The teacher shares a vivid dream and receives an interpretation touching on primitive archetypes, life force, and contact with the mysterious.
The teacher shares a vivid dream and receives an interpretation touching on primitive archetypes, life force, and contact with the mysterious.
I'd like to share a dream I had last night, if that's okay. It's not very long.
Go for it.
So I'm in this room that looks similar to the one where I grew up in my parents' house. I think it was my parents' house, but I'm not entirely sure because my parents were there on the ground floor, while I was upstairs in this room. My partner was sleeping in one of the beds, and I started to notice something on the ceiling where the lamp should be. It was as if the lamp wasn't there and instead there was a hole. I could see a lot of bugs gathered in the hole, and suddenly a very big spider came through it. Then I started to feel worried about my partner.
The snake appears
I kept looking at the hole, and suddenly a snake appeared through it, with many colors: red, yellow, and a few others. I didn't know whether to defend her or what, but I grabbed it by the head. While I was grabbing it, it turned into a young woman. I think she was Peruvian. I had her by the hands, as if her hands were behind her back and I was holding her there. Then I took her downstairs. I think I saw my dad, and I told him, "Hey, you should spray for pests. It's full of stuff up there." He said, "Yeah, I know."
Then it gets strange, because I'm holding this woman and she starts trying to seduce me, moving provocatively. It turned me on a little, but in my mind I thought, "No, this is not appropriate," because my partner was nearby. And also, I had to get rid of this woman. She wasn't really human. She was something strange. She had transformed from a snake. So it wasn't appropriate for that reason either. I didn't know what to do with her. That's what I remember. You don't need to say anything, but I just wanted to put it out there.
Interpreting the dream
That's great. Thank you for sharing. The images I'm getting are these: the room is the situation you're in, and something from when you were younger is present. You said it's a room where you grew up, but you're with your partner, so it's now. Something from when you were younger is coming to light.
And there are very primitive symbols there: insects, a spider, a snake. In the natural world, they're creatures of the more primitive kind, and they're very powerful in the psyche. They're powerful archetypally as well. For humans, they represent threats, but they also represent certain energies.
The snake as life force
The snake has been strongly associated with healing and with kundalini, which is actually female. Kundalini is a female goddess, very primitive, and she represents the life force. So the fact that you grab the snake by the head and it becomes a Peruvian woman really reinforces, to me, that you are getting in touch with a deeper life force.
And then not knowing what to do also carries this sense of more real contact with something mysterious. It is also sexual, because it is force, and she starts playing with you in ways that you don't know how to relate to. It's new to you. You don't know what to do.
You ask your father to take care of the problem, but it's not that important, neither to you nor to him, to deal with the hole and the insects. You spray for pest control, essentially. But that part isn't the center of the dream. The center is this encounter with something alive, primitive, and unfamiliar that you don't yet know how to hold.