Aachi what a stupendous post. So let me first congratulate you as a matchless story teller of drama and suspense. You have a gripping style in raising hackles and unfolding mystery. Perhaps a great career lies hidden as an author of suspense thrillers. :)

Dreams are a powerful universe of our inner truth. Apart from Jung and Freud even people like Osho have spoken extensively on dreams and his are a must read. I too use dreams as a powerful indicator/messenger to gage people's inner journey in practice. And in helping them decode the symbols the results are quite awesome.

As you rightly say scary dreams reflect fear of some very tangible things. rather than guilt I would say they point to subconscious fears which we are grappling with on a daily basis but are unable to really see the root of the fear. Your dream is very significant and I would add the fluoroscent frogs in fact more significant than even the succubus. But since you will be interpreting it in your next post I will wait for your interpretation.

Great read!

Aachi,

The writing style of this post of yours was completely different and for a moment I thought perhaps you are quoting paras of some book or scenes from some film! But I was mistaken and I must say, like Jasjit, I too was gripped by the suspense that you brought out so well. Excellent piece of writing!

Yes those suffocating dreams where you want to scream and yet you can't, where you want to reach out to the person lying beside you on the bed to warn them of the intruder but you can't because you just can't reach the person... where you feel like you are just about to choke only to wake up and find that you are in the safe confines of your room and there is no intruder... God those dreams can be so exhausting!

I once had this dream which I'll never forget. It was so real.One night I had this dream where I saw this shadow of a man on the other side of the window. The window was right at the foot of the bed. It was trying to break in. I wanted to shake my mother and wake her up and alert her but I just couldn't. It was as if the shadow had hypnotised me. Then my fear and panic worsened when it started to put his arms through the spaces between the iron grills of the window and pull my leg. But then suddenly the shadow suddenly disperesed into thin air as if somebody had just erased it. I found my eyes wide open staring out of the window into the moonlit night. I felt like I was having the dream with my eyes open. I quickly got up and looked out of the window to see if the shadow was really there or was it just my imagination.

It was the latter. Whew! I wiped the sweat from across my forehead, woke my mother and told her of the dream. She told me to relax and go back to sleep. And I did. But till today when i think of this dream I get shivers down my spine.

I didn't realise till much later what the dream was all about. For me it was not a punishment for a sin but a reminder of my fears and anxiety. You see I was in my 12th then. I was in the science stream but was not enjoying it much and yet I stuck to it. I was worried and anxious about my future. I dreaded sitting down with my studies. All this was creating fear in my mind which I kept suppressing, which even I didn't want to recognize. At that time my ego would not allow me to admit to my parents that I couldn't get through this. So I didn't tell them about my disinterest in Science.

The shadow I realized was that very fear which I was refusing to acknowledge. It was the fear of the unknown, the uncertainity.

Anyway I did go on to tell my parents later on that I was not interested in sitting for joint exams for medical or engineering and that I wanted to do something else. They supported me and once all the confusion and fear was gone everything else happened smoothly. I found my area of interest and got admission in institutes which had excellent faculty for the subject.

But I am eagerly waiting for your next post! You do have a knack for keeping people's curiousity :)

Dear Aachi

Excellent excellent post. You really kept the suspense going in this one. Ditto Jasjit, you have a great knack for writing suspense and mystery novels.

I've had many many Incubus and Succubus dreams in my life. Hardly any now but there was a time when they wreaked unimaginable havoc in my waking and sleeping hours. Actually, come to think of it more Incubus than Succubus.

Today I just feel that I absolutely love the way consciousness tries in so many different ways to guide us and wake us to our potential. So whether Incubus or Succubus it's all really just grace drawing with a different stroke the map of our present, past and future.

lots of love

Don't know about what the dream did to you pal but your story nearly had me screaming. Well told! Since everyone is talking about scary dreams I have to share mine. Many years (betwen 11-16 I Think) I had this recurring dream of a dark figure with many arms standing at my headboard screaming though no sound would come out. In my dream I would leap out of the bed in fear and find this icky gooey liquid on the floor and I would be stuck unable to move. He would then start laughing really hard again with no sound but his mouth would be this huge cave of light. I tried everything, mantras, jap, tying hold threads etc but it just came back. Then one fine day the dream vanished never to return but I still remember the fear. SO I hope someone here will explain what it meant!!!! :)))

Hey guys what's up? No one's interpreted my dreams yet!!!!!I'm waiting. :)

Dear Ananya,

sorry for the late reply. I actually serve 7 masters...seven senior doctors 7 days a week. I hardly get time to breathe by the time I get home....hence this delay.

