I was wondering if I could get some input on what you think the following dreams mean?
Some months back I dreamt of rescuing a beautiful white bird from this group of businessmen plotting an evil conspiracy. They meant to harm it, and I went to some great lengths to protect it. When I got it to safety, it transformed into an equally beautiful black bird with red beak and wingtips.
Now, that was a fairly normal dream for me. The part I’m confused about is that more recently I had a second dream in which the same (or very, very similar) white bird appeared. This time, I was the one in trouble. The bird saved me from being accosted by giant waves that were trying to sweep me into the ocean. Later, it appeared again to save me from an evil man whose plans I’d disrupted. It ended up ‘sacrificing’ itself to achieve this, and this time transformed into the ghost of a pretty girl wearing old-fashioned clothes. The girl explained she was a saint, or guardian, or something along those lines.
That was an ordinary (if significantly abbreviated) dream as well. What struck me as being very odd was that I’d dreamed of what seemed to be the same bird twice - and both times it transformed into something else after the adventure was over. It’s so very rare for me to dream of such a specific detail more than once, so I’m wondering if it means something? Especially as I can’t say my life has anything to do with white birds in reality.
This has been bugging me for some time now and I can’t figure it out, so I’d really appreciate it if anyone could push me in the right direction!
Well the most obvious answer for this will be that that “White Bird” is actually your or one of your spirit guides. Of course i don’t believe in spirit guides but i can’t disaprove that they do exist. So try to meet this “white bird” and try to know more about its objective.
Don’t search what your life has to do with birds. Search what it has to do with such great dreams. IMO, you cannot make such significant dreams if something very important weren’t happening in your life.
Search about new things which are related to strong emotions (sadness perhaps), or related to a past you have thought to be dead. Do you find something?
That’s just the thing, though - birds aside, both dreams are very typical of the kind of dreams I’ve been having ever since I was a little girl in junior school, lol! There was really nothing unusual about them as individual dreams (for me, anyway).
This makes more sense to me, but the last time I felt particularly dejected was a while before I had either dream, so I don’t think it really applies. I’m not sure what you mean by a dead past, exactly - if you mean a certain phase in my life, there are a few that stand out, true, but they’re long over and done with. And not all of them were particularly fun, so I’m glad of it! It makes sense that these things could come back to haunt me in dreams, but my dreams are always good, so I’m still not sure it’s relevant.
Argh, maybe I’m just majorly overreacting and it was only a coincidence I dreamed the same bird twice, after all!
And to cranberrydude: I don’t believe in spirit guides either, but that’s a good idea. Trouble is, I don’t get lucid dreams in which I could ask! I think perhaps I’m one of those people who can’t - there’s just not enough motivation for it, because I’m generally very satisfied with my dreams the way they are. By the way, that’s a gorgeous photo!
These two dreams look very like “archetypal dreams” Jung is talking about. I’m very surprised when you say that nothing special is happening now in your life. Nevertheless, Jung says that when archetypes are activated, it could last a few months. Perhaps will these dreams reveal their secrets soon?
Hmmm. I can’t say I’ve ever heard of this Jung person or archetypal dreams before, so I don’t have a clue what that means - I’m assuming from the context you put it in that they’re supposed to be important dreams though?
I did think about it some more, however, and there was one particularly good thing that happened to me fairly recently - I landed my perfect part-time job and managed to keep it despite the high dropout rate. But this was a couple of months before the first of the bird dreams, so if it was retrospective it came pretty late. Aside from that, my life has been consistently satisfying.
I’m wondering though if you got the wrong impression from my description of the dreams, still. What I wrote down was only a tiny, tiny fraction of the full dream. For the sake of relevance (and space!) I left out everything not directly related to the bird, and there was a great deal more to it. If ‘archetype’ is just another word for important (although I strongly suspect I’m wrong about this), then I have to repeat they didn’t seem like important dreams at the time, just normal ones (at least my version of normal, which is usually weird to other people!).
Im just makin a flat out guess here but, white birds usually sybolize peace and stuff. Like doves. In the first dream you save it from buisnessmen types. So to me that sounds like greedy CEO types keeping this bird(symbolizing peace) captive, is symbolizing them making the world a generaly worse place so they can make money, and you tried to put a stop to that. or something like that.
Then in your next dream whenever the bird appears you become safe. everything becomes more peacfull, it takes you away from the violence of the giant or the evil man. So to me that still sounds like its representing peace.
But who knows.
But anyway, this might be a bit off-topic (and wierd), but I heard the vikings belived that every person had one godess of luck with them, and also an animal guardian (fyngija). These guardians looked different for every person and reflected their personality, so the strong person would have a bear fyngija, for an example.
And, they were expected to see in dreams!
Maybe I’ve just been reading too much norse mythology…
I’m searching the back archives and though this may be a little old, I may be able to help.
I had a dream simelar to this one. While searching for a criminal, I ended up in an elementary school play yard. Searching for a while, I was in the midst of several small nuns (strange for me, I’m not catholic), some cracks in the ground opened up, and I fell in. At the bottom of the pit, there was a safe. I managed oto unlock it and this beutiful girl was inside. we had a time, and I ended up falling in love with her. in the end she moved away, never to be seen again.
This dream turned to be both a mock up of my mother leaving me (I was 7 at the time), as well as a symbol of an emotional awakening.
