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Post by goldenmyst on May 26, 2023 21:58:40 GMT -5
Dreamed I was in Alaska with my late grandparents who in the dream were alive and well. We were out in a boat with our Inuit guide in a bay of the ocean. We were wearing wet suits designed to protect us from the cold of the water. So I was in scuba gear when I went into the water. I dove down into the ocean but the water was murky and I couldn't see well. I felt a creature bump me with its nose and was afraid it might be an orca. The being continued to bump me until I reached out and touched it. It turned out to be a dolphin. I held onto it and I and the dolphin danced together underwater. Finally, I left and surfaced to board the boat again. Our Inuit guide told me he knew the dolphin from a mark left on its fin by some other sea creature. My grandparents swam in the water on the surface and I took pictures of them riding the waves with the snowy mountains in the distance. They had big smiles and looked overjoyed.
John
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Post by sasha on May 30, 2023 9:47:27 GMT -5
I used to keep a dream journal. By lying quietly upon awakening from a dream, I was able to lock the imagery into short-term memory - actively recalling not only the "scene" I awakened from, but the preceding one, and the one before that. Sometimes I'd jot a few notes while sitting on the porcelain to be refined later. Sadly, I seem to have let that ability atrophy. The journal revealed recurring motifs in many of my dreams, especially the unpleasant ones. This nocturnal voyage of yours shares imagery with some of my own, especially those involvng scuba and grandparents, though not in combination. What does it all mean? Beats me.....
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Post by goldenmyst on May 30, 2023 20:53:41 GMT -5
Sasha, thank you so much for sharing your experience with dream journals. Indeed if we write it down immediately upon awakening the details linger. I've never gone scuba diving in life though numerous times in dreams. Something about being underwater for some reason recurs in my dreams. Like you, I have no idea what it all means. I once saw a movie about a French writer who had a stroke and was crippled everywhere except in one eye that he communicated with through a system of blinks. He had dreams of diving in a bathyscaphe. Don't know if that is relevant but being submerged may be common in dreams.
John
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Post by sasha on May 31, 2023 5:59:16 GMT -5
I was active in scuba for many years, and would dream of it occasionally, though they were apt to be more utilitarian than mystical. I dreamt once of being part of an underwater salvage team; of night diving from a steeply-sloping beach; and of NOT diving because I'd forgotten some crucial piece of gear. A more common motif - even now, if imperfect recall can be relied upon - is that of Finding My Way Back. After wandering down the usual rabbit holes of my subconscious, I'll dream them in reverse order (or so it seems at the time). I've dreamt lucidly on all-too infrequent occasions - this attempt to dream my way back to some starting point almost seems like an attempt to bring lucidity to the experience.
Speaking of underwater dreams - a news item appeared just last week about an aquarium octopus behaving strangely after awakening suddenly. It flailed about, attacked a length of PVC pipe in its tank, and even voided its ink sac before settling down. There's even a video of it on YouTube. It's speculated that the animal had just had a nightmare, possibly about an experience it had once had with a predator in which it had lost several tentacles (which have since regrown).
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Post by goldenmyst on Jun 1, 2023 12:10:48 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing your scuba dreams my friend. That octopus did sound spooked.
John
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Post by agrimmeer on Jun 2, 2023 16:03:53 GMT -5
Your dream seems to fall and rise all at once. That seems like a gift.
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Post by goldenmyst on Jun 2, 2023 23:46:18 GMT -5
Thank you so much agrimmeer. Often my dreams are a gift to me and this one definitely was.
John
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