The
Seduction
Dream
I was sitting at the right
end (from my perspective) of a long narrow table which stretched off to
my left. Sitting along the table to my left were four or five other people,
including the radio talk show celebrity, William Stern. I and the others
were all regular members of William's radio show, and even now we were
in the middle of a radio broadcast.
One of the other members sitting there was a woman named Sandy. She was
probably in her early thirties and had dark brown hair which fell below
her shoulders. She had an attractive, serious face and a good figure.
She seemed to be wearing a long dark brown dress.
While the broadcast was going on, William asked me a question, and I gave
him a simple one word answer. Seeing that I obviously was not going to
say anything else, Sandy spoke up and told me that William was giving
me a chance to say something during the show. It was obvious that Sandy
wanted me to say more. But what Sandy did not realize was that I really
had no desire to say anything else. I did enjoy being on the show, but
I felt comfortable just sitting there and listening without saying anything.
I also felt quite secure in my position. I felt as if I were needed on
the show, and that even if I did not say anything, William would not try
to get rid of me. However, it did appear that William would like for me
to say more, and that he was trying to give me every opportunity to do
so. So I paid attention to what was being said, thinking that I might
actually take some part.
Marked similarity to your other dreams. The table going to the left is
similar to the water lanes in one of them. As usual there is the feature
woman, you usually introduce by the second paragraph. The radio show is
a "broadcast" from the dreammaker inside. It is "to"...you. William plays
your logical waking mind...conscious mind. He is seeking "physical conscious
knowledge/experience" for understanding. You are too secure to be moved
to action. Then your emotions have a go at it...Sandy tries. She is telling
you that the purpose of life is to "live" ... to gather experience. This
is why she tells you of the "chance" or "opportunity" it is. "She" actually
draws sustenance...in the form of memories....for her database....from
your experience. Therefore it is important for you to "collect" some....while
you can. You are still complacent.
As the conversation continued,
the subject of collages came up. This was something which interested me.
I knew that although I had not made any collages lately, I had made many
collages in the past. I had stored all my collages away at different places,
and I was not even sure where they all were.
Collages are like the gumballs of that other dream. They are composite
images which comprise a whole picture.
I also remembered that Sandy
and I had made a collage together once long ago. I spoke up and mentioned
the collage to Sandy and she seemed to vaguely remember. I recalled that
the background of the collage had been a blow-up of a white feather. The
main picture in the foreground had been a cut-out of the painting of the
Nude Maja by Goya. I could still visualize that part of the collage quite
vividly. I wondered what had happened to the collage. I thought it might
be stored upstairs and I decided that I would go up to look for it.
A white feather hearkens to the bird eggs of Greta. White is understanding,
awareness...illumination. The feather is indicative of "flying". The nude
maja....I'm not familiar with the actual painting. The nude represents
devoid of experience/identity. If a "maja" is female it would represent
a subconscious with no data, or no polarization. If it is male it would
represent a conscious life with no experiences happening. At rest. Upstairs
is "growth" or ascension to another level of awareness.
When I went upstairs, I found
myself on the second floor of the Farmhouse Ohio (the two story white
frame house on the hilly Farm owned by my father). I knew I had a lot
of things stored in the upstairs of the Farmhouse, and I thought it was
very possible that the collage was up there. I also thought I had stored
there in the upstairs my cardboard box of collage pictures - hundreds
of pictures which I had cut out and had ready for collages. I wanted to
find them too, because I thought it was time for me to do a new collage.
I knew if I were going to do one, it would be best to just do it right
then and not put it off.
Indicating that it is time to make some new life experiences...do something
new...in your life. This would be to put together and collate all of the
memories into a new understanding....the understanding of your own dreams.
As I thought of all the collage
pictures I had cut for collages, another thought came to mind. It seemed
that I had also cut out a bunch of coupons to use when I bought groceries.
In fact it seemed that I had calculated that I had been able to save twenty
five percent of my food bill by using coupons. I had taken this to such
a point that I had actually saved up enough money by using coupons that
I was going to be able to take a trip, probably to Europe, just with the
money which I had saved.
The collage is the collection of memories stored in the database of your
subconscious mind. Seems to indicate that you have what you need to get
started.
When I walked into the back room
of the upstairs, I could see myself in a mirror in the room. I noticed
how slender and supple my body looked. In fact, it occurred to me that
my body very much resembled that of William Stern s. I was also wearing
some outrageous clothes - perhaps some black leather pants - clothes such
as William might wear. As I looked at myself in the mirror, I began making
some wild outlandish faces at myself, accompanying the faces by bizarre
comical gestures. I felt completely alone there in the upstairs, and I
thought I could make whatever kind of faces and gestures I wanted to.
But I wondered what other people would think if they were to see how crazy
I acted when I was alone like that.
Trying out new ideas or concepts of "who" you are. Self reflecting on
possibilities of who you "can" be.
I finally gave up on finding
the collage or my collage pictures, and I went back downstairs. There
I found William and Sandy now sitting alone together, side by side, in
the kitchen. Although William did not say anything when he saw me, I had
the definite impression that he did not want me there, and that he wanted
to be alone with Sandy. That seemed strange to me because I knew that
William was a married man, and I did not think that he ever cheated on
his wife.
Sandy did not seem interested in William, but she was not trying to get
away from him either. She seemed in control of the situation, and I did
not think anything would happen between her and William. Nevertheless
I looked at William and asked, Are you putting the moves on Sandy?
William gave me a funny look, as if to say that was exactly what he was
doing, and that I should leave. I decided to do just that.
This is the conscious mind or physical life "seducing" the subconscious
into accepting input of new data.
I know that sex is more fun when you don't think of it as a metaphor for
an archetypal, fundamental process....but that's what it is. The process
is that of the conscious outer world of experience "inputting" its "data"
into the subconscious memory banks for "insemination" (association of
internal ideas already present), "gestation" and future external "birth"
of new ideas and expressions into the physical life and conscious awareness.
All of nature's workings, including the way electromagnetism works, are
metaphors for this dual apparatus of mind which is in each of us and with
which we have to learn to use properly. Dreams are one of the ways that
nature uses to bring this process, with its attendant awesome possibilities
to exercise our natural powers of creation, to our conscious awareness.
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