Natalia Snider is a certified dream practitioner living in Carbondale. She works with people’s dreams and imaginations to facilitate self-healing. Every month, she will analyze someone’s dream in The Sopris Sun or online. Anyone can submit a dream for personal analysis or inclusion in this column by visiting: www.dreamhealings.com

Dream

I dreamt I was hanging onto a rope in “space” and I KNEW if I let go I would die. So I hung on so tightly but it kept slipping from my hands. Eventually, I let go, at which point everything became crystal clear and I instantly knew everything- like ALL the knowledge was at my fingertips and I felt like I was home.

Interpretation

This is a dream of death—simply that, but so much more. Let me be clear, and let me explain. This is not a dream prophesying your physical death. This is a dream of letting go of one reality to gain access to the next, and the amazing gift of connection that's on the other side. But no one needs to die to access this gift. This dream was given to you specifically to tell you just that. Ok, now let's dive deeper into this incredible dream. 

You say “space” in quotes as if you know it wasn’t really outer space although it appeared that way. Sometimes when we dream of space we are actually dreaming of our bodies on a quantum level. As above, so below. Although locations in dreams aren’t always so metaphorical, follow me here with this one.

In the dream you were hanging on to a rope then died when you let go. This is the tether between the astral body and the physical body here in your dream realm. Your "space" is you leaving your body to go deeply inward to the quantum level. Just as an umbilical cord connects inner to outer worlds, your rope is the cord that connects outer to inner realities. You know you will die when you let go, but just like in the womb it is only a change of state. Remember this feeling of changing states in this dream because this is how you get back.

Many believe that when you die you experience just what your dream suggests. The full clarity of the mind, all the understandings of the universe, and the feeling of being home. The human perspective is said to be a very limiting perspective in comparison to the whole of reality. Limited all the way down to only one perspective of life, inside one human body, filtered even further through the definitions, beliefs, and values that we each hold. You must die in your dream to access this new reality because you must release all the limiting perspectives, beliefs, and core understandings of your physical reality to be able to accept the reality of this place of unfathomable understandings. Like a baby's mind is clean and clear and able to accept its new realities understandings like gravity -without any preconception. 

The gift of this dream is showing you that you can access this "space" without dying because you can, and already did, access it in your dream realm. Your subconscious gave you the key, by way of emotional experience, how to connect back to this place. A place that some might call the Akashic Records. A place where all the collective knowledge in the universe is. 

I would guess that after this dream your intuition is feeling more alive. This is the knowledge seeping in from this gateway that has been established. Here is a dream work exercise to keep that gate open, if you so choose: Get into a sleeping position, as close to how you normally sleep as possible without falling asleep. This helps with clarity of dream recall. Then pull the dream forward and go through a chronological checklist of everything that you experienced. See all the visuals, hear all the sounds (even the absence of sound), feel all the feelings. Use all your senses to bring the memory of the dream to life. When you get to the part where you die and gain clarity- stay there. Expand that feeling so much that you live in that feeling for the moment. Do not try to recall any knowledge. The knowledge will download effortlessly into you as you experience the remembered feeling of becoming one with it. Work this muscle of connection many times and the connection will become stronger. Next, do this sitting up, and after that do it while you are active. 

The information will come as it already has been- through intuition- but will be much clearer and stronger. So keep a keen ear to what your gut is telling you and trust it because now you know where it's coming from.

Dream

Hey Natalia!!! It’s June! I’m reporting a dream I had last night. I went outside of my house on my deck and there was a grey cloud that was getting higher, but it was really small and I jumped on it and flew like a few feet in the air then dropped. Then I grabbed some and it was solid. Almost like cotton candy. Then I put it inside and I went back out and like ALL of the clouds had lowered to where I couldn’t stand up all the way. It was like the whole atmosphere lowered. If I stuck my face above them it would freeze. Anyways that part happened a few times and then I woke up at 5:36.

