Tell Us A Dream #5
Posted: Monday, February 01, 2010
by Gregory Lewis
PopGnosis
Dream Mansion This is one of the few dreams I remember. Usually, if I dream, they are fuzzy but this one was incredibly clear, even after a few months. I was dreaming that my neighbor had remodeled his house into a muti-million dollar mansion. I was in my back yard and noticed that his wife was trying to move something heavy. I went over to help and as I took the item around the back of the house, I noticed that my neighbors were loading most of their personal belongings into a moving truck. I asked my neighbor and he told me that they were going to live with his mother- in- law as she had health issues. He told me that he planned to rent the house in the meantime for 300 dollars a month. I tried to talk him into raising the price to attract a better class of tenant, after all this was a very expensive house that he had put a lot of work into. Then just inside his back door, I saw a crucified Jesus floating by his couch. My neighbor went to him and hugged him. Then I hugged him and woke up singing Riders on the Storm by the Doors out loud and the song stayed with me all day. "Steven"
Hi Steven, and welcome to Tell Us A Dream.
A mansion dream! These are often among the most beautiful to be in, and have strong spiritual connections. Dream homes can be intensely lucid, and the dreamer often wants to return to it, if not in this life, then in the next.
You don't say what the heavy thing was you helped your neighbor's wife to move; a burden of some type. Since you are offering to share the load, you have taken personal responsibility for other people's burdens. This isn't just a noble act, but a revelation of your essential noble character. It sounds like your neighbor with the mansion is progressing upward, while your other neighbors are taking another direction. That your neighbor says his mother-in-law (symbolically distant, rather than close) has health problems gives your other neighbors health problems by inference. This sounds like a comparison, where the dream-neighbor lives the kind of life you aspire to become. Note the hugging of the crucified Jesus. This has two suggested meanings, and probably both at the same time: One is a connection with God, literally, since the neighbor has hugged the floating Jesus specter. The second meaning is that suffering was involved in order to attain this level of spirituality.
There is a pureness to this dream, as well. All the while we are talking about your neighbor, but in dreams we often diffract our own personality into other personalities. In other words, the neighbor is an aspect of you. It is that higher Steven in his becoming, and the neighbors are the lower, spiritually unhealthy aspects of yourself that you would like to distance yourself from. Note how you try to persuade your dream neighbor to raise the rent. That is analogous to raising your own standards, or raising the bar for yourself.
Summary: This dream seems to be about how you would like to rise above your common, community nature, and directly connect with the apex of being, pure spirit. Some indicators of the path to this spiritual arrival include "sharing the load" with your anima, the feminine aspect of your spiritual self (the neighbor and his wife are a male and female counterpart to your own higher level self). There is burden involved, struggle, work, and uncompromising standards of excellence. If Jesus can come into the home, then it must truly be a holy place you have built in your mind. This mansion represents the summum bonum, the "ultimate good," and it exists within you.
The waking refrain of Riders on the Storm is only mildly confusing. I've always thought of it as a song with dark overtones, knowing what I know about Jim Morrison.
"Riders on the storm, Into this house we're born, Into this world we're thrown, Like a dog without a bone." Jim Morrison, Riders on the Storm.
This dream leaves so much more to explore, Steven. It is a good dream, a very good dream that, overall, gives the sense that you have inner knowledge of how to proceed according to your conscience, and arrive at the destination that is important to your ideals.
Gregory
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