Exhibit Fifty-One: 1st October 2002. Photo by Michael Collins
'Eye'
Feeling The Picture
Your feeling reactions to a dream are keys to its interpretation. These are my feelings. If this were a scene in your dream or life, how would you feel about being there?
I feel wonder, both my own wonder and the wonder I see in the child's eye. I feel hope and anticipation. I see the house reflected in her eye and feel her anticipation of visiting the special person who lives there.
The Symbols
Symbols in your dreams often relate to your personal memories and associations, so always consider those first. Then let your mind play with other, more general possibilities. They will not all apply! Just open your mind and notice where the symbol seems to fit and make sense of the rest of your dream.
When you find yourself looking deeply into someone's eyes in a dream you are coming face-to-face (eye-to-eye) with a facet of yourself - usually one you haven't met before. Such dream contact is usually awesome, loving - a long moment of deep communion. In such a moment we see ourselves as we are. To meaningfully interpret this, you need to ask yourself who the person (or animal) is. What does this person represent to you? What personality do they have? What is their approach to life? What energy do you feel from them in the dream? These are the qualities or beliefs you are coming eye-to-eye with in your dream. 'Eye-to-eye' becomes 'I to I' as you meet yourself in a new way.
Dreams play clichés. Think of 'the eye is the window to the soul', for example. An eye in a dream may symbolise the soul, a deep reflection beyond the superficial. What is reflected in the eye? If you can see a reflection this may be a deeper reflection of yourself, or it may symbolise what you are contemplating (reflecting upon). Or perhaps you see an apple reflected in the eye, leading you to ask yourself about your beliefs of being 'the apple of someone's eye'. Or maybe you are dreaming another cliché and seeing the world through someone else's eyes.
The pupil of the eye may be a dream pun leading you to look at what you are learning. Clear eyes may suggest clear vision while misty or blind eyes may suggest that you are not seeing something (about your life) with clarity. A child's eyes may suggest that you are looking at the world, or at a situation, more through the eyes of a child than the eyes of an adult. There are, perhaps, times for taking a childlike view and times for waking up to the fact that how you viewed the world as a young child yourself is no longer working for you.
The eye colour may be meaningful, especially if you really notice it. With colours, always think about your personal feelings about certain colours. Blue eyes may represent the colour of the fifth chakra (communication, healing) or may call to mind the famous study on blue eyes and brown eyes which investigated discrimination using eye colour as the discrimination factor.
Eyelashes protect the eyes. Eyelashes in your dream may represent protecting your view, perhaps. Or there may be a dream pun on 'lash' as in 'punishment'.
The Questions
Here are some questions the dreamer of such a dream picture might ask to work towards a Here are some questions the dreamer of such a dream picture might ask to work towards a complete understanding of the dream.
Try these yourself: just give your 'gut reaction' answers to the questions - your answers will surprise you in the insights they deliver. The key thing to remember is, "Don't THINK about your answers - give quick gut reaction replies". Your unconscious will deliver.
If this process can work powerfully for this image, consider how infinitely more powerful the insights are when the image comes from one of your own dreams - direct from your unconscious!
- How old is this person (the owner of the eye)?
- Is this person male or female?
- What is this person looking at?
- What is this person thinking about?
- What is this person feeling?
- If this person could ask you a question, what would that question be?
- What is your answer?
- If this person were seeking your advice, what would they ask?
- What would you reply?
- Imagine holding this person's hand. Feel how this is for you. Now, do you feel you can help this person or lead them somewhere, or is this person the one to help you or lead you somewhere?
- Where do you go together?
- What do you learn from accompanying this person?
- What do you learn from the place you both go to?
- What do you see of yourself in this person?
- Look at your answer to Q5. What situation, in your waking life now, brings up this feeling for you?
- Look at your answer to Q 9. How might you apply this advice to the waking life situation you named in Q15?
- Look at your answer to Q12. How might you apply this learning to the waking life situation you named in Q15?
- Look at your answer to Q13. How might you apply this learning to the waking life situation you named in Q15?
- Look at your answer to Q14. How does this view of yourself help you to understand your current waking life situation?
- What do you see now that you couldn't see before?
- Is there a different way to handle your current life situation?
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