Interpretation

Hi June! This is a beautiful dream. It’s a dream about tangibility of things you previously thought intangible. So, what that means is that you should aim higher with your imagination of what you want and what you think is the limit to what you can achieve. There is always more, and always another way. This dream is asking you to break the limiting belief you have about something, so that you can see that it is actually possible to go further. Do more, be more, be better, heal. Open your imagination up. The sky is NOT the limit. There is no limit. Go beyond. Peak your head above the limit you believe is there and see what it looks like above the atmosphere. Your subconscious is asking you to not believe in someone else’s limiting belief that something is out of reach for you. Because there wasn’t anyone in the dream besides you and the clouds, this limiting belief is most likely a societal or common cultural belief that is being imposed upon you indirectly. Bring the clouds to you. Bring those limiting beliefs close for inspection like you did with the cloud. Feel what they feel like and see that they are not what you expected, just like the clouds. This dream wants to show you the magic and unbound nature of the universe. You can stick your head above the clouds, you can fly with the clouds, you can see beyond the atmosphere, if you so wish. It wants to show you that you can touch the clouds, keep a piece of it as a souvenir and keep going beyond. The dream is asking you to inspect these grey clouds that have come in around you. See what limiting belief they have stored within, and then peak your head above. The dream beckons you to go farther as it sets the clouds down lower so that you may easily see above them. So that you may easily see that they are not the limit and there is a whole universe beyond that is open for your exploration. The piece of the cloud you saved is a beautiful souvenir for you to always remember that what you previously thought was out of reach is not, and that you can easily grab it if you so wish. Know that you saved this understanding in your heart and mind by stowing away a piece of this cloud. Know that you can revisit this feeling with this stowed away piece anytime a limiting belief comes up. You can hold this piece of cotton candy grey cloud up for inspection and see that if you want to touch the clouds you can. Knowing that if you want to go beyond the sky, the atmosphere, you can. Know and always remember, the sky is NOT the limit. The limit is only what we imagine it to be and let that be limitless.

Dream

I had a dream that I shrunk down to an inch tall. I was in my room and everything was big. Then my mom came in and she couldn’t see me. I started trying to speak to her and she couldn’t hear me and she almost stepped on me. It made me feel really nervous that I couldn’t tell her where I was. Then I had the dream again another night but this time I was in a doctors office and the doctor freaked out because I shrunk and she kicked me away. She was bare foot. Both times when I woke up I felt nervous or like I had just had anxiety all night.

Interpretation

This dream is a dream of the challenges of changing your form. In your dream you shrink to a size where you are not seen or heard. Who you are changes from what was your “normal” to this new and different you. A “new you” is emerging, and you are testing her in the safety of your dream realm and how she will interact with the world when she appears. The anxiety you feel is the uncertainty of how you feel about this new possible you, and how she will be perceived. Your mother is the first to see you in your new form, but she cannot see you or hear you. Your dream is telling you that you do not feel seen or heard by those closest to you, or that you are afraid you will not be seen or heard when you take on this new form. As well, it is showing you how small you feel when this happens. But remember that in the safety of your dream realm, you get the opportunity to experience what you do not want, so that you know without a doubt what you do want.

In the second dream you shrink in a doctor’s office. This is symbolic of you wanting to see how a professional would respond to your new form. The dream is telling you that you are searching for validation of why you are not being seen or heard. You are looking for a reason for this change of form. The doctor is scared by this new you and kicks you away in fear. What’s incredibly important here is that you mention the doctor is bare foot. This symbolizes that she is vulnerable. Her partial nakedness in a place of business is telling of her reaction not being one of hate or judgment but one coming from a more vulnerable childlike place of fear of the unknown. In this way your dream is asking you not to be angry with her naivety.

It's not fun to have dreams that are overbearing and riddled with anxiety, yet dreams such as these are capsules of information coming to us in the safest place for us to learn them. In our dream realms we can learn, re-learn, act, play, or reorganize our lives to see what fits best. We can discover what are fears truly are and how to overcome them. This dream, even though it may not feel like it, is a gift of insight. It is an opportunity to play out these scenarios in this new form, this new you, that your subconscious is bringing to light. It is also a place to take back your voice and to be seen in this new form, or even to change your form again entirely.

In a meditative state I suggest calling the dream forward, remembering all the details as you can in this active imagination exercise. Then -this part is the most important- release the limitations of your imagination. Re-dream each scene with the highest version of yourself re-writing the dream. Imprinting in each new scene new feelings. Try joy, see what it feels like to explore a giant world in a micro body. Try empowerment with a booming voice, glowing body, or morphing shapes. Try different perspectives. See through your mothers’ or the doctors eyes, learning what they may have to teach you. Try kindness and fill your dream realm with love. This is your place of creation and play. Try freedom, release your beliefs and definitions of your world. Test which path feels divinely perfect and set that in motion. Remember, bring back only that which serves you from this meditation leaving everything else in the safe capsule of your dream realm.
 

