this is what happened 3 days after that in the physical: My boss came to me telling me that my job is no more. :shock:
Due to the merger there is a lot of centralisation - as usual. My job is now done from Belgium and London. Period.
I was offered a new job though, to the same conditions. I provisionally accepted. (What should I have done anyway?).
And I must say I am even happy about this development. The new job is different. Of course, it's not what I wanted or expected, but it seems okay, and not as boring and useless it seems. I can also 'design' some responsibilities and content for myself. There is a girl from another city office, who will come to my office and train me, because she is doing the same job over there (and she's the only one, and I am the only one who does this job at my subsidiary). More to that girl, see below. So, for the time being, all is fine.
It all happened in one day now. In the morning I thought I was with the old job, in the afternnon I had "shifted" to a new one. But it was the same city, day, and company. Nuff said ... You see the parallels. :idea: :wink:
However, it might be that there's even another and even much bigger shift involved here. It has to do with the above-mentioned ONJ - and with the next Act.
ACT 3: THE TICKET
We're still on the lawn and John and I compare our entrance tickets. Maybe it is to make sure that they are really valid so that we can go to this other location (later).
He shows his one to me, I show mine. I look at both. They are orange, a darker type. I look at mine and see some numbers. It starts with an 8, but other numbers are blurry and fluctuate - as usual in non-physical perception. I inferred that they are date or time details - as this is only usual for event tickets.
Then suddenly I say: "John, I have a special ticket. It is more special than yours."
John laughs.
However, it is not a ridiculing laugh. Maybe it is even a kind of 'approving' laughter. Or at least: a kind of neutral acknowledging.
We smile, and we lie down in the grass again, sun-bathing, relaxing, having a good day.
I look at the ticket again, as said before: it is dark orange all over.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations ... b_color.29 )
The dream ends here.
I wonder why I said that in the dream. Possibly I already wondered about the meaning of the "special ticket" in the dream because I did not say or know WHAT was so "special" about it - compared to John's or other festival visitors' tickets. Maybe it/I meant that I was the only one who could go to that special location later?
Some background of what happened a few days earlier is necessary now:
I want to do the training for the ONJ, but it is time- and money-consuming. I have no money left over. So I would need a kind of miracle to be able to finance it. (I might have enough time for the studies since I am a part-time worker - as said, same conditions still apply).
Another dream, some days before the concert dream had given me a hint, so I thought. I saw a wheelchair user connected to a new job of mine in the dream. The same day later in physical I opened a magazine I got from my mailbox. Normally I don't read this magazine and it ends up unread in the bin. This time I opened it to skim through it, and the first thing that fell into my eyes was an advertisement for a well-known charity lottery that does projects handicapped persons. So there was a kind of synchronicity. I thought maybe I should try "my luck" and since that monthly lottery fee to be paid for the draws was for a charity and thus not wasted money I was convinced. So I decided to follow my intuition (and the dream) and filled out the lottery ticket attached and sent it to them.
My lottery number (it is a draw of slips with 12-digit-numbers) indeed starts with an 8, as the number on the concert ticket does. However, that was maybe coincidental.
Or maybe I really have that "special" ticket now with this lottery?
And this will allow me to do a "big shift" away from my job/company into the ONJ in case I win something with them? Is that what John meant with the "later shift"?
Can I be sure? No. Of course not. However, up to 2 years ago I wasn't sure about a lot of things being possible, only to find out.. they were possible. :mrgreen:
INTERLUDE:
Following that dream and taking it down in my diary. I went to bed again and had two very short projections starting with vibrations.
The first is less mentionable with regard to my job situation. However, I managed to overcome exit blindness then. Otherwise the projection was resultless. The second projection might have been connected to my ONJ. But again. too much to write here.
I just mention these projections to show what an unusual night I had (and since this is the Dreaming subforum only :wink:) and what was going on was certainly pretty much out of my normal experiential schedule of paranormal experiences.
ACT 4: THE OUTCAST
Another non-lucid dream. Unusually rich in colours and texture, very clear imagery. This is what I came to call a real "Moldavite dream". (I sleep with moldavites and amethysts under my pillow to enhance dream lucidity and recall, it does not always work, but sometimes I have vivid dreams like this one with it).
In this dream I arrive at my company office only to see my place is gone. I have not workplace anymore, office desk, everything gone. They actually were building a kind of cafeteria there! How pathetic and humiliating!
