Hi Stephen,
I agree that fishing in the ocean, especially given the storyline of this dream, symbolises your delving into your unconscious.
(The ocean tends to symbolise either the unconscious or our emotions ... see my reply today, several posts below this one, at 'tidal waves'..)
Fish can symbolise our spiritual nature for many reasons, but our dreams do love to use cliches, and as we often say in English, "fishing for something," when we mean "looking for hidden information, this makes sense.
In the first part of your dream you ARE successful as you learn to cast your line farther out and then you see something (the running woman) that you were unable to see previously (as you mentioned that you were surprised that the young girl could see at depth). Basically: you learn from her that it IS possible to see deeper depths so you extend your limits (cast our line out farther) and achieve the same result.
You are on an edge (a cliff) and then your wife is on an edge (of a building).
Regard all the people in a dream as representing your own beliefs and attitudes .. (as like or as opposite to the characters in your dream .. likes and opposites highlight issues we are working with).
YOU are on the edge of something in your waking life. You are fishing your unconscious depths. The female (girl) can see the bottom of the ocean and the female (your wife) released her 'old' emotions (urinating tends to symbolise letting go of the emotions [water] we have filtered and no longer need to hang onto ... the ones that can become toxic if we hold onto them.)
It is also a female runner you see in the water.
All these women tend to suggest you are looking at your 'female side': your Yin, your inner world, your right brain (qualities of intuition, creativity, spirituality, nurturing, being and so on).
The dream suggests you have perhaps lost touch with these qualities and you are now in the process of getting back into touch with them. They have stayed submerged for an 'entire run' ... what endurance you have.. keeping your female side down there for all that time! Now though, it seems, from the dream, that you are bringing her up and releasing associated emotions.
There are two 'highs' in your dream: you mention the 'very high' seaside cliff and the 'high' school.
You are looking down onto your life from a higher perspective (and learning about it: the school, perhaps.)
One of the issues you are looking at obviously relates back to your teenage years because of all the teenagers in the dream.
Teenagers line the cliff edge - all fishing. This suggests that there is, still within you, a 'teenage' part or belief that is fishing to find something from the unconscious. Indeed it is a teenager (the girl) who gets close to the bottom 'of it all' and this gives you the wisdom to throw your line out farther. Part of you grows wiser as a result of what the teenager part of you sees and discovers.
What does that stretch of road (Mount Eliza) hold for you in terms of memory and association?
The building is a SHED. Love it: a dream pun on 'shedding' just as your wife sheds the unwanted emotions (urinates).
The single mattress, at first glance, suggests 'single' as in 'unmarried' or 'on your own' ... but the brown colour somehow gives me the impression that it relates to your teenage years. Then you see the colours of today's teenage doonas. So: brown, colourless teenage years for you .. and colourful, 'fun' (common room fun) these days.
Were you teenage years brown in this respect? Did you miss out on fun and colour? Is there a part of you (the teenagers) fishing for the colour you missed as a teenager?
Is this lost/missed colour associated with the female qualities you have kept underwater for so long?
Would bringing these qualities (creativity, intuition etc) back into your waking life now bring colour back for you?
Some starting points as food for thought, Stephen.
How does this feel to you?
There is plenty more in your dream.
Perhaps others would like to add more in here. The more the merrier and the more likely Stephen is to benefit in the long (underwater?) run!
Jane Teresa Anderson |