Dream

In my real (waking) life, I lived in this haunted house in my 20’s. I had some spooky encounters with these spirits where one night me and my two other female roommates saw a male figure in our bedroom and when we rose from the fright we felt hands on our shoulders, pushing us back down. All of us had this same experience in separate rooms on the same night.

Ever since I left this house, I have had this reoccurring dream about being back in this house but with many more levels in it and trying my hardest to get to the top floor and out. It’s like I needed to get to the top floor for some reason, and there just being more and more levels to this house and I couldn’t get there. I keep opening doors and going through corridors, but nothing ends. Everywhere I go I just find more corridors and doors.  Every time I get so frustrated that I end up waking myself up. When I’m up I feel really annoyed that I had this dream again and that it was so frustrating. I’ve always thought it was about me being stuck in some way.

Interpretation

Stuck is exactly right but let’s expand on that. Something from this house made a lasting impression on your subconscious. Or, more accurately, someone.

The house is a place where these spirits are stuck. They cannot move onward for whatever unknown reason. They instead are watching life pass with no ability to change it.

Upward, in the dream, is signifying the movement of the soul’s progression onward. Upward is where these spirits should have progressed through, but instead, are stuck in this liminal space between two dimensions. Your need to go upward to the top floor in the dream is signifying this need for progression to higher dimensions within yourself. At the same time, and in the same space, these spirits are searching for their own upward progression.

Like attracts like. A tuning fork tuned to 528hz for instance when rung will begin to vibrate any other tuning fork tuned to 528hz in close proximity. Your own feelings of being stuck in your life during that time matched the vibratory charge of these spirits same feelings of being stuck. This may have created a psychic bonding or energy cord to this place and state of mind. The physical sensation that you had from the haunting of being pushed downward, not being able to get up, is possibly the moment this connection was created. Reinforcing the feeling of being stuck in the physical action and connecting deep into your subconscious creating this reoccurring dream.

A common theory of haunting spirits is that they have unfinished business and generally this business cannot be done from the spirit side. It must be done from within a physical body in the waking world. A spirit may have wanted to create this cord to grow through a shared experience of you moving upward and onward. Like watching a tutorial on how to do it. In this way the spirit can understand and experience this feeling of moving onward. Using your momentum like a barnacle on a boat to free themselves.

What does this mean for you? You have a few choices here: you can do the work of moving forward yourself and in that helping this spirit move forward, and then cut the cord. Or you can cut the cord immediately and go on your way solo. If the feeling when you woke was fear, I would suggest the later, but as it is not there is no wrong choice. It’s simply, whatever feels correct for you at this moment.

Whatever you decide I will leave you with an easy cord cutting meditation. Because this energy cord was created in the dream realm, it allows for easy removal from the dream realm. In a state of calm relaxation before bed or before a nap call forward this dream. Run through the beginning in detail to pull as much forward from it as possible, then manipulate the outcome. Become fully in charge of this dream and open the door that lets you out to the rooftop. In this, free yourself from the entrapment of the house. Imagine the house detaching from your body and sinking farther and farther away and fully out of view. Tell the house that you are cutting this energetic cord and imagine just that. Call back your power and visually cut all ties, whatever they may appear as. Go farther and float upward into the sky taking charge of your direction. Fly wherever you wish seeing whatever you most desire. Make it fun, make it pleasurable. Allow your imagination to show you joy. Allowing yourself to experience freedom. This is important to create the lasting feeling of freedom from the cut cords to ensure they are gone. When you wake, re-establish this feeling of freedom in your physical waking body.

Now the question remains; are the other girls who were haunted having a similar recurring dream?

Dream

I was dancing in a green dress and I was very happy. I was pregnant. I was wearing wedges for shoes. It was evening.  I woke up because my dogs were barking. That's all I can remember. I'm not sure my age in my dream. But I'm currently 55. So, there’s no way can I currently get pregnant.  But I find it funny I would dream of being pregnant. And I haven't been able to remember a dream in a very long time.

Interpretation

Hi Enrica, your dream, even in its shortness of length, is very significant as pregnancy itself is. This is why you remembered when you haven’t remembered a dream in a while. Your subconscious wants you to pay attention to this.

