Sampson's Dream Journal

Gold under the ice.

Date of dream: Friday, February 27, 2009

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I am stood with my father-in-law and his brother-in-law in a street lined with Christmas market stalls.

We look across the road to a stall which shelters a large table top diorama of a nativity scene.

The religious model serves as a frontispiece and a reception desk to a concealed informal church at the rear of the cabin.

The area surrounding the manger has been covered with white cake icing so as to give the effect of snow.

My father-in-law walks over to the diorama and with his hand breaks through the crust of white icing to where a thick layer of golden marzipan lies beneath.

He returns back across the road with a large chunk of marzipan for himself his brother-in-law and me.

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Thoughts: For me my father-in-law is the archetypal no-nonsense male, this is the first time I have ever dreamt of him at least as having such a central role. This dream was loaded with great power and authority, the act of breaking through the ice to get to the gold marzipan seemed obviously symbolic but the fact that the ice and gold were also edible nourishing foodstuffs seemed to double the power of the symbols (incidentally I always preferred the marzipan to the icing on a Christmas cake!). The act of going over to the nativity and taking the marzipan also felt like a very brave thing to do for me but to my father-in-law it was a mere formality. The peculiar edible nativity display reminded me a little of the witch’s house in the fairy story of Hansel & Gretel, the dream drama may represent some kind of overcoming of the negative feminine by the adult male. The church which I never actually saw but sensed was there mysteriously behind a curtained doorway may also have links to religion and my father-in-law.

Dream 1: Leaving on Nan’s birthday – Joyful preparations are being made for my Nan’s birthday party. I will be moving out from my grandmother’s house on her birthday to live with my manager from work. My moving out doesn’t detract anything from the festivities and is a comparably pleasing occasion like the birthday celebration.

Dream 3: Laundry detergent – Night time in a warehouse overlooking a docklands. My wife has ordered many boxes of laundry detergent. I create space in the storeroom by stacking the boxes. I want to ask my wife why she bought so much of the clothes detergent.

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Leaving with the light.

Date of dream: Thursday, February 26, 2009

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Lucid Intent? No

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It is night time and I drive through dark remote forested countryside, my wife and brother-in-law are passengers in the rear of the car.

My car dies on me so I coast into a service station. I open the bonnet and see that the radiator coolant cap has been forced off by the pressure of the steam in the overheated and empty radiator.

There are numinous objects in the night sky one of which flutters down right beside me. The small strange object consists of a row of four two-dimensional white squares.

I am unafraid and want the UFO to take me away but my wife and brother-in-law are distraught and cry out to me not to touch the light and to get back into the car.

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Thoughts: The dreams from this night almost certainly represent a psychological change or transformation I have very recently gone through, literally reaching out to touch the UFO’s indicates my desire and intention to get in touch with something that has been previously alien to me. That something is a kind of mature assertiveness and also my new found courage to say “No” when I want to in waking life rather than trying to please others even if that is against my own wishes, this may sound simple and insignificant but to me it is a very powerful discovery and the wonder of feeling empowered in such a way is perfectly mirrored in seeing the numinous UFO’s. The two squares at the end of the row of four were slightly more transparent than the two central ones which to me suggest that my understanding or enlightenment is somehow not yet complete this is possibly backed up in the warning from my wife and brother-in-law not to touch the light. The reasons for this incompleteness may be linked to the overheated radiator this symbol may suggest that emotions (the coolant or water) still need to play a part in my life if I am to create a sense of balanced compassionate assertiveness and not just hot air.

Dream 1: Numinous lights – It is night time and I travel as a passenger in a car being driven by my wife through unlit countryside. We suddenly see the bright colourful lights of a saucer shaped UFO in the sky. Then the heavens are suddenly filled with an abundance of identical UFO’s. To me the sight is beautiful and numinous but to everyone else the UFO’s represent a bad omen and they panic, everyone believes the UFO’s have come to take them away.

