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Dream Angel Sighting



I had a dream about a friend of mine last night. In it, he related a story to me about how him and his dad were out in the wilderness, possibly backpacking. And they came up to a giant waterfall, and looked out across it. While he told the story, I saw the image in my mind. Off to one side of this majestic waterfall, they saw an angel. It was sort of this hovering thing made out of light. It floated there serenely. My friend raised his camera to look through the zoom lens at it more closely. But he decided taking a photo of it wouldn’t be the right thing to do, that it would somehow be disrespectful.

Also in that series of dreams, I dreamt of this weird invention. It was these pegs that you stuck into the side of a wine bottle. Then you put the wine bottle in the microwave. Somehow, it miraculously transformed into this crazy weird foamy type of candy. The glass became so thin that you could eat it, and the wine turned into a thick sweet foam that tasted amazing. I remember being really wowed by this invention. And even though it didn’t make total sense to me how you could safely eat glass, I didn’t really question it too much.







9 Reader Responses

  1. caquixote Says:
    May 11th, 2005 at 6:40 pm

    I read this post by Jay Weidner a couple of hours after reading your post about your dream.

    I just started reading his sight and he has some great thing to say about time and the four ages of matter.

    I really like hearing about dreams in general. I think that the more we learn about the world as illusion the more important our dreams will become.

    Joseph Campbell likens our dreams to the three natural things that are seen as luminous (giving off light) in our material world (lightning, fire, sun).

    http://www.jayweidner.com/TimeRiver.htm

    The great return of the alchemical tradition is the road back to a science based on timeless spiritual principles. Alchemy is the science of human development, the art of turning glass into light and lead into gold. But as any true adept will tell you, these are merely metaphors for the deep and secret mysteries of the spirit. As we in the West reestablish contact with the primordial source of life and wisdom, we shall shed the veils that conceal the profound nature of ourselves and this planet.

  2. ray Says:
    May 11th, 2005 at 11:54 pm

    What a wonderful dream!

    There is a theme of transformation and action in this dream. The water — the primordial symbol of fluidity — is in a profoundly active and directed state, active and linear. The light turns into an angel, and the camera turns the angel back into light and subsequently into a photograph. Then you have the wine changing to foam (nectar?) and glass into candy. (And don’t forget the Christian archetype of water changing to wine).

    Both water and glass are reflective and have the potential to be luminous, so you have the interplay of luminosity and fluidity.

    What recent invention has been introduced into your life, and how has it illuminated your spirit?

  3. ray Says:
    May 12th, 2005 at 12:01 am

    And then, there’s this statement I found on your site:

    Since I became an occult investigator, my life has turned into one non-stop party! I’m having so much fun, and learning all kinds of cool things about myself and the world. It’s really an absolute blast!

    Wine and candy are suggestive of a festive atmosphere, a party.

    Could your dream have something to do with this site?

  4. carlos Says:
    May 12th, 2005 at 12:46 am

    Awesome interpretations, ray!

    Also, I am intrigued that the taking of a picture “would somehow be disrespectful”. Maybe because it would be a false representation of the scene. Or maybe the angel would think you’d “stolen its soul”. In light of fantastic planet’s “virtual identitiy” vs. “real-life” threads I’m starting to think that this superstition has some merit.

  5. bigfoot Says:
    May 12th, 2005 at 4:41 am

    It was just the Vorlons messing with your head. They’re like that

  6. Jacob Says:
    May 12th, 2005 at 11:16 am

    “My friend raised his camera to look through the zoom lens at it more closely. But he decided taking a photo of it wouldn’t be the right thing to do, that it would somehow be disrespectful.”

    I like that part. Reminds me of God’s commandment to never make graven images.

  7. JuicyV Says:
    May 12th, 2005 at 2:42 pm

    I am fascinated by dreams and have very vivid largely supernatural dreams all the time. Escpecially about the apocalypse and such. I would dream about the second coming for days straight. I put a post up about a dream I just had about the devil a couple of nights ago. Your site is pretty interested. Will have to check back.

    PS I really like your Zelda icons!

  8. ray Says:
    May 12th, 2005 at 10:09 pm

    What intrigues me most about dreaming is the transmission of information that you do not, cannot, and have never known consciously. I’ve had a quite a number of these, some of them shocking in retrospect.

    An example: a few years ago I had a dream that ended on a horrifying note. I puzzled about its meaning until, quite by accident several months later, I read a book that revealed to me what it meant. In hindsight, the dream could not have been about anything else, but there was no way I had come to a conscious understanding of the dream’s subject until months later.

    If you pay attention to dreams, this will happen with increasing frequency.

  9. Nick Says:
    May 13th, 2005 at 2:40 am

    Damn! Lotta comments. I feel like a damn celebrity.



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