I ask other colleagues where they "moved" my place. One of them sends me to another floor (I think I remember 4th floor).
Then I walk through a very crowded 4th floor with offices, and office cubicles everywhere. People seem busy and it seems more of the staff have been moved. I feel lost. They moved my workplace without telling me and I even fear that it is not there anymore at all. I walk throught the changed office, completely gone astray and feeling more and more humiliated.
I ask another guy and he tells me that my department is a few metres further on in a kind of office with glass walls. I go there, but don't recognise the people in it. I am send away again. Before, on my way to that glass-walled office I already had seen a girl that was standing in the corridor and that I had ignored so far. I want to go to her to ask for directions, I feel she might help me. However another remarkable scene delays my arrival.
When I pass two student / interns, I hear them laughing. I interpret this laughter as them making fun at me (and my situation). I feel insulted and even more humiliated. Now comes a psychologically very interesting situation. I stop, turn around, and walk right up to them. I face them. My following behaviour is simultaneously judged by a kind of observer I also am. And that observer knows that he does not like it. The behaviour is not aggressive (which is good) but still somehow strange and pretty 'awkward'. And I (or the observer) know this already when I am doing it. Still, my state of being hurt and humiliated by their laughter and the whole situation makes me want to let a bit of steam off. So I stand there and face these two guys. I don't say anything to them. I laugh. I laugh them "in the face". Very artificially. I thrust out every single syllable separately with pauses: "Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" The whole scene is highly comical. Also awkward, funny, but most of all a bit embarrassing - mostly to myself.
Actually, the guys now really seem embarrassed by my strange reaction ... and surprised. I notice that I might have mistaken their laughter as directed at me - but maybe it wasn't. So I realise my possible mistake. I don't say anything further and walk on (to the girl).
My interpretation so far is, that this overreaction by misinterpretation shows my state of hightened vulnerability. Possibly, this "mistake" was meant to teach me not to take it all to heart too much and don't see enemies around every corner. But my difficult job situation at my company had brought me this far. My ego was hurt because it wanted to feel hurt and it wanted its kind of revenge, here by paying them back with the same currency: by laughing at them. This "artificial laughing fit" actually makes me laugh when I remember it now. I've never had any stranger self-behaviour in any dream. These pronounced "ha! ha!.." shouts were actually so very "un-me", so strange.
Actually, this dream would have fit better before the other one that more directly hinted to a change of job .. and to the better. But this is the right chronology, in the order it happened. Maybe it was the result of the ongoing need for emotional expression regarding my unsure professional situation (and remember: it was all on that Sunday night, so I did not yet know about the changes in physical life a few days later!).
ACT 5: THE GIRL
I reach the girl I walked past earlier, she is still there. I do not recognise her although she resembles a bit another colleague of mine. But it is not her exactly. She kind of seemed to have been waiting for me. I ask her and then she finally gives me directions where to go to in order to finally get to my desk. She is very nice and seems reassuring. I am happy to have met her, she finally makes my day, the first light in a long, dark tunnel, so to speak. An angel (literally?).
Or maybe ... I ask myself if this girl looks a bit like the woman that will come from the other office to train me? I still don't know her yet. I wouldn't be too surprised though. :mrgreen:
EPILOGUE 1:
Recently, John (guide) popped up in another dream again. It was again a concert, this time indoors. I was there with another friend of mine, Steven (not real name), who also is still a good friend with John. I am used to going to concerts together with Steven a lot (almost a hobby of ours now, for many years). And many years ago, it was also the three of us together (and others).
First I stand there talking with Steven. Then I see John. John holds a book he reads. I see the cover. There is a kind of medieaval knight or even an angelic figure on it. I read the title, it says sth like "On the quest for the ego" or "The ego's quest.." or sth similar.
I ask John if this is a novel. He says "yes". I tell him that if he wants to know sth about "the ego" he could also read books by Eckhart Tolle. Actually, I read a book by Tolle right now in physical life, so this might explain why this occurred to me in the dream, topicality always likes to intermingle. I've also been thinking about "the ego" lately quite often.
John reacts again by a smile, and leaves, still smiling. His appearance changes a bit as he leaves, like another person shining through, but I cannot tell who it is.
Was this a test? (Maybe it's a good thing to be able to cite spiritual teachers or concepts about the ego in dreams. Actually, I have no idea.)
EPILOGUE 2:
Thinking about that all-orange festival ticket again, I took another look at my lottery slip that I had filled out.
