Thought for the day (15 Oct 2005):

"Originally written as a Introduction to Kathleen Sullivans upcoming book Recurring Dreams: A Journey Into Wholeness.

"All dreams help to move the individual dreamer toward a greater understanding of confusing emotions, greater expressive strength and clarity, and a greater integration and conscious focus of scattered personal energies. The recurrent dream is particularly helpful in healing deep personal psycho-spiritual injuries and resolving individual emotional dramas."

--Jeremy Taylor, "Recurring Dreams"

Follow up:

Brought to eye/mind today:
Dream realities and bear scat (not necessarily related)

Thank you, Lord, for...final pieces of fence fitting together so well. For this, thank you very much.

Today's Log:

>>  Returned to circumstances and location of a previous dream to visit friends and see how they are doing. In this dream I was a musician and these were fans in a city I visited on tour. At the present time they were glad to see me, but not overjoyed; the circumstances of their lives had changed, but were still much the same.

I was surprised to return to this dream, because it didn't seem significant or have that feeling something important was afoot.

I started thinking about recurring dreams I've had and came up with this list

• Black pool (approx. 15 years of age): a recurring dream that evolved. At first I just drowned in the pool, at the end I transcended drowning and saw a horizon with translucent hills
• Seven-League boots (lifelong, but seldom): Basically I'm flying (shades of Erica Jong). I remember enjoying the dream a lot and the viewpoint of seeing things from above.
• Leaving apartment to catch the bus (approx. 24): Often with Julie, my daugher. Just recurring, felt like I was rehashing stuff that happened during the day. At the time I was renting a house.
• Landing in a spaceship and finding evidence of an ancient civilization (~24 to 36): A wise old man pilots the ship and teaches me about our findings. This dream didn't occur very often--maybe twice, but I always felt good after experiencing it. Sometimes I would just see images from it while experiencing other dreams.
• Key West (approx. 39-44): This was a complex dream with many things happening and changing. I never understood all of it--it was both forward-looking and therapeutic. I was in an abusive relationship at the time and dreaming about finding a man who loved me. There were two men in the dream--a dark man with one arm or a limp and the other tall and blonde. Key West was significant, but also a real place in the Florida Keys. After beginning this dream sequence, the relationship broke up and I went back to school.
• Running up the school steps, late for class and unprepared (lifelong, but usually when I'm not in school): I'm very distressed because it's finals time and I haven't done any homework. Often it's a language, Latin or French that I neglected. I think this is a reminder to get back on track.

>>  Finished fence today; tomorrow will work on the gate. Estimated the materials pretty well--3 split slats and the 7 set aside for the gate left over. Each day when I finished working I realized my feet were cold; today I realized I have warm boots in the house and could have been wearing them.

>>  There's another pile of bear scat in the yard. This bear really wants to declare my yard as his/her territory. Is this good or bad? Am I Cousin of the Bear now? Or first on its grocery list? At any rate, when the gates are done, the scat gets cleaned up and the yard is off-limits.