First, I would like to address this unspoken truth you have laid out in your writing that perhaps many are unaware of. Many women dream of being pregnant before they are pregnant. It’s one of the most common prophetic dreams dreamt by mothers. Expecting mothers often dream of their children while in the womb, sharing experiences with them inside the dream realm. Some children communicate with their mothers in dreams telling them who they are and even picking out their own names. So, when women have a pregnancy dream the first question is indeed, “are you pregnant?”.

Enrica, although you say you cannot be pregnant, the womb remains your portal into which life is grown and birthed into the physical. Your dream is showing you in a perfect representation that you are growing something just as significant as life itself that you will soon birth into the physical. I would ask you to treat whatever it is that you are working towards right now as important as you would bringing a baby into the world. Your life will be forever changed by this birth, but not to worry, your subconscious has shown you how incredibly happy this will make you. Dancing, twirling, and moving rhythmically, not only symbolizes joy and freedom but the movement of particles. The dance that happens on a subatomic level during creation and evolution. The dance that happens on a macro level as the earth spins on its axis moving around the sun creating day and night, morning and evening. The dance of creation itself. Your movement in the dream is your movement of your creation. The progress you’re making in whatever it is that you’re working towards. The evening being then the end of one cycle and beginning of the next.

The green dress is a beautiful suggestion of spring, new things, wealth, and health. It's also the color of the heart chakra. It is especially suggestive of the heart chakra in that it is paired with your dancing and happiness. A twirling ball of green light emanating joy. The wedges suggest new height, feminine beauty, and ease of strength as you are wearing them while dancing and pregnant.

However, what is important is what a green dress and wedges signify to you specifically. Some dream metaphors like pregnancy are known in the collective consciousness to all just as the power of the womb is known. Other metaphors that are often more detailed are given in our dream language. Our subconscious speaks to us in a language we share with only it. A personalized and unique language that's developed throughout our lives by all the definitions we have attached to our environment and understanding of our inner and outer worlds. I would suggest bringing the happy image into your mind's eye and focusing on the details feeling intuitively into the meaning. The meaning of these details may hold importance for your coming life change. Perhaps how to treat or deal with what you’re making once it is in the physical.

Whatever it may be that you’re working on, your subconscious wants you to keep close and clear the memory of the happiness that this work is bringing you. The dreams we remember vividly are often sent not only from our subconscious but something higher as a message to hold and keep inside us. This one of happiness is a gift to keep close and to bring forward in your mind when the work that you birth feels tough or challenging. A memory to go back to if you lose your focus. A feeling to embody if you lose motivation. Keep this dream like a jewel somewhere accessible in your mind so that you may wear it like jewelry whenever you like.

Spring’s Dream

So, I had a dream someone was going to fight my dad in a karate fight. Background: My dad is a 2nd degree black belt in karate, and I grew up watching kung fu films and to this day still love watching them. I was so excited for the fight, like I would be if I was waiting for the final fight in a kung fu film.  It's the only dream I can remember in a while even though I know my dreams have been off the hook recently...just couldn't remember them. I haven’t talked to my dad recently because I actually made it a point to stop talking to my dad about 3 months ago for personal reasons. Any insight?

Interpretation

This is a telephone dream. In the dream realm we have the ability to contact anyone anywhere if we so wish. To make a call all you must do is think about connecting to that person. This sends your energy to that person in the subconscious realm. This happens in waking life all the time, when we are thinking of someone and then they call, we are picking up the subconscious call moments before the physical call comes through. Dream calls are not an uncommon phenomenon and have recently gotten the attention of scientists. A startup tech company, REMspace, recently released a study confirming communication between two lucid dreamers where one dreamer had to call out to another with a message for them to bring back.

When a message comes through, it leaves a distinct and different impression on us than a normal dream. This is how you can distinguish between a dream created inside your own dream world and a message from outside. Normal dreams of your creation feel like you. They have your same energy signature. They are often hazy and hard to remember because they are part of you and your subconscious. It’s as different as your voice inside your head to someone else’s voice in the room. This is because the caller has a different energy signature and therefore stands out in your dream world. These dreams often come with fervor, vivid color, and are hyper clear. These dreams are much easier to remember for that reason.

This dream is a call from your father in the dream realm. He is most likely unaware that he sent the call into your dream realm as most of us are when we do these things. However, the message is clear that he is thinking of you and his soul reached out to share a message with you since you're not communicating in waking life at the moment.

