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 analyzes 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
Spring’s Dream
So, I had a dream that someone was going to have a karate fight with my dad. A little background: My dad has a second-degree black belt in karate and I grew up watching kung fu films and still love watching them. I was so excited for the fight, like I would be if it was the final fight in a kung fu film. It’s the only dream I can remember in a while, even though I know my dreams have been active recently … I just can’t remember them. I haven’t spoken with my dad recently because I chose to stop talking to him about three months ago for personal reasons. Any insight?
Interpretation
This is a telephone dream. In the dream realm we have the ability to contact anyone anywhere if we so wish. To make a call all you must do is think about connecting to that person. This sends your energy to that person in the subconscious realm. This happens in waking life all the time; when we are thinking of someone and then they call, we are picking up the subconscious call moments before the physical call comes through. Dream calls are not an uncommon phenomenon and have recently gotten the attention of scientists. A startup tech company, REMspace, recently released a study confirming communication between two lucid dreamers where one dreamer had to call out to another with a message for them to bring back.
When a message comes through, it leaves a distinct and different impression on us than a normal dream. This is how you can distinguish between a dream created inside your own dream world and a message from outside. Normal dreams of your creation feel like you. They have your same energy signature. They are often hazy and hard to remember because they are part of you and your subconscious. It’s as different as your voice inside your head to someone else’s voice in the room. This is because the caller has a different energy signature and therefore stands out in your dream world. These dreams often come with fervor, vivid color and are hyper clear. These dreams are much easier to remember for that reason.
This dream is a call from your father in the dream realm. He is most likely unaware that he sent the call into your dream realm as most of us are when we do these things. However, the message is clear that he is thinking of you and his soul reached out to share a message with you since you’re not communicating in waking life at the moment.
The fight is the symbolism of the message he is sharing with you, or the conversation in visual form. Because you have this positive emotional bond through karate fights, I believe this is a feeling that he is sending to you instead of a literal fight. From that, I can interpret that there is something big coming up in his life that he is proud of and gives him the feeling of an exciting fight coming up. Perhaps he feels the strength of the fighter and the anticipation of using that strength to win. By sending this feeling he may be hoping that you would be excited with and for him. Nonetheless, he wants to share this feeling with you.
You, however, are the true interpreter because the message is encrypted in the feelings you had during the dream. That is when the sharing and downloading of this message took place. Recall the feelings you had and think about them now through the frame of a message from your father. See how that may change your understanding of what you felt. Think about what your father would be sharing in this specific feeling of a karate fight. Think about this from his perspective to best understand what he wants to convey. Now, it is up to you what you do with this message.
When it’s challenging to communicate with someone, sending a dream call can be a soft, subtle way of reaching out, because sending energy through the subconscious realm in this way can only be received if the recipient allows. Just in this way, you have remembered the dream, but you don’t have to receive the message if you choose not to. Or, you can send a message back.