Dreams From The Morning Of Oona’s Birthday

(Sunday, October 20, 2024)

I attended two parties for Oona’s third birthday yesterday, so I was not able to write down my dreams. Details have faded, but they both have powerful elements I want to record.

Dream 1: Wyn’s Daimon

I am helping my grandson, about 10 years of age, make an informational phone call. I think it is Wyn. We are using an old-fashioned landline and listening to an instructional guide. I feel like the conversation is expressly for Wyn, so I click on a button to remove myself from the call, but both of us get “hung up.” That makes me a guilty grandma! Yet, the guide immediately arrives in person. He is thin, at least eight-feet tall. He is much more visible than the spirit guides I often dream of. The details of his face, body and clothing are clear to us. Blond-haired instead of dark-haired. In person, a loving friend.

Dream 2: The Thinning Veil

I am in my tall castle and this one seems to be made of fragile drywall covered with pale, flowered old wallpaper. There is no furniture, no yard, just one tiny window. Nearly empty. Even the staircase needs a railing. The rooms are haunted but I push the annoying ghosts away. I go in and out. Each time I come in from the street I find hand-painted artwork that I quickly made before heading out the front door. I am stunned by the beauty and skill of the paintings. Speedy little masterpieces.

Day notes, October 29:

I shared this dream last night and this morning this thought came up: The thin wall of the castle reminded me of the veil between this life and the next. And me pushing the ghosts around means it is nowhere near time to leave this life, even though in the dream “I go in and out.” 

We all wrote haikus last night about our dreams. This is mine:
My home feels royal
Ancestral spirits live here
Creativity is joy

Little sculpture I did for our Monday night dream group (October 28).

10/10/24 Screens Fall Down

I am at my place (not waking life). I am alone at first. I take down this light, tan screen that hangs across the side of my front yard. It needs a new light bulb. Later I see it is on the road on that side. I presume the wind moved it. Then I notice the screen on the left side of my yard blew or fell down by accident.

My cousin, Jill, comes. (in waking life Jill died 10 years ago). She is to help me. First we both go to the bathroom. She takes her three pieces of jewelry off before going to the bathroom and is now putting them back on. They are all turquoise pieces. One is a bracelet, one is a piece that fits on her elbow and the third piece I cannot remember.

It is cold. I can’t find my hat. I pull up my hood. I look for the light bulbs, but cannot find them. Then I find a hat and put that on. I decide to put up the screens and worry about the light bulbs later.

Some scene where I am sitting outside and it is nice weather. I hold a bag of three fish; ones I caught. One is large and two are small (walleyes?). I woman is there with me. We sit on the ground in the front yard. (same yard as above). She says something about the fish. I say they are almost too small for Paul to bother filleting them. Next scene, I am eating the cooked fish.

Feeling: overwhelmed re putting up the screens. Fish scene-relaxed.

Incubation question: What is ready to be healed?

This is what I wrote after working the dream with the Dreamsters:

If this were my dream, I am comfortable in my life. I feel I have good boundaries (both the screens are up). However, there is a light bulb missing (some understanding/enlightenment) on the right screen-the masculine side. I need to let down my boundary to figure out what it is. Then the left screen-feminine, falls down on its own. Jill can help me. She cares about me. She wears three pieces of turquoise jewelry. Turquoise jewelry can predict danger. We both go to the bathroom. We need to let go of what no longer serves us. Jill then puts the jewelry back on. The turquoise jewelry can also represent protection. Maybe that is what she is telling me: I need more protection. Wanting to find a hat and finally doing so represents protecting myself from negative thoughts which I have when I get angry at Kevin and Antonia. I have OCD thoughts where I tell them off. I decide to raise my boundaries (screens)/protection and let go of ideas of how to fix the situation (light bulb). When I do, a feminine guide is there as well as my masculine energy (Paul who will fillet the fish). The three fish represent Mind, Body and Spirit-wholeness/balance. I cook and eat the fish. It is a healing.

Ideas from the Dreamsters: There are 12 light bulbs and only one is burned out. Focus on the eleven! The cold weather in the dream could represent the cold relationship between Kevin and I. It is important for me to put up boundaries. He doesn’t have good personal boundaries himself. I can use my feminine strengths (left screen) just so much-it gets overloaded and falls down. I need my masculine boundaries. I am missing something (an enlightened part), but it is not time to deal with this. Creativity (Jill and I took photos together) is a good path to follow for healing.

10/7/24 Mom Driving me back from Airport

My mom is driving me back from the airport. I am in the passenger seat. It takes 40 minutes to get to my place. I thank Mom for driving me. She says that is fine. She only has two more years to drive. She slows down to go over a small tree limb that is sticking up out of the ground. It is only about a foot high.

Earlier snippet: I am with someone. A guy in a bathrobe like Paul’s comes and lays down on the bed. He asks how my day was. I am rude to him, (I had a rough day). I then apologize.

Day notes: Some anger at Kevin. Rowan’s birthday is the 9th. He will be 5 years old. So sad that Paul and I can’t send him a card and present.

The Dreamsters Union