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Subject: cut tummies

gracie

13:18 12/04/2001 

There was a girl of about 17 years of age. She was being operated on a couple of metres away from me.

We weren't in a hospital. It just looked like a normal staff-room.

It looked like they were cutting into her stomach.

Once they stitched her up, they asked me to sit with her for a while so I did. We didn't talk for long when she got up and started walking out the door with about 4 of her friends.

She had a hole in her shirt and was clutching at her wound.

I asked the lady to stop her but she said she'd be alright. I decided to follow her just to make sure she was alright. I knew it was too dangerous outside for her.

When we got through the door, it became like a computer game. There were zombies and demonic ladies that the group had to fight to get past. They did quite well fighting but after a while I had to step in to help.

I turned around to the girl that I was trying to protect and she looked in pain. I asked if she would be alright.

At this she handed me some blood and guts, bit of liver and all sorts, replied yes, and went back to the room where she'd come from.

Note:

I had a second, similar dream within a couple of weeks of this one:

In the second dream my father was sitting in a chair clutching at his stomach. When I asked what was wrong, Mum said he'd had an operation. He had no shirt on and all this blood was gushing out of his wound. It was a horizontal cut just in-between the bottom of his ribs in exactly the same place as the girls' cut.

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Shooting Star

19:54 27/04/2001 

Hi Gracie.

I'm going to print your dream out and have a look at it for you.

I'll be back.

Shooting Star

04:55 28/04/2001 

Hi again,

I am working with your dream but you say there is more and I need the more to get some clarity on a few things. The more detail the better and if there are any colours they too would be helpful.

When and if you do post it rather than having one long continuous paragraph can you please split it up a bit more.

Thanks.

Shooting Star

17:10 29/04/2001 

I'm back and have worked with your dream as best I can with what you have said and with the hope that you will come back to the site.

My questions for you to ask yourself if you choose are:-

Are you feeling empty?

What are you clutching at, holding onto from adolesence?

Why was it too dangerous for her to go outside?

What do you fear will happen to you by letting this part of yourself "out"?

What is it about your attitude in life that is causing you to feel like you have to fight for what you want?

What is causing you to feel pain, and what are you trying to protect yourself from feeling?

Old wounds cut deep - is this issue about a wound you have experienced with your father?

Is the girl in your dream showing you the issue by handing it all back to you for you to get rid of it?

gracie

14:58 30/04/2001 

Thanks Shooting Star,

These questions are really something to think about. In relation to the last question, I had a sense of safety and control once the girl handed me her insides. It was a feeling like even though I was worried about her injury, I felt like I was in control of it once I had it.

Before I continue, there are some other things in the first dream. The girl was wearing a white t-shirt, the only reason why I remember is because the blood was on her shirt and it was the reddest red I have ever seen. I even second guessed that it was blood because it was so thick and red. There was a lot of green in this dream. The zombies faces were green, the floors were green, the hand railings of the stairs were green (all slightly different shades), all dark green. There were other dark colours, like dark red, dark brown, no blue, yellow, those sort of bright colours.

I was so scared for her to go outside becasue somehow I knew there was something to be feared (zombies) and becasue she had an open wound, she would be in more trouble than the rest, like survival of the fittest. One aspect of the dream I didn't mention because I didn't think it was relevent was the beginning of this dream. It started with a friend and I at a carnival and we were in a competition similar to a scavenger hunt (finding and collecting certain items on a list, the first to get all the items, won).

I don't know who my friend was but we were looking for a stall that had the last item we needed to get. Once we found the stall, we quickley found the last item (I remember feeling selfishly happy) and I noticed a group of girls standing near us at the stall. The girl that was operated on and her friends were there. Then the girl fainted and we all went behind the stall, where she was operated on.

Let me run an idea past you. I've been feeling incredibly guilty lately. You see, I used to be a really friendly person, I still am but I don't have 'best friends' any more...there are even aspects of myself that I don't share with my partner. I used to be best friends with a girl for about ten years and we no longer talk. I feel so lonely, we haven't talked in about 3 years and although I called her recently, she seemed to be fairly cold to me. I miss having no boundaries with someone, I try with my boyfriend but he analyses me too much.

I felt like an outsider in both the dreams. I had all these people around me but I had to look after everyone and support them. This is just an idea...it's a major issue I've been trying to deal with and sort out over the last couple of months.

I really appreciate your help. Your questions have given me something to work with... thankyou very much.

Shooting Star

05:16 01/05/2001 

Hi again Gracie, some more questions for you to do what you like with.

