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
Enrica’s Dream
I was dancing in a green dress and I was very happy. I was pregnant. I was wearing wedges for shoes. It was evening. I woke up because my dogs were barking. That’s all I can remember. I’m not sure my age in my dream, but I’m currently 55. So there’s no way I can currently get pregnant, but I find it funny I would dream of being pregnant. Also, I haven’t been able to remember a dream in a very long time.
Interpretation
Enrica, your dream, even in its shortness of length, is very significant like pregnancy itself. This is why you remembered, when you haven’t remembered a dream in a while. Your subconscious wants you to pay attention to this.
First, I would like to address this unspoken truth you have laid out in your writing that perhaps many are unaware of — many women dream of being pregnant before they are pregnant. It’s one of the most common prophetic dreams dreamt by mothers. Expecting mothers often dream of their children while in the womb, sharing experiences with them inside the dream realm. Some children communicate with their mothers in dreams telling them who they are and even picking out their own names. So, when women have a pregnancy dream the first question is indeed, “Are you pregnant?”
Enrica, although you say you cannot be pregnant, the womb remains your portal
into which life is grown and birthed into the physical. Your dream is showing you in a perfect representation that you are growing something just as significant as life itself that you will soon birth into the physical. I would ask you to treat whatever it is that you are working toward right now as important as you would bringing a baby into the world.
Your life will be forever changed by this birth, but not to worry, your subconscious has shown you how incredibly happy this will make you. Dancing, twirling and moving rhythmically not only symbolize joy and freedom but the movement of particles. The dance that happens on a subatomic level during creation and evolution; the dance that happens on a macro level as the earth spins on its axis moving around the sun creating day and night, morning and evening. The dance of creation itself. Your movement in the dream is the movement of your creation, the progress you’re making in whatever it is that you’re working toward. The evening being then the end of one cycle and beginning of the next.
The green dress is a beautiful suggestion of spring, new things, wealth and health. It’s also the color of the heart chakra. It is especially suggestive of the heart chakra in that it is paired with your dancing and happiness: a twirling ball of green light emanating joy. The wedges suggest new height, feminine beauty and ease of strength as you are wearing them while dancing and pregnant.
However, what is important is what a green dress and wedges signify to you specifically. Some dream metaphors like pregnancy are known in the collective consciousness to all just as the power of the womb is known. Other metaphors that are often more detailed are given in our dream language. Our subconscious speaks to us in a language we share with only it — a personalized and unique language that’s developed throughout our lives by all the definitions we have attached to our environment and understanding of our inner and outer worlds. I would suggest bringing the happy image into your mind’s eye and focusing on the details, feeling intuitively into the meaning. The meaning of these details may hold importance for your coming life change, perhaps how to treat or deal with what you’re making once it is in the physical.
Whatever it may be that you’re working on, your subconscious wants you to keep close and clear the memory of the happiness that this work is bringing you. The dreams we remember vividly are often sent not only from our subconscious but something higher as a message to hold and keep inside us. This one of happiness is a gift to keep close and to bring forward in your mind when the work that you birth feels tough or challenging. A memory to go back to if you lose your focus; a feeling to embody if you lose motivation.
Keep this dream like a jewel somewhere accessible in your mind so that you may wear it like jewelry whenever you like.