Date of dream: Sunday, January 24, 2010
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I was at Nick's house and we were supposed to be leaving for Scotland the next day. Nick's mum wanted to have a bbq and we needed to pack our suitcases but I really wanted to go to an art class with Nick. We were trying to convince Nick's parents we'd have time to do it all and eventually the agreed to drive us over.
Once we got to the college the class was at, the art class morphed into a swimming lesson and Nick wasn't there anymore. In the swimming lesson, people in the class were large sea animals when they were in the water and there were young children in the swimming pool. I became a shark in the water. The swimming lesson was about saving the children from drowning. A child near me started to drown and after a moment of hesitation, because I wasn't quite sure what to do, I dove down to save the child and lifted it up to the surface on my snout.
The class teacher started to shout at me, saying that I should have alerted others the child needed saving, not tried to save it myself. In the exercise sharks were not supposed to save the children. He suggested that I had caused to child to drown myself and had wanted to harm it. He told me to get out the class and not to come back again.
I felt humiliated and upset that I'd been expelled from the class and I was feeling hurt and empathy for myself because I knew that it was a risk and a brave thing for me to go to the class because of my social anxiety. I felt afraid and embarrassed that others would be disappointed for me when I told them it hadn't gone well.
I walked through another swimming room to get to the changing rooms and there were physically disabled people in the class. I remember thinking the people in the class seemed much more peaceful and accepting and feeling a positive energy from them.
I went into the changing room and it was dark in there as though it was outside in the night-time (although it was indoors). No one else was there and there were owls flying in the room swooping at me. I started to get undressed and an owl flew at my face trying to attack me. I lit some kind of flare because my intuition told me the owls were afraid of light and then I went over to the light switch and turned the light on.
The rest of the swimming class came into the changing room and started getting dressed too. I saw that two girls next to me were doing a physics assignment. I became afraid I'd been supposed to do the assignment too so I asked them if I could see what the exercise was. I copied it down quickly and started trying to do the assignment.
One of the girls looked over with a look of horror on her face and said I was doing it completely wrong. My 'graph' was inverted and my logic was wrong. The teacher came over and looked shocked that my 'logic could be so inverted'. I started to cry and shouted that I was doing my best and that it wasn't easy as I had been depressed and socially phobic until recently. The teacher looked worried she'd upset me so much and said I probably shouldn't have come to the class at all if I had those issues. I cried and left the room and went looking for a dr/therapist upstairs in a building that was a little like my old school.
Nick rang me on my mobile and asked me were I was and said I had to come quickly because his dad had come to pick us up and was waiting in the parking lot. I tried to explain I needed to see a dr but Nick said I couldn't do that because his dad was waiting. I felt upset and said I'd be there soon.
Then real life Nick came into the room to wake me up (I thought he was dream-nick and said 'yes, yes, I just called you to say I was coming!' and then I woke up.
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*attacking owls are a recurring theme at the moment
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Date of dream: Tuesday, October 06, 2009
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Me and Nick were playing Irish music in public, in front of a cafe. A middle-aged man who looked like Anthony Head and who I felt I knew on a spiritual level somehow was sitting some way away at the next cafe talking to friends.
Nick was showing me how to play the mandola, or rather, he was showing me I could play it, intuitively. I was playing the mandola and at first making quite a lot of mistakes but I was surprised that I was playing as well as I was seeing as I hadn't learnt before.
Then, at one point, Nick showed me this tune which was very beautiful, delicate and lilting. He showed me sheet music for it but instead of the notes there was an illustration of a curvaceous and graceful woman's body which communicated the song to me. Playing it felt like a celebration of me and of sacredness (I think I resonated with the picture of the woman on the sheet music) and felt amazing and I never wanted to stop. The man at the next cafe looked at me and it seemed he felt he knew me too.
When we finished playing the tune, I felt quite elated. I stopped at a table to put my mandola away and as I did, I noticed some light scratches on the mandola's surface and wondered where they had come from.
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Date of dream: Sunday, June 14, 2009
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watersnakes by klimt
This dream is hazy but feels important so writing it up.
I was meeting a friend for the first time - mermaiden/sarah. Nick was there and possibly another friend but I'm not sure who. On the first night we all had a meal - My family were a large group of street performers/petty thieves/'rogues'. Some were biologically related to me and some were friends I considered part of my family, I felt a lot of connection to these people, and we lived in a converted church, the living room was full of stained glass and had a huge cross in it. On the last day, we went walking up in some hills and mermaiden was talking about doing some sort of strengthening ritual and I was suddenly concerned and I asked if I would be able to participate in that since a certain spirit part that might be needed was inaccessible for me. Mermaiden asked me questions about that and as I started explaining I fell to the ground paralysed and exhausted ('shut down')
I'm not sure what happened next. I felt myself being carried up the hill. Talking about the part seemed to awaken/make accessible the part. I became aware of my childhood friend Geraldine (who was a child in the dream). She seemed to understand my confusion about the part and told me, seeming surprised I didn't remember, that the part's name was 'Melusine' ('it's melusine', don't you remember?!) Suddenly, a wave of understanding and recognition came over me. I recognized Melusine emotionally. I kept repeating the name over and over to remember it.
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Melusine (or Melusina) is a figure of European legends and folklore, a feminine spirit of fresh waters in sacred springs and rivers.
She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down (much like a mermaid). She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, two tails or both, and sometimes referred to as a nixie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melusine
I didn't know anything about the name Melusine before having this dream other than hearing the name at primary school in belgium. After reading the wikipedia article, I find it really interesting that mermaiden was in my dream and that melusine is sometimes seen as a mermaid with two tails!
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Melusine is one of the pre-Christian water-faeries who were sometimes responsible for changelings. The "Lady of the Lake", who spirited away the infant Lancelot and raised the child, was such a water nymph.
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The Lady of the Lake is the name of several related characters who play parts in the Arthurian legend. These characters' roles include giving King Arthur his sword Excalibur, enchanting Merlin, and raising Lancelot after the death of his father. Different writers and copyists give her name variously as Nimue, Viviane, Elaine, Niniane, Nivian, Nyneve, Nimueh and other variations. [1] The Lady of the Lake's guise as a water fay also makes her somewhat similar to Melusine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_the_Lake
I'm interested in the fact Melusine is linked with Nimueh of the lake, because when I was twelve, for some reason that's a name I picked for on forums online - so there seems to be another link to me in that.
edited to add: A week or so after this my mum painted a picture for me as a gift based on one of the women in Klimt's watersnakes which I used to illustrate this dream!
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