Dreamcatcher: Pennsylvania Retreat

Pennsylvania Retreat

Fragments:

First I was with Adam Apollo and a big group of people all staying at this retreat center in Pennsylvania. I knew it was Pennsylvania because of the sign for the place, it was metal letters mounted on stone and part of the name had the liberty bell on it.

There was an important recount for a wisconsin election going on. The pro-reformest, workers rights candidate against the corporate republican shmuck. We remarked how approproit it was that we were looking at a representation of the liberty bell as the final recount was going on.

I leaned up to the sign which was mounted along the ground like a long tombstone, about 20' long and pressed the top of the bell. It actually rung (even though is was only half a bell mounted on a flat surface and probably solid). We were surprised. Then Starhawks voice started speaking in this ethereal and echoey way, we didn't know weather it was in our heads or in the atmosphere. We both looked around as she told us that things here in this special place had magical powers. She told me to pull the metal nob on the bottom of a crystal that I was holding and when I did a green lazer shown from the center of it.

We went back in the house and shared our experience with the others who were camping out all around the place. We were all closely following the recount. There was a star machine casting stars everywhere in a dark room. At some point I was talking to a child about his eating habbits, carbs vs. protiens.

Later in the dream Lila asked me to come with her alone. We went across the street and down these rocks to a river. She was going faster than me, alone down to the water and I was barefoot and going slow. I followed her along the river until it wound back up toward the road where a photographer was taking pictures of a couple, looked like they were newly wed but wasn't sure if they were or not. Then Michaela was suddenly there and he started taking photos of Michaela and Lila, but briefly. We all went across the street and into another house, a mansion of a vacation rental which was empty, he took some more pics and vids. Then he asked if we wanted to see and when we looked at his camera screen it was a webpage that had all the photos already uploaded and the video already edited into this cute little video of all of us. We didn't even realize that we was videotaping that much.

We all smiled.

According to Raymond Lull, ‘meaning is the revelation of secrets
through the sign’, a thesis which puts the emphasis upon the sign as a fact, as a
reality. On the other hand, for Stanislas de Guaita (Essais de Sciences maudites,
II, Paris, 1915) the sign is the ‘point of reference needed by the will (or conscience) in projecting itself towards a predetermined goal’. The sign, then, is the
concrete form, the symptom, of an invisible, an inner reality and, at the same
time, the means whereby the mind is reminded of that reality. Determination and
meaning are immanent in the sign. The occult theory of ‘signatures’ conceives
everything that exists as a sign and holds that everything has a feasible ‘reading’
(the shape of a tree, the position of three or more rocks on a plain, the colour of some eyes, marks made by natural forces on a natural or artificial terrain, the
structure of a landscape, the pattern of a constellation, etc.). Auguste Rodin, a
realist who was always hovering on the borders of symbolism, in his Conversations collected by Paul Gsell, places all art within this realm of occult meaning,
with the words: ‘lines and shades are for us nothing more than the signs of a
hidden reality. Beyond the surface, our gaze plunges into the spirit’. The painter
Gustave Moreau expressed himself in similar terms when referring to ‘the evocation of thought by line, arabesque and plastic means’. In the present century, Max
Ernst and Dubuffet, among other artists, have explained their pictorial and graphic
experiments as an immersion in the psychic projected onto the material. At the
same time, C. G. Jung gives a similar explanation of the quest of the alchemists.

Dream Moods

To see a sign in your dream, indicates that you need help. You need some direction and guidance in your life. Pay attention to what the sign says and what it is pointing you to do. Perhaps the dream is highlighting "a sign of the times".

Hyper Dictionary

Seeing a sign in your dream indicates that you need assistance You need some direction and guidance in your life. Pay attention to what the sign says and what it is pointing you to do.

