Author

Subject: Dinosaurs

shalie21

06:13 01/08/2001 

Dream:

I am with my mother. We are walking and all around us are rock walls. Suddenly we see two dinosaurs, a mother and her baby. There is a little niche in the wall and we go there to hide. We don't want the mother dinosaur to see us because she might think we are threatening her baby.

But the mother dinosaur comes over and places the baby dinosaur in the niche with us. We stand absolutely still because we don't want the mother dinosaur to see any movement that might make her think we are threatening her baby. Otherwise she might hurt us or eat us.

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

2004

Jane Teresa's View

Jane Teresa Anderson

Overview Interpretation & Dream Alchemy Practice suggestion

OVERVIEW INTERPRETATION

Hi Shalie,

You are with your mother and the baby dinosaur is with its mother. When a dream repeats a theme, it is usually drawing parallels. The dinosaurs are in your dream to represent your feelings and beliefs about your relationship, as a daughter, to your mother.

Animals in dreams usually represent your energies and instincts. You felt the mother dinosaur might hurt or eat you if she felt you were threatening her baby, so it seems your dream dinosaur energy is aggressive protection. When you consider your relationship with your mother, where does protection come into it? Who protects who, and how? Where does aggression or physical defence come into it? Who is aggressively protective (emotionally if not physically)? What are your beliefs here? Were you brought up to believe you (as the baby) deserve to be protected, or did you experience being over-protected? If you project this forward and see yourself as the mother of whatever you are nurturing in the world (job, study, goals, people) are you the aggressively protective one? Or do you still feel like the child in need of protection? These are the kind of questions your dream dinosaur energy poses.

Dinosaurs are ancient. They are also extinct, though not in your dream. Dreams tend to view things as very old when they refer to feelings or beliefs that have been with you for most of your life. If your birth is the beginning of (your) time, then dinosaurs represent your more ancient early days. Your dream suggests that patterns of aggressive protection or fears of stepping beyond the protection of your parent have been around for most of your life.

As an adult these beliefs should be extinct by now, but they’re not! Do you find it difficult to be an adult in your mother’s presence? Or do you find it difficult to let your worldly babies (projects, ideas) grow to maturity?

You were surrounded by rock walls. In the dream did this feel safe or restricting? Like dinosaurs, rocks are also ancient. Your dream suggests you have felt walled in most of your life, either feeling safe and protected by the walls or feeling restricted by them. Which is it?

You hide from the mother dinosaur in case she thinks you are threatening the baby. In waking life are you hiding from facing this issue of protection? Do you sometimes enjoy feeling like a child, protected from the big world? Would facing this issue feel threatening to the child within you?

In the dream you stand absolutely still, fearing any movement that might result in being hurt. What moves are you avoiding in waking life for fear of feeling hurt or for fear of others feeling hurt?

You will find it helpful to read ‘The awesome wild animal’ in Dream Alchemy, pages 150-6 and ‘Trapped and under attack’ in Dream Alchemy, pages 231-7.

DREAM ALCHEMY PRACTICE

Visualisation:

Visualise the baby dinosaur rapidly growing into an adult. At the same time visualise both mother and baby transforming from dinosaurs into beautiful modern-day birds. Then visualise the two adult birds embracing each other before they both fly into a wide open space (perhaps the ocean or a forest) to fulfil their unique destinies. Summon up a sense of uplifting freedom and space as you do this.

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

You can consult with Jane Teresa or her Dream Team and receive your interpretation by email within five working days.

ORIGINAL THREAD

Below is the original forum discussion on this dream, contributed before Jane Teresa's 2004 interpretation.

Anne

08:49 01/08/2001 

Is someone questioning your trustworthiness?

Star

20:08 01/08/2001 

What is it with dinosaurs lately??? The Jurasic Park post may be of some assistance Shalie.

shalie21

04:33 02/08/2001 

Hi Anne, Your post made me think in a new line. Is someone questioning my trustworthiness? I can't think of anybody except, perhaps I am. But I don't know why I would. The reason this caught me was because I had two other dreams before this one in which I was accused of something that I didn't do and I had to somehow defend myself against these accusations. I did so by just being stubborn and saying, "I didn't do it." I will probably post those dreams as well.

Star

06:32 02/08/2001 

Along the lines then of not trusting Self - what do dinosaurs represent to you and why are you trying to hide/fearful of the Mother aspect within/without who doesn't seem to have a problem with trusting you.

Subconscious lack of trust in Self like all subconscious hidden/beliefs about Self until we recognise and change them always keep us stuck,unable to move and attracting similar situations/feelings externally in dreams/daily life during our interactions with others.

We often project that reflection of Self onto them mistakingly thinking that it is "them" who have caused the difficulty/uncomfortable emotions or who "have a problem" but it is we who have had a re-action - re-acting an old pattern and they are just like mirrors showing us what we need to see to get us moving again.

When we clearly see what others are really showing us about ourselves no matter how strongly we may have originally felt with the encounter we begin to see the blessings each gives us so freely.

Star

06:36 02/08/2001 

Also, you have you and your Mother and Dinosaur baby and Mother.

Just wondering if this is not a reflection of a lack of trust that developed in self long ago in relation to nurturing when you were very little which is causing you fear and making you want to hide.

shalie21

08:32 03/08/2001 

hmmm, all good ideas to think about.

could also be a fear of developing the mother-child relationship into mother-adult relationship. :-)

Star

09:42 03/08/2001 

yep or could also possibly relate to developing that very same relationship in relation to now nurturing, looking after and mothering Self.