I had a dream that need advices
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Last night i had a dream that i am in a building presumming it is a school, where a security guard or a aged man with white hair taught me how to say prayers.
The hand stance is the last two fingers of each hand fold together, middle finger of each hand straight, pointing upwards and touch one another, index finger pointing downwards and touch from the tip to the first knuckle and the thumb pointing up forming a 6 and a inverse 6 joined from my view.
Later the scene was like i was possessed or something, then shouted out goddess of mercy prayer. then the person beside me fainted or something. Later dreamt of a lorry and i got a little bruises around.
Any meaning to this dream? If not then thanks for your time. -
Buddhism doesn't really encourage dream interpretation.
Anyway, from my understanding, dreams are pyschological aspect of ourself converted to symbolic expressions... thats all.
Your description is abit vague... so i can only interprete from what i can gather..
School means a lesson that you need to learn... If it is a school that you have studied before... it means that the karmic habit was formed during that period of time.
All persons in the dream can be said to be aspects of our personality... many are subconscious. The security guard means that certain aspect of yourself is guarded or protected from your own conscious understanding... for your own percieved security.
You seems to be possessed means that you are encountering an unknown part of your own subconcious personality. You got scared and pray to Guan Yin. The guy next to you fainted... means that you will be frightened by this yet unknown part of your personality. You didn't see the form of what that possessed you... means that you will not understand this part of you (yet).
The dream is symbolising that you need to discover and understand a part of your personality that you are not aware of. Perhaps the hand stances can give some clues. Subsequent dreams will tell whether this has made progress or not.
The lorry part is a bit vague... so quite hard to interprete.
regards. -
its a kind of mudra , i have no way to interprete that ,suggest u see a rinpoche on the mudra u mentioningOriginally posted by Herroin:Last night i had a dream that i am in a building presumming it is a school, where a security guard or a aged man with white hair taught me how to say prayers.
The hand stance is the last two fingers of each hand fold together, middle finger of each hand straight, pointing upwards and touch one another, index finger pointing downwards and touch from the tip to the first knuckle and the thumb pointing up forming a 6 and a inverse 6 joined from my view.
Later the scene was like i was possessed or something, then shouted out goddess of mercy prayer. then the person beside me fainted or something. Later dreamt of a lorry and i got a little bruises around.
Any meaning to this dream? If not then thanks for your time. -
Originally posted by bohiruci:its a kind of mudra , i have no way to interprete that ,suggest u see a rinpoche on the mudra u mentioning
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any definition of a mudra ?
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As the Buddha teaching of mudra is must be initiated or perform proper cleansing before perform mudraOriginally posted by Herroin:any definition of a mudra ?
i will refrain from trying to interprete the mudra
or its considered an serious non-alignment to the Mandala and tantric practice
suggest u look for rinpoche (any school one)
or tibetan buddhist studies centre rinpoche
mudra definition is as below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra -
longchenOriginally posted by longchen:Buddhism doesn't really encourage dream interpretation.
Anyway, from my understanding, dreams are pyschological aspect of ourself converted to symbolic expressions... thats all.
Your description is abit vague... so i can only interprete from what i can gather..
School means a lesson that you need to learn... If it is a school that you have studied before... it means that the karmic habit was formed during that period of time.
All persons in the dream can be said to be aspects of our personality... many are subconscious. The security guard means that certain aspect of yourself is guarded or protected from your own conscious understanding... for your own percieved security.
You seems to be possessed means that you are encountering an unknown part of your own subconcious personality. You got scared and pray to Guan Yin. The guy next to you fainted... means that you will be frightened by this yet unknown part of your personality. You didn't see the form of what that possessed you... means that you will not understand this part of you (yet).
The dream is symbolising that you need to discover and understand a part of your personality that you are not aware of. Perhaps the hand stances can give some clues. Subsequent dreams will tell whether this has made progress or not.
