Dreamer's Response: Dream #7

Here's what struck me about this dream...

It's employee discount day, so people are getting something for less, getting rewarded for hard work, getting special treatment because of their dedication. So there's some reason I'm being rewarded for working hard.

There's a festive mood, almost like a party, so something in my psyche is telling me there's reason to celebrate or at least be happy. All the employees are happy to see each other, so all those hard-working parts of myself are happy to be united and sharing in the joy of being rewarded for the hard work.

My external self, my ego self, gets to take advantage of the reward as well, since in the dream customers get the employee discount too. It seems all of my selves are being rewarded.

I find the store name interesting: Orchard Supply. It makes me think of an orchard, specifically an apple orchard, which then ties into knowledge. I'm there to gather some kind of knowledge, perhaps.

Also, I just discovered an inner curiosity about and desire to use power tools, so maybe this dream was hinting at that. I do enjoy shopping at hardware stores.

We're buying a heater, so that means I'm looking for something in my life to sustain an inner fire. Perhaps my fire for knowledge, or my passion for power tools, or, even better, a passion for taking my knowledge and building or creating something with it.

In the dream I burn my leg. I use my legs to move forward on my path and they are also what support me. In my quest for knowledge and to create things, I might get a little burned by my inner fire, but it won't be too bad, although I might try to act like it's bad, hence my whining and moaning in the dream.

This makes a lot of sense now that I worked through it this way, because I feel like I might get burned a bit by putting myself out there with my art and other pursuits, but these little dings are part of the territory, and rather than spending a lot of time complaining about the dings, I can learn from them and move on.

That's my take on the dream!

Dream #7 -- I Burn My Leg

This is a dream from yours truly...have fun interpreting!

Lance (my husband) and I are at Orchard Supply Hardware. It's employee discount day and we're there. We get to use the discount. Old employees have come back to the store to say hello to those working there and the mood is festive. We're looking into a new heater. I go over to try it out and somehow I burn my leg. It's a tiny burn, but I make a big fuss until Lance comes over and consoles me. He hugs me and I carry on until he calls me on being dramatic.

Dreamer's Response -- Dream #6

I was enchanted by Toni's dream and found it to be quite powerful. It's a dream that one could work with for years and continue to get new meaning from.

If it were my dream, it would have been about about change, and Toni writes that not long after she had the dream, she had the "big breakup" of her 20s. The dream features seven waterfalls, and seven is the number of luck, as well as spirit and intuition/introspection. If it were my dream, I would see that I was going through a time of thinking "what is it all for" and trying to make a decision that would benefit me.

Because the dream was located in Toni's mind in the Pacific Northwest, which she says was her ideal place to live at the time, perhaps she was seeing a scene of better things to come, of being able to flow over life's obstacles to arrive at something better. In the dream she had a loyal friend with her; if it were my dream this would signal to me that my psyche was saying I was supported in the decisions I was going to make.

The inclusion of the "voice-over," which Toni "was convinced at the time was God or a higher power or whatever you want to call it" shows to me that not only the psyche, but also the universe/higher power supported the decision as well.

Thanks for this amazing dream, Toni!

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