Funny things dreams are they not? Some people believe that they are omens for future happenings, others that they come from the past and some folk just do not give them a thought either way. For myself I tend to remain openminded, perhaps they are born from memories past or even that they may sometimes stem from things beyond our knowledge, so I treat them with some skepticism but do not entirely dismiss them. What has brought this line of thought to these pages? Well it is always been the case of the last decade or so that the festive season proves to a most difficult time for me mentally, with the threat of my depression swallowing my mind. This year though has been different in some ways, yes the feelings that feed my issues have been there once again but at night when I slumber dreams have come to me with an intensity that I have rarely known. The scenarios that these dreams bring to me are orientated around my father usually as the central character. There are many things in these dreams that have not rung true to actual life experience's involving the rest of my family, but my father's appearances in them are always true to how I remember him. I will not go into detail about my family and the reasons for myself gradually being ostracised from them in the years after my father's passing but these reasons account for a lot of my downward spiral at this supposedly festive tine of year. But the dreams with my father within seem to have steadied my mindset a tad and this year the mood has been a smidgen lighter m'thinks. Perhaps there is something in these dreams that is there trying to reach out and help me, maybe or it just may be coincidence I am truly not sure.
Todays snow has but paid to any outdoorsy type activities and tomorrows hedge lowering looks like a no go as I write. I guess that tomorrow will mean a brass monkey day in the Orc's Workshop with me ruing once more not insulting the bloody cold hole that it is this time of year. I should not moan though (though moaning is my forte) as I have complained many times of the last couple of years that the seasons are all shot to hell with flora and fauna not knowing what season they are in. Tis actually nice to have a decent cold snap over winter and I hope that it continues for sometime.
I did mention in my previous post that I would perchance be scribing about my garden, well with today allotted as a rare day off I was hoping that the three hundred canes would be implemented within my small plot but the snow up here has certainly put paid to that escapade and its subsequent lofty story telling of the reasons for them. Well you will just have to wait I am afraid, but, just as a taster warning it has something to do with feline miscreants.
Well that's another musing that really does not gel, but at least it is keeping me writing here, which I do enjoy somewhat. But please don't tell anyone as I have my reputation to consider.
John
John, dreams can mean (and be) any number of things, and like you I do not dismiss them out of hand. If you have the time and inclination, Dream Moods (https://www.dreammoods.com/) has "interpretations" of dream elements. It at least gives one something to think about.
ReplyDeleteOne things I am learning about the new colder and wetter climate in which we live is that I simply need to get the gear and be about my business. Waiting for the climate to be less rainy or less cold only means I will likely wait until March or April to get anything done (although it is wreaking havoc on the container garden I am experimenting with).
Dreams are odd - are they memories? are they portents? is it a way of your brain having a 'tidy up'?
ReplyDeleteWho really knows? however, whatever they are - they do seem to play a significant part in how your day fares.
Bit like the weather really - my boss has called a snow day tomorrow, so I have had quickly get hold of all the garden volunteers and stand them down which some of them have found very hard, they are ready to get out of the house and away what ever they have to deal with at home.
I find that when I wake up from an especially vivid dream, there's usually a message in there that I need to know. Sometimes I understand it right away...other times I just toss it around and generally, the meaning comes clear. Like you, I do not dismiss dreams out of hand. Sometimes they are just the working of a creative mind, but other times they are telling me something.
ReplyDeleteWhat does it say as often when I wake I am aware I have dreamed, but I almost never recall what the dream was about.
ReplyDeleteI once had a little book " The Victorian Book Of Dreams" it was total rubbish!
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile I'm puzzling over 300 canes?
Dreams are funny things (but nightmares NOT!) I used to have a repeating dream/nightmare. It was always our old farmhouse, all done up (as it was long before we left) but then I would open a door and there would be a Gothic mansion in a crumbling black state of repair. Very black always, with teetering walls, missing roof. I could never understand why I dreamed this dream until when we had left, it came to me that the dark Gothic part was unresolved issues deep inside me. The outer part (the house) appeared mended, but deep inside . . . Since moving here - despite all I've had to deal with over Keith's illness and death - I've not had it again.
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