I have a horrifying nightmare of someone holding my legs down as I sleep. Mom opens my door and asks if Skye is in the room with me, which halfway pulls me out of the dream.
Finally I manage to pull myself away enough to say “mommy”, and she comes into my room and sits in a chair beside my bed. She takes my hand and I tell her I had a bad dream. She’s incredibly understanding. I stand up and walk over to my door, looking at a little shelf on the wall that has a few small items on it. I think to myself as long as I can see these little trinkets I must not be dreaming because they’re real. No dream has this much detail, right? I pick up each rock on the shelf individually, touching the roughness and the crystals of the geodes. There’s a little wooden carved owl that is the last thing I touch. It’s slight rough wood, but carved smoothly and stained and polished to gloss. I set it back down. My eyes seem to adjust less and less. The eyes of the owl look more and more ominous the less I can see.
Now I’m at school, watching Brienne walk up in full armor to the front doors. She confronts Jaime, who has trapped everyone inside as hostages. She prepares to fight him, when suddenly an arrow goes through her chest. I whimper “no”. Jaime had gone inside and positioned himself just right inside one of the walls to shoot his crossbow through it, blindsiding her cowardly.
Then Dean and Castiel are fighting, angel against demon. The is one of the most important fights, like everything has built up to this moment. I am terrified. I don’t want to lose either one of them. Somehow, by a third person like Jaime or Metatron, Castiel’s throat gets gashed open and Dean’s neck gets snapped. My stomach drops because those are the only methods to really kill them, like a secret way to kill them that no one was supposed to know about.
They soar over the edge of the demolished road, into a chasm that way far down and lined with water. It almost looks like a bridge that has fallen into a river, but it’s just the road.
My mind is racing, my heart is stopped. No, no, no! They can’t die, please, don’t let them die!
I look down to the crumbled road down in this hole. I see that Dean landed on top of Castiel’s winged vessel. Everything is still for a moment, until Dean stirs. He snaps his neck back, correcting the bone that was sticking out in an ungodly fashion. He makes some remark about it “smarting a little”. He sits up off Castiel as Cas heals the arrows he took to the chest, and the slice on his throat. They stand up, no longer fighting themselves, but rather wanting to take out this third party. Enemy of thy enemy is thy friend, and all that. [End]
Relative to Real Life~
Night of August 13th, 2014
Notes: It’s kinda hard to tell, but when I describe my mom coming into my room and me waking up- that was all in my dream. I dreamt that I woke up and she soothed me. Just thought I’d clarify that.
Real-life characters: Mom, Skye, Brienne (Game of Thrones), Jaime (Game of Thrones), Dean (Supernatural), Castiel (Supernatural), Metatron (Supernatural).
Dream-created characters: Whatever held down my legs.
Real-life places: Bedroom, high school.
Dream-created places: Hole.
Different than real life: I don’t have a shelf hanging on my wall next to my door with rocks and geodes on it, there isn’t a chair next to my bed, I graduated in 2011 and haven’t been back to the high school since.
Reoccurring: No.
Precognitive: No experiences.
A symbol which confirms what we have suggested concerning the
steed. He is the master, the logos, the spirit which prevails over the mount (that
is, over matter). But this is possible only after a lengthy period of apprenticeship, which may be seen, historically speaking, as a real attempt to create in the
knight a human type superior to all others. As a consequence, the education of the
knight was directed in part to strengthening him physically, but in particular to
developing his soul and spirit, his affections (that is, his morals) and his mind
(that is, his reason) in order to prepare him adequately for the task of directing
and controlling the real world, so that he might take his proper place in the
hierarchies of the universe (that is, in the feudal hierarchy, ordered after the
celestial pattern, ranging from the baron up to the king). We also find mounted
monks, priests and laymen skilfully controlling their steed, thereby demonstrating their allegiance to the spiritual (or symbolic) order of knighthood in deliberate
competition with the historico-social order of knights. This is why in the basreliefs on the capitals in the cloister at Silos, knights are shown bestriding goats.
Now, goats are symbolic of superiority, because of their association with high
peaks, and Rabanus Maurus points out that knights mounted on goats must therefore be interpreted as saints (46). Of course, the purpose of the assimilation
of saint with knight is to magnify the symbolic worth of the knight, as in the case
of St. Ignatius Loyola. More profound examples of such assimilation are to be
seen in that of the king and knight (King Arthur), or the king, knight and saint (St.
