Author

Subject: Dog food

John

16:01 16/04/2001 

I was going to feed our cat (we do have one). When I opened the pantry cupboard door to get a new can, I noticed 4 large cans (about 5 litre size) with yellow labels.

I said to my wife (I have one of those as well), "The other people (meaning the previous occupants) must have left them".

When I lifted one out, the label said they were puppy food.

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

Jane Anderson

18:13 18/04/2001 

Hi John,

Thank you for your sense of humour (I have one of those as well).

Here's a starter for you:

The previous occupants: suggest previous thoughts, attitudes, desires of yours.

Dreams love creating visual puns, and it is possible that 'can' means 'can' as in "able to".

The cans were large: a dream ploy for emphasis.

'5 litre': any number in a dream (or in the telling of the dream) may be significant. For example, where were you at (previously/ previous occupant) five years ago/ five months ago ....?

There were four cans. What does 'four' mean to you? It can be a symbol of rationality (squares have four sides and corners ... rational 'straight' thinking). Is it a dream pun on "for' or "fore'?

Food: nourishment for you/ self nourishment.

Cupboard: place where potential nourishment is stored.

(What is stored in your mind or heart, that you CAN do ...?)

Your cat: what does your cat represent to you personally? How do you FEEL about having this cat in your life and about feeding it? Ponder ... you may discover a personal association with your cat.

But hey! The food was puppy food! Write down three words to describe the personality of a puppy ... the kind of puppy that's in your mind right NOW:

So .... now ... the puppy you CAN feed is a part of yourself .. you may just have noted some keywords in the above exercise.

Yellow ..... what does this colour make you feel?

Sometimes yellow is used as a warning colour .. or as 'home brand' .... it frequently comes up in dreams to indicate consciousness/ intellect (the yellow sun as opposed to the moon in the dark sky, the yellow sand as opposed to the hidden depths of the sea.)

Please excuse note-form of reply: I wanted to answer but had limited time and I also had the feeling that giving you questions would elicit a good gut-reaction feeling within you for the meaning of your dream. (Hope you can digest it well ... the kind of gut reaction that facilitates the flow of life!)

May your dream recall flow back and grace your waking days.

Jane Anderson

John

12:32 21/04/2001 

Hi Jane Many thanks for your reply. I have taken a little time to digest and think about it.

No appologies for the note-form of the reply needed. I am delighted that the guru took the time to reply.

Some of the things that have come to me:- The 5 litres feels like a future thing to me. I don't know why, it's just how it feels.

The four in the dream makes me feel that it is things rather than time. Maybe attributes that I have, or something like that. Or maybe, as has just popped into my mind as I write this - a cross roads. Different things have popped into my mind in that regard, and more than 4. Maybe an inventory is going on. When I read your pun about for/fore I immediately tought of the warning in golf when the ball is flying towards others. What am I warning others about? No answers to that as yet.

Yellow is a stimulating colour to me. I am still wondering what is supposed to be (or is being/aboput to be) stimulated. Perhaps I am not supposed to know what it is. The mind works in mysterious ways.

With regard to the gut reaction, it was a really good one. A feeling that things are going to improve in our lives in not too long a time.

Onc again, many thanks for shedding some light on a dream that really mystified me.

John

Jane Anderson

13:08 21/04/2001 

Pleasure John,

But I'm not the guru: I just asked the questions. The guru in you found, and is finding, the answers.

(You have one of those as well!)

Jane Anderson