Protected Dolphins Dream Symbols:
Date of experience: Dec 08 2009
Experience Type(s): Dream
I live on an island surrounded by a large body of water. I have been swimming in this large body of water. Then, the water is drained. When it is drained, I am unable to return to my island home.
I have an aerial view of my island with no water surrounding it. I can see the very curvy dirt roads, no trees and the long extension of the cone of land that had previously been underwater.
I go to a friend’s house, on the other side of the chasm, separating me from my island. There, I find a large group of friends. I am dressed professionally.
We get a sense that the water is replaced, and we go outside and are all looking at the new water. I am drawn into it, and jump in with all my clothes on. I start swimming underwater. This new water is different. It is fresher than the water that had formerly surrounded my island. The water is really clean too. I find I am not as buoyant, and need to be more mindful to get to the surface.
When I surface, I look back at my friends, and swim to them. I get out of the water and announce how awesome and clean it is. Then, everyone starts to go into the water, one by one. I have to wait because there is no break in the procession.
As I am waiting, one of my friends gives me a pair of earrings. Each one has a small pod of dolphins hanging from it. I put them on and squeeze the u-shaped post tightly to the back of my ear so that they wouldn’t slip out while I am swimming.
Then I dive into the water and fall in love swimming under the surface. I don’t rise as quickly as I did before, but still manage to get to the surface. I notice a little stress after releasing my breath while still under the surface.
I surface and see a pod of three friends bobbing a ways in front of me, near some cliffs. I recognize my girlfriend’s short, red hair, and swim over to join them. They then inform me that there is a group of 4 people keeping the dolphins away from us because they feel the dolphins need to be protected. Our pod is not very far away from this other group. When I swim closer, I begin to feel the protective intentions of this group increase. I feel everyone should be able to swim with the dolphins and I don’t like the fact that there is a group of people keeping us from the dolphins.
When I surface, I see a group of 3 kids about 7-8 years of age swim into an area that is like a cave in the cliff wall to see the dolphins. Because the protecting group had been focused on what I was doing they didn’t see the kids until after the kids had connected with the dolphins. The group lets the kids pass, but they still won’t let me and my pod get to the dolphins.
I then remember that the day before my doctor told me that I needed to swim with dolphins. So I head back to my friend’s house, and get out of the water. I tell my other friends that I am going to see my doctor for a prescription to see the dolphins, and that I will be back. I am happy about this because I know that the protecting group will honor a doctor’s prescription.
In the next scene, there is a lage and expansive stairwell that wraps around itself in 90 degree angles, and it is full of people sitting all over it. They seem to be waiting patiently.
Snippet: I am with a girl, and I am introducing her to my hippy lifestyle. This is all new to her, and I am showing her how nice and flowing it is.
Interpretation: Protected Dolphins Dream
Protected Dolphins Dream the morning after a pre-dream-in, on Dec 7-8. As typical with dreams, this one was many-layered. It took a few hours of interpretation to de-code as deeply as we were able. I went from exploring the water from the aspect of emotions to the unconscious, then to the next step of dream-work. It was an enlightening exercise indeed.
The island can signify separation, isolation, and independence. I have been moving through the unconscious realms (swimming). Then, the opportunity that the unconscious provides is removed (drained), accentuating the isolation and separation of the island, as I am unable to return to it.
From a position of conscious higher realms, the state I was in before is exposed from many points of view and directions. I see how barren this path (dirt road) is, as it meanders and goes nowhere. There’s nothing in this landscape for me.
Self progresses to an aspect of the psyche (friend’s house), which may be showing me the part of my psyche that interfaces with friends. I show up with my linear self/persona (dressing professionally), which reinforces the draining of the water. In other words, too much linear thinking and old ways of doing business (exchanging energy in an extractive way) result in removing the opportunity for exploring the unconscious emotional realms of dreamtime. This requires a different formula for success: accessing my non-linear self and looking at how I exchange energy.
