I recently had a dream that I would like to share with you. Because dreams are so personal, I’m sometimes hesitant to tell them to others. My thoughts about what the dream might be expressing are also personal. And yet, the main purpose of my blog is to show the many ways that hope is present in our lives. People becoming aware that dreams are meaningful is a source of hope. So here is my dream:
I’m outside looking at the space along the house owned by friends of mine. It used to have landscape rocks with weeds growing through them. But now the whole area has healthy green grass growing there. My friends had done the work of removing the weeds and rocks and then planting the grass seed, resulting in a pretty space both beside the house and continuing into the back yard, which in the dream is larger than it is in physical reality. I’m going to tell my friends how impressed I am with what they’ve done.
This is a reassuring dream. The imagery of the green grass is positive in that it portrays something pretty to see, especially in contrast to how the area looked before. The grass also is healthy vegetation that adds oxygen to the air and provides food for some insects and animals, thus being a life-giving image. It seems to me that the fact that the yard in the dream is larger than the yard is in physical reality adds emphasis to these positive images.
Another affirmative aspect of this dream is that I have positive associations to the woman and the man who have done the work to significantly improve their yard. According to Jungian dream theory, when people who we know appear in our dreams, it is helpful to identify our associations to those people. I care about and think highly of the two people and therefore recognize their images as representing the positive inner feminine and positive inner masculine of myself.
This dream also suggests that time and effort were required of the couple to transform their yard. I take this as a message that it’s important that I try my best to do what I’m meant to do, to be watchful of the part of me that sometimes is lazy or uncaring. And to try my best to follow the guidance I discern to be from my inner voice through dream work, synchronicities, and intuitive promptings.