Impending Snowstorm in the City

These days, I jump out of bed and hurriedly get dressed to drive my son's school carpool. I haven't had a strong and memorable dream in some time because I don't have time to ruminate on what happened last night.

This one was strong and it left me happy.

short fragment: I watched in a school gymnasium where a ballerina was practicing arabesque by stepping along the bleachers for support while she lifted her back leg horizontal to the bleacher. She had great extension.

I, however, who used to be able to do that, could not, so my exercise was to do a walking deep lunge stretch. In the dream I had the thought that I used to be able to do arabesque but now I have very little flexibility.

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Main Dream: I was backpacking in a city, on a very busy street. I had about 20 backpacker friends with me. There was an impending snowstorm; the clouds looked like they would burst forth a blizzard at any moment.

A storekeeper motioned for me to enter the store to take shelter. I and all my friends entered this little store. It was like having 20 bulls in a china shop because this was a bead store with lots of small beads on display on the counters. I saw a stack of magnetic rocks, like the kind I bought my son recently. Most of the backpackers started touching the displays and knocking things to the floor. I took responsibility to ask them not to touch anything. “Don't touch that! We're not here to buy anything! This guy is trying to shelter us from the storm.”

We began singing to pass the time. We had a regular music night, with inspirational songs, drums, maracas. I can't remember the songs now, but they made me feel good.

We left the store happy, and we began searching for the way to go next.

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Isn't that fun? The symbolism is spectacular to me. Here I am engaging in things that used to bring me joy but I don't do anymore: ballet and backpacking. All the 20 backpackers in the store are the aspects of me I'm trying too hard to keep in line. The way to calm down these aspects of me is to actually engage in the things I love doing: having music night. (I've been thinking on starting my own music night at my home but many fears are hoding me back.) Then the joy will return to my life and I will be able to embark on my daily life with a spirit of adventure again, even though I don't really know the way to go. The snowstorm itself never happened in the dream; it only looked as if it might snow; and when it snows everything looks brand new and magical, so this snowstorm would be a cleansing thing, a way to bring more awareness to my life.

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Jess, you have done so well  to analyse your dreams, starting your own music night sounds like a good idea, though you don't go into detail exactly what fears hold you back? If it seems like too big a comittment why not get togrether with friends and rotate where the music night is held, fears do diminish if we face them head on
andyou could face these one step at a time, Maybe the threatening snow stormis those fears, the storm may dissipate as you walk through the fear?. Good luck with any path you choose just follow your inner guidance and be true to you. You will come out of it stronger and happier.

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Thanks Zephyr! The fears that hold me back from music night are simply excuses, not really valid fears at all. I know this about fear. But here they are: 1. fear of rejection from my own family, who never ever play music and they're not even into the drumming scene. 2. fear of a lack of friends. I know people in the neighborhood, none of them play any music. I do not presently know any musicians. This fear brings in the worry that I'll have to recruit strangers from an internet board or social network, and who knows if they are theives or druggies? Stereotype right there! I can get over this one by a leap of faith. I only attract people who are vibrating at the same level as I am. 3. Shame over my own home. My husband and I have let our house fall into disrepair. There is a hole in the kitchen floor I have to cover with a plank, and no money to replace the leaky fridge or disintegrating floor. Plus, over the years my drums have disappeared-I used to have 2 middle eastern doumbek drums, but I gave one away and the other was ceramic and shattered. So now, I have a pair of maracas and a shaker. Hard to have music night when noone I know owns drums!

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When I re-read what I wrote I see I used the phrase: Then the joy will return to my life. This does not mean I'm living a joyless existence. Not even close! I'm generally happy, more so than at any other point in my life. I think about why I said joy will return. Then I think about why I used to go to music night: because I was basically depressed and this community event was the only way I could feel like there were positive people in my life. At that time, music night was my only joy, aside from creating art. However, now I have children and they are my joy. If I can get my hands on some drums, the older one may love music night. Or, if I press him too hard to like it, he may pull away from music night.

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Try freecycle to access what you need if money is a problem, some folk buy musical instruments and then let them languish in a cupboard. You may also find other things to help relieve the financial situation , for free. Be proud that you have your priorities right, children first, other material things can wait

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Zephyr: Excellent idea about the freecycling. I'm already on my local freecycle board. I never considered to ask for instruments; I guessed everybody cherishes theirs! Currently I'm asking for a tricycle for my 3 year old, but nobody has responded. I've given away outgrown clothes, and someone even wanted ripped up old jeans to make quilts with, so I gave her a bagful of my husband's construction jeans.

I think hard on priorities, that's for sure. Children first (except when I'm hungry, then I eat before I lose my temper at them!) hehehe.

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Hi Jess, sorry I am late. Yes, good work and the general indications in the dream are good. This struck me as important so have a look at its possible message: Your feeling in the dream that, “but now I have very little flexibility.”
See if you can find a lack of flexibility in your being as it is at present. If you can't,  keep a look out in the future.

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Yes, Ian, you're right. When I re-read my own dream, that line jumped out at me too. I want to emphasize for new dream-recorders, that pun and double-entendre abound in dream symbology. So in the dream, there is a literal aspect of me not being flexible enough to perform the arabesque. When we analyze that and apply it to our waking life, take into account all double-meanings! The dream could very well be telling me that my problem solving ability is now more limited than when I was younger, also phrased as “flexibility” in thinking.

To respond to this in my waking life, I've been doing things a little differently than normal to try to pull in some new energy to my thinking. Just tonight, I took my very first walk along our local creek/river canal, and I've been here 6 years, nearly 7! I never knew this parkway before today! I took my 3 year old son and he loved it; he saw birds, tall grass, trees and birds, ducks, bikers and joggers. It was a world of wonder for him and I got exercise as well.

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thats an interesting dream! you did an awesome job interpreting that one. i recently had one that continued all night (i tend to wake up a lot during the night, so  this dream came back as soon as i fell back asleep) and it was thousands of rows of giant post it notes. i figure i need to keep track of things, since i dreamt about post it notes.

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“i figure i need to keep track of things, since i dreamt about post it notes.”
Perhaps you feel overwhelmed with all the little details in your life. Perhaps you feel like your house is cluttered?

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Hi Suni, with long dreams look for three parts - the cause, the challenge and the solution. Actually, if I am not mistaken, these three parts usually exist with all dreams but we recall only parts, usually the last part. Also you do well in being able to return to a dream after awakening.