I had this dream...
I have many dreams...Though there is this one that really sticks with me, and when I think about it, it was more of a dream about a 'feeling' than it was a dream of a particular 'event'. I usually manage to forget my dreams, not this one.
I recall having the exact same dream, multiple times in my twenty four years of cancerian natured, conscious existence (that is if we are not conscious before we are born).
'I felt like I was cushioned by clouds, like I was weightless, and that I had not a worry in the world. You could liken this feeling to the look of a butterfly fluttering in the sparkling, summer sunshine, or of a caterpillar snuggled in his warm cocoon. I was limited to a small enclosure, A laundry infact. The laundry was a familiar one, it was the laundry room of the house that I had lived in from a very young age. The only 'happenings' that I recall from this dream was that I had wings, I fluttered from corner to corner and experienced every groove and familiarised myself with every speck of dust. I knew that I couldn't escape the boundaries of this laundry room, although I wasn't aware of a clear reason why I could't. It might have had something to do with the fact that I did feel comfortable. In retrospect, I believe the dream really highlighted a sense of constriction and limitation due to the physical boundaries of the room. I interpret the wings and the euphoric feelings as indicators of hope, the capacity to achieve and the self determination to find a way out.'
I have many-a-dream, in both the neuropsychological and metaphysical meaning of the word. You might be interested to know that although this dream still haunts and visits me to this day-I have nothad the actual experience of the recurring dream for many, many years now.
El Pensamiento- Thought:
"The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams." - Elizabeth Gilbert.
It sounds very much like you are dreaming about still being in the womb. Weightless, confined yet comfortable so, unable to leave but unaware why, carefree. Your unconscious mind may have changed the location to your early memory of a laundry as your brain can't really picture the inside of a womb. :) And the laundry would be the smallest and warmest room in your house.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we do have some level of consciousness in the womb, at least during the end of our gestation. I know swaddling (wrapping a baby up snugly in a blanket) is a known way to comfort a baby, and it is believed this is due to it mimicing the confined feeling the baby had in the womb.