Dream 3: Trumpet blast – At my desk at work I watch as a fine mist descends outdoors and permeates the building. A terrifyingly loud and foreboding trumpet blast sounds out all over the country. A female work colleague to my left mourns with terrible sorrow.

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Numinous
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Hex and the City.

Date of dream: Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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A blind date has been arranged for me with the character Miranda Hobbes from the television series ‘Sex and the City’.

As we walk to a bar I see my reflection and notice that I have large womanly hips and thighs.

We sit at a table in a bar there is an awkward silence between us.

I see that Miranda is wearing a watch much like my own she tells me that her brother gave it to her. I look to my wrist to compare my watch to hers and see that I am wearing two similar watches.

I break the ice by asking her “what are you doing this weekend?” Miranda thinks I’m jumping the gun and assumes I am enquiring if she is available, but my question was genuine and I was just curious to know what she would be doing.

When she realises my question was honest she tells me that a female friend has invited her to pick and taste cloves of garlic at a vineyard where the bulbs are exclusively grown.

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Thoughts: The character of Miranda Hobbes almost certainly represents a meeting with what might be the current incarnation of my archetypal Anima or previously denied Anima as suggested by the blind date. Whilst reflecting on the dream on waking it came to me that each of the females in the television show for me represents a direction or orientation such as North being Miranda Hobbes the voice of reason, slightly masculine herself but also verging on being a misandrist which in a peculiar way mirrors my own feelings about men particularly childhood feelings. The South represented by Samantha Jones symbolizes the physically uninhibited, independent, instinctual this aspect of the anima is the one I tend to deny, the East being Carrie Bradshaw who is the narrator, a philosopher with the drama being structured around her centre of thought I guess this could be seen as being the Ego self and finally the West in the form of Charlotte York who is conservative, emotional and romantic. The perfect anima in this context would lie at the center of the cardinal points I guess or at the center of the cross ‘+’. I’ve been thinking a great deal about a the connection between the Anima and ones Shadow, seeing as the Shadow is often the same gender as the dreamer the drama near the end of my dream would suggest resistance or fearfulness, the archetypal vampire would be Dracula and the garlic from the strange vineyard would be used to keep him at bay, this symbolism may refer to previous dreams of vampires and shadows. Compare this drama to Dream 3 where another positive manifestation of my Shadow made him Self present.

Dream 1: Green card – In an American waiting room I watch as a vertically challenged Mexican man is chased about the room by officials, the little man who has an elongated head is an illegal alien and is forcibly taken away. I ask an American lady sat to my right “What if a highly qualified Mexican scientist wanted to work in America, surely he would be offered employment?” The lady explains “Mexico needs scientists so its unlikely one would seek employment in the United States” I ponder what she says and realise that her logic makes sense.

Dream 2: Wheelbarrow – My aunt and her ex-girlfriend are gardening at the rear of my teenage home. I take charge of the situation and use a wheelbarrow as I work.

Dream 3: Italian dragon – Way off in the distance on the motorway I take to work I see a stationary brown car whose front end has been crumpled in an accident. Fortunately the authorities tow the car away before I reach that point in the highway resulting in a clear road ahead for me. I drive behind a classic yellow and white Lamborghini Miura which has an Italian flag fluttering from the front right passenger window. In the rear window at the bottom right I see a flag of Wales. I see that the driver sat in the front left seat is a black man.

Dream 4: The resonant frequency of water – In the canteen at work I boil water in a whistling kettle with the intention of finding the resonant frequency of water. When this doesn’t work I look for an egg to place inside the kettle. Realising that it wouldn’t be right of me to take the eggs which don’t belong to me from the worktop I decide to make myself a cup of coffee instead.

Dream 5: “Merry Xmas Everybody” – The music group Marillion have reformed with their old lead singer Fish. I watch as they perform with great gusto a cover of Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody” just for me.

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