Dream :: Cat Brought Back to Life **
I find a room in the basement, and in it a machine. It brings a cat companion of mine, which died a few years ago, back to life. It is slightly surprising at first, and I see that just about anything else can be brought back - or into - life as well. I explore how to use the room and machine in a more conscious and predictable way, and find that a clear intention is the key.
This dream is similar to Solaris, the science fiction novel by Stanislav Lem (and movie by Tarkovsky) where an extraterrestrial ocean brings people from cosmonauts' past - apparently - back to life. There was a similar image and atmosphere in the dream.
The day before, I had a deepening discovery relating to projections. I was in the bodywork intensive, noticed I seemed very tired, and saw how my mind went to lunch break and the opportunity for taking a nap then - even if this was early in the morning session. I noticed the sense of relaxation and rejuvenation was present, although placed by thoughts into the future, and decided to look for it right here instead. By noticing the same quality of relaxation and rest right here, I was able to bring a sense of being refreshed to my experience. What I was looking for was right there, in the present.
- A quality arises and is noticed.
- A thought is added to the quality, appearing to place it onto "other" - past, future, other. This most likely happens when the quality being here does not fit with a particular identity or a worldview.
- I can notice this projection, and re-find the quality right here.
This seems to be exactly what is reflected in the dream.
- The cat is alive in my memory and the qualities associated with him (innocence, open hearted, curious, courageous) are right here.
- A story is added to these qualities placing them on him and in the past. He is dead, so the qualities are projected back into the past, appearing there only. (A "there" which is really here, and always is.)
- I notice this process as it happens, and see the qualities right here. He is brought back to life, in the sense that the qualities I associate with him are seen right here, alive. I can find them alive right now, in my own experience and life.
This is just another reminder that anything I see "out there" is alive right here right now. The world is my mirror.
Labels: dream, projections, world as mirror