The fight is the symbolism of the message he is sharing with you, or the conversation in visual form. Because you have this positive emotional bond through karate fights, I believe this is a feeling that he is sending to you instead of a literal fight. I can interpret from that, that there is something big coming up in his life that he is proud of and gives him the feeling of an exciting fight coming up. Perhaps he feels the strength of the fighter and the anticipation of using that strength to win. By sending this feeling he may be hoping that you would be excited with and for him. Nonetheless, he wants to share this feeling with you.

You, however, are the true interpreter because the message is encrypted in the feelings you had during the dream. That is when the sharing and downloading of this message took place. Recall the feelings you had and think about them now through the frame of a message from your father. See how that may change your understanding of what you felt. Think about what your father would be sharing in this specific feeling of a karate fight. Think about this from his perspective to best understand what he wants to convey. Now, it is up to you what you do with this message. 

When it’s challenging to communicate with someone, sending a dream call can be a soft subtle way of reaching out, because sending energy on the subconscious realm in this way can only be received if the recipient allows. Just in this way, you have remembered the dream, but you don’t have to receive the message if you choose not to. Or, you can send a message back.

Dream

I had a crazy dream that this girl I didn't know flashed a crystal bracelet in front of my face and showed me that she absorbed something from me into the crystals.  It was a threat. She kept the bracelet just in case I ever did anything wrong, she could use my energy stored in the bracelet to do something bad to me. I felt scared and like there was no way to make things right with her, which is what I'm good at with people if there's conflict between us.

Interpretation

This dream is like a pendulum swing; gathering worry on the ends that fuels the movements back and forth. This dream is about your power being taken away by worry itself. The crystal isn’t the weapon itself but instead the threat of the crystal is the weapon. In this way the crystal has no actual power until given power by you. When the crystal does become powerful is when it’s used as a syphon of your energy -not at the beginning of the dream, as it first seems- but at the end after the anxiety of the dream has fed it. This then becomes real upon waking by bringing the anxiety, or worry of that dream, into waking life.

The character of the girl in your dream could be anyone, and may even be someone whom you care for. Take a moment to think about who in your life right now you feel like you are giving energy to just by worrying about your relationship with them. However, the dream is not focused on the girl or character she is representing, but the crystal and the worry this holds over you. This is important to distinguish because it changes the message that your subconscious is trying to relay. This is indicated when we see that the girl does not actually harm you. So, the message your subconscious is giving you here is that you do not need to worry. That the worry itself is the true problem here. If you drop the worry, drop the anxiety, the power in the crystal will be useless. This is the idea your subconscious is offering with the gift of this dream.

Even our uncomfortable dreams are gifts because they are opportunities to release something that we are holding onto, that our body and subconscious deems unnecessary. We dream of these things when we are not taking the steps to let go or move on in waking life. Our subconscious then steps in by giving us the signs, symbols, and metaphors to implant into our minds in hopes we will take that first needed step towards healing.

To honor your dream and open the gift, if you will, try for a moment to imagine dropping all your worries and anxieties. Would life still go on? What would change? What would stay the same? Notice if there is any resistance. Become aware of where in your body this is coming from. Breathe into that space. Ask, why are you here? Thank this energy for what it has shown you and tell it is no longer needed. Imagine releasing this unneeded energy out of your body as you physically tap that space. Feel your body decompress as it leaves you. Allow all of this that is leaving you to dissipate, like steam dissipates into the air with its particles, becoming smaller and smaller until they cease to exist altogether. Repeat words of release and empowerment. Keep doing this all over your body where anything feels stored that doesn’t need to be there. Remembering as you do this, that everything answers to your command. Remember, you choose what energy you want to keep and what energies you want to let go of.

Dream

Dreamt I had to go back to high school to meet with a counselor to graduate. This was quite the stretch back in time being I just had my 20 year class reunion. There was this feeling I had of concern I was missing something I needed in order to graduate. As I passed by student classrooms I could sense the dread of being caught up in the competition and toxicity, it was palpable. I was happy to not give power to the looks I received when entering. The school had classrooms around the parameter of a square building and in the middle was this idyllic nature setting. It could only be accessed by above for animals. There were these landscaped small rolling hills in the middle with trees. After hearing I was in the clear from my counselor I stood on top of one of these rolling hills as I was leaving and threw these pieces of silver coin confetti in the air- in the dream I kept encouraging myself to throw them up and celebrate being done and letting go. Kinda funny dream to have just as school is starting back up. I think it had something to do with me feeling I was ok with letting go of my job if it comes to it and accepting the high school nature.

