Re: A few challenges on the way
Some other associations/ questions. I don't know if they'll be helpful at all. Generally I think you've made a good start but there may be a few other areas to consider.
I was at some kind of office party, mingling with co-workers. Except most I don't know IRL. Some people were actually from my high school and so on. Several people flock around a computer where they see a demonstration of the new test program.
Something to celebrate.
Consider the connotations of the term "office":
place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed; "he rented an office in the new building"
agency: an administrative unit of government;
function: the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role"
(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power; "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president"
professional or clerical workers in an office; "the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard"
a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities; "the offices of the mass"
position: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...M&ved=0CBQQkAE
High school can also be an indicator of the level of lesson being offered in the new test.
I'm standing in the hallway, chatting with others
.
A place of transition and choices.
I go up two flights of stairs. As I stand up there I first can only see two flights of stairs leading down from the landing, but no entrance to the level I am on and no stairs leading further upwards. I am puzzled. Convinced there must be one I have a strange change of perspective, as if I decide to look at it another way than I used to. There is a door now, I enter.
This would seem to suggest that you’ll move upward when you consider a new direction. Open doors suggest opportunities.
I walk through room without much lighting.
Feelings of uncertainty – lacking clear illumination
I'm walking over a floor with white tiles.
A clean slate?
I have some overall perception of it, it is a one-step platform shaped like a diamond. The tiles form a diamond shape, there is at least another one ahead of me, but I have to step down and up to get there.
Perhaps this is about where you’ve already been, steps you took already?
The next room has weird architecture. The walls are sloped. But the really weird thing is that there are rectangular holes in the floor without any handrails. You could simply walk a few steps and drop down a floor (at least).
Did this make you feel unsafe or was it something you observed objectively?
It all indicates that the building is a structure of many layers/levels and of complex design, and that I'm close to the top (sloped walls like under a roof).
Classically, a complex building like this can represent parts of the psyche. It could be related to memory and experience, spiritual insights/development, the chakras, intellect and heart.
The whole perspective makes me dizzy, as I'm not free from giddiness. I have to walk by one of the holes, and I touch the sloped wall with my left hand to steady myself and not get vertigo or something. I make it through that room, too.
So disorientation leads to the risk of falling but you don’t (didn’t).
The next room is kind of like a cathedral, but a modern one. It has really tall walls. As I come to an intersection, I turn left.
At a point of choice you chose/choose logic over intuition. You’ve already used intuition and it served you even though your female guide (intuition) said she wasn’t coming.
On the right side there is a preacher waiting. He stands on a wooden platform behind railings and a lectern.
Direction again. Right - correct? Right - intuitive?
This dream character is above you and behind a barrier.
Note that the wood is recurring (might be significant, connected to the other dream?)
I have the feeling that his role is to create an atmosphere, that he would read out something and within these halls it would create an interesting, impressive effect. He's just standing there.
Perhaps he represents ritual or speculation. Consider how you feel about him.
I walk by to the end of the hall. The whole wall in front of me looks like it is built of huge, smokey glass cubes that are somewhat translucent.
Some ability to see beyond the room into what's next.
There are diamonds, rectangles, cubes in this dream so far. Why, do you think?
They let through many dim lights of different colors.
Glimpses of other colours/ ideas/ ways of being/realities?
I open the door. I instantly think that this is not my exit, I expect to see a chapel of sorts. Instead I see several silvery metal caskets standing around. I close the door again and turn back.
This possibly symbolizes a cold death of sorts/dead end that you reject.
I shortly contemplate to ask the preacher for directions but decide not to.
Because you don’t trust the for effect approach? You don't know if he's what's left or if he's right?
As I try to evade him two people walk by the way I originally came in from, heading in the straight direction.
Is this the right direction?
They wear a white cloth over black cloth like I've seen with Catholic acolytes. The preacher, I think, was all in black. He now runs towards them to catch up with them, it seems.
So he's senior to them but he has to catch up with them.
You really need to work out the colour associations here, I feel. Does the black of the preacher represent a safe conservatism, lack of colour you’ve barely glimpsed/ a death? Is the answer black and white? Sorry, I'm not trying to confuse you, just wanting you to notice what's in your dream. I don't know what it means but you will.
The next memory I'm not sure about, but I have vague recall of a dark grey ball/sphere being thrown by the preacher, I think towards me. I see him in facing me throwing something as he runs by, reminds of passing a ball in midrun as in handball or basketball, maybe.
Being asked to carry the ball? Not a crystal ball but a grey one that combines the black and the white but still doesn’t offer the colour. You’re being invited into a game? Do you know the rules? Do you want to play with the preacher?
I think I decide to go the way of the acolytes, but that's all I recall.
An acolyte is supposedly there to assist the preacher. Is this how you perceived them in the dream?
"A dream is a question, not an answer."
(Therapist and dreamworker Strephon Kaplan
Williams)
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