School setting again. It was the University of Victoria, but kind of condensed into one building around a green, lush quad.
I was being shown to my room by a dark skinned beauty, passing hallways of other rooms filled with bunkbeds, and really interesting looking characters in each one.
We began to traverse a wooden hallway that I was feeling anxious about crossing. Everything seemed a bit sideways for the walk, but when we got to the room, I was astonished. It was like a tree fort, built into the side of one of the biggest trees I'd ever seen.
I was tripped out at first, saying that I'd rather sleep in one of the rooms with the bunkbeds, but then the host pulled out a giant basket of fruit. Some of it was unlike anything I've ever seen on planet earth, that's for sure.
I was lucid only at the very end, when something suddenly clicked, and I was aware of thinking "I can do whatever I want! It's obviously a dream!"
Right after that I ended up devouring the entire fruit basket in a really messy and truly unladylike fashion, spewing pieces of peel and little seeds all over this gorgeous red bedding.
Dream feasting.
Gotta love it.
A symbol of individuality—of private thoughts. The windows symbolize the possibility of understanding and of passing through to the external and
the beyond, and are also an illustration of any idea of communication. Hence, a
closed room lacking windows may be symbolic of virginity, according to Frazer,
and also of other kinds of non-communication. Many rites involving the
enclosureimage are performed to mark the reaching of puberty, all over the world.
The legend about Danae, shut up by her father in a bronze tower, pertains to this
particular symbolism. There is a Siberian legend concerning a ‘dark house of iron’
which is also relevant to it (21). We might also mention the ‘vase with a lid’, one
of the eight emblems of good luck in Chinese Buddhism, and a symbol of wholeness, of the idea with no ‘exit’, or, in other words, of supreme intelligence triumphant over birth and death (signified respectively by the doors and windows of
the room) (5). This explains why the hermetically sealed room may possibly be
a variant form of the ‘vase with a lid’.
To dream that you are in a room, represents a particular aspect of yourself or a specific relationship. Dreams about various rooms often relate to hidden areas of the conscious mind and different aspects of your personality. If the room is welcoming or comfortable, then it signifies opulence and satisfaction in life. If you see a dark or confined room, then it denotes that you feel trapped or repressed in a situation.
To dream that you find or discover a new room, suggests that you are developing new strengths and taking on new roles. You may be growing emotionally. Consider what you find in the discovered room as it may indicate repressed memories, fears, or rejected emotions. Alternatively, such rooms are symbolic of neglected skills or rejected potential.
To dream that you are in an empty white room, indicates a fresh start. It is like a blank canvas where you want to start life anew. Alternatively, the dream means that you are trying to isolate yourself. You do not want any outside influences.
To dream of a yellow room, suggests that you need to use your mind. You are feeling stimulated mentally.
Dreaming that you are in a room, represents a particular aspect of yourself or a particular relationship. Dreams about various rooms often relate to hidden areas of the conscious mind and different aspects of your personality. Dreaming that you find or discover new rooms, suggests that you are developing new strengths and taking on new roles. You may be growing emotionally. Seeing an appealing or comfortable room in your dream means opulence and satisfaction in life. Seeing a dark, eerie or confining room indicates that that you feel trapped or repressed in a situation.
Rooms in dreams, much like in waking life, are a way to compartmentalize aspects of our lives. We undertake certain tasks in certain rooms, for instance we sleep in a bedroom, work in an office room and cook in a kitchen.
In dreams different types of rooms represent different aspects of our subconscious, or symbolize thoughts connected with whatever we connect that type of room with in waking life. So, for instance, a kitchen in a dream may represent sustenance, cooking and eating, or even family gatherings - depending on how you use your kitchen in waking life.
Furthermore, the state of the room in your dream can tell you something about the message it is trying to convey, i.e. kitchen dreams may be telling you to eat more or eat less, or eat differently, depending on how it appears in your dream.
