Tell me something about the insects in my dreams. (52.1.4.6>55)

[themulberrytree]

I have been having dreams about insects. Not necessarily insects, but spiders and scorpions, too. In this morning's dream, I awake to a mosquito on my bedcover. I lift the bed cover to go over the mosquito and kill it. I later turn over my bed cover and see lots of dead mosquitoes. I am horrified. One is squashed and there is a streak of dried blood by it. In a dream before that, I find a black widow spider dangling from the ceiling of my bathroom, by the bathroom sink. I have to duck under the spider to get out. I get my mother to get rid of it and I go to the bathroom later to discover a new bathroom. Later in this same dream, I lay down on a pillow on a hill with a dream brother and sister and friends and I hear a buzzing under my pillow. It turns out to be a bee or a wasp. The brother sends it away for me. And in a dream before that, I feel something sticky on my bedroom windowsill and wipe it off on my father's bed. It is a small black scorpion. It doesn't hurt me. I call for my mother to get rid of it, but she is terrified. It's probably for the best, because I'm not sure I wanted it to be hurt. But the scorpion still needs to be removed in case my father went to sleep. I check again later, and the scorpion is gone.

My personal take is that insects make buzzing noises, and the reading is showing me the opposite of what insects are. Insects are petty annoyances. There are lots of insects. But I don't feel like that addresses the spider and the scorpion and I don't think the Yi means abundance in that way. In that case, I feel kind of like the Yi is telling me that I can figure it out by Keeping Still because I have enough information. (I've spent a few hours on this.)

 

[anemos]

Lots of little creatures that cause lot of annoyance. Intruding in private places ( bed, bathroom) or when you are resting or relaxing.

There is always a family figure that helps you -or can't - and you protect a family member too.

Too tight bonds, lifes interwoven ? Lack of privacy? Might 52 & 55 point on that ?

I like a lot the story, if its true, behind hex 55. The prince decides instead of follow the customs, retreat from active life and mourn for his father passing, to follow his bliss, the mandate of heaven.

Just spectulations to brake down the dream a bit so to discover the dynamics between the elements of this story.

 

[sooo]

There is an abundance of things that are bugging you. Your mother represents safety and security (52), to the whole family (your entire self), including your father (your head or mind).

 

[sooo]

In case you think I'm joking in my first line, I'm not. The thing to understand about dream images, unless they are archetype images (elementary ideas), the mind uses everyday common images to illustrate to the individual their meaning. It can use something the mind picked up from a TV show, something someone said in ordinary conversation, or the most obvious and literal use of common expressions. Other than archetypes, the unconscious has no way to communicate to the conscious mind through dreams but through the images and language we commonly use. Hence being bugged can manifest as literal bugs in the dream state. It's a symbolic language using literal images.

 

[Tim K]

I have a sense that something is going stale. Insects usually appear in abandoned areas, untouched by humans for some time. Like spider webs and dust.

52 - No movement, no fresh air.
55 - trigrams of fire and lightning/movement.

Maybe you should pay attention to some neglected areas? Do some cleaning up and let the fresh air into the room.
Of course it can be anything - relationship, muscle tone, car, old stuff in the attic, obsolete thought pattern/habit.


p.s. In my dreams insects are usually very nasty and attack me

 

[anemos]

Other than archetypes, the unconscious has no way to communicate to the conscious mind through dreams but through the images and language we commonly use. Hence being bugged can manifest as literal bugs in the dream state. It's a symbolic language using literal images.

I think , what you say here, is the Ariadne's thread for dream interpretation. Jung, and others before him, talked about that mythopoeic imagination and the myth creating function of the mind. It's not a capacity only poets or writers or artist have, it's what we all used to have and it's worth pondering that some expressions of this imagination we can it surreal

 

[sooo]

I think , what you say here, is the Ariadne's thread for dream interpretation. Jung, and others before him, talked about that mythopoeic imagination and the myth creating function of the mind. It's not a capacity only poets or writers or artist have, it's what we all used to have and it's worth pondering that some expressions of this imagination we can it surreal

I actually think it's much simpler than Ariadne's thread, a labyrinth resembling hex 3, a laborious disentanglement of logic and reason, cause and effect. I think that usually the key to understanding dreams is looking at the common ways the images are used in everyday life at face value. The difficulty is usually in the dreamer's inability to recognize those simple associations, turning it into an Ariadne's thread or a hex 55. The Yi typically tends to calm the calamity, such as through 52.

 

[anemos]

I thought of Ariadne's tread as a simple and reliable way to navigate through the dream, like the way you shared: the association of bugs with what bugging us.

Dreams feel like entering in a impenetrable-like maze, and the unconscious. Through the images, as you also said, we can understand for they offer clues that points the way how to receive the message, go out of the "maze" and utilize the info or/and make the unconscious conscious.

I learned two things today. The first was that the word 'clue' is a variant of the word 'clew'-ball of thread. The other was that in Logic there is a term called Ariadne's thread and , yes, it's seems a very h 55 process.

What you said, to me, sounded as a good advise to have in mind when we try to find our way into the dream's landscape, a helpful reminder as a quide to unravel the dream's message.

I had a dream, actually was a nightmare, about four years ago. When a discussion about dreams occur, it surfaces, because my feelings was I never understood it's real message. My life was in stake in a very hostile environment and I recall I had to pretent I was dead so to save myself from predators and at the same time looking for a way to escape. I was somewhere resembles a concentration camp, scenes I have seen in documentaries for Holocaust and other dreadfully images. I asked yesterday for a work matter to decide where I should speak up or stay silent for a matter and got 36. And, lo and behold, I finally felt I understood the meaning of that dream : "she veils her light, yet still shines " and :bag:

I'm thinking that sometimes it's not that we don't understand the dream but what we understand it's not what we want to hear, so we ignore the message, kind of and look for another one we like more. Same with Yi interpretations...

 

[sooo]

I think the difficult part is due to being wrapped up in the ball. When you describe that dream to me, it sounds so much like what you were going through about that time in your life. Yes, 36, perfect answer for the time. Perfect answer most of the time, lol.

 

[anemos]

I think the difficult part is due to being wrapped up in the ball.

The long answer is: Yes


... and yes for 36 too.