Dream 1: There are two dreams I wanted to ask about. The first dream I have only had once. In it I was at a property in the country. I was given a baby by my aunt, because she did not want it herself, although she was it's biological mother. She gave it to me to raise as my own. However this baby was a reincarnation of a boy of about 3 or 4 years of age (who I know in my waking life as a family friend of another aunt of mine). In the dream I have been told that it is too dangerous to stay in my house on my own. The next thing I know I am sitting where the driver sits on a buggy. I don't recall driving it or remember seeing the horses, but I know it was horse drawn. The baby and I are fleeing this apparent danger. In my arms is the baby. The baby seems to be talking to me (without moving it's lips). From what it says, it is aware of it's past life. I recall being alarmed and concerned that it knew. I think this is when I woke up. The other is a re-occuring dream. Two of the three dreams I have had on this similar theme are exact re-occurences.
The first is a dream of a set of stairs that were at my primary school. They are metal stairs that are just rungs (not solid like concrete steps). In my dream they are wrapped around the particular building at the school. They are horizontal, and I am on these stairs. There is no barrier to stop me from falling off the edge and there are many gaps between the steps. I am absolutely petrified of falling off and am paralysed with fear. In the other dream which I have had quite often I am sitting atop a large grandstand that circles an oval. There is a metal pole stretching across the oval and I am expected to shimmy along or make my way across on this pole, which is quite a distance up. Once again I am paralysed with fear.
Dream 2: The most recent of these dreams is one in which I am with a group of my friends at an apartment block. We are attempting to get to a beach, which is on top of a hill on the other side of this apartment building, and is the only way through. My friends and I come to a door, I open the door and the only way out is up a set of very very rickety stairs. I wobble the stairs to check how safe they are. I very much want to follow my friends, but I fear that these stairs will not hold me. Instead, because of my fear, I opt to stay behind. This is when I wake up.
Quentin's Diagnosis: Concerning your first dream, little kids of up to 7 years of age know more about their past-life than any other time in their lives. Their awareness dwindles as they grow beyond 7. Their personalities change through pier group pressure, the beliefs of the parents and the beliefs of the soul start coming through. This is a dream of a past life-time. Adoption was common in by-gone days and your concern over the baby's awareness of its past life left you alarmed and concerned. Maybe you had this same knowledge as a child and let pier group pressure limit your outlook. Reoccurring dreams are sent till we get the message. In the first dream of the set, you are in a place of learning, being at primary school. The steps that wrap around that particular building at school are like a helix and are the rungs of learning. Knowledge received. What subject did you learn in that building ? Science?. The gaps in the stairs and your fear of falling off the edge, represent fear of the unknown. You have a fear that there's more to life that what you've been taught. Some tribes believe that when they fall there's a gift waiting for them at the bottom. Your next dream has you in the grand-stand, around an oval and you're expected to shimmy your way along the pole. This is you in the public arena, expected to perform a balancing act. You have a fear to move in this life. The fear of baby steps or fear of something in the moment. A relationship, a career or a challenge of some kind. Take the challenge, don't fear failure or you'll never know success.
In the last dream you are involved in something with your friends. You want to follow your friends but you don't think you're up to it. Again you don't want to take the steps which will lead to the beach as you're afraid they won't hold you. It's like you're afraid to make a commitment. The beach represents joy. The lack of confidence you display, to take a risk in your process of learning, is stopping you from finding true joy. Have faith in yourself, you can do it..