Speaking of dreams, for the first time ever I dreamed about having no replies on Nostr.
I don't think I ever dream of any technological device (computer,cell phone) but since Nostr is a protocol, maybe that why.
Hopefully not worshipping Nostr here😀
Discussion
Well, Nostr is not a bad thing to worship, although that would be weird for sure. 🤣
But dreams almost don't normally make it that obvious. Most of the time you need to consider how you felt during the dream, sometimes you need to focus on details that feel relevant, etc.
Another interesting way to work with dreams is to identify with individual elements in your dream and talk/think through what you feel as you imagine being that element. I found that useful when I couldn't relate to a dream at all. Then I found out how frustrating it was to be a carrot on a shelf at the grocery store. 🤷🏻♂️
The Carrot
Mr. Carrot lived a lovely life in a row with other carrots. One day a bird flew up and pulled his hair so hard he nearly came out of the ground.
"Hey, leave me be", he shouted at the bird, "why can't a carrot be who a carrot wants to be?"
Then one day a farmer walked by and yanked him out.
"Hey, leave me be", the carrot shouted at the farmer, "why can't a carrot be who a carrot wants to be?"
He was put in a wagon and driven to the supermarket and placed on a shelf with a bunch of other carrots. He wriggled his rootlets in glee on the cool misted shelves of the supermarket.
"Well,gee, this is the life for me," as he stared at passers-by.
Then Mr Leo passed by, grabbed the carrot by its hair and held it high overhead, contemplating it closely for spots.
"Hey, leave me be", the carrot shouted at the Leo, "why can't a carrot be who a carrot wants to be?"
Leo looked surprised at the talking carrot. "Has no one ever told you? You were planted, cultivated, harvested for one purpose-- to be eaten"
Perhaps you can help me w this dream:
In my dream I fell softly into a dark pool, dark shapes of stingrays shaped like half moons gliding, waiting for my splash and my sinking; I dreaded the envelope of their black rubbery wings.
Well, I can only give an analysis of this dream from my own perspective, i.e. how I would've interpreted it if it was my dream.
A dark pool would for me usually be a symbol of the unconscious - parts of ourselves that we are not aware of, but are there. Falling into it might signify a kind of event in my life that I might have had no control over, which plunged me into this pool of the unconscious, that is, requires of me that I reach out for something within that I'm not aware of possessing. Since it's a soft fall, that means that whatever it might have been didn't injure me in any way, but nonetheless something more is being demanded to handle the situation.
The stingrays in the pool seem to be the key to the answer about what it is that I need. I have no personal associations to stingrays, so I'd think of them as something instinctive and intuitive (and now I'm regretting not yet having obtained The Book of Symbols). Since the emotion you mention is dread, it suggests that I may be dreading what my instinct/intuition is telling me about the situation that caused me to fall into the pool. The "envelope of their black rubbery wings" is a very vivid image and for me it immediately invoked the idea of being shielded from something. (Sure, stingrays have venom, but in dreams venom is usually some kind of agent of transformation, although it doesn't seem to me - from your recounting of the dream - that it is the venom that you fear.) Perhaps the instinct/intuition that I need might be protective in the situation that caused me to fall into the pool, that is, the situation which requires of me to reach for this instinct that resides outside of my consciousness. Dreading it may be due to my inability to explain this intuition rationally, hence being unable to understand the consequences if I act on it.
The association of the shape of the stingray to a half-moon might indicate that the stingrays bring a kind of phase of life transformation (venom) into the mix.
I believe this dream to be an invitation to explore your intuition about whatever situation this interpretation reminds you of. There is no need to act on it, simply notice what it is that your "gut" is telling you about it.
Personal associations to stingrays and further details about the dream (i.e. is it a man-made or natural pool, what the surroundings look like, etc.) might help more closely tailor this interpretation to your situation. Also it's sometimes helpful to describe any significant (real-life) events that happened sometime before the dream.
Cool, thank you! It seems like it's not as bad as I was afraid! Haha, good news.
No, of course not!
Dreams always offer a remedy for a (psychological) situation you find yourself in. Even when they're nightmares, or trauma dreams. Of course, our response to dream content can cause suffering, if we're unwilling to accept that remedy.