Interpretation

School dreams come in many forms yet generally from the same emotion: stress. School, for most of us, is the first place we learn what it feels like to be stressed. This creates a core memory attachment in our bodies between stress and school. ‘School’ then gets engraved in our personal dream metaphor dictionary under stressful situations. Our subconscious dream dictionary is created and engraved by emotions not places or people. When we encounter a situation that brings the same emotion forward in us is when the metaphor that is attached to that emotional trigger comes forward into our dream time. Work, Just as you mention, can trigger many of the same emotional call tags for the school dream especially if you work within a group of coworkers. The coworkers become the students who triggered the feelings of “competition and toxicity”.

In your dream you are meeting with a counselor that the gate keeper to graduation and your finishing of this stressful place. It is interesting to note here that a counselor is not involved generally in the stress that the students or teachers may bring to school but an outside neutral figure. Look into the situation that you feel this dream may be about and find that neutral helper because in your dream they are able to “clear” you to graduate. This is someone who you believe holds the necessary keys to help you see something more clearly and help you move onward. Your subconscious is asking you to find this person.

The space is important in this dream because the school is in the shape of a square positioned around “idyllic nature” that only animals can access. What this is saying is that your stress trigger (school/work) is surrounding something pure. Something that no one in that school can touch. Something that cannot be accessed. Yet something that is guarded on all sides. Give time to think deeply about what this may be that is being shown as this garden of Eden type place and also why it is incased for you by a stressful place.

The dream has a beautiful ending with you accessing this place. Perhaps not fully into the garden but you stand atop one of the rolling hills and shower silver coin confetti. Your graduation from this environment has given you access to the beginning of the gardens. Do not take this message lightly, this is a beautiful gift, where you shower this place and yourself with money.

Money often shows up in dreams as tangibly fake like your confetti in this dream and that’s because to our subconscious paper money is indeed fake. No emotion is attached to the paper itself but only in having or not having it. So, often the metaphor for money in dreams comes out as a plaything. The key here is that you used the words “silver coin” to describe the confetti. Our subconscious often speaks through us without our knowledge, sneaking information to anyone willing to decipher. Next time you write down a dream try rereading it, highlighting any words that stand out and see what information your subconscious is leaking to you.

Dream

About a month ago I had a dream that I was working at a restaurant behind the bar and my recent ex boyfriend walks in. We start talking and he asks how long I’ve been here and I told him, I moved here and live here now. He got upset and walked out. I was trying to run after him and there were large scorpions everywhere keeping me from him but I wasn’t nervous. This was right before the full moon and the whole weekend I was extremely emotional.Then I had a dream recently after, that My ex and I were hooking back up and then he said I can’t do this. He left his hat behind and I tried to bring it to him down at his fishing hole and he text me and said, watch out there are snakes everywhere. In these two dreams the scene was like dark lighting, like it was always evening. I also wasn’t afraid of the snakes in this dream but was sad about my ex. Just two nights ago, I was dreaming that I was carrying a printer and then two snakes came out of it but this time my ex wasn’t involved. Again not scared of the snakes and I was at my moms in a brighter setting. In the past week I’ve had reoccurring dreams involving previous ex boyfriends and one ex husband but they felt happier.

Interpretation

The evolution of these dreams together is a fascinating tale of growth and healing. If you were scared of these scorpions or snakes this would have been a very different reading so thank you for including that because it is a more important aspect than you might have thought.

The meaning of them without fear attacked is one of helping and healing and let me tell you why. In the first dream you could not go after your ex because of the scorpions. Scorpions by nature are poisonous and in this situation they are guarding you from him and warning you of the risk of getting a poisonous sting if you do follow him. This sounds to me like your subconscious wanting you to not go after him warning that something about the relationship is poisonous. In this way the scorpion is a protector keeping both of you away from each other. Not being afraid of these scorpions is you understanding the metaphor your subconscious has laid out for you and respecting the message in your dream. You do not tempt the scorpions by trying to follow him.

