My waking dream this morning had a train theme - an oft-recurring theme in my dreams over the years. I had been on a good, fast train, but had disembarked, and realising I was not where I thought I would be (I was in fact in the City of Joondalup) I knew I had to get down to the local train station there and continue on my journey, i.e. changing trains. There were streams of people heading to the station, so I could see where it was. Then, to get to the subway, I had to go down 4 flights of steps, i.e. it was a subway with an upper and a lower level, and I had to go to the lower level. (Once awake, in dream analysis, this is obviously going to the deep subconscious). The interesting thing for me was I only had a small baggage to carry (about the size of a small backpack), but I didn't want to leave it behind, so made sure I held on to it. All the incoming trains in the subway tunnel were crammed full, and there were many different lines. I had to double-check the boards to make sure I was heading in the right direction. Being in a subway, I could just see the headlights of the approaching trains as they whistled into the station. I moved up to the end of the platform in the hopes of getting on one of the first carriages, to no avail. I saw a couple of people squeeze on, but basically there was no room for any more. The trains kept stopping and taking off with full cargo. I started getting a bit nervous that I would miss my connection if I couldn't catch the train. Then I calmed myself, and as a carriage pulled up in front of me, I decided to just move on that, and jump the gap (which was so wide, I nearly tripped and fell between the train and the barrier - but I did make it, and my baggage came on with me). It was an empty metal, box-end of a carriage, like an empty luggage compartment. A man jumped on behind, steadying me. There was a door to the linkage to the next carriage which I was considering leaping. The man touched my shoulder and said I should remain where I was, I wouldn't make it if I attempted that leap.
Waking up from the dream, I realised that it was an empty space, devoid of furniture, racks - there was nothing - but I had reached the safest spot for me to continue the journey, and it was a transition moment. There was at least one friendly person and some others who had managed to get into it, but not many - 3 or 4 at the most.
This is how my life feels at the moment. There is a lot of coming and going in the outer world, with people crammed into carriages, but they're out of contact with me, and I don't know where they're going. I got to be the first to jump into an empty space, but its emptiness was the right thing at the moment - almost like whatever would come would have to be built as new - nothing based on the old. The couple of people that made it into the carriage feel like some of you here on the forum - people of like mind and spirit - whose journey is about going into the new.
I hope this dream means my subconscious is ready to leave the past behind. It is very easy to talk about such things, but actually doing it is several levels harder!
Waking up from the dream, I realised that it was an empty space, devoid of furniture, racks - there was nothing - but I had reached the safest spot for me to continue the journey, and it was a transition moment. There was at least one friendly person and some others who had managed to get into it, but not many - 3 or 4 at the most.
This is how my life feels at the moment. There is a lot of coming and going in the outer world, with people crammed into carriages, but they're out of contact with me, and I don't know where they're going. I got to be the first to jump into an empty space, but its emptiness was the right thing at the moment - almost like whatever would come would have to be built as new - nothing based on the old. The couple of people that made it into the carriage feel like some of you here on the forum - people of like mind and spirit - whose journey is about going into the new.
I hope this dream means my subconscious is ready to leave the past behind. It is very easy to talk about such things, but actually doing it is several levels harder!