Shannon

The Dream:

The house I grew up in, in Willowbrook IL.  was a tumultuous house in my life.  It was a sort of 1950s ranch size home.  My brother lived upstairs and my mom, father, and I had main level.  I walked  down corridor to my bedroom.  And as I walked into the bedroom and lay down on the bed, I got really sick. I was sweating and feverishly tossing and turning in my bed. 

The bed was pushed up beside 3 windows with silver accordion shades.  Still lying down, I pulled one open and I saw this immense storm cloud, like a cyclone, coming right for my room.  The window burst open and I knew the cyclone was going to come into the room and kill me.  I thought ‘I need to run over to my mom’s room to protect her’, because she was way sicker than I was.  She had cancer.  So I got myself up and  ran to my mom’s room.  Upon opening the door, I tried to tell my dad that the cyclone was coming, but that I was really sick, and that we had to save my mom.  

So my dad, my mom, and I started talking about what to do.  My mom rolled over but she couldn’t quite reach, so she ended up pointing to where there were all of these bags of old clothes in the closet. They were my mom’s old clothes, but what they actually were was storm gear in case of an apocalypse.  My mom had all this stuff that was going to save us from the storm and the apocalypse.  She was wearing a brown and white floral scarf, a white Italian silk scarf with brown flowers on it, on her head.  I remember that scarf vividly.  She rolled over to grab the bags, but was too weak.  So we woke up my dad, who had been asleep.  We didn’t particularly want to do because waking up my dad was like walking into the lion’s den.  So after risking the consequences, my dad knew he has to take care of us and he made it clear that this is a royal pain in the ass.  

My parents were on their bed with a green Amish quilt and I was sitting on the foot of the bed to talking to them, like I used to when I was a child.  The closet with the storm gear/clothes was directly across from me.  It took up the whole west side of the room.  So my mom tries to roll over and then my dad rolls over, sits on my mom, and tries to help her get undressed so she can get into her apocalypse suit.  This is an ordeal because she is so weak and can’t move.  My dad is getting really frustrated and angry. And I’m sick, so all I can do is talk to my mom.  My dad is complaining.  As he’s complaining--this is the most prominent part of dream--I’m thinking, ‘oh no, maybe we shouldn’t irritate my dad this much, maybe it’s bad we’re sick.’  But then my mom rolls over as I’m thinking this and she stops me from trying to help my dad help her.  She gives me a big smile and a wink.  When I woke up I remembered the wink which was saying like “no, karma b****.  He needs to take care of us now.  He needs to be a father and husband, he needs to step up.”

 

Interpretation:

Mother, which is so prominent in this dream, is symbolic of a wise, nurturing, protecting force.  It can also signify a secret, hidden psychological issue that needs to be addressed.  Also, Mother is associated the receptive and compassionate aspects of human nature and with giving correct advice, a message from another realm.  The wink from Mother which carried so much weight in this dream is also a message. 

Feeling sick or weak is indicative of a heightened need for self protection, discomfort or uncertainty in waking life, a literal physical/mental/spiritual ailment, and may be the cue from your subconscious that someone is exerting too much power over you.  Storm gear/clothing is an indicator of mood/emotional state and a need to protect oneself from perceived outside harm.  Putting on the apocalypse clothing in the dream parallels putting up emotional or protective barriers.  Is “Mother” sending you a message to protect yourself from harm?

The cyclone is an obstacle, a storm of emotions, a bad omen, or is indicative of quarrelling.  Are you at odds with an authority figure in your life whom you feel the need to protect yourself against?  Cyclones also represent the climate of a personal relationship, a need for change, major challenges in life experiences, and emotional problems or upsets.  What is upsetting you so?

The vivid silver shades that obscure the cyclone in the beginning of the dream refer to emotions or attitudes/biases that are preventing clear insight.  They are conveying a spiritual message that perhaps you can’t see something, that you may not be taking responsibility for something, or that you are reflecting on something.  What is troubling you?  The silver shades are bidding you to follow your intuition.  The other colors that seemed to stand out in the dream were brown and white, in the scarf Mother was wearing.  Brown signifies a connectedness, vitality, groundedness, low energy, and growth.  While white represents a wise person, the feminine, wholeness, spirituality, high consciousness, and the presence of spirit. 

The fact that Mother was wearing the brown and white may indicate that she is the messenger.  The cyclone could be a reflection of your emotional state or the state of a possibly destructive relationship in your life.  Perhaps the message Mother is trying to convey is that you need to put up emotional/mental barriers to protect yourself from the negativity related to this state or relationship?  Or is it possible that the emotions surrounding this situation are obscuring your intuition and insight?  Do you need to seek out advice from wise, receptive, nurturing, and compassionate person in your life?


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