Ferdinand III of Spain or St. Louis IX of France). This knight-symbolism is common in all symbolic traditions. Ananda Coomaraswamy observes that ‘the
“horse” is a symbol of the bodily vehicle, and the “rider” is the Spirit: when the
latter has come to the end of its incarnations, the saddle is unoccupied, and the
vehicle necessarily dies’ (60). By taking account of certain other orders of things
analogous with chivalry, including (particularly) alchemy (which was in fact a
mediaeval technique of spiritualization) and also certain aspects of colour-symbolism, we have been able to arrive at a system of analogies which we believe to
be very helpful in explaining some of the more recondite aspects of the symbolism of knighthood. Mediaeval tales and legends often refer to a green, white or red
knight, but most frequently of all to a black knight. Should we regard this as
merely a matter of aesthetic appreciation of the colour in a literal and decorative
sense? Or does the choice of colour proceed necessarily from a highly significant
cause? The latter, we think. In alchemy, the rising scale of colours (the progressive, evolutive scale) is: black, white, red (corresponding to prime matter, mercury, sulphur), with gold representing the hypothetical, final stage. Conversely, it
can be said that the descending scale would be from blue to green, that is, descending from heaven to earth. These two colours stand for the celestial, and the natural
or terrestrial factors. Furthermore, black is associated with sin, penitence, the
withdrawal of the recluse, the hidden, rebirth in seclusion, and sorrow; white with
innocence (natural as well as that regained through expiation), illumination,
openheartedness, gladness; and red with passion (moral or material—love or
pain), blood, wounds, sublimation and ecstasy. We may therefore surmise that
the Green Knight is the pre-knight, the squire, the apprentice sworn to knighthood; the Black Knight stands for him who undergoes the tribulations of sin,
expiation and obscurity in order to attain to immortality by way of earthly glory
and heavenly beatitude; the White Knight (Sir Galahad) is the natural conqueror,
the ‘chosen one’ of the Evangelists, or the ‘illuminated one’ reemerging from a
period of nigredo; the Red Knight is the knight sublimated by every possible
trial, bloodied from every possible sacrifice, supremely virile, the conqueror of all
that is base, who, having completed his life’s work, is fully deserving of gold in its
ultimate transmutation—glorification. Knighthood should be seen, then, as a
superior kind of pedagogy helping to bring about the transmutation of natural
man (steedless) into spiritual man. An important part was played in this symbolic tradition by prototypes such as the famous, mythical knights of the court of
King Arthur or patron saints such as St. George, Santiago of Compostela, or the
archangel Michael. The practical means of achieving the knight’s ultimate goal
consisted of corporeal exertions, which were, in effect, not merely physical or
material since the knight practised with all kinds of arms, and these arms stood
for symbolic potentialities; these practical exertions, then, led eventually to the
inversion of the world of desire through the ascetic denial of physical pleasure—
the very essence of knighthood—and the almost mystic cult of the beloved. The knight’s relative shortcomings while carrying out his sworn duties provide the
explanation of the colour black which we have just examined. Nevertheless, other
explanations have also been advanced, as for example that the knight is the ‘guardian of the treasure’, supplanting the monster he has conquered (the serpent or
dragon). Clearly this symbolism is not opposed to that which we have proposed,
rather does it support it by emphasizing the essential mission of the knight’s
service. Another interesting aspect of knight-symbolism—though, in a way, a
negative one—can be seen in the use of the epithets ‘wandering’ and ‘errant’ in
mediaeval tales, legends and folklore. At times, the adjective has a precise meaning, at other times it is much more imprecise. In every case, the wandering (or
‘errantry’) of the knight implies an intermediate position between the ‘saved’
knight and the accursed hunter, with the difference that the knight errant, so far
from being caught up in the pursuit of his desires, is of course striving to master
them—and this is what we had in mind when we observed that this aspect ‘in a
way, is a negative one’. Needless to say, this symbolism of one who takes the
dark and lonely path of expiation, verifies our observation that the Black Knight
is a symbol of withdrawal, penitence and sacrifice.
To see a knight in your dream, signifies honor, protection and security. The knight can be seen as a savior or someone who sweeps you off your feet, as in the "knight in shining armor".
To dream that you are knighted, indicates that you are being recognized for your good character. You are being entrusted with power and authority.
Seeing a knight in your dream means protection and security. The knight can be seen as a savior or someone who sweeps you off your feet, as in the "knight in shining armor".
A symbol of individuality—of private thoughts. The windows symbolize the possibility of understanding and of passing through to the external and
the beyond, and are also an illustration of any idea of communication. Hence, a
closed room lacking windows may be symbolic of virginity, according to Frazer,
and also of other kinds of non-communication. Many rites involving the
enclosureimage are performed to mark the reaching of puberty, all over the world.
