Flowers in my veins?

**Aliveness1** · 09-15-2010 02:57 PM

Hi there...new to the site, had to join just to hopefully get some perspective on this dream. I dreamed that I was outside and decided to go for a run. I was going to try to run very slowly up a wooded trail. I ran for a short time, and suddenly had a cut. I'm not sure if I fell in my dream, or how the cut got there. The cut was initially on my finger, and I decided to pinch it to try to get the dirt out. Instead of dirt, though, a white stringy substance started to come out. After that, purple flowers started to come out. I'm not sure what kind they were, but they had long green stems that were almost like chives, very straight and no leaves. The flowers at the top were very small bunches and almost looked like forget-me-nots. I was surprised and nervous it was happening, but not upset. It was almost like it was a good thing. I called over to my mom to look and she started crying, but crying because she was happy about it. She made it seem it was something spiritual, meaning God was with me or something, which is strange because I'm not a very religious person. She wanted to call a doctor and called a doctor I used to see years ago. I can't remember what the doctor said about my "condition". Then, right at the very end (this is where it gets REALLY weird), my mom said "I never want you to get off birth control!". And then it was over. For whatever reason, my mom associated me bleeding purple flowers with my birth control.

Ok...so if someone could help me decipher this one I'd be ever so grateful!

**daeryk** · 09-15-2010 04:02 PM

The dream is a message that is talking about powerlessness to do what you want.

Your mother is a symbol for your intuition, or your internal guidance. She is your ability to make choices based on how they feel, as well as your feelings about how lucky you feel about getting what you want in life.

Giving birth in a dream represents creating new ideas, new thoughts, and new developments in life. The birth control then represents negative thoughts or bad habits you have that stifle your ability to create what you want in life. You mother telling you she never wants to you to get off the birth control represents your choices and intuition telling you to never want to do anything. Just just stay the way you are, and never change.

The purple color of the flowers represents neutrality of developments that are blossiming, or being actualized. Blue is positive, and red is negative. Purple is a mix which represents neutrality. So the purple flowers being associated with the birth control represents developments that are neutral, uncaring, or simply powerless to do anything positive. They represent nothing happening for you.

I'd take the dream as a message to begin to deal with negative thoughts in your life. Stand up to fear whenever you feel it, resist desire for attractive people and things you want but don't believe you can ever have, and to respect and understand all people even if you don't like them. And try your hardest to forgive people and mean it.

**Aliveness1** · 09-15-2010 05:07 PM

Wow...that actually makes a lot of sense given my current circumstances! I do believe that a lot if it is powerlessness to do what I want, but I also feel powerless due to not knowing what I want. Thank you so much for your interpretation. I really admire how insightful people can be when looking at these things, and am so glad I found this site!

**Burned up** · 09-16-2010 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by Aliveness1

Hi there...new to the site, had to join just to hopefully get some perspective on this dream. I dreamed that I was outside and decided to go for a run. I was going to try to run very slowly up a wooded trail. I ran for a short time, and suddenly had a cut. I'm not sure if I fell in my dream, or how the cut got there. The cut was initially on my finger, and I decided to pinch it to try to get the dirt out. Instead of dirt, though, a white stringy substance started to come out. After that, purple flowers started to come out. I'm not sure what kind they were, but they had long green stems that were almost like chives, very straight and no leaves. The flowers at the top were very small bunches and almost looked like forget-me-nots. I was surprised and nervous it was happening, but not upset. It was almost like it was a good thing. I called over to my mom to look and she started crying, but crying because she was happy about it. She made it seem it was something spiritual, meaning God was with me or something, which is strange because I'm not a very religious person. She wanted to call a doctor and called a doctor I used to see years ago. I can't remember what the doctor said about my "condition". Then, right at the very end (this is where it gets REALLY weird), my mom said "I never want you to get off birth control!". And then it was over. For whatever reason, my mom associated me bleeding purple flowers with my birth control.

Ok...so if someone could help me decipher this one I'd be ever so grateful!

Well interestingly I had almost the same dream a few years ago - and it felt significant at the time, as yours has. Like yours, I was pulling a thread and it became flowers. My dream had one significant difference - the flowers came out of my nipple (and I'm a guy) and there was no mother. It was a time of life when I was indeed discoving a more nurturing side. Anyway, back to your dream:

The birth metaphor comes across strongly. The thread is like the umbilical cord and the blood is fairly self-explanatory. I'm pleased you wrote your feelings down, as these too sound like "what a wonderful baby".

Your mother probably represents your moral values etc - or guidance as daeryk says - and I would also agree with daeryk that the birth is symbolic and represents a "new you". By inference, birth control inhibits "new you" in a dream. There is a kind of circularity to the dream which gets confusing, though, given your mother's comment at the end. This is confusing for interpretation because on the one hand you are giving birth to a new you, on the other hand the new you is associated with birth control, and hence the new you is one where there can't be a new you!

The critical point seems to be the juxtaposition of the flowers and the mother. Your internalised parental figure and the potential for a new part of your life to blossom don't sit comfortably together and the dream (i.e. you) is confused about this. It may be you need to jettison some of the values you instinctively live by in order to move to the next phase of life. Or maybe you will choose to stay where you are, in the comfort of maternal approval. I don't think the dream is giving you any answers, but it is showing you where the problem lies.

I wonder if you have a positive but nervous feeling that life is about to "blossom" in real life?

**Aliveness1** · 09-17-2010 03:22 PM

Interesting points, Burned up, thank you! I think you're both right that I am on the verge of some new beginnings. I'm 27 and in a relationship that's at the point where we either need to move forward or cut ties. I think I'm inhibiting my growth because I'm really scared to let go of this relationship, but I also feel pretty positive about the possibility of new beginnings and a single life.
Thank you both again for the insight...like you said Burned up I'm still not sure what to do but at least I have a better idea of what I'm really struggling with.