I had this dream a few weeks ago, but it's still so vivid and almost every night I have a dream similar to this one. My point of view in the dream is third person, meaning I don't actually get involved in the dream, I simply watch.
At the beginning of the dream, it shows a picture of a woman, average looking, but with a bright light surrounding her. It then shows a picture of her chest open and a golden halo of light surrounding her heart, almost exactly they way they portray Jesus in a lot of paintings. Then, the woman's birth and childhood years flash before my eyes. It shows that when she was born, the doctors found a defect with her heart, which caused it to glow quite brightly. Because of this, you could see the light even through her chest and clothes. Her family was in a cult, and they believed it to be a sign that she was blessed. So, they would take their daughter to people's houses and she would perform a ceremonial dance, at a high price, that would supposedly bless their household and all those who enter it.
Then, the dream skips forward to her adulthood. She is married, and living in the middle of a desert-type region with absolutely no one surrounding her. The house is made of tin, and resembles a large storage shed. The house is poorly furnished, and has no electricity. Elaborate paintings cover the walls, but that is it. The floor is dirt, the same dirt that surrounds their house and the entire landscape. The only thing they can see for miles are mountains and a dirt road. I never see her husband clearly, he is only a blurry shadow of a person. The woman still does her ceremonial dances, that is what she does for a living.
The dream then skips forward, and the woman is eight months pregnant. She has refused to name the child until it is of the age where it can name itself. The child is born, and it has the same defect as it's mother. The gender is unclear, but it appears to be male. The father and mother believe that this child will bring them lots of money and power, so they guard it closely.
One night, while the mother is sleeping, she dreams that if she eats the child's heart while it is still alive then she will become the most powerful person in the universe, even more powerful than her god. She wakes up immediately, and takes the child outside. She bangs it's head against the tin wall until blood has covered the child's body, and forces her hand through the chest of the child and pulls the heart out. She consumes it, and paints herself in the blood of her baby.
Then, she goes out and dances wildly in the middle of the desert-like terrain.
She stops dancing for a moment, and holds her chest, eyes wide.
She screams painfully, and falls to the ground. Her heart bursts from her chest, and a bright light explodes from it. The hear turns into a bio luminescent, extremely large, butterfly and flies off toward the sun.
That is the end of the dream.
I know it's very long and descriptive, but I would like to know the meaning!
Please help!!
Also, no one talks in this dream. The only sound heard is when the woman screams at the end.
Generally people in dreams are aspects of yourself. It sounds to me like the main character in the story (the woman) is a part of you. The main feelings/concepts in this dream are:
1. Selfishness/greed - The focus of everyone on the monetary benefits of this "defect", the woman's unhesitating sacrifice of child for prospect of power.
2. A sense of alienation or isolation - The desert, lack of sound, the unnamed child, the blurry husband. In this dream the main character is the only one there with any focus.
3. Metamorphosis (change) - the stages of the woman's life, pregnancy and the final transformation.
The dreamscape is an exploratory realm for the mind. The best analysis for this dream ultimately is best deduced by you, because it is a product of your mind. Regardless of what some dream books may say, butterflies mean something different to your mind than they do to mine, as do cults/religion, money, pregnancy, marriage, the desert, &c. The three things I listed above as being main elements because they have repeating images/aspects in the same vein. What the "moral" of the story is and why certain things happen is up to you, I can merely provide speculation"
The Woman - an aspect of you. Perhaps she symbolizes your unique abilities, your desire for power, your fear of childbirth and marriage? any combination of these things.
The Parents - the influences of your actual parents. This can be an allegorical representation of how parents affect a person's future (the woman follows the path her parents set her upon years before starting her doing ceremonial dances)
The Husband- blurry because he is an unknown, possibly unimportant or just undefined because you don't know what sort of husband you will have (or perhaps you don't know what you want?)
The Child- unnamed because the woman (you) doesn't want to repeat the past and push parental values on her child. Let the child choose it's own path.
