DREAMS ABOUT A TSUNAMI

This one is from a woman, Olga, who hails from Illinois.  It’s a short dream so we’ll analyze it in one go.

I'm on an island and a young girl comes up to me and says, “There’s a big big tsunami coming and I think it’s going to flood the whole island.”  I can tell she’s really afraid, and even though I’m also afraid, I feel it’s my job to help her since I’m older and more experienced.  So I hug her and tell her that we’ll face the flood together. 

The flood comes and it’s a huge one, and I’m thinking we’re going to be swept away and drown.  The water comes over us, and strangely enough, we don’t get swept away, and we don’t drown.  Instead, the flood waters recede and I look around and see that everything is all right.  Nothing is destroyed, and we ourselves are safe.

This is a very clear warning dream.   Water symbolizes emotions, so the most obvious warning is that an emotional challenge is about to appear in her life.  It’s going to be something which is powerful enough to overwhelm her.

The young girl symbolizes a younger aspect of herself… less experienced and more vulnerable.  The event is one which generates such a powerful emotional pull that she might drown… lose herself in the surge which engulfs her.   Her current self – the older and more experienced one – is protective and knows how to stand against such a force.

I assured Olga that an emotional challenge was going to enter her life but she will be able to withstand it and come out victorious.

Sometimes it takes a few weeks for me to select and interpret a dream, and then I don’t publish until I’ve sent my interpretation to the dreamer and (s)he has given me permission to blog it.  In this instance, after I sent Olga the interpretation, she told me that the challenge had already occurred.  A lover from her distant past had called to confess his deep, abiding love for her and his hope that they could renew their romance.  30 years ago they had loved each other passionately, but he was such an intense man – and a controlling one – that her own identity was overwhelmed by his.   She admitted that the temptation to re-experience the passionate romance was powerful because she too still loved him.  After ten minutes of conversation, she soon realized that to share a life with him, even now when she was older and less vulnerable, was to give up her journey along her personal life path, and that was something she didn’t want to do.   

So her dream had already come true.  A flood of emotion had engulfed her at hearing her exk-lover’s voice and words.  The romantic girl in her wanted to recapture the passion, but the older woman she’d become chose to pursue personal evolution instead.  Some would say her choice is the wiser course. Others might disagree.  There is no right/wrong and bad/good in life.  There’s just experience.  And YOU are the one who gets to choose which experience you want to pursue at any given time. 

HAPPY snoozles to all you dreamers out there.