What Did You Dream About Last Night?

I dreamed I heard someone banging on my bedroom window but my back was to it in bed and I couldn't move as though I had sleep paralysis and I was utterly terrified and then I heard my roommate and her boyfriend get up and leave the house because they couldn't sleep so I was even more scared because I was alone in the house. just the fear I felt, even upon waking, was palpable, and I wasn't even entirely sure it was a dream until I heard my roommate and her boyfriend in her room and knew they were still home. did not like it.

Shenzi wrote:(if I find a copy in PDF somewhere, I'll post it here - hope they don't ban me for it )

Thank you! Now I am very interested in dreams and I will have more time to focus on them soon.

I had a dream of dusty old bookshelves, there were parrots living in the spaces in between, none of them could fly. One of the parrots was in some kind of silver long-legged elephant armor/machine, it couldn't walk on its own. One of its metal 'legs' was broken, and it just kept falling.
Sort of like this, only silver: https://www.dalipaintings.com/images/paintings/the-elephants-large.jpg
What in the world.

Shenzi wrote:I had a dream of dusty old bookshelves, there were parrots living in the spaces in between, none of them could fly. One of the parrots was in some kind of silver long-legged elephant armor/machine, it couldn't walk on its own. One of its metal 'legs' was broken, and it just kept falling.
Sort of like this, only silver: https://www.dalipaintings.com/images/paintings/the-elephants-large.jpg
What in the world.

^amazing the scary vibe this has.i like surrealism.
i saw this too because of that post.
https://www.dalipaintings.com/images/pa ... phants.jpg

i found this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl3YXl_m0uk
weirdly scary in some way too. i remember it as a kid creeped me out lol.

Dream, Caused by the Flight of a Bee (Around a Pomegranate, a Second Before Waking Up)

julllia wrote:^amazing the scary vibe this has.i like surrealism.
i saw this too because of that post.
https://www.dalipaintings.com/images/pa ... phants.jpg

I enjoy surrealism too and relate to it, mimicking the reality is just unimaginative. Though not sure how I feel about it once it creeped up into my dreams and subconscious. I personally relate it to my fascination with Jung, his talk on active imagination and his Red Book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)),

Jung referred to his imaginative or visionary venture during these years as "my most difficult experiment."[13] This experiment involved a voluntary confrontation with the unconscious through willful engagement of what Jung later termed "mythopoetic imagination".[14][15] In his introduction to Liber Novus, Shamdasani explains:

"From December 1913 onward, he carried on in the same procedure: deliberately evoking a fantasy in a waking state, and then entering into it as into a drama. These fantasies may be understood as a type of dramatized thinking in pictorial form.... In retrospect, he recalled that his scientific question was to see what took place when he switched off consciousness. The example of dreams indicated the existence of background activity, and he wanted to give this a possibility of emerging, just as one does when taking mescaline.

took me a lot of time to find it online and I think one needs to first go through his other work to be able to fully grasp it (which I still haven't done). Found some bizarre images there.

i found this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl3YXl_m0uk

I love old Disney and used to know all this their OST by heart. My grandfather, who I didn't get to see that often, spoiled me with sending it on a frequent basis.

Shenzi wrote:I had a dream of dusty old bookshelves, there were parrots living in the spaces in between, none of them could fly. One of the parrots was in some kind of silver long-legged elephant armor/machine, it couldn't walk on its own. One of its metal 'legs' was broken, and it just kept falling.
Sort of like this, only silver: https://www.dalipaintings.com/images/paintings/the-elephants-large.jpg
What in the world.

That is a very interesting dream but how should we interpret it. Do you have any idea yourself? The parrot could represent mimicking.

I think parrots also could represent something which only keep on repeating same things. Maybe one parrot was metallic because it is unflexible or has some kind of shield on themselves. But why the broken leg? Maybe the shield will break soon.

Just say if you want me to stop this...

No, please carry on, I appreciate the effort. I think parrots definitely stretch into my childhood, I got one as a present from a person that meant a lot to me. This isn't the first dream I've had starring parrots. It was the first being I personally was looking after, so it might relate to codependency. The silver/metallic elephant machine confuses me still. My alter ego perhaps? I honestly don't know but feel like I've seen the image of it somewhere, seemed familiar somehow. It might be one of the figurines one of my parents brought from somewhere. When I tried googling it, led me to Dali.
The place seemed like a cage made of dusty books (knowledge imprisons? ), I guess there's a connection between the inability to fly and those book shelves. The more I think of it, the more it seems like a subconscious portrayal of attempts to help myself through psychology/philosophy. The shield suggests being one step further away from all the other 'broken' parrots in reaching that goal. Suggests a delusion, not identifying the issue properly, using false methods, artificial legs instead of 'coming clean' and accepting broken wings, self-sabotage in a way. Have no idea where this interpretation is coming from lol.

^Your interpretation sounds very valid, I think. This is interesting all in all. Maybe this is my new career. But I have to take a pause now which is a huge loss for dream research