Natalia Snider is a certified dream practitioner living in Carbondale. She works with people’s dreams and imaginations to facilitate self-healing. Every month, she will analyze someone’s dream in The Sopris Sun. Anyone can submit a dream for personal analysis or inclusion in this column by visiting: www.dreamhealings.com
Claire’s dream
In my real (waking) life, I lived in a haunted house in my 20s. I had some spooky encounters with spirits. One night, two other female roommates and I saw a male figure in our bedroom and when we rose from the fright we felt hands on our shoulders, pushing us back down. All of us had this same experience in separate rooms on the same night.
Ever since I left this house, I have had a recurring dream about being back there but with many more levels and I’m trying my hardest to get to the top floor and out. It’s like I need to get to the top floor for some reason, and there are just more and more levels to this house. I keep opening doors and going through corridors, but nothing ends. Everywhere I go, I just find more corridors and doors. Every time, I get so frustrated that I end up waking myself up. When I’m up, I feel really annoyed that I had this dream again and that it was so frustrating. I’ve always thought it was about me being stuck in some way.
Interpretation
Stuck is exactly right, but let’s expand on that. Something from this house made a lasting impression on your subconscious. Or, more accurately, someone.
The house is a place where these spirits are stuck. They cannot move onward for whatever unknown reason. They instead are watching life pass with no ability to change it.
Upward, in the dream, is signifying the movement of the soul’s progression onward. Upward is where these spirits should have progressed through, but instead they are stuck in this liminal space between dimensions. Your need to go upward to the top floor in the dream is signifying this need for progression to higher dimensions within yourself. At the same time, and in the same space, these spirits are searching for their own upward progression.
Like attracts like. A tuning fork tuned to 528hz for instance when rung will begin to vibrate any other tuning fork tuned to 528hz in close proximity. Your own feelings of being stuck in your life during that time matched the vibratory charge of these spirits’ same feelings of being stuck. This may have created a psychic bonding or energy cord to this place and state of mind. The physical sensation that you had from the haunting of being pushed downward, not being able to get up, is possibly the moment this connection was created — reinforcing the feeling of being stuck in the physical action and connecting deep into your subconscious, creating this recurring dream.
A common theory of haunting spirits is that they have unfinished business and generally this business cannot be done from the spirit side. It must be done from within a physical body in the waking world. A spirit may have wanted to create this cord to grow through a shared experience of you moving upward and onward, like watching a tutorial on how to do it. In this way the spirit can understand and experience this feeling of moving onward, using your momentum like a barnacle on a boat to free themselves.
What does this mean for you? You have a few choices here. You can do the work of moving forward yourself and in that helping this spirit move forward, and then cut the cord. Or you can cut the cord immediately and go on your way solo. If the feeling when you woke up was fear, I would suggest the latter, but as it is not, there is no wrong choice. It’s simply, whatever feels correct for you at this moment.
Whatever you decide I will leave you with an easy cord-cutting meditation. Because this energy cord was created in the dream realm, it allows for easy removal from the dream realm. In a state of calm relaxation before bed or before a nap, call forward this dream. Run through the beginning in detail to pull as much forward from it as possible, then manipulate the outcome.
Become fully in charge of this dream and open the door that lets you out to the rooftop. In this, free yourself from the entrapment of the house. Imagine the house detaching from your body and sinking farther and farther away and fully out of view. Tell the house that you are cutting this energetic cord and imagine just that. Call back your power and visually cut all ties, whatever they may appear as.
Go farther and float upward into the sky, taking charge of your direction. Fly wherever you wish, seeing whatever you most desire. Make it fun; make it pleasurable. Allow your imagination to show you joy. Allow yourself to experience freedom. This is important to create the lasting feeling of freedom from the cut cords to ensure they are gone. When you wake, reestablish this feeling of freedom in your physical waking body.
Now the question remains: Are the other girls who were haunted having a similar recurring dream?