The legend about Danae, shut up by her father in a bronze tower, pertains to this
particular symbolism. There is a Siberian legend concerning a ‘dark house of iron’
which is also relevant to it (21). We might also mention the ‘vase with a lid’, one
of the eight emblems of good luck in Chinese Buddhism, and a symbol of wholeness, of the idea with no ‘exit’, or, in other words, of supreme intelligence triumphant over birth and death (signified respectively by the doors and windows of
the room) (5). This explains why the hermetically sealed room may possibly be
a variant form of the ‘vase with a lid’.
To dream that you are in a room, represents a particular aspect of yourself or a specific relationship. Dreams about various rooms often relate to hidden areas of the conscious mind and different aspects of your personality. If the room is welcoming or comfortable, then it signifies opulence and satisfaction in life. If you see a dark or confined room, then it denotes that you feel trapped or repressed in a situation.
To dream that you find or discover a new room, suggests that you are developing new strengths and taking on new roles. You may be growing emotionally. Consider what you find in the discovered room as it may indicate repressed memories, fears, or rejected emotions. Alternatively, such rooms are symbolic of neglected skills or rejected potential.
To dream that you are in an empty white room, indicates a fresh start. It is like a blank canvas where you want to start life anew. Alternatively, the dream means that you are trying to isolate yourself. You do not want any outside influences.
To dream of a yellow room, suggests that you need to use your mind. You are feeling stimulated mentally.
Dreaming that you are in a room, represents a particular aspect of yourself or a particular relationship. Dreams about various rooms often relate to hidden areas of the conscious mind and different aspects of your personality. Dreaming that you find or discover new rooms, suggests that you are developing new strengths and taking on new roles. You may be growing emotionally. Seeing an appealing or comfortable room in your dream means opulence and satisfaction in life. Seeing a dark, eerie or confining room indicates that that you feel trapped or repressed in a situation.
A feminine symbol (32) which, notwithstanding, contains all the implications of the symbolic hole, since it is the door which gives access to the hole; its
significance is therefore the antithesis of the wall. There is the same relationship
between the temple-door and the altar as between the circumference and the
centre: even though in each case the two component elements are the farthest
apart, they are nonetheless, in a way, the closest since the one determines and
reflects the other. This is well illustrated in the architectural ornamentation of
cathedrals, where the façade is nearly always treated as if it were an altar-piece.
To dream that you are entering through a door, signifies new opportunities that are presented before you. You are entering into a new stage in your life and moving from one level of consciousness to another. In particular, a door that opens to the outside, signifies your need to be more accessible to others, whereas a door that opens into the inside, denotes your desire for inner exploration and self-discovery.
To see an opened door in your dream, symbolizes your receptiveness and willingness to accept new ideas/concepts. In particular, to see a light behind the door, suggests that you are moving toward greater enlightenment/spirituality.
To dream that the door is closed or locked, signifies opportunities that are denied and not available to you or that you have missed out on. Something or someone is blocking your progress. It also symbolizes the ending of a phase or project. In particular, if you are outside the locked door, then it suggests that you have anti-social tendencies. If you are inside the locked door, then it represents harsh lessons that need to be learned.
To dream that you are locking the door, suggests that you are closing yourself off from others. You are hesitant in letting others in and revealing your feelings. It is indicative of some fear and low self-worth. If someone slams the door in your face, then it indicates that you are feeling shut out or some activity or that you are being ignored.
To see revolving doors in your dream, suggests that you are literally moving in circles and going nowhere. You may feel that your opportunities and choices lead to a dead end.
To dream of entering a door, denotes slander, and enemies from whom you are trying in vain to escape. This is the same of any door, except the door of your childhood home. If it is this door you dream of entering, your days will be filled with plenty and congeniality.
To dream of entering a door at night through the rain, denotes, to women, unpardonable escapades; to a man, it is significant of a drawing on his resources by unwarranted vice, and also foretells assignations.
To see others go through a doorway, denotes unsuccessful attempts to get your affairs into a paying condition. It also means changes to farmers and the political world. To an author, it foretells that the reading public will reprove his way of stating facts by refusing to read his later works.
To dream that you attempt to close a door, and it falls from its hinges, injuring some one, denotes that malignant evil threatens your friend through your unintentionally wrong advice. If you see another attempt to lock a door, and it falls from its hinges, you will have knowledge of some friend's misfortune and be powerless to aid him.
