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Subject: The Tree

Chris

00:04 18/01/2001 

There was a great tree, huge and ancient with a canopy that seemed to cover the land for as far as I could see. No matter where I was or what I was doing, the tree was always there at the back of my mind.

There was a job offer. At first I accepted the job but I was very reluctant. I eventually rejected the offer, and was made to feel as though I was disappointing the man who offered me the job. It was if he had done me a huge favour by offering me the job. Never the less, I stuck to my guns.

In the next scene I am travelling up an elevator in a building and looking back to see the man who had offered me the job. He was disappointed but I turned and continued up. The elevator was in a building that was in the shadow of the big tree.

Inside the building were a large number of modern masterpieces: paintings. I looked at these with a mixture of admiration and envy.

Some time later I was in a room with some friends. The room was quite high, almost like it was nestled in the boughs of the big tree. We were watching a football match when my mobile phone rang. Instead of talking I looked at it and the screen became a TV and I was watching someone in very bright colour (yellow jersey and green grass). The call meant that the little party was over and we started moving everything to the next room.

I strongly remember wrapping two pieces of very tender chicken so I could take some home. It was moist and tender. I took home half of a whole chicken. Some one else took the other half. The plate full of chicken was next to a vase full of flowers (they looked like Kangaroo paws) and I took some of these with me also. The room itself was very white.

Note:

I love to paint and my work is quite good, but I haven't had the opportunity to paint for a long time. I also have never had a chance to exhibit, perhaps through fear of failure.

The feeling in the dream that I had disappointed a number of people was very strong through the whole dream but it strangely exhilarated me that I was doing my own thing.

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Belinda

10:11 18/01/2001 

Hi Chris

What a wonderful dream. Based on my own experiences, it seems that this dream is showing you how you will feel by taking certain action.

Is the theme about pleasing others something that you are working on at the moment? I know how it is to feel you need to please other people and if you don't you'll be letting them down, however, I also know the exhilaration you felt in your dream when you make that life changing step in waking life of saying no to something that isn't right for you - the exhilaration feeling is the 'taking back your own power' feeling. I think dreams give us snap shots of these situations to guide us to make these changes in our lives. We are given confirmation of how we will feel by following this path.

My impression of the tree in your dream is 'the tree of life' - your life, and there seems to be a recognition on your part that the tree is everywhere you go. This feels like you recognising that higher consciousness part of yourself that will guide you. The dream shows you moving higher up the tree, and again I feel it signifies trusting that 'higher' power of yours - listening and receiving guidance through dreams, trusting your intuition etc...

There also seems to be some Australian themes in the dream - the Green and Yellow and the Kangaroo. In the dream you move to an 'all white' room. Could this signify that moving away from Australia has given you a clean sheet of canvas to 'paint' your life in the colors that you choose? Perhaps there are also some literal messages about exploring this area of your art again?

It's interesting that 'chicken' is often a term we use when we are too chicken to do something or have a go. You seemed pretty happy about the chicken like it was going to fill you and nourish you. Do you feel that you are 'hungry' for something? Do you feel that exploring your art again might give you that kind of inner nourishment?

Belinda

Chris

00:39 19/01/2001 

Belinda.....how wise you are! YOur ideas make so much sense to me. Indeed I am working on the pleasing myself before other people thing and I think that if I can connect with that empowered feeling in my wakinmg life, then it would be all the more easier to do. As for the white room....I never thought of the "blanc Canvas". AS you suggest, I have left Australia and am about to move into a new place in the UK which will give me the room to paint again. I also have the rare opportunity to begin again with a clean slate. Perhaps its time to put that chicken in glad wrapp and be a bit brave with my decisions.

Thanbks for the help. Oh ...your translation I think fits into my latest dream aswell ...have a look.

Chris

Belinda

23:14 19/01/2001 

Hi Chris

I don't know about wise - more of an eager student with the best teachers I think, but thank you for saying so!

I read your follow up dream and I know how wonderful it feels to have dreams confirm that changes for the better are happening on the inner, which will then transform the outer. It's really exciting stuff.

Wishing you so much success and happiness for the future. Please keep posting away, and 'may the force be with you'!

Belinda

Bill

15:48 03/02/2001 

Do you think the tree you describe could represent the tree of life spoken of in Genesis 3:22?

A long time ago I heard of someones dream of heaven. An angel was walking a person around an art showing the person incredible masterpieces that were perfect in every detail. The person asked which master painted them and the answer was Jesus. The dream went on further to talk about people being the masterpieces in Gods' gallery etc. The point I am trying to make is that I suspect you are represented in the masterpiece paintings. You are the great treasure in your dream or at least you were meant to be. I think also that the Lord sent you this dream.

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