A full moon is the culmination of what you have been working towards during the growth of the new moon into the full. It’s like the blooming of a flower that has been growing. During the full moon you can enjoy the beauty of the bloom your grew or realize that you were growing a weed and have to deal with it. Becoming emotionally charged after this dream with the full moon is telling me that your situation with your ex has been on your mind and heart for a while and growing. Perhaps you not knowing how to deal with the situation and not knowing what feels like the right path to take. Your subconscious/your higher self has come into your dreams to help show you and guide you. Having this dream of the warning of the scorpion is the culmination of everything growing into what perhaps you may have already known about this relationship. Becoming emotionally charged after this is your body trying to release the emotions and grow and move onward while something inside you holds tightly onto the relationship creating this bursting of emotional charge instead of an easy flow. The full moon is pushing this emotional charge forward and trying to help you release it.

The darkness in both of these dreams is symbolic for the end of the era, the end of a cycle, like the end of the day. As well it is like seeing these things inside a cave. A place that is surrounded with darkness but also a safe place. Or a womb. A safe place to explore and acknowledge the warnings in your dreams of this relationship.

Now lets get to the fun part. The healing part. Snakes, when they are not seen as frightening creatures, are ancient healers from the Greek Asclepios Dream Healing temples. Asclepios was a Greek figure some refer to as a god or demi god that had a staff with a snake wrapped around it. The snakes were a non-venomous breed of snake that was said to have whispered in Asclepios’ ear the secret knowledge of mind, body, soul, healing. The Asclepian snakes come in dreams to heal as they are the symbol for the original “dream healing” of ancient Greece. Today there are still ruins of Asclepian temples in Greece that can be visited where people would come for mind body or soul/heart healing. The “unwell” would go into the temples that lay below the surface like caves where they would ask for dream healing and sleep for days until they received a message of how to heal themselves.

Snakes in modern day are often mis interpreted as demonic or sexual symbols but more often than not they are there for healing or a dual meaning of the kundalini. For your dream they read to me like healers and protectors. Its also interesting that your dreams were all sort of dark. Thinking about the ancient healing temples being in caves, this furthers my feeling that they are healing snakes.

Now lets talk about the next dream. Going to the river- a cleansing place, a place that is providing sustenance in the form of water and food (fish) being surrounded by snakes so you cannot go give him his hat. All this is a perfectly wrapped visual symbology for how you are viewing your old relationship with your ex and what your higher self truly wants you to do in this situation. The dream is saying that you are viewing your ex as someone you gives you sustenance and life but the dream is warning you to not go there, that something is off, there are snakes “everywhere”. There is something there that is commonly seen as a sign to stay away. You do stay away but you are not afraid this these snakes use their common misinterpretation of evil to keep you from what you are thinking is good for you to show you in the next dream that it is not what serves you best. The snakes therefore are like shamans for you, guides, to keep you away. Helpers there using their own misinterpretation to their advantage to help you heal.

The third dream is really what brings all these dreams together and what explains and really exemplifies the helping nature of these creatures. You are happier in this dream and holding a printer that prints two snakes. The printer is a direct symbol for creating. Bringing something into the 3rd dimension from nothing. The snakes come out that you are not afraid of and show you in this manner that you can create healing for yourself. Two snakes, I feel intuitively that one is for you and one for your ex because you both must heal from the ending of your relationship together. In this dream you also go through the memories of many ex’s and in this way you are wrapping up, healing, downloading the information from, and learning from your most recent relationship and filing this very important knowledge and learning information into your akashic records. Seeing the other ex’s is like opening your book of love in this life and seeing the photographs from your path thus far, then filing this new ex into it. Remembering as you go the lessons you have learned and feeling happy about how far you have come in your learning and growth.

This is a beautiful dream and a culmination of where you are today. Be happy with this memory and read the words on the silver lining of the end of your relationship because that is what your higher self/ subconscious is trying to tell you. Stay away, heed the warnings, grow, create a new life for yourself just as you wish it to be. Like printing what you have created on a computer just to your specifications.

I would go on to suggest looking into the snakes of Asclepius and their healing powers in dreams. Perhaps you are a healer yourself who can use them in your dreams from now on. When I begin remembering who I was and my connection to the dream realm I started seeing snakes everywhere. I also decided intuitively on the term “dream healing” for the way I work with clients but at the time I thought I was creating this new term. It wasn’t until two years later that the information presented itself to me of the ancient Grecian dream healing temples and Asclepios and his snakes. So what I am saying is that maybe you are being given an opportunity to learn how to heal yourself in your dream realm and the snakes are your sign to do so.