Hi Oliver.Originally Posted by Korpo
First, I want to clear up some things-You already mentioned how your conversation with your late grandfather gave you an insight into his beliefs as compared to yours. In another scene you observed a "Victorian-looking" mansion from the back and saw how the priorities of the people that built it figured in how they arranged things. Obviously, your priorities are different, your attitude towards children is different and theirs seems "messed up".
In the beginning of the dream we were in a party, and everything looked beautiful and grand. Then, in leaving the party part of it and seeing the back, it seemed very different than in the front. So it seems I was getting a glimpse of what was 'behind the scenes'. And it was also starkly different in that it was darker and shabbier.
It seemed odd, not only in that the priorities seemed alien to me, but that in the idea that I thought I knew these people (who were my family, btw) but now I realized I really didn't.This might be a demonstration of how holding certain priorities or beliefs in life leads to different arrangements. You got an in-sight (from the back of the house) how people arrange their lives, and so you understood a bit of their mindset, got an insight into them even if it seems odd to you.
There is more to this, as my grandfather has appeared differently than in previous dreams (don't know if you remember reading about these). He was like a balm of peace to my troubled soul.Your "behind the scenes" look told you how alien these people seemed in comparison to yourself, maybe at an emotional level. While if you just "disagree" on a mental level, like with your grandfather, you are fine, you can deal with that just easy. Maybe you have a different level of tolerance towards these two kinds of dissonance.
Also, I was dreaming-inside the dream- a completely different mindset than in normal dreams. Like the sub-subconscious was witnessing and thinking about what I saw, instead of just seeing.You were also calling the conversation "cerebral", and there you are, on the quiet blue sea. This might denote a generally calm mind, a mental calm.
That's a very interesting insight. I have to think about that a little more.You already said the pedal/lever influenced the direction. I think pumping the pedal with your legs while asleep means that your un- or subconscious was guiding you. You switched feet and came back - a little strange by itself. Different sides of your body are associated with different brain hemispheres and different overall aspects. Maybe that's what the switch of feet meant.
That's possible, in many levels.The environment (the sea or river) you found yourself in was fluid. This denotes energy streams or currents, like for example the mental plane. Also, I guess a contact to a deceased relative or at least his world view would be more likely on the mental plane. You returned to something more solid - the land. This is a more coarse or less subtle environment, like the astral plane. The mental plane is about thought and perceived more in terms of energy than the astral plane is. Your return to the land led back to the mansion, where you reacted more from your emotional side, maybe a bit related to the astral. Emotional because we tend to have emotional ideas about what is good and bad for children, I guess.
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