I have just been on a car ride with some friends from my drama class and we've just arrived at our destination. I look back from where we’ve come and I see mountains and a yellow field from a previous dream, I think.
In the first dream I was running with a group of people through a field of tall yellow grass under a beautiful star lit sky. I could feel the wind blow and feel the grass brush past me. I have never felt so free in a dream before. Within this field, was a train station, supposedly Flinders Street Station.
Have you just finished your course or is the end in sight? In your dream you and your drama class friends have just arrived at your destination. What is the destination of your drama class: graduation, a production, a career in the theatre?
When you look back over the terrain that has led you to your destination you see mountains (the hard road, the ups and downs of your study) and the yellow field. Dreams use word play. Could you be looking back at your field of study?
Why yellow fields? Yellow is the colour of gold, of harvest. Are you harvesting your field of study?
This field reminds you of your earlier dream, one that focused on the sensuality of running through the grass, the feeling of freedom and the presence of a beautiful starlit sky. Drama and stars, hey? Did this dream occur when you were really ‘in touch’, in a sensual way, with drama, perhaps performing well, tuning into and using all your senses? The feeling of freedom suggests your ease with the subject, or with your approach to life at that time. The winds may have been dream clichés: feeling as free as the wind, or witnessing the winds of change, perhaps. The stars may have reflected the feeling that all possibilities were available to you, from stardom to reaching for the stars to fulfilling a beautiful destiny. What a high!
The grass was tall, perhaps reflecting how much you had grown in your field at that time. Were you involved in grass-roots theatre?
The train station in the middle of the field may have symbolised your training, or your station in life, both being dream puns. What do you associate with Flinders Street Station?
Dreams reflect where we’re at, right now. Yours feels like a grand review dream, summing up following a period of achievement, or a dream reflecting your feelings and beliefs that an end to the hard work is in sight.
Visualisation:
Your dream suggests that little stands in your way. You can accelerate all the rewards using visualisation, reinforcing your beliefs. Visualise standing at the destination in the last dream feeling the freedom and sensuality you felt in the first dream. Add in the starlit sky. You could even hold a star in your hand.
How often to do this:
Do this visualisation 20 times a day for a week, ten times a day for the second week and twice a day for the next month.
How does this work?
This practice will ensure that change occurs for you in the best possible way – a positive healing transformation. Your dream expressed your waking life situation using dream language – the language of your unconscious mind. By reliving the dream with changes, or by transforming one of the dream symbols (or by reliving and intensifying the dream in the case of a dream with a positive ending) you are using vision and feeling to reprogram your unconscious beliefs.
More details on Visualisation as a Dream Alchemy Practice in: “Dream Alchemy” by Jane Teresa Anderson, pages 329 – 330.
Jane Teresa Anderson
