I See Monsters

That dream I had the other night with the kelpies and mermaids has got me doing a lot of reading and thinking on the topic of m [...]

Water Horses and Other Fairy Steeds

Here’s a small quote from the beginning - I really liked it:

In such popular stories like that of Tam Lin or of Niamh and Oisín, the fairy steed is depicted as a means of conveyance between the world of mortals and that of the otherworld. The otherworld is a spiritual realm that remains just outside of the known world and lurks hidden within the mists, just beyond the shadows, beneath the water, or amongst the clouds – beyond the boundaries of the human touch.

But as I said, it’s more of that it was an interesting article that I decided to post it than I think it pertains to your dream.

You know, that’s a pretty powerful dream. You’ve got the sea, which can represent the unknown or the unconscious mind. There’s a storm, a bad one, which represents chaos or raw power or strong (mixed?) emotion. You’re on a beach - a meeting of two different spheres. The unconscious mind and conscious mind together, meeting in some way.

You have family there, but they don’t seem to see what you see. Could be that you feel different than the rest of your family, or that you’ve outgrown them in some way. Or maybe you feel you have a better connection to esoteric things. These’re just a generalization there - I’m just going on what stuff could be, so don’t bite my head off if I’m way off base. (Family can be such a touchy matter.)

There’s also other people, but I can’t really say what they may symbolize. That would depend on a few things - are they people you know? Did you feel any sort of connection to them?

Then there’s the horse-like things. I can’t really give a good read on those either. Were they riding the storm? Did they seem to be bringing it in, or out running it? Also, they were white, but you also got a bad feeling from them, which in color terms would be grayish or black, depending on how bad the feeling was.

You were reluctant to go near them, and then they transitioned into a different form - a more malevolent form. When you usually think of mermaids, are they anything like the ones from your dream?

Get back on some of that, and I’ll try to dig in deeper if you wish.

Anyway he warns that undines are particularly hypnotic and seductive and cautions restraint along teh lines of “it would be easy to get lost in their embrace and forget yourself and drown (metaphorically) in tehir charms and bugger off the real world in a way that would not be good for you”

I have a lot of water and beach related dreams, myself. Just two nights ago, I had a dream where I was at a bar on a small rock island drinking margaritas. There was no motion in the water, it was calm and peaceful for miles in every direction. Rocks rose from the water in beautiful cliff faces in all directions, but the water never broke against their sides. It merely rested. The sky was orange and cloudy, like a beautiful sunset, and I never felt quite so peaceful. It was very, very vivid - and different from my normal dreams with water. There were no storms, no sea monsters, and no rocky beaches. Very odd.