The child eating scene is intense and touches a few different themes. One is the fear of being a poor parent who sacrifices one's child for one's own desires. Another is the retribution for a selfish act (the woman's pain) or perhaps it is a show of the pain associated with change? The final change into this alien butterfly is an amazing image full of mystery… what is ultimate power? It is probably something unfathomable to humans, and much different than we might think….
Just some possible viewpoints. IMHO, I think self- dream analysis is the most accurate.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWhen you watch a story in your dream in the third person you are typically watching yourself. You are dreaming about your special heart powers, and I think that you are probably feeling deep and spiritual when you have this dream. But, it seems that the dream is all about you, and who you are alone, because your husband is unclear and you eat the child's heart. You are feeling alone. Maybe you are seeing what your life will really be about. Good Luck!!
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Very complex dream, imo.
Very briefly, you are observing parts of your own larger personality.
The main dynamic is you as woman/mother, and you as child.
Yellow is wisdom, and the "defect" is your subconscious' device to explain the "miraculous" aura.
You as growing woman are consuming, not championing, your inner child, your inner sense, your innocence, which is your soul, the way of the Child as portrayed by Jesus Christ.
So in the dream you are living off the capital of your childlike joy, innocence, love, honesty, and instead of championing same as way of Life, you as woman betray your inner child, act more childish, greedy, and then repent. The realization of what's been betrayed affects powerfully, and the soul becomes bioluminescent butterfly (which is a major symbol of the soul). The sun or Son Light indicates who you really are–a Child of the Light.
"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet,
"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves,
"Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton,
"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi,
"Emotions," Marilyn C. Barrick, Ph.D., and
"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock, are helpful.
Reviews at http://www.amazon.com
http://www.dreamviews.com
http://www.carolbowman.com
http://www.nderf.org
http://www.dreamhealer.com
http://www.heartmath.org
http://www.noetic.org
http://www.iands.org
http://www.coasttocoastam.com are also good.
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um… were u smoking anything illegal the night before?
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Generally people in dreams are aspects of yourself. It sounds to me like the main character in the story (the woman) is a part of you. The main feelings/concepts in this dream are:
1. Selfishness/greed - The focus of everyone on the monetary benefits of this "defect", the woman's unhesitating sacrifice of child for prospect of power.
2. A sense of alienation or isolation - The desert, lack of sound, the unnamed child, the blurry husband. In this dream the main character is the only one there with any focus.
3. Metamorphosis (change) - the stages of the woman's life, pregnancy and the final transformation.
The dreamscape is an exploratory realm for the mind. The best analysis for this dream ultimately is best deduced by you, because it is a product of your mind. Regardless of what some dream books may say, butterflies mean something different to your mind than they do to mine, as do cults/religion, money, pregnancy, marriage, the desert, &c. The three things I listed above as being main elements because they have repeating images/aspects in the same vein. What the "moral" of the story is and why certain things happen is up to you, I can merely provide speculation"
The Woman - an aspect of you. Perhaps she symbolizes your unique abilities, your desire for power, your fear of childbirth and marriage? any combination of these things.
The Parents - the influences of your actual parents. This can be an allegorical representation of how parents affect a person's future (the woman follows the path her parents set her upon years before starting her doing ceremonial dances)
The Husband- blurry because he is an unknown, possibly unimportant or just undefined because you don't know what sort of husband you will have (or perhaps you don't know what you want?)
The Child- unnamed because the woman (you) doesn't want to repeat the past and push parental values on her child. Let the child choose it's own path.
The child eating scene is intense and touches a few different themes. One is the fear of being a poor parent who sacrifices one's child for one's own desires. Another is the retribution for a selfish act (the woman's pain) or perhaps it is a show of the pain associated with change? The final change into this alien butterfly is an amazing image full of mystery… what is ultimate power? It is probably something unfathomable to humans, and much different than we might think….
Just some possible viewpoints. IMHO, I think self- dream analysis is the most accurate.
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