Discovering a new room in your dream could represent discovering a new part of your subconscious, a new aspect of yourself that you haven't explored before, an aspect that your subconscious thinks that you should explore.
To see a basket in your dream, symbolizes the womb and physical body. It also represents the things that you are holding onto. If the basket is full, then it denotes abundance and fertility.
To dream of seeing or carrying a basket, signifies that you will meet unqualified success, if the basket is full; but empty baskets indicate discontent and sorrow.
Dreaming of a basket symbolizes the material body. It also represents the things that you are holding onto.
Equivalent to the egg, in traditional symbolism, for in the centre of the
fruit is the seed which represents the Origin (29). It is a symbol of earthly desires.
To see fruit in your dream, signifies growth, abundance and financial gain. They also symbolize lust and sexuality. In particular, green fruit in your dream, denotes your hastiness and disappointed efforts. You need to work harder and longer in order to achieve your goals. If the fruit is ripe, then it represents fertility and conception. You desire a child or you are ready to have a child.
To see or eat rotting/bitter fruit, represents your missed opportunities for growth and pleasure. Alternatively, it indicates a situation or relationship that ended prematurely. You are expressing some regret.
To dream that you buy or sell fruit, indicates that your efforts are being wasted in a fruitless endeavor.
To dream of seeing fruit ripening among its foliage, usually foretells to the dreamer a prosperous future. Green fruit signifies disappointed efforts or hasty action.
For a young woman to dream of eating green fruit, indicates her degradation and loss of inheritance. Eating fruit is unfavorable usually.
To buy or sell fruit, denotes much business, but not very remunerative.
To see or eat ripe fruit, signifies uncertain fortune and pleasure.
Seeing fruit in your dream means a period of growth, abundance and financial gain. Fruits generally represents lust and sexuality. In particular green fruit in your dream indicates your hastiness and disappointed efforts. You need to work harder and longer in order to achieve your goals. Seeing or eating rotting/bitter fruit, suggests your missed opportunities for growth and pleasure. Dreaming that you buy or sell fruit means much business but little profit in them.
Fruit represents abundance and prosperity. As a result of the seeds that they carry, they may also represent new beginnings. In biblical stories, mythology and literature in general, fruits have enjoyed much symbolic meaning. They may represent sexual desires and the search for wealth and immortality. In order to understand the meaning of the fruit in your dreams, consider your current strivings and psychological space. Also, consider whether the fruit was ripe, rotting or bitter. All of the details will help you to understand whether you have a lustful heart, are at a new frontier, or have missed opportunities for growth and pleasure.
To dream that you are peeling something, represents the shedding away of old ways, habits and conditions. It may also mean that you are finally getting rid of and discarding unneeded exterior pretenses.
Dreaming that you are peeling something, represents the shedding away of old ways, habits and conditions. It may also mean that you are finally getting rid of and discarding unneeded exterior pretenses.
To dream about fashion, suggests that you are depending too much on your looks to get your way. You need to start looking within yourself. Alternatively, the dream indicates that you have blended into the background. You need to step up and be more confident.
This symbol, which finds its literal expression in the act, or the
fear, of being devoured, is to be found in modified form in the notion of Entanglement, and also, according to Diel, in that of sinking into mud or a swamp. Jung, in
connexion with this, quotes the Biblical passage about Jonah and the whale, but
Jonah is really better associated with the ‘Night Sea-Crossing’. Jung also thinks
(31) that fear of incest becomes fear of being devoured by the mother, and that
this is then disguised by the imagination in such forms as the witch who swallows
up children, the wolf, the ogre, the dragon, etc. On the cosmic plane, the symbol
doubtless relates to the final swallowing up by the earth of each human body after
death, that is, to the dissolution of the body, so that the symbol may well be
related to digestion. In consequence, all those stories which ‘have a happy ending’, in which children who have been swallowed whole still live inside the animal and eventually escape, refer no doubt to the Christian dogma of the hope of
resurrection in the flesh.