Dreamcatcher: Gratitude

Gratitude

I'm so grateful to have found this place. I have been experiencing so many different dreams, which I'm remembering with more ease it seems. One that sticks out to me right now, wasn't too recent but one I can remember almost completely:

I was staying at a hotel or resort. I was with a group of people who I've never seen before in my waking life. They were very friendly, and I felt they were my friends, that we knew each other and were experiencing great joy. One of the guys in the group started to tell me that I was dreaming, smiled as everyone else in the group did the same thing. I started to think and then realize that I was dreaming, and I shouted it out with joy, my realization of knowing that I was dreaming. I kissed the guy who was the first to tell me on the cheek, and the only thing I could think about was that I wanted to fly, and I did. The dream ended right when I was up in the air.

I feel this was a lucid dream, because I was consciously aware of the fact that I was dreaming, and controlled my wanting to fly, just didn't fly for long, haha.

The Dictionary of Symbols

Of the four Elements, air and fire are regarded as active and male; water
and earth as passive and female. In some elemental cosmogonies, fire is given
pride of place and considered the origin of all things, but the more general belief is
that air is the primary element. Compression or concentration of air creates heat
or fire, from which all forms of life are then derived. Air is essentially related to
three sets of ideas: the creative breath of life, and, hence, speech; the stormy
wind, connected in many mythologies with the idea of creation; and, finally,
space as a medium for movement and for the emergence of life-processes. Light,
flight, lightness, as well as scent and smell, are all related to the general symbolism
of air (3). Gaston Bachelard says that for one of its eminent worshippers,
Nietzsche, air was a kind of higher, subtler matter, the very stuff of human
freedom. And he adds that the distinguishing characteristic of aerial nature is that
it is based on the dynamics of dematerialization. Thoughts, feelings and memories
concerning heat and cold, dryness and humidity and, in general, all aspects of
climate and atmosphere, are also closely related to the concept of air. According to
Nietzsche, air should be cold and aggressive like the air of mountain tops. Bachelard
relates scent to memory, and by way of example points to Shelley’s characteristic
lingering over reminiscences of smell.

Dream Moods

To dream about the air, symbolizes creativity and intelligence. If the air is foggy or polluted, then it suggests that your thought process or mind is clouded.

To feel cold air in your dream, signifies discordance in your domestic relations and setbacks in your business affairs. You may be in danger of losing touch with reality.

To dream that you are breathing hot air, signifies the influence of evil around you.

10,000 Dreams Interpreted

This dream denotes a withering state of things, and bodes no good to the dreamer.

To dream of breathing hot air suggests that you will be influenced to evil by oppression.

To feel cold air, denotes discrepancies in your business, and incompatibility in domestic relations.

To feel oppressed with humidity, some curse will fall on you that will prostrate and close down on your optimistical views of the future.

Hyper Dictionary

Dreaming of inhaling unpleasant hot air might point to bad influences and bad forces at work against you, and cold air indicates some degree of failure professionally and emotionally.