Dreaming that you are entering through a door means new opportunities that will be presented before you. You are entering into a new stage in your life and moving from one level of consciousness to another. In particular, a door that opens to the outside means your need to be more accessible to others, whereas a door that opens into the inside indicates your desire for inner exploration and self-discovery. Seeing opened doors in your dream, symbolizes your receptiveness and willingness to accept new ideas/concepts. In particular, to see a light behind it suggests that you are moving toward greater enlightenment/spirituality. Dreaming that the doors are locked means opportunities that are denied and not available to you or that you have missed out on. In particular, if you are outside the locked door, then it suggests that you are having some anti-social tendencies. If you are inside the locked door, then it represents harsh lessons that need to be learned. Dreaming that you are locking doors, suggests that you are closing yourself off from others. You are hesitant in letting others in and revealing your feelings. It is indicative of some fear and low self-worth. Seeing revolving doors in your dream, suggests that you are literally moving in circles and going no where. You may feel that your opportunities and choices lead to a dead end.
Doors are passageways and in our dreams that is their symbolism. Going through a door may represent going from one state of consciousness to another, or from one inner plane to another. Locked or closed doors may represent an obstacle or opportunities that are not currently available to you. Many doors may represent your current choices.
To see a road in your dream, refers to your sense of direction and how you are pursuing your goals. If the road is winding, curvy, or bumpy in your dream, then it suggests that you will encounter many obstacles and setbacks toward achieving your goals. You may be met with unexpected difficulties. If the road is dark, then it reflects the controversial or more frightening choices which you have made or are making.
If the road is smooth and bordered by trees or flowers, then it denotes a steady progress and steady climb up the social ladder. If the road is straight and narrow, then it means that your path to success is going as planned.
To see an unknown road in your dream, represents a path that has not been ventured. You are setting a new precedence for something.
To dream that a threatening creature is on a road, parallels a hostile situation/person you are encountering in your waking life. It is an obstacle that you need to overcome, no matter how intimidating the situation or person may appear.
Traveling over a rough, unknown road in a dream, signifies new undertakings, which will bring little else than grief and loss of time.
If the road is bordered with trees and flowers, there will be some pleasant and unexpected fortune for you. If friends accompany you, you will be successful in building an ideal home, with happy children and faithful wife, or husband.
To lose the road, foretells that you will make a mistake in deciding some question of trade, and suffer loss in consequence.
Seeing a road in your dream indicates your sense of direction and pursuit of your goals. Seeing a winding, curvy, or bumpy road in your dream, suggests that you will experience many obstacles and setbacks in achieving your goals. You may be met with unexpected difficulties. If the road is dark, then it reflects the darker or more frightening choices which you have made or are making. Seeing a smooth road bordered by green trees and flowers indicates a steady progress and steady climb up the social ladder. If the road is straight and narrow, then it means that your path to success is going according as planned. Seeing an unknown road in your dream means that you new project will cause more grief than it is worth and a waste of time. Dreaming that a threatening creature is on a road, parallels a hostile situation/person you are encountering in your waking life. It is an obstacle that you need to overcome, no matter how intimidating the situation or person may appear.
It usually symbolises the journey that we take to achieve our goals. The road in the dream represents a road in your life. It could be the road to your heart, spirit, or mind. Consider the kind of road that you are on and try to see how it relates to your daily realities. If the road is straight, well marked and lit, it may be reinforcement to you that you are moving in the right directions. If there are many obstacles and the road is very hard, consider your options.
(or daemon, daimon from Greek: δαίμων daimōn) In religion, folklore, and mythology a supernatural being that is generally described as a malevolent spirit. In Christian terms demons are generally understood as fallen angels, formerly of G-d. A demon is frequently depicted as a force that may be conjured and insecurely controlled. The "good" demon in recent use is largely a literary device, though references to good demons can be found in Hesiod and Shakespeare.
Demons as described in the Tanakh are the same as "demons" commonly known in popular culture.
Those in the Hebrew Bible are of two classes, the se'irim and the shedim. The se'irim ("hairy beings"), to which some Israelites offered sacrifices in the open fields, are satyr-like creatures, described as dancing in the wilderness , and which are identical with the jinn, such as Dantalion, the 71st spirit of Solomon. (But compare the completely European woodwose.) Possibly to the same class belongs Azazel, the goat-like demons of the wilderness, probably the chief of the se'irim, and Lilith . Possibly "the roes and hinds of the field", by which Shulamit conjures the daughters of Jerusalem to bring her back to her lover, are faunlike spirits similar to the se'irim, though of a harmless nature.
