Exhibit Fifty-Four: 1st December 2002. Photo by Michael Collins
Boulder
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 a sense of achievement as if I have journeyed a long way to reach this boulder. It is a vantage point, high up, giving me a splendid view of what lays ahead. The boulder feels like an oracle I had come to consult but now that I am here I can see everything clearly. I feel as if I have merged with the oracle, or caught up with my vision.
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.
The boulder (rock, or stone) may symbolise solidity, a belief or life situation that has been manifest for a long time in your life. Think of the 'rock of ages' or 'solid as a rock'. Yet then think again. Rock can be blasted away quickly or eroded gently by water and wind over time. It isn't so solid. It changes shape. In the same way the boulder or rock in your dream may symbolise something that SEEMS immoveable or anchoring, but which can, if you wish, change.
You may see this rock as a volcanic plug, judging from the landscape and the fact that it must be composed of harder rock than the surrounds. A volcano in a dream may represent something that has exploded or is about to explode within you - pressures, emotions you have tried to keep underground, below the surface, unconscious. The volcanic plug may represent a past explosion - a release of tension or pressure in your life that changed things drastically for you. If so, why might your dream need to remind you of this?
The ocean generally represents your unconscious mind while the land often represents your conscious mind. This image may remind you of the vast ocean of your unconscious and its enormous strength - strength to blow age-old beliefs sky high and change your conscious landscape as well as the strength to gently but persistently sculpt your waking life beliefs into new form.
In the distance (distant past, distant future or distant self?) snow and glaciers gleam on the mountains. Such a dream image may suggest that frozen emotions and feelings are background issues to the foreground events and feelings in your waking life right now.
And what of the green algal growth around the base of the boulder? This may represent fresh growth (personal growth) in your life. We grow so well at that special place where we free ourselves to walk the shore where the unconscious (ocean) meets and shapes the conscious (land).
The Questions
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!
- Imagine being here. Describe the weather.
- Who is with you (or are you alone)?
- How did you get here?
- How long did the journey take?
- Did you journey across or past the mountains or have you only just seen them?
- Describe the smell of this place.
- What are you wearing?
- The boulder has a shape - what does it remind you of?
- How long ago did the last visitor depart?
- This boulder was once fresh and new - what was its shape then?
- What has the boulder learned from standing here so long?
- If you could sculpt this boulder, what shape would you make?
- Why?
- If you were asked to sculpt this boulder into a monument, what would you design?
- What message would your monument give to future visitors?
- How would you feel if you had the opportunity to design this monument and see it a reality?
- Look at your answer to Q15. Who, in your life now, would you like to receive this message?
- Look at your answer to Q9. If your answer is in months or years, think back the same length of time in your life. When was this and what was happening for you then?
- Look at your answer to Q11. How would this apply in your life now?
- What is the belief you have carried since the time mentioned in your answer to Q18?
- Is it time to change that belief?
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