(330) What you saw in your dreams
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By Janet Shin
One day, while we were in a car after a saju class, a son of our party studying in the U.S. called, asking for help translating his dream. He had just woken up and explained what he saw in the dream. The group was comprised of famous fortune tellers, feng shui masters and face readers. One of them studied psychology in school.
The boy started his story with a train trip. His mother put the phone on speaker so our team could listen. He and his family were travelling. He was driving the train with a long stick. Then his cousin took his stick to hit a flower. He thought the flower was very big and beautiful with colorful petals. Then, a swarm of insects that looked like bees suddenly stung his face to leave gluey material around his cheek and inside his mouth. He felt they were like thorns. It was painful but above all he was disconcerted by the situation in the dream although his uncle helped to take all the stingers out.
Many people are interested in dream interpretations wishing to get some significant and precognitive hints. Dreams are relevant not only to the foreknowledge of your current and future affairs but to your psychological state. They can be simply the exposition of what you did during the daytime on top of a certain meaningful revelation. For example, if you were learning how to ski and practiced it hard all day long, skiing or the mountains where you ski would frequently appear in your dreams. Your body and brain remember what you do and conceive in reality to reproduce them in your dreams. It sometimes alleviates emotional burdens. On the other hand, it may contribute to delivering an innovative solution for the tasks you are dedicated to.
Some famous songs were inspired by the composer’s dream. It is also said that parts of momentous inventions were excogitated by the implication of them. Nevertheless, I pay special attention to their correct interpretations as many people tend to rearrange their dreams, partly because they are inclined to forget everything if they don’t take proper notes while still retaining the contents of the dream upon waking up. Other times, people make up a story by conventional information.
For example, there are widely distributed sayings that dreams of waterfalls or pigs imply a windfall, such as lottery winnings. Hoping to have such luck, people dramatize their dreams reconfiguring some stories. Accordingly I usually coach people not to solely rely on their dreams for important decisions in order not to be deluded.
The abovementioned boy’s dream, however was full of crucial connotations and it was obvious that the dream was worthy of reading as it was told when the boy was still half asleep and there was no intention of concocting the story. First of all, the train and sticks are sexual representations and can be male sex organs. That he traveled with his family signifies his obligations and feelings of responsibility. It also denotes that he is aware of his family’s affection. The big and pretty flower represents a girl, which would be his girlfriend. Hitting the flower means their intercourse. Getting stung and having the sticky residue are signs of his guilty conscience.
His mother was embarrassed at first but became self-composed before long. She asked her son calmly if anything happened between him and his girlfriend. He obediently confessed that he had sexual relations with her as his mom interpreted precisely what his dream was revealing. Of course the boy was daunted by such an accurate reading but he was able to soothe his emotional discomfort by confiding his awkward first experience and his mom was also able to give him practical and sincere advice.
Are you interested in learning more about the
ancient Chinese teaching about the “Four Pillars
of Destiny” and oriental ways of fortune telling
or fortune tellers? For further information, visit
Janet’s website at www.sajufortuneteller.modoo.
at, contact her at 010-5414-7461 or email
janetshin@hotmail.com. The writer is the author
of “Life’s Secrets.”