A Bad Dream

[Michael K.]

My daughter who is twelve years old just woke up from a terrifying dream, and insisted that I share the dream with my friends on this board.   Let me start by saying that this morning we woke up to oppressive grey skies and unseasonably low temperatures, which as a whole create an eerie atmosphere of gloom and also threaten to destroy the hay which was mown yesterday under what had started as a good day, but was transformed by what I can only call "chemtrails" into the present crop-threatening drear.



THE DREAM:

"There was this thing called a "Sphinx" which all the girl children at age twelve had to go wait on a bridge for, one that looked like the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog, until it came to you.  Everybody was watching and there was a great deal of family pressure, mostly from parents, for the children to do this so that they could "be normal."

"I became afraid to do it because I was a Christian, and felt certain that the thing would kill me, because it knew everything.  Other children just came back 'fixed'.  So I ran through a door that belonged to the richest person in the world, everybody's 'god'.  I went in there because I wasn't supposed to, but it was the only way to escape."

"I started to explore in there with my friend Grace, we found a library room full of books on demons.  We found a trap door that magically appeared and it took us right back to the bridge."

"The scene switched and I was with my father and we were looking at a world map so that we could find where this bridge was.  I pointed to either Cuba or Panama (they are both shaped like a east-west running arc) and a couple little islands.  Then my father gave me a present (a puzzle of a horse) and started crying, saying that I would again have to go back to the bridge."

"I was back at the bridge somehow, then my (divorced from my dad) Mom started telling me that I needed to go out on the bridge over and over again, and I woke up crying."


PS :  My daughter was born 'in the caul' (passed through the birth canal with the amniotic sack intact), which according to Irish legend is a sign that she is clairvoyant or psychic.

Can anyone interpret this dream?

[Wimpy]

THE DREAM:

"There was this thing called a "Sphinx" which all the girl children at age twelve had to go wait on a bridge for, one that looked like the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog, until it came to you. Everybody was watching and there was a great deal of family pressure, mostly from parents, for the children to do this so that they could "be normal."

"I became afraid to do it because I was a Christian, and felt certain that the thing would kill me, because it knew everything. Other children just came back 'fixed'. So I ran through a door that belonged to the richest person in the world, everybody's 'god'. I went in there because I wasn't supposed to, but it was the only way to escape."

"I started to explore in there with my friend Grace, we found a library room full of books on demons. We found a trap door that magically appeared and it took us right back to the bridge."

"The scene switched and I was with my father and we were looking at a world map so that we could find where this bridge was. I pointed to either Cuba or Panama (they are both shaped like a east-west running arc) and a couple little islands. Then my father gave me a present (a puzzle of a horse) and started crying, saying that I would again have to go back to the bridge."

"I was back at the bridge somehow, then my (divorced from my dad) Mom started telling me that I needed to go out on the bridge over and over again, and I woke up crying."


PS : My daughter was born 'in the caul' (passed through the birth canal with the amniotic sack intact), which according to Irish legend is a sign that she is clairvoyant or psychic.

Can anyone interpret this dream?

It seams your daughter is torn between the beliefs and expectations of your ex-wife (or someone) and yours.  Which spiritual path will she choose; one base upon an ancient system (your ex's?) or one based upon Christ?

The Sphinx and the Bridge appearing out of fog represent, IMHO, a path of the ancients:  reverence and worship of the Eagle and the Bridge to cross over into its realm.  The library of satanic books and other such references seem quite appropriate here and perhaps your daughter instinctively knows the fundamental differences between these two paths.

Is your daughter receiving a disparate message of spirituality from her parents or someone else of influence in her life?  She is at an important age threshold where influences can be very life changing.  My two cents.

[Michael K.]

Thanks, Wimpy.  Yes, I am a former extremely liberal Catholic who read a great of mystical and New Age literature, and who recently converted to Orthodox Christianity as the true mystical path to theosis (firsthand knowledge of God).  My ex-wife, her mother, is a self-professed "Witch", although a lightweight one and not at all serious.  She had a bad Catholic experience being raised in Detroit, and seems kind of lost in her reaction to it.

[pas]

I'm a child of divorced parents also (from different races) and i recognize the ''pressure'' of ''choosing a path'', and i think the bad dream is a result of that.
I agree with Wimpy, that around the age of 12 is a very important period.And for me, it certainly was life changing.

My, not so spiritual, 2 cents.

[Michael K.]

Thanks, pas.  Two cents with a heart is worth $100 without one.

[Ahmed]

A very interesting and hopeful dream:

The Sphinx is an idol of Cabalism (i.e. the Jewish cult concealed in Masonry, The Talmud, Zohar etc). They want to impose a world dictatorship based on their dogma.

The door represents mammon (money--the false god) that we all are compelled to deal with at some stage if only to temporally escape the wanton persecution of the Sphinx.

The library signifies that we must learn all we can about the nature of the evil forces out to impose their Cabalist creed upon humanity.

The reference to Cuba and Panama may have something to do with the Bermuda Triangle (triangle as Masonic symbol), many stories about this place being an epicenter for Jinn etc.

The most hopeful aspect of the dream is actually what sounds like the darkest; when your ex tells your daughter she has to keep going back to the bridge: It means that we (humanity) have no way to avoid our destiny against the Cabalist monster. We must keep banging heads with this entity until it's defeated, and the best way to overcome it is through knowledge (i.e. the library) and awareness of our creator Allah (swt).

The Islamic scholar Muhammed Ibn Sirin wrote a classic book called 'The Great Book of Interpretation of Dreams (Tafsirul Ahlam al-Kabir)'  which is a must read for anyone whose serious about this subject.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

MK, ever read Swedenborg?

[Michael K.]

Dear Ahmed,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on my daughter's dream.  I definitely agree with the interpretation you assign to the Sphinx.  Also, I hope that you could point me to an English translation of the venerable Muhammed Ibn Sirin.

I dare to say that I gain something immeasurably reassuring from the way in which you take the whole confrontation to be hopeful, ultimately.  I see it as a truth that we are choosing victory when we choose to resist, even if it comes as transcendent victory through death.  For is this not what Jesus has shown us?

Assalamu alaikum Ahmed.

[Michael K.]

Dear Talmud Tim,

I have never read Swedenborg, but I have read about him in an historic sense.  The connection you seem to be making is that Swedenborg himself had ecstatic dreams and visions which heralded the emergence of genuine clairvoyance in him.  I wonder if you had a text in mind which you could point me to?

Swedenborg's clairvoyance was accompanied with an unusual type of piety and religious conviction, in which he seemed outwardly rebellious, even heretical, but had an inward peace and faith which defied description.

I would recommend that you see a movie I just watched on recommendation from my priest.  I loved it, and what is more it is set in an ascetic monastery in Russia and concerns a man with similar vision.

http://mycobwebs.wordpress.com/2009/02/ ... trov-veoh/

http://blog.moviefone.com/2007/01/20/su ... ov-island/

[Ahmed]

Dear Michael K,

Walakum'salam, and you're welcome.

You can get the book at Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Ibn-Seerins-Dictionary-Dreams-Traditions/dp/1879405032/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315499132&sr=1-1

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Read some of Swedenborg. He seems genuine to me, even though he had associations with Freemasonry. I am not sure how I feel about clairvoyance.