Kelsi has often stood for a young part of myself.
A Young girl (13-14 years old) is thrown into the sea from a short cliff by some fathers. When she lands in the water, fall leaves come flying up. Kelsi, and some of my siblings(?) are taken out to sea. by this women who is like the “housekeeper” and is telling us the girl’s story. We are swimming. We see her body floating. She looks younger and has a bright colored bathing suit on.(yellow and blue?). Later/earlier it is navy blue. I am afraid, but then curious and get closer. Then her father comes up behind her and hugs her. (now she is 13-14 and has the navy suit on and is out of the water) She doesn’t know it is him at first. I say to him you must be her father or her uncle because you love her.
Dream has a scene where I am in Shady Oak in my bed. Dan and Molly have tried to sleep in my bed, but find the young gitl’s spirit/ghost there and leave. I lay down in my bed and she kicks me (feel it, cannot see her). I climb into bed with Chris. (Chris and I shared this bedroom and had twin beds across from each other in waking life)
Scene where I am an observer. The girl goes into the bathroom at a school. She and the other girls are in their suits. The girl is innocent, naive. She goes into a stall and sits down and pees. There is one girl in the stall on her left and one girl in the stall on her right. They are talking and acting like young teenage girls standing on the toilets and leaning over the stall the young girl is in. The two girls are then in one stall next door and put shampoo all over the innocent girl’s hair to tease her.
The girl grabs her suitcase and goes into her apartment looking for her dad. (this scene was in the past, but now it is in the present-after she died). She finds the “housekeeper” and asks where her Dad is. The woman is in the dad’s old bedroom where she lives. She tells her to sit down. She will tell her the story.( what happened to her as well as the fact that her dad has died) Earlier while telling the story to us (Dan, Molly, Chris and I) leaves fly up in the air just like when the fathers threw her in the sea. in the past.
Feeling: sad/scared.
This dream felt very other worldly. The sequence is mixed up and time (past -present) is confused. It felt very real. The girl when she comes back to life and goes to talk to the woman, is no longer naive. Her dad is dead by this time.
Day notes: first day back from conference. Reading Awakening Through Dreams by Nigel Hamilton. I am reading about Nigredo- facing my shadow and dissolving my ego. Somehow I think reading this book had something to do with having this dream.