I had a dream one day at camp last week that was disturbing, yet highly unrealistic. Surely crazy, but the message I think is actually a good one, and less harmful than the details portray, although I'm not sure what that message is just yet:
Jon and I were visiting the Gateway Arch in St Louis, which is where we went on our first real date after meeting in person, and there was a new-addition lookout-balcony at the top. We climbed out to it and walked a curling staircase to the top together. Once at the top, he was about to get down on one knee, then somehow slipped and fell over the edge! He grabbed the railing and I grabbed his hand, but I couldn't pull him up. He was dangling over St Louis! (And if you have never been to the top of the Arch in St Louis, this is what the view looking down is like).
It was so scary, obviously unrealistic, which I noted as I was in the scene, but still a scary scenario. And then, you know the scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Henry Jones says to Indy as he's hanging on to reach for the grail on the verge of slipping into the crevice in the temple, "Indiana. Let it go." ? Well, when I looked up I saw my grandfather saying that to me, my dad's dad, who passed away when I was eight, and who tends to pop into my dreams every so often. I was like, "No! Are you crazy!" I had a feeling as though my future was about to slip away from me.. and I was prepared to jump out after him, had he lost his grip. Instead, I woke up.
I usually don't read much into my dreams, at least not ones of this nature. I can tell the difference between ones that might have specific meaning and those that are just a jumble of thoughts or feelings, although I have had some that were foretelling of future events that later occurred. I've also had some that allowed me to connect with people no longer present on earth... and of those, people I've never even met, which was pretty amazing let me say.
Dreams are interesting, indeed. I'm amused by God's enabling us the means to unconsciously come up with such scenarios.
Dreams are awesome! I had one where I was a transformer and another where I was a shopping gmae show.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you where at a cross roads with you grandfather saying let Jon go but that is just me.
I really don't think the message of this is "letting go" because that makes no sense whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I think so many factors comprise dreams, that we really can't try to deduce their meanings with any kind of accuracy, not even people who claim to know how to do so. Maybe it means there's a fear? Maybe the fear relates to the thoughts I have whenever I'm away from Jon. Everyone with loved ones has that feeling when they are apart or the other is traveling or something.. it's the thought that anything could happen when you're not around to do anything, and I do get this thought often when we're apart. I pray constantly for his safety in those times.
I guess that's my interpretation of this dream, however impossible to interpret for sure.