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?(a-3)