The ticket has a colourful table where you fill in which draws/win categories you want to attend (e.g. the weekly draw of a win of 10.000,- or the weekly draw of an old age rent to win). You just make a cross and enter once again the investment that is paid monthly and drawn from your bank account.
The different winning categories have different background colours each. I have one favourite win category. It is called "household money" and you get paid 3000,- euros for 20 years - per month (!!). Now, that is what I call being set for life then. :wink:
However, most of all, next to the money I would have the time for the intensive trainings I would have to undergo, since then I could completely quit my old job at my current company and concentrate fully on the ONJ. I make affirmations and prayers for it all day like mad.
Every winning category (see pic from googlesearch) in this table has another vivid background colour (the writing on it is in white).
So then I looked at the background in the line of my favourite winning category.
I looked again, and again. I couldn't believe it. I was flabbergasted.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...qST7l25HzAtcy8
It is dark orange.
Even today as I write this, it sends shivers down my spine.
(to be continued? ... who knows ...)
Re: question on how to get direct dream advice for job change
I see you were not joking when you said that this was going to be a true novel...You even beat me when it comes to lenghty posts! :lol:
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Originally Posted by Volgerle
As said before, it's an entire drama. I don't know if anyone (except poeme? :wink: ) really wants to read it.
I'm sure I'm not the only one here who likes to read happy «endings» :)
Actually, I'm not done reading... Back to it now!
Re: Programming Experiment 1: Y/N-Question (job change advice)
So I went through the entire story and the first thing that came to my mind were Beekeeper's words : your psychic dreaming skills really are awesome :o
The part of John-the-guide-in-disguise made me smile inside too... They certainly have a sense of humour and loads of creativity when they want to make us understand something... And yes, they certainly love to disguise! :lol:
I'd also say that you seem to be doing quite well when it comes to analyse your dreams and find underlying meanings. More often than not, as I was reading, I thought your interpretation made a lot of sense, considering the context. Be careful not to go too far though as this may rise your expectations and well... The higher one rises, the higher one may fall... It could hurt! :shock:
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Or maybe I really have that "special" ticket now with this lottery?
And this will allow me to do a "big shift" away from my job/company into the ONJ in case I win something with them? Is that what John meant with the "later shift"?
Can I be sure? No. Of course not. However, up to 2 years ago I wasn't sure about a lot of things being possible, only to find out.. they were possible. :mrgreen:
It could be a real precognition case, yes, but then again, be careful not to rise your expectations too high. Maybe it is a way to tell you that your situation is going to be taken care of so that you don't have to worry about time or money and so that you may shift your focus on what really counts for you. And this is likely to happen in ways that will surprise you, just as much as winning the lottery would surprise you, but it is likely to happen in some other form in my opinion, but that's only my opinion. I'd love to be surprised here and I wish you to win this lottery if this is what you need! :wink:
I'd like to add that I have no doubt that one's higher self and guides can arrange for something like that to happen if it is truly what you need. I know they did for me. I did not win a lottery though... Now, that would have been highly surprising since I never participate! :twisted: But... To make the story short, I went out of the country for a year and for some reason, came back with more than enough money to be able live on it for months. Back then, I needed time to focus on one of my numerous side projects and more importantly, it is because I had so much time in my hands that I came to focus more on the spiritual. Then, I was given a perfect job on a silver plate : the teaching job. I can work part-time and still have time to focus on my other projects. I also have lots of vacations (self-paid but hey... I'd rather have lots of time than lots of money! :D )
Lately, I also had a very nice surprise : Before I went out of the country, I was living in a cute apartment I really loved (and I loved so much the landlords who were living downstairs) but I had to leave because I thought I could not afford to pay two rents, one here and one in the foreign country. Of course, they rented the place meanwhile and when I came back, the person did not want to leave just yet, so I rented another place, which is nice, but kind of expensive... To the point that I thought of moving to a cheaper place. This is when I had a phone call from the nice landlord lady of my old place. She wanted to let me know me that the apartment would be available soon if I was still interested, and... she offered it to the same monthly rent I used to pay two years ago, which even back then, was incredibly cheap compared to the other apartments on the market! :o Coincidence or not? :wink:
So yes, arrangements like these do seem possible... Trust life, your higher self and your guides (or whatever it is...) on this :D
Keep us updated about any developments... I think it will be interesting to see how things will unfold for you in the end...Be prepared to be surprised, I guess! :wink:
One last thing :
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Originally Posted by Volgerle
John holds a book he reads. I see the cover. There is a kind of medieaval knight or even an angelic figure on it. I read the title, it says sth like "On the quest for the ego" or "The ego's quest.." or sth similar.
