gattino
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A peculiar pair of dreams this week with a thematic connection that intrigues me.
About 3 nights ago I had a dream which is a standard and (in the course of a life time) recurring dream, that I understand many people have (in the same way as flying and teeth falling out are meant to be universal). That is one in which I am though my current age still at school and the end of term exams are coming up for which i have done no study or preparation etc. This is usually explained as an anxiety dream but since there is absolutely nothing going on in my life or on the horizon to which i can attach that sentiment I'll leave such psychology to one side. The point here is only the school setting. Perhaps in the assembly hall i say to someone, or they to me, "can you believe its a year since it happened"..and then I woke with the knowledge that "it" involved a drowning incident and it had happened to Emily. (The additional name Plunkett or Blunkett was in my waking mind too, but i dismissed this as i could attach it to nothing)
I know no one called Emily.
Waking with an unknown name or word in my head always sets me wondering if something out of the ordinary just happened, and so i found myself googling to see if there were any news stories online about an Emily drowning. I found nothing under a cursory search and so just left it at that, but continued to wonder.
Well last night/this morning another dream. It started off as one thing, as dreams often do - playing with a dog in the garden - then morphed into a different plot and setting entirely. The garden was now a lake or body of water and I was - i assume - a teacher of some kind as I clearly had the authority to direct maybe 3 teenagers to get in a small boat with me to go and fetch something on the water. Almost immediately the boat began filling with water as we slowly sank. So we have the school and drowning themes again, but the element that made the dream so notable was that everything was depicted in first person Point Of View. That is I saw the whole story through my eyes..i didn't see myself in the story. I saw the water rising up to my eye level, the objects floating on the surface of the water...a turd, and a long branch. ..and the young men on the platform outside a lakeside house to whom i was waving and trying to call out to indicate we were in trouble. At first they didn't understand we needed help, and my voice was drowned out by the water.
You'll be happy to know we didn't drown, we got to the edge and they pulled us out. More than that the reason for our sinking became apparent..some boxes these young men had given us had contained solid metal items instead of light wooden versions. Was there an Emily? I don't know but one of those in the boat with me, perceived only from behind , was a somewhat tubby girl.
The repetition of the school drowning incident and the first person point of view have me very very curious as to whether i was picking up something from somewhere. You may suggest the theme of drowning is clearly also symbolism for anxiety and being in over your head etc..but as I say there is bugger all going on in real life now or in the foreseeable future which would account for any such feelings.
About 3 nights ago I had a dream which is a standard and (in the course of a life time) recurring dream, that I understand many people have (in the same way as flying and teeth falling out are meant to be universal). That is one in which I am though my current age still at school and the end of term exams are coming up for which i have done no study or preparation etc. This is usually explained as an anxiety dream but since there is absolutely nothing going on in my life or on the horizon to which i can attach that sentiment I'll leave such psychology to one side. The point here is only the school setting. Perhaps in the assembly hall i say to someone, or they to me, "can you believe its a year since it happened"..and then I woke with the knowledge that "it" involved a drowning incident and it had happened to Emily. (The additional name Plunkett or Blunkett was in my waking mind too, but i dismissed this as i could attach it to nothing)
I know no one called Emily.
Waking with an unknown name or word in my head always sets me wondering if something out of the ordinary just happened, and so i found myself googling to see if there were any news stories online about an Emily drowning. I found nothing under a cursory search and so just left it at that, but continued to wonder.
Well last night/this morning another dream. It started off as one thing, as dreams often do - playing with a dog in the garden - then morphed into a different plot and setting entirely. The garden was now a lake or body of water and I was - i assume - a teacher of some kind as I clearly had the authority to direct maybe 3 teenagers to get in a small boat with me to go and fetch something on the water. Almost immediately the boat began filling with water as we slowly sank. So we have the school and drowning themes again, but the element that made the dream so notable was that everything was depicted in first person Point Of View. That is I saw the whole story through my eyes..i didn't see myself in the story. I saw the water rising up to my eye level, the objects floating on the surface of the water...a turd, and a long branch. ..and the young men on the platform outside a lakeside house to whom i was waving and trying to call out to indicate we were in trouble. At first they didn't understand we needed help, and my voice was drowned out by the water.
You'll be happy to know we didn't drown, we got to the edge and they pulled us out. More than that the reason for our sinking became apparent..some boxes these young men had given us had contained solid metal items instead of light wooden versions. Was there an Emily? I don't know but one of those in the boat with me, perceived only from behind , was a somewhat tubby girl.
The repetition of the school drowning incident and the first person point of view have me very very curious as to whether i was picking up something from somewhere. You may suggest the theme of drowning is clearly also symbolism for anxiety and being in over your head etc..but as I say there is bugger all going on in real life now or in the foreseeable future which would account for any such feelings.