Your dream is interesting because it has two opposites..a person screaming...and no sound coming out. The inky liquid obviously means that the contradiction that was taking place in your life at that time was unescapable. In time the problem might have sorted out and the subconcious responded by switching off the dream.

I am a poor interpreter...but i think I managed well. :)

Dear Jasjit, Anusheh, Chaitali...loads of love to you all.

I really dont know what the frogs meant in actuality...but I discovered that frogs in dreams indicate a fickle mentality regarding some decisions in life. is that right?

lots of love.

p.s. There was one dream I really liked yesterday...it was of a boy...sitting in the middle of a beautiful waterfall with a snake coiled around his hand. I quickly realised that he was divine...he points to the left where there was a sea shore and a huge tsunami was approaching fast...everything gets washed away....I almost drown...but after sometime manage to survive....

in the morning I find out that the diety I saw in the dream was Murugan and he is my presiding diety...stunningly I also find out that the star he represents in astrology is Kruttika...the Plaeides Star Cluster which incidentally was my fav night object since childhood.

This dream thing is cool.

:)

Hi Aachi

Too many masters buddy :)... o.k now I just have to comment on your dream because its also time to know who your real Master is. The dream is about your young (in this case budding masculine i.e the potential of re-birth is upon you...isn't it interesting that you so clearly identify with the young boy and say I nearly drowned). The waterfall is the depth of life washing you and the snake wrapped around the arm (arm and hand symbolize the ability to ACT in karma)is your time for higher consciousness which is ripe and beckoning you to rise to the new Self. That is why Murugan appeared for He is now the real and only Master that must be your focus for a while. The Tsunami coming from the LEFT is Divine Grace which will bring a huge upheavel and seem like it will drown/destroy all you know and hold onto (especially your ideas/views/desires/attachments and that includes your spiritual understanding) and yet when it passes all will be anew.

Yes the frogs do represent fickleness at a level but more important the self which continues to limit itself in its POND (of fears and security). And in your case they are fluoroscent which means they are both exceptionally blessed. And what do the two frogs represent...your masculine and feminine. You have the rare gift of having both Yin/Yang so blessed and ready (hence all your Divine dreams so far and the sudden burst of the creative artistic self refer to the feminine blessed side and the judicious, wise, intelligent and generous side in you is your blessed masculine). However both are still limited by a frog pysche which is rooted in nothing but fear of the unknown. In this case Grace and therefore the great storm is the Yin that has to burst through hence you see her as a dark woman (your succubus) for you fear that calling at a root level. Hence also the Tsunami comes from the left and washes the young masculine.

So its a great and powerful message/blessing. Time to wake up and embrace it with fullness/fearlessness and open the door of the great adventure that awaits. Which is why I could not contain myself and just had to interpret it for you.

Love and blessings for the Great Homecoming

Hi Aachi

You poor guy. Seven doctors pulling you in seven different directions. Lovely dream you had. You are truly blessed.Lots of love to you too.

Dear Jasjit,

you are truly amazing in the way you have interpreted the dream. I find myself more and more confident of the power that resides in you. The blog, IFSHA, and other activities that you and the team are involved in....well as a doctor I can give you only one compliment....You can heal. :)

Dear Anusheh,

Sometimes I wonder whether I am limiting myself. There was once a time where I hated the concept of working under someone...now I work under seven! That is probably why I love when I paint...none taught me...no one is my master...it is a gift from the divine to steal me away from mundane existence.

loads of love to you both.

Dear Aachi

Thanks you for all the warm words and compliments but I would just add that the power resides in All of Us. Some of us have just chosen to focus on it and even make it our raison d'etre. As your dream prophecises for you too and very soon :)))). I am just in wonder and feel blessed to be a witness to your awakening. A true sangha is in itself a rare and precious gift my friend.
Love