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
Dream
I had a crazy dream that this girl I didn’t know flashed a crystal bracelet in front of my face and showed me that she absorbed something from me into the crystals. It was a threat. She kept the bracelet just in case I ever did anything wrong. She could use my energy stored in the bracelet to do something bad to me. I felt scared and like there was no way to make things right with her, which is what I’m good at with people if there’s conflict between us.
Interpretation
This dream is like a pendulum swing, gathering worry on the ends that fuels the movements back and forth. This dream is about your power being taken away by worry itself. The crystal isn’t the weapon but instead the threat of the crystal is the weapon. In this way, the crystal has no actual power until given power by you. When the crystal does become powerful is when it’s used as a syphon of your energy — not at the beginning of the dream, as it first seemed, but at the end after the anxiety of the dream fed it. This becomes real upon waking by bringing the anxiety, or worry of that dream, into waking life.
The character of the girl in your dream could be anyone, and may even be someone whom you care for. Take a moment to think about who in your life right now you feel like you are giving energy to just by worrying about your relationship with them.
However, the dream is not focused on the girl or character she is representing, but the crystal and the worry this holds over you. This is important to distinguish because it changes the message that your subconscious is trying to relay. This is indicated when we see that the girl does not actually harm you. So, the message your subconscious is giving you here is that you do not need to worry. Worry itself is the true problem here. If you drop the worry, drop the anxiety, the power in the crystal will be useless. This is the idea your subconscious is offering with the gift of this dream.
Even our uncomfortable dreams are gifts because they are opportunities to release something that we are holding onto, that our body and subconscious deem unnecessary. We dream of these things when we are not taking the steps to let go or move on in waking life. Our subconscious then steps in by giving us the signs, symbols and metaphors to implant into our minds in hopes we will take that first needed step towards healing.
To honor your dream and open the gift, if you will, try for a moment to imagine dropping all your worries and anxieties. Would life still go on? What would change? What would stay the same? Notice if there is any resistance. Become aware of where in your body this is coming from. Breathe into that space. Ask, why are you here? Thank this energy for what it has shown you and tell it it is no longer needed.
Imagine releasing this unneeded energy out of your body as you physically tap that space. Feel your body decompress as it leaves you. Allow all that is leaving you to dissipate, like steam dissipates into the air with its particles, becoming smaller and smaller until they cease to exist altogether. Repeat words of release and empowerment. Keep doing this all over your body where anything feels stored that doesn’t need to be there. Remembering as you do this, that everything answers to your command. Remember, you choose what energy you want to keep and what energies you want to let go of.