For some reasons, it reminds me of the holy knights on their quest for the holy grail... Does that make any sense? (I have no clue what Eckart Tolle says about the ego, but...)
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Originally Posted by poème
It could be a real precognition case, yes, but then again, be careful not to rise your expectations too high. Maybe it is a way to tell you that your situation is going to be taken care of so that you don't have to worry about time or money and so that you may shift your focus on what really counts for you. And this is likely to happen in ways that will surprise you, just as much as winning the lottery would surprise you, but it is likely to happen in some other form in my opinion, but that's only my opinion. I'd love to be surprised here and I wish you to win this lottery if this is what you need! :wink:
Thanks, poème, (for reading and your nice comments :wink: ). I know, it is wise to assume a more observant stance and to try not to take it all too literally. Anyway, the 'punchline' of Epilogue 2 is the way it happened on the timeline and it really gave me shivers when I looked at the ticket.
Yes, maybe the lottery ticket 'message' is just a way to show and re-assure (and maybe even motivate) me to go my way as intended (by my HS?) now and to 'know' intuitively that it will work out somehow - one way or another, as it does in your story, too. I still don't (or try not to) see it as a literal and 100%-sure prophecy. Maybe it will come my way this way, similar or even differently (which is probable). I will let myself 'surprise' then (this one way or any other). :wink:
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"I'd rather have lots of time than lots of money! :D"
Oh, yes, I feel the same way! That's why I am happy that it was possible with my company to get down the working time! It is in their policy that they allow their staff these "work-life-balance" things. Maybe even THAT is not just coincidence, I could have a job with a more rigid, demanding and exploitative company. Possibly my HS directed me to this company years ago as it knew that it might be good for my "life plan" to finally get more time to learn/practice spirituality or to become spiritual in the first place (I wasn't when I started the job at this company many years ago).
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Oh, yes, I feel the same way! That's why I am happy that it was possible with my company to get down the working time! It is in their policy that they allow their staff these "work-life-balance" things. Maybe even THAT is not just coincidence, I could have a job with a more rigid, demanding and exploitative company. Possibly my HS directed me to this company years ago as it knew that it might be good for my "life plan" to finally get more time to learn/practice spirituality or to become spiritual in the first place (I wasn't when I started the job at this company many years ago).
I'd be likely to belive that it was all part of the plan, yes ;)
Re: Programming Experiment 1: Y/N-Question (job change advice)
Today I learnt another positive change (due to the merger where lots of policies have changed) at my company. We will receive an annual bonus payment, pay-out might be in September. I did not receive bonus payments before, so this is new and additional pay.
It might not even be "little". So it could contribute a bit or more to the financing of my ONJ-endeavour.
Although it's not a "lottery ticket" but a "pay check" positive cash flow, it's additional income after all. Maybe it all really falls into place now, slowly, but it does.
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Sounds like good news!
There might be more coming too, who knows... :wink:
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Originally Posted by poème
Sounds like good news!
There might be more coming too, who knows... :wink:
believe it or not, today I fetched the tax refund from my yearly income declaration out of my mailbox
of course, this is an expected cash flow now (as every year around this time)
but the point is: it is considerably more than was to be expected :lol:
Re: Programming Experiment 1: Y/N-Question (job change advice)
Oh I believe it... This is also how it worked for me, at least in parts... An amount here, another one there...et voilà !
Circumstances also had a role to play though, and kind of frustrating ones, but I can see now that it was for the better in the end... In other words, what I wanted was not what I needed, and I am really glad I wasn't given what I wanted back then, for I would have probably ended up short on money instead :wink:
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Today I've decided to go for the ONJ training. I registered with all the financial, organisational and otherwise life-changing aspects.
I will try to become a Healer.
My trust and confidence that it is the right thing has grown a lot over the last past weeks due to many "signs". Also, the "knowing" that I have guidance and backup (of my HS or whoever) about it is great enough now.
And if I'm wrong? Well, so be it.
Furthermore, as the sayings go: "no guts, no glory / no risk, no reward / nothing ventured, nothing gained".
Therefore: I will have a go at it. :shock: 8)
If you will, wish me luck or send some prayers for me. Thankx in advance. :)
Cheers,
Volgerle