The evil spirit that troubled Saul (I Samuel 16:14 et seq.) may have been a demon, though the Masoretic text tells us that the spirit was sent by God.
Some benevolent shedim were used in kabbalistic ceremonies (as with the golem of Rabbi Yehuda Loevy), and malevolent shedim (mazikin, from the root meaning to damage) are often responsible in instances of possession. Instances of idol worship were often the result of a shed inhabiting an otherwise worthless statue; the shed would pretend to be a God with the power to send pestilence, although such events were not actually under his control.
Rabbinical demonology has three classes of, demons, though they are scarcely separable one from another. There were the shedim, the mazziḳim ("harmers"), and the ruḥin ("spirits"). Besides these there were lilin ("night spirits"), ṭelane ("shade", or "evening spirits"), ṭiharire ("midday spirits"), and ẓafrire ("morning spirits"), as well as the "demons that bring famine" and "such as cause storm and earthquake"
A symbol of invisible forces, of the powers ascending and descending
between the Source-of-Life and the world of phenomena (50). Here, as in other
cases (such as the Cross), the symbolic fact does not modify the real fact. In
alchemy, the angel symbolizes sublimation, i.e. the ascension of a volatile (spiritual) principle, as in the figures of the Viatorium spagyricum. The parallelism
between angelic orders and astral worlds has been traced with singular precision
by Rudolf Steiner in Les Hiérarchies spirituelles, following the treatise on the
celestial hierarchies by the Pseudo-Dionysius. From the earliest days of culture,
angels figure in artistic iconography, and by the 4th millennium B.C. little or no
distinction is made between angels and winged deities. Gothic art, in many remarkable images, expresses the protective and sublime aspects of the angelfigure, while the Romanesque tends rather to stress its other-worldly nature.
Dreaming of angels will have a profound impact on your life. Holy, pure, divine, they are trying to convey an important message to you: they might bring more spirituality, joy, and peace to your life, if you have a clear consciousness. If it is not the case, they might remind you that it is time for you to think about your choices and actions, do you need to make things better? Three angels have a great symbolic signigication, try to listen to their message, it must have a holy dimension to it.
An immortal spiritual being which functions as an intermediary between the realm of men and that of the Divine. Angels are more powerful than humans and are believed to be composed of ethereal matter, thus allowing them to take on whichever physical form best suits their immediate needs. In Christian, Muslim, Jewish and other theologies an angel can be one who acts as a messenger, attendant or agent of God.
To dream that you are in school, signifies feelings of inadequacy and childhood insecurities that have never been resolved. It may relate to anxieties about your performance and abilities. If you are still in school and dream about school, then the dream may just be a reflection of your daily life and has no special significance.
Alternatively, a dream that takes place in school may be a metaphor for the lessons that you are learning from your waking life. You may be going through a "spiritual learning" experience.
To dream that you are looking for a school, suggests that you need to expand your knowledge and learning. To dream that you are at a new school, means that you are feeling out of place in some situation. Or perhaps there is a new lesson that you need to learn.
To dream that your childhood school is in ruins, suggests that you are dwelling on some unresolved childhood issue. Alternatively, the dream represents the passage of time. You need to look toward the future instead of reliving the past.
To dream of attending school, indicates distinction in literary work. If you think you are young and at school as in your youth, you will find that sorrow and reverses will make you sincerely long for the simple trusts and pleasures of days of yore.
To dream of teaching a school, foretells that you will strive for literary attainments, but the bare necessities of life must first be forthcoming.
To visit the schoolhouse of your childhood days, portends that discontent and discouraging incidents overshadows the present.
Dreaming that you are in school means feelings of inadequacy and childhood insecurities that have never been resolved. It may relate to anxieties about performance and abilities. You may also be going through a "spiritual learning" experience. If you are still in school and dream about school, then it will naturally serve as a backdrop to your dream world. Alternatively, a dream that takes place in school may be a metaphor for the lessons that you are learning from your waking life.
This dream may be interpreted on several different levels. If you are the student you may be feeling inadequate or lack self-confidence. Either way, going to school or attending class in a dream is your unconscious reminder that there is a need for new learning and that you may have not learned an important lesson. School may not always be a positive experience, but it is always necessary. Ask yourself what do you need to learn more about? If you were a teacher in your dream, you may be dealing with issues of authority. From a spiritual point of view, some believe that in the dream state an individual may travel to an inner plane or the spiritual realm, where they can attend classes that assist in spiritual growth and development.
To see a shelf in your dream, suggests that there is something that you need to put aside right now. You need to put your ideas or plans on hold.