Craig
Jedi Master
Just wanted to post a strange dream I had last night, which I assume was maybe the "result" of reading Carl Jung's "Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious" - the chapter on Rebirth. But there were some quite odd elements to it that I never came across specifically in my reading and which don't make much sense.
I was in the kitchen at home and the first thing I noticed was a little black pig trotting around the place and jumping up onto the work surfaces. The particular thing about it was that it was very small; I could have easily fit it on one hand. I was getting a little huffy about it being there, so I opened the doors and kept trying to shoo it out. Eventually it ran out in a hurry to its mother who was lying down up on the patio area. She was about normal size, and just as the little pig reached her, she got up and trotted down the side of the house and out of sight. Her young followed her a few seconds later, but I was anxious for it because I had an inkling that if it didn't hurry, the mother would instinctively reject it. It reappeared again, and I made a sort of hissing sound to scare it off back to the mother - which it did.
The next thing I noticed was a ladybird on the ground below me.
As I looked up, two other animals had appeared on the patio area. This time, two brown cows (tiny again), one mounting the other, and both of them staring at me with wide eyes.
I closed the doors, and sat down on the kitchen floor. In front of me was a black sock with something spherical inside and it was moving around of its own accord. I grabbed it, and pulled out an orange; the skin was just beginning to decompose but it was still edible. I had the impression that the orange was "female" and recall it having a name: "ruthless". I put the orange back in, and it started to roll around in the sock again.
I think at this point, I was startled awake by some sort of loud banging sound outside (it was around 10.30am) and just as the bright sunlight "hit me" from the window (because my eyes hadn't yet adjusted) I exclaimed in my mind that this act of being awoken, or startled awake, confirmed that "rebirth" was very real. It made complete sense to me at the time, and seemed quite profound, but in retrospect, it just seems ridiculously over-the-top. I also have the impression that there was something to this that I cannot grasp with my conscious mind.
Any comments/impressions?
I was in the kitchen at home and the first thing I noticed was a little black pig trotting around the place and jumping up onto the work surfaces. The particular thing about it was that it was very small; I could have easily fit it on one hand. I was getting a little huffy about it being there, so I opened the doors and kept trying to shoo it out. Eventually it ran out in a hurry to its mother who was lying down up on the patio area. She was about normal size, and just as the little pig reached her, she got up and trotted down the side of the house and out of sight. Her young followed her a few seconds later, but I was anxious for it because I had an inkling that if it didn't hurry, the mother would instinctively reject it. It reappeared again, and I made a sort of hissing sound to scare it off back to the mother - which it did.
The next thing I noticed was a ladybird on the ground below me.
As I looked up, two other animals had appeared on the patio area. This time, two brown cows (tiny again), one mounting the other, and both of them staring at me with wide eyes.
I closed the doors, and sat down on the kitchen floor. In front of me was a black sock with something spherical inside and it was moving around of its own accord. I grabbed it, and pulled out an orange; the skin was just beginning to decompose but it was still edible. I had the impression that the orange was "female" and recall it having a name: "ruthless". I put the orange back in, and it started to roll around in the sock again.
I think at this point, I was startled awake by some sort of loud banging sound outside (it was around 10.30am) and just as the bright sunlight "hit me" from the window (because my eyes hadn't yet adjusted) I exclaimed in my mind that this act of being awoken, or startled awake, confirmed that "rebirth" was very real. It made complete sense to me at the time, and seemed quite profound, but in retrospect, it just seems ridiculously over-the-top. I also have the impression that there was something to this that I cannot grasp with my conscious mind.
Any comments/impressions?