Date of dream: Friday, November 28, 2008
Level of Lucidity:
N/A
Level of Cohesiveness: 
Rating:
Lucid Intent?
No
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It is daytime and I find myself outdoors on a grassy mountain top, the lay of the land here is
full of dips, bumps and slopes and looks just like a mountain bicycle course.
I see my Mother over the way speaking with an aunt from my Dad’s side of the family, the aunt is
telling my Mum that her uncle Gordon (no such uncle exists in reality, the name must be meaningful
in some way I feel) has recently passed away. My Mum doesn’t seem at all compassionate to my
aunt’s plight in fact she seems quite angry and cross and I sense a great deal of family tension
and bitterness.
For my part I am casually and gently riding a mountain bicycle around the mountain top, I have
just returned from an epic mountain bicycle marathon from which I emerged victorious, the winner
and champion of the long drawn out competition.
As I contentedly freewheel leisurely around the natural rugged terrain I sense very much that my
Mum and other family members very strongly want for me to do another marathon as they think that
this will somehow help to resolve all of their family problems.
This is something I cannot do though as the previous marathon has brought me to a state of
complete and utter exhaustion and I have no more energy to do it all over again, besides I don’t
feel the need to enter into such another competition again as I proved myself and have achieved
all that there is to achieve.
Additional Comments:
Thoughts: This is probably another slight anxiety dream about visiting family in the coming days but which perhaps also shows how I’m learning to rise above and move on from the petty squabbles and family divisions and concentrate on my own life.
Dream 2: NO coins – Daytime at work in the canteen and a portly work colleague comes over to me and asks me if I can change one coin of value 10 into two for him. I dip my hand into my pocket and take out two coins one of which is a perfect circle and the other a square with slightly rounded corners, the way the square coin sit to the left of the circular coin in the palm of my hand symbolically and abstractly look like the word ‘NO’. I realize the meaning of the coins and tell my colleague “No” and that I cannot change the coin for him, my reason for saying this is that I know that he wants the coins to use them to purchase unhealthy junk food snacks from the vending machine.
Date of dream: Thursday, November 06, 2008
Level of Lucidity:
N/A
Level of Cohesiveness:
Rating:
Lucid Intent?
No
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Daytime and I find myself over at my Mum’s house sat on the sofa in the sitting room, my Mum and
stepfather appear to be out doing the shopping so I sit and wait for them to return.
The sitting room has the cosy sort of feel of a doctor’s surgery and I do feel as though I am
waiting but not for an appointment for myself as such but as though I am waiting for another part
of myself somehow or another me (if that makes any sense at all).
Whilst I wait I pick up one of my step Dad’s walking and rock climbing magazines to read and flick
through the pages leisurely as if passing the time.
I come to a section in the magazine which is some kind of review or advertisement for special rock
climbing boots with crampons fitted onto them, the evaluation of the various pairs of boots starts
of at one end of the scale with the most reasonably priced and then they become progressively more
expensive.
The crampons on the less expensive boots appear to be made from toughened grey plastic and look as
though they could cope with conditions where the snow is quite hard with a crust, the boots in the
review then become progressively more hardy and able to cope with tougher and tougher conditions.
I look to the last and ultimate pair of boots in the review and see that they cost 399.99* the
crampons on the boots are made from pure titanium and resemble the toothed fang like claws of an
ice pick or ice axe, I read the review interestedly and see that these crampons are so strong and
sharp that they can penetrate and cut through the hardest of rock like a knife through butter, one
could literally stride up a near vertical mountainside in a horizontal position without any ropes
such is their ability to bite into the rock.
I have a sudden moment of clarity (this wasn’t lucidity as such but a moment of profound awareness
and realisation), I suddenly comprehend that the crampons are analogous to teeth and in turn I
suddenly understand what the symbol of teeth represents in dreams (or my dreams at least). If the
most expensive 399.99 crampons were teeth then they would be the most healthy and strong teeth
imaginable, able to chew and bite through anything.
I hear the front door open and my Mum and step Dad come in happily with their hands full of bags of
shopping, my stepfather puts his bags down in the hallway and comes over to sit down beside me. He
shows me his own hiking boots and I see that they look like the least expensive pair in the
magazine review with a light grey rubberised upper with further flashes of orange rubbery
waterproof material embellishing the boot.
My stepfather turns his boot upside down and I see the grey plasticky crampons fixed to the soles,
my step Dad demonstrates that the crampons on his boots are retractable allowing them to be used as
regular cross-country walking boots or as a more rugged boot capable of coping with the harsher
conditions one might confront at the base of a mountain.
My stepfather’s boots are very good and do what they are meant to do perfectly well but one would
not be able to venture any higher than the base of a mountain with them.
Additional Comments:
Thoughts: *This figure although expensive in waking life seemed to have great value from within the dream, if four represents wholeness then the figure of 399.99 might represent the penultimate step (no pun intended but that phrase kind of makes sense in light of the dream being about boots) before reaching a new and much higher level of wholeness as represented by the number 400.
