In the first one, I was out on a balcony looking at the stars and suddenly the stars arranged themselves in ordered grids and there was a general unease and a feeling of "oh no it is happening." Then the stars pulled into the formation of a wormhole, suggesting we were moving through them at high speeds and I began to feel very hot, and the feeling intensified and I think I was vaporized.
In the second dream, I was standing out on what I think was the shore of Long Beach, but out in the ocean were huge structures which might have been overturned cranes that had fallen from the sky, as well as what were definitely overturned cargo ships. Everyone had gathered on the shore and there was a collective feeling of dread. But then there was a deafening lurching sound that sort of gave way to a sort of metallic symphony of catastrophe, and above was another huge falling cargo ship that appeared right above our heads. The ship hit a house and rested there, miraculously, with me caught under. I think I survived.
I've also had a lot of previous dreams about huge tidal waves, huge translucent green walls with dark shapes moving at their base and gradients of light near their glimmering crests. But instead of being afraid of such waves, I've always dived into them where I'm transported into another state and can breathe on the other side.
Dream analysis would suggest these dreams are representative of the anticipation of or longing for great change. This could be the perception of the end of an era and the anticipation of the next, perhaps mixed with emotions of excitement and dread. Some of these dreams end with the feeling of ego disintegration, some of them involve breaking through to another side, as it were.
The objectivity of such dreams is always in question. Often our intuition seems eerily prescient. But it is hard to tell what truly happens down in that subconscious, unless you explore it more at length in lucid dreams, meditation, and in chemically altered states.
Is the subconscious truly hooked up to a collective unconscious, as Carl Jung believed? Could paying attention to these movements offer a glimpse of greater tectonic forces? Or is it simply a collection of our individual convictions, convictions made more intense in accordance with our observations of inner and outer realities?
Upon surveying history, we find there are periods of great change, but it is hard to tell whether those distinct boundaries are a natural phenomenon or just an illusion that arises when we label the periods with symbols. Systems theory observes systems that can completely change in state after a hypercritical period of tension. For example, the point at which water evaporates.
What is the experience of such a thing on the ground? Something is happening now. Will it continue to happen in gradients until we are there? Or will we reach a tipping point? Or a combination of both? How long will all this take? This interplay of our symbolic analytic systems and the organic real we analyze, and the tensions that interplay produces, has been referred to as "perpetual war."
Anyways. Back to work.