It figures that we get an intuitive sense of the water being replaced because it represents the unconscious/feeling realm. With my linear headset of doing, I dive right into this new opportunity (fresh water). The opportunity of swimming in the unconscious represents my dream work – that which I am currently doing in my waking life. In my dream work, I have many dreams with great detail (clarity of the water). My more professional and linear persona is making it more difficult for me to navigate through the unconscious and dreamtime or to bring it into the light of consciousness.
In real life I am expressing how awesome it is to delve into the unconscious and my experience of the opportunity for clarity in doing dreamwork. One by one, my friends dive into the exploration, leaving no room for me to immediately return. In my waking dreamwork, I am discovering that a lot of people are interested in decoding and integrating their dreams, and it is consuming a lot of time. Often leaving little time for me to process my own dreams. It could be raising my awareness around my pattern of putting other people first, sometimes at a cost to my self.
A familiar aspect of myself (friend) offers me a gift: a modification (earrings) to my linear persona that more matches my new, chosen lifestyle and livelihood of facilitating Dream Ins – embodied by pods of dolphins, which swim and communicate in a telepathic and non-linear fashion (clothing) in the water (unconscious). The earrings also suggest listening and gaining information (ear). By securing them, I emphasizing my willingness to become more non-linear and to hear the collective (pod) experiences of dreamtime.
When I dive back into dreaming, I notice a progression from the last time in that I feel a deeper sense of connection (love). Bringing a more non-linear approach into the unconscious dreamtime comes with a deeper feeling of connectivity. I'm still holding onto my non-linear persona which is causing some stressful orientation around dreamwork.
I see an alchemical (3) opportunity for my self that seems comfortable amidst this deeper unconscious dreamwork. Three is also the number of friends with me in the pre-Dream In, where this dream occurred. This is reinforced because one of my friends, Suzanna, in the pod has short, red hair in this reality. She is known to have an epic dream or waking vision (see "pod connecting") every 3-5 mos. Also, I am relaying my dream to the pod-members the following morning in the ocean at Kehena Beach, and notice the cliffs in the bay resembles the cliffs in my dream. Joining this pod of 3 creates unity and wholeness (4). Within this collective wholeness, I am informed that another collective of unity and wholeness is in a position of blocking and protecting the sanctity of familial, spiritual interconnection (dolphins) from other, potentially perceived to be unprepared aspects of my self -- too much linear persona. I feel a desire to remove the block and open the opportunity for people to be able to experience familial group dreaming, and am upset that this block and protection is present.
Surfacing from the unconscious, I witness an alchemical, youthful collective that is representative of authentic aspects of my self. These aspects are too young to have developed personas, and are still steeped deeply in experiencing the world through their non-linear authenticity. This is what is required to get past the block, to enter a deep, dark, remote area (underwater cave) of the unconscious to access deeper levels of familial, authentic non-linear magic (dolphins). The cliffs could reinforce how rock-hard this obstacle can be.
I have memory of a healing and/or shamanic aspect (doctor) of myself informing me of my need to delve into the dreaming with full authenticity (without the filter of my professional persona), playfulness, acceptance and spirit. I return to the realm of thinking/consciousness and inform my friends that I am going to access this healing aspect of my self for clarification (prescription) and greater understanding of the healing and transformative gifts of dreamwork. I am happy about this, and know that I can overcome the block.
There is a large and expansive path to higher realms of consciousness that embraces itself in a manner that is both stable and progressing higher. It feels like a large collective of my self is resting and patiently waiting to advance on this path.
At first I didn’t think this was integral to the other dream, then I had an A-HA moment…I believe this is a progression of the previous dream. The self is introducing a young feminine aspect (my inner child?) to a progression in my persona. I am reflecting a shift into what I feel is a more authentic way of being, that embraces a free flowing, and freedom based life-style. I’m introducing this younger aspect to the joy and flow of it. I feel this life-style is key in recognizing the need to let go of the component of my persona that is running a program. A program which is applying too much mind in dreamwork, taking things a little too seriously, and automatically “doing” things – in favor of the freedom, spontaneity and authenticity which is the realm of the child, where programs have not had the opportunity to take hold.