Caroline (December 2000 - February 20001)

Dream: I was on an island walking down a sandy road between two different campsites. As I was walking along looked ahead and saw an animal crouching over the body of a small child, that I had already known had been missing for a few days. The animal saw me and started to move towards me. It was a large panther-like black cat with pale human eyes and black and white feathers growing down it's spine. It leapt at me and knocked me down but just at that moment my Dad came running up and cut off it's head with a shovel. I stood up but when I looked around my father and I were surrounded by hundred of the weird panthers. They just looked at us and then walked away and I knew they had somehow warned us to get off the island. We walked to the other campsite, which was in fact a town that consisted of a market and a long boardwalk with a dozen or so closed down shops on it. They were boarded up and covered with old posters and there was garbage all over the boardwalk. In the market at least a hundred people were gathered, waiting for a barge to dock at the pier and take them off the island. Some of my family were there, but I didn't see much of them. The barge had arrived and there were cars driving onto it when I noticed some of my mothers belongings inside a store. The store was closed but I was going to try and buy the things back for my mother. Then everyone was attacked by giant bees, all of them about the size of a piano key. At the same time the island began to split in half and sink, and so everyone rushed onto the barge, which became a four master sailing ship. The ship sailed off and I realised that I didn't know where my family was and I had no idea where it was going. So, I climbed up into the rigging with a bottle of something that was very alcoholic but also tasted like chocolate, and got very drunk. When the dream ended, the ship was sailing up a jungle river and someone on the shores was throwing spears at us, but they couldn't reach me in the rigging. I also had a dream when I was quite young that I liked - I was on one side of a raging river and my father was on the other in his car. He tried to drive across but he couldn't so he picked up the car and carried it across(?!)

Quentin's Diagnosis: Dear Caroline, So you¹re an epic dreamer eh? Congratulations on such vivid dream recall. This is a dream showing you the bigger picture of the karma completed within your family in a bigger world. ŒEvery man is an island unto himself¹ but there are two other aspects of your life there. You seem to be walking between two worlds, two ways of thinking or right and wrong. The body of a child was missing (lost youth) could be you. Look inside for your inner child and past happiness. The two campsites are Mum and Dad Even though you are misguided by some male, your father was there with a shovel to chop off its head. Your parents are always there for you, if not in thought, in person. You¹re looking back on the past with the old posters and it shows your father being there to guide you on the right choices. The panther is the feminine symbol and could be describing the most violent side of your mother with the weird panthers around. The boardwalk is your masculine focus. The loss of your mother¹s possessions led to you wanting to but back what belongs to you to integrate the feminine side of your mother, with the dedication of the father. Your mother supports you in different ways to your father. The island was breaking up like a parting of the ways. Kids get old and move away from their family. The bees are of the right brain, (the size of piano keys) and describes your masculine energy. The island is breaking up, thus the parting of old ways. You get to the barge, which turns into a ship which sets sailing. The bottle represents safety or security. The ropes suggests strong karmic ties with your father and your mother in a different way. The ship is your new emotional focus in life. There will always be people throwing spears at you (not literally), but hang on to the ropes, Your father would cross raging waters for you. You¹re leaving an old way of life to take up a new one in the future. Rig your own life so it¹s clear sailing all the way.

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