TheDreamstersUnion

08/03/202311/16/2023

Organizing Our Communal Castle And Living With Ghosts

(Thursday, August 3, 2023) waning gibbous moon Pisces / tarot eight of cups

I dream of entering a huge, old, multi-story house. A mansion. It is communal, but I am the one in charge of making the spaces pleasant for all the residents. It’s quite a mess. Furniture and items of decor are strewn about. I worry there won’t be enough funds to “make a house a home.” In fact I have that conversation early in the dream with a group of residents who are driving a car that they say also needs expensive repairs.

My work in the dream moves from room to room. I start in a giant dining area that is at least two stories tall, like a castle. I organize large, velvet sofas and a long dining table that has enough chairs for dozens, maybe hundreds, of people. Many are already using the space. I see one of my dark-haired, female spirit guides.

I move on to other rooms, on various floors, and speak with my community once each room is ready. I get a message that the vehicle is fine and needs nothing, which is a relief. I am very, very surprised that I am able to use all of the existing elements to spruce up the mansion, including a large children’s room next to the dining area. Everything turns out to be what it needs to be. This feels like a calming gift for me.

At one point in the dream I head up to the attic and fall asleep in a bedroom that matches my actual, waking life bedroom. The attic is full of ghosts, and my cat Snowball. I wonder if the castle/mansion is full of ghosts. I wake up, turn off the air conditioner and head back downstairs to do more work. But, it might be a dream-within-a-dream, because later I wake up again inside my haunted bedroom and the air conditioner is on, not off. A ghost laughs at me and my curiousness about whether I really turned off the air conditioner. There are ending dream elements that feel like sleep paralysis or even lucid interactions with the spirits.

Day notes:

I did wake up at 3 am, turned off the air conditioner and headed downstairs to feed Snowball. This dream happened after I went back to bed.

I visited my parents yesterday and had long conversations about the health issues affecting their lives. They are still caring for their huge house, but asked that I come up as often as I can to Cambridge.

Thoughts:

Perhaps one message of the dream is that I have what I need. Retirement income and my current environment will provide enough, even though that still feels like a surprise. Something about my “home,” my personal element, also has a benefit for the community. I don’t know what that is. I’m no teacher like Bonnie and I don’t yet spend any time volunteering like Jeanne. Am I somehow contributing to ancestral or community healing?

The ghosts, I wonder. A combination of lucidity and actual spirit presence in the house? I do see orbs in the alarm camera sometimes. Ghosts are common in sleep paralysis.

Another vehicle in a dream, unusual.

07/31/202307/31/2023

7/30/23 Saying Goodbye to Nancy (visitation dream)

I see Nancy walking with Joyce and Margi. They are supporting her, but she is walking on her own. I am surprised. I thought she was on death’s door. I am driving up the hill on Cottage Lane Rd which is across the road from the driveway where I grew up. In the dream it is right across from it, but in waking life, it is a bit to the left. I wave and they wave back. They turn into the driveway which has three houses off of it. They go to the house on the left which is the first house. There is an elevator attached to the right side of the house. I see them get in and go up. They are going to where Nancy stays. I think I will follow them, but the dream ends.

(Another dream about Nancy?) Old Woman Slowly Rolling Out of a Parking Garage

I am just remembering the last scene: There is an old woman in a parking garage. She is in her car. The car is not really working, but she wants to leave. Somehow the car can slowly “roll”. There are two, young attendants there. They allow the woman and her car to roll out of the parking garage.

Daynotes:; Nancy died yesterday in her sleep at night on 7/29/23. I had not talked on the phone with her for a while. We kept missing each other a couple of weeks before. She battled cancer for 8 years. She was in hospice a good two months. It was difficult for her, however, she had many friends that came and visited.

I think the first dream is Nancy saying goodbye to me. The second dream represents Nancy leaving this world because her body is no longer working.

**Nancy Campbell -August 1945-July 2023 RIP**

07/29/202308/01/2023

7/26/23 Two, Large Snakes/Subtle Mental Plane (the Creative Self)

I am camping out in nature with Paul, Deb and Ben (?). At first we have separate sleeping spots, then we are together. We do not have a tent. We have a “make-shift” set-up. We have sleeping bags and material, some waterproof, that we use to make a tent-like enclosure. We create a square structure. Now it feels like it is just Deb and me. We put a cover over us to keep off the rain which it does do one night.

There are small animals and a couple of blond kids about 5-6 years old around. Some animals like rabbits keep getting into our enclosure. The kids also peek in and try to snatch things. Then a small horse/pony gets into the tent and sits down awkwardly. We look out of the “tent” and see a very large, blue and black snake. It is on the hood of an old car. It slithers off of the hood. It goes onto the ground and along side our tent. I know it is poisonous and I warn Deb about it.

Deb and I then go outside to rearrange things so the animals can’t get in. There is space at the bottom of one of the walls. I roll up this thick tarp to put on the side where the animals are getting in.

Next scene: Now it feels like I am in Shady Oak’s garage. Paul is there. He has taken the tarp I used for the tent and put it on the horse’s back. Now there is a huge side-winder rattlesnake that starts from the back of the garage and winds its way out. John Hedren is in the garage as well. I tell Paul and him about the snake (though it is pretty obvious!). As the snake makes its way out of the garage, my cat playfully jumps on it a couple of times. The snake ignores her and does not bite or attack her. After the snake leaves the garage I put the tarp back and rearrange things so animals, especially snakes cannot get in.

Feelings: Happy Deb and I are not getting wet. A bit nervous about the snakes. A bit annoyed with the animals.

Daynotes: back from the cabin. Got frustrated when I tried to scan my paper work I want to share with Kathleen and Shaney re Nigel’s planes. I also texted a woman I know a bit who is in charge of a woman’s group at this “liberal” church about presenting dreamwork sometime. She said she would get back to me. I had a bit of PTSD related to feeling rejected. (even though she did not reject the idea/me yet).

Thoughts after sharing this dream with Dreamsters at our Dream Circle: Deb represents my high energy side and she is in charge right now. In waking life I have had good energy and have not let things get to me emotionally. (small animals, kids, rain (emotions) have not affected me.) I have rearranged things (the tarp) to protect myself from fear. (the blue and black, poisonous snake). The old car/truck that the snake slithers down from could represent my body, my past and/or my shadow. The horse and the masculine (garage, John and Paul) could represent my personal power. When it comes into the “tent”, it sits down, like it is making itself at home. It also shows up in the garage. The tent is square and so is the garage. Does this refer to my growth towards individuation? The side-winder and Mittens, my cat, are getting along. Are there parts of my psyche that are getting along? The side-winder has a unique way of moving through the world. This could showcase that I have a unique of being in this world. In the big picture, this dream may be pointing out how I am integrating my animus energy.