Recurring dream themes: interpreters, have fun! LP

[MadamAurantia]

And I think these are important somehow. Any interpreters? 1. Accidental animal breeding: In these dreams, I have a pet of some kind that I have forgotten about for months on end. It's usually a caged animal, like a fish or rodent. I find them again, but instead of dying they have bred like crazy and I now find myself responsible for hundreds of mice or goldfish. I start trying to sort them out, but they breed too quickly. It's odd, because I love these kinds of animals and I'm usually happy to find them not only alive but multiplying. It's like an overabundance of blessings that I can't take care of all at once. 2. Strange homes: I never dream about any place where I am currently living. If I find myself at home, I immediately know what's going on and initiate not only a lucid but usually an OBE. I used to dream entirely about new houses, with layouts and decor that I had never seen before. As I lived in more places, I started dreaming about places I lived in the past. My childhood home has started appearing in the last few years, only after I and my family had been moved out for some time. But the strange building is always recognized as "home," or in one case as the home of someone I know though once again I've never seen this house IRL. I remember houses more than the dreams themselves. Occasionally, IRL I'll visit a house and recognize it from one of my past dreams. Eeeky. Recently, my grandparents' house has been showing up as mine. Odd, the place was sold years ago. 3. Tornadoes: I live in the midwest. If I'm stressed, I'll dream about twisters. 4. Magical underground 1: This is usually accessed from the complicated basement that my grandparents had. It had all sorts of nooks and crannies, and I never did get to explore the whole thing. There's usually a tattered cloth hanging from the ceiling, and when I push it aside I find a smallish tunnel that leads into a fantastical cave system underworld. It seems kind of scary, like Hades or something, but always safe and welcoming. 5. Magical underground 2: Usually through a business or store, I go to a basement that always has a sky outside (different colors as I go down, and more desert-y) and another basement. 6. Haunted television: I'm watching TV, and suddenly it becomes possessed by a demon. The movie changes to something wrong, and I turn it off, but it goes all static and a scary face appears. I run away, out of the house, to find the owner of said scary face blocking me. Any thoughts?

[Facepaintingfun]

Accidental Animal Breeding: In this one, it sounds like something that may be a focus of yours during your waking life. Something you love. The caged animal part makes it sound like something you have to keep locked up maybe. But you forget about it and when you come back to it again, it hasn't died and in fact has grown stronger, and you can't handle it... it's too much. Is there anything, feeling or situation in your waking life that would be similar to that?

[MadamAurantia]

Maternal drive, perhaps? I've been feeling the biological clock ticking for quite some time now, and these particular themes didn't start until I was an adult with a lover. I haven't had this one for a time now, but I've also been letting the estrogen out: making baby blankets for loved ones with spawn, spoiling Hubby's godchildren, etc. Grandparents' house has been showing up again, though now both grandparents are in it. It seems to be just a safe setting for generalized fun. My own home was never safe emotionally, and theirs was both a safe place and creepy enough to be mysterious. They kept weird things hidden around: a Nintendo under the guest bed, a beautician's salon (for one: Grandma was a retired stylist) in that dank basement... Also in the basement, behind a nasty-looking door, was a fully clean and decorated bathroom. Granddad dug it out and built it himself. The place was full of nooks and crannies full of funky knick-knacks: for a while, there was a paperweight with a dead scorpion in it: awesome! And there was the requisite Devil Cat: Boots. She hated everyone who wasn't Granddad. Outside there was a small garden full of tomatoes every year, and a climbing tree, and a garage with Granddad's greasy grimy workshop. I do miss that place...

[underhiswing]

1. Your procrastination of responsibilities creates a feeling of multiplied/magnified problems/issues. 2. When you dream of different houses they should be representing time markers for you to fully understand your whole dream. For example, when you dream of your grandparents house, it isn’t important that the house is no longer in the family, what is important is how does that era/your age then/ or your grandparents (who can simply represent wisdom) fit into the current dream. 3. Tornados and storms symbolically represent life’s storms, just like you said…you when you are stressed you see them. 4 &5. This underground could represent your deep thoughts, or it can represent the tantalizing dark underworld if you dabble in that sort of thing. 6. This is an even bigger signal that you are connecting (as a TV connects us to what is worldly) to the underworld. I would reconsider any mystical things you are into. Spirits, good and bad, are real and not something to play with.

[MadamAurantia]

1. The hordes of offspring are never seen as a problem in themselves, so much as too much of a good thing. 2. But houses I've never seen before? 3. Considering the feelings I have towards twisters, this might mean something as to how I see "life's storms." I've seen a few in real life, often far too close for safely, and they're as beautiful as they are deadly. I don't go chasing them, they just happen to be nearby... that one in the field next to my car scared me silly, though. 4-6- Those are some interesting flipsides: a safe and homelike dark fantasy versus a mundane real-world object as an implement of terror? Dunno if I agree with your end conclusion, underhiswing, but the first part works. I've always felt safer in the "underworld" of life, as you call it. I know about the reality of spirits, having lived in a few haunted homes. Generally, I've found they have better things to do than meddle with silly humans. They're not as interesting as this place can be. But I do travel in some dark circles, and they've always been more comprehensible to me than the usual world. There are the same amount of threats, but I can see and avoid them better. The best description of it all: "Darkness hides good as well as bad." I am Pagan, so open and fairly comfortable with the mystical, but really the most mystical thing I've done in quite some time is Yoga and a couple of chakra meditations. The more solid world takes priority over any mysticism. The television thing also applies to mirrors. I have a rule that if anything in my day seems a touch strange, I don't look into any reflective surfaces without doing a quick RC first. It's a sure way to screw things up. In the last few months, though, if there's any doubt I turn towards the mirror with a raised middle finger. Nightmares can't stand up to a bird.

[underhiswing]

I have not know anybody who dabbles in the dark underworld, that does not pay a price for it at some point. But, I wish you well and hope you find a way to bless others while searching for your own bliss. PS. Houses you have never seen could be "future markers". Some say houses represent your "mind", but that is not always true.

[MadamAurantia]

I've had a few misadventures, as have everyone. Some peoples' involved drugs or bad finances, mine involved incense and oil. Learning experiences, and all that. I'll assume from your name and Kinkade pic (That is a Kinkade, right?) that you're of the Abrahamic persuasion (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, or -highly unlikely considering your previous posts- Satanism or Luciferianism). Many who have such "learning experiences," especially if they come from an Abrahamic background to begin with, can't process it and retreat back to a more familiar spiritualism. All too often, this results in stories of evil and horror circulating around the faiths. The ones of us who learned, fixed the problem, and moved on (or even better, not playing in matters too advanced for us: I generally don't work with spirits for reasons mentioned above) aren't really noticed by the more polarized faiths... except when someone's telling us all of the horror stories to convince us of how dangerous Paganism is.

[underhiswing]

Thank you. I don't consider love polarizing. I don't think that there are many Christians who would ever "want to go back" to the place you are referring to, as their vision had been enlightened, and who would select darkness over light. Nice talking to you. Take care.