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So what (if anything) does this mean??

MountainsMountains Veteran
edited June 2011 in Buddhism Basics
I just woke up and I suddenly remembered a dream I'd had last night.

A bunch of us were either getting stuff out of, or putting stuff in our cars at the airfield where I fly gliders. I bent down and looked into the front seat, and my friend who was killed in a flying accident in April was sitting in my car. I asked him what he was doing there, and he looked directly at me and said "It's okay". I asked him how he was (or how "it" was, I can't remember exactly), and he said "I'm okay, but it's very different".

Just as clear as day, all of it.

Whoa...

Comments

  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
    A car is usually considered a metaphor for our identity so in this case your freind may represent some part of yourself. Flying can be interpreted several ways, but it usually refers to some kind of freedom and confidence.

    So in this case I'd say that your freind that died flying represents some type of fear of your own freedom, but he reassured you that it's okay so its probably some way you're able to cope with it.

    I'm not an expert at this, just someone with a dream dictionary who's been trying to interpret his own dreams for a while. Its helpful to get one so you can see in what way all these events can be seen as metaphors for our own minds.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    How do you feel about that dream, Mountains?

    Person's interpretation is very sensible, although for my own part, I'm of the opinion that dreams are there to kick up a subconscious train of thought, but may have no second meaning or agenda, for all that.....
    How did it make you feel?
  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
    How do you feel about that dream, Mountains?

    Person's interpretation is very sensible, although for my own part, I'm of the opinion that dreams are there to kick up a subconscious train of thought, but may have no second meaning or agenda, for all that.....
    How did it make you feel?
    Yes, your feelings towards objects is very important in interpreting their meaning.
  • I just woke up and I suddenly remembered a dream I'd had last night.

    A bunch of us were either getting stuff out of, or putting stuff in our cars at the airfield where I fly gliders. I bent down and looked into the front seat, and my friend who was killed in a flying accident in April was sitting in my car. I asked him what he was doing there, and he looked directly at me and said "It's okay". I asked him how he was (or how "it" was, I can't remember exactly), and he said "I'm okay, but it's very different".

    Just as clear as day, all of it.

    Whoa...
    Mountains- I know that most Buddhists don't believe that we survive death with our consciousness intact, but I'm not convinced. I've had several dead relatives "visit" me in the dream state to either check on me or to let me know that they were OK. Other relatives also had dream visits from the same family member in the same time frame. I can't explain it and I don't want to spark a debate about this here on your thread, but sometimes things are what they appear to be. Your friend chose to appear to you in a way that connected to you through your mutual love of gliding.

    I agree with person about dream symbols. There are some universal ones but many are significant to the dreamer only. Those are the ones that only you would be able to interpret.

    I hope that you are able to tap into your dream messages and find comfort in seeing your friend.


  • poptartpoptart Veteran
    It's not unusual for the dead to visit and reassure us about their welfare. My late father once appeared to me during meditation, dressed in his air force uniform from National Service days (which I'd never seen him in during his life since that was years before I was born). He simply smiled and said "I'm alright". It left me feeling elated.
  • auraaura Veteran
    Human beings have connections to one another that transcend life and death.
    Those connections transcend our 4 dimensional world rather like telephone connections transcend distances within our 4 dimensional world.
    Fear and desire both tend to block such connections.
    Natural affinity/harmonic resonance and meditation both tend to open such connections.

    The dead often do try to connect and communicate through to the living that they are all right as a message/broadcast through those connections to those they cared about in life who may have been shaken by their death. Generally such connections are clearer at night because there is less noise at night, but such connections can be made in the daytime just as well.
  • The dream wasn't in any way disturbing, just "different". I've had similar dreams before, but none that were this starkly realistic. I think perhaps Meir was one of those beings with whom I've probably had dealings (or been related to, or married to, or whatever) in past lives, and we just bumped into each other again this time. I firmly believe that's the case. There are beings with whom we navigate the river of our many lives together, and we know one another over and over. I think that's the only reasonable explanation for the phenomenon of meeting someone for the first time and instantly feeling as if you've known them your whole life ("love at first sight" is a manifestation of this). Meir was one of those people for me.
  • nice dream...with kind sentiments towards your friend in your subsconscious

    thanks :)

  • auraaura Veteran
    edited June 2011
    When you first met Meir did one or both of you completely lose all knowledge and memory of what year it was and have an extremely difficult time trying to figure it out, such that even when you did manage to find out what year it was, the year on the calendar did not look at all correct, with not even the correct century? It is an amusing phenomenon I have observed in this life when meeting people in this life that I knew in the last one.
  • auraaura Veteran
    When you first met Meir did one or both of you completely lose all knowledge and memory of what year it was and have an extremely difficult time trying to figure it out, such that even when you did manage to find out what year it was, the year on the calendar did not look at all correct, with not even the correct century? It is an amusing phenomenon I have observed in this life when meeting people in this life that I knew very well in the last one and with whom I had a strong harmonic resonance and connection.
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    edited June 2011
    No, our relationship wasn't like that. We were at best casual friends, and we only met a couple of years ago (almost exactly, as a matter of fact). It was more a feeling on my part I think. I never talked about it with him before he died. But the fact that his death touched me so deeply despite the seemingly casual nature of our relationship confirms my feeling about it. But we instantly hit it off when we met. A truly wonderful person.
  • Wow. Sounds like the real thing to me.
  • auraaura Veteran
    A friend of mine had the same sort of friend in school. The guy was just a casual friend he had met in passing, and yet he had an unshakable odd feeling of having known the guy from some other life.

    One day they were just fooling around wrestling like teenage guys do and they both broke it off very abruptly, very suddenly, simultaneously:
    "You killed me the last time....I died!"
    "Yeah. I know. I did kill you. I didn't mean to kill you, we were friends...I felt really bad about it for a really long time...

    Both of them had simultaneously flashed back to having once been Roman gladiators, down to the leather armor and the smells and one having hit the other by accident with a metal spiked ball thing in the head when it was supposed to have been just a practice, just a show, and not a real combat.
    It was a horrifying scene and they had each simultaneously recalled the same scene, each from the opposite side of it.

    Both teenagers were followers of religions that strictly forbade the concept of reincarnation and the experience totally boggled their minds and undermined what they had always been taught about life and death, but they have remained friends over the years.
  • Wow! Cool stories, Mountains and Aura! I'm with Kayte. Your friend came to you in a dream possibly to reassure you that it's ok, i.e. don't grieve to much, or have "survivor's guilt" or anything like that. And also to let you know he was ok. And "it" is ok, =the Other Side is a good place to be. So, be comforted; your friend made the effort to appear to you and give you soothing words.
  • I'm just a little bit curious. Who's dream, exactly, was it?
  • I'm just a little bit curious. Who's dream, exactly, was it?
    Whose dream? Read the OP.

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