(Sunday, February 9. 2014) I’ve had two very similar dreams this week.
In the first, I have inherited or moved back into my large ancestral home. I’m exploring or reacquainting myself with the inner spaces. I’m very excited and want to share the experience with others but am unable to create any interest in the people I know.
I enter one of the bathrooms in the house. The floor and walls are completely covered with small (4-inch square) tiles that are much thicker than modern manufactured tiles. The bathtub, sink and toilet appear to be from the 1920s or 30s. I think the tiles are a deep green color. There is no window so the lighting is dim and the room has the feeling of a cloistered, protective place.
The space is more than a story tall. I look upward but the ceiling is not visible to me. I notice metal rungs built into the wall behind the bathtub and so I start to climb. The rungs are feathered with fine cobwebs; no one has touched them for a very long time.
In the second dream, I enter a large public bathroom with no windows and soft lighting. My coworker Steve Adams has brought his two small daughters into the room to wash up. This space is also completely covered with handsome ceramic tiles, but these tiles are horizontal (perhaps 4 x 8), slate-colored and modern. It feels like an airport restroom.
Again I notice metal ladder rungs built into the wall. I start to climb. I cannot see the ceiling. I have a thought that I may sometimes need to move not just in a vertical direction, but horizontally as well. As I reach out my right hand, rungs form and fill the wall.
Waking thoughts:
The first room is square and the room feels like a deep well. Climbing the rungs of the ladder feels like climbing from the bottom of an underground sewer or tunnel system. The second room is rectangular in shape, mirroring the shape of the slate-colored tiles. It feels like ground level. The space is doubled (4 x 4 turns to 4 x 8).
Both rooms are fully functional. No clogged sinks or toilets as I have dreamed about in the distant past. Rooms of purification.
The rungs of the ladder echo the structure of the human spine. The dreams start at the base of the spine, in the root chakra, where waste is released and energy from the earth is absorbed into the body.
The rooms themselves mirror the inside of a ceramic kiln.
Steve Adams and I work at the same level: he is the lead web designer, I am the lead print designer.
The first dream has the sense (that I am beginning to more easily recognize) of a past life dream. There I am unable to find kindred souls but in the second, modern dream a coworker and his children share the room with me. Perhaps this time around I will have more success finding like-minded souls in my spiritual journey. The second restroom (room of rest, retreat) is located in an airport, where people journey through the air. Fly.
From the web: The ladder may indicate access to high places in this life or access to special places in the universe. It indicates meditation and prayer. You are setting forth on a spiritual path and higher awareness. Each rung of the ladder is symbolic of a stage in your spiritual awareness. The dream may also highlight how you are looking at things from a different perspective.
The dream brings up the idea of kiva and the kiva ladder. Seven rungs on a kiva ladder, seven chakras in the physical body. Kiva is sacred space, without windows, underground. Womb. Purification. I prayed in the Great Kiva at Chaco Canyon and in a smaller kiva at Bandelier in 1987.
http://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/native-american-culture/kivas.htm
Nice dreams. I just read in my book what an airplane means and thought I’d share that. It says a fast transition. Maybe in this life my transition to a higher awareness is “faster”, maybe it has to do with my relationships with others (my co-worker and his kids). Yes, you were just ahead of your time in that other life!! I love the tiles, especially the green, square ones.
The book says that a bathroom has to do with individuation and privacy. A bathroom at home has to do with personal issues and a public one with outside interactions.
I like your work/interpretation of your dreams. Nice affirmation on your spiritual journey.
I hope you are enjoying warmth and sun, Bonnie. We miss you!