A Dream I Had (Starring Internet Celebs!)
[The following is a dream journal entry I wrote immediately upon waking, Wednesday, January 16th, 2008]:
Part 1:
I’m blonde, and I’m swimming with my “husband” (who in the dream happens to be Tim Ferriss), in a vast and beautiful, crystal-clear blue body of water, possibly a tropical ocean (not sure). At one point there is the sense that I am injured or weak. I feel no negativity about this, it’s just how it is. I’m swimming underwater but it’s difficult, so as Tim comes toward me, I grab hold of his arms which are crossed in front of him (he looks like a superhero, a smiling superhero, and is whisking across the water like he’s flying, or has jet-power. He’s not using his arms. So I grab onto them and instantly am filled with the exaltation of moving at a great speed with great ease. I’m underwater still.
Next thing I know, I’m fine, no longer weak or injured, and I find myself still moving at this incredible speed, but on my own. I zoom ahead of Tim and look back and he’s keeping up but staying behind a bit, smiling at me, looking content as can be. We’re both traversing vast distances with each stroke of our legs, not using our arms at all. There is a powerful feeling of grace and blissful calm like I’ve never ever felt before, even in flying dreams.
Part 2:
I’m at a casual dinner party with a few people in a hotel room. It’s being hosted by Garrett and Amber (a lovely couple who host their own - awesome - radio show in real life called Hollow Earth Radio. I was introduced to them at a party by my friend Tim Boucher). We’re sitting on the floor around a low table, Japanese-style. I’m not sure who the other guests are, but they’re friends of the hosts. At each place setting is a little gift package for each of the guests to open while they wait for dinner (dream aside, that’s kind of a cool idea).
>> FF >>
I’m sitting at one of the heads of the table and Garrett is perpendicular to me on my left. We’re talking over dinner, and he suddenly has the look of remembering something. He turns around and grabs from behind him an oversized pen and a large, almost used-up pad of paper, with only one blank sheet left. He hands it to me and tells me I should write down my goals and dreams for the coming year. Like, right now. Yes, at the dinner table. So, kind of nervously, I stare at the blank sheet and start to think about my goals and dreams. I think (and then write down) “become more intuitive and act on impulse more often.” (This is partly inspired by what Garrett has just done — act on his intuition and tell me to do this, despite it seeming weird and being in the middle of a dinner party).
[End of dream].
At that point, I awake. I know instantly that the dream is a message from my inner Self. I also know with just a few minutes of reflecting what it all means, which is unusual for me.
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Alright, I’m not going to go too much into detail because I don’t have time, but here are a few clues about the meaning of this dream…
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Tim Ferriss represents my Inner Self, or more specifically, the masculine side of my inner self. The ‘Superhero’ within; strong, wise, adventurous, successful, confident, powerful. A powerful ally (to be ‘married’ to - allied with).
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You should be able to unravel what the rest of part 1 means based on that, I think.
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I’m not quite clear on all the subtleties of part 2, but the obvious message here is that I want (and need) to keep on the track of paying more attention to, trusting and most importantly acting on my intuition/impulses. I’ve been on a real nerd-kick lately of planning and scheduling everything and being very disciplined. This has had a lot of immediate benefit, like getting a lot of shit done in a short period of time, but if I get too lost in that left-brain world (a typical virgo tendency) then it becomes self-defeating.
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So basically my inner Self is just reminding me where the real power is and where I need to place the most trust and importance, and how effortless and joyful life can be when I do this (see part 1).
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there’s more to it, but that’s the gist and I have to go!
Oh, cool, Garrett just posted a dream too. I don’t know if he does that a lot, but that’s kind of cool timing.
Geez Louise. I just checked my email and there’s an email from Tim B. (sent today but before I posted this post) which in part reads..
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“I had this wild dream just before waking up…”
And oddly enough, I was just about to post about the dream that I had this morning when I saw the trackback from this post and came over here and read this.
Tim Ferriss = Animus, like you said, male animating spirit, your “courage” to achieve your goals and unleash your inner self.
As far as the “super-hero” gesture, he’s also making the sign of the pharaoh, arms crossed in the sarcophagus, holding the implements of his kingship. There’s a connection somewhere with the river, Isis and Osiris. Pretty directly connected somewhere, I believe. Check it out.
That’s a connection I didn’t think of. Hey.. the river (the brooke)… I have a vague sense of what you’re referring to but I’ll have to wikipedia it for details.
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Thanks for your take!
wow, this is on the first page when I image-search ‘tim ferriss’. uncanny (if you take away the shirt, put him in water and make him more horizontal): http://www.problogger.net/wp-content/tim-ferris.jpg
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But I think I’m venturing from the point of the dream, which I already get. I was just surprised that came up on the first flippin’ page!
Hey, sorry I didn’t write back immediately. I hardly check my comments because I am so inundated with comment spam. That’s really weird about the dream … I actually think I have something I should send you.
Email me your address and I’ll put something in the mail. When you’re done with it, you should send it to Tim.
Garrett
I didn’t have time to be a human filter (however I did want to post this today to go with my dream post), so I left most of them in, but divided them into 4 convenient (1 hour) …