The lorry part is a bit vague... so quite hard to interprete.
regards.
kind of differ , yes in tibetan buddhism especially the kagyu school
there is a teaching to interprete dreams
but its not available to common ppl .that all -
I see... thanks.Originally posted by bohiruci:longchen
kind of differ , yes in tibetan buddhism especially the kagyu school
there is a teaching to interprete dreams
but its not available to common ppl .that all
Anyway, my knowledge of dream interpretation is taught by a teacher who is not aligned to any religion or tradition.
regards -
Hmm... Buddhism in general does not encourage dream interpretation.Originally posted by Herroin:Last night i had a dream that i am in a building presumming it is a school, where a security guard or a aged man with white hair taught me how to say prayers.
The hand stance is the last two fingers of each hand fold together, middle finger of each hand straight, pointing upwards and touch one another, index finger pointing downwards and touch from the tip to the first knuckle and the thumb pointing up forming a 6 and a inverse 6 joined from my view.
Later the scene was like i was possessed or something, then shouted out goddess of mercy prayer. then the person beside me fainted or something. Later dreamt of a lorry and i got a little bruises around.
Any meaning to this dream? If not then thanks for your time.If you want to continue to be a devoted yogi, generally you should never cling to dreams. If you do, you will eventually expose yourself to the influence of the four maras. If your dreams are positive, do not have any expectations. If we are filled with hopes and expectations, even positive things can turn negative. If your dreams are negative, don't take them too seriously. Learn to see negative dreams as illusion, not real. Then, although a dream seems negative, because we realize that it isn't real, it becomes a positive thing that prepares us for further development and realization in the spiritual path. This is the practice of a yogi.
But anyway if you want to find an expert on this, longchen is indeed the right person
-- from The Life of Gampopa by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart, just published by Snow Lion Publications.
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This is quite true... knowing the content of the dream can make one anticipate what's gonna happen...Originally posted by An Eternal Now:quote:If you want to continue to be a devoted yogi, generally you should never cling to dreams. If you do, you will eventually expose yourself to the influence of the four maras. If your dreams are positive, do not have any expectations. If we are filled with hopes and expectations, even positive things can turn negative. If your dreams are negative, don't take them too seriously. Learn to see negative dreams as illusion, not real. Then, although a dream seems negative, because we realize that it isn't real, it becomes a positive thing that prepares us for further development and realization in the spiritual path. This is the practice of a yogi.
-- from The Life of Gampopa by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart, just published by Snow Lion Publications.
For myself, i try not to dwell too much into my own dreams also... But the skill had been helpful for uncovering karmic patterns. But as a means of predicting the future... it only serves to reinforce anticipation. -
Hi Herroin,
my guess is that the hand stances or mudra maybe something that you have known before...
it is possible that the hand stances unlocks certain mental or physical condition... or that in the past (this can mean past life also) you believe it to be so....
These mental or physical condition translates symbolically into the possession. ....which is encounter with unknown aspect.
Lorry means sluggish (physical?) condition... and may correspond to the bruises.
could be wrong... just a hunch. -
the reason why its not available to common ppl ,is common ppl without foundation of Buddhadharma tends to cling on the idea of dream interpretation and not moving fwd liaoOriginally posted by bohiruci:longchen
kind of differ , yes in tibetan buddhism especially the kagyu school
there is a teaching to interprete dreams
but its not available to common ppl .that all -
Please Your Dream is not posses by any evil sprit nor it needs healing....what it does is that it needs understanding.
Our minds has a tendency to create image or mix image to reflect new event in our waking life. It has to resolve what happen during the day. So it goes into your mind and pull out various images that you understand. And play out into small scene that we call dream.
What is important in interpretating dream is to find out how you feel after you wake up. Remember it is your dream that reflects how you feel when you sleep it is not your dream that create the depress feeling ....Some dreams carried more than 2 meaning. That is to say on the dream that you see...vs what is being said...The entire conversation could be totally irrelevant to what you see in the dream.
Takes practice to understand these feeling and emotion attached to the dream...tomorrow night when you sleep your.
So visually what does your dream tells me. Most likely you have a decision to make or making changes. Although the decision or changes does not goes smoothly but u appear to be okay. You survie so snap out of it and start living!!! -
Thanks for all your help, it was great information. I was actually thinking that a important lesson had to be learnt from this, thus trying to understand it. Time to move on