So I started to get into my dreams again – since I had absolutely nothing to do in Australia except try and get myself a “future” job, and, essentially loaf around (not to forget that I found four dream books in a bookstore going-out-of-business for $20 [actually, there seemed to be a-great-many-Aussie bookstores going-out-of-business in Brisbane {books are always the first to suffer in economic downturns}]).
Once-upon-a-time I could engage in lucid dreaming (this was a pre-parenting phenomenon – as nothing fucks-you-up quite like children do). It was very cool: I was able to program sexual interludes with the phantoms of all-sorts-of-big-names. At one point (in real time), I was dating a porn performer (I don’t know that they can all be called actresses or stars) and she would regularly report that we hooked up in her dreams — though I have no recollection of these meetings, and subsequently – know that the phantom “stars” I was with have no recollections of me. But now, this type of lucid dreaming seems like a great deal of wasted dream time…
These “daze” I am trying to retain enough dream stuff in my pre-conscious to analyze the previous day’s events before beginning my new day. And since we spend close to one-third of our lives in the sleep state – I’m pretty sure that this is a valuable personal endeavor.
I find that when I am on vacation and sleeping in, I can see how the content of my dreams is an attempt to sort out the confusions and concerns of the day before: as lying in bed facilitates this as opposed to rising with the alarm clock’s ring (Oh! How I long for everyday to be a Saturday!!). And I have long since learned how excessive alcohol inundates One’s dreaming. So I also know that proper dreaming doesn’t mesh nicely with White Man’s Time…
Aside from fun reviews of Freud, Jung and Perls et al. – I learned how the chakras contribute to dreaming, and, that the colors of the rainbow correspond to the “auras” or “light” given off by each chakra! This was a major ass-kicker for me because: as-a-youth, I was able to memorize the colors of the rainbow with a memory scheme! Here they are:
Chakra Colors Body Part Unresolved issues and suppressed feelings
1) Red Coccyx Anger; physical and material limitations
2) Orange Abdomen Shock, trauma, avoidance, fear
3) Yellow Mid trunk Indecision, forgiveness, sadness
4) Green Heart Compassion, understanding, pain, hurt
5) Blue Throat Communication
6) Indigo Between Brows Blocked memories, hopelessness
7) Violet Top of Head Negativity, numbness, worthlessness
So here is my new dream scheme – to use the unresolved issues and suppressed feelings I experience in those dreams I recall to try to figure out which chakra is not functioning at its peak because of whatever is going on inside me.
I think my coccyx is OK, because everyone suggests that I am mellow and centered and I never get angry any more. The abdomen seems to be in order as well, as the only fear I experience is when Giti and/or Austen are driving me around. The mid-trunk, however, is in the midst of my body shaping experiment and makes me look like I have a massive belly (and I do, I guess) – but I don’t feel the negative stuff associated with a tweaked chakra. I think my heart is in order – if I should ever die of a heart attack, I…I…I…oh well. I know the throat is in great shape as I spend my life communicating with others. The third eye (between the brows) is rather calm right now, and I don’t mind this at all – though I’m pretty sure it gets activated when I am playing music. And unfortunately, allergy season plays havoc with the sinuses in my head – so I’m never quite sure of whether I’m in my right (or left) head.
This should provide me grist for a lifetime!