The Dictionary of Symbols

Mystics have always traditionally considered the feminine aspect of
the universe as a chest, a house or a wall, as well as an enclosed garden. Another
symbolic association is that which equates the house (and the above, related
forms) with the repository of all wisdom, that is, tradition itself (4). In architectural symbolism, on the other hand, the house carries not only an overall symbolism but also particular associations attached to each of its component parts.
Nevertheless, the house as a home arouses strong, spontaneous associations with
the human body and human thought (or life, in other words), as has been confirmed empirically by psychoanalysts. Ania Teillard explains this by pointing
out that, in dreams, we employ the image of the house as a representation of the
different layers of the psyche. The outside of the house signifies the outward
appearance of Man: his personality or his mask. The various floors are related to
the vertical and spatial symbols. The roof and upper floor correspond to the head
and the mind, as well as to the conscious exercise of self-control. Similarly, the
basement corresponds to the unconscious and the instincts (just as sewers do, in
symbols pertaining to the city). The kitchen, since this is where foodstuff is
transformed, sometimes signifies the place or the moment of psychic transmutation in the alchemical sense. The intercommunicating rooms speak for themselves. The stairs are the link between the various planes of the psyche, but their
particular significance depends upon whether they are seen as ascending or descending. Finally, there is, as we have said, the association of the house with the
human body, especially regarding its openings, as was well understood by
Artemidorus Daldianus (56).

Dream Moods

To see a house in your dream, represents your own soul and self. Specific rooms in the house indicate a specific aspect of your psyche. In general, the attic represents your intellect, the basement represents the unconscious, etc. If the house is empty, then it indicates feelings of insecurity. If the house is shifting, then it suggests that you are going through some personal changes and changing your belief system. To dream that a house has no walls, represents a lack of privacy. You feel that everyone is looking over your shoulder or up in your business.

To dream that you are cleaning your house, signifies your need to clear out your thoughts and get rid of old ways. You are seeking self-improvement.

If you live with others in your waking life, but dream that you are living alone, suggests that you need to take new steps toward independence. You need to accept responsibilities and be more self-reliant.

To see an old, run-down house in your dream, represents your old beliefs, attitudes and how you used to think or feel. A situation in your current life may be bringing about those same old attitudes and feelings. Alternatively, the old house may symbolize your need to update you mode of thinking. To dream that your house is damaged, indicates your waking concerns about the condition of your house.

To see a new house in your dream, indicates that you are entering into a new phase or new area in your life. You are becoming more emotionally mature. If you are locked out of the house, then it represents rejection and insecurity. You feel you are being left behind.

To dream that your house is broken into, suggests that you are feeling violated. It may refer to a particular relationship or current situation in your life. Alternatively, it indicates that some unconscious material is attempting to make itself known. There are some aspects of yourself that you have denied.

To dream of a haunted house, signifies unfinished emotional business, related to your childhood family, dead relatives, or repressed memories and feelings.

To dream that a house has disappeared, indicates that you are not feeling grounded. You feel uprooted by a particular circumstance or relationship in your life.

To dream that water is rising up in your house, suggests that you are becoming overwhelmed by your emotions.

10,000 Dreams Interpreted

To dream of building a house, you will make wise changes in your present affairs.

To dream that you own an elegant house, denotes that you will soon leave your home for a better, and fortune will be kind to you.

Old and dilapidated houses, denote failure in business or any effort, and declining health.

Hyper Dictionary

Seeing a house in your dream, represents your own soul and self. Specific rooms in the house indicate a specific aspect of your psyche. In general, the attic represents your intellect, the basement represents the unconscious, etc. If the house is empty, then it indicates feelings of insecurity. If the house is shifting, then it suggests that you are going through some personal changes and changing your belief system. Dreaming that you are cleaning your house means your need to clear out your thoughts and getting rid of old ways. You are seeking self-improvement. Seeing an old, run-down house in your dream, represents your old beliefs, attitudes and how you used to think or feel. A situation in your current life may be bringing about those same old attitudes and feelings. Alternatively, the old house may symbolize your need to update you mode of thinking. Dreaming that your house is broken into, suggests that you are feeling violated. It may refer to a particular relationship or current situation in your life. Alternatively, it indicates that some unconscious material is attempting to make itself known. There are some aspects of yourself that you have denied. Dreaming of a haunted house means unfinished emotional business, related to your childhood family, dead relatives, or repressed memories and feelings. Dreaming that a house disappeared, indicates that you are not feeling grounded. You feel uprooted by a particular circumstance or relationship in your life.

Meaning of Dreams

It is common to dream about houses. They usually symbolise our emotional and psychological selves. All of your experiences, stages of development, and parts of your conscious and unconscious life may be represented by that house. The house may be representing issues concerning a particular dilemma in your life, or it may be more general and comprehensive. Either way, if you pay attention to the details in this dream, you may learn a thing or two about yourself.