First I just need to say that ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING in a dream is relevant, no matter what it is - a smell, a colour, a number, a feeling, a fleeting thought. Often the bit that feels irrelevant holds a major clue, no matter how bizarre, flippant or trivial it may seem to your logical mind.

You say you are feeling lonely, are you actually feeling your life is irrelevant?

Are you feeling irrelevant in other's lives?

Are you experiencing a feeling of injustice (in jury) in any areas of your life which is resulting in you feeling angry/dark/numb/empty or acting/responding in a mechanical way?

Which may be causing you to feel like an "outsider"?

What does a Zombie represent to you?

You mention "survival of the fittest" is this how you are feeling? Is this the frame of mind you may be needing to move into at this time of your life?

Is there a part of you you feel is missing which when you find it will cause you to be "selfishly happy"?

Why would you feel selfish by being happy? Would your feeling happy within yourself not then be reflected in those you meet?

Could the thing you are hunting for be associated with a primal instinct - scavenger, carnival - carnivore?

What does a carnival mean to you?

Is a carnival not a celebration of sorts/life where many people/aspects of Self come together to have a good time?

What was the last item you found?

Are you "stalling" doing something in your life you know you want to do?

You say you miss having no boundaries - do you mean by this that you wish to open yourself up more to life/to your Self? That you currently feel closed in, unable to express your true nature?

Do you think that by finding the part of yourself that is missing you will be able to open up more?

Are you analising things/situations too much and not just trusting your intuition and that ah ha feeling whilst living the truth in your heart and doing what is right for YOU, not others, no matter who they are?

Could the friend you recently spoke to who was "cold" toward you be reflecting something in you that has gone cold/numb or have you just reached a point where you no longer need to have this person in your life?

Have you reached a point in your life where you are trying to hang onto what was and are not accepting what now is which is causing you to feel guilty? e.g are you wanting to move away from the people of the past or people currently in your life but having difficulty in doing so?

Could your friend's coldness not be a gift which is showing you it is time to move on?

Why do you feel you have to look after everyone else and support them?

Is the feeling that you have to do this but are not wanting to the cause of your guilt?

And lastly, for the moment, you say that you were worried about this girl's injury but you felt that once you had what she handed to you, you felt like you were in control.

Does this indicate in anyway that you are worried about doing what is truly right for YOU but that once you actually do it you will again be in control of your own life?

Unfortunately or fortunately, whichever way you choose to look at it, the journey to wholeness, the journey to uncover who you truly are and how you are connected to absolutely everything that exists, often feels extremely lonely BUT we cannot possibly know ourselves unless we spend time with ourselves without others constantly around us. Nor can we know or feel connected to anyone else until we truly know and are in connection with ourselves.

Me thinks that will keep you busy for a while (big grin here).

Take care and have a lovely day.

Shooting Star

07:49 01/05/2001 

Holy Dooly Gracie my last question which came accompanied by massive tingles all through me is:-

Are you trying to find the "guts" to do or say something you've been wanting to.

Gosh I love dreams.

gracie

12:55 01/05/2001 

Talk about tingles!!!! Ha ha ha. You've really hit a nerve. I'm using the computers in a public place and I'm finding myself wanting to cry! Not a bad cry but a release cry.

I've always felt that I need to work on my inner child with respects to the way I view other people. There were times in my family that I had to keep it together because everyone else was falling apart. A lot of my life has been about other people and know that I'm wanting it to be about me, I'm sometimes overcome with feelings of selfishness and guilt. I think in my search to give myself priority, I have hated people for wanting my space. Argh!!! This is such a hard thing to get together.

I have been looking for the 'guts' to be completely for me and not for other people. I love helping people and supporting them but I know for a fact that I give too much of my energy away, them I start to resent them for that.

Wow, even though I've just scratched the surface, I feel like I can see a path through the fog already. The zombies represent fear. I know I can fight and get rid of them if I want to but it's a matter of having the strength to stay and fight...confidence is a big one as well. I have to feel like I can win otherwise I run away.

I definitely feel like this is the beginning of something huge. I'm starting to come out of the cave and willing to stand in my own glory. Big steps!!!

Thanks once again. I've always been one to self-analyse (not too much) and it's times like these that I think of all the people not willing to understand themselves. There is so much truth in the saying 'ignorance is bliss'.... but I'm ready to move forward!

thanks again, Gracie

Shooting Star

15:28 01/05/2001 

You are most welcome, any time, and whilst ignorance may be bliss - understanding the language of dreams and what they are showing us is Self Empowerment.

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