OVERVIEW INTERPRETATION
Hi Rosa,
How old was the little girl you were dancing with at the end of your dream? She is you at the same age, even though she may not look like you in the dream. She is you in feeling and experience. She is a part of you that is still that age, a part of you that has been waiting for you to recognise her, to acknowledge her experiences and help her to heal. That is why she tells you that you are her dream come true: you have just dreamed of the truth of her.
She also tells you that she has written about you. What this means is that her (your) early experiences have influenced your life story, the various chapters of your life that have unfolded between then and now. What was happening for you when you were her age?
Dancing is a form of union, of harmony, of integration. She needs to dance with you just as much as you need to dance with her, to heal some disharmony, to help her to grow. The point of this kind of dream is to identify lost or hurt parts of your self and give them the acknowledgement and love they need to grow to adulthood and catch up with you. Your life today is enriched for this addition.
The dance holds some of the clues. You fall about when you meet her and then, at the end of the dance, you both fall. In what sense did you fall (emotionally perhaps) when you were that age? Think of a fall from grace, falling behind in schoolwork, a physical fall that created an emotional response or accusation, a feeling of instability (unable to stand on your own two feet), a fall from perfection and so on. Were you proud of an achievement only to be told that “pride comes before a fall”, learning to hide your pride from that moment on, instead suffering a fall in self-esteem? You will find the fall. The important thing to remember is that the distress around the fall is not a failure but the way you felt as a result of the responses of those around you, your family, school or church perhaps. Somehow that little girl has suffered from that fall and that fall has reverberated throughout your adult life until now. That’s why you were still falling when you met her.
In falling together at the end of the dream you unite with her feelings, you acknowledge her fall and the hurt is gone (neither of you were hurt in the dream).
Why would this dream come up for you now? Have you experienced a fall recently – emotionally or in any of the ways suggested above? Or do you anticipate a fall? Do you have cause for pride and fear a fall or loss if you express it? Has your self-esteem taken a fall?
At the start of your dream you are sad not to be invited to the table to discuss parenthood and feelings. The feeling is one of lesser importance, of your feelings being less valued. Is this related to the fall?
You’re looking after children, first years at school. Is your dancing girl the age of a first year? This may be your dream’s way of introducing the subject: this is about you when you were a first year at school. (Or in your first year of life? Or in your first year at college, or first year of another situation?) A church is then featured, suggesting religious or spiritual values. Was the fall one connected with religion or with Sunday school, perhaps? My feeling is that your dream is searching for a spiritual understanding of your past experiences and current life challenges.
Right up front in your dream is the question of talking about parenthood and feelings. It’s likely that as your sister has just had a baby in waking life, memories and feelings of your own childhood and questions of how you were parented have been triggered and are being addressed in this dream. Of importance are questions of how you were parented around the fall and how your feelings about his may not have been invited at the time. Your dream shows that you were not invited to table your feelings, but now you are ready to assert your right to a seat anyway, and that is why this dream moves on to put things right.
As your dream children are restless (the child within you is restless and not easy to silence into sleep) the time has come for you to sort this out once and for all. You decide to take the direct route to the church, suggesting that you feel the best place to start is to seek a spiritual or religious understanding. The dream may suggest you want a quick-fix answer – the short cut – but the dream shows that a longer and more detailed route is required, all the way back to childhood to meet that little girl who is waiting for her healing dance. In the long run, this is the short cut!
When you fly some of the way back to the past you are gaining a higher perspective, looking down on the pattern of your life to get a clearer picture, in readiness for the dance.
DREAM ALCHEMY PRACTICE
Visualisation:
Visualise dancing with the little girl with wonderful grace and flow, and, as you dance, visualise her growing until she reaches your current age whereupon the